Sentences with phrase «figurative work because»

I've not done a lot of figurative work because I lack subjects.

I think black people should always be producing figurative work because it's naïve to believe that the art world is not a part of the bigger world, and there are political implications to everything that goes on in this domain.

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Bearden's relationship with abstract expressionism was an uneasy one, in part because of his figurative work, which often took up mythic subjects, was seen by some as out of step with the trajectory of art at the time.

Because Abts is neither a conceptualist nor a figurative painter, her work stood brazenly aloof from this dialectic.

Laderman was a friend and mentor of the Midwest Paint Group starting in 2004, and he wrote an essay for their 2005 exhibition in which he stated: «It requires your attention because it is unlike most figurative work seen in galleries today.

There is a painting of a reclining nude in the show, which of course is a traditional subject for figurative painting, but we nicknamed this work «Billboard,» because the figure seems to command the presence of demanding a billboard all to herself.

I haven't wanted to add hints of fashion or include tattoos on the skin because I think that figurative work can denote its place in time purely through style.

We love these collaborative works between Morgan Spry - Young and Daniel Giantomaso because you have to really focus on each piece to find a narrative and figurative elements.

I chose this Peter Doig because it reminds me of quite a lot of recent figurative painting which seems like a return to late - 19th century painting — to symbolist works by artists like Gauguin and Munch.

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.

«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.»

What I'm trying to say is that the «triggers» (good word) of the space illusion are only going to work because they are associated with a particular type of spatial sensation in the real world, so that the illusory space that is evoked is actually tied to that particular spatial sensation, making the pictorial space at least in this sense figurative.

Primarily because of my interest in ceramics and figurative works, the historic draw weighs heavy.

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.

These works were shown at the Sidney Janis Gallery in 1953 and caused a sensation, chiefly because they were figurative when most of his fellow Abstract Expressionists were painting abstractly and because of their blatant technique and imagery.

In retrospect, it was less a conversion than it seemed at the time, because the figurative works were really an extension of his abstractions, just as his later change back to abstraction grew naturally out of his figurative paintings.

I see the attraction for abstract painters, particularly of late Matisse planes of colour, but to me it only really works because of figurative prompts of depth and the tension of its depiction in 2 - D.