Sentences with phrase «figurative images depicting»

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.

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

Not exact matches

Produced entirely within his Dumbo, Brooklyn studio, the crude figurative sculptures (often female) depict bizarre and sometimes unsettling situations; detached objects and anatomical parts mingle and merge with one other to form grotesquely appealing images, such as Red Headed Woman (2008).

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 crucial dilemma for artists is how to convey complex figurative works that depict grand story arcs, while compressing a multitude of thoughts, nuance, ideas and emotions into a static singular image.