Sentences with phrase «figures in the surrealism»

Salvador Dalì had a profound impact on the art world as one of the most recognized figures in the surrealism movement in the mid-20th century.

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New oil paintings on view are filled with dynamic figures that span reality (an upside down figure on a roller coaster) and a sense of surrealism (a figure lounging on the beach in red flips flops, atop clouds, with some body parts replaced by shapes).

As he began creating metamorphic compositions — in which a particular image would be created out of thematically relevant forms (for example: clowns whose faces and bodies are comprised of circus figures)-- Tchelitchew's art became more closely associated with surrealism.

He drew from a repository of styles — adapting tendencies in cubism and surrealism to transform figures into biomorphic shapes and developing his own highly personal vocabulary.

Philip Guston is a painter often referred - to in relation to Bradford, thanks to their shared affinity for a certain brand of cartoonish realism and the vague surrealism of the objects and figures in their work; the Modern's history with Guston and his paintings on view in the gallery adjacent to Bradford's only serves to re-invoke the comparison.

In the late «80s and «90s, Lichtenstein's work reflected an increasing influence of cubism and surrealism, often taking the form of abstract geometrical figures.

A central figure in the history of feminist art, Christina Ramberg explored traditional notions of beauty and their relationship to our bodies in her paintings from the 1960s and 70s exhibiting a wide range of influences including costume history, surrealism, outsider art, Pop art, and comics.

Unlike the abstract expressionists, who were immersed in the automatism of European surrealism, the traditional figure was very much Kline's starting point.

The gallery's autumn show will be dedicated to Klee, a pivotal figure in 20th century art, who taught at the Bauhaus school and whose intense, radiant paintings, replete with symbolism and references to the unconscious, draw on cubism, surrealism and primitive art.

From Bourgeois's formative struggle with the «father figures» of surrealism, including Andre Breton and Marcel Duchamp, to her galvanizing role in the feminist art movement of the 1970s, to her subsequent emergence as a leading voice in postmodernism, this book explores the artist's responses to war, dislocation, and motherhood, to the predicament of the «woman artist» and the politics of sexual and social liberation, as a dialogue with psychoanalysis.

While his works have often been compared to those from other key figures of the pop art movement, such as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, Rosenquist's pieces were unique in the way that they often employed elements of surrealism using fragments of advertisements and cultural imagery to emphasize the overwhelming nature of ads.

An emerging figure in contemporary art in Vancouver, Allison Tweedie is known for her meticulously constructed collages that make reference to surrealism, utopian modernism and the narratives implicit in photographs.

Santore also includes moments of transcription, which add a touch of surrealism to the otherwise purely perceptual works, as figures from Goya and Giotto appear in the skies.

Somewhere in that vacillation of sentiments we may realize, as Abakanowicz intends, that our heads are animal heads, that her figures» surrealism embodies a conflict within us.

Aspects of surrealism and abjection are paired with his anxious building of topographical textures with acrylic paint; he insists that his figures seemingly remain in state of primordial becoming.

Consequently surrealism was ever - present in his work and he was forever drawing fresh inspiration from figures as disparate as Alfred Hitchcock and Lewis Carol.