This monumental black and white painting encompasses both the abstract and
figurative aspects of his work.
The material choices enable us to understand the works in many ways, but
figurative aspects also offer an approach to interpretation and recognition.
In 1994, after moving her studio to the Ardennes mountains, she began to neglect
figurative aspects in her work in favor of concerted, harmonically balanced abstract elements which are applied in many layers onto the canvas.
Exposure to the emerging New York School
purged figurative aspects from his work, encouraging a simplified form of abstraction.
There is
no figurative aspect to the work: if you see something that is what you see.
Kitaj has been associated with the «School of London» generation, a label that never referred to a specific group or style, but was used in connection with a number of painters preoccupied with
the figurative aspect of painting at a time when abstract art had dominated the art scene for a long time.
Speaking of
the figurative aspect of works that largely appear abstract, Kim has said, «I love a good abstract painting, but I'm often not interested in what people talk about when they talk about abstraction, so I prefer to apply my own content.»
Her abstract warm colored painted backgrounds, with runs and drips contrast with
the figurative aspect of the printed material.
In the series of sculptures (Catachresis) speech is made visual, underlining
the figurative aspect of these expressions.
Their paint became thicker, freer, more gestural and less structured, eschewing
the figurative aspect in favor of blocks of color and calligraphic lines.
As with so much of the artist's work, I find the hints of story in these paintings unimportant and
their figurative aspects often awkward and off - putting.
Reframing our perspective on the artist's creative output, the grand special exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Basel focuses on
the figurative aspect of his work in order to pioneer a new perspective on his oeuvre, which spans almost three decades.
Another artist such as Willem de Kooningfeatured images of grotesque and violent women in
a figurative aspect.
While Salt Shroud makes a direct reference to the figure, de Haan notes the entire exhibition has
a figurative aspect.