Sentences with phrase «figural work»

In this interview from 1977, Katz talks about the development of his work and the decision to continue making figural work during the high - energy period of Abstract Expressionism.

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.

That's hindsight, of course; in its day, Grossman's figural work was even less predictable and more startling.

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

For his inaugural feature with The Loft at Liz's, Pearsall had developed a series of consisting of both abstracted and figural works comprised of Trader Joe's shopping bags (Pearsall's Imploding Grocery Bag series).

Museum exhibitions include James Brooks at the Dallas Museum of Art: A Celebration, Dallas, TX (2006); James Brooks Revisited, Hillwood Art Museum, Brookville, NY (2000); Rediscovering James Brooks: WPA Murals & Other Figural Works, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY (1997); James Brooks: A Retrospective, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME (1983); and James Brooks Retrospective, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (1963), traveled to Rose Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA; Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Washington Gallery of Contemporary Art, Washington, D.C.; University of California Art Galleries, Los Angeles, CA.

In the series, «Lost Dogs and Half - Eaten Apples,» Farmer presents smaller figural works displayed on a low table.

These are the most literally figural works within an oeuvre dedicated to abstraction of the figure in different modes.

Müller turned to allegory, religion, and literature as sources of inspiration for his new large - scale figural works.

Included are landscapes, portraits, city views, still lifes, and figural works in a variety of academic and modernist styles.

This catalogue raisonne covers four decades of this creative activity, starting with the astonishing corpus of figural works and culminating in his original invention of spatial art, which led to the creation and development of the highly individual «holes,» «environments,» and «slashes.»

Alongside these figural works, the catalogue features original essays by writer and art historian Adrien Goetz — who examines Katz's work in light of pieces by Dominique Ingres, Edouard Manet and Edgar Degas — and fashion journalist Suzy Menkes, who considers Katz in the context of style and fashion.

That same loud and voluptuous defiance of time and mortality is broadcast loud and clear by Harriette Joffe in figural works on a bold scale, such as Blue Maya, a secure life drawing rendered in monumental splendor with electric flashes of bright blue and pink to put to rest any sense of the «dying of the light.»

The Jazz Age movement, known for its sleek depictions of industry that tend to fall just on the romantic side of Photorealism — which mostly subsided in favor of more comforting figural works as the Great Depression (and American Regionalism) rolled in — is the subject of an upcoming survey at San Francisco's de Young Museum.

José Mariano de Creeft (November 27, 1884 - September 11, 1982) was a Spanish - born American artist, sculptor, and teacher known for modern sculpture in stone, metal, and wood, particularly figural works of women.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

I think, in these, I realized more than ever how important it is for me to have a definite figural thought in mind as I work.

Elizabeth Jaeger's (b. 1988 lives and works in Brooklyn, NY) sculptures embed common figural elements in existential concepts of reality and perception.

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.

Motherwell initially produced both figural and abstract collages, but by the early 1950s Surrealist influences prevalent in these first works had given way to his distinctive mature style, which was firmly rooted in Abstract Expressionism.

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.

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.

Ron Mueck, an Australian artist known for his hyperrealistic figural sculptures, has created his largest work to date.

Focusing on Lassnig's self - portraiture, the exhibition presents works by the artist — most of them never previously exhibited in the U.S. — from all creative periods of her career, spanning her early involvement with graphic abstraction in Paris and Art Informel, to her later shift to figural representation.

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.

In fragmenting and distorting the human body, Pondick's work reminds of Louise Bourgeois» figural and corporeal sculptures.

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

Pepi absorbed the lessons of the Old Masters as well as the aesthetic of the Futurists such as Boccioni and Ballo, and was especially taken by the work of Matta, whose delicate figural gestures are a clear influence on Pepi's watercolors.

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.

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).

This process allows mediation between access points of both figural and abstract representation within my work.

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.

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

In Washington, Gilliam befriended Thomas Downing and became part of the Washington Color School, moving away from his earlier style of dark figural abstraction towards the production of large works with fields of flatly applied color.

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.

Not so Louise Bourgeois, who transmuted a family story of paternal infidelity into a narrative of mythological dimension that she always insisted was the primary driving force of her work, and for whom that self - mythologized personal narrative served as an undying battery to produce great art works until the end of her very long life, her late stuffed cloth figural sculptures as raw, uncompromising, and young as her early objects and drawings.

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

The 13 works on view highlight the formal similarities between the artists» work and illustrate a parallel shift in their conception of pictorial space — from a figural abstraction to a new sense of openness and expansiveness.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

While most of his contemporaries had begun with figural representation and moved towards abstraction, Leslie's work followed the opposite trajectory.

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.

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.

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

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.

«My work undermines the uneven economics of Western technocolonialism and the performative rhetoric of Islamic fundamentalism, through a ficto - feminist - figural expression of power.