Sentences with phrase «figurative representation»

He commonly produces a variety of figurative representations with the human body as the key subject of his sculptures.

The artists included in this exhibition will present a diverse selection of works that are linked by a shared engagement with figurative representation in contemporary art.

«Under the Skin» explored figurative representations that spoke to the viewer on an individual level.

There are few figurative representations historically that challenge the traditional understanding of gender.

She believes the medium allows her to delve most deeply into pure abstraction, devoid of figurative representation.

Through her use of subtly articulated line and negative space, Ku references East Asian artistic traditions, while her focus on figurative representation through a predominantly female - centric subject matter, suggests a more contemporary Western perspective.

Deeply influenced by his exile during World War II, the artist shifted away from figurative representation - distinctive trait of the Roman School period - and adapted a more evocative style, embracing the neo-cubist, informal tendencies of the 50s and 60s.

The only glimpse of figurative representation in the exhibition, the works by Heller are emblematic of the artist's interest in moments of intimate transformation.

Using figurative representation and playful geometric abstraction, Brooklyn - based artist Ted Lawson is someone who loves to combine digital technology — such as 3D printing — with traditional art methods to create organic fine art as well as large - scale sculptures that explore humanity.

We use a mix of the serious (putting words in families, making personal connections to words, drawing figurative representations) and the silly (acting out words with wild exaggeration, doing competitive games).

Even those pieces that are not traditional paintings critically engage the legacy of postwar Abstract Expressionism, which eradicated figurative representation in favor of all - over gestural marks that were considered to be indexical references to the hands and psyches of the artists, who were becoming cultural icons in their own right.

Ramirez's exhibition focuses on a new collection of work that continues his playful exploration of the human body through blocky, black figurative representations and brightly colored biomorphic forms, streaming fluids and drips.

The ten artists in this exhibition depict ways tactile surfaces and abstract imagery stand out to manifest carnality and figurative representation when the physical body is detached.

This lead him to move away from relatively straightforward figurative representation into more abstract work concerned with questions of form and colour.»

Twentieth century black experience, and some of its most important figurative representations, are central to the show.

She has written of her interest in «reconciling figurative representation and the formal concerns of creating illusionistic images on a flat surface.»

The Woman paintings combined the gestures and stylistic elements of his previous work, but they added primal figurative representations of what De Kooning considered to be iconic female images.

These themes finds expression in Schomaker's own visual language, which is characterised by the tension between figurative representation and painterly abstraction.

In his book Mondrian: On Humanity of Abstract Painting, the art historian Meyer Shapiro validates the importance of abstract art within the context of an art historical canon that has been dominated by figurative representation.

Prem Sahib, who had his first institutional show at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, last year, presents two small wall - based works that evoke the body while eschewing figurative representation — Hang Out and Five in One (Pink).

In this uncanny object Jones foresaw myriad possibilities for a thoroughly contemporary take on figurative representation.

While painting this way, Pollock moved away from figurative representation, and challenged the Western tradition of using easel and brush.

Kusaka works often combine elements of figurative representation with more abstract features, yet in her new solo show — her first in Italy — she opted to present ceramics which purely geometric, and thus abstract, patterns.

Unsurprisingly, his biggest influences are painters who worked with figurative representation but nevertheless made strange images (Stegner calls it «weird figuration»): Balthus, Otto Dix, and Alice Neel among them.

During March and April, George Adams Gallery will present an invitational group exhibition featuring the work of 18 artists whose work explores figurative representation and bodily gesture.

What is at stake here is not a single text, but the entire meaning of the whole revelation: the opposition between YHWH and «the» figurative representations of the gods, and the very definition of the God of Israel.

Christina explained to the class how art could capture, channel, and convey emotion through symbols and figurative representations.

Linked by the works» engagement with figurative representation, the show displayed a diverse range of mediums from monoprint and watercolor to photography and sculpture, most of which explore notions relating to identity, society and isolation.

In a queer analysis of figurative representation, emily north / em16 presents us with two large works on paper and one soft sculpture.

This series is a figurative representation of the exchange of life between man and nature.

One of these is her movement between abstraction and figurative representation.

There is a dimensional duality in Desgrandchamps» work, where the viewer will find themselves between flat layers of figurative representation, yet the beach offers a horizon of depth.

Using both figurative representation and formal abstraction, Ted Lawson creates a narrative progression of forms that reveals something conceptually greater than the sum of their parts.

Rooted in his generation's reaction against the apparent lie of figurative representation, the artist sought to create a new autonomy for painting by imitating the reproductive nature of photography.

The idealized, abstract quality of the forty - five objects displayed, including sculpture, paintings, and several funerary masks, demonstrated the Egyptian belief that figurative representation was not only the physical record of an individual, but his / her link to immortality.

The emergent work is at once logical and lyrical, minimal and expressive, and moves fluidly between abstraction and figurative representation.

As Johns» career developed, he seemed to move gradually away, at least for a while, from figurative representation.

em16 / emily north (July 27 — August 14) is an artist creating immersive work on bodies and paper to bring forth a queer analysis of figurative representation.

emily north / em16 is a Brooklyn artist creating immersive work on bodies and paper in a queer analysis of figurative representation.

Mitchell's paintings differed from her Abstract Expressionist colleagues because of their use of hot colors, and Ashbery picked up on this, noting that her palette brought her work closer to figurative representation than pure abstraction.

This exhibition spotlights works of art from the Henry's holdings and private, local collections that apply collage methods and strategies to figurative representation.

All figurative representation is abandoned for atmospheric qualities and all colors are displayed at once, layered on top of one another in each work.

«I just thought it was so different from anything that I had seen because, at the time, so many of the artists of color were working in heavy abstraction or very differently in terms of figurative representation.»

Jaeger's practice also concentrates on figurative representations, which range from sculptures based on her body to erotic representations of relationships.

Some would argue that as African Americans, their belief in the modernist project came at the expense of being on the wrong side of the cultural politics of the time, and an emphasis on figurative representation.