Sentences with phrase «for figurative images»

For the figurative images, I have to really ask myself: «What I'm really seeing?

The painting exemplifies Henry Taylor's penchant for figurative images of relatives, people from his neighborhood, historic figures, and sports heroes.

Not exact matches

In Captain Stormfield's visit to heaven, he learns that the conventional image of angels as winged, white - robed figures bearing haloes, harps, and palm leaves is a mere illusion generated for the benefit of humans, who mistakenly take «figurative language» to be a realistic depiction.

Here are some of my more surreal figurative pastels from when I lived in southern Mexico.Click on the images for sizes and prices email me at [email protected] with any questions.

Jack Whitten's narrative Abstract Expressionist works from the 1960s draw imagery from the Civil Rights movement, including ghosted images of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr; Joan Semmel's figurative paintings question representation of female sexuality through the lens of self - portraiture; Gay liberation and the AIDS crisis are the cultural context for narrative paintings by the late Hugh Steers (1963 — 1995).

Whether appropriated by some contemporary figurative painters or aligned with some sort of new figuration, where the painters «find everything to be a matter of images» (to quote Barry Schwabsky from the online catalogue for «A New Subjectivity»), Abstraction clearly and demonstratively engages with the problems of painting (and collage and sculpture) despite the surprising conservatism of Kerry James Marshall.

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.

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.

We've only got two images to go on and since one of the two figurative works reminds us a little of careful brushwork and delicate landscapes Echo Eggebrecht has become known for (minus the figure), this show gets a nod.

Moore (1953 - 2002) is best known for large, highly detailed figurative paintings filled with fantastic and symbolic images.

For me, to get past gestural painting, I have to reconsider what it means to use figurative elements or still life or landscape to make an image.

Her recent curatorial projects have included The Subtle Image group figurative exhibit at Dejavu Gallery, Reflecting Our City for the White Roof Project at the Center for Social Innovation, and participating in the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts» A Wicked Problem.

Image painting — here, a term to include a broad range of figurative and representational approaches — served as a vehicle for issues and activism: gender, First Nations culture, social injustice, and a global reckoning of environmental concerns.

«People with too strong of a love for figurative art often can tend to be very conservative and overly respectful to the traditions of realistic or academic approaches to image making.

He is known for strong figurative images, frequently in black and white.

She produced a series of awe - striking images titled «Caryatid» in 1980 as part of her Temple project using the diazotype process — used most commonly for creating architectural blueprints — in which she projected images or negatives made from transparent tissue paper and acetate onto large sheets of light - sensitive paper and exposed (sometimes as long as overnight) to create cyan and sepia - toned figurative photographs.

Moore is best known for his figurative and highly detailed large - scale paintings filled with fantastic and symbolic images.

Andrew Taylor is an Australian artist, known for his blending of figurative and abstract art, seen in his images of nature, especially flowers.

For his fourth exhibition, figurative painter Jason Shawn Alexander returns to his provocative and courageously revealing form of image - making of pivotal earlier works of his career, particularly those of the Insomnius and Undertow series.

Traveled to: Denver Art Museum, January 25 — March 22, 1992; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, April 9 — March 31, 1992; Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, July 5 — August 23, 1992; The Goldie Paley Gallery, Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, September 5 — October 11, 1992; Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences, Inc., Savannah, Georgia, January 5 — February 21, 1993 (Catalogue) Group exhibition, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, September 7 — 28, 1991 Portraits on Paper, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, June 25 — August 2, 1991 Portraits, Linda Cathcart Gallery, Santa Monica, May 1991 Exhibition of Work by Newly Elected Members and Recipients of Honors and Awards, Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, May 15 — June 9, 1991 In Sharp Focus: Super-Realism, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, New York, April 14 — July 7, 1991 (Catalogue) 1991 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, April 2 — June 30, 1991 (Catalogue) Selected Prints from Spring Street Workshop, Tomasulo Gallery, Union County College, Cranford, New Jersey, March 8 — 28, 1991 Academy - Institute Invitational Exhibition of Painting & Sculpture, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, March 4 — 30, 1991 Louisiana: The New Graphics Wing, Louisiana Museum, Humlebæck, March 3 — 31, 1991 (Catalogue) Large Scale Works on Paper, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, February 21 — March 16, 1991 (Catalogue) Image & Likeness: Figurative Works from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown at Federal Reserve Plaza, New York, January 23 — March 20, 1991 Artist's Choice — Chuck Close: Head — On / The Modern Portrait, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, January 10 — March 19, 1991.

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McKinniss forges a symbolist vocabulary for contemporary figurative painting; he culls his source material primarily from online image searching, an intuitive process by which he reveals the relational network of his own media - saturated consciousness.

It seems an odd choice for a figurative exhibition until the viewers catch their own images reflected back in a pixel - like grid.

Julian Opie (b. 1958) British painter, sculptor, printmaker, noted for minimal figurative images.

• Eugene Atget (1857 - 1927) Famous for Paris street scenes • Edward Steichen (1879 - 1973) Pictorialism • Raoul Hausmann (1886 - 1971) Dada Photomontage Artist • Man Ray (1890 - 1976) Dada, fashion • John Heartfield (Helmut Herzfeld)(1891 - 1968) Dada photomontages • Ansel Adams (1902 - 84) Wilderness landscapes • Walker Evans (1903 - 75) Documentary pictures • Henri Cartier - Bresson (1908 - 2004) Street photography, surrealism • Robert Capa (1913 - 54) War photographer • Irving Penn (1917 - 2009) Fashion, ethnographical images • Richard Avedon (1923 - 2004) Fashion photography • Robert Mapplethorpe (1946 - 89) Figurative images and still lifes • Jeff Wall (b. 1946) Staged photography

★ William Baziotes: «A Centennial Exhibition: Surrealist Drawings of the 1930s» (through Dec. 29) More low than high, these raucous sometimes ribald figurative images in watercolor and gouache reveal quite a different side of the well - respected second - tier Abstract Expressionist painter best known for the tasteful restraint, diaphanous colors and blurry organic shapes of his mature style.

• Alfred Stieglitz (1864 - 1946) Photo - Secession founder • Edward Steichen (1879 - 1973) Versatile pioneer • Edward Weston (1886 - 1958) Still life photographs • Man Ray (1890 - 1976) Dada, fashion • Irving Penn (1917 - 2009) Fashion photos • Richard Avedon (1923 - 2004) Fashion, portraiture • Robert Mapplethorpe (1946 - 89) Figurative images and still lifes • Jeff Wall (b. 1946) Famous for his postmodernist pictorialism • Nan Goldin (b. 1953) Feminist camera art • Cindy Sherman (b. 1954) Surrealistic self - portraits • Andreas Gursky (b. 1955) Architecture, landscapes

Known for his deeply stylized and figurative imagery which emerged from a pre-Pop era, Katz's monochrome billboards are restrained in color to allow the text and images their full impact for passersby.

For this comprehensive show at Museum Brandhorst — which features thirty - three pictures on canvas, some thirteen display cases full of drawings, and, surprisingly, two videos — Guyton takes his formal vocabulary in new directions: «Wade Guyton: Das New Yorker Atelier» promises a journey into the dangerous shoals of figurative images.

(in: Abstrakter Expressionismus, Cologne 2005, p. 74) The figurative works of the 1930s and 1940s show Philip Guston working through his private and social experiences, creating a type of image that was new for him.

1981: «Eight Figurative Artists», Yale Center for British Art, New Haven 1984: «The Hard Won Image», Tate Gallery 1986: «Forty Years of Modern Art», Tate Gallery 1987: «British Art in the 20th Century», Royal Academy of Arts. 1987: «A School of London: Six Figurative Painters», Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo; Museum of Modern Art, Louisiana; Museo d'Arte Moderna, Venice; Kunstmuseum, Dusseldorf.

What we are left with is a series of abstract feelings forcefully made figurative — small precious objects that are catalysts for further images that we will never be able to visualise as they do not exist but in (y) our memory.

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.