Sentences with phrase «figurative elements»

He later returned to using color and continued with figurative elements.

Artists who are able to bend Pop or figurative elements into a unique version of abstraction.

For me, to get past gestural painting, I have to reconsider what it means to use figurative elements or still life or landscape to make an image.

Some works include figurative elements, but they are portrayed in imaginative rather than literal ways.

He also adopts more figurative elements and narrative titles.

His representational artworks are distinctly abstract whereas the abstract works are usually integrating figurative elements.

Any remaining traces of Pop influences or figurative elements present in his Map Paintings were stripped away, leading to an increasing focus on material, process, and colour.

Some of my paintings, even if they carry figurative elements, can sometimes be seen as abstract, because I try to dissolve the idea of a central subject.

Despite their geometric appearance - devoid as they are of any recognizable figurative elements — the artist's horizontal bands of warm, organic colors are executed on a fundamentally human scale.

In his sculptures, the artist's body is often substituted with figurative elements.

He started including figurative elements, spatial perspective, references to time and existential issues in his pictures.

Simon's artistic practice is informed by an academic interest in theoretical ideas behind abstraction in art and explores the act of transformation of figurative elements in painting into abstract planes.

In this way, he is able to revisit his canvas in an analytical manner, working in such a way as to remove any overly evocative or even tentatively figurative elements from the composition.

Although abstract painting defined the international style of postwar art, Clemente was drawn to the rich visual culture that surrounded him, and he began intuitively combining figurative elements with abstract forms and symbols in his work.

In 1967 - 68 an important shift took place in King's work, with the first of the Baggot Street paintings, in which figurative elements are replaced by plain fields of colour, forms are rendered geometrically and light is represented through the use of a single line.

However, during the 1960s he began to grow dissatisfied with the apolitical nature of non-representation; in a radical shift in style, Guston began to incorporate figurative elements such as shoes, lightbulbs, cigarettes, and human caricatures into his mostly red, black, and grey canvases.

While the sense of cosmic delirium persists in the rest of the paintings — all from the late 1980s and»90s — figurative elements rendered with graffiti - like spontaneity tend to blur into luminous, acridly colorful hazes.

The artist mixes abstraction and figuration in a series of dual - image paintings, positioning figurative elements within hazy, fluid brushstrokes.

Christopher Roberson's work at Zeitgeist features large black and white ink drawings featuring messy loops and lines along with figurative elements like an alligator's smiling head.

Emily Wittke is a visual artist whose work focuses on figurative elements.

These works use figurative elements such as beefy legs under a straw skirt, big puppy - dog eyes, and intertwining bodies paired with a consistently experimental approach to forms of collage and mark - making.

Graduating in visual arts from LUCA School of Arts in Brussels and having a Masters degree in Painting from PXL College in Hasselt, his large - scale paintings and textural wall hangings fuse American Abstract Expressionism with figurative elements derived from Middle Eastern to European symbolism.

In the same way that Willem deKooning's abstractions contained figurative elements (sometimes with bizarre results), until almost the end of his life, there has been a transitional period with Aho's abstractions in which vignettes of landscape elements could still be discerned among the dabs and slashes and undefined forms.

His imagery, which had once been entirely abstract, in his later years became ever more eclectic, and recognisable figurative elements appeared with increasing frequency.

Though ostensibly abstract from afar, figurative elements begin to surface — a flower, a banana peel or a woman's torso.

Sometimes compositions are resolved with a strong figurative element like a green mushroom or, in the case of «July,» what looks like a distorted lectern.

The more recent use of literal figurative elements — Picasso-esque linear reductions or Guston - inspired dismembered body parts — are less successful, despite overall strong compositions.

A quite nice example of an artist who has worked in abstraction for a few years now with minimal figurative elements going fully into abstract expressionist work with great results.

Her fluid and deliberately disintegrating painting style is carried out on a scale that boldly distorts the familiar figurative elements of her work, and serves to heighten the sense of the physicality of paint and the process of painting itself.

Like Sun Ra, who destabilized an origin myth to create the possibility of new potential, Better Dimension investigates the potential of abstract form approached through a composition of destabilized figurative elements.

Figurative elements briefly coalesce — an eye or a face might come into focus, while feet and arms remain mere sketches — mirroring fluctuating human relationships.

Weischer still paints semi-ornamental interiors, parks or gardens but increasingly dares to omit figurative elements.

Many refer to meetings with friends, and occasionally have disconcerting figurative elements, such as the sketched bespectacled head dimly discerned in the painting DH in Hollywood, 1979 - 85.

Some canvases feature abstracted, atomised forms, while others have more densely overlaid imagery in which it is possible to discern figurative elements.

He began reintroducing figurative elements — clumsy hands, cigarettes, light bulbs — into his work in the late 1960s.

Many of the paintings seem to have been exposed to water - damage, with surfaces running, pigments pooling and figurative elements blotted into fleeting fixture.

In both sets of work, abstract and figurative elements converge in a dissonant clash of modern and premodern.

Though mostly abstract, occasional figurative elements — such as a revolting curled tongue — emerge from the mire.

In the 1960s and»70s, Krasner continued her trademark explorations of colour and graceful, rhythmic form in paintings and collages, building upon the passion of her large - scale abstraction but also returning to her love of hard - edged figurative elements and a certain amount of cerebral control.

Henrietta Dubrey's paintings oscillate between figurative elements and abstraction.

Ossorio tends to place figurative elements and shapes not unlike Dubuffet's in a Pollock - like all - over field of line, color, and gestural marks.

Imbued with a sense of personal iconography, his practice often combines signature figurative elements, such as bug - eyed humans and eclectic headgear with gestural, abstract blocks of color.

Zoi Gaitanidou has been using embroidery to create elaborate tapestries that combine abstract patterns with figurative elements resulting in an intensity that recalls tribal art.

A rebel to the last, he wrested his trademark action painting from art - historical acceptance and revivified it with autobiographical figurative elements — see Number 5 from 1952 and 1953's magisterial Portrait And A Dream, in which Pollock tears his psyche apart.

These latest works simultaneously feature figurative elements that are ostensibly recognizable — hands, heads, feet — combined with abstract passages that serve to restructure order and dimensionality within the painting.

Also included are a number of paintings with collaged figurative elements which can be seen as transitions between the earlier Door paintings and the figurative imagery he currently uses.

Between Two Worlds Thierry Guillemin Thierry continues on a path that he opened in his last show at Studio Gallery, letting figurative elements enter his abstract work.

These «women» pictures illustrated his desire to maintain an overtly figurative element in his painting, in contrast to the gesturalist Pollock, as well as the wholly abstract Colour Field Painting group of Clyfford Still (1904 - 80), Mark Rothko (1903 - 70), and Barnett Newman (1905 - 70), the versatile Robert Motherwell (1915 - 91), the lyrical «Abstract Impressionist» Philip Guston (1913 - 80) and the «Hard - Edge» painter Frank Stella (b. 1936).