Sentences with phrase «especially figurative work»

Conceptual pieces and large installations were prominent, while painting, especially figurative work, seemed exhausted.

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«Medium to large format abstract work is generally more sought after than figurative [work],» says Heyman, «as a figurative piece, especially a portrait, may convey something about a character's personality or history, whereas abstract work is usually more subtle and can be more open to interpretation.

Although Park died at he age of 49 in 1960, he produced a large body of powerful abstracted figurative work, especially during his mature period of about ten years.

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

Figurative painting, especially the intimate and human works of a painter like this, provides a textured and emotional treatment of political topics.

Richard Diebenkorn was one of its lead representatives, especially his early work before he joined the famous Bay Area Figurative Movement of the 1950s and 1960s.

The next project is about American popular culture which will focus is more on figurative painting... that will be a very fun project... especially since figurative painting is not a medium that I often work with.

Connections to Matisse, of course, are abundant and obvious in the inhabited spaces of Diebenkorn's figurative work, especially in the strong collection of drawings on view; both artists loved to draw, and Diebenkorn, like Matisse, had a great feeling for grays, even if he worried over his lack of the French artist's long cultivation of the figure.

Marshall is the author of an important body of figurative work in which he explores the themes of identity — national, gender, and especially racial identity — in an attempt to contextualize the Afro - American experience in today's sociopolitical situation.

The British contribution to early Modernist art was relatively small, but since World War II British artists have made a considerable impact on Contemporary art, especially with figurative work, and Britain remains a key centre of an increasingly globalized art world.

Avery never created completely abstract works, but his subtly nuanced landscapes and figurative compositions, especially his late paintings, often approach abstraction.

Brown worked in series of paintings, and her 1973 — 1974 abstracted figurative works are especially well represented in the current Gallery Paule Anglim exhibition.

In Britain particularly, the renewal of interest in painting in the early 1980s, especially figurative painting, brought into fresh focus the work of older artists such as Howard Hodgkin as well as those often called the school of London.

There was the famous return to painting (figurative painting especially and painterly), a shameless appropriationism that saw a «pick and mix» from art history, non-western art and popular culture, an enthusiastic re-embrace of Dada and the challenge to notions of self - contained works of art through the increasing popularity of installation.

The essay connects abstract expressionism to modern European painting and advances the appreciation of figurative abstraction of Soutine's work among his contemporaries, especially de Kooning (see Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan.