Sentences with phrase «figurative elements begin»

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By the mid-1950s, Calderara began to move away from figurative painting to embrace a more geometric approach, radically reducing both the scale and the compositional elements of his paintings through use of simple forms and flat blocks of nebulous and subtle colour.

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

During these early formative years in New York Bowling's focus gradually began to turn away from the figurative and pop elements of his earlier work.

During the 1980s he began combining abstract and figurative elements of painting in his works, as part of a reaction to the prevailing Neo-Expressionist aesthetic of the time.

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.

Through portraiture, landscapes and still lifes, Calderara depicted the people, scenes and objects of his native Italy — all suffused by a delicate, misty light inspired by the atmospheric glow of Lake Orta in Vacciago, where the artist moved in 1934 with his wife Carmela, and where he would work for most of his life.By the mid-1950s, Calderara began to move away from figurative painting to embrace a more geometric approach, radically reducing both the scale and the compositional elements of his paintings through use of simple forms and flat blocks of nebulous and subtle colour.

He abandoned his earlier, figurative way of working which involved modelling in clay and casting in bronze, and began to make purely abstract works: sculpture constructed and welded in steel, comprising beams, girders and other found elements painted in bright colours.