Sentences with phrase «figural compositions»

For a short time he painted landscapes and figural compositions with nudes, but he soon returned to works in a social realist mode.

Richard also paints representational figural compositions that differ from her other work but still contain the elusive thematic sensibility her abstract paintings are awash in.

These graceful figural compositions bend to passion and recall ancient tantric positions as well as more contemporary graphic novels and manga cartoons through their stylized, ideal bodies.

Painter Marlene Dumas has continuously explored the complex range of human emotions, often probing questions of gender, race, sexuality, and economic inequality through her dramatic and at times haunting figural compositions.

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

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

George McNeil, Figural Composition # 2, 1932, oil on paper mounted on wood, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Patricia and Phillip Frost, 1986.92.68

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Kara Maria's abstract compositions contain arrays of charged figural elements that together question powerful forces at work in our culture today.

Jackson's often large - scale paintings blend figural elements of bodies pointing, kneeling, drawing, and playing instruments with colorful abstract compositions and vigorously worked surfaces.

These artists, as pictorial cartographers in their own right, have utilized the human form in their compositions as metaphorical representations; «figural» signifiers of the continent, highlighting the innate interconnectivity between man, visual culture and evolvements in the urban sphere.

An iterative figural borrowing from one composition to the next emphasizes the body as a form of drawing, cueing the «graphic» in choreography.

Her paintings are usually dominated by symmetrical linear patterns fashioned with bright acrylic colors except when figural forms emerge, which have the effect of decentralizing the composition.

From many of his early paintings and sketchbooks from his classes with Benton you can see the influence upon his later abstract works of swirling figural rhythms and «his continued efforts toorganize compositions rooted in twistingcountershifts, as Benton had counseled.»

A founder of the Italian Transavanguardia movement in the 1970s and 1980s, Sandro Chia is best known for his Neo-Expressionist paintings and sculptures, in which he contemplates the figural through dynamic compositions and bold use of line and color.

His compositions, often figural in form, portray notions of bureaucracy and the constraints within the political, social and economic urban sphere.

Is it an unlikely exercise in form, its fluid, undulating lines and figural positioning making for a perfectly balanced composition?

During these years her style changed from Surrealist - inspired paintings of the early - mid 1930s to abstract figural and still - life compositions that reveal an understanding of Cubist and Fauvist principles.