Sentences with phrase «figurative works depict»

These realistic, figurative works depict different populations — perhaps African locals, and European tourists.

Mr. Davis's paintings were mostly figurative works depicting blacks in surreal landscapes, sometimes with their features distorted or smeared in a manner reminiscent of Francis Bacon.

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Beyond this verdant topography, Dunham depicts a nude woman bathing, an important recurring character in his earlier figurative works.

Sean Mahan is a social realist figurative painter who works with graphite and acrylic washes on wood to depict a sense of wonder about the innate warmth of the human character and its conflict with structures of power and control.

Later figurative paintings, including the recent work Raft (2017), depict ordinary moments and activities — from reading in bed, attending casual dinners, to participating in faculty meetings.

But in that era, figurative works — often depicting the black experience — were what was expected of him.

An adjacent canvas, one of a series of new figurative works in the exhibition, depicts a painting Murillo encountered in a collector's home in Bogotá — showing a young boy selling fish — against Regency - style wallpaper and antique furniture.

Working in an increasingly figurative and self - reflective mode, the artist used himself, his family, fellow expats, and prostitutes as models for hyper - realistic paintings, which depicted an increasingly acerbic view of humanity.

Between the 1930s and 1950s Pirandello produced a number of psychologically intense figurative works, which often depicted women in various states of undress, shielding their eyes or staring blankly into the distance.

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.

Betancurth's mixed media works use themes from his own experiences to depict scenes, be it literal or figurative, that have been of significance in his life.

In this work, he depicts a city in a graffiti - like figurative style.

Baltimore - based artist Mequitta Ahula's work Performing Painting: A Real Allegory of Her Studio (2015) used herself as a means to depict and deconstruct the history of figurative painting as it relates to the body along time and space.

Dramatically offsetting the small works on wooden panel (ranging from 10 x 7 1/2 inches to 18 x 24 inches) are two life - size figurative sculptures by Hanson depicting opposite spectrums of life.

The 80s would see the Bacon simplifying his pictorial language; his figurative work would often allude to human form rather than always depicting it.

Exhibition highlights include: two ornate, figurative paintings by Australian artist Del Kathryn Barton; three large - scale, realist paintings by Terry Rodgers portraying gaunt and privileged youth; conceptual portraits by Swedish artist Sara - Vide Ericson; a mixed - media fragmented figure by Brooklyn - based artist Nathaniel Mary Quinn; four small - scale sculptural works depicting contorted human forms by Korean artist Dongwook Lee; and one large - scale surrealist drawing by German artist Dennis Scholl; among others.

Just as the figurative paintings of Giorgio Morandi, whom he admires, are not about merely depicting vessels, so Sean Scully's definitive abstract works have narrative structures when they evoke associations of figure and landscape, of window and mirror, or of religious forms and themes such as altar or resurrection.

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.

His use of encaustic, with its physicality, impasto and transparencies, allows him to create figurative works in which the gesture, the actual act of painting, is just as important and meaningful as the depicted subject.

Ginnie Gardner's «Mission» is a powerful freely brushed figurative painting depicting an artist at work.

The five new works by Florian Pumhösl are studies showing configurations of grids and circles, deriving from figurative depictions on Byzantine coins on which one can read a slow dissolution of the depicted portrait, bust or figure.

His figurative works often depict naked men conducting rituals in rented rooms or wooded landscapes.

Yu is known for her figurative work, depicting herself, her family and friends.

Her figurative work of the late 1980s and early 1990s confronted subjects such as AIDS and gender, while recent works have depicted the human condition in relationship to nature.

The Fran and Ray Stark Sculpture Terrace Adjacent to the Museum's West Pavilion, outside the entrance to the Center for Photographs, is the Stark Sculpture Terrace, with works that depict the broad outlines of figurative sculpture's move from representation to abstraction.

David Geers reflects on the ascendance of figurative painting in recent New York exhibitions — including works by Lisa Brice, Jordan Casteel, Peter Doig, Celeste Dupuy - Spencer, Mark Thomas Gibson and Emily Mae Smith — and the critical questions it poses about which bodies we depict, for whom and to what end.

«Me and My Shadow» consists of four mixed media figurative works made using black and white photo montage mixed media works depicting partially nude women and their respective imagined shadow.

Figurative art work with abstract elements, depicting a woman in the foreground and The King of Bali in the background.

Sanctums of Decision at the Richard Taittinger Gallery (until 2 October) includes figurative works that depict delicately - rendered, dreamlike interiors and exteriors that take their cue from 19th - century European painting and Iranian history.

Applying old master painting techniques to his works on canvas, the artist depicts hyper - realistic figurative imagery in portraits, landscapes, and still lifes.

I decided to make both paintings and sculptures, and in the paintings I worked with large geometric lines, extensions of three - dimensional letters, or objects that played on the surreal, elongated, figurative images in Lam's work that sometimes depict Yoruba deities like Eleguá, Yemayá or Changó.

Through portraiture, landscapes and still lifes, Calderara depicted the people, scenes and objects of his native Italy — all suffused by a delicate, misty light inspired by the atmospheric glow of Lake Orta in Vacciago, where the artist moved in 1934 with his wife Carmela, and where he would work for most of his life.By the mid-1950s, Calderara began to move away from figurative painting to embrace a more geometric approach, radically reducing both the scale and the compositional elements of his paintings through use of simple forms and flat blocks of nebulous and subtle colour.

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He produced sophisticated abstract designs in his Berkeley Period series during the 1950s, yet his 1960s landscapes depict a sudden turn to figurative works.

Although he was a formalist in his dance works, Cunningham's strange and humorous figurative drawings depicted birds and woodland creatures.

Altoon drew considerably from Abstract Expressionism, and the works in the series often depict distorted figurative subjects rendered just beyond recognition.

Later works include exuberantly satirical works of the 1960s, many featuring the vaguely autobiographical figure described by critic and artist Anne Doran as a «nattily dressed and deeply ridiculous Everyman in mad pursuit of liberty, poetry, and sex»; the pornography - inspired «X-Rated Paintings» of the early 1970s; the «Noun» paintings of the same period (each depicting a single everyday object against a bright, patterned background); the schematic, figurative canvases made in homage to Copley's Surrealist idol Francis Picabia; and the story cycles and morality tales from the 1980s and 90s, including a painting from the installation project The Tomb of the Unknown Whore.

Thus genre paintings or figurative works whose subjects are depicted (eg) in a romantic or nostalgic light are excluded from this genre.

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.

The crucial dilemma for artists is how to convey complex figurative works that depict grand story arcs, while compressing a multitude of thoughts, nuance, ideas and emotions into a static singular image.