Think of
echoes of figuration in Pollock or Willem de Kooning, who veered from abstraction to Woman I and back.
While the canvas is marked by the same lavishly sensuous color palette and abstract composition that made her famous — and which may remind some of a happier Gerhard Richter — the painting, part of a fairly new series, also incorporates a subtle
echo of figuration.
Not exact matches
The work ranged from Subway Scene (1928), with its
echoes of the Ashcan School, to the explosive
figuration for which McNeil is best known and which he pursued until his death in 1995 (the artist was born in 1908).
She began in the 1950s with abstract
echoes of Surrealism and
figuration, much like early Rothko.
Arrayed in the center
of the gallery floor, her arms reach skyward,
echoing the
figuration of Colen's dead trees.