Sentences with phrase «figurative content»

Throughout these paintings there is a tension between the intimate figurative content hidden beneath the surface and the bold formal qualities of her canvases celebrated by dynamic attributes of paint.

Following the establishment of the Irish Free State in the early 1920s, some artists edged away from pure landscape in favour of a more figurative content.

Finding his sources in a wide range of books & magazines, Manor developed an artistic practice focussing on defragmentation of figurative content using processes being linked to printing.

Although these gridded and stacked compositions of linear forms initially appear abstract, their titles (usually People or Person) point to their figurative content.

His attempt to «reconcile the scale and freedom of Abstract Expressionist painting with the figurative content of the Old Masters» was clearly fought with every brush stroke.

Auping comments, «Rather than focusing on Rothenberg's famous early horse paintings as the beginning of a symbolic, figurative evolution, we are looking at the artist's work from a more holistic, formal standpoint, identifying her unusual way of organizing pictorial space, regardless of the figurative content.»

In overall style the painting recalls European surrealism with its eerie interpretations of figurative content.

Ackermann's process involved first «staging» an accident with red and indigo paint, and secondly, she developed the figurative content of the resulting abstract picture.

Following a Scottish Arts Council residency in Amsterdam in 1987, Innes began to reduce the figurative content in his work.

Despite enveloping the viewer in an illusionistic space, the abstract compositional surface of the painting is devoid of any figurative content.