Sentences with phrase «figurative motifs in»

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.

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.

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The artist has invoked afros in his figurative work and as abstract motifs for two decades.

And Jhaveri Contemporary from Mumbai, will introduce you to the luscious semi-abstract figurative paintings of Mohan Samant (1924 - 2004), whose motifs are sometimes reinforced by delicate bent wires that float above the canvas, resembling drawing in ink.

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.

Juggling historical motifs, figurative rendering and dramatic content is a task better described as keeping several melons in the air, as opposed to mere tennis balls.

Having that in mind, it so no wonder that later on the brothers started adopting motifs from the Brazilian cultural heritage, which finally led them to establish authentic, yet simple figurative style.

Another influential aspect of de Kooning's work over the decades has been his ability to explore abstract forms in some works while, at the same time, exploring frankly figurative or landscape motifs in other works.

By combining the motif inherent in the Penguin book, Miller found a way to marry aspects of Pop Art, abstraction and figurative painting at once, with his writer's love of text.

During the late 1960s, Guston became frustrated with the limitations of abstraction and returned to figurative painting, amassing a potent language of motifs whose roots can be seen in the forms and shapes of Traveler III, and illustrating what Christoph Schreier refers to as subcutaneous figuration.2 Following his 1966 exhibition at the Jewish Museum in New York, Guston relocated to Woodstock, New York, embarking on what would become a two - year hiatus from painting.

Wall texts lay out his basic themes and motifs, from strange meditations on Donald Duck and the «tent paintings» in the 1960s to later works that took up symbols from Germany's Nazi past, and repurposed them as surreal «dithyrambs,» a term borrowed from Greek poetry but reinvented by Lüpertz as a catchall for his not - quite - abstract forays into abstraction and not - quite - figurative exercises in drawing real things in the world.

Overpainted Paintings are a series of works in which Schuyff adds abstract and organic motifs to figurative art found in junk shops.

He commonly engages in the history of art by taking motifs and iconography from twentieth century figurative and abstract art and reworking them in pointedly «low» media such as ink drawing, graffiti, cartoon and collage.

are a series of works in which Schuyff adds abstract and organic motifs to figurative art found in junk shops.

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.

Manipulating the formal attributes of linework, each artist in the exhibition explores the malleability of art's most basic foundation — giving whimsical, geometric, figurative or outlandish life to a common singular motif.

Although predominantly abstract, Rae's paintings have also occasionally incorporated figurative elements, including expressive typography in works such as Moonlite Bunny Ranch 2003, and small cartoon - like pandas, a recurring motif in her work from the mid-2000s onwards (see, for instance, Bold as a wild strawberry, sweet as a naughty girl 2009).

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.

Those four squares of abstraction should remind you a little bit of the motifs that Hartley has used, Marsden Hartley in the 20th century, an important American abstract figurative painter, an important American painter.

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Chia incorporated Italian Mannerism, Cubism, Futurism and Fauvism in his narrative religious works; Paladino composed large mythological pictures with both geometric and figurative motifs; Cucchi produced romantic scenes of giants and mountains, inspired by Surrealism, and incorporated the use of extra items, made from metal or clay, in his painted works; Clemente was noted for his self - portraiture and intimate figurative works.