Sentences with phrase «figurative elements like»

He combines marquetry with abstract objects and magnificently worked figurative elements like complex wooden floors, books and tables.

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.

Not exact matches

By 1981, he had ceased using figurative elements, instead affixing yarn and thread to papier mâché - like cylinders and cones.

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.

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.

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.

The figurative elements are spectral, there and not there, like subconscious phantoms lurking within the stuff of art.

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).

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.

Similarly, in ostensibly abstract paintings such as the bravura «Lantern in the Snow» or the de Kooning homage, «My Attic (Early in the Spring),» figurative elements push forth and recede like cresting waves at sea.

While these paintings initially seem like a chaotic mass of neon, codified within the swirling lines are hidden figurative elements.

Figurative elements emerge as repeating characters — like the dark horse — that hint at an occult symbolism beneath the surface.

Secundino Hernández's frenetic oil, gouache, and acrylic paintings feature abstract and figurative elements, and references to both Action Painting and the Old Masters, particularly Spanish forbears like El Greco and Velázquez.

I feel like the addition of figurative and naturalistic elements in the abstract forms and fields of color ground the paintings in a way.