Sentences with phrase «figurative imagery which»

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.

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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.

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

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

Paladino's figurative paintings are invested with emotive religious, and spiritual imagery, which form allegorical tableaux.

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.

[16] He began to make large, gestural paintings which combined figurative and abstract 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».

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.

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.

Polke also began to make large, gestural paintings which combined figurative and abstract imagery.

The figurative imagery characteristic of Marshall's paintings was largely absent from the galleries; instead they were dominated with monochromatic, text - based canvasses, and enormous replicas of American coinage, the sum of which totaled ninety - nine cents.

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.

Also included are a number of paintings with collaged figurative elements which can be seen as transitions between the earlier Door paintings and the figurative imagery he currently uses.

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.

Altered States: A Psychedelic Legacy, features contemporary artists who explore psychedelic art — mostly painting and some constructions with a mix of figuration, geometric and Op imagery — against a back drop of 1960s Optical Art, figurative and Color Field paintings, as well as original rock posters from concerts at the Fillmore West, Avalon Ballroom and other San Francisco venues, which sets the stage and creates the mood.

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.

The artists created paintings, drawings and sculptures that intentionally belonged to figurative art and employed neglected imagery such as the mythical symbols, which marked the movement's highlight years.