It's a gentle balance and it is the aim of this painter who uses sumi - e ink and watercolors, drawing, scraping and scratching at the boards that host
her exploration of surrealism: «I'm trying to get a little lyrical.»
Not exact matches
«Robert Motherwell: The East Hampton Years, 1944 - 1952» will reveal the
explorations of Motherwell as he transitioned from
surrealism and automatism to abstract expressionism, according to the museum, and reveal works that are lesser known.
These are aspects that are visible in her
exploration of well - established photographic genres such as film stills, fashion photography or classic portraits, as well as in series where she explores a more abject material related to themes like fairytales, catastrophes, pornography, war and
surrealism.
«Childhood Memories» is described in the gallery's press release as «returns to the essence
of the imagination, an
exploration of the subjective and the subconscious that is inspired by
surrealism».
The exhibition will particularly address the ways in which Lucas engages with the legacy
of surrealism — from her clever transformations
of everyday objects to her
exploration of sexual ambiguity and the tension between the familiar and the disorienting or absurd.
In contrast with the artist's previous work, which addressed universal political concerns, this new series returns to the essence
of the imagination, an
exploration of the subjective and the subconscious that is inspired by
surrealism.
Carmon Colangelo is a pioneering printmaker whose work combines
surrealism and abstraction with the
exploration of art history, science, and technology.
Despite its conservative style illusionistic
surrealism continued the movement's radical
exploration of the content and workings
of the unconscious mind, although it was the abstract wing
of the surrealist movement that influenced members
of the New York School in the forties.
This new mix
of surrealism and
exploration of personal feelings in an emotional language closer to music — which is inherently abstract — broke free from the centuries
of figuration that preceded it.
Her early sculptures stand as pioneering examples
of American
surrealism; her later
explorations of the body and
of feminine identity ushered in a new sensibility, one that has profoundly shaped contemporary art.