Sentences with phrase «figurative imagery in»

In this series of paintings and works on paper, I explore the reemergence of representation and figurative imagery in my abstract work.

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

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

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.

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

Thomas Eggerer (b. 1963 Munich) blends abstract and figurative imagery in vivid, dreamlike fields of color.

This work embodies the best of Ringgold's style incorporating quilted patterning that is seamlessly melded with narrative and figurative imagery in a layered yet succinct composition.

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

Not exact matches

Examples of various types of sound devices and figurative language found in the poems, such as alliteration, simile, metaphor, personification, onomatopoeia, and imagery.

Floods both real (due to global warming) and figurative (tides of refugees washing ashore in the Mediterranean and elsewhere) dominate the imagery of Margaret Drabble's novel, The Dark Flood Rises.

Some canvases feature abstracted, atomised forms, while others have more densely overlaid imagery in which it is possible to pick out figurative elements.

Tal R has often used the word «kolbojnik», meaning leftovers in Hebrew, to describe his practice of sourcing and collecting a wide range of imagery, figurative and abstract, from high and low culture.

His imagery, which had once been entirely abstract, in his later years became ever more eclectic, and recognisable figurative elements appeared with increasing frequency.

Abstract treatment of figurative images is featured in Ms. Fuchsberg's work: strong in rich color and raw textures; often provocative in content and imagery.

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

In the 1960s, Schwabacher's work transitioned into more figurative and representational imagery.

In Paris in the early 1950s, Copley developed a unique, ribald figurative style that bucked prevailing trends toward abstraction, taking inspiration from Surrealist painting, American, cartoon and silent - movie imagerIn Paris in the early 1950s, Copley developed a unique, ribald figurative style that bucked prevailing trends toward abstraction, taking inspiration from Surrealist painting, American, cartoon and silent - movie imagerin the early 1950s, Copley developed a unique, ribald figurative style that bucked prevailing trends toward abstraction, taking inspiration from Surrealist painting, American, cartoon and silent - movie imagery.

Parallel to these abstract, monochromatic works, Miller pursued figurative painting, drawing his imagery from postcards, game shows, television screens, and photographs in a style that is both regionalist and revisionist.

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.

Yoshida, who encouraged the use of commercial and popular cultural imagery, led a group of artists who came to be known as the Imagists who distinguished themselves from the art scenes in New York and Europe with high color figurative paintings and drawings.

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».

Brown is an important participant in an artistic push of the last decade toward a rich, content - laden, figurative imagery.

In 1967, Philip Guston's lushly brushed imagery suddenly leapt from abstraction to a figurative style with overtones of cartooning.

Viewers in quest of figurative imagery were left simply with the drama of Hoyland's virtuoso handling of paint; the visual tug and pull as one field of colour leaked into or overlaid another, his vivid drips, spills and controlled pourings.

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.

What's really of the moment about the work isn't its content as such, but its meta - abstraction — the treatment of figurative imagery and nonfigurative gestures as equal actors in an overall visual project defined by its mood rather than its meaning.

Born in 1962, Andersson paints from her subconscious, creating complex compositions that bring together a variety of sources including Nordic figurative painting, folk art, film imagery and her personal history.

I became concerned with the issue of freedom of expression in figurative imagery, particularly the symbolic use of dark bodies.

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

Over the past 25 years, artists have reinvented figurative sculpture by looking to earlier movements in art history as well as imagery from contemporary culture.

Then there is the pleasure of seeking out the figurative imagery so tantalizingly hinted at in their intriguing titles.

The Figure: Painting, Drawing, and Sculpture is a celebration of figurative art with a wealth of imagery displaying some of the finest examples of the genre in all mediums.

Working in a bright palette and always with one eye on figurative forms and the other on architecture, Stokoe creates his scenes from a combination of memory, photographs and the everyday imagery.

The ten artists in this exhibition depict ways tactile surfaces and abstract imagery stand out to manifest carnality and figurative representation when the physical body is detached.

Various movements, themes, and styles are represented, including Abstract Expressionism, Color Field painting, Pop art, and Minimalism, as well as aspects of New Image Painting from the 1970s and beyond, recent developments in abstraction and figurative sculpture, and contemporary movements in photography, video, and digital imagery.

Alex Katz emerged in the 1950s as a figurative painter in an age of abstraction, challenging critics who shunned imagery in art, especially the figure.

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.

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.

In contrast, much of the figurative painting shown was derived from photographic imagery.

He constructed collages and assemblages combining commonplace objects and advertising ephemera in order to create images as powerful as the Abstract Expressionism he admired while using recognizable, figurative imagery...

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.

His sparsely colored, figurative works speak in a quiet, restrained, and at times unsettling voice, and are typically painted from pre-existing imagery which includes photographs and video stills.

Using found imagery and carefully constructed tableaux, his seductive yet challenging figurative paintings explore complex ideas about history, memory, political extremism and art history and are influenced by his experiences growing up in the last years of Ceausescu's dictatorship.

Using a figurative style and imagery of African Americans in urban, suburban, and interior settings, Marshall's work has often addressed social issues stemming from the Civil Rights movement, evoking the nostalgia and idealism of that era.

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

With collage — the juxtaposition of heterogeneous elements — and abstraction — the elimination of figurative imagery — as guiding principles, Chamberlain articulated the maxim that permeates his entire oeuvre: «it's all in the fit.»

It was left to de Kooning to give an almost physical reassurance and an imaginative sense of a possible future to younger painters in Europe and American in the late Fifties, when many artists were seeking out ways of sustaining the validity of figurative painting at a time when abstract imagery of all kinds seemed to be so strongly in the ascendant.

Painter, illustrator, graphic designer and graffiti artist, Rems 182's imagery unites violence, eroticism, and strength in both large - scale and smaller portraits characterised by a use of multiple perspectives that create a unique softness in each image that allows the various expressions to complement each other while revealing the complexities of human emotion Having a background as a graffiti writer his work combines both letter - based and complex figurative images, or as the artist himself explains: «I fuse my graffiti writer language with my modern figurative art experience in perennial tension towards abstract disaggregation.»

The inner strength that Faring draws upon in a a life full of unimaginable challenges permeate through layers of meaning in her loose figurative visual imagery.