Sentences with phrase «figuration when»

As a material with implied connections to the body, both in terms of its inherent malleability as well as the vessels it has been used to create for millennia, the clay offers an alternative (if less explicit) mode of figuration when seen alongside the sculptures that stare back from across the room.

it was a device for reintroducing figuration when Frank Stella was the king of New York.

Having worked with with constructed, geometric and architectural forms from the late 1950s onwards, William Tucker had already begun to turn towards figuration when a visit to Italy in 1981 had a revelatory impact on his work.

It was one of the rare figurations when the artist produced mostly abstract work.

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.

Freud's adherence to realism and focus on the human figure, when abstraction and other progressive forms of practice were more prolific, moved him in and out of the spotlight until the 1980's when renewed international interest in painting and figuration gave his work a new significance.

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.

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.

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.

Associating his influences with Social Realists «he fell in with» when he arrived in New York, Sims describes them as «a cohort of individuals who bridged the gap between abstraction and figuration... the use of energetic color and gesture, and a sensibility that would be described as gritty.»

Anne Marie Kornachak, the only artist featured who will not be exhibiting when this show moves to Jacksonville, Florida, paints highly mysterious tableaus of an ambiguous narrative, emphasizing voluminous folds of fabric and small hints of human figuration to illustrate emotion as products of internal and highly private dynamics.

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.

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.

When he first started showing his work in the early 2000s, Wiley's reversals of classical figuration were an outlier at a time when most painters dealt in abstractWhen he first started showing his work in the early 2000s, Wiley's reversals of classical figuration were an outlier at a time when most painters dealt in abstractwhen most painters dealt in abstraction.

«When you have an art history that's so saturated with figuration, what do you have that's any different than anybody else?

Initially concerned with abstraction, his work moved to figuration in the mid-1970s, when it became preoccupied with the effects of light and movement.

As time went on, Greenberg's orthodoxy when it came to his bans on figuration and multidimensional texture in painting became ripe for a backlash among artists seeking non-Greenberg-ian ideals.

As it happens, Nelson's work shines brightest when mashing - up abstraction and figuration.

At a time when African American artists were expected to explore the African American experience through representation, figuration, and narration, the practices of Bearden and Lawrence — their mastery and ownership of that realm — freed Whitten to chart his own path.

Her Contemporary Realism paintings have a strong narrative surrealism aspect, especially when figuration is featured.

When she's made a line that suggested figuration, she's intuitively pushed it further, a development that first surfaced in her exhibition last fall at the Marian Goodman gallery.

When finished, figuration and abstraction are kept in an oscillation of arrival and dissolve, many things happening at once, cooperating and conflicting.

«Fertile Ground» also provides a close look at the pivotal moment when Park led his friends Elmer Bischoff and Diebenkorn from Abstract Expressionism toward a distinctive mode of figuration, exemplified by Park's «Two Bathers» (1958), still identified with the Bay Area.

You were talking about something that was completely uninteresting to you when you started your work, which was the early - «60s and late -»50s battle between the conceptual and the process artists with the figurative people and action painters, and those painters with abstract painters: abstraction versus figuration.

When Guston turned back towards figuration in the 1970s, he lost a lot of friends.

And then think of Philip Guston, when he starts doing those Ku Klux Klan pictures, going from abstraction to figuration in conversation with people like Norman Lewis, Sam Gilliam, Betye Saar.

And I already mentioned how when I really started out after the war in Chicago the Bavhaus and the experience and the new figuration experience.

Guston's ability to move successfully between figuration and abstraction and back again seems especially pertinent today, when artists shift regularly between these once - contradictory poles,» Auping said.

Like the space that opens up when figuration gives way to abstraction, so too can language be unfolded into its many layers of authorship, readership and legibility.

Interestingly, art historian Peter Selz feels that when Smith made abstract works they had an aspect of figuration, and that his figurative works felt abstract.

7 When Pollock and de Kooning returned to figuration and more colour in these works, it was considered a reactionary retreat from the historic adventure of abstraction.

The tide turned when in the late 1950s the «Bay Area Figurative Movement» began to form in San Francisco from the ranks of the Abstract Expressionists: an increasing number of artists now criticized the non-figurative nature of Abstract Expressionism and revisited figuration.

Remember when the most important thing in the world was renegotiating the relationship between figuration and abstraction?

It helps me... because most of my trouble begins when I think too much about the balance between abstraction and figuration... and feel too conscious about resolving the problem rather than let the work be itself.

Others break dramatically from their pasts, as did Philip Guston when he abandoned Abstract Expressionism for rowdy cartoonish figuration.

More literal depictions of the figure hang on the opposite end of the room — examples from the comeback of representation in the»60s and»70s when movements like pop (Wayne Thiebaud) and eccentric figuration (Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon) allowed modern museums to hang figure painting without seeming old - fashioned.

Schütte's interest in working with busts dates back to the time he studied at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf under Gerhard Richter mid-1980s, when he developed an interest in the contemporary possibilities of figuration.

Philip Guston's Branch exemplifies his work from the period when the artist liberated himself from the confines of figuration and began to explore the boundless realms of abstraction.

The figuration is not realistic, when there are beings, they are often hybrids.

The creative possibilities explored through photography were never richer or more varied than in the years between the First and Second World Wars, when photographers approached figuration, abstraction, and architecture with unmatched imaginative fervor.

When Abstract Expressionism ran out of steam in the late fifties and started to look institutionalized, only de Kooning thought of leaping into figuration again.

I can certainly relate to how Pollock must have felt when Greenberg condemned him for sliding «back» into figuration — the exact opposite of my present situation where I am sliding «back» into abstraction.

'' «The 1950s were the decade of Abstract Expressionism, when figuration was left out in the cold» — that's one of those art - historical clichés that refuses to die even though it's almost completely inaccurate.»

BARRY SCHWABSKY: When I first started seeing your work in the early to mid -»80s, it was related to the new figuration.

During a time period when minimalism was at the forefront of the New York Art scene, she stood out because of her reintroduction of expression and figuration.

The drawing to the figures only shows what happens when you go BACK to figuration — how really weird all the traditional concerns with tone and volume, proportion and depth look once you're locked into a certain kind of facture.

Face Value features mid-twentieth-century artists who were reinventing portraiture at a moment when everyone agreed that figuration was dead as a progressive art form.

When Pop Art made figuration fashionable in the 1960's, he switched back to abstraction.

When Abstract Expressionism was ascendant in New York in the 1950's, Mr. Diebenkorn switched from abstraction to figuration.

Even when the Abstract Expressionists largely abandoned figuration, they still pursued the transcendent effect; for them, the epic was part and parcel of painting.