Artists who are able to bend Pop or
figurative elements into a unique version of abstraction.
Of the other artists, Grace Hartigan has some very wonderful, muscular painting in this exhibition but ironically later gained success with work that incorporated
figurative elements into her compositions.
The paintings and drawings of Los Angeles artist Mark Grotjahn (born 1968) collide abstract and
figurative elements into spider - webbed splinters that skew traditional perspective and dazzle the eye.
Bold colors and extreme painterly expressionism turn Ms. Rubenstein's
figurative elements into near abstraction.
Not exact matches
Known for his playful integration of abstract
elements into figurative scenes, Philip Guston was a Canadian - born American artist who achieved recognition and fame by working in two seemingly different (yet connected) styles — Abstract Expressionism and Representational Painting.
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.
Abstract art is often divided
into two categories, Semi-Abstraction, in which the imagery is still tethered to
figurative shapes or styles, and Pure Abstraction, in which the visual
elements are completely independent.
Joffe introduces an
element of abstraction
into her
figurative works, evincing a distinct style of painting that draws on bold lines and geometric forms to create powerful human portraits.
In the space of just eight years he had succeeded in creating an extensive oeuvre and introducing new
figurative and expressive
elements into contemporary art.
These architectural monuments are captured against a grand, thick forest, which reveals and hides its part in a dynamic tension that is an integral part of Peter Doig's
figurative painting — the artist often delves
into moments of tranquillity and contrasts them with uneasy oneiric
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.
Known for his playful integration of abstract
elements into figurative scenes, Philip Guston was a Canadian - born American artist who achieved recognition and fame by working in two seemingly different (yet connected) styles — Abstract Expressionism and...
These
elements are on splendid display in Study for Ovid - Windfall — a strong and beautiful female lunges
into her mythical surroundings as she makes an upward gesture to the mysterious
figurative presence above.
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.
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.
«His
figurative works have the spontaneity of old - school graffiti, with patches of color, rough textural
elements, and random marks developed
into characters that have the amorphousness of ghosts,» says Scala.
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.
This range of new sculptures highlights the juxtaposition of carefully rendered
figurative elements, architectural fragments and altered everyday materials, thrusting the world we know
into sharp contrast and heightening our perceptual understanding.
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.
First appearing as a
figurative element in his works on paper in the mid-1990s, and since incorporated
into his large - scale drawings, paintings, and films, masks were most recently featured in the artist's critically - acclaimed stage and costume design for the New York City Ballet's The Most Incredible Thing in 2016, a performance choreographed by Justin Peck and based on Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale.