Sentences with phrase «figurative imagery»

In the 1980s there was a return to figurative imagery in American art.

People continue to make art that mixes «abstract» principles with figurative imagery to one degree or another.

His works deal with contemporary, historical and literary themes, and are marked by figurative imagery executed with spontaneous and vigorous handling of the paint and often done on large - scale formats.

These early works feature his inventive juxtaposition of abstraction with surreal figurative imagery.

On this often abstract ground, he adds figurative imagery to complete the drawing.

His pieces combine a gestural physicality with symbolic language to form abstract modernist figurative imagery.

(Summer Session III)(COURSE FULL) This figure painting class will explore in depth the development of figurative imagery in art.

«For Hoyland, it was necessary for paintings to be self - sufficient machines, constructed to convey a powerful charge of visual, mental, and emotional energy without recourse to any historically established figurative imagery.

His more realistic figurative imagery in the 1930s and»40s gave way to the influences of cubism and other forms of abstract art.

Known for his deeply stylized and figurative imagery which emerged from a pre-Pop era, Katz's monochrome billboards are restrained in color to allow the text and images their full impact for passersby.

The museum described what to expect, symbolically: «Combining figurative imagery for the first time with his hallmark collage technique, Bradford creates a compelling juxtaposition that offers viewers the opportunity to consider critical moments when our nation was divided and will be particularly timely given the artwork's placement on the National Mall.»

Even in the nearly pure abstract forms of his cutouts, however, Matisse never abandoned figurative imagery; a gastropod can be made out — albeit just barely — in the 1953 masterpiece he titled The Snail, which many another artist would have been happy to dub Composition With Rectangles.

These beautiful and rarely seen pieces will show an evolution from a pre-psychedelic, William Blake - like figurative imagery of the late «50s and early «60s, to the all over, highly intricate abstraction of the mid 1960s.

«I want these to essentially be abstract paintings, but I like serving up a dollop of big - eyed figurative imagery smack in the middle of it to confront the fear of sentimentality and emotion in art.

Artists in REVIVAL favor figurative imagery, yet the impact of their work extends from a profound connection to the unconscious.

During the early 1960s Kitaj concentrated on combining figurative imagery with abstraction and began to incorporate collage into his paintings, drawing on photography and cinema and referring to historical events and political circumstances.

For Monumental Commission at Hirshhorn Museum, Mark Bradford is Incorporating Figurative Imagery for First Time

Richard Colman's work is known for blending figurative imagery and bold geometry.

The reduced figurative imagery, spattered abstract forms, and flat black border demonstrate a turning point in Whitten's evolution.

At Simon Lee Gallery, British artist Toby Ziegler is also using tools to convert one thing to another; he uses digital technology to source and develop figurative imagery, which is then broken down into the abstract.

Drawing on Arabic semiotics and dwelling on calligraphy as a means of interpretive transcendence, Koraïchi's work utilises letters and signage to evoke figurative imagery and present universal messages to a global audience.

Spencer Finch's series of red abstract dots gradually gave up their abstract form and were suddenly imbued with concrete figurative imagery and 350 years of art history.

Draxler is known for his black and white mixed media works and his broken figurative imagery.

His works, made on vinyl foil and mounted on the walls, are in conversation with the architecture but also with Impressionist paintings, which can only be perceived as figurative imagery once the viewer has reached a certain distance from the work.

His works mingled the impersonal finish characteristic of Pop canvases with the loose, painterly brushwork of Abstract Expressionism but differed from the work of his Pop contemporaries in their complex and allusive figurative imagery.

Brown's reputation, based on her intensely painted canvases that synthesized figurative imagery with the dynamic gestures of abstract expressionism, grew towards the mid -»60s.

The Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery exhibition guide suggests that «The atmosphere of greater sexual liberation of the ex-patriot (sic) community he (Bacon) encountered there, as opposed to attitudes in Britain where homosexuality remained illegal, may have influenced Bacon's creation of more explicit figurative imagery.»

Dubuffet's black and white drawings, in particular his Conjectures [April 16, 1975 — May 29, 1975], Memorations [September 2, 1978 — January 5, 1979] and Situations [April 23, 1978 — April 24, 1980] series contain cut - out figurative imagery collaged into their surrounding landscape.

It was there that Malevich displayed his seminal Black Square painting (1915), which realized his idea of the «zero form» of art, a «pure» art that excluded figurative imagery in the pursuit of capturing profound, abstract ideas such as infinity and the sublime.

In Italy, where it was called Trans - avantgarde, neo-expressionism embraced a wide range of poetical, mythological and grotesque figurative imagery, including realistic and imaginery portraits.

At nearly 400 feet long, the work — comprising eight paintings — will not only be among his largest to date but will also mark a significant shift in his practice, incorporating historical figurative imagery — specifically elements from Paul Philippoteaux's 1883 cyclorama of the final charge at the Battle of Gettysburg.

The Nature of Memory is poorly served by resorting to a vocabulary used to describe figurative imagery like «figure / ground.»

His unease at the loss of figurative imagery in the painting at that time with which he had so much success eventually led his own work down deeply conflicted avenues.

Gooding writes: «For Hoyland, it was necessary for paintings to be self - sufficient machines, constructed to convey a powerful charge of visual, mental and emotional energy without recourse to any historically established figurative imagery.

Applying old master painting techniques in the manner of Bosch or Brueghel to his works on canvas, the artist depicts hyper - realistic figurative imagery in portraits, landscapes, and still lifes.

Inspired by a wide array of influences including folk art, advertising, primitive art, comic books, and fetishism, they all favor figurative imagery that diverges from the predominant artistic style of the time.

It embraces all postmodernist painters and sculptors who focus on figurative imagery, in order to portray the «real» rather than the ideal.

Applying old master painting techniques to his works on canvas, the artist depicts hyper - realistic figurative imagery in portraits, landscapes, and still lifes.

The tapestries are essentially abstract works that blend rich color and overlapping patterns with figurative imagery, and each is unique.

Never completely abandoning the figurative imagery that characterized his early work, Lewis (1909 - 1979) always pursued multiple directions in his emotionally involving abstraction.

After a decade making some of the defining abstract paintings of late 20th - century art, he returned to figurative imagery and a deeper engagement with human existence.

This talk explores how Munch's art helped redirect Johns's work at a critical juncture in his career, returning him to figurative imagery and a deeper engagement with themes of human experience.

But while the works on paper may owe their seemingly haphazard mark - making to Gorky and de Kooning, Saul also developed a penchant for surreal representational and figurative imagery, often interjecting, in line with Pop Art innovations, something commercial or industrial: a hat, a cigarette, a glove, a submarine.

The eight paintings presented represent a significant new direction for Hume in that figurative imagery is now clearly present.

For Locks Gallery, Joy Feasley has created paintings that demonstrate a skillful integration of landscape, abstraction, pattern and decoration, and figurative imagery.