Sentences with phrase «for figurative work»

He draws inspiration for his figurative work from photographs, newspaper clippings, movie scenes, record album covers, the work of earlier artists like Edvard Munch.

He is well known for his figurative work, particularly depictions of the human head, but he has also addressed architectural subjects.

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

Paradoxically, although both artists are known for figurative work, Elaine is remembered as a portraitist, and Bill is not.

Known for his figurative work that features text, the exhibition will highlight the kaleidoscopic color and angles that Johanson employs.

Known formerly for her figurative works in oil on canvas, as well as using everyday materials including biro and bleach, Saville has — since 2014 — been producing large - scale abstracts, made up of flawlessly gradating shades.

He is known for his figurative works and for many public commissions, including the 220 - foot Zodiac Screen (1961), a series of twelve monumental bas - relief representations of the Zodiac on what was then the Pan American World Airways terminal at Idlewild (now Kennedy) Airport.

Dean Mitchell is known for his figurative works, landscapes, and still lifes.

Sherri Wolfgang is a Contemporary Renaissance painter and is known for her figurative works.

Sherri Wolfgang is a Contemporary Renaissance painter known for her figurative works.

Sherri Wolfgang is a contemporary renaissance painter and is known for her figurative works.

Jenelsie Walden Holloway's bold, fluid, abstract painting Inner Shade of Pale (1970) provides a compelling backdrop for figurative works from Africa.

Knowles draws from the influence of Thomas Hart Benton, Stanley Spencer and Paula Rego for his figurative works.

Best known for his figurative works created without the use of adhesive or scissors.

Zeng Fanzhi (b. 1964) Number 6 in the list of the World's Top contemporary artists, Zeng Fanzhi is noted for his figurative works employing a combination of expressionism and realism, as well as his sequence of ironic Great Man paintings, which includes Lenin, Mao, and Karl Marx among others.

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Argo is a valentine to the cinema in the very convincing drag of a political thriller; a closing title reveals that Chambers was literally declared a national hero for his work with Mendez, and it's the movie's sly mission to get us thinking of him as a figurative one as well, for all those great ape makeups.

While geo - specifically Canadian, and working within a coloniality of power that I often felt obliged to critique, I think my identity growing up in Canada was more mobile than nationalist, if not badly mangled, bleeding through the figurative membranes of its Canadian - ness, as something that was always already foreign to itself, as I really didn't have a sense of what it meant to be a Canadian but at the same time I tried to account for the people I met and the ideas I encountered in the context of living a life in the service of something larger than one's nation state, trying to understand what it meant to be of service to society.

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.

Figurative language aside, often some of the hardest work for an author comes after the book is released.

For the artist, these figurative works have been a means for showing that pain, sadness, and distress are suppressed by those in power in modern - day ChiFor the artist, these figurative works have been a means for showing that pain, sadness, and distress are suppressed by those in power in modern - day Chifor showing that pain, sadness, and distress are suppressed by those in power in modern - day China.

We offer a strong figurative tradition in the Drawing, Painting and Sculpture Studios that can be used as a foundation for students to move on into other artistic avenues, or that can be developed as an end in itself to produce work within a figurative genre.

At Nahmad, whose booth right next to the entrance, a figurative wire sculpture by Calder, Hercules and Lion (1928), is not for sale, but its other works are priced from seven figures on up: a Jean Arp at $ 1.5 million, a Max Ernst at $ 12 million, a Fernand Léger at $ 13 million, and a Joan Miró at $ 15 million.

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.

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.

The artist has invoked afros in his figurative work and as abstract motifs for two decades.

Figurative work is an area I have simply not had the time to work on for at least 10 years.

Al Johnson is better known for his figurative art works.

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).

Spent 1939 - 47 in the Argentine, working part of the time in a figurative style, but in 1946 helped to found the avant - garde Altainira Academy at Buenos Aires, his ideas about the need for new art to express the modern world as revealed by science leading to the publication of the Manifiesto Blanco.

Pauline has exhibited her work annually in Boston since 1998 and has also continued to exhibit in Australia where she was the recipient of a coveted prize for oil painting in the prestigious national juried exhibition, The A.M.E. Bale Art Awards, known as Australia's premier awards for traditional realism and figurative art.

These lectures enthusiastically commend less visually appealing works almost as if they will be good for us, cod - liver oil for the eyes — but twentieth - century figurative painters Alice Neel, Sylvia Sleigh, and Philip Pearlstein simply do not paint as beautifully as Courbet or Renoir.

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.

Kramer didn't seem interested that Guston had painted figurative murals for a couple of decades before working in abstraction, and he made no connections between the new work and the old.

As one of the leading realist artists working in the United States, William Beckman is celebrated for the intimacy and emotional power of his figurative drawings.

Neel persisted passionately with figurative painting throughout the post-war period, gaining recognition for her work from the 1960s onwards.

His work paved the way for a new generation of figurative painters, and his absence in the art world will surely be felt.»

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

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.

Richard Colman's work is known for blending figurative imagery and bold geometry.

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.

The Italian born, LA - based artist has been working on this concept since the»90s and was probably among the first artists that used 3D CGI programs for figurative painting.

In her catalogue essay for the exhibition, Keith offers a scholarly investigation into Gaines» work and challenges the notion that African - American artists of the period focused predominantly on figurative expression.

Known for his playful integration of abstract elements into figurative scenes, Philip Guston was a Canadian - born American artist who achieved recognition and fame by working in two seemingly different (yet connected) styles — Abstract Expressionism and Representational Painting.

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.

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.

With David Park and Elmer Bischoff, Diebenkorn became associated with the Bay Area Figurative Movement, and would continue to work in a representational mode for the next decade.

Known for his figurative abstraction, Taylor will spend January living and working at Museo Taller Jose Clemente Orozco (the historic former residence and workshop of the late Mexican muralist) and, at the end of the month, the works produced during that time will be presented in an exhibition in the space.

Throughout this process a distinct distillation of choices developed for each artist that is wide - ranging but particular: both figurative and abstract, sculptures and some works on paper have been selected in addition to paintings, and historical as well as contemporary works, are juxtaposed.

Wanting to be free, he made a radical transition to figurative work, creating cartoonish paintings that he's arguably most famous for.

No press release for this show, but we figure there'll be a mix of abstract and figurative work on view.