Sentences with phrase «figuration and abstraction creating»

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Chris Ofili creates intricate, kaleidoscopic paintings and works on paper that deftly merge abstraction and figuration.

Single visceral brush strokes resolve into minute details and subtle narratives, creating compositions of remarkable complexity in which abstraction and figuration co-mingle.

Combining her formal background in illustration, abstraction, landscape, figuration, and her interest in mysticism, spirituality and Kabbalah - Appel creates a uniquely original interpretation of the ages old Tarot deck, and is probably one of the only contemporary fine artists to undertake such an ambitious project.

Only a few years out of RISD, the 31 - year - old painter Ted Gahl performs a captivating tightrope - walk between abstraction and figuration, creating canvases that seem to harness stylistic elements of artists as diverse as de Kooning, Diebenkorn, El Greco, and Matisse.

Though their respective bodies of work appear formally disparate — Caris creates abstracted figurations and Amanda showcases figuration into her abstractions — each relies on a shared interest in times past.

For a while now Amy Sillman has been one of the most exciting painters working in America, creating bravura canvases that poke fun at the orthodox distinctions between figuration and abstraction, messing it all together into a humorous, thought - provoking, and often sexy stew.

These so - called «Cailloux» are an extraordinary testimony to his vision, for starting from figuration he unwittingly created abstract works and became a pioneer of Abstraction.

In this new series of works, he plays with absence and presence, abstraction and figuration, creating silhouette - like shapes that feel organic.

A unique fusion of photography and painting, Isca Greenfield - Sanders» work creates a rich dialogue between abstraction and figuration, mechanical reproduction and handcraft, and narration and formalist visuality.

Prolific across media, he creates paintings that include imitations of Monet's «Waterlilies,» process - based abstraction, and cartoony figuration.

Works that expressed a personal or political viewpoint through figuration were considered to be retrograde in comparison to the radical abstractions created by the great American painters of the forties and fifties.

The works of art, created during the past decade, include references to figuration, abstraction, landscape, and still life traditions.

Chapter 1: Things Must be Pulverized: Abstract Expressionism Charts the move from figurative to abstract painting as the dominant style of painting (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Willem de Kooning, Barnett Newman Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko Chapter 2: Wounded Painting: Informel in Europe and Beyond Meanwhile in Europe: abstract painters immediate responses to the horrors of World War II (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Jean Dubuffet, Lucio Fontana, Viennese Aktionism, Wols Chapter 3: Post-War Figurative Painting Surveys those artists who defiantly continued to make figurative work as Abstraction was rising to dominance - including Social Realists (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Francis Bacon, Lucien Freud, Alice Neel, Pablo Picasso Chapter 4: Against Gesture - Geometric Abstraction The development of a rational, universal language of art - the opposite of the highly emotional Informel or Abstract Expressionism (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Lygia Clark, Ellsworth Kelly, Bridget Riley, Yves Klein Chapter 5: Post-Painting Part 1: After Pollock In the aftermath of Pollock's death: the early days of Pop, Minimalism and Conceptual painting in the USA (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, Cy Twombly Chapter 5: Anti Tradition - Pop Painitng How painting survives against growth of mass visual culture: photography and television - if you can't beat them, join them (1960s and 70s) Key artists discussed: Alex Katz, Roy Lichtenstein, Gerhard Richter, Andy Warhol Chapter 6: A transcendental high art: Neo Expressionism and its Discontents The continuation of figuration and expressionism in the 1970s and 80s, including many artists who have only been appreciated in later years (1970s & 80s) Key artists discussed: Georg Baselitz, Jean - Michel Basquiat, Anselm Kiefer, Julian Schnabel, Chapter 7: Post-Painting Part II: After Pop A new era in which figurative and abstract exist side by side rather than polar opposites plus painting expands beyond the canvas (late 1980s to 2000s) Key artists discussed: Tomma Abts, Mark Grotjahn, Chris Ofili, Christopher Wool Chapter 8: New Figures, Pop Romantics Post-cold war, artists use paint to create a new kind of «pop art» - primarily figurative - tackling cultural, social and political issues (1990s to now) Key artists discussed: John Currin, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, Neo Rauch, Luc Tuymans

A unique fusion of photography and painting, Isca Greenfield - Sanders's work creates a rich dialogue between abstraction and figuration, mechanical reproduction and handcraft, and narration and formalist visuality.

This body of work sits somewhere between abstraction and figuration, creating an enigmatic window to the outside world that feels at once familiar and mysterious.

The new paintings are created through Furnas's characteristic play with figuration and abstraction.

The artist skillfully combines abstraction and figuration in order to create distinctly contemporary art.

Cedar works in figuration and abstraction: Figures in her paintings are on abstract backgrounds, creating a subtle discord.

The multimedia work of Brazilian artist Valdirlei Dias Nunes navigates the space between geometric abstraction and figuration, using found and created objects, forms, lines and shapes to create a dialogue between all parts of his compositions.

In Rashid Johnson's The Crowd, the lines between abstraction and figuration are blurred with the intention of creating a contemporary portrait that simultaneously expresses anger and unity.

There are also a grouping of large - scale paintings created over the last thirty years which plays with the boundaries between abstraction and figuration.

Blending abstraction and figuration, Bourgeois delved into the struggles of everyday life to create personally cathartic objects that reference the body, sexuality, family, trauma, and anxiety.

Known for his innovative blending of figuration and abstraction, deft use of color, «hybrid juxtaposition of high and low,» and inspired interpretations of folkloric myths and Roman poetry, the survey features six bodies of work including layered paintings from the 1990s, Afromuse watercolor portraits, and new works created since Ofili began living and working in Trinidad.

Hovering between figuration and abstraction, Daniels has created a series of oil paintings based on classical arches.

Known for his monumental wall reliefs and sculptures of animals from the 1970s, American artist Bernard Langlais (1921 — 1977) created a diverse oeuvre of paintings, sculptures and environments that shifted regularly and freely between abstraction and figuration — a shift that reflects Langlais» constant effort to reconcile his rural roots (in Maine) and keen sense of place with postwar artistic movements and ideologies.

Moving back and forth between abstraction and figuration, he has depicted geometrical forms including dots, lines, triangles, square and ellipses, and rhythms of fresh and vivid colors on the pictorial plane, and has created unique, illusionistic worlds of painting wherein each motif influences and merges into each other while preserving a descriptive quality.

A Painting Survey, 1950 — 2007» reveals the ways in which the artist drew from and challenged conventions of abstraction to create a singular figuration.

A master of computer animation with a gift for creating images and environments that hover on the boundary between abstraction and figuration, Burr has in recent years devoted himself to exploring the concept of an endlessly mutating labyrinth.

Ironing out much of the artist's unevenness and emphasizing his impish but earnest intellectual commitment to art - making, we are reminded that the Hockney of our imaginations — who paints beautiful boys and cool couples in the Californian sun, creating work that blurs figuration, abstraction and erotic mischief, is aligned with Hockney the innovator, forever working with the technology of his time: from fax machines and photocopiers to cameras and iPads.

The work simultaneously builds up and strips back the layers of paint, creating the work, which exists between figuration and abstraction.

Equal parts darkly humorous and uncanny, Schutz's paintings combine abstraction and figuration with expressive imagination, truncated and re-constructed bodies, banal objects, and everyday scenes to create compelling and intriguing pictures.

The final room in the exhibition will bring together, for the first time in the United States, a major grouping of large - scale paintings created over the past thirty years that play with the boundaries between abstraction and figuration.

Shapiro's vocabulary consists largely of rectangular volumes, with which he has created a body of work dancing on the line between abstraction and figuration.

Matta's painting style shifts between figuration and abstraction, creating cosmic fictional spaces that reflect contemporary history.

In fact it may be abstraction's strength (and hope)-- while individual «areas / objects» in an abstract painting may have some limitations over representational objects (how to create an abstract «part» that does not tip the painting into figuration), abstraction has the advantages of not being limited by subjects and a certain type of visual space.

Bahman Mohassess and Leyly Matine - Daftary merged figuration and abstraction to create a new genre particular to Iran.

Observing the world through women's eyes and utilizing the no - man's - land land between figuration with abstraction, Brown is creating an oeuvre that's unique and easily recognizable.