Sentences with phrase «figurative compositions»

Lara focuses on the myths, customs, and beliefs of his ancestors and translates them to expressive, gestural and yet slightly figurative compositions.

Filling two floors, the survey offers a glimpse of the artist's extensive range: from powerful, sexualized figurative drawings from the late 1930s and «40s, inspired by scenes she witnessed at her mother's psychiatric hospital, to abstract compositions made from rubber bicycle wheels in the»70s (Rama's father once owned a bicycle factory), and back to figurative compositions in the decade following.

As he became more involved in the avant - garde and Beat culture of musicians, writers, and artists, the muted and subdued figurative compositions of the late 1950s gave way to dynamic and hotly colored images of the 1960s.

In her large - scale works on paper art historical, political and personal references are combined to make luminous, densely layered figurative compositions whose intricate surfaces are a marriage of disparate materials and aesthetic traditions.

The Los Angeles - based artist, who relocated from Nigeria to the United States at the age of 16, draws on art historical, political and personal references to make luminous, densely layered figurative compositions whose intricate surfaces combine disparate materials and aesthetic traditions.

Quabeck combines process - led, intuitive painting with figurative compositions.

Soon after her arrival, Kogelnik made a decisive change in her practice: she gave up gestural abstraction for figurative compositions akin to Pop art.

Quinn's numerous awards include: Winner, Certificate of Merit: «Best Imaginative Composition», at the RDS Calor Gas Exhibition 1995; Winner, Certificate of Merit: «Best Figurative Composition» at the RDS Calor Gas Exhibition 1996; he was accepted as a full member of AAI (Association of Artists in Ireland) in 1995.

Despite the daily power struggles that fragment, divide, and segregate, Akunyili Crosby expresses the desire for wholeness in tight figurative compositions that contain layers of personal memories and of Nigerian culture and politics.

His colorful, Pop - art related figurative compositions are here tempered by an unexpected painterly aplomb that winks at gestural abstraction.

Robert Proch the painter engulfs his work with color and energy vibrant palettes with frenzying figurative compositions that move in and out of abstraction.

Similarly in a rare figurative composition by Johnson from 1946, watercolor shapes and colors overlap and coalesce to form an abstracted portrait of Asawa, later given to her.

Combining drawing, painting and collage on paper, Akunyili Crosby's large - scale figurative compositions are drawn from the artist's memories and experiences.

British artist Jessie Makinson paints exquisite multi-layered figurative compositions that drop art historical references as well as borrow patterns and motifs from other times.

An artist with an exacting mind, Müller - Franken is a Photorealist painter, who is focused primarily on contemporary figurative compositions.

Yet, as viewers pass before them, the gloss paint refracts to reveal an elaborate figurative composition.

The Columbus Museum of Art and Denver Art Museum present Mark Rothko: The Decisive Decade, 1940 — 50, a major exhibition tracing the evolution of Rothko's work from his Surrealist - influenced, figurative compositions of the early 40s to the abstract, color field paintings for which he is best known.

Working with a huge variety of media, such as bronze, steel, and wood as well as «found» objects and cow hide, to create architectural or figurative compositions in the form of sculptures, assemblage, installations and video.

Drawing on art historical, political and personal references, Njideka Akunyili Crosby creates densely layered figurative compositions that, precise in style, nonetheless conjure the complexity of contemporary experience.

It's likely that van Dyck reused this head study in larger compositions by modifying vantage points, which is not uncommon among artists working with figurative compositions.

Their artwork encompasses abstract forms, vibrant colours and elaborate graphic and figurative compositions.

Themes of identity, multiculturalism, realism, fantasy, and art historical iconography emerge in a range of portraits, figurative compositions and mixed media works, including painting, printmaking, photography and video.

His figurative compositions are intimate, psychologically - charged portraits influenced by the artist's own past experiences as well as contemporary imagery.

Hartigan, who later received attention for her work seeming to resemble Willem de Kooning's figurative compositions, was the only woman in MoMA's 1958 «New American Paintings» exhibition among 16 male artists.

Her use, in a figurative composition, of the primary colours and rectilinearity associated with Mondrian's abstraction may reflect such a humanising intention.

They will then move into the Theatre and draw upon their discussions by abstracting elements of their own social contexts into a figurative composition utilizing Thomas's signature watercolor technique.

Her figurative compositions reflect her Nigerian heritage, document her experiences in America and explore the intimate and quotidian details of domestic life.

However, by the second half of the 17th century a tradition of native American painting was developed by the practical artisan artists who gathered in the metropolitan centres of New York and Boston - a tradition based on portrait art and figurative compositions.

Figurative compositions, like the nude portrait that commands the booth of Tyburn Gallery (Dance of Many Hands, 2017), imagine a utopian Zimbabwe - of - the - future in which LGBTQ culture, Afropunk, and internet culture thrive (no matter the social and political hurdles faced in the present day).

Avery never created completely abstract works, but his subtly nuanced landscapes and figurative compositions, especially his late paintings, often approach abstraction.

Fraser's figurative compositions «depict moments of quiet reflection and insight, of wonder, vulnerability, yearning, determination, humility, strength, and growth».

The featured artists in the exhibition all explore the strategies of breaking up of the picture plane, focusing mostly on the point of the slip between the figuration and abstraction, placing the figurative compositions in an abstract context.

Kerry James Marshall, known best for his figurative compositions of African - American sitters, has a stunning Rorschach - like pool of white on the booth of David Zwirner.

This extraordinary exhibition features over twenty major - scale oil paintings, including a number of Avery's most acclaimed landscape, seascape, and figurative compositions that he produced late in his career.

«Venetian,» is comprised of twenty - four oil on canvas paintings and gouache works on paper whose figurative compositions are subsumed under obfuscating scrims of vertical lines that evoke and upturn the blinds» fragmentation of perspective.

I always think of this as a figurative composition — a cross-like figure at one end, a sort of red blackboard or mirror at the other, with various complications occurring inbetween.

Critic David Ebony calls Lisa Mackie's exhibition at the June Kelly Gallery one of the «top 10 New York gallery shows for September» in ArtNet News as she allows «her imagination to run free in a wide array of abstract and figurative compositions.»