Sentences with phrase «figuration by»

These shapes are locked together in a way that reminded me of the «marriage of contours» pioneered by Le Corbusier in his Purist still lifes, except that these skirt the issue of abstraction and figuration by functioning as both.

Alongside the earliest unfolding of figuration by Henri Laurens produced in Paris to the harmonious constructions of the Brazilian Sergio Camargo, the exhibition will feature works by Jean Arp, Ben Nicholson, Lucio Fontana, Piero Manzoni, Enrico Castellani, Agosto Bonalumi, Fausto Melotti, Günther Uecker, Luis Tomasello, Mira Schendel, and Sol LeWitt, amongst others.

In ««Biographies and Bodies»: Self and Other in Portraits by Elaine and Bill de Kooning,» Ellen Landau considers the disparate contributions to figuration by this wife and husband.

And to further contextualize these innovative new practices, Cassel Oliver will turn to the often overlooked, with the two - part show «Black in the Abstract,» focusing on the disintegration of figuration by black painters since the late 1960s in a salubrious introduction of societal concerns to the formal.

This kind of beauty can typically be found in figuration by such artists as kindred spirit Petah Coyne, whose Mishima's Spring Snow, 2015 is exhibited by the long running Galerie Lelong.

The influential exhibition shifted the discussion away from conceptualism to focus on figuration by arguing that what many of the most interesting contemporary artists — Janine Antoni, Matthew Barney, Mike Kelley — had in common was their reimagining of the body.

The artist largely focuses on formal issues in his work literally reducing representation and figuration by covering the figurines in globs of visceral paint.

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).

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

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

The booth for 50 Goldborne gallery from London featured large textile wall hangings with boldly colored figurations and hidden chips that activate smartphone technology by Emo de Medeiros, who lives and works in Paris and Benin.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Artists responded to the past by shucking off more and more unnecessary baggage — figuration, perspective, even shape — in the pursuit of ever purer explorations of the medium itself.

This transition from figuration to abstraction was accompanied by new working methods: his paintings became larger and he abandoned the easel, often pinning his canvases to his studio walls or floor.

The exhibition was a miniature retrospective, beginning with works from the late 1960s, when Dodd, like a number of her artist friends and coevals, including Alex Katz, reacted against the dominance of abstraction by beginning to explore a plainspoken, forthright brand of figuration.

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.

Whether appropriated by some contemporary figurative painters or aligned with some sort of new figuration, where the painters «find everything to be a matter of images» (to quote Barry Schwabsky from the online catalogue for «A New Subjectivity»), Abstraction clearly and demonstratively engages with the problems of painting (and collage and sculpture) despite the surprising conservatism of Kerry James Marshall.

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.

Though his paintings were decidedly abstract, with seemingly little foundation in representation or figuration, Hartung spent much of his early career copying works by Rembrandt, Goya and Van Gogh.

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.

Wednesday, Xaviera Simmons unveils a new series of body - centric work at The Kitchen and Booth Gallery is (by happy coincidence) hosting a panel discussion on the future of figuration right afterwards.

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.

Deeply inspired by Matisse, his work is a negotiation of the flat surface of the canvas in which figuration becomes form and deeply intimate things become neutral.

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.

In doing so, I realized that my original idea of figuration was inspired by West African figure sculpture, where the parts of the body are codified.

«Black Figuration on Blue» by Robert Motherwell, 1950.

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.

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.

As Helen Molesworth astutely notes, Hesse's early production is marked by «jumbles of energetic abstraction held in a kind of violent contrapusto with figuration.»

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.

For those familiar with Otero's work, it might come as a shock to realize that his contemporary abstract paintings originate by way of figuration and in this particular case, visual translation of ornate, narrative paintings made during the period of the French Baroque.

Although it has been argued that these lines resemble some of the geographical features that Diebenkorn observed in the suburban landscape, by the time he painted his Ocean Park paintings he felt he had resolutely abandoned figuration in favor of something much more spiritual and contemplative, as one influential critic noted, «[With the Ocean Parks]... one leaves behind labels like «Abstract Expressionism» and «Bay Area Figuration» and enters a breathtaking new world that is unique to Diebenkorn as Mondrian's or Still's or Rothko's are to their crfiguration in favor of something much more spiritual and contemplative, as one influential critic noted, «[With the Ocean Parks]... one leaves behind labels like «Abstract Expressionism» and «Bay Area Figuration» and enters a breathtaking new world that is unique to Diebenkorn as Mondrian's or Still's or Rothko's are to their crFiguration» and enters a breathtaking new world that is unique to Diebenkorn as Mondrian's or Still's or Rothko's are to their creators....

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.

He began his artistic explorations with visual experimentation inspired by the work of pioneers of geometric abstraction, such as Kazimir Malevich and Piet Mondrian, as well as by the playful and whimsical figuration of Paul Klee.

As one of the most significant proponents in the reconciliation of gestural and field painting, figuration and abstraction, he was a solitary figure, «moving vertically», unencumbered by the responsibilities and pressures that others often felt as they worked in his shadow.»

In different ways, each has been instrumental in a transition that painting has made since then, from the more traditionally skillful, twisted figuration practiced in this country, especially by John Currin, Lisa Yuskavage, and Elizabeth Peyton, among others.

In 1974, she made a definitive formal shift from abstraction by fully embracing figuration.

The new figuration is thereby performative, rather than prescriptive, and both the absurd and sincere approaches alike are embraced as subject matter by the artists in the exhibition.

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.

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.

Richter was present, and I was extremely mesmerized by seeing the paintings there and also by seeing the many different parallel realities in Richter's abstract paintings, Richter's photo paintings, Richter's glass mirror works, and Richter's oscillation between figuration and abstraction.

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 tendencies.