Sentences with phrase «for figurative compositions»

Kerry James Marshall, known best for his figurative compositions of African - American sitters, has a stunning Rorschach - like pool of white on the booth of David Zwirner.

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It is a good rule that in trying to understand the Bible one should not have recourse to a figurative or allegorical explanation of any passage (outside those poetical and prophetical compositions which obviously have a symbolic intention) without first settling conclusions with the straightforward meaning, even if it seems offensive; for the offence may set up that tension in the mind through which we often reach the truth.

«Controversial for his exuberant figurative paintings in dung and glitter, Ofili has here contributed a relatively somber composition, choosing a detail from a series of pencil drawings entitled «Afro Margins.»

Joan Brown (1938 - 1990) was a prodigy in the «Bay Area Figurative style,» and «Portrait of a Chair» (1958), which serves as a kind of frontispiece to this exhibition, is a stunning example of someone mastering scale, composition, color and hell - for - leather brushwork at the tender age of 19.

As in his earlier Storm paintings where scraping gestures that erased figurative components became central to the composition, Cooke again uses abstract elements as building blocks for his new work.

While his unfussy, casual compositions share the pictorial flatness of AbEx, they are resolutely figurative; and while the cartoonish style foreshadowed Pop, Katz eschewed cultural icons for everyday folks, like his wife, Ada.

Despite the daily power struggles that fragment, divide, and segregate, Akunyili Crosby expresses the desire for wholeness in tight figurative compositions that contain layers of personal memories and of Nigerian culture and politics.

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.

Keane was proud that her gallery was asking 90 grand for The Torso, and moved that The Leg was not for sale, as she had «turned a corner» with that piece in fusing figurative painting with abstract composition.

Heavily influenced by Arshile Gorky and Pablo Picasso, de Kooning was often thought to have blended Cubism, Expressionism and Surrealism within his pictorial compositions, ultimately paving the way for generations of gestural figurative painters.

In collections including the Smithsonian / National Portrait Gallery, the City Museum of New York, Maine's Farnsworth Art Museum, and the Butler Museum of American Art in Ohio, Clark stands as a modern master figurative painter known for his command of composition, drawing and color, moving the continuum of art language with commitment and power.

Bob Thompson was an African - American figurative painter known for his bold and colorful canvases, whose compositions were appropriated from the Old Masters

Hartigan, who later received attention for her work seeming to resemble Willem de Kooning's figurative compositions, was the only woman in MoMA's 1958 «New American Paintings» exhibition among 16 male artists.

For 50 years they have worked separately in different geographic locations and different genres - Jerome in epic figurative painting and Joel - Peter in hand - crafted photographic compositions.

After the recent abstract and still - life based compositions he's been painting in Denmark, Netherlands or Finland, for this particular piece, Aryz went back to his figurative work.

The Irish expressionist painter Eveleen Power is noted for her evocative landscape and figurative works, as well as a range of more intimate compositions alluding to deeper emotional issues.

Taye is known for his evocative landscape and figurative work as he experiments with different mediums, color composition and depth.

Second, we can gather through drawings the artist made during this period that buried beneath the layers of brushed color are figurative elements which the artist uses as a start point for the life of the composition.

Critic David Ebony calls Lisa Mackie's exhibition at the June Kelly Gallery one of the «top 10 New York gallery shows for September» in ArtNet News as she allows «her imagination to run free in a wide array of abstract and figurative compositions.»