Sentences with phrase «figurative elements such»

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.

Not exact matches

Such fragmented elements are combined to produce cryptic assemblages that are neither abstract nor figurative, but unrelentingly peculiar.

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.

Yet the best of his wacky compositions on view, such as «Cement Truck» and «At the Door,» maintain a delicate and impressive balance between abstract and 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.

During these years and those that followed, her paintings reflected some major influences, such as Hofmann's color principles and structural relationships between figurative and nonfigurative elements.

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

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.

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.

Consequently, he is often grouped with other artists of his time who used figurative elements, such as Italians Sandro Chia, Mimmo Paladino, and Enzo Cucchi; Germans Anselm Kiefer, Georg Baselitz, and Marcus Lüpertz; and Americans Julian Schnabel, David Salle, and Eric Fischl.

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).

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.

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.

In works such as Almost a Bride (2015), the figurative element is grouped with a variety of abstract marks of pure gesture; one gets the sense of an artist who eschews the vocabulary of pre-existing forms, instead putting a premium on visceral connection.