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What followed were figurative works which introduced an erotic, psychological element to the Social Realism of the day, and murals for public buildings that didn't always please the public.

In Kohler's aesthetic deviation into the abstraction in his Pareidolia series of geometric cardboard constructions, we see him continuing the conceptual threads created in his figurative work which speaks to hope and hopelessness.

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Figurative language works by implication and often by indirection, which may account, in part, for the impression that poetry is hard to understand and needs to be interpreted, unlike a news article, where the language is literal and straightforward, the meaning self - evident.

The work was figurative and expressionist, which seemed to have been my orientation.

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.

But that may be about to change thanks to the Royal Academy of Arts (RA) which has launched the first major survey of Diebenkorn's figurative and abstract works in the UK in almost 25 years.

Opening at Mana Contemporary in Jersey City on Saturday, May 10 and continuing to August 1, 2014, the exhibition will present work from Resnick's entire six - decade career, including a rare 1937 portrait; quintessential Abstract Expressionist paintings from the 1940s and»50s; a selection of the large allover paintings of the 1960s through 1980s for which Resnick is best known; and a group of late figurative works.

In 1999 he co-founded the Stuckist movement, which railed against the dominance of the Young British Artists» conceptual art, in favour of contemporary figurative work.

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.

The figurative work is composed of large areas of color to form spaces into which Diebenkorn placed a simplified standing or seated figure.

Bringing together more than 90 works from pubic and private collections, the exhibition features paintings and works on paper spanning the early 1930s through the late 70s, from his early depictions of African masks and figurative works to the abstract images for which he is most recognized.

The display will include works that span his long and productive career, from the figurative paintings of the 1940s to the Perspex square reliefs he made in his later years, which will be displayed across the ground floor of the gallery.

While the first exhibition in 2008 * focused on the iconic Estate Paintings, White Abstracts and History Paintings which established Coventry's reputation in the 1990s, Works 2002 - 2009 will include an extraordinarily wide range of work, much of it overtly figurative, including major new works that have never before been exhibWorks 2002 - 2009 will include an extraordinarily wide range of work, much of it overtly figurative, including major new works that have never before been exhibworks that have never before been exhibited.

The first monograph on Iraqi artist Hayv Kahraman surveys her figurative work, which mines the marginal space that pertains to diasporic peoples, collective and personal memory, and gender.

Her long career and wide - ranging practice encompassed early figurative works, Surrealism and the mature abstract works for which she is best known.

Linked by the works» engagement with figurative representation, the show displayed a diverse range of mediums from monoprint and watercolor to photography and sculpture, most of which explore notions relating to identity, society and isolation.

These works, which completely eschew paint are full of mystery, the original figurative image being progressively buried into the surface.

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.

In their seeming lack of the kind of detail or warmth that we associate with much of Larner's work, there is still something interestingly personified about each sculpture, which allows them to at once appear stoic and and the same time oddly figurative and thus in motion.

In addition to several spectacular abstract and neo-modernist works by artists including Louise Bourgeois, Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Irwin, Richard Serra and Olafur Eliasson, the exhibition will feature Selvaag's outstanding collection of pioneer works within American and Japanese figurative photography which seldom or never have been shown in Norway, by American Walker Evans, Diane Arbus, Lee Friedlander and William Eggleston, and Japanese Shomei Tomatsu, Daido Moriyama and Nobuyoshi Araki.

It was about time for a shift in the Houston painter's work, which for the past several years has been characterized by cartoonish figurative elements duking it out with a whirling array of abstract elements from hard - edged to splashy.

Following a visit to Russia in 1965, during which he had the opportunity to see many works held in Soviet collections, Diebenkorn's figurative practice was reinvigorated.

For her newly commissioned work Foreign Exchange (2015 - 17), artist Phillipa Horan worked with a commercial biotech laboratory in Upstate New York to produce what is possibly the first large - scale figurative sculpture grown from mycelium, the single cell root system of which a mushroom is the fruiting body.

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.»

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

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.

The exhibition is the first to explore Still's striking figurative work created before World War II, which points to the significance of figuration throughout the artist's oeuvre, even in his most apparently non-representational compositions.

Although all of the artists have donated works to help to support the magazine and the development of the art school, this exhibition has been carefully considered to reflect that which is current, significant and critical in contemporary painting, including abstract works by Thomas Nozkowski, Mali Morris and Phil Allen, and painters who have championed a figurative approach such as Chantal Joffe, Neal Tait and Dinos Chapman.

The artist's new works will continue his distinctive approach to painting, in which his works are both painterly and sculptural and also textural and figurative.

He marked the shift with his first foray into figurative paintings, which made up half of the eight works in the exhibition.

FRANCIS PICABIA: OUR HEADS ARE ROUND SO OUR THOUGHTS CAN CHANGE DIRECTION Picabia was on the ground with the Dadaists in Paris, but this exhibition includes his later work, which has influenced contemporary painters — perverse figurative paintings that look like precursors to Pop Art, or pulp fiction book covers.

Focusing on sculpture in which artists have sought to replicate the living body, Hirst's «Virgin (exposed)» will be displayed alongside figurative works by artists including El Greco, Auguste Rodin, Louise Bourgeois and Duane Hanson.

On the occasion of his new show of figurative paintings at Jack Shainman, which alludes to the Black Lives Matter movement and the current political climate, the artist shares some frustrations about the reception of his work.

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.

A few years before the memorable crit at MassArt, his work had been included in the Corcoran Gallery's 40th Biennial of Contemporary American Painting, which critics saw as an antidote to the «camp and kitsch» of figurative painters like David Salle and Eric Fischl.

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.

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.

Yet the domestic and figurative roots of his work afford visual intimacy, even when he is working on a public scale, which he does with immense if wry conviction.

The Suite of Plant Lithographs, which is the first ensemble of this noted figurative theme in Kelly's work, is a testament to the clarity and visual strength of these pieces, and their adjacency to the other black and white works underscores their alliance with the strict abstraction that characterizes the rest of the exhibition.

Currently, the Evans Center features an exhibition called Pose / Re-Pose: Figurative Works Then and Now, which showcases works by acclaimed African American artists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries in dialogue with contemporary artists who utilize the body as a primary fWorks Then and Now, which showcases works by acclaimed African American artists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries in dialogue with contemporary artists who utilize the body as a primary fworks by acclaimed African American artists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries in dialogue with contemporary artists who utilize the body as a primary focus.

Hepworth Wakefield is holding a highly acclaimed exhibition of the work of Polish artist Alina Szapocznikow (1926 — 1973), which highlights how the artist's work developed from classically figurative sculptures to her later, politically charged, «awkward objects».

Dona Nelson: Stand Alone Paintings, which opens May 12 and runs through August 12, will feature over 30 paintings drawn from the last four decades, bringing together rarely shown figurative works alongside more recent abstractions.

A selection of sculptures, reliefs and paintings by artists working in the area will be exhibited to complement the Gallery's major spring exhibition, Victor Pasmore: Towards a New Reality, which illustrates Pasmore's controversial move from figurative to abstract art.

Once he began spending timeon the East End of Long Island, in Amagansett, he left figurative work behind and entered a new phase, which became his passion — the landscape.

For the works featured in And Debris, Shepherd departs in many ways from her previous work, which has been primarily rational and figurative, with an overall sense of stability.

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.

Yet the domestic and figurative roots of his work afford visual intimacy, even when he is working on a public scale, which

The Columbus Museum of Art and Denver Art Museum present Mark Rothko: The Decisive Decade, 1940 — 50, a major exhibition tracing the evolution of Rothko's work from his Surrealist - influenced, figurative compositions of the early 40s to the abstract, color field paintings for which he is best known.