Sentences with phrase «figurative work as»

Taye is known for his evocative landscape and figurative work as he experiments with different mediums, color composition and depth.

Henri Laurens (1885 - 1954) French sculptor, printmaker, designer and illustrator, noted for his voluptuous nudes and later outstanding figurative work as well as his Cubist «constructions», of wood and polychrome plaster.

Chapter 1: Things Must be Pulverized: Abstract Expressionism Charts the move from figurative to abstract painting as the dominant style of painting (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Willem de Kooning, Barnett Newman Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko Chapter 2: Wounded Painting: Informel in Europe and Beyond Meanwhile in Europe: abstract painters immediate responses to the horrors of World War II (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Jean Dubuffet, Lucio Fontana, Viennese Aktionism, Wols Chapter 3: Post-War Figurative Painting Surveys those artists who defiantly continued to make figurative work as Abstraction was rising to dominance - including Social Realists (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Francis Bacon, Lucien Freud, Alice Neel, Pablo Picasso Chapter 4: Against Gesture - Geometric Abstraction The development of a rational, universal language of art - the opposite of the highly emotional Informel or Abstract Expressionism (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Lygia Clark, Ellsworth Kelly, Bridget Riley, Yves Klein Chapter 5: Post-Painting Part 1: After Pollock In the aftermath of Pollock's death: the early days of Pop, Minimalism and Conceptual painting in the USA (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, Cy Twombly Chapter 5: Anti Tradition - Pop Painitng How painting survives against growth of mass visual culture: photography and television - if you can't beat them, join them (1960s and 70s) Key artists discussed: Alex Katz, Roy Lichtenstein, Gerhard Richter, Andy Warhol Chapter 6: A transcendental high art: Neo Expressionism and its Discontents The continuation of figuration and expressionism in the 1970s and 80s, including many artists who have only been appreciated in later years (1970s & 80s) Key artists discussed: Georg Baselitz, Jean - Michel Basquiat, Anselm Kiefer, Julian Schnabel, Chapter 7: Post-Painting Part II: After Pop A new era in which figurative and abstract exist side by side rather than polar opposites plus painting expands beyond the canvas (late 1980s to 2000s) Key artists discussed: Tomma Abts, Mark Grotjahn, Chris Ofili, Christopher Wool Chapter 8: New Figures, Pop Romantics Post-cold war, artists use paint to create a new kind of «pop art» - primarily figurative - tackling cultural, social and political issues (1990s to now) Key artists discussed: John Currin, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, Neo Rauch, Luc Tuymans

Owing to the success of her figurative work as well as her 2012 retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Polish artist Alina Szapocznikow is widely recognized for her uncanny mixed - media sculptures that incorporate cast body parts with everyday objects.

This is a rare Solo exhibition from Bom.k known for his intricate charachter and figurative works as part of the Da Mental Vaporz crew.

Performative, Poetic, Powerful Examining the various aesthetic and conceptual turns that typify César's practice, the show at Luxembourg & Dayan will present historically significant examples from his Compression, Human Imprint, and Expansion series, as well as such early figurative works as the Venus - like welded iron sculpture Torso (1954), on loan from the permanent collection of The Museum of Modern Art.

Incorporating elements of photography and sculpture, he describes these largely figurative works as «parodies of what a painting is supposed to be».

Wonner's mastery of form and color is as apparent in his figurative works as in his intricate still life paintings.

However, by including such figurative works as «Figure at Window with Boat» (1964) and the later mythic paintings, «Figure, Boat, Clouds» (1971) and «Figure with Tree» (1972), the exhibition suggests that there are more sides to Bischoff's figurative paintings than his urban scenes, and the full extent of what he did between 1952 and» 72, is still unknown, particularly on the East Coast.

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There seems to be some kind of disconnect between knowing and doing in the teenage brain — and new work in neuroscience suggests this disconnect is literal as well as figurative.

Argo is a valentine to the cinema in the very convincing drag of a political thriller; a closing title reveals that Chambers was literally declared a national hero for his work with Mendez, and it's the movie's sly mission to get us thinking of him as a figurative one as well, for all those great ape makeups.

While geo - specifically Canadian, and working within a coloniality of power that I often felt obliged to critique, I think my identity growing up in Canada was more mobile than nationalist, if not badly mangled, bleeding through the figurative membranes of its Canadian - ness, as something that was always already foreign to itself, as I really didn't have a sense of what it meant to be a Canadian but at the same time I tried to account for the people I met and the ideas I encountered in the context of living a life in the service of something larger than one's nation state, trying to understand what it meant to be of service to society.

And Gibson knows how to put captivating figurative language to work, such as when she writes that kisses are as «soft as lamb's wool, but strong as steel.»

Students are encouraged to consider a number of start points such as working directly from the model, on Figurative Sculpture or Portrait Head courses to developing individual projects on the Free Form course.

If abstraction is favored by undiscerning speculator collectors as well as museums hoping to advance a fast - forward chronology of art history, there is still no small amount of figurative work on the scene.

«Medium to large format abstract work is generally more sought after than figurative [work],» says Heyman, «as a figurative piece, especially a portrait, may convey something about a character's personality or history, whereas abstract work is usually more subtle and can be more open to interpretation.

We offer a strong figurative tradition in the Drawing, Painting and Sculpture Studios that can be used as a foundation for students to move on into other artistic avenues, or that can be developed as an end in itself to produce work within a figurative genre.

My work is evolving all the time and after 35 years as a figurative artist I've recently discovered ways to express myself through abstract art which has been the most exciting and liberating experience I've had for ages.

As a result, figurative and pictorial works, both new and previously known, are potentially altered as seen through this filteAs a result, figurative and pictorial works, both new and previously known, are potentially altered as seen through this filteas seen through this filter.

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

When he returned to painting in the Bay Area in mid-1965 his resulting works summed up all that he had learned from his more than a decade as a leading figurative painter.

It features works by abstract and figurative painters and sculptors, as well as pioneers of installation and performance art.

His early work was figurative and often described as expressionist, but from the mid 1960s his paintings became more geometric.

Remaining defiantly figurative despite an art scene that swung increasingly toward abstraction, and choosing as his subjects those places and homes to which he felt most deeply connected, Porter produced a body of work of tremendous personal significance and emotional power.

Five years ago, he curated a show at Colby of such young art stars as Elizabeth Peyton, Peter Doig and Merlin James, who work in the same figurative territory staked out by Katz.

A unique amalgamation of artist, Spiritualist and medium, the fascinating and unexpected story of Houghton has generated international interest from curators and writers who see her work as representing an abandonment of figurative form that anticipates the development of modern abstraction by artists such as Kandinsky or Malevich by several decades.

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.

Spent 1939 - 47 in the Argentine, working part of the time in a figurative style, but in 1946 helped to found the avant - garde Altainira Academy at Buenos Aires, his ideas about the need for new art to express the modern world as revealed by science leading to the publication of the Manifiesto Blanco.

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.

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.

Known formerly for her figurative works in oil on canvas, as well as using everyday materials including biro and bleach, Saville has — since 2014 — been producing large - scale abstracts, made up of flawlessly gradating shades.

These lectures enthusiastically commend less visually appealing works almost as if they will be good for us, cod - liver oil for the eyes — but twentieth - century figurative painters Alice Neel, Sylvia Sleigh, and Philip Pearlstein simply do not paint as beautifully as Courbet or Renoir.

As one of the leading realist artists working in the United States, William Beckman is celebrated for the intimacy and emotional power of his figurative drawings.

Referred to as «abstract figurative drawings,» by Mr. Owens, the new works are produced in ways that are «similar to the process of making photographic prints in a darkroom» but using everybody's favorite petroleum jelly, Vaseline, and everybody's favorite drug, coffee.

Although he continued to promote abstract work produced in Britain and throughout Europe, Sylvester believed at this time that figurative art «was capable of going further... that [it] could be more complex, more specific, richer in human content».18 By 1958, however, Sylvester had undergone what he later described as a «Damascene conversion'to the profound achievements of recent American abstraction.

But when it comes to viewing David Park's body of work, this book shines with superb color plates dispersed throughout, showing Park's development as a painter from his early days, his non-figurative period, his return to figurative painting, and his final figurative work in gouache.

Solo and group exhibitions showcase abstract as well as figurative work from a diverse body of artists from the U.S., Asia, Latin America and Europe.

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 worAs 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 woras building blocks for his new work.

Over 300 pages illustrated with Zeller's own exquisite drawings and paintings as well as works by nearly 100 historical and contemporary figurative art masters, the book includes some of the finest figurative art of the past and the present day.

With its inclusion of abstraction along with figurative work, it struck some viewers as not explicitly gay enough, as dodging the political issues its title raised.

Simultaneously classical and contemporary in scope, it contains roughly 300 images, how - to diagrams, and information about figurative art movements of the past as well as profiles of some of the greatest practitioners working today... featuring examples of Zeller's own work and also some of his best contemporary peers, who collectively bring the figurative tradition forward into a new era.»

Elms includes much strictly formal work such as figurative drawings and symbol - based paintings by Elijah Burgher, overly nostalgic ink drawings by Paul P., and a seemingly popular, somewhat garish installation of aluminum and silver wall sculptures by Terry Adkins.

Throughout this process a distinct distillation of choices developed for each artist that is wide - ranging but particular: both figurative and abstract, sculptures and some works on paper have been selected in addition to paintings, and historical as well as contemporary works, are juxtaposed.

Influenced by representational artists such as Fairfield Porter and Alex Katz, during her studies Fish was not always encouraged in her realistic approach, considering the fact that prestigious university's art programs advocated the idea of inferiority of the figurative painting in relation to abstraction or conceptual work.

This exhibition takes as its focus Tucker's figurative work, which pushes the figurative to the brink of abstraction.

Leslie Lyons and J.B. Wilson draw inspiration from this art historical oddity, creating sublimated print tiles that both reference the «Unswept Floor» as well figurative tile works which «remove the trappings of mythologizing human behavior and return to a place of rational accounting and purification.»

It has been difficult for art history to assimilate the figurative work of an avowedly conceptual artist such as Adrian Piper, who has painted since the mid-1960s.

Zeller also includes chapters on creativity and on using a sketchbook to take ideas from initial inspiration to a fully developed work... appreciated the book's surprises, including spreads that include not only the finished figurative painting but the preparatory sketches as well.»

The work is an example of the Neo-Expressionist trend known as Transavanguardia, which focuses on expressive figurative work done on a large scale.

But like Elmer Bischoff and David Park, with whom he made the turn to figurative painting a few years later, Diebenkorn was asking questions that abstract expressionism couldn't always answer, even though, as the early works in the show at the Royal Academy (until 7 June) suggest, he was a loyal and talented disciple: the LA Times described him as «one of the most gifted artists in the American non-objective field».