Sentences with phrase «figuration and abstraction»

Featured in the forthcoming edition # 91, released this month, Annie Lapin straddles the line between figuration and abstraction in her work, conflating environmental scenes with rich painterly effects akin to the Abstract Expressionists.

[2] The merging of figuration and abstraction in his artworks is the result of the process of erasure that Kanevsky employs.

Rezi van Lankveld (b1973, Almelo, The Netherlands) is known for exploring the tensions between figuration and abstraction in her fluid, painterly paintings.

Here, you've mentioned how in these shows artists were taking a variety of approaches simultaneously, with figuration and abstraction oscillating and with every sort of style going on at once.

Conjuring references as diverse as Velasquez and Van Gogh, Cezanne and Gauguin, Ensor and Brueghel, Liu Wei expertly depicts the human condition, combining figuration and abstraction in a manner reminiscent of Bacon and Freud.

On view is the artist's bold and experimental work challenging traditional assumptions about figuration and abstraction, and works that reveal her interest in how paintings function in a given room.

Adrian Ghenie, the trendy artist whose expressionistic style blends figuration and abstraction, was sought after by Asian and Western collectors.

Kowalski merges figuration and abstraction with his latest oil paintings on canvas and related drawings.

Her paintings bring to question the line between figuration and abstraction as within the visual language of the horizontal, a sense of place is suggested.

Hartigan continued to refer to Old Masters such as El Greco and Jean - Baptiste Greuze and to experiment with balancing figuration and abstraction, but her later work, from the 1980s through the 2000s, tended toward the representational.

Bridging figuration and abstraction in his sculptures made of wood and silicone, Rieger draws inspiration from objects such as plumbing valves, motor cases, tool handles, fishing rods, door hardware, reproductions of American colonial furniture, and familiar domestic objects.

Both artists foster a unique visual vocabulary that synthesizes figuration and abstraction into stylized composition.

Although paintings by Cecily Brown (b. 1969, London) appear to combine elements of abstract and figurative painting, she says, «I often avoid using the terms figuration and abstraction because I've always tried to have it both ways.

In fact, «I often avoid using the terms figuration and abstraction because I've always tried to have it both ways.»

A tireless visual inventor and improviser, Robert Rauschenberg fused figuration and abstraction just as he married so many other loving couples, from painting and sculpture to performance and installation to art and technology — with wit and ease.

In his major four - panel postcard painting I Kandinsky (2012), the artist explores figuration and abstraction through vivid colors, lines, curves, and a planar composition, as if in an homage to Kandinsky.

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Through her dynamic application of paint and pop cultural references, Pensato's compositions extend the possibilities of action painting into bold figuration and abstraction.

The Swan, 1914 - 15 (pictured above left: No 1), similarly embraces figuration and abstraction.

Sillman's not playing with the figure in abstract painting, she's probing figuration and abstraction equally.

The exhibition's thesis on the interplay of figuration and abstraction finds four basic expressions among the featured artists.

These nine powerful female artists (born between 1931 and 1990) create paintings and sculptures that span figuration and abstraction, though here they share an impulse to reconsider and thus reconfigure the image of the female body in their art.

His large - scale paintings collapse figuration and abstraction, encapsulate dynamic energy into geometric form and embrace imperfections and raw surfaces in an entirely human way.

The celebration also announces Whitford's representation of the Estate of the Artist, who enjoyed a career that spanned some sixty - five years, during which he experimented with Figuration and Abstraction alike.

In this new body of work we see paintings that are bouncing around the extremes of where drawing and painting intersect, where figuration and abstraction resonate.

As the distinction between figuration and abstraction dissolves, it's tempting to conclude that painting has become the subject of the works, as well as the medium of presentation.

«Across the Tisch collection there are moments of great figuration, but also fabulous abstract compositions by artists who are dealing with figuration and abstraction at the same time»

Featuring 200 paintings, sculptures, installations, drawings, photographs and films, the exhibition will expose the heterogeneity of New York at a time when minimalism and performance art were joining figuration and abstraction to unconditionally change the art world.»

Here Bickerton's merging of figuration and abstraction comes to new levels: in m - DNA eve 3, for example, he has nearly obscured the image of the figure with impasto strokes of vibrant green, blue and yellow paint, blending the foreground and background until the model's bulging, exaggerated features seemingly emerge from the camouflage.

The majority of his body of work blurs the lines between figuration and abstraction conjuring a sense of mysticism and symbolism evocative from friend and fellow Hamptons resident John Graham.

Yet, his unique visual language brings figuration and abstraction together to challenge perceptions and assumptions.

Intelligently and unapologetically walking a ground that meshes figuration and abstraction into a practice — more grounded in the latter and structured by the former — Colvin is at a stage in...

Phoebe Unwin's paintings shift between figuration and abstraction creating a personal register of images and marks: observations of reality, constructs of memory or indirect references to particular places and events.

A tension between figuration and abstraction undergirds the paintings of Torey Thornton.

Fluid strips of bright colour blend into one being; it's a union between male and female and between figuration and abstraction since, being headless, the pair happily occupy the middle ground between portraiture and colour field painting.

Moving freely between figuration and abstraction rendered Richter a true master.

Many referenced his uncanny ability to fluidly traverse figuration and abstraction; one friend called him the fastest draftsman you will ever meet.

I translate that tension into a different tension, one between figuration and abstraction put simply, which I hope feels vital and familiar in some way.

Perez's paintings have straddled figuration and abstraction throughout his career and his sculptures present a similar synthesis.

Juxtaposing figuration and abstraction, as well as the sacred and the profane, Ofili's work examines the power of images and their ability to address fundamental questions of representation.

Even at this early stage his interest in reconciling figuration and abstraction, and in representing events and memories with painterly symbols, was becoming evident in works such as Mr and Mrs Robyn Denny, 1960.

Each and every artwork's place in the gallery, and the transformation of the space, has been wholly and elegantly considered incorporating figuration and abstraction in equal doses.

With an acute understanding of sculptural language, Woods» interpretations shift between figuration and abstraction imbuing this central tension with volume, weight and interior mystery.

The exhibition will also present a group of the artist's large - scale, anthropomorphic Lemurenköpfe (Lemure Heads), which playfully meld sculptural figuration and abstraction and which were first shown at documenta IX, Kassel (1992).

While Jack Whitten's early work combined figuration and abstraction, he became known for his conceptual advancements, focusing on the materiality of paint.

The exhibition features the artist's bold and experimental work challenging traditional assumptions about figuration and abstraction, and works that reveal her interest in how paintings function in a given room.