Sentences with phrase «figural suggestions»

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.

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.

The work is Baroque by Louise Bourgeois, a fascinatingly introspective marble sculpture she made in 1970 that coils what seem to be two or three figures (their heads help to orient the figural suggestion) in a huddled mass, rhythmically striated unlike many of the smoothly polished marble works I had seen.