Sentences with phrase «expressive figurative work»

London artist Jack Pearce's expressive figurative work features loose - tongued (and limbed) warriors of radness in textural, buzzing Indian ink and intricately patterned glorious technicolour.

Jeff Danley's expressive figurative work interprets the minute language of the human body as it moves through time and place.

He spent the summer of 1957 in Provincetown, where he was introduced to the expressive figurative work of Jan Muller, Hans Hofmann and Red Grooms.

The work is an example of the Neo-Expressionist trend known as Transavanguardia, which focuses on expressive figurative work done on a large scale.

It's an expressive figurative work that's really an unusual piece to find at auction.

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The use of large opened fields of expressive color applied in generous painterly portions, accompanied by loose drawing (vague linear spots and / or figurative outline) can first be seen in the early 20th - century works of both Henri Matisse and Joan Miró.

The early works demonstrate Oiticica's efforts to find his own expressive language by integrating the playfulness of Klee's figurative dreamscapes and the strict geometricity of Malevich and Mondrian.

The emergent work is at once logical and lyrical, minimal and expressive, and moves fluidly between abstraction and figurative representation.

In his catalog essay for a 1975 Smith retrospective at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the late critic Allan Temko wrote that, «Whatever else his protean art may be — and amongst other things, in both his figurative and nonfigurative work, it has been a wildly expressive, almost violent art of tremendous intuitive power — it has always been, first and foremost, a celebration of rational intellect.»

The works of art in this exhibition can trigger associations to surrealist explorations of the subconscious, expressive artists» intuitive work processes and figurative painters» depictions of human psychological conditions as well as the external world.

These depictions, considered his early work, are marked by an expressive figurative style, somewhere between representation and pure abstraction.

Nicole Eisenman is an artist who is expanding the critical and expressive capacity of the Western figurative tradition through works that engage contemporary social issues and phenomena.

Lining the entire room is work ranging from photographs of local urban night scenes from Phil Cifone, to somber and expressive portraits by Meghan Cochran, and gestural figurative paintings from Isaiah Gulino.

Basquiat's work — a make - shift wall inside of the gallery graffitied with expressive marks — was a standout success next to videos by Keith Haring and Kenny Scharf, hand - painted text signs by Jenny Holzer, figurative sculpture by John Ahearn and Tom Otterness, and others who would define art of the 1980s.

Although predominantly abstract, Rae's paintings have also occasionally incorporated figurative elements, including expressive typography in works such as Moonlite Bunny Ranch 2003, and small cartoon - like pandas, a recurring motif in her work from the mid-2000s onwards (see, for instance, Bold as a wild strawberry, sweet as a naughty girl 2009).

His formative works of this period show an expressive figurative style, while his subjects are mainly drawn from rural farm life, and include the people, buildings, tools and machinery typical of the environment.

While it was around this time that Frankenthaler's canvases began to achieve a lightness — a kind of openness that allowed the composition to breathe — it was in the 1970s that the artist had moved away from the literal and figurative landscapes seen in her early work, such as the celebrated Mountains and Sea from 1952, and towards a more emotional and expressive representation of Color Field paintings where she developed a new sumptuousness and sensuality characterized in the present work.

If you understand the coherence of forms beneath the figure's surface, if you can control volumes and be sensitive to balance and gesture, then your figurative work will be more convincing and expressive.

While much of Marsha's art is whimsical and expressive, the artist also does portraiture and figurative work.