Sentences with phrase «figurative elements from»

By banning the figurative element from painting in favor of an abstract analysis of the «crisis of modern man» and also resorting to images from archaic cultures, artists such as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko or Willem de Kooning shaped the Abstract Expressionist movement in the 1940s and 1950s.

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Grace Sanchez often includes figurative elements in her collage, with narrative from the filters of experience.

On the other hand, in a series of large charcoal drawings from 2011, in a murky figurative style redolent of bad»70s art, she is decidedly out of her element.

Late in his life, the painter of modern orientation attempted to re-introduce elements of abstraction into his new figurative style, a feat that can be seen in several of his works from 1980.

It was about time for a shift in the Houston painter's work, which for the past several years has been characterized by cartoonish figurative elements duking it out with a whirling array of abstract elements from hard - edged to splashy.

She locates stills from films that have evening shots, photographing the screen up close, pixelating the original image and removing any figurative elements.

She also studied lithography at the Art Students League of New York, and received private instruction from Russian sculptor Ossip Zadkine, [3][10][13] who urged her to add abstract elements to her figurative work.

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.

Hueller's work, while almost abstract, plays with three - dimensionality, figurative elements and shapes and forms derived from such diverse influences as surrealism and die Brücke.

While the paintings still hew to the cadre of influences that Martinez is often mentioned alongside — Picasso, Willem de Kooning, Philip Guston — they have more or less abandoned the figurative elements of epic earlier work, like «The Feast,» a dense triptych from 2010.

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

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.

In the figurative elements, objects and landscapes, repetition from one canvas to the next is exploited so that the clear similarities between them become more obvious then their differences.

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.

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 Oriental and European symbolism.

The «Waterfall» paintings continued into 2000, but Steir worked concurrently on installation projects (some were recreations of earlier projects) that incorporated more diverse elements, including figurative fragments, primary color, sculptural objects, and graphic symbols from Celtic lore.

Although predominantly abstract, Rae's paintings have also occasionally incorporated figurative elements, including expressive typography in works such as Moonlite Bunny Ranch 2003, and small cartoon - like pandas, a recurring motif in her work from the mid-2000s onwards (see, for instance, Bold as a wild strawberry, sweet as a naughty girl 2009).

Taking and reinventing classicist and old masters paintings as principal elements and focal points for his work in this show, he uses angular forms inspired by and abstracted from his historical outdoor use of the alphabet to compliment the figurative work that he pays homage to and slices - up in equal measure.

In these pieces, the artist tackled genres like the still life, the portrait, figurative representation, landscape, interiors, historical painting, political propaganda, religious iconography, and the appropriation of elements from popular culture and art history.

These recurring elements derive primarily from the artistic conventions of ancient Greece and Rome, which, while known primarily for figurative art, employed a set of repeated abstract forms as a common parlance.

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.

Bartlett is best known for her paintings and prints in which familiar subjects — ranging from houses and gardens to oceans and skies — are executed in a style that combines elements of both representational and abstract art; indeed, she has commented that she does not accept a distinction between figurative and abstract art.

He is known for being one of the pioneers of 20th century abstract art, as he changed his artistic direction from figurative painting to an increasingly abstract style, until he reached a point where his artistic vocabulary was reduced to simple geometric elements.

Murray is particularly well known for her shaped canvases, which date from 1976, on to which are painted both figurative and non-figurative elements.

Paintings from the 1950s include such works as Stephen Pace's Untitled (51 - 90), a dynamic abstract painting in which forms move into and through the picture plane in the mode of the art of Pace's teacher Hans Hofmann, Melville Price's Untitled (ca. 1959), a gestural painting in the abstract expressionist idiom in which figurative elements have a suggestive presence, and George Segal's Three Nudes (1959), in which a psychological tension is conveyed in the expressively treated figures that are integrated into spaces defined by veils or blankets of color.

A painting that does spring to mind when thinking of that sort of downward space is Patrick Jones» «Flat Screen» from three years ago, a painting that appears to contain some rather figurative structural elements.

The subjects dealt with are released from the political - social complaints that have characterized the two decades of the Equipo Crónica, a Valencian collective that combined elements of Pop Art with the figurative aesthetic of Nueva Figuración movement, highlighting a critical look at Spanish dictator Francisco Franco and art history itself.