Sentences with phrase «figuration as»

This is figuration as a byproduct of an abstract process and very different to the intentional abstraction of something figurative.

Through his depiction of appropriated portraits, architecture or other remnants of historic events from our collective memory, he investigates the use of art, architecture and figuration as propaganda for ideology of any kind.

It boils down to figuration as a kind of unnatural thing, against the grain of contemporary art.

Apostolos Georgiou's canvas, Untitled (2013), a composition in which narrative is just barely evident, utilizes figuration as an endeavor to upset the coherence of the picture plane.

Veil (2011) andWhite Noise Hanging (2010) use beads as their chief materials and a seemingly African figuration as their inspiration.

(2013), a composition in which narrative is just barely evident, utilizes figuration as an endeavor to upset the coherence of the picture plane.

Having long ago supplanted «fantastic» figuration as the face of Latin American modernism, Concrete art is now enjoying a victory lap of sorts, with recent shows at David Zwirner in New York, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, and the Royal Academy of Arts in London.

Various artists who had worked in an abstract style before the war, notably Henry Moore for instance, returned to a period of figuration as a means to process their need to reassert the primacy of the human body after years of witnessing its destruction.

Often transcending the typical Futurist subject matter of racing car and mechanical city - scape, these works mark a distinct movement away from figuration as the primary vessel for an expression of feeling, instead investigating the emotional value of line, shape and color.

Channer's investigation of the history of sculpture as a medium and of figuration as a starting point for sculptural ideas often emerge from hermetic and elusive origins — iconic vintage designs by Christian Dior or drawings by Yves Saint Laurent — and she will often encode herself physically in some way within her work in a way that is not immediately legible, implicating herself within the work's conceptual territory.

«David Park: Personal Perspectives» and «The Human Spirit: Contemporary Figuration as an Expression of Humanism»: 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Tuesday - Saturday and noon - 5 p.m. Sunday.

Working with both classical figuration as well as experimental conceptualism, his exhibitions - as seen here - are visually dense and aesthetically expansive.

Toward the very end of the 1950s, still working with abstraction but now introducing figuration as well, Schwabacher began painting compositions based on Greek mythical subjects such as Orestes, Sisyphus, Antigone, Prometheus, and a series based on Orpheus and Eurydice.

Open to all interpretations of landscape and biology including fruits, vegetables, flowers and fauna and to human figuration as part of the natural environment.

Bell's quirky style of figuration as well as her devout Catholicism inspired Grant's lively and poignant suite Easter's Best (2013), five medium - size, acrylic, ink and colored pencil drawings on watercolor paper.

Besides him, the First Generation consisted of David Park, Elmer Bischoff, Wayne Thiebaud and few others.Diebenkorn was the one who took the biggest risk with the return to figuration as at this point he was already widely known for his abstract works.

Matthew Chambers is a Los Angeles - based painter whose colourful and bold works explore the shifting boundary between abstraction and figuration as well as the act of painting itself.

The drawings exhibited contain elements of both abstraction and figuration as forms take on multiple connotations.

In this new series, he co-opts figuration as a vehicle for expression in energized, intuitively painted self - portraits — a new approach in his persistent subversion of the painted subject.

Drawing from its collection, the museum is featuring works spanning the late 19th century to the present that «explore the practice of portraiture and figuration as a means of celebrating personal and collective histories, ideas and identities.»

Matthew Chambers is a Los Angeles - based painter whose colourful and bold works explore the boundary between abstraction and figuration as well as the act of painting itself.

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

Not exact matches

In each case, as with «They are trying to erase us,» Ginsberg couches a profound point in language that is more or less figurative — and his manner, whether fanatical or strangely calm, makes it unclear whether he himself understands where figuration ends and literal reality begins.

His viewpoint is exactly the opposite: it is in the Old Testament that priesthood and sacrifice were taken in the metaphorical sense, as they are there applied to an impotent and symbolic figuration, while in the mystery of Christ these words have at last obtained their real meaning, with an unsurpassable completeness.»

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....

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 addition to these two main traditions there is a Jungian faction, also venerable, and the recent «hidden figuration'theories of Pepe Karmel, presented in the catalogue of the last retrospective, but these latter have the drawback that they treat Pollock's work as if it were analysable in the same way as any historical figure painting.

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.

Masterfully recreating a photograph whilst allowing the process of its painterly making to remain visible, Richter heightens the tension between painting and photography, abstraction and figuration, truth and fiction — presenting to us an image that is conceptually subversive as it is utterly magnificent.

As time went on, I knew I wanted to work with figuration and gender identity.

What we've tried to do is make the point that to move from abstraction to figuration, and then back again, was not as strange for Diebenkorn as it might seem.

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 - tones.

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.»

With the Roland Barthes - inspired 1964 group show «Mythologies Quotidiennes,» he emerged as a leading figure of the «Narrative Figuration» movement.

Though the experience of space and light in the studio, one can imagine, is essential for a painter, Neel's developments were certainly the fruit of many years of practice and gaining freedom of expression — as an individual unbound to conventions in figuration.

Whilst taking Neel's work as a point of reference, the exhibition aims to open up possibilities for reading figuration and portraiture in contemporary painting, to assert the continued relevance of these modes of practice, and to re-consider Neel's work in relation to artists working today.

This gives him almost the same freedom as an abstract colour - field painter, or possibly even more, since his colour is largely relieved of its space - making duties by the figuration of his drawing.

As our exhibition demonstrates, however, for Diebenkorn, figuration was not some quixotic decision but a logical extension beyond the self - imposed limits of abstraction.

Influenced by Henri Matisse, Georges Braque and Pierre Bonnard, Heron experimented with composition, scale and particularly colour in ways that saw him recognised as one of the most important painters of the 20th century for his shift away from figuration — his refusal of narrative.

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.

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.

Nonetheless, De Keyser is fast becoming recognised as one of the 20th century's foremost proponents of a complex, unique form of abstract figuration inspired as much by everyday reality as by serious aesthetic concerns.

This work enhances the museum's growing collection of paintings that combine abstraction and figuration by such artists as Marlene Dumas and Amy Sillman.

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.

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.

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.

There also seems to be a return to figuration among younger artists, perhaps as the body is once again positioned as a site of critical discourse.

One can see his big, clumsy figures in Neo-Expressionism of the 1980s — or the turn to figuration in Milton Resnick as well.

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.