Sentences with phrase «figural references»

At the time of his first solo show at Peggy Guggenheim's Art of This Century gallery in 1946, De Niro was primarily working in an abstract manner with some figural references.

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.

His distinct works resist a single reading, only rarely depict familiar shapes, and are open to a wide range of interpretations, narrative associations, and figural references.

For the past several years, Cobourn's work has been based on landscape imagery; the new work is more abstract but contains figural references.

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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.

Marcel Wanders» total environment will include several bodies of work: large abstract figural mirrors, such as Dysmorphophobia 1, 2 and 3, with carved details and cutouts, create an illusion of a character or ghostly figure; Self 2 is a steel cabinet and kinetic piece, balancing a sculptural ovoid form that abstracts a human head and physically rocks on the top surface; Tempter, an over-sized adult rocking unicorn is cast in bronze with metal chain stirrups; Shiqule Nuhai, two ceramic vases, monumental in height, reference Marcel Wanders» Delft Blue collection with a darker sensibility, using black glaze.

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

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.

When these far - flung artists came of age, in the early 1980s, the work they are known for today — pointedly figural, quotidian in reference, resolutely sculptural — was all but unrecognizable as the shape of serious art to come.

Centrally occupied with the human figure, his standout piece, Raft, 2015, presents a densely packed assembly of objects that includes tenuous figural elements; it references both the Mediterranean migrant crisis and plight of Cape Town ’s

Her seven new works engage sculptural vocabularies through both material specificity and eclecticism, loosely referencing some of Giacometti's well - known figural groupings such as «Forest» and «Femmes de Venise.»

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.»

Noticing the importance of silhouette in these arrangements, she took a figural turn, bringing dance and fashion references into the work.