Sentences with phrase «figurative paintings where»

Worth saying that there are lots of great figurative paintings where deep space is absolutely resolved in two dimensions.

Colescott candidly addresses the social and political pressures of race relations in the United States in his figurative paintings where Black subjects are observers, agents, and narrators of an incomplete and revised history.

He is well known for his figurative paintings where he gives a lot of attention to light.

Geopolitical damage, scars of violent activity, they are a part of the world which we live and that's what I am attempting to paint, so in the tradition of figurative painting where you render the world into two dimensions, I am rendering the real world in my case in three dimensions.

Not exact matches

Where as Avery's early figurative drawings and paintings from the 1930s attest to affinities primarily with the work of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, by the 1940s he was discernibly close to Henri Matisse.

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.

Pauline has exhibited her work annually in Boston since 1998 and has also continued to exhibit in Australia where she was the recipient of a coveted prize for oil painting in the prestigious national juried exhibition, The A.M.E. Bale Art Awards, known as Australia's premier awards for traditional realism and figurative art.

But at a time when the art world was tilting toward abstraction and internationalism, Mr. Colville was also something of an outsider, dedicated to figurative painting and to his native Canada, where he was revered by many as «painter laureate.»

As in his earlier Storm paintings where scraping gestures that erased figurative components became central to the composition, Cooke again uses abstract elements as building blocks for his new work.

A couple of the early abstract Berkeley paintings feature here, these leading to the second gallery where we see Diebenkorn abandon abstract painting and become part of the Bay Area Figurative Movement.

She returned to New York in the early 1970s, where her practice turned towards figurative paintings, many with erotic themes in response to pornography, popular culture, and concerns around representation.

Studies fine art at Sheffield College of Art, where emphasis is on figurative painting — no awareness of abstract art.

Where there's little modeling in work by Leon Golub and George Cohen, Lerner's paintings and drawings have always had a sense of volume, and his work since the 1970s has continued to tap similar mythic and metaphorical material (mummies, hanged or tortured figures) but in a more classical figurative style.

, where it obscures the numerous layers of paintings, both abstract and figurative, she laid down over a period of seven years.

To attempt to bring this all back to where I began, I think that light, as splendid as it is, might indeed be a bit of a red herring, but perhaps for figurative painting as well.

The Chunk series consists of three, six - foot - square acrylic paintings plus two smaller paintings where large portions of the canvas contain black or brown blocky figurative structures accompanied by explosions of straight lines of bright colors with soft round forms capping the ends.

Although hard edge painting became widespread in the 1960s, it was mostly present in California, where artists like John McLaughlin, Lorser Feitelson, Karl Benjamin, Frederick Hammersley and Feitelson's wife Helen Lundeberg created both figurative and non-representational artwork.

It was in his sculpture Pyramid (1959) where the figurative was erased by the method of stacking identical wood segments in a repetitive form, which like Frank Stella's «black» paintings appeared as if the process had been simply mechanical.

The impermeable border within Germany famously tempered the advance of Western avant - garde movements in the East, where figurative painting maintained its predominance.

[14] Schneemann took the ideas found in her figurative abstract paintings of the 1950s, where she cut and destroyed layers of paint from their surfaces, and transferred them to her photographic work Eye Body.

His means are almost always figurative and he seems happiest with interiors, where he can use the straight edges for linear perspective and arrange various bits of furniture, rugs, paintings etc. to make the space do his will.

For me, these powerful paintings also reference Gustav Klimt's decorative patterning and, among contemporary artists, the densely layered figurative collages of Njideka Akunyili Crosby, a Nigerian - born artist who came to the United States at the turn of the century and received a Post-Baccalaureate certificate in 2006 from The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where William now leads the MFA Program.

Kent Williams was recently interviewed for Artweek where he shares how he balances figurative art with abstraction and also reveals some plans for future series of paintings.

Condo started making «drawing - paintings», where you can't distinguish e.g. paint from pastel, or a line made with a paintbrush or a line drawn in from and thus making the two mediums equal: «There's no real difference between figurative painting or abstract painting, «cause it's all painting to begin with... You don't» have to follow any rules as a painter.

SW I was coming from made - up, figurative work where I'd paint self - portraits and things out of Goya or Velázquez.

Chicago, San Francisco, London, where figurative painting continued, were all seen as regional backwaters.

Individual rooms feature 24 hard - edge abstract paintings, drawings and reliefs by Ellsworth Kelly; 18 figurative and abstract paintings by Gerhard Richter; 14 silkscreens on canvas by Andy Warhol (most from the crucial 1960s); 11 Photorealist artist portraits in various media by Chuck Close; seven Agnes Martin grid and stripe paintings (installed in a heptagon - shaped room, recalling the sublime space at the Harwood Museum in Taos, N.M., where the artist once lived); five geometrically ordered Minimalist sculptures by Carl Andre; and five monumental mixed - media paintings of a decaying German mythos by Anselm Kiefer (plus one large model airplane in lead, an emphatically heavier - than - air machine conjuring the cruel historical weight of the failed Luftwaffe and its celebrated pilot artist, Joseph Beuys).

Living between different continents — Doig in London, New York and the Trinidad of his childhood; Armitage in London and Kenya, where he was born in 1984 — both artists make lush, seductive figurative paintings derived from fused sources of memories, photographs, film and art history, hinting at enchanted, disquieting narratives.

In 1960, the Paces began to spend summers in rural Pennsylvania where he returned to figurative painting.

She relocated in 1939 to New York City, where she pursued mostly figurative painting at the Art Students League and struck up friendships with other artists, including Barnett Newman.

Medium: Oil painting on linen Image size: 5.75 x 4 inches Frame size: 14 x 12 x 2 inches Signed at lower right: AVS A noted contemporary figurative painter, Stevovich grew up in Washington, D.C., and as a young child spent time roaming the halls of the National Gallery of Art, where he was particularly drawn to the Renaissance paintings that would come to inform his work.

On ascholarship she attended the first women - only art school in America (now Moore College of Art and Design), where she excelled at figurative painting.

«Bad Painting» refers to a figurative current in art in the late 1970s where the faithful representation of a theme was abandoned in favor of a consciously poorly - crafted image that sought to provoke those who claimed to have «good taste».

Neagu graduated from Nicolae Grigorescu Institute of Fine Arts, Bucharest in 1965, where the syllabus prioritised figurative painting over abstraction and sculpture.

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.

Outstanding in the first room is his absolutely stunning picture postcard painting «Santa Margherita Ligure», 1964, and a painting of the famous cubist painter «Portrait of Juan Gris» 1963, one of the artist's early works, intriguing for its predominate figure, as he produced few figurative paintings; advancing to the fifth room where light and shadows are being used in Caulfield classic twee interior scenes to understand the depth of pictorial space.

Unlike figurative paintings, where there is an attempt to capture an object from the natural world, they are a means within themselves.

Francis studied under David Park (1911 - 1960), pioneer of the Bay Area Figurative School of painting, completed a Masters in Fine Art at the University of California (1950), then moved to Paris where he studied under the legendary Cubist painter Fernand Leger (1881 — 1955).

While it was around this time that Frankenthaler's canvases began to achieve a lightness — a kind of openness that allowed the composition to breathe — it was in the 1970s that the artist had moved away from the literal and figurative landscapes seen in her early work, such as the celebrated Mountains and Sea from 1952, and towards a more emotional and expressive representation of Color Field paintings where she developed a new sumptuousness and sensuality characterized in the present work.

He was known then for painting «abstracted architectural interiors where towers, gabled roofs, and arched doorways combine with geometric solids and intersecting planes to form a framework in which various figurative elements are situated.»

An alumna of the New York Studio School in the 1970s, where she was mentored by influential artists including Mercedes Matter and Joan Mitchell, Pensato challenged the school's strict figurative life drawing practice and painted directly from cardboard cut - outs, dolls and photographs as a replacement for the traditional fruit of still lifes.

Through portraiture, landscapes and still lifes, Calderara depicted the people, scenes and objects of his native Italy — all suffused by a delicate, misty light inspired by the atmospheric glow of Lake Orta in Vacciago, where the artist moved in 1934 with his wife Carmela, and where he would work for most of his life.By the mid-1950s, Calderara began to move away from figurative painting to embrace a more geometric approach, radically reducing both the scale and the compositional elements of his paintings through use of simple forms and flat blocks of nebulous and subtle colour.

Adam is the founder and author of the Rhino Horn Group blog, a contemporary discourse on socially engaged art and figurative painting; and Artfully Learning, where he writers about contemporary art through the lens of education.

He is known for being one of the pioneers of 20th century abstract art, as he changed his artistic direction from figurative painting to an increasingly abstract style, until he reached a point where his artistic vocabulary was reduced to simple geometric elements.

In his thesis exhibition, Schafter demonstrated his skill at mastering the kind of figurative painting that was prevalent both locally and nationally at the time, where representational images are presented as juxtaposed vignettes and rendered with expressive brushwork or bold colors.

Does any of this apply to abstract painting, where you have none of the figurative clues as to spatiality in the «planes parallel to the picture surface»?

This is where a comparison with figurative painting would come into its own.

Humour, sadness, elation, depression; pathos, ebullience, turbulence; love, hate, attraction, revulsion; pointing, pushing, pulling, cavorting; turning, tossing, tumbling, twisting; rock and roll, victory and defeat; all the elements, in fact, of intense human interaction and drama that were once the province of figurative art, particularly figurative painting — where they formed the pretext upon which was built a profound diversity of imaginative visual constructs — are seemingly no longer at the behest of figurative art, which languishes in states of mock - academia or faux - avant - gardism, by turns bathetic, mundane or grotesque... all that human content is now, surprisingly but necessarily, the prerogative of the abstract artist.

Returning to the East Coast, she earned her bachelor's in painting from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn in 2000 and her master's two years later from Yale, where she arrived an abstract painter and left a figurative one, thanks largely to a suggestion that she take a photography course.