Sentences with phrase «figurative representation in»

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.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

The opening is the first of many sequences in «Under the Skin» that feel more figurative than «real» — moments in which we suspect we're seeing the poetic representation of a thing, not necessarily the thing itself.

One suggests the tiger in the book is figurative, a representation of things that are preventing the protagonist from releasing his sadness.

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).

While this exhibition began somewhere between the vague boundaries of figurative art and realism, it coalesced quickly into something more personal, that is, a representation of those artists who have been foremost in my mind over the course of my own experience and personal development.

He established himself as a major artist of the movement in Italian figurative painting known as the Transavanguardia, a Neo-Expressionist movement that sought to re-emphasize color and representation in reaction to the Conceptual Art of the times.

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

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.

However, «Cowboys» can be seen not only as a cynical representation of reality, but also, in the critical tradition of Conceptual art, as a piercing inquiry into the ethos of the American vernacular, and even as the existential gesture of a figurative and realist artist.

His figurative works explore the representation of the human body as a site where identity is transformed, theatrically expressed and concealed, in a fusion of organic and inorganic, skin and plastic, feminine and masculine, representation and nature.

The gallery is specialized in the representation of young german figurative painters.

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.

She creates a personal and contemporary fiction within her works, bringing to light issues of race and representation throughout the history of traditional figurative painting: «My work is a form of tribute, analysis and intervention: tribute out of sincere admiration for the figurative tradition; analysis, by making something vast,» the role of race in the history of figurative painting «comprehensible to both myself and to my viewers; and intervention, by positioning a woman - of - color as primary picture - maker, in whose hands the figurative tradition is refashioned.»

The dense, small - scale paintings included in this exhibition mark a highly prolific period in Mondrian's engagement with figurative landscape painting — an early but deeply significant stage in the artist's methodical progression from naturalistic representation to complete grid - based abstraction.

In conjunction with her exhibition «Full Circle,» artist Summer Wheat shares the methods and cultural histories that guide her abstract - figurative work, from intuitive perception to ancient forms of representation and knowledge.

Later he continued along this more figurative vein, with representations of characters from the Iliad in a sculptural re-enactment of the Trojan wars in steel and clay.

Belgian painter Luc Tuymans (born 1958), one of the key figures in the 1990s revival of figurative painting, is also one of contemporary art's great history painters, tackling historical traumas and their representations in a restrained — though resolutely painterly — style and pale, muted palette.

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

An accomplished figurative painter, Felice «strives, through her portraits of women, to provide a counterpoint to the passive representations found in art historical tradition.

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.

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

Emphasis is placed on the representation and context in which these figurative elements are situated.

«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.»

La Palestra (2001) by Manuel Neri, equally epitomizes the Bay Area Figurative Movement's predilection for an approach to figuration that hinges on non-specificity in representation.

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

For a moment Pollock had attenuated line almost to the point of its being free of representation, but this was an extreme moment of style, with which he was deeply troubled, as it cut him off from his earlier inspirations, and from which he returned to allow abstract line to morph into figurative signs in the black paintings of 1952.

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.

First, Ofili's visual representations of the social and cultural politics of «race» and racism are discussed — particularly in reference to early works such as Afrodizzia (1996) and the striking figurative painting No Woman, No Cry (1998).

Pushing the boundaries of representation, many of Bisky's figurative paintings are suffused with densely packed body parts caught in flood waves and wedged into one another.

From a contemporary point of view, her works can be likened to Picasso's «Guernica», as Wheat, too, uses narrative in a nontraditional way, breaking her story into segments and employing a composition that moves back and forth between abstract and figurative representations.

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

By positioning a woman - of - color as primary picture - maker in whose hands the figurative tradition is refashioned, I knit my contemporary concerns, personal and painterly, into the centuries old conversation of representation.

Abstraction is especially difficult for Chinese painters since the whole art education in China is focused on figurative representation.

«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».

As the artist himself has said, «You can't invent a painting from scratch; you are working with an entire tradition... The pictorial language of the 20th century, from Kurt Schwitters's collages to Jackson Pollock's drip paintings, makes up a range of possibilities that I utilise in order to create a transhistorical figurative painting — a painting of the image as such, of representation» (A. Ghenie, quoted in «Adrian Ghenie in Conversation with Magda Radu,» Adrian Ghenie: Darwin's Room, exh.

Displayed on heavy steel tables, they draw not only on the tradition of twentieth - century figurative sculpture — marks of artists as diverse as Aristide Maillol to Henry Moore are alive in these robust works — but also on the history of female representation in general.

In these pieces, the artist tackled genres like the still life, the portrait, figurative representation, landscape, interiors, historical painting, political propaganda, religious iconography, and the appropriation of elements from popular culture and art history.

Like his earlier imagery, from the wrestler's mask to the deconstructed interior and exterior of the face, his figurative alter egos are always figures in suspense, mediums for generic representations that make it possible to fix a temporary, uninhibited state.

Often minimal and sparse in colour, Sahib's works invariably stand in for the body rather than offer a figurative representation.

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

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.

Possibly a view from her apartment window at the time, it exemplifies her interest in figurative representations and urban existence.

This figurative sculpture made from frozen fabric is the first work I saw on entering the fair and it's a perfect representation of the fair in taking a typically European sculpture pose and infusing it with African influence.

It was something Ad could have said because he was so adamant in his rejection of any kind of representation — he was the only New York School artist who never painted figurative works — although unlike most of the others he actually could draw and studied at the National Academy of Design.

Often minimal and sparse in color, Sahib's works invariably stand in for the body rather than offering a figurative representation.

These examine notions of the raw intersection of race, gender, and sexuality through iconic, silhouetted figures, which offer an extended contemplation on the nature of figurative representation and narrative in contemporary art.

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.

The works featured in the exhibition will span representations of landscape as well as figurative studies based on drawing practice.