Sentences with phrase «embraces figuration and abstraction»

Not exact matches

But because traditional Chinese painting has long been poised between figuration and abstraction, many 20th - century Chinese artists have hesitated to embrace this Western tradition.

His large - scale paintings collapse figuration and abstraction, encapsulate dynamic energy into geometric form and embrace imperfections and raw surfaces in an entirely human way.

«Khanna has been tenaciously loyal to a particular discipline — making art out of childhood memories and everyday events, representing emotion in a way which curiously embraces abstraction and figuration in equal measure»

The exhibition will feature works that show Dubuffet's vivacious embrace of abstraction and figuration in both painting and sculpture.

By painting between figuration and abstraction, I'm embracing ambiguity and the knowledge that sex is complex: calm, violent, pleasurable, sad, joyful... I think the unpredictable nature of oil paint can get closer to what real sexuality is like.»

Oscillating between figuration and abstraction and made strictly by hand without the distraction of color, these large grisaille works on canvas embrace painting's conventional tools in order to expose the inadequacies of the medium itself.

While the art - world pendulum predictably swings back and forth between a taste for abstraction and an embrace of figuration, some artists remain steadfast in their pursuits.

With her intuitive explorations of the human body, her work is characterized by its embrace of both figuration and abstraction.

The Tobias» introspective and oblique woodcuts lovingly embrace eccentric figuration, geometric abstraction, and the typographic.