Sentences with phrase «figurative motifs»

Some sketches feature figurative motifs, human forms and faces, while others appear as purely abstract shapes, configurations and patterns.
Byrne's paintings stage a transaction between the figure and design, with figurative motifs teetering on the brink of collapse only to re-surface via ornamental and mannered painterly elements that often overtly reference stylistic moments in the history of 20th century painting.
The show — that runs until September 4 — is an ode to that decade's figurative motifs in both painting and sculpture, giving centre stage to the works made by Laurie Anderson, Jean - Michel Basquiat, Francesco Clemente, George Condo, Keith Haring, Sherrie Levine, McDermott & McGough, Rene Ricard, David Salle, Kenny Scharf, Julian Schnabel, and Andy Warhol.
His work of the last three years has witnessed an increasing interplay of figurative motifs with more formal abstracted painting in a manner that explores the nature of the medium and its history in relation to the shifting imagery of contemporary life.
Figurative motif share interior spaces and play around with textiles and some pleasant teasing ambiguities.
Without figurative motifs to distract the viewer's attention, Richter's application of paint onto the vast canvas is a demonstration of reduction at its most convincing.
A renowned German graffiti artist, Markus Genesius aka WOW123 combines figurative motifs and classical writing in his work.
Superimposing intricate networks of lines, dots and planes of colour, with recurring figurative motifs such as doors, windows, aeroplanes, railway tracks and fragments of the human form, Bernard Cohen creates dizzying arrangements, within which an internal sense of order is revealed to the viewer gradually over time.
The Brooklyn - born artist, who emerged alongside Jean - Michel Basquiat, Francesco Clemente, and David Salle with his then - unorthodox fashion that rebelled against the reign of Minimalism and burgeoning Conceptualism, played key role in re-introduction of painterly gestures and figurative motifs into the art scene.
The titles of works such as Magician (1951) suggest figurative motifs, whereas titles like The Coming of Surprise (1951) hint at metaphysical, nonfigural themes.
Figurative motifs inspired by seventeenth - century Dutch and Flemish painters permeate Ellis's subject matter.
The English sculptor Henry Moore (1898 - 1986) brought about a renewed interest in direct carving and enriched the formal vocabulary of the medium by his continuous examination of figurative motifs and abstract shapes derived from natural phenomena.
The jugs are etched with figurative motifs and represent the five rivers of the underworld, which according to Greek mythology, possess a distinct power to help lead those into the afterlife.
Following the logic that this figurative motif exists only as long as consumption is resisted, the body and use - value of this character remain as hypothetical values.
Dissimilar fields clash and figurative motifs are superimposed on more abstract strokes.
She also explores still - life, interior and figurative motifs.
Although abstract and surrealist painting was at its zenith at this time, Balthus cast his figurative motifs in a «timeless realism», as he termed it.
Hold On features the works of three Vancouver artists exploring stasis, pauses, and revolution as both literal and figurative motifs.
In the selected works on view, we not only see the profundity of Diebenkorn's varied approaches, but also his seamless transitions between abstract and figurative motifs.
Doze Green was also a significant member of the early community of writers who crossed over with an experimental style, which in his case included archetypal icons, mystical - poetic typography, figurative motifs and painterly styles.
In Untitled, there is a rhythmic, almost calligraphic quality to the way in which he has, in an almost ritualistic process and in the absence of any figurative motif, amassed these darting ink - marks on the surface.
Toby Ziegler's recent paintings on aluminium are works of pure abstraction that begin with a figurative motif.
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