Sentences with phrase «figuration art»

The present time, which allows for the constant questioning and critical reflection, is a rich ground for abstraction and for figuration art at the same time.

It was the artist Francis Bacon who always considered his work to exist in the middle ground between figuration art and abstraction.

These two examples only emphasize the idea that figuration art today contains elements of abstraction and that it also follows no rules at all.

2018 Beyond Figuration Art America Dalian 2018, X Gallery, Dalian, China curated by Jiannan Wu Beyond Figuration Art America Beijing 2018, Chengi Xi Center, Beijing, China by Jiannan Wu

Not exact matches

Critical response, trending art movements and definitions of abstraction and figuration did not limit him.

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.

Istomina begins: «Henry Taylor's painting has often been discussed in the context of outsider art not only because of his vivid and somewhat reductive figuration, but because of his biography: the youngest of eight children raised by a single mother in Oxnard, California, he held several jobs unrelated to art, including a ten - year stint as a technician at a psychiatric hospital, and didn't earn his BFA until he was in his mid-thirties.

Lanyon's work embodies a unique combination of the surreal and fantastic imagery characteristic of the Chicago - based Monster Roster of the 1950s, and the eccentric figuration and meticulous detail favored by the Chicago Imagists, whose work dominated the Chicago art scene in the later 1960s and 70s.

New figuration is a blanket term referring to the revival of figurative art in Europe and America in the 1960s...

As Victoria L. Valentine writes in an extended preview for Culture Type, «The Seattle Art Museum (SAM) is organizing a major exhibition of three critically recognized African American artists... The exhibition will explore how their distinct approaches to figuration and history painting have recast the Western canon and challenged perceptions of race and representation in a contemporary context.»

«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.»

Most of the art is abstract but there are works with recognizable elements and figuration plus mural studies.

Blurring distinctions between «high» and «low» art, between abstraction and figuration, and between text and imagery, these paintings reflect both the excitement and turbulence of the artist's times.

Like many others, I have often repeated the orthodoxy that the early 1980s saw a return to painting, a rediscovery of figuration, an embrace of dramatic content and an explicit engagement with art history.

Her commitment to truth and dedication to figuration — unfashionable during her lifetime — ensured that her work remained permanently out of kilter with avant - garde movements such as abstract expressionism, pop art and minimalism.

Notably, Smith gravitated toward figuration, despite the art world's long domination by abstraction and minimalism.

Often zigging when the established art world zagged, Wiley began creating large, unctuous paintings inspired by the Abstract Expressionist and Bay Area Figuration movements of the time, only to swiftly move away from them in the late»60s to develop his cartoonish figurative style, which waned in popularity as Minimalist and Conceptual art became fashionable.

Steve Locke (born 1963) is an African American artist who explores figuration and perceptions of the male figure, and themes of masculinity and homosexuality through drawing, painting, sculpture, and installation art.

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.

• Tony Smith (1912 — 1980), sculptor who bridged AbEx and minimalism (dad of Kiki) Mel Kendrick (b. 1949), formalist process - based sculptor Chris Wilmarth (1943 — 1987), sculptor of steel, bronze, and etched glass Joel Shapiro (b. 1941), minimalist sculptor who flirts with figuration Christopher Wool (b. 1955), Neo-AbExer with a taste for graffiti and repetition Alex Hubbard (b. 1975), rising master of painterly materials and abstract coloration Josh Smith (b. 1976), Factory - like painter of great expressive volume Jacob Kassay (b. 1984), mirrored - painting - wunderkind - turned - sackcloth artist • Andy Warhol (1928 — 1987), Pop maestro and appropriationist world - changer David Robbins (b. 1957), artist and «Concrete Comedy» theorist David LaChapelle (b. 1963), lush photographer of celebrity decadence Ronnie Cutrone (1948 — 2013), Factory personality and East Village cult figure George Condo (b. 1957), Neo-Picassian painter of the grotesque Mark Dagley (b. 1957), Op abstractionist • Richard Serra (b. 1939), grand master of process art and the post-industrial sublime Grégoire Müller (b. 1947), painter of current - event appropriations Philip Glass (b. 1937), «Einstein on the Beach» composer Lawrence Chandler (b. 1951), composer, musician, and sound artist • Sol LeWitt (1928 — 2007), father of conceptual art, multitasking artistic outsourcer Adrian Piper (b. 1948), performance art innovator Mark Williams (b. 1950), monochromatic minimalist painter

These two poles of 20th - century American art — abstraction and figuration — also signify the African - American perspective on the movements, as articulated by these two revered (now deceased) artists.

Assigning works of art to different categories — abstraction, figuration, expressionism — is too often done without a complete...

But it also capitalizes on a new wave of figuration by younger artists who have tired of neo-formalist abstraction (a topic we have been covering in our conversation series surrounding Phaidon's new book Body of Art).

It wasn't until the Abstract Expressionists abandoned figuration that the concept was reintroduced into the art historical canon of the 20th century.

James Croak is an American sculptor working in conceptual figuration and an art critic for Hamptons Art Hart critic for Hamptons Art HArt Hub.

Many in the art world think that figuration is finished — but we have such painters as Nicole Eisenman and Dana Schutz, who have returned to the genre.

1965 Figuration, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY Portraits in the American Art World, The New School, New York, NY Second 1965 Show, Provincetown Art Association, Provincetown, MA A Survey of Contemporary Art, J.B. Speed Museum Louisville, KY Collector's Choice, South Bend Art Center, South Bend, IL Sixth Annual Festival, Temple Emanuel, Yonkers, NY CORE (Congress of Racial Equality) Show, New York, NY

Jones rejected the notion that this art historical narrative signaled the end of figuration.

Procession will consider the complexity of Lewis» art by examining the role of figuration within abstract expressionism and how Lewis subtly referenced social issues within an essentially abstract mode.

1966 New Figuration, Champlain Gallery, Harper College, SUNY, Binghamton, NY The Negro in American Art, California Arts Commission, University of California, Davis, CA; Fine Arts Gallery, San Diego, CA; The Oakland Art Museum, Oakland, CA; Dickson Art Center, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 43 Artists from 18 Nations, The Brooklyn Center, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY The Harry N. Abrams Family Collection, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY

Jim Shaw uses figuration to create worlds and tell stories; Chris Martin revisits a more spiritual side of art making; and Klaas Kloosterboer questions what a painting is and how it should behave.

Figure a Subject: Revival of Figuration Since 1975, Selections from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY The Weisman Collection, California State University at Fullerton, Fullerton, CA

Legacy in Continuum: Bay Area Figuration, on view at the Bakersfield Museum of Art from March 22 through May 27th is an exhibition that demonstrates the continuing impact of a very engaging, flexible style.

It was a diverse scene that held out a hint of utopian promise at a time when Abstract Expressionism was waning and new categories had not yet hardened: It included many more women than the uptown art world; it was not completely white; abstraction and figuration jostled side by side (if not always comfortably), along with genre - bending sculpture; and the gloriously messy birth of modern performance art took place in the midst of it all.

At the time, Andersson was not well known in the States, yet it was immediately clear that her paintings epitomized an approach to form that could be characterized in Ferguson's terms: Old dichotomies of abstraction and figuration had been erased, and art history had become available as a kind of stylistic smorgasbord to be drawn on at will.

It's an exciting time for painting, and it so happens that the return of figuration coincides with the release of Phaidon's new book Body of Art, an ambitious compendium of depictions of the body from across cultures and throughout time.

Teetering between figuration and abstraction, her art renders a society in flux, in which careers, fortunes, and worlds are made and destroyed every day.

Their approach to art differed, and included formalist explorations, abstraction, but also from the 1960s onwards an interest in popular culture and figuration.

Curated by Glen Cebulash, Chair of Art and Art History at Wright State University, Realism and Its Discontents confronts artists» commitment to what they term «Post Abstract Figuration» and its new configuration in the face of most contemporary gallery art tendenciArt and Art History at Wright State University, Realism and Its Discontents confronts artists» commitment to what they term «Post Abstract Figuration» and its new configuration in the face of most contemporary gallery art tendenciArt History at Wright State University, Realism and Its Discontents confronts artists» commitment to what they term «Post Abstract Figuration» and its new configuration in the face of most contemporary gallery art tendenciart tendencies.

Neel's paintings grew out of the Social Realist concerns of American Art of the 1920s and 1930s, during which time she formed her highly personal brand of figuration.

The images themselves are always beautifully rendered and subtly intricate — and most often mysterious, leaving it to the viewer to decipher... «In this way I strive to marry art and science, identity and obscurity, figuration and abstraction, the carnal and the spiritual.»

Although a vast majority of exhibitions of art made in the 1980s zeroes - in on the return to figuration or the new rise of painting, Brand New: Art and Commodity in the 1980s goes down a different rout by introducing an alternative view, one with much greater complexiart made in the 1980s zeroes - in on the return to figuration or the new rise of painting, Brand New: Art and Commodity in the 1980s goes down a different rout by introducing an alternative view, one with much greater complexiArt and Commodity in the 1980s goes down a different rout by introducing an alternative view, one with much greater complexity.

Jean - Christophe, Stephan Balkenhol: 57 Penguins / 57 Pinguine, Parkett 36, pp. 66 - 69 Benezra, Neal, Stephan Balkenhol: The Figure as Witness / Die Figur als stummer Zeuge, Parkett 36, pp. 37 - 41 1992 Ammann, Jean - Christophe and Horst Schmitter, 57 Pinguine suchen 57 Freunde, advertisement, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 30 April, pp. 110 - 111 Searle, Adrian, Not Waving, Not Drowning, Frieze 4, April - May, pp. 17 - 20 Fleissig, Peter, Stephan Balkenhol, Juan Munoz at the Hayward, Doubletake and the New Tate Re-Hang, exhibition review, Hayward Gallery, London, England, City Limits 5, No. 12, February - March, p. 18 Stringer, Robin, Why Cant You Dummies Just Let Me Be Alone, London Evening Standard, London, England, 28 February Bourriaud, Nicholas, Figuration in an Age of Violence, Flash Art, No. 162, January - February, pp. 87 - 91 Cork, Richard, Do You See What I See?

But do they mark a transitional style before her abstract art, a later return to figuration, or a touching up of older work?

When I was a young man, leaving my student days behind and coming into the professional art world at the beginning of the «60s, the problem was that figuration had run out of steam — it had hit the buffers.

But originality in art is a matter of very small things, whereas it is expected to be thunderous, and with her it is not the immediate figuration that counts, a starkly readable sign, but her manipulation of surfaces.

Mark Rothko committed suicide in 1970, by which time younger groups of American artists had rejected the painterly qualities and the passion of expressionism in favour of a cooler approach, either pop art figuration or, in a less than resonant umbrella title coined by the critic Clement Greenberg, post-painterly abstraction.

His eccentric compositions shared Neo-Ex's blend of highly subjective figuration and gestural abstraction, but his idiosyncratic approach was more akin to outsider art than to the style's usual bombastic clamor.

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