Sentences with phrase «figurative images»

He later rejected modernism, preferring figurative images depicting American life and history.

He is known for strong figurative images, frequently in black and white.

He has become internationally recognised for his prolific output of drawings, characterised by a comic book aesthetic of figurative images combined with short, enigmatic texts.

Recalling X-Rays, Rayographs and other technical images, this new work triggers the latent tendency toward pareidolia, the psychological condition of finding figurative images in abstract forms.

But at the University of Virginia, where he earned a studio - art degree, Kleberg filled his canvases with figurative images from paternal family photographs: cowboys on horseback or riding a bucking buffalo in a rodeo ring.

For this body of work, Semmel used figurative images from her «Erotic Series» and overlaid the composition with gestural images of nude middle - aged female bodies taken from her prior «Locker - Room» paintings.

Hinkle's largely figurative images combine photographic imagery with hand - drawn and painted details to create fantastical female figures of wonder.

These works, which completely eschew paint are full of mystery, the original figurative image being progressively buried into the surface.

But the idea that 40,000 years of humanity making figurative images should no longer be possible because of Donald Judd's empty boxes was, and is, ridiculous.

The exhibition tracks Pollock's artistic evolution from the 1930s and early 1940s, when he made loosely figurative images based on mythical or primeval themes, to the late 1940s and early 1950s, when he pioneered the radical abstractions for which he is best known by pouring and dripping paint onto canvas or paper.

It tracks his artistic evolution from the 1930s and early 1940s, when he made loosely figurative images based on mythical or primeval themes, to the late 1940s and early 1950s, when he pioneered the

Exemplifying his penchant for figurative images of relatives, people from his neighborhood, historic figures, and sports heroes, the acrylic on canvas painting depicts Coachman, who won a gold medal in the high jump at the 1948 Olympics in London, wearing a shirt emblazoned with «Tuskegee.»

The earliest piece is «Untitled (self - portrait),» a vortex of muddy brush strokes from 1971, when Richter often painted over earlier figurative images.

Your paintings began more abstract and veered deeper into more recognizable figurative images over time.

In a steady progression the canvases contain the same figurative image that grows more and more abstracted as you move from right to left.

Not everyone associates Georgia O'Keeffe with a floating ladder to the moon, but it fits with the barely figurative images nearby from Susan Rothenberg, Thomas Nozkowski, Bryan Hunt, and William Baziotes.

Finding himself drawn to figurative images displaying a complexity of expression, Lawson's resulting paintings each focus on a single figure from torso up, all including faces and hands.

MG From the outset, but especially in the 1980s and 1990s, Polke would always make paintings that were abstract but contained figurative images.

Jeremy Blake was an American digital artist and painter known for producing wildly colorful short films with figurative images blending into the abstract.

Guston, in turn, went back to his origins by painting figurative images in the late 1950's, which earned him fierce criticism that led him to retire from the art world.

That can occur in many forms but, at the core, it is all driven by a devotion to the fundamentally figurative image.»

In his distinctive caricaturistic style, Pettibon juxtaposes figurative images with fragmented texts throughout all mediums and subject matters.

Selected items are arranged into various spatial systems, some of which work with the senses of a viewer on an abstract level, some seem to tell stories through their symbolic meaning, and some construct figurative images.

Thick, abstract brushstrokes yield figurative images — sometimes of rapid motion, sometimes of thoughtful serenity — that convey...

Coined by Adolf Hitler, the term «Entartete Kunst» meaning degenerate art, expresses the Nazi idea that any art which did not conform to the ideal of well - crafted figurative images depicting heroic acts or comfortable day - to - day living, was the product of degenerate people.

Dallas - based artist Favio Moreno draws from Latin American, street and graphic arts to create color - popping figurative images that border on the surreal.

With his show being focused on human need to belong and express belief, Finok decided to paint a large figurative image showing goddess Iamanja.

Ryan Schneider's oil paintings include impressively stylized line work that weaves behind and over a centered figurative image.

«China — Facing Reality», Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria; «From Southeast», Guangdong Museum of Fine Art, Guangzhou, China; «From New Figurative Image to New Painting», Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing, China; «Black White Gray — A Conscious Cultural Stance», Today Art Museum, Beijing, China; «85 New Wave: The Birth of Chinese Contemporary Art», Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China.

Julian Opie (b. 1958) British painter, sculptor, printmaker, noted for minimal figurative images.

Thereafter, abstract symbols became the predominant form of Paleolithic cave art, outnumbering figurative images by 2:1.

★ William Baziotes: «A Centennial Exhibition: Surrealist Drawings of the 1930s» (through Dec. 29) More low than high, these raucous sometimes ribald figurative images in watercolor and gouache reveal quite a different side of the well - respected second - tier Abstract Expressionist painter best known for the tasteful restraint, diaphanous colors and blurry organic shapes of his mature style.

Some totems, like Pueblo kachina dolls or Christian crucifixes, represent figurative images of deities.

During his final decade, Guston produced ever more mysterious compositions populated by clusters of weird figurative images.

Figurative images relating to intimate yet common scenes are set in intriguing and highly textured pictorial spaces.

Seated Woman, 1968, is among the most stunning and elegant figurative images of the Twentieth Century.

Minimalist art eliminated figurative images and illusionistic pictorial space and replaced them with a single image, often composed of smaller segments organized in a grid pattern.

Ranging from pitchers and vases to bowls and plates, many feature figurative images, from deathly skulls to grimacing figures.

Wintergreens has been made by adding layer upon layer of material, unlike working with a predetermined figurative image.

«Paintings with well - known iconographies, such as Judith and Holofernes or the Adoration of the Magi, are thus stripped of any content and transformed into abstract, rocky landscapes in which the memory of the original figurative image is almost completely gone.

Ai's early figurative images, Suzhou (1979) demonstrates that he, like Warhol, was a well - trained illustrator.

I decided to make both paintings and sculptures, and in the paintings I worked with large geometric lines, extensions of three - dimensional letters, or objects that played on the surreal, elongated, figurative images in Lam's work that sometimes depict Yoruba deities like Eleguá, Yemayá or Changó.

The painting exemplifies Henry Taylor's penchant for figurative images of relatives, people from his neighborhood, historic figures, and sports heroes.

I admire how Bradford is able to balance abstract elements with figurative images, both sharing equal time, neither losing their distinctive differences while adding a fluid interrelatedness.»

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.

Her work includes landscapes, seascapes and figurative images, bridges and walls, industrial and abstract compositions, and Asian and Judaica themes.

In the mid-60s, Brehmer began making enlarged reproductions of postage stamps, franked and perforated around the edges, which impose an abstract language onto the figurative images borne by the stamps, while at the same time reinforcing their identity as stamps.