Sentences with phrase «figuration for»

It seems not a coincidence that Pollock returned to figuration for a period during 1950, as in Number 7, 1952 when he was living in Ossorio's New York studio.

By the time of their last decades, they had all abandoned fixed viewpoints and figuration for works that are so intense in their projection of atmosphere that they envelop you in their totality.

FIGURATION For a brief review of sketching, see: Drawing Art.

The work ranged from Subway Scene (1928), with its echoes of the Ashcan School, to the explosive figuration for which McNeil is best known and which he pursued until his death in 1995 (the artist was born in 1908).

Not exact matches

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.

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 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.

And yes, I think it's really difficult for abstract painting, because figuration is such a powerful space - making tool whose loss is sorely felt.

For her P.S. 1 project, Molly Larkey presents The Believers, a new series of sculptures that combine abstraction and figuration to comment on political and social ideologies.

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.»

They can just go right into figuration... Ultimately it all boils down to this criterion: «Are the paintings interesting enough for you to want to walk into the gallery and look at them?»

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.

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.

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

Pollock, who exhibited his drip paintings in 1951, freeing the line from figuration, was for Greenberg the pinnacle of American Modernism, the most important artist since Picasso.

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-...]

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.

The heads are a perfect illustration of the dual mission Mr. Marshall has been pursuing with a kind of holy fervor for almost 40 years now: building a sturdy bridge for figurative painting from the 15th century to ours, over treacherous spans of recent history that declared both figuration and painting to be finished — and at the same time trying to rewrite history itself.

The inspiration for many of these works seems to be Philip Guston's late figuration; the pieces play off this source material without feeling pretentious.

The intertwining of image and technique has long been a concern of Berkenblit, who has been showing in New York for thirty years, and is, with Dunham, one of a handful of painters, including Dana Schutz, Jason Fox, and Amy Sillman, equally concerned with the possibilities of expressive figuration and virtuosic paint - handling.

In this exchange of influence, Gueorguieva takes on Weitz's reoccurring theme of the mask and existentially rich nature of the reflection, and Weitz adapts Gueorguieva's implied figuration and propensity for vertical structure.

For all of the prominence of black figuration in 2017, the weight of history was always present either in the background, or woven into the substitution and reclamations staged in the pictures themselves.

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...

Although Guston was closely associated with the Abstract Expressionists in his earlier period, in 1970 he publicly abandoned this style for a rather raucous form of figuration with the explanation, «I got sick and tired of that purity, wanted to tell stories.»

Dunham has long resisted prevailing stylistic trends and consequently carved out a space for American painters to explore the possibilities of blending both abstraction and figuration.

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.

• 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

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.

Artists associated with decisive breaks do exist — for example Philip Guston, who renounced his abstract practice when he was in his mid-50s and returned to figuration.

Titled Unrealism — as much to indicate the show's focus on the heightened and surreal as to comment on the ubiquitous label «untitled», which serves as a lazy catch - all for work too of - the - moment to reference history, antecedents or fully thought - out ideas — the show was a not - to - miss tour de force, a revelation of the power of extreme figuration to elucidate the human condition — Tala Madani, Emily Mae Smith and Jonathan Gardner were among the standouts, with Jenny Saville, Richard Prince and John Currin among the 11 artists upholding the Gagosian brand.

For the following two decades, de Kooning moved easily between pure abstraction and loose figuration developing a reputation as one of America's leading painters of the 20th century.

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.

How important is it for you to be on that thin line between abstraction and figuration?

From the chambers at Knossos to the villas and municipal structures of Rome, from medieval and Renaissance ecclesiastical architecture to Baroque courts and palaces the mural was a primary vehicle for pictorial space, the wall the substrate of choice for public - scale allegorical figuration both secular and sacred.

He had quit figuration in time for Abstract Expressionism, befuddling some of the same tired critics who jumped all over his seeming return to cartooning, only this time on big, bold canvases in oil.

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

Known for his Papel tejido (woven paper) works, the exhibition marks a turn toward figuration and drawing.

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.

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

Here the tub form acts as a container for the body and paint, fusing figuration with abstraction.

Beginning with representational imagery, she reworks and layers her images for a result that sits between figuration and abstraction.

As his primary dealer, friend and collector for over forty years, Allan Stone celebrated Thiebaud's range of style and subject matter, embracing his mastery of figuration, his inventive depictions of landscapes and cityscapes, and his nostalgic renderings of food and everyday objects.

Katz even includes the Maine - born folk artist William Matthew Prior in the exhibition to establish historical antecedents for Hartley's eccentric figuration.

Most famous for his still - lifes, he moved effortlessly between abstraction and figuration.

However, for the six artists included in this exhibition the figure was still an evocative form or symbol to explore and they believed that abstraction and figuration need not be mutually exclusive.

While Rojas's earlier works share story - telling similarities to Arp's involvement with Cabaret Voltaire and her marionettes for theater, both artists later depart from figuration to total geometry.

But I wanted to get back to figuration and intaglio is made for the figure.»

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.

For his first commercial gallery show in London in almost 20 years, Gerhard Richter throws it all in the pot, excepting painterly figuration.