Sentences with phrase «figuration and abstraction in»

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.

Presenting surprising new perspectives on the artist's work, this publication is the first study on the interplay between figuration and abstraction in Scully's oeuvre.

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.

The jury praised Anderson as an outstanding British painter whose art speaks to our current political moment with questions about identity and belonging and recognised a deeper interplay between figuration and abstraction in his work.

In doing so, she points to the artificiality of the perceived schism between figuration and abstraction in art.

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

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.

4 artists who go over the battle between figuration and abstraction in graffiti to join the urban contemporary world.».

In the first volume, the authors present an overview of Motherwell's career, and discuss key topics including the tension between figuration and abstraction in his work, his role as a spokesperson for modernism, and the changing nature of the critical reception of his work.

In the first volume, the authors present an overview of Motherwell's career, and discuss key topics including the tension between figuration and abstraction in his work, his role as a spokesperson for modernism, and the critical reception of his work.

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.

This sensibility speaks to the heightened color of Schutz's rambunctious mix of figuration and abstraction in wildly imaginative scenarios.

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

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It is a tragedy, but during his short life span he left us with so much poetry, drawings and painting in which he married text and image, abstraction, figuration and historical information mixed with contemporary critique.

This began my serious interest in combining abstraction and figuration.

move back and forth between abstraction, figuration and the combination of the two a lot in my work as well as changing scale from very small to very large....

It both brought him to the attention of a wider public at a time when Abstract Expressionism still held sway in the eyes of the New York art world, and it documented, step - by - step, his transition from abstraction to figuration.

William Scott: Divided Figure highlights the artist's exploration of the divide between abstraction and figuration, and the developments that took place throughout this crucial phase in his career.

LOS ANGELES — Curated by Kristina Kite and Sarah Lehrer - Graiwer, the artists and works in About Face employ ideas of scale, zoom, and cropping to complicate figuration and portraiture in relation to abstraction.

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.

Blending abstraction and figuration — common in today's painterly practices — each canvas displays a recurring combination of saturated colors, loose gestural marks, and patterned surfaces.

Freud's adherence to realism and focus on the human figure, when abstraction and other progressive forms of practice were more prolific, moved him in and out of the spotlight until the 1980's when renewed international interest in painting and figuration gave his work a new significance.

In the starlets depicted by Laing, there is an erotic charge that echoes between surface and subject as the models shift between figuration and abstraction, their colour - blockedcostumes in tension with bodies contoured through half - toneIn the starlets depicted by Laing, there is an erotic charge that echoes between surface and subject as the models shift between figuration and abstraction, their colour - blockedcostumes in tension with bodies contoured through half - tonein tension with bodies contoured through half - tones.

With minimal fuss, Bradley works in series, picking up and discarding styles and oscillating between abstraction and figuration as it suits him.

Following in the tradition of The Club (1948 — 1962), an organization on East Eighth Street, where lectures and panel discussions openly aired the debate between figuration and abstraction, and inspired by The Club's renegade members who organized The Ninth Street Show (1951), an exhibit that shook up the establishment, downtown artists developed bylaws and launched their own spaces.

Hansa artists» works represented in the Grey show include Jane Wilson's Portrait of Jane Freilicher (1957), an oil on canvas merging abstraction with figuration, and Jean Follett's Many - Headed Creature (1958), a piece that recreates a fragmented body on a wood panel out of junk and found objects — a light switch, socket cooling coils, a window, a screen, nails, a faucet knob, mirror twine, cinders, a caster, springs, and rope.

Journey from figuration to abstraction through a sequence of drawing, collage, stenciling, and painting in this afternoon studio workshop taught by contemporary artist Yevgeniya Baras.

The artist was known for her richly coloured compositions treading the line between figuration and abstraction, and has often been acknowledged for her influence on the work of her husband, the sculptor Anthony Caro, in what the couple themselves had -LSB-...]

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.

«RASHID JOHNSON: Anxious Men» @ The Drawing Center New York, N.Y. Over the past 15 years or so, Rashid Johnson «s practice has explored a range of themes, including «the black experience in America, the dialogue between abstraction and figuration, and the relationship between art and personal identity.»

In her distinctive mix of abstraction and figuration, she delved into childhood memories and the struggles of everyday life.

He has traveled the back roads and unmarked lanes of Windham County with pastels and sketchbook in tow, depicting the landscape in a signature style that hovers between abstraction and figuration.

During the same period of the late 1960s, and early 1970s in Europe, Gerhard Richter, Anselm Kiefer [49] and several other painters also began producing works of intense expression, merging abstraction with images, incorporating landscape imagery, and figuration that by the late 1970s was referred to as Neo-expressionism.

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

It should be noted that while the overall effect of Murray's work is one of abstraction, and the artist described herself as an abstract painter in an interview included in the 1987 catalogue, there are many representational elements and references in her paintings, in a stylized style emerging from cartoons, comics, and graffiti as well as from pop artists like Claes Oldenburg: works are shaped like shoes or cups and contains stylized abstracted but identifiable figuration and still - life imagery.

As the museum notes, his practice melds figuration, abstraction and decoration and Ofili flexes his muscles in each of these areas, powerfully incorporating all three in one canvas after another.

Haynes» work is clearly «abstract», and participates in a relatively minimal pictorial economy that is often seen as one of abstraction's disadvantages compared to figuration.

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.

Villar Rojas's installation at the Serpentine Sackler therefore provides the perfect chronological extension to Merz's conception of the non-heroic in art by prioritising the site and the viewer, while still making reference to two of the older artist's key concerns: the figuration - abstraction binary and the focus on «raw» materials.

Thomas Chimes: Early Works (1958 - 1965), 2009 Text by Lisa Saltzman 56 pages, Hardcover Published by Locks Art Publications ISBN: 978 -1-879173-41-5 «Developing, in these formative paintings, a visual style indebted to the palette and compositional structures of such modernist forefathers as Marsden Hartley and Henri Matisse and emboldened by the stenographic proto - abstractions of such New York School predecessors as Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko, Chimes systematically put forth a series of paintings that pressed such experimentations with the limits of figuration into the realm of the theological, the philosophical and the historical.

The Ocean Park paintings exemplify the best of this new vocabulary Diebenkorn developed in his search for a new form of expression between figuration and abstraction.

The painter Nina Chanel Abney, now 35, has been on a tear since she first unveiled her visceral fusions of abstraction, figuration and politics at the Kravets Wehby Gallery in Chelsea in 2008.

More painting, tending to semi-abstract, as imagery edged out abstraction; such were Chris Ofili's etched figurations that emerge as copulations out of a mottled blue backdrop, and Fondation Beyeler's three - wall installation of tiled pixellation that in photographs reads as porn.

Leslie Camhi in the Village Voice: «Zigzagging between figuration and abstraction, his disparate oeuvre is filled with conceptual antics, optical pleasures, and abject traces of his melancholy presence....

Associating his influences with Social Realists «he fell in with» when he arrived in New York, Sims describes them as «a cohort of individuals who bridged the gap between abstraction and figuration... the use of energetic color and gesture, and a sensibility that would be described as gritty.»

Their use of abstraction and figuration, and, in Caro's case, welded and painted steel, shaped and reflected the development of modernity in the 20th century.

Primitivism and pop culture, abstraction and figuration, flatness and depth all rub up against one another in a rich, allusive brew.

Explore Lee Krasner's journey from figuration to abstraction through close looking at two of her works: Self - Portrait (1930) and Untitled, from the Little Images series (1948) in this gallery talk by Jenna Weiss, Manager of Public Programs.

An introduction to the American artist who sustained virtuosity in a range of styles, from gestural abstraction to figuration and back again — illustrated with works offered in May to benefit The Donald and Barbara Zucker Family Foundation

Known for his carefully constructed paintings that move effortlessly between abstraction and figuration, the imagined and the real, this new body of work sees de Balincourt moving away from direct references to current social, political or popular culture, and instead depicting a world in which indications of specific place or time are absent.