Sentences with phrase «figurative images in»

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.

★ 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.

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.

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.

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In Captain Stormfield's visit to heaven, he learns that the conventional image of angels as winged, white - robed figures bearing haloes, harps, and palm leaves is a mere illusion generated for the benefit of humans, who mistakenly take «figurative language» to be a realistic depiction.

Alienation was thus his destiny, and amid his numerous violent clashes, director Refn shrewdly pinpoints — through images of a free Bronson getting trapped in his parents» locked car, proving unable to open a locked gate, and facing closing doors — how psychosis of this extreme sort could only lead to literal and figurative captivity.

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.

The Figurative Arts Residency offers artists interested in representational and figurative subjects a unique opportunity to hone skills and advance techniques of image - and formFigurative Arts Residency offers artists interested in representational and figurative subjects a unique opportunity to hone skills and advance techniques of image - and formfigurative subjects a unique opportunity to hone skills and advance techniques of image - and form - making.

These contri - butions remind us that in our digital era — marked by a satu - ration of images — contemporary practices are perhaps more figural than figurative, and that expressiveness is to be thought as a critical tool rather than the testimony of an ever uncertain subjectivity.

In an attempt to avoid the trappings of abstract and figurative art, the artists made extensive use of collage and assemblage, appropriating images and incorporating real objects into the work.

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

These beautiful, figurative blueprints clearly show his rejection of Abstract Expressionism and signal the beginning of his innovative use of everyday objects, silkscreened images and mixed media, which would culminate in his celebrated «combines» of the late 1950s.

This logic of accumulation would lead to the development of Bayrle's «super-forms,» densely composed images in which smaller units are used to build larger figurative forms.

Simultaneously classical and contemporary in scope, it contains roughly 300 images, how - to diagrams, and information about figurative art movements of the past as well as profiles of some of the greatest practitioners working today... featuring examples of Zeller's own work and also some of his best contemporary peers, who collectively bring the figurative tradition forward into a new era.»

Four years later, his father hanged himself; Guston discovered the body and subsequently sought solace by hiding in a cupboard lit by a naked bulb, the image of which would become a prevailing motif in the oddly disquieting, figurative, often autobiographical paintings he began to make in his fifties.

More generally, the chapters of «America Is Hard to See» pay homage to a number of those seminal exhibitions through which the Whitney has historically recognised and advocated for emerging American art: «Anti-Illusion: Procedure / Materials» (1969), for instance, with its defiant presentation of the post-minimalism of Richard Tuttle and others, or «New Image Painting» (1979), which celebrated a revival of figurative painting in an artistic climate dominated by conceptual work.

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.

Cinematic Visions examines how, through a variety of painterly strategies and gestures, figuration starts to break down and, conversely, how a residual figurative substratum can be found in even the most apparently abstract image.

In her works on paper, Bhabha creates atmospheric images, often figurative, blending animal and human features.

By interacting with the photographed shadows in the image, the real cast shadows of the salient frame create a coalescence of figurative and real spaces, activating the symbolic tension between materiality and immateriality.

Also, previously, the major retrospectives at the Whitney had showcased only recent developments in abstraction; in the case of the New Image show, figurative art made its way into the exhibition.

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

The are few overt reference to the figurative images still prevalent (and perhaps unexpected) in some works of the thirties, whose creators were so militant about abstraction.

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 recent curatorial projects have included The Subtle Image group figurative exhibit at Dejavu Gallery, Reflecting Our City for the White Roof Project at the Center for Social Innovation, and participating in the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts» A Wicked Problem.

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.

In the work of David Bolduc, Harold Klunder, Paul Fournier, Alex Cameron, Paul Hutner, Howard Simkins, Eric Gamble and Christopher Broadhurst, among others in Toronto and elsewhere, figurative images are woven into the abstract concerns of the activity of paintinIn the work of David Bolduc, Harold Klunder, Paul Fournier, Alex Cameron, Paul Hutner, Howard Simkins, Eric Gamble and Christopher Broadhurst, among others in Toronto and elsewhere, figurative images are woven into the abstract concerns of the activity of paintinin Toronto and elsewhere, figurative images are woven into the abstract concerns of the activity of painting.

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

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.

In the early 1980s Dokoupil emerged as a leading champion of a new generation of international artists who, in opposition to the minimal and conceptual art of the 1970s, rediscovered painting and the use of figurative, expressionist imageIn the early 1980s Dokoupil emerged as a leading champion of a new generation of international artists who, in opposition to the minimal and conceptual art of the 1970s, rediscovered painting and the use of figurative, expressionist imagein opposition to the minimal and conceptual art of the 1970s, rediscovered painting and the use of figurative, expressionist images.

In this collection of angular images, the Russian photographer ambitiously challenges both the literal and figurative boundaries that urban buildings inflict on society in order to, as the Facebook event puts it, «break the walls which we come up against and to push the limits of perception.&raquIn this collection of angular images, the Russian photographer ambitiously challenges both the literal and figurative boundaries that urban buildings inflict on society in order to, as the Facebook event puts it, «break the walls which we come up against and to push the limits of perception.&raquin order to, as the Facebook event puts it, «break the walls which we come up against and to push the limits of perception.»

Figurative images of bodies and plants are absent, in contrast with her earlier works foregrounding naked bodies and sex, such as the playfully erotic Pickelporno (Pimple Porno)(1992).

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

Dominic Eichler Looking back over the last 20 years of your art - making, it is striking how you have circled and constantly returned to a diverse range of genres, modes of reproduction and printing techniques while exploring both figurative and abstract images, and that all of these approaches still find their place in your recent exhibitions and publications, such as Manual (2007).

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.

It's hard to characterize the art produced in Bushwick: there are endless studios of artists producing forms of traditional figurative painting while countless others are experimenting with digital images — some older talents but mostly younger ones.

In his previous works, Efrat's engraving and subtracting accumulated into figurative images: moon craters or the face of a monkey, among rest.

Andrew Taylor is an Australian artist, known for his blending of figurative and abstract art, seen in his images of nature, especially flowers.

Leveille: I speak in a language of pictures.In a similar way that contemporary figurative painters such as Currin, Kerry James Marshall, and Robin Francis Williams use a sense narrative, I also use it as an artistic tool.This is very inspiring in its own right to me, the exploration of an image, not in service TO narrative but that employs these things as tools to make an emotional connection with the viewer.

Motivated to try his hand, Schwabe made his first figurative sculpture in cast bronze based on the published image of a ballet dancer.

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

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.

Her figurative images aim to reactivate the spirit of the collective unconsciousness all in the hopes of conquering what Sontag calls the relentless melt of time.

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 - 223

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Although the images themselves do not reveal much of Italy in a figurative manner, they speak through color and shape about the phenomena that had influence over Hafif.

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.