Sentences with phrase «figurative imagery for»

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.»

Not exact matches

Imagery of floods, both literal and figurative, recurs throughout the narrative and gives the novel a feeling of impending doom and a sort of inevitability, an ending that is never wished for but approaches relentlessly.

His paintings are so appealing at first sight, as delightful coloured patterns with pleasing figurative imagery, that many look no longer, or see no further, and for them the magical metamorphosis does not take place; they do not find that they are standing on a little terrace under a walnut tree looking through an overgrown garden straight towards the afternoon sun which is sparkling on the Seine below them, and all looking not as it would to them, but more mysterious, more overpowering, fuller of space and light and colour and overwhelmingly real and harmonious.

Jack Whitten's narrative Abstract Expressionist works from the 1960s draw imagery from the Civil Rights movement, including ghosted images of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr; Joan Semmel's figurative paintings question representation of female sexuality through the lens of self - portraiture; Gay liberation and the AIDS crisis are the cultural context for narrative paintings by the late Hugh Steers (1963 — 1995).

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

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.

A selection of earlier photographs is also included to provide a context for Tillmans» passage from figurative and representational imagery to abstraction.

Francis Bacon was an Irish - born British figurative painter known for his bold, graphic and emotionally raw imagery.

After an initial dalliance with figurative painting in the 1950s he became a life - long proponent of the possibilities of non-figurative imagery, which possessed for him, he once wrote, «the potential for the most advanced depth of feeling and meaning».

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

Williams made a name for herself in the 1980s with her figurative, feminist sexual imagery.

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 imageFor 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 imagefor 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.

Although my work doesn't look on the surface much like his, I think he taught me about using iconic signifiers and figures that I could project myself into for emotion and as an avatar in paint (like Scott McCloud describes in his amazing book, Understanding Comics, that we do as comic readers), and create figurative narrative allegories that hopefully resonate deeper than most political cartoons and relate to Goya and other art historical uses of politics and allegory as much as the imagery could relate to underground comics and contemporary worlds.

Join us for a studio visit with painter Michael Kvium, particularly known for his characteristic figurative imagery.

Rossi, who spent several years as a Catholic nun before becoming an artist, was a member of the Chicago Imagists, an influential group defined by their common interest in non-Western and popular imagery, a dedicated pursuit of vivid and distorted figurative work, and a fondness for pop imagery and wordplay.

While the spotlight on her crisp collage paintings aligns with the demand for figurative painting, Akunyili Crosby draws admirers not just through elegant imagery and impeccable skill, but also through her unique and intimate perspectives on Nigerian and American life.

Middlebrook's unprecedented absence of representational imagery heightens the figurative nature of the planks themselves, while allowing for landscape references to dominate the exhibition.

Very much a painterly style, the more abstract and expressive it became, the bigger the opportunity for a new style which employed more figurative, more down - to - earth imagery: viz, something that the wider artist fraternity could get its teeth into and that viewers could relate to.

Like his earlier imagery, from the wrestler's mask to the deconstructed interior and exterior of the face, his figurative alter egos are always figures in suspense, mediums for generic representations that make it possible to fix a temporary, uninhibited state.

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.

Widely known for his inverted portraits, landscapes and still - lifes, Baselitz has long cultivated a subversive approach to figurative imagery.

He described his process of painting as a dialogue with his works, the meaning of which he was only able to access with some difficulty during this period: «For reasons I don't understand, in the late 1940s and early 1950s I focused on abstract art, despite the fact that I always felt that it had to do with figurative imagery, even though I didn't fully understand this imagery.

Rossi first exhibited her work in late - 1960s Chicago where she became associated with the Chicago Imagists, a group of young artists known for their shared interest in non-Western and popular imagery, their pursuit of vivid and distorted figurative work, and their fondness for comic gags or puns.

For Hoyland, as for Newman (and Rothko), 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 imageFor Hoyland, as for Newman (and Rothko), 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 imagefor Newman (and Rothko), 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 imagefor 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.

In 1967 Philip Guston (1913 — 80) left New York City for Woodstock, where — abandoning the Abstract Expressionism of the previous decades — he revisited the figurative imagery of his youth.