Sentences with phrase «experimented with figuration»

The celebration also announces Whitford's representation of the Estate of the Artist, who enjoyed a career that spanned some sixty - five years, during which he experimented with Figuration and Abstraction alike.

She experiments with figuration and abstraction, exploring themes around pop culture, technology, and traditional painting.

By turns cartoonish and diagrammatic, Fairhurst's drawings epitomise his offbeat and melancholy - tinged humour, his experiments with figuration, and his use of gorillas as figures of pathetic buffoonery and otherworldliness.

By 1955 Diebenkorn was experimenting with figuration, influenced by the contrarian return to the figure that his great friend David Park had made.

Not exact matches

Influenced by Henri Matisse, Georges Braque and Pierre Bonnard, Heron experimented with composition, scale and particularly colour in ways that saw him recognised as one of the most important painters of the 20th century for his shift away from figuration — his refusal of narrative.

Josh Smith first became known in the early 2000s for a series of canvases depicting his own name, a motif that allowed him to experiment freely with abstraction and figuration and the expressive possibilities of painting.

Brown experimented freely with a range of styles, and her art has been discussed in relationship to abstract expressionism, Bay Area figuration, and new image painting.

Each painting has been carefully selected and displayed in chronological order to highlight her evolution from early experiments with abstraction to her inventive figuration and the refinement of her» body awareness» paintings in which she captured physical sensations as felt from within.

Hartigan continued to refer to Old Masters such as El Greco and Jean - Baptiste Greuze and to experiment with balancing figuration and abstraction, but her later work, from the 1980s through the 2000s, tended toward the representational.

Spanning work made from the 1950s to the end of the artist's life, this survey traces Maria Lassnig's evolution from early experiments with abstraction to a richly inventive figuration and the refinement of her «body awareness» paintings, in which she captured physical sensation as felt from within.

Spanning work made from the 1950s to the end of the artist's life, this survey traces Lassnig's evolution from early experiments with abstraction to a richly inventive figuration and the refinement of her «body awareness» paintings, in which she captured physical sensation as felt from within.