Sentences with phrase «figurative aspects of»

This monumental black and white painting encompasses both the abstract and figurative aspects of his work.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

One of the wryly witty aspects is of how tortured lives are ascribed to artists, as Jason's upbringing seems relatively normal and uninteresting, but with a play that is so wildly exaggerated to as to include a boorish father and an ending that includes suicide for its main characters, Ms. Sinclair takes the figurative and ascribes the literal.

Carrying excessive consumer debt is not only a burden in the figurative sense, it weighs on many aspects of daily living.

The booth will be organized into sections underscoring the figurative, conceptual and abstract aspects of the gallery's program.

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.

Another influential aspect of de Kooning's work over the decades has been his ability to explore abstract forms in some works while, at the same time, exploring frankly figurative or landscape motifs in other works.

In each case, an intellectual spark leaps to some aspect of Marshall's art: eloquent figurative distortion, from Ingres and de Kooning; dark tonality, from Seurat and Ad Reinhardt; and theatrical violence, from nineteenth - century Japanese prints.

My work ranges from the figurative to the abstract and often combines aspects of both.

By combining the motif inherent in the Penguin book, Miller found a way to marry aspects of Pop Art, abstraction and figurative painting at once, with his writer's love of text.

Spanning the figurative to the fantastic, the «indigenous» to the «modern», Farmer's sculptures wear their influences without apology, and I very much appreciated being encouraged to recall the inspirational early work of Mike Kelley, as well as more obscure connections to aspects of the work of Wallace Berman.

The best - known aspects of the Vogel Collection are minimal and conceptual art, but these donations also explore numerous directions of the post-minimalist period, including works of a figurative and expressionist nature.

Exposure to the emerging New York School purged figurative aspects from his work, encouraging a simplified form of abstraction.

The more figurative ones revive, not always successfully, aspects of long - established still - life tradition.

This sculptural aspect shifts the tone of the work in a more abstract direction, where figurative associations recede and the interplay of material, form, and gesture assumes primacy.

Wildness: Toward Their Own Natures «An Aspect of Contemporary Art», Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan New Figurative Art, Angela Ho, Hong Kong, China Summertime, Tony Shafrazi, New York Portraits on Paper, Robert Miller, New York Vertigo «The Remake, Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria A Passion for Art, Tony Shafrazi, New York

After college, the artist explored many aspects of figurative painting and focused mainly on portraits.

To be sure, when Diebenkorn executed his nonfigurative and figurative works, different aspects of his hero's art inspired him.

Selections from the William J. Hokin Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois Body & Soul: Aspects of Recent Figurative Sculpture, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Various movements, themes, and styles are represented, including Abstract Expressionism, Color Field painting, Pop art, and Minimalism, as well as aspects of New Image Painting from the 1970s and beyond, recent developments in abstraction and figurative sculpture, and contemporary movements in photography, video, and digital imagery.

«For contemporary figurative painter Kent Williams, «the tactile qualities of the painted surface, the mark - making itself, plays as big a role in the resonance of a work» as its narrative aspects.

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.

The material aspects of Rama's work are particularly fascinating: the show features wallpaper, maps and diagrammes for the backgrounds of figurative works; cut - up rubber bicycle tyres on fabric; dolls» eyes — lashes and all — affixed to Masonite; and a large sheet of engraved Carrara marble with ink in a work from 2002.

One aspect of early renaissance painting that I found inspiring was the use of repeating decorative elements in the backgrounds of the large figurative paintings.

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.

The exhibition «Family Portraits», Condo is continuing the discourse on the figurative element in painting, which is one of the fundamental aspects in the artist's oeuvre.

As distinct from such mythic references, the upward thrust of Hepworth's works of the late 1950s takes on a combination of figurative and spiritual aspects, as suggested by Figure (Requiem) and Cantate Domino (Tate Gallery T00956).

The exhibition «The Bottom Line» presents various aspects of drawing as a form of contemporary art: from abstract to figurative, from small format to large, from rapid sketches to slow, large - scale projects and from drawing as film to drawing as performance.

Where as a figurative work of art might allow every viewer to engage with it on the same level by referencing some aspect of history or life with which we are all familiar, an abstract artwork requires that every viewer that sees it begins anew, using their thoughts and feelings to arrive at some conclusion about what it could possibly mean.

I was interested in the psychological aspect of what you see in these objects: they have anthropomorphic features, but they are not abstract, and not yet figurative; a multilayering of multi-personalities, as in Moustache Eagle from 2008.

The unlikely combination of Linhares's large, playful, feminist figurative work with Monk's colorful, schema - like maps of different aspects of the NY art world is a curious but successful pairing.

She also loves painting the feminine form and whilst her figurative pieces are not direct self - portraits, there is always some aspect of her own internal state of being that is represented.

This book focuses on the distinctive and expressive power of Jackson Pollock's figurative paintings, drawings, and prints; a rarely studied aspect of his artistic career.

Another artist such as Willem de Kooningfeatured images of grotesque and violent women in a figurative aspect.

The unique aspect of his career is that he moved from being a successful figurative artist to pure abstraction and then, late in life, returned to figurative art.

Pollock painted nothing in 1956, and thus failed to resolve the issue of primacy between the figurative and abstract aspects of his style.

It must be conceded, however, that the weakest aspect of Diebenkorn's figurative phase are the figures themselves.

In Piece, Albert Oehlen combines aspects of figurative sexuality, mechanical distance and painterly abstraction.

AB: Do you think there is an aspect of the abstract that you find necessary in these figurative works?