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Participants will have an opportunity to create their own photocopy - based art works such as concrete poems and figurative abstractions from provided source material from the exhibition library.

Not exact matches

The exhibit will include stunning hyper - realistic work by Churchill - Johnson — stark political statement contrasted with delicate, minimalist abstraction by Uyesaka — deeply engaging abstract oils by Scorzelli — dynamic and powerful ceramic insights by Rosenberg - Dent — fanciful, abstract adventures by Lehrer — an unsettling mixed - media installation with video by auto - expressionist, Metrov — striking figurative vs abstract works by Ferris — a lively «abolish blandness» painting by Lytle contrasted with fabulous yarn work from the early 90's — and a pair of McCracken's, always delightful, miniatures.

Organized by Paul Schimmel, this selection of 36 paintings and 53 drawings, traces the development of Guston's work during this transitional period from abstraction to the beginnings of his iconic figurative works.»

Drawing from the art - historical lineage of cubism, cartoons, figurative painting and gestural abstraction, and appropriating subjects from mythology, advertising, print culture and consumerism, Comic Future is as much about the breakdown of the human condition as it is about the absurdities which define the perils of human evolution.

A unique amalgamation of artist, Spiritualist and medium, the fascinating and unexpected story of Houghton has generated international interest from curators and writers who see her work as representing an abandonment of figurative form that anticipates the development of modern abstraction by artists such as Kandinsky or Malevich by several decades.

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.

Representing a stylistic transformation from his previous figurative practice to monumental geometric abstractions, these pieces capture a sense of the Ocean Park community of Southern California where the artist created them between 1967 and 1988.

Abstraction — from the purely decorative to the brutally austere — is more easily commodified than figurative work.

Late in his life, the painter of modern orientation attempted to re-introduce elements of abstraction into his new figurative style, a feat that can be seen in several of his works from 1980.

I have no sense that this is «abstracted from» anything, yet it does have some connections to picture - making and composition that I think of as «figurative» even within the larger frame of abstraction.

(1910 - 1962) American, yet imbued with visual culture of Europe, Franz Kline exemplifies the development of pictorial language from a figurative form that derives from Rembrandt and the other great masters whose work he knew well from visiting European museums, to abstraction.

His early work was figurative but he moved towards abstraction from the late 1960s onwards, and is renowned for his large - scale paintings saturated with colour.

Mammen began, therefore, to move away from her illustrative, figurative, «realistic» style, experimenting with abstraction.

The works in Surrealism USA are borrowed from public and private collections in the United States and abroad, and all aspects of the Surrealist movement in America are represented: the figurative depictions of a fantasy world by Peter Blume, Dorothea Tanning, and Helen Lundberg; the social surrealism of O. Louis Guglielmi, James Guy and Walter Quirt; the imaginary landscapes of Kay Sage and Yves Tanguy; Joseph Cornell's enigmatic and poetic constructions; the lyrical abstractions of Arshile Gorky and William Baziotes; the automatic experiments of Jackson Pollock and Gerome Kamrowski.

A selection of earlier photographs is also included to provide a context for Tillmans» passage from figurative and representational imagery to abstraction.

The work moves through several recognisable phases: from the carefully constructed figurative pictures of the late 1940s; into various degrees of object - based abstraction; to an even simpler sort of still life painting in the 1970s and early 1980s.

In Paris in the early 1950s, Copley developed a unique, ribald figurative style that bucked prevailing trends toward abstraction, taking inspiration from Surrealist painting, American, cartoon and silent - movie imagery.

What makes de Kooning such a great artist may be something far more subtle, far more interior to painting itself and perhaps expressed best in his earlier works, those that are, again, often described as transitional, from figurative works of the early 40s to even abstractions such as Painting, Attic, or Excavation.

In Paris, Abboud was influenced by the works of Pierre Bonnard, Roger Bissière and Nicolas de Staël, and began to shift from a Lebanese tradition of figurative and landscape painting to colourful abstraction.

Drawing from the art - historical lineage of cubism, graffiti, cartoons, figurative painting and gestural abstraction, and appropriating subjects from mythology, advertising, print culture and consumerism, Aaron Curry's eagerly awaited survey exhibition at CAPC musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux next summer is as much about the breakdown of the human condition as it is the absurdities that define the perils of human evolution.

The First World War saw a transition from the near abstraction of his Vorticist work to a more figurative and expressionist style.

Dona Nelson: Stand Alone Paintings, which opens May 12 and runs through August 12, will feature over 30 paintings drawn from the last four decades, bringing together rarely shown figurative works alongside more recent abstractions.

During this period, Rothko moved from expressive figurative and surrealist canvases to more abstract multiform subjects and finally to his signature abstractions — luminous rectangles of color suspended in space.

These beautiful and rarely seen pieces will show an evolution from a pre-psychedelic, William Blake - like figurative imagery of the late «50s and early «60s, to the all over, highly intricate abstraction of the mid 1960s.

Paintings and some small sculptures, predominantly black and white, ranging from pure to figurative abstraction; photo collages on paper and aluminum panel.

The RA's exhibition explores Diebenkorn's practice across four decades, focusing on the three different stages of his career from his initial embrace of abstraction in the early 1950s, his shift to figurative painting in the mid-1950s, and his return to abstraction in the late 1960s.

The landscape dominated American painting throughout the 19th century and well into the 20th, and though it continued to have practitioners thereafter (Fairfield Porter, for example), it was overshadowed, along with figurative painting in general, by various styles of abstraction from Cubism to Minimalism.

Jackson Pollock believed that his splatter paintings — springing from the muscular actions of his body over the canvas — were not abstractions, but actually figurative works.

A selection of works by Keith Haring, Kenny Scharf, Jean Michel Basquiat, Katherine Bernhardt, Tyson Reeder, Joe Bradley, Chris Martin, Sarah Braman and many others, sketch a story that slides from figurative iconography to totemic abstraction, charting a world in churn; in print, in space, and on canvas.

In the early 1960s, Leslie's style evolved from pure abstraction to figurative realism, distilling his background in film to be fully realized through painting.

Among them is that the paintings mark Kandinsky's transition from figurative painting towards abstraction.

Cousins» work developed from figurative forms in terracotta and wood to abstractions of welded steel.

In 1967, Philip Guston's lushly brushed imagery suddenly leapt from abstraction to a figurative style with overtones of cartooning.

Russell Tyler has also changed the «direction» of his oeuvre, from dark figurative works to minimalist tonal abstractions.

The fact he maintained a commitment to the figurative tradition to some degree [1] makes this painter truly stand out from the rest of his famous contemporaries who opted for the pure abstraction style.

However, the images are not figurative and each embody a sense of abstraction which blocks the viewer from gazing directly onto the horrific scenes, leaving only clues to piece together an otherwise fragmented narrative.

Ranging from painterly abstraction to figurative interiors and landscapes, Hurvin Anderson's solo exhibition at New Art Exchange, Nottingham, expands on two long - standing motifs of the barbershop interior and the municipal park landscape and includes his Arts Council Collection commission, Is It OK To Be Black?

The paintings include large, textured, stained, all - over canvas creations like Schwabacher's Antigone I, from 1958, a 51 x 82 1/4 inch canvas of blood red, ochre, black, blue, gray and white markings that is a figurative abstraction of the Greek myth.

Chapter 1: Things Must be Pulverized: Abstract Expressionism Charts the move from figurative to abstract painting as the dominant style of painting (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Willem de Kooning, Barnett Newman Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko Chapter 2: Wounded Painting: Informel in Europe and Beyond Meanwhile in Europe: abstract painters immediate responses to the horrors of World War II (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Jean Dubuffet, Lucio Fontana, Viennese Aktionism, Wols Chapter 3: Post-War Figurative Painting Surveys those artists who defiantly continued to make figurative work as Abstraction was rising to dominance - including Social Realists (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Francis Bacon, Lucien Freud, Alice Neel, Pablo Picasso Chapter 4: Against Gesture - Geometric Abstraction The development of a rational, universal language of art - the opposite of the highly emotional Informel or Abstract Expressionism (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Lygia Clark, Ellsworth Kelly, Bridget Riley, Yves Klein Chapter 5: Post-Painting Part 1: After Pollock In the aftermath of Pollock's death: the early days of Pop, Minimalism and Conceptual painting in the USA (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, Cy Twombly Chapter 5: Anti Tradition - Pop Painitng How painting survives against growth of mass visual culture: photography and television - if you can't beat them, join them (1960s and 70s) Key artists discussed: Alex Katz, Roy Lichtenstein, Gerhard Richter, Andy Warhol Chapter 6: A transcendental high art: Neo Expressionism and its Discontents The continuation of figuration and expressionism in the 1970s and 80s, including many artists who have only been appreciated in later years (1970s & 80s) Key artists discussed: Georg Baselitz, Jean - Michel Basquiat, Anselm Kiefer, Julian Schnabel, Chapter 7: Post-Painting Part II: After Pop A new era in which figurative and abstract exist side by side rather than polar opposites plus painting expands beyond the canvas (late 1980s to 2000s) Key artists discussed: Tomma Abts, Mark Grotjahn, Chris Ofili, Christopher Wool Chapter 8: New Figures, Pop Romantics Post-cold war, artists use paint to create a new kind of «pop art» - primarily figurative - tackling cultural, social and political issues (1990s to now) Key artists discussed: John Currin, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, Neo Rauch, Lfigurative to abstract painting as the dominant style of painting (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Willem de Kooning, Barnett Newman Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko Chapter 2: Wounded Painting: Informel in Europe and Beyond Meanwhile in Europe: abstract painters immediate responses to the horrors of World War II (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Jean Dubuffet, Lucio Fontana, Viennese Aktionism, Wols Chapter 3: Post-War Figurative Painting Surveys those artists who defiantly continued to make figurative work as Abstraction was rising to dominance - including Social Realists (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Francis Bacon, Lucien Freud, Alice Neel, Pablo Picasso Chapter 4: Against Gesture - Geometric Abstraction The development of a rational, universal language of art - the opposite of the highly emotional Informel or Abstract Expressionism (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Lygia Clark, Ellsworth Kelly, Bridget Riley, Yves Klein Chapter 5: Post-Painting Part 1: After Pollock In the aftermath of Pollock's death: the early days of Pop, Minimalism and Conceptual painting in the USA (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, Cy Twombly Chapter 5: Anti Tradition - Pop Painitng How painting survives against growth of mass visual culture: photography and television - if you can't beat them, join them (1960s and 70s) Key artists discussed: Alex Katz, Roy Lichtenstein, Gerhard Richter, Andy Warhol Chapter 6: A transcendental high art: Neo Expressionism and its Discontents The continuation of figuration and expressionism in the 1970s and 80s, including many artists who have only been appreciated in later years (1970s & 80s) Key artists discussed: Georg Baselitz, Jean - Michel Basquiat, Anselm Kiefer, Julian Schnabel, Chapter 7: Post-Painting Part II: After Pop A new era in which figurative and abstract exist side by side rather than polar opposites plus painting expands beyond the canvas (late 1980s to 2000s) Key artists discussed: Tomma Abts, Mark Grotjahn, Chris Ofili, Christopher Wool Chapter 8: New Figures, Pop Romantics Post-cold war, artists use paint to create a new kind of «pop art» - primarily figurative - tackling cultural, social and political issues (1990s to now) Key artists discussed: John Currin, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, Neo Rauch, LFigurative Painting Surveys those artists who defiantly continued to make figurative work as Abstraction was rising to dominance - including Social Realists (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Francis Bacon, Lucien Freud, Alice Neel, Pablo Picasso Chapter 4: Against Gesture - Geometric Abstraction The development of a rational, universal language of art - the opposite of the highly emotional Informel or Abstract Expressionism (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Lygia Clark, Ellsworth Kelly, Bridget Riley, Yves Klein Chapter 5: Post-Painting Part 1: After Pollock In the aftermath of Pollock's death: the early days of Pop, Minimalism and Conceptual painting in the USA (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, Cy Twombly Chapter 5: Anti Tradition - Pop Painitng How painting survives against growth of mass visual culture: photography and television - if you can't beat them, join them (1960s and 70s) Key artists discussed: Alex Katz, Roy Lichtenstein, Gerhard Richter, Andy Warhol Chapter 6: A transcendental high art: Neo Expressionism and its Discontents The continuation of figuration and expressionism in the 1970s and 80s, including many artists who have only been appreciated in later years (1970s & 80s) Key artists discussed: Georg Baselitz, Jean - Michel Basquiat, Anselm Kiefer, Julian Schnabel, Chapter 7: Post-Painting Part II: After Pop A new era in which figurative and abstract exist side by side rather than polar opposites plus painting expands beyond the canvas (late 1980s to 2000s) Key artists discussed: Tomma Abts, Mark Grotjahn, Chris Ofili, Christopher Wool Chapter 8: New Figures, Pop Romantics Post-cold war, artists use paint to create a new kind of «pop art» - primarily figurative - tackling cultural, social and political issues (1990s to now) Key artists discussed: John Currin, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, Neo Rauch, Lfigurative work as Abstraction was rising to dominance - including Social Realists (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Francis Bacon, Lucien Freud, Alice Neel, Pablo Picasso Chapter 4: Against Gesture - Geometric Abstraction The development of a rational, universal language of art - the opposite of the highly emotional Informel or Abstract Expressionism (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Lygia Clark, Ellsworth Kelly, Bridget Riley, Yves Klein Chapter 5: Post-Painting Part 1: After Pollock In the aftermath of Pollock's death: the early days of Pop, Minimalism and Conceptual painting in the USA (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, Cy Twombly Chapter 5: Anti Tradition - Pop Painitng How painting survives against growth of mass visual culture: photography and television - if you can't beat them, join them (1960s and 70s) Key artists discussed: Alex Katz, Roy Lichtenstein, Gerhard Richter, Andy Warhol Chapter 6: A transcendental high art: Neo Expressionism and its Discontents The continuation of figuration and expressionism in the 1970s and 80s, including many artists who have only been appreciated in later years (1970s & 80s) Key artists discussed: Georg Baselitz, Jean - Michel Basquiat, Anselm Kiefer, Julian Schnabel, Chapter 7: Post-Painting Part II: After Pop A new era in which figurative and abstract exist side by side rather than polar opposites plus painting expands beyond the canvas (late 1980s to 2000s) Key artists discussed: Tomma Abts, Mark Grotjahn, Chris Ofili, Christopher Wool Chapter 8: New Figures, Pop Romantics Post-cold war, artists use paint to create a new kind of «pop art» - primarily figurative - tackling cultural, social and political issues (1990s to now) Key artists discussed: John Currin, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, Neo Rauch, Lfigurative and abstract exist side by side rather than polar opposites plus painting expands beyond the canvas (late 1980s to 2000s) Key artists discussed: Tomma Abts, Mark Grotjahn, Chris Ofili, Christopher Wool Chapter 8: New Figures, Pop Romantics Post-cold war, artists use paint to create a new kind of «pop art» - primarily figurative - tackling cultural, social and political issues (1990s to now) Key artists discussed: John Currin, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, Neo Rauch, Lfigurative - tackling cultural, social and political issues (1990s to now) Key artists discussed: John Currin, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, Neo Rauch, Luc Tuymans

Depending on a subject, he works with very different methods and techniques, from geometric abstraction to the academic figurative, or collage and the use of contemporary tools.

Somewhere in the exhibition's development, the title «Reinventing Presence» was changed to the snappier Tightrope Walk — which comes from an observation by Francis Bacon about his «tightrope walk between what is called figurative painting and abstraction».

During the late 1960s, Guston became frustrated with the limitations of abstraction and returned to figurative painting, amassing a potent language of motifs whose roots can be seen in the forms and shapes of Traveler III, and illustrating what Christoph Schreier refers to as subcutaneous figuration.2 Following his 1966 exhibition at the Jewish Museum in New York, Guston relocated to Woodstock, New York, embarking on what would become a two - year hiatus from painting.

Pure abstraction suffers from its association to «Zombie Formalism,» what the painter and critic Walter Robinson called abstraction made to feed the market, while the bulk of contemporary figurative painting does little more than illustrate the conceptual and / or political leanings of the artist.

Elaine would credit Kline's introduction to the projector as causing a «total instantaneous conversion to abstraction» by Kline and a complete change in his style in painting from figurative or semi-abstract work to full abstraction.

This exhibition highlights the extensive career of Los Angeles - based artist Walter Askin whose multi-faceted work ranges from sardonic graphic works, large painterly abstractions, to vibrant figurative sculptures.

Later in life, Russell, disillusioned with abstraction, turned to figurative painting, with inspiration from the classical world.

From there, his almost flat, almost abstract works, with their contrasting planes of colour and reminiscences of doorways and cheerful bunting, provided Brazilian artists with a bridge between the bright, figurative paintings of Brazilian modernists such as Emiliano di Cavalcanti and Tarsila do Amaral and the geometric abstraction of the 1950s Neo-Concrete movement and Grupo Ruptura.

With artists young and old tackling subject matter ranging from figurative landscapes to digital glitches to the eternity of the circle, it is clear that the world of abstraction is thriving in contemporary Chinese art.

The dense, small - scale paintings included in this exhibition mark a highly prolific period in Mondrian's engagement with figurative landscape painting — an early but deeply significant stage in the artist's methodical progression from naturalistic representation to complete grid - based abstraction.

Estimated at # 15m — # 25m, it is a rare work dating from the artist's expressionist moment and marks his transition from figurative painting to abstraction.