Sentences with phrase «figurative images from»

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Here are some of my more surreal figurative pastels from when I lived in southern Mexico.Click on the images for sizes and prices email me at [email protected] with any questions.

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).

Whether appropriated by some contemporary figurative painters or aligned with some sort of new figuration, where the painters «find everything to be a matter of images» (to quote Barry Schwabsky from the online catalogue for «A New Subjectivity»), Abstraction clearly and demonstratively engages with the problems of painting (and collage and sculpture) despite the surprising conservatism of Kerry James Marshall.

Bringing together more than 90 works from pubic and private collections, the exhibition features paintings and works on paper spanning the early 1930s through the late 70s, from his early depictions of African masks and figurative works to the abstract images for which he is most recognized.

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.

She locates stills from films that have evening shots, photographing the screen up close, pixelating the original image and removing any figurative elements.

This exhibition focuses on two new series: figurative sculptures and a print edition based on discarded images of divorcées from newspaper archives, dating from the 1930's -1970's.

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.

The paintings are figurative and large in scale and scope, with subjects often drawn from mythology and biblical images.

The exhibition focuses on the artist's methodology, from his use of repeated systems to figurative drawings that explore alternate means of creating an image.

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

«This exhibition proposes an alternate history of figurative painting, sculpture, and vernacular image - making from the 1960 to the present that has been largely over-looked and undervalued,» Nadel writes in the accompanying catalogue, published by D.A.P.

Several works shown here, all from 1988, suggest landscapes, while others feature figurative and nonfigurative passages within the same image.

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.

She produced a series of awe - striking images titled «Caryatid» in 1980 as part of her Temple project using the diazotype process — used most commonly for creating architectural blueprints — in which she projected images or negatives made from transparent tissue paper and acetate onto large sheets of light - sensitive paper and exposed (sometimes as long as overnight) to create cyan and sepia - toned figurative photographs.

However, the images are not figurative and each embody a sense of abstraction which blocks the viewer from gazing directly onto the horrific scenes, leaving only clues to piece together an otherwise fragmented narrative.

Artistically promiscuous, Harvey's work has ranged from highly worked figurative paintings to vital, impastoed oils of nudes delineated by black lines known as his «Readers Wives», playful politicised sculptures as well as a powerful mosaic image of Margaret Thatcher.

Illustrated with over 500 images, Vitamin D2 features practices ranging from highly accomplished figurative drawing to abstract explorations of the medium, in materials including pencil, charcoal, crayon, pastel, ink, watercolour and digital drawing.

Walking around a canvas, building a structure from blocks and streaks of color, he would see the possibility of a figurative image.

Students learn from morning and afternoon demonstrations, hands - on work, one - on - one instruction, readings, discussions and image presentations related to contemporary figurative sculpture.

Abstracts from Life: Bay Area Figurative Past and Present March 24, 2017 - September 10, 2017 Image 1: SUHAS BHUJBAL.

Wheel Of Fortune used not animation but a quick succession of stills to storyboard the episode, the images ranging from abstract to figurative.

Weiss's figurative images — which resemble warped photographs from a massive theater production — are sure to lodge in the back of your mind.

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

From Joan Mitchell's loaded brushwork in Before, Again IV (1985) to Wayne Thiebaud's painting Candy Counter (1962), in which lush pigment seems to frost the images of cakes, a tactile application of paint energizes both abstract and figurative canvases.

Traveled to: Denver Art Museum, January 25 — March 22, 1992; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, April 9 — March 31, 1992; Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, July 5 — August 23, 1992; The Goldie Paley Gallery, Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, September 5 — October 11, 1992; Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences, Inc., Savannah, Georgia, January 5 — February 21, 1993 (Catalogue) Group exhibition, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, September 7 — 28, 1991 Portraits on Paper, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, June 25 — August 2, 1991 Portraits, Linda Cathcart Gallery, Santa Monica, May 1991 Exhibition of Work by Newly Elected Members and Recipients of Honors and Awards, Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, May 15 — June 9, 1991 In Sharp Focus: Super-Realism, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, New York, April 14 — July 7, 1991 (Catalogue) 1991 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, April 2 — June 30, 1991 (Catalogue) Selected Prints from Spring Street Workshop, Tomasulo Gallery, Union County College, Cranford, New Jersey, March 8 — 28, 1991 Academy - Institute Invitational Exhibition of Painting & Sculpture, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, March 4 — 30, 1991 Louisiana: The New Graphics Wing, Louisiana Museum, Humlebæck, March 3 — 31, 1991 (Catalogue) Large Scale Works on Paper, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, February 21 — March 16, 1991 (Catalogue) Image & Likeness: Figurative Works from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown at Federal Reserve Plaza, New York, January 23 — March 20, 1991 Artist's Choice — Chuck Close: Head — On / The Modern Portrait, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, January 10 — March 19, 1991.

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.

Ralph Rugoff, Stephanie Rosenthal, «MIRRORCITY: London artists on fiction and reality», Hayward Publishing, London, November, pp. 54 - 55 Naomi Beckwith, Donatein Grau, Jennifer Higgie, Lynette Yiadom - Boake, «Lynette Yiadom - Boake», Prestel Publishing David Bindman, Henry Louis Gates Jr., «the Image of the Black in Western Art, Part 2», Belknap Harvard, London, pp.297 - 298 «Face To Face, British Portrait Prints from the Clifford Chance art collection», Hampton Printing, Bristol, p. 13 Pinacoteca Agnelli, «Works From The Mario Testino Collection», Rizzoli «A Brush With The Real, Figurative Painting Today», Laurence King Publishing Ltd, London, pp.218 -from the Clifford Chance art collection», Hampton Printing, Bristol, p. 13 Pinacoteca Agnelli, «Works From The Mario Testino Collection», Rizzoli «A Brush With The Real, Figurative Painting Today», Laurence King Publishing Ltd, London, pp.218 -From The Mario Testino Collection», Rizzoli «A Brush With The Real, Figurative Painting Today», Laurence King Publishing Ltd, London, pp.218 - 223

Media range from painting, drawing and collage to photography, video and sculpture, and content ranges from abstract to figurative, but all share a sensibility that merges concept, image and mark - making.

Gilliams» creative process starts from figurative photographs and images, but he processes them into an intuitive flow that ultimately leaves nothing recognizable of these images.

By banning the figurative element from painting in favor of an abstract analysis of the «crisis of modern man» and also resorting to images from archaic cultures, artists such as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko or Willem de Kooning shaped the Abstract Expressionist movement in the 1940s and 1950s.

By juxtaposing the figurative art of Robert Gober, Jeff Koons, Charles Ray and 30 other young artists with images drawn from cutting - edge technologies and consumer culture, Deitch gives us a sobering glimpse of the post-human world to come.

He was the first to return figuration to postwar American painting, was innovative in his combination of «high art» with images from popular culture, and is today celebrated as the pioneer of postmodern, figurative painting.

With the figurative paintings, McKinniss works from photographs — both found images and pictures he has taken himself.

McKinniss forges a symbolist vocabulary for contemporary figurative painting; he culls his source material primarily from online image searching, an intuitive process by which he reveals the relational network of his own media - saturated consciousness.

Lacing Action painting and Color Field painting with a postmodern twist, Zimmermann's abstract motifs seem to spring from more figurative representations: he uses computer graphics and «dithering» (a technique that displays images without firm edges so as to give a more colorful appearance) to deform images, texts and signs from his own massive archive of images, evoking the atlases of Gerhard Richter and Aby Warburg.

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

There is an interesting ambiguity apparent here, too, between this abstraction and the mechanical enlargement of the «figurative» source image from which the final image is derived.

As the artist himself has said, «You can't invent a painting from scratch; you are working with an entire tradition... The pictorial language of the 20th century, from Kurt Schwitters's collages to Jackson Pollock's drip paintings, makes up a range of possibilities that I utilise in order to create a transhistorical figurative painting — a painting of the image as such, of representation» (A. Ghenie, quoted in «Adrian Ghenie in Conversation with Magda Radu,» Adrian Ghenie: Darwin's Room, exh.

A collection of richly textured works, which blend gestural painting, figurative drawing and collage on everything from small pieces of cardboard to boards measuring nearly 4 x 6 feet, the exhibition is an audacious debut in a city where the shadows of Abstract Expressionism still loom large whenever an artist splatters, drips, scrapes, pours, or otherwise flings paint at or on a surface to make an image.

The photographs exhibited by Daniel Gordon (b. 1980) represent the final stage of a process that starts with the construction of life - size figurative sculptures made from cut paper and other images, often culled from the internet.

He was the first painter to return to figuration in the post-War era and was quite pioneering in linking high art and images from popular culture, so that today many celebrate him as the trailblazer of postmodern, figurative painting.

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.

But the descriptiveness and deliberate bombast of Chicago's often immense figurative statements are light years from the circumspection of Remington's images.

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

Artist: Michael Ross Exhibition title: Selected Works 1991 — 2015 Venue: Ellis King, Dublin, Ireland Date: January 29 — March 5, 2016 Photography: images copyright and courtesy the artist and Ellis King, Dublin The story is often told of Alberto Giacometti's exile from occupied Paris in the early 1940's, as he whiled away the time in his native Switzerland working on a series of figurative sculptures of literally diminishing returns.

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

His new paintings, which shockingly departed from his previous refinement, were figurative and strange — nightmarishly cartoonish in image, blunt in approach, and often charged with social consciousness.

Alternative Figures in American Art, 1960 to the Present proposes an alternate history of figurative painting, sculpture, and vernacular image - making from 1960 to the present that has been largely overlooked and undervalued.