Sentences with word «figural»

Beginning with her roots in graphic abstraction and ending with her work in figural representation, the exhibition will be the largest collection of her work to date.

The serial production of artworks enabled Willem de Kooning to illustrate the process of transformation of figural painting towards total abstraction.

Throughout her career, she has experimented with figural sculpture, printmaking and mixed media.

I continued my exploration of figural work in oil, while experimenting with scale.

Credited for painting the first abstract work, Kandinsky changed his style over the years, from beginnings in figural painting to pure abstraction.

She began her career creating minimal paintings influenced by the work of artists such as Agnes Martin, but distinguished herself by combining nonrepresentational forms with figural elements.

Her elegant Kufic, 1965 — consisting of skeins of yellow gestures on a yellow ground from which figural forms seem to emerge — looked like a predecessor to Amy Sillman's queering of Ab - Ex, especially Sillman's Fatso (2009).

Like her husband, Gwendolyn Knight preferred creating figural compositions rather than the Abstract Expressionist...

But he does not hesitate to offer figural readings of the Bible, drawing on patristic, medieval, and Reformational patterns of interpretation.

Into the early 1950s, Tworkov maintained a practice of figural abstraction, titling and culling his paintings» content from Homer's Ulysses.

The sweeping strokes and rapid brushwork of both impastoed and diluted paint are the result of considerable thought, and include numerous figural references to a variety of imagery including bridges, tunnels and coal - mining equipment, as well as calligraphy.

The coherence of this story made figural interpretation possible; certain events within and outside of scriptural narrative were viewed as having prefigured or reflected the central biblical events.

In this epically titled solo show, «The Birth of Stockholm,» an antechamber of the artist's projected handwritten meditations on art and on the Swedish capital and an array of Beninese - made figural sculptures will lead into a room - size — or rather, house - like — installation.

«Cosmic Communism» will do justice to Freundlich's involvement in movements including Expressionism, Cubism, Dada, Constructivism, and 1930s abstraction, exploring his work in diverse media — from massive figural bronzes and black - and - white prints to sumptuously luminous abstract painting, mosaic, and glass — and elucidating the relation between his art and utopian politics.

But the linear grammar is pure Hans Hofmann and Robert Motherwell, whose black guidelines trace geometric and figural suggestions like a choreographer in the wings using a finger to start the pirouette onstage.

At that time, Stewart was showing his more figural work at the famed O.K. Harris Gallery in Soho, as well as Rudolph Zwirner Gallery in Koln, Germany, and more recently at Prince Street Gallery.

The influence of post-war figural painters such as Lucien Freud and Francis Bacon is evident in the artist's fleshy, abstracted figures.

Brand - New & Terrific: Alex Katz in the 1950s explores a formative decade of work for the painter, excavating the inspiration Katz drew from art historical predecessors, the early innovations in figural depiction, and the first portraits of his future wife Ada.

Whether through figural works that draw one into frame - encapsulated universes, or harnessing multimedia propositions that imprison robust tactility and light and space, the artists draw attention to the discrete life worlds of captured forms.

Wanders's installation at Friedman Benda includes large abstract figural mirrors such as Merrick, 2016, produced in an edition of eight.

Varied subjects, such as figural fragments, drapery, and architectural relief appear on a typical single Baroque study sheet for the sake of economy and for the rehearsal of an image.

Referencing political and social awareness in this age of police violence and Black Lives Matter, works by the artists «traverse the psychic and spiritual landscape of Black erasure through narrative - figural styles; often negotiating high and low forms of image making.»

Unfortunately, figural reasoning tests have been proven not culturally unbiased.

If Mr. Kriesberg's talent for figural art made him something of an outsider in Expressionist circles, it stood him in fine stead in a world every bit as luminary.

The sculpture collection includes both figurative and abstract works ranging from large scale figural groupings to small scale examples.

On the post-test 5 months later, the Transcendental Meditation group scored significantly higher on figural originality and flexibility and on verbal fluency.

she said, looking a little shell - shocked by an installation that included figural sculpture and spay - painted soda cans as well as her newer «exploded sofas,» one scarlet, one silver.

Like her husband, Gwendolyn Knight preferred creating figural compositions rather than the Abstract Expressionist paintings that other artists of her generation embraced.

Wilson's graphic fluency and absurdist sense of humor (one piece features typewriter keys floating like water lilies, another pairs two gramophone horns blasting particles at each other) recall the 1970s paintings of Philip Guston, whose figural motifs flowed with a prolificacy and naturalness verging on the speed of thought.

Through an oeuvre displaying the re-envisioning of figural subjects and the formation of an abstract expressionist style, Byron Browne stands out among the American abstractionists of his generation.

Marcel Dzama's work to date has been heavily defined by a prolific series of figural drawings produced in graphite, pen and ink, watercolor, and root beer wash.

Large figural abstract painted by Robert D. Smeltzer in the 1960's.

Richard Loftis August 14 - October 15, 2000 This selection of work from Lee's Summit, Missouri, photographer Richard Loftis draws from his diverse essays on Vietnam, classic aircraft, and figural studies.

Utilizing hybridized human and animal figural types, Bedia's work dwells upon the improbability of a contemporary mythos.

I was also predisposed to welcome, at a much later date, the work of my Yale colleagues Brevard Childs and Hans Frei on canonical reading and on narrative and figural scriptural interpretation, respectively.

In her second gallery solo exhibition, Michelle will debut a series of seven acrylic - on - linen paintings that extend her text - based drawings into new figural ground.

The researchers tested students» figural creativity (using the Torrance test) and academic self - concept.

The blunt figural arrangement not only shows the act of gunshots causing human lives to flatline, but also the narrow dimensions of the wooden board figures suggest that social attitudes just as readily level the lives of others.

On the other, they are conceived from the outset as abstract structures whose figural elements are only gradually revealed.

Towards the end of the 1940s, motivated by an exhibition of Arshile Gorky's paintings, Marca - Relli abandoned figural representation for thickly painted abstract forms.

After fifteen years of acclaimed abstract painting, he began creating large - scale nudes and other figural images, often in grisaille or a severely restricted color palette.

Composed of basic but indefinable shapes and marks, his works often invoke spatial and figural illusions, though they remain elusive of any descriptive narrative.

An emphasis on materials and process is evident today in the wildly different methods of figural artist Dana Schutz and abstractionist Mark Grotjahn.

Group show of ceramic figural sculpture by masters from 1970 — present Ferrin Contemporary, 1315 MASS MoCA Way For more information

f the Gospel writers used figural interpretation to identify Jesus with the God of Israel, they also treated Jesus quite clearly as a man distinct from God, one who, in subjection to God's will, experienced death and divine abandonment.