Sentences with phrase «figuration and abstraction comes»

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.

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Curated by Paul Schimmel, the show charts Guston's progress as he played with Color Field painting, moved into grid - like abstractions, and came gradually closer to figuration, combining the visual languages of Abstract Expressionism and Minimalism.

In her newest works, figuration and abstraction are mixed anew, for although the images are abstract, the beholder comes across recognizable details — individual body parts or formations reminiscent of human organs.

The Contemporary presents twenty paintings spanning dense abstraction, figuration, «object paintings,» and collage — all which come together to showcase the startling breadth of his painterly investigations.

The most fascinating response was that of Philip Guston, who seemed to come out of the other side of abstraction into an alternative world of figuration, ironic, often amusing, but at heart deadly serious about human failure, and how hollow the pose of artistic heroism had become.

Turning away from the approaches of artists like Pollok and Kline during the 1960s, Guston's paintings came to include his own cartoon - style realism, combining elements of gestural abstraction with a return to figuration.

Using painting as his dominant medium, figuration, abstraction and hallucination come to characterise his connection to Mbare, and its ceaseless bustle of society amidst urban decay.

Opening: «Richard Diebenkorn: Early Color Abstractions 1949 - 1955» at Van Doren Waxter Richard Diebenkorn is one of the most celebrated artists to come out of the Bay Area Figurative Movement — a group of San Francisco Bay area artists that included David Park, Elmer Bischoff and Wayne Thiebaud — who eventually forsook the dominant Abstract Expressionist style of the»50s to revisit figuration.

The man who made a name for himself by painting hospital doors has come a long way with a very simple formula: gloss paint in bold, expansive colours on aluminium panels, treading a line between abstraction and figuration.

The man who made a name for himself by painting hospital doors has come a long way with a very simple formula: gloss paint in bold, treading a line between abstraction and figuration.

Oliveira's early work is figurative, and he played a major role in the turn toward figuration that came quick on the heels of abstraction's triumph and quick academicization.

Elmer Bischoff: «Figurative Paintings» (closes on Saturday) During the heyday of Abstract Expressionism in the 1950s, a number of painters in San Francisco turned away from abstraction and back to representational painting, thereby founding what came to be known as Bay Area Figuration.

Giacometti's uncanny ability to toe the line between so many dichotomies - light and dark, material and space, figuration and abstraction, good and evil - will likely ring true for generations to come.

During Abstract Expressionism's heyday in the 1950s, three artists in San Francisco turned away from abstraction and back to representational painting, founding a movement that came to be known as Bay Area Figuration.