Sentences with phrase «figurative work dominated»

Modern and contemporary figurative works dominate, and they are often mounted in ways that contest or question the notion of a monolithic black identity.

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The works begins with his early realist, figurative abstractions, to a «proto - synthetic cubism,» straight through the famous series of women that dominated the 1950s, ending in his increasingly «expansive,» looser renderings of the 1960s.

More generally, the chapters of «America Is Hard to See» pay homage to a number of those seminal exhibitions through which the Whitney has historically recognised and advocated for emerging American art: «Anti-Illusion: Procedure / Materials» (1969), for instance, with its defiant presentation of the post-minimalism of Richard Tuttle and others, or «New Image Painting» (1979), which celebrated a revival of figurative painting in an artistic climate dominated by conceptual work.

These painters focused on depicting contemporary life through innovative figurative works, rather than the abstraction, minimalism, and conceptualism that dominated contemporary art at the time.

Allowing the work to flow through her and onto the canvas, the series floats between figurative and abstract works but tend to be dominated by familiar dots that form eyes and portraits of women — some laughing, some weeping.

Gagosian, meanwhile, presents an exhibition of paintings, drawings, and photographs by Balthus, a modern maverick who continued to produce figurative works in a period dominated by abstraction (26 April — 29 July).

The current selection from the museum's collection is relatively cohesive, dominated by European figurative painting from the 14th to 20th centuries, with some Brazilian works, and amassed by the media mogul Assis Chateaubriand from the late 1940s to the late 1960s (using funds largely accumulated through blackmail).

Her early work — large acrylic, figurative paintings — came to prominence in the 1970s New York art world, a time and place almost completely dominated and defined by Minimalist aesthetics and theories.

Freud and Bacon are the focus, but the 100 works on display here show forebears like Walter Sickert and Chaim Soutine, the influence of teachers William Coldstream and David Bomberg, and the women breaking into the male - dominated figurative painting world, like Cecily Brown, Celia Paul, and Lynette Yiadom - Boakye.

As Golub was alien to Informalist tendencies and movements that dominated after World War II, his work renewed the figurative painting.