Sentences with phrase «figurative subject matter»

These shared features included an extreme expressiveness of color, figurative subject matter, and a significant surface texture.

The figurative subject matter is reminiscent of the rich artistic traditions of Persian miniature painting and calligraphy, while the abstract use of vibrant colours reveals the artist's spiritual inspiration grounded in the millenary tradition of Persian poetry.

Like other photo - based painters, such as Gerhard Richter, Marlene Dumas and Luc Tuymans, Kahrs» methodology deals with figurative subject matter overlaid with a haze of ambiguity.

He has found it in the intermingled forms of abstract gesture, geometric structure, and figurative subject matter.

His figurative subject matter has extended far beyond the club scene.

The latter included an extreme expressiveness of colour, figurative subject matter, as well as significant surface activity and texturalism.

Working from detailed sketches in a painterly, expressionist style and with a primarily figurative subject matter, the artist skilfully transitions between warm and cold palettes, creating deeply atmospheric canvases.

In Mr. Katz's bathroom is a series of black - and - white photographs of New York City life by Rudy Burckhardt, the Swiss filmmaker and an ardent supporter of Mr. Katz in the 1950s, when he was scorned for daring to pursue figurative subject matter during the reign of Abstract Expressionism.

Uninterested in the figurative subject matter or the political implications of Surrealism, whose aim was to effect revolution, he nevertheless took to its theory of «psychic automatism,» which accorded with his feeling for Freudian psychoanalysis and the work of the French Symbolist poets.

Roger Brown was a prominent member of the Chicago Imagist group, a cohort of artists working in the late 1960s onward who embraced figurative subject matter, unconventional and often «low brow» source material, and personal biography in their artistic practice.

The shapes somehow echo natural formations, like riverbeds, valleys and mountain ranges, without ever suggesting these as figurative subject matter.

Not exact matches

For figurative subjects such as animals, plants, and insects, you can just draw from real life, but you will need to invent ingenious ways to represent matters such as energy, motion, magnetism, or electricity.

The subject matter may not be as compelling as Katz's earlier figurative work, but these paintings, on view through July 7, aren't about garden design or abstract composition.

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.

Figurative painter Mark Van Yetter relates how his penchant for American style and subject matter has persisted for twenty years.

His work was not just about copying and the act of appropriation: it was also an existential gesture made by a realist artist, speaking through a figurative language of his relationship to his subject matter.

In this show six artists working in a figurative mode — including Dana Schutz, Henry Taylor and past NAP cover artist Keith Mayerson — demonstrate how the oldest of subject matters can, in the right hands, be as relevant as ever.

With Abstract Expressionism at the forefront of American painting, these artists, which included Richard Diebenkorn, David Park, Roland Peterson, and Wayne Thiebaud — often referred to as the Bay Area Figurative artists — explored inventive new ways to depict traditional subject matter — the figure, landscape, and still life.

The exhibition includes over thirty drawings of different sizes and subject matter by a selection of some of the world's leading figurative artists.

Their subject matter includes all of the traditional categories within Western Art: figurative, landscape, portraiture, indoor and outdoor genre and still life paintings.

The Firestone gallery show overlaps with a larger retrospective of Shapiro's work on view at the National Academy Museum and School that begins with some of the Abstract Expressionist work but goes much further into the figurative work of the 1990s, which took as its subject matter women artists, Jewish identity, dance and her passion for dolls.

On a material basis, the trio's work couldn't be more different — from digital prints to rough - hewn figurative sculpture — but connective themes between the shows enrich each in turn, bridging generations, conceptual approaches and subject matter.

This subject matter — painted big and painted simple, or so they claimed — was as much about the human condition as any figurative self - portrait.

Matisse's transformative impact on their works is revealed not only by their adaptations of his palette and pictorial structures but also through their choice and appropriation of his subject matter — still lifes, landscapes, figurative works, studio interiors, and portraits.

Caesar was a figurative artist whose subject matter focused on the female figure.

At a time during the Civil Rights movement when African American artists were expected by many to create figurative work explicitly addressing racial subject matter, Gilliam persisted in pursuing the development of a new formal language that celebrated the cultivation and expression of the individual voice and the power of non-objective art to transcend cultural and political boundaries.

«Offers a great insight into sources of [Sasnal's] inspirations and fields of interest: painting about painting, figurative painting and portraits, the history of Poland and travel shots... The book itself is a journey full of facts and intriguing perspectives on materiality and subject matter of Sasnal's paintings and his way of deconstructing the different symptoms of current times... Jam - packed with fascinating personal stories and facts from the artist's life.

In his distinctive caricaturistic style, Pettibon juxtaposes figurative images with fragmented texts throughout all mediums and subject matters.

His subject matter is diverse and includes landscape, figurative portraiture, and still life.

While Eisenman's figurative style references a range of academic traditions — from WPA murals to surrealism — her razor - sharp wit and intimate subject matter reveal a language that is completely her own.

With artists young and old tackling subject matter ranging from figurative landscapes to digital glitches to the eternity of the circle, it is clear that the world of abstraction is thriving in contemporary Chinese art.

Part of a generation of artists that reacted against the dominant action - oriented, gestural style of Abstract Expressionism, Wesselmann took interest in quotidian, figurative, and popular subject matter, as well as the representational and graphic qualities afforded by collage.

Legs are the subject matter of choice of Cousin's oeuvre that examines the human condition and the history of painting through a mixture of figurative and geometric elements rendered in a distinctively painterly style using a bold colour palette and with particular attention to the symbolic meaning of the visual forms depicted in her work.

The last five years of his artistic practice focused on AIDS as a subject matter, drawing on community experience and mixing dreamlike allegory with figurative realism.

Subject matter is similarly various, ranging from deeply considered abstractions and iconoclastic figurative canvases to wild, glorious landscapes.

Lawson's long career as a painter has seen her explore a wide breath of subject matter through figurative and abstract painting, referencing a number of artistic movements.

While for this show Jacquelet continues his exploration of figurative painting, he has expanded both the size and the subject matter of his works.

Jansen's work is a result of working between abstract and figurative elements, crossing action painting with objective subject matter.

Despite the apparent abstraction of Dancers on a Plane, «figurative» subject matter was here obliquely creeping back into Johns» oeuvre.

Rita Ackermann (b. 1968, Budapest) is a Hungarian - American painter renowned for subject matter that challenges and liberates traditional depictions of the female body and archetypes in figurative painting.

Njideka Akunyili Crosby is a figurative painter whose large - scale works express the hybridity characteristic of transnational experience through choices of subject matter, materials, and techniques.

Her work, which is imbued with a highly personal character, is innovative exploration of form, subject matter and space, in which abstract and figurative elements combine to offer impressions of both microscopic and macroscopic universes.

Exploring achievements far beyond his reputation as a leading illustrator and teacher, this exhibition spans evocative landscapes firmly rooted in the Neo-Romantic tradition, exotic subject matter inspired by international travel, figurative work including portraits of young men, book illustrations, posters and lithographs, and ambitious late work that sought a new context for history painting.

All - media artists, sculptors, and photographers are invited to create visual works that interpret the theme «Figuratively Speaking» in two different ways: by depicting human forms, faces and features in representational or abstract works (portraiture, sculpture and all subject matter including people); or works which depict a broader interpretation of the theme, such as figurative language and figures of speech.