Sentences with phrase «figural painting»

Also, Laura Owens» evocative figural painting and Franz West's expressive abstract sculptures, that stir up the past with allusions to art history, to Gabriel Orozco's series of works that preserve the presence of the present with images of his own physicality.

Wartime memories also come to play in his work of the 1980s, which turned to figural painting.

«I have attempted to invent a personal and idiosyncratic visual language in which consideration of both the history of Abstraction, and the traditions of Figural Painting are of equal and essential concern.

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

This show presents work by more than a dozen artists (all of whom are also curators, and / or have run or currently run spaces of their own) in a range of media that covers several bases: conceptual and abstract art, figural painting and drawings, and political pieces.

There is also a significant concentration of post-Civil War figural painting and sculpture, including works by Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, Mary Cassatt, John Singer Sargent, J. Alden Weir, George de Forest Brush, Joseph DeCamp, Frank Benson, William Paxton, Elizabeth Nourse and nineteen plasters and bronzes by Solon Borglum.

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

This will be only the second presentation of such scale, featuring the works of this grand master of figural painting, to be held in Europe (the first was held at London's Whitechapel Gallery in 2010).

«I had a show of figural painting — sort of California school, Diebenkorn — and Tom Downing asked if I was afraid of art.

His Chex Paintings are composed of checkered veils that ominously bulge, hinting at a hidden world underneath; similarly, his figural paintings present odd demons emerging from shadows, menacingly anonymous like the characters in his films who wear balaclavas or masks.

Original artworks and commentary by Mark Tansey (b. 1949), whose large scale monochromatic allegories reference the art of photography, a pivotal technology in the reproduction and dissemination of popular images; John Currin (b. 1962), who has referenced the art of Norman Rockwell, and whose provocative figural paintings reflect upon domestic and social themes that were prevalent, though differently portrayed, in the mid-twentieth century; Vincent Desiderio (b. 1955), whose dark intellectual melodramas re-imagine scenes of crime and adventure from pulp fiction; Lucien Freud (1922 - 2011), the painter of deeply psychological works that examine the relationship of artist and model; and Jamie Wyeth (b. 1946), son of noted painter Andrew Wyeth and grandson of illustrator N.C. Wyeth, whose images convey stories real and imagined, among other artists, will be featured in the exhibition and its accompanying catalogue.

Although he may be better known for his larger - than - life - sized, grisaille, figural paintings, Alfred Leslie spent the 1950s working in an abstract expressionist vein, creating paintings of explosive color as well as small - scale abstract works on paper.

While Bearden's early work consisted of figural paintings inspired by the social realism that dominated the 1930s, a trip to Paris in 1950 inspired him to move closer to abstraction.

Three Asian - style Pendants, a figural painted mother - of - pearl disc, a carved turquoise pendant, and a pierced and carved jade pendant.

There, in high - powered galleries like Leo Castelli and, especially, Mary Boone, the artists Julian Schnabel, David Salle, Elizabeth Murray, Eric Fischl, and others created a cultural sensation with outsize, often - figural paintings that embraced the messy, the raw, and the psychologically - fraught.

As Jaffe's annotations make clear, the transition from those heart - rending figural paintings to abstraction was made in the later 1950s, at about the time when Rothko, Newman, Gorky, De Kooning and others were similarly eliminating the realism from their work.

Jeff Langevin is an American illustrator and designer whose work includes emotional, figural paintings which explore the relationship between humans and nature, artistic interpretations and graphic works inspired by popular culture.

You can see the influence of Dubuffet in Ossorio's abstract figural paintings such as Reforming Figure.

Not exact matches

Selected by curator Lauren Cornell and artist Ryan Trecartin, the 150 works by 51 artists and collectives include paintings of humanoid heads warping amid patterned fields (Sascha Braunig); a 3 - D - printed figural sculpture of artist Juliana Huxtable (Frank Benson); and an aquarium housing two coral - encrusted letters E (Antoine Catala), obliquely referencing an emotional relic from our analog past - empathy.

Sometime in 1940 Rothko makes his last figurative painting, then experiments with Surrealism, and eventually does away entirely with any figural suggestion in his paintings, abstracting them further and paring them down to indeterminate shapes floating in fields of color - Multiforms as they were called by others - which were greatly influenced by Milton Avery's style of painting.

These works are less widely recognizable than his women, presenting a significant shift in the career of the artist with his move away from more evocative (and often figural) paintings of the 1950s.

The exhibition rewards a bit of work at the gallery, such as climbing the stairs toward the second floor for a better view in the stairwell of Blue Blush, a horizontal work that reads more as a still life than the figural suggestion of the vertical paintings.

Returning to the central, almost figural form in the work, its contraposto exposing a skeletal armature that reminded me not only of the macabre Giacometti floor sculpture often called The Rape but of the large grisaille anti-war statement Picasso painted in June and July of 1945, The Charnel House.

Number 7 represents a shift in Pollock's style: rather than dripping, the artist used turkey basters to apply black paint in both abstract and figural forms.

These two - toned works characterize a period that is the predecessor to the heavily impastoed, figural abstractions that are the «Women» paintings of the early 1950s.

When he resumed painting in 1945, Tworkov found himself increasingly interested in abstraction, which he saw as analogous, rather than antithetical, to figural representation.

Entitled Tworkov Paints a Picture, the piece walked readers through Tworkov's approach to painting and demystified abstraction by presenting it as a deliberate process in which an artist uses color, line, and flame - like brushstroke to express a subject, much like in figural representation.

Bartlett has been a commercial success since the 1970s when her highly acclaimed artwork, Rhapsody (1975 - 76, collection Museum of Modern Art), a painting based on geometry and the figural motifs of house, tree, mountain, and sea on 987 gridded, enameled steel plates was shown in May 1976 at the Paula Cooper Gallery in New York.

The thirty - nine artists participating in this year's NAP broadly span the spectrum of varying themes in contemporary painting, including figural representation, material studies, optical abstraction and spatial depictions, while continually redefining the limits of formal categorization.

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

Always in the past interfacing the references of figural interactions with structural abstraction, his paintings and collages have merged their techniques together -LSB-...]

Born from a substratum of abstract expressive paint, the figural elements of Huey's work hail from a multiplicity of styles and eras.

Alston began creating abstract paintings in the 1950s, but he never abandoned figural representation.

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.

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.

His earliest paintings are figural, influenced by Cézanne and Surrealism, but by the early»50s he had moved into full abstraction, covering his canvases with dense patterns of mostly dark colors in short brushstrokes.

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.

Influenced by the emergence of abstract expressionism, the New York School, Color Field Painting and the Washington Color School, Gilliam's early style developed from brooding figural abstractions to large paintings of flatly applied color and paintings of diagonal stripes on square fields.

My early paintings were very figural — I was looking at Turkish miniatures and thinking about the Abrahamic religions I was in contact with daily.

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.

Roth also made more figural and image - based mixed - media assemblages in shadow - box frames, and included collage elements in some of his paintings.

His modular paintings (first shown in the exhibition Kurgan Waves, at the Canada gallery, New York, in 2006) are composed of single - color canvases installed to create geometric, often overtly figural forms, such as the long - legged, slicker - and - galoshes - wearing The Fisherman's Friend from 2005, one of the earliest works in the exhibition.

The contemporary mural was inspired by figural wall paintings created prior to European contact.

Although the content is often ambiguous and difficult to discern, his paintings have a one - to - one relationship with figural source material.

The drawing / scraping into the «skinny jeans» paintings with a palette knife reveal the vibrant colors underneath and present a comic (unstable) image — along with the ambiguity of a possible lurking figural presence, the psyche of the painting.

These include a trio of Joseph Yoakum's transporting, abstract landscapes, Sister Gertrude Morgan's evangelical paintings, a set of William Dawson's wide - eyed, figural wood carvings, and an assemblage of a cat head by Ashby.

Martin, whose work is currently on view at the Whitney's figural - painting show «Flatlands,» has become a buzzy emerging artist for these perplexing images, and now, at Bodega, he'll show more of them in a show titled «Eczema Song,» which, if its loopy press release is any proof, will be as weird and hypnotic as anything else he's done.

A singular force in China's contemporary art scene, Aniwar Mamat creates abstract paintings influenced by his earlier experiments in minimalism and figural representation, as well as by the history of Abstract Expressionism.

Unfortunately, collectors were not as interested in these paintings, and none of them sold when he exhibited them at the Betty Parsons Gallery in New York, so he returned to his figural color paintings.

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.