Sentences with phrase «earliest figurative works»

His earliest figurative works seemed to loosely be based on self - portraits.

Beyond this verdant topography, Dunham depicts a nude woman bathing, an important recurring character in his earlier figurative works.

The subject matter may not be as compelling as Katz's earlier figurative work, but these paintings, on view through July 7, aren't about garden design or abstract composition.

An amazing collection of paintings and other works from the Centre Pompidou, Paris, traces the development of this extraordinary and inventive artist, from his early figurative works to his most modern pieces.

Her long career and wide - ranging practice encompassed early figurative works, Surrealism and the mature abstract works for which she is best known.

You can see the influence of Masaccio's monolithic figures in Guston's early figurative work, and he especially revered Piero.

Entire Diploma show of abstract paintings taken down by order of President of Royal Academy, Sir Charles Wheeler, but Diploma awarded on strength of earlier figurative work.

Half a year later, Mrs. Bradley returned to Knoedler to purchase an earlier figurative work, Two Sailors.

Wrestling with the simultaneous existence of abstraction and representation, «Painter» strikes a precarious note: ambiguous, but semi-recognizable forms recall the artist's early figurative works of the 1940s.

Scully abandoned his early figurative work, and in the late 1960s and early 1970s, began formulating his own abstract language, based on the grid.

Mario Carreño (1913 — 2000) produced his finest work in the 1950s, after renouncing the romanticism of his earlier figurative work.

Performative, Poetic, Powerful Examining the various aesthetic and conceptual turns that typify César's practice, the show at Luxembourg & Dayan will present historically significant examples from his Compression, Human Imprint, and Expansion series, as well as such early figurative works as the Venus - like welded iron sculpture Torso (1954), on loan from the permanent collection of The Museum of Modern Art.

There is quite a lot to enjoy in the early figurative works between the mid-1930s and 40s, when Pasmore was deeply involved with, first of all, studying and continuing late Parisian Impressionism and Post-Impressionism; and then creating his own perhaps less successful brand of homespun «Objective Realism».

The presentation at ABMB includes his earliest figurative work from the 1950s; classic drawings and paintings of the early 1960s, including two from his Ice Box series; as well as historical themes of the 1970s such as his mural - size, Custer's Last Stand # 1 (1973).

An earlier Tate Gallery catalogue entry has suggested that single stone forms such as this may be seen as re-interpretations of Hepworth's early figurative work in similar materials.

Just like his abstract work, Bischoff achieved great success with his early figurative works.

This catalogue raisonné of Judd's prints and multiples includes early figurative work, lithographs, etchings, and woodcuts.

These works on paper, informed by the planes and angles of architectural forms, represent a shift in Mang» ong» o's practice from his early figurative work to pure abstraction.

He is known for both his early figurative work and non-figurative works, which over the years looked to explore further the idea of making all areas of the painting of equal importance.

If Zeng's earlier figurative work suggests an examination of strange experiential situations, his latest paintings turn us toward the transcendent.

The focus on physical surroundings nods to the psychological signifiers of his earlier figurative work, while also continuing his «inverse of Pop» practice.

Robert Smithson presents essays by top Smithson scholars alongside both archival imagery and specially commissioned photography of the artist's works; it considers the interrelationship of Smithson's complete artistic output, from the earliest figurative work up to his famed earthworks.

Much as I loved the Ocean Park series — and tried to envision the way Diebenkorn layered his paint — I was also encouraged by his earlier figurative work.

Early figurative works on paper and in bronze welcome visitors to YSP's Longside Gallery, revealing the fascinating evolution of practice and underscoring the «shock» of Caro's early painted steel works in the main space, such as Month of May (1963).

It features more than 60 works, tracing the evolution of Perehudoff's approach from early figurative works and murals to radiant abstractions, their interplays of colour suggesting musical chords.

The exhibition The Optimism of Colour: William Perehudoff, a retrospective, guest - curated for the Mendel Art Gallery by Karen Wilkin, and this accompanying catalogue celebrate Perehudoff's achievements and trace the evolution of his distinctive approach, from his early figurative works, which reflect his desire to enlarge upon the special character of his surroundings, to the radiant, abstract paintings that established his reputation — paintings that seem to aspire to the condition of music.

Not exact matches

The exhibit will include stunning hyper - realistic work by Churchill - Johnson — stark political statement contrasted with delicate, minimalist abstraction by Uyesaka — deeply engaging abstract oils by Scorzelli — dynamic and powerful ceramic insights by Rosenberg - Dent — fanciful, abstract adventures by Lehrer — an unsettling mixed - media installation with video by auto - expressionist, Metrov — striking figurative vs abstract works by Ferris — a lively «abolish blandness» painting by Lytle contrasted with fabulous yarn work from the early 90's — and a pair of McCracken's, always delightful, miniatures.

Phillips relates the humour in that work to another, much earlier figurative alphabet Alfabeto Figurato by Giovanni Battista Bracelli (1632).

The use of large opened fields of expressive color applied in generous painterly portions, accompanied by loose drawing (vague linear spots and / or figurative outline) can first be seen in the early 20th - century works of both Henri Matisse and Joan Miró.

His early work was figurative and often described as expressionist, but from the mid 1960s his paintings became more geometric.

Diebenkorn speaks of his family background and early life; his education and his service in the Marine Corps; his introduction to modernism; his early abstract work; the formation of the Bay Area figurative school and the relationship between art in New York and in the Bay Area; teaching; critical and public reaction to his work; important exhibitions of his work; vacillating between the figurative and the abstract in his painting; his working methods.

Even earlier works like Fable II and Rite, both from 1957, earn their titles by the nonspecific figurative connotations of their bunched shapes; it would take only a little bit of further manipulation to turn those forms into the kind of stylized figures found in the paintings that Jan Müller was making around this time, or Bob Thompson just a little later.

Next to Nothing presents a group exhibition that revisits early Modern figurative painting and Symbolist poetry through the recent work of 12 contemporary artists.

The show includes early works in oil, watercolor, gouache and ink; Abstract Expressionist paintings done in California; and «Untitled (Horse and Rider)» (1954), considered one of his first mature figurative paintings.

Her early work was figurative with a semi-impressionist style.

Where as Avery's early figurative drawings and paintings from the 1930s attest to affinities primarily with the work of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, by the 1940s he was discernibly close to Henri Matisse.

Here, in the artist's first retrospective exhibition in the United States, we see the emergence and the evolution of this dramatic process, beginning with his earliest, and initially figurative, works.

Whereas similarly gridded patches or modules in Guston's early abstractions were brittle and optically elusive, in the later figurative works they are bulky, soft, and instantly tangible.

Bringing together more than 90 works from pubic and private collections, the exhibition features paintings and works on paper spanning the early 1930s through the late 70s, from his early depictions of African masks and figurative works to the abstract images for which he is most recognized.

The works begins with his early realist, figurative abstractions, to a «proto - synthetic cubism,» straight through the famous series of women that dominated the 1950s, ending in his increasingly «expansive,» looser renderings of the 1960s.

Early figurative drawings and woodcuts, some done when the artist served in the Peace Corps, in Africa, bore witness to the acute sense of observation and refinement of means that still characterize his art, while pointing to the resonant economy of his mature works.

With almost 40 works, this exhibition proposes a complete view of the artist's aesthetic development, starting with his figurative works, when he exhibited in Barcelona in the early 30's, until his latest abstract paintings of the 90's after going through the abstract expressionist stage that became so relevant in the United States during the 40s and 50s.

But when it comes to viewing David Park's body of work, this book shines with superb color plates dispersed throughout, showing Park's development as a painter from his early days, his non-figurative period, his return to figurative painting, and his final figurative work in gouache.

From early figurative paintings, through collages and video installations, to her radical work in dance and performance, Ms. Schneemann has consistently — insistently — made the personal political, bridging divides between eras and cultures, even species.

The new 176 - page monograph, Edna Andrade, takes a comprehensive look at the full range of Andrade's work, from her early surreal and figurative landscapes, through several decades of Bauhaus - inspired design and the distinctive geometric patterns of Op Art, to her late - life quasi-abstract studies of the Atlantic coastline.

As in his earlier Storm paintings where scraping gestures that erased figurative components became central to the composition, Cooke again uses abstract elements as building blocks for his new work.

Diebenkorn's figurative work came during a particularly active twelve - year period on the heels of his earlier Abstract Expressionist phase.

Her early work explored floral motifs often combined with a grid or color field, blurring the dichotomy between abstract and figurative work.

Although clearly a figurative work, it is easy to draw comparisons to Diebenkorn's earlier landscape works like Berkeley # 53 that effectively dissolved and divided the Californian vistas into competing patchworks of painterly color separated by crisp edges and the occasional line.

But like Elmer Bischoff and David Park, with whom he made the turn to figurative painting a few years later, Diebenkorn was asking questions that abstract expressionism couldn't always answer, even though, as the early works in the show at the Royal Academy (until 7 June) suggest, he was a loyal and talented disciple: the LA Times described him as «one of the most gifted artists in the American non-objective field».