Sentences with phrase «figuration to abstraction through»

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.

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.

Not exact matches

In this endeavor, Hughes aligns himself squarely within the tradition of painters like Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky, whose groundbreaking ideas gave rise to a main branch of contemporary American abstraction which espouses the possibility of conveying the full range of human experience through the raw materials of paint and renders moot the distinction between abstraction and figuration.

Works that expressed a personal or political viewpoint through figuration were considered to be retrograde in comparison to the radical abstractions created by the great American painters of the forties and fifties.

Mullican sought both within himself and throughout the cosmos for the familiar as well as the awesome; he then strove to express the specific as well as the universal through his art, which encompasses both abstraction and figuration.»

It's a relationship that lasted half a century, and that followed Diebenkorn through three distinct phases of his career: his early years working in an Abstract Expressionist mode, his move to figuration starting in 1955, and his later return to abstraction.

Meaning «step», the exhibition title, Paso, refers to a series of movements through abstraction and figuration.

Gilliam's red, blue, and green watercolor, Parade VII, employs color through staining; Thompson's humorous oil painting, The Golden Ass, features a more traditional application; McArthur Binion uses crayon and collage elements in his 2016 brown abstraction, DNA: Sepia II; Nathaniel Mary Quinn's Mean Ol' Teacher uses color as a way to bridge abstraction and figuration in a collaged face made up of many different harlequin features.

He will be showing his work across Victoria Miro «s London locations (Mayfair and Wharf Road): «Meaning «step», the exhibition title, Paso, refers to a series of movements through abstraction and figuration.

In his major four - panel postcard painting I Kandinsky (2012), the artist explores figuration and abstraction through vivid colors, lines, curves, and a planar composition, as if in an homage to Kandinsky.

Diebenkorn's Bay Area figurative years from the mid 1950s through the mid 1960s marked a shift from the artist's early abstractions and set him apart from the prevailing movement of the time and many of his contemporaries, for whom the movement of abstraction was thought to be in direct conflict with figuration.

It was presented to the class as shameful — high Abstraction being dragged through the muck of commercial figuration.

Richard Hickam's development reveals an underlying dedication to abstraction and confrontation as it follows a non-conformist path from photorealism through unsparingly raw and gestural figuration.

Beginning with drawing and a schema, he would build layers of abstraction to explore spirituality and eroticism through paint, altogether eschewing narrative content or figuration.

Hartigan continued to refer to Old Masters such as El Greco and Jean - Baptiste Greuze and to experiment with balancing figuration and abstraction, but her later work, from the 1980s through the 2000s, tended toward the representational.

Working through conceptual constructs including the new, the banal, and the sublime, he has taken his work from its literal, deadpan beginnings in readymades to baroque creations that extol innocence, beauty, sexuality, and happiness in confounding combinations of abstraction, figuration, sumptuous effect, and pure spectacle.

Pilkington's work explores abstraction through figuration, investigating the role of the motif and the relationship it holds to drawing in contemporary abstract painting.

Best known for introducing imagery into minimalist abstraction and bringing a new sensitivity to figuration, two of the most important threads that run through her work are the human touch and the nature of human engagement.

2 Brought to bear on our eye by subtle colour gradations of mauve, grey, blue or brown, his colour field becomes charged through a strategic introduction of condensed areas of darker or lighter hue, bringing the work closer to Klee's ideal of «exactitude winged by intuition».3 Despite the artist's quest for total abstraction, all Gaitonde's seemingly non-objective works have elements of unevenness and suggestion, which tend toward figuration.