Sentences with phrase «figuration and abstraction into»

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

Not exact matches

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.

Her charged work, a distinctive mix of abstraction and figuration, delves into childhood memories and the emotional struggles of everyday life.

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

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

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.

She has continually shifted the terms of her practice, incorporating figuration, abstraction, digital techniques and gestural mark - making into compositions that confound expectations of pictorial space.

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

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.

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.

Beginning in the 1960s, he obsessively collected newspaper clippings, cartoons and advertisements; these images fuelled his investigations into the distinctions between high and low culture, figuration and abstraction.

With a nod to the long lost divide between abstraction and figuration their divergent works take positions of figure, foreground, background, and architecture as a scene of unrelated moments forced into dialogue.

Since the 1950s, artist Maria Lassnig has incorporated painting techniques from various art - historical periods into her practice — realism, surrealism, and expressionism alike — in an effort to develop a distinct style of painting that blends figuration with abstraction.

In these works, the boundaries between painting and sculpture, and abstraction figuration, are called into question.

The subject of numerous international shows and much critical acclaim, these pieces signal the apotheosis of Sutcliffe's late style, emphasizing his movement away from figuration into the collaged geometricism of his works on paper and the dense gestural abstraction of his paintings.

Different in scale and style, his painterly production contemplates both intimate and delicate paintings where figuration fades into abstraction, as well as more exuberant and confrontational works that deploy references to pop culture, sexuality and consumerism.

blends figuration and abstraction to address into various subject matter.

Always somewhere between abstraction and figuration, Kiefer's poetic and deeply psychological approach discusses hard social issues that are, thanks to him and his contemporaries, such as Georg Baselitz, Sigmar Polke, and Gerhard Richter, brought into the discussion, forcing Germany to face its terrible past.

Group exhibitions include Dynamo, curated by Serge Lemoine and Matthieu Poirier, Grand Palais, Paris, France, 2013; Abstraction / Figuration, Musée des Beaux Arts, Rennes, France, 2014; From Minimalism Into Algorithm, The Kitchen, New York, 2016; and Sixfold Symmetry: Pattern in Art and Science, Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum of Art, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York, 2017.

The Figure: Movement and Gesture focuses on the movement of transformation from figuration into abstraction and the complex ways that de Kooning depicted motion as he rendered the human figure.

Drawing on diverse cultural sources including literature, history, art, music and religion, Khan has developed a unique narrative involving densely layered imagery that inhabits the space between abstraction and figuration and speaks to the themes of history, cumulative experience and the metaphysical collapse of time into single moments.

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.

With heavily textured abstract gray monochromes, Richter introduced abstraction into his practice, and he has continued to move freely between figuration and abstraction, producing geometric «Colour Charts», bold, gestural abstractions, and «Photo Paintings» of anything from nudes, flowers, and cars to landscapes, architecture, and scenes from Nazi history.

His densely layered imagery inhabits the space between abstraction and figuration that speaks to themes of history, cumulative experience and the metaphysical collapse of time into single moments.

Along with well - selected illustrations of works in different media, the catalogue traces Sillman's early exploration of cartoon imagery and the associative use of colors, her struggle for the unity of the physical legitimacy of the objects and the human body, her equally shared interest in figuration and abstraction, her attempts to reduce images that evoke the ambiguity of singular gestures in flux that are emphatically stable, and her «zines» and recent forays into drawings made with an iPhone.

With titles culled from media, music and pop - culture, his abstraction often veers into a figuration of the many references he draws on for his work.

For this «545 Days» exhibition, Robert Proch has continued with his research into the fragmentation of space, taking a pictorial approach that is all his own, halfway between abstraction and figuration, to the point of shattering all our cognitive reference points and igniting our imagination.

If these cartoonish figurations, in his earlier idiom, stem from the Beckmann / Markus Lüpertz / Kippenberger tradition of soured angst and caustic irony, the geometric abstractions bait the US market that has avidly bought into them as European exoticisms.

The square enables Joel Shapiro to move fluidly between figuration and abstraction, as he conjoins elongated boxes into evocative constructions.

All of the polarities of West Coast art have found their way into his practice, from «cool» abstraction and the brand - newness of Pop to «hot» (abject) figuration and the used - upness of assemblage.

Tony Cragg's work supplants any longstanding art historical division between abstraction and figuration: his sculptural innovation is to fuse both styles in one work and to make bronze into a malleable material.

The exhibition presents a collection of Fries» paintings that integrate silkscreened fragments of 17th century Baroque and Mannerist prints into a hybrid fusion of figuration and abstraction, art historical tradition, and adventurous innovation.

Like the space that opens up when figuration gives way to abstraction, so too can language be unfolded into its many layers of authorship, readership and legibility.

Several of her early works show figuration that teeters on the edge of abstraction («March on Washington 1964»), while some large paintings demonstrate the brick - like pattern morph into a mosaic («Cherry Blossom Symphony,» 1973), and then there are her many watercolors that give us insight into her process.

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.

Drawing from his imagination, each individual canvas reveals a general investigation by the artist into the opposition between abstraction and figuration.

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.

Her early abstractions were a surprise, however, and her early ventures into a personal figuration predict a Philip Guston pink palette some years ahead of Guston.

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.

Blending abstraction and figuration, Romanticism and psychedelia, von Wulffen's large - scale paintings wryly revisit and reprocess tactics and tropes of modern painting from German Expressionism onward, while recent series of drawings have tweaked the conventions of the children's book, the comic strip, and the storyboard, turning these formats into vehicles for her own psychologically charged narratives.

And it is fair to say that the School of London had little to offer the Bay Area until those artists broke away from abstraction into figuration, led by David Park in 1950.

The artist will also be exhibiting a number of black - on - black charcoal and chalk line drawings, pushing both his abstraction and figuration into new territory.

The German artist Gerhard Richter, for example, blurs photo - realist paintings to overcome the natural limitations of figurative painting, resulting in the integration of both abstraction and figuration into one work.

Figuration flows easily into abstraction in these 14 works (all 2010), which present semi-abstracted locales backed by palm trees and the lush foliage of jungle or near - jungle.

Portraiture and figuration of one kind or another are ever present, overtly or woven into abstractions.

«This move across the Atlantic and Bowling's subsequent immersion in New York's creative scene marked a defining moment in the painter's career: his break with figuration and entrance into a new world of abstraction — or what he has called «pure painting,»» says Hales associate director Sasha Gomeniuk.

This week, our selections for New York City gallery shows look back at the Abstract Expressionists, featuring artists who returned to figuration and those who delved deeper into gestural abstraction.

Blurring the line between figuration and abstraction he transforms his subjects into bold drips of paint with playful details reminiscent of his graffiti days.

Both engage figuration on the edge of abstraction, encouraging its margins to slip surreptitiously into ambiguous thematic and symbolic unknowns.