Sentences with phrase «form of figurative art»

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The expression of art — the exploration of figurative and abstract thought in tangible external forms — is unique to human beings.

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Tim Eitel (b. 1971, Leonburg, Germany) conveys a deep command of color, technique, and form in his figurative paintings inspired by his observations of contemporary life and art history.

On the occasion of «The Great Mother» and Phaidon's new book Body of Art, Artspace's Karen Rosenberg spoke to Gioni about the enduring appeal of figurative sculpture, his influences from Catholic church statues to Mike Kelley, and why he thinks this art form is especially vital todArt, Artspace's Karen Rosenberg spoke to Gioni about the enduring appeal of figurative sculpture, his influences from Catholic church statues to Mike Kelley, and why he thinks this art form is especially vital todart form is especially vital today.

The movement was formed by Billy Childish and Charles Thomson to celebrate and promote figurative painting in a reaction to the proliferation of conceptual art.

His more realistic figurative imagery in the 1930s and»40s gave way to the influences of cubism and other forms of abstract art.

Featuring more than 100 works spanning from the early 1980s to the present, including a number of new and never - before - seen pieces, the exhibition juxtaposes graphic patterns with abstracted, figurative paintings, creating a fully immersive environment that underscores the artist's systematic dismantling of the hierarchy between design and fine art, and between three - dimensional form and two - dimensional representation.

Most painters responded by getting weirder, more abstract, more experimental; representational figurative art was anachronistic, inert, crusty — a form of vanity exclusive to the rich.

Flat in color and form, the figurative painting of Alex Katz is considered a precursor of Pop art for its representational approach to the daily and the mundane.

The book is a beauty... There is, throughout Ms. Jones's essay and the book as a whole, voluminous documentation of work by major artists who still rarely figure in most histories of American postwar art, like Betye Saar, who made intricate figurative drawings on covered glass windows; Senga Nengundi, who was conjuring unusual forms from sand and pantyhose before Ernesto Neto was even a teenager; and John Outterbridge, whose multifarious assemblages took on a gamut of styles.

Anyone can see that the early Russian paintings in this show are a breathtaking escape from the old conventions of figurative painting, or that geometric art in the hands of great Latin American pioneers such as Oiticica and Lygia Pape is an escape from the ancien regime of the west, that their ecstatic floating forms are a vision of freedom.

A number of Stoller's figurative works are partially masked, their eyes either hidden from view or altogether absent, hence «Lend Me Your Eyes,» which calls on us to witness these haunting works of art — each with its own contorted, marred and / or embellished form — with some degree of empathy for the subject.

What / Why: «Sloane Merrill Gallery and the Boston Figurative Art Center (BFAC) announce their first collaboration in the form of a themed group exhibition titled «Back to Back».

It's hard to characterize the art produced in Bushwick: there are endless studios of artists producing forms of traditional figurative painting while countless others are experimenting with digital images — some older talents but mostly younger ones.

Beverley Street Studio School believes that a rich understanding and appreciation of the human form is the foundation of art training and essential to the success of both figurative and non-figurative art.

In the early 1950s, Cousins learned oxyacetylene welding from sculptor Shinkichi Tajiri, and his art developed from figurative forms in terracotta and wood, to works that incorporated more and more metal, and finally, to abstractions of welded steel.

The show will examine his understanding of form and light in the composition of formal portraits, still lifes and figurative works that celebrate the sensual quality of nature and the human body.The works relate strongly to the museum's permanent collection of fine art that includes portraits from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Dutch old master still lifes and studies of the nude and human figure, a staple of western art dating back to the classical forms of Greek sculpture.

Disagreeing with Cubist fragmentation, they produced figurative art (mostly still lifes) basic forms stripped of detail and supposedly pure in colour, form and design.

The grand special exhibition on occasion of the inauguration of the enlarged Kunstmuseum Basel will map the medium's extraordinarily dynamic evolution: the classical idea and form of sculpture grows more flexible and abstract as some artists integrate the trivial stuff of everyday life into their art or blur its spatial and conceptual boundaries, even as others return to the figurative tradition in an effort to set the genre on a new solid foundation.

In the tempestuous art world of the time, the use of figurative objects was deemed a form of apostasy.

The exhibition «The Bottom Line» presents various aspects of drawing as a form of contemporary art: from abstract to figurative, from small format to large, from rapid sketches to slow, large - scale projects and from drawing as film to drawing as performance.

Grau - Garriga introduced a new dimension into the art of tapestry where he took the traditionally figurative flat form and eliminated its expensive materials such as gold threads and silks.

In this modus, abstract sculpture would seem to be operating within the shadows of figurative art, which by stark comparison has an endless «library» of forms to work with.

Szymczyk's Documenta has been constructed according to the same idea that motivated, for example, Massimiliano Gioni, the artistic director of the 2013 Venice Biennale: to create an exhibition, one with numerous sites for viewing the art, that «blurs the line between professional artists and amateurs, insiders and outsiders, reuniting artworks with other forms of figurative expression — both to release art from the prison of its supposed autonomy, and to remind us of its capacity to express a vision of the world.»

Although abstract painting defined the international style of postwar art, Clemente was drawn to the rich visual culture that surrounded him, and he began intuitively combining figurative elements with abstract forms and symbols in his work.

The phrase «figure painting» is an imprecise alternative to the equally vague umbrella term «figurative painting» which itself commonly refers to a type of representational art, based on figure drawing, in which the focus is on the realism of the human form without encroaching on the more «artificial» genre of portraiture.

Upritchard aims to create figurative sculpture that simultaneously looks back at the history of the art form and to its future.

Although realist sculpture first emerged in the form of portrait busts of Roman Emperors (compare these gritty works with romantic Greek sculpture), and was continued most memorably by sculptors like Auguste Rodin (1840 - 1917), it wasn't until the advent of Pop - Art in the 1960s that artists like Duane Hanson (1925 - 96), John De Andrea (b. 1941) and Feuerman began to produce superrealist figurative sculpture.

Born from a mutual passion for the female form, «Les Petit Fours» is a carefully curated exhibition that brings together works from some of the best Australian and international New Contemporary artists and showcases the diversity of female figurative art and portraiture from around the world.

Thereafter, abstract symbols became the predominant form of Paleolithic cave art, outnumbering figurative images by 2:1.

The artist looks to the use of geometry in Islamic art as opposed to figurative forms seen in other artistic traditions.

Painter's Painters at the Saatchi Gallery picks up the theme of figurative painting as a still essential and central form of art making and tries to give it a new spin.

The encounter had its influence on Caro's practice, turning him away from the figurative style that had characterized his art at that time and toward the kinds of geometric forms he had seen in Noland's work.

But in the years since, the Modern, along with the rest of the art world, has tilted away from abstract painting and toward broader, socially encompassing forms like figurative painting, video and particularly photography.

Deianira Tolema: Often when we think of figurative art we think about the female nude, but your work is rather unique in how it centers around the male form.

These recurring elements derive primarily from the artistic conventions of ancient Greece and Rome, which, while known primarily for figurative art, employed a set of repeated abstract forms as a common parlance.

He is arguably best known for his figurative art deco paintings with people forming homogeneous crowds in identifiable scenes, possessing featureless faces as if their identities had been swapped with those of flattened manikins.

Co-curated by Betti - Sue Hertz of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Ruijun Shen of GuangDong Times Museum in Guangzhou, China, and Xiaoyu Weng of Kadist Art Foundation, which has offices in Paris and San Francisco, the group exhibition is also a site to bring together three public art spaces and curators around a shared interest — though not in the forms one might first associate with the concept: traditional Chinese landscape and Bay Area figurative paintiArt Foundation, which has offices in Paris and San Francisco, the group exhibition is also a site to bring together three public art spaces and curators around a shared interest — though not in the forms one might first associate with the concept: traditional Chinese landscape and Bay Area figurative paintiart spaces and curators around a shared interest — though not in the forms one might first associate with the concept: traditional Chinese landscape and Bay Area figurative painting.

Associated with both the Bay Area Figurative Art movement and abstract expressionism, California painter Richard Diebenkorn developed a distinct vocabulary of intersecting lines and geometric forms augmented by chromatic undercurrents.

Reflecting the surroundings and the viewer as part of the image breaks down traditional notions of figurative art in an ever changing spectacle, combining material form, pictorial space and gesture.

This biennial group exhibition features extraordinary figurative art and will encompass the examples of the human form in a variety of mediums.

Paintings from the 1950s include such works as Stephen Pace's Untitled (51 - 90), a dynamic abstract painting in which forms move into and through the picture plane in the mode of the art of Pace's teacher Hans Hofmann, Melville Price's Untitled (ca. 1959), a gestural painting in the abstract expressionist idiom in which figurative elements have a suggestive presence, and George Segal's Three Nudes (1959), in which a psychological tension is conveyed in the expressively treated figures that are integrated into spaces defined by veils or blankets of color.

In the arts, this dynasty was noted for architectural structures like the al - Azhar Mosque and the al - Hakim Mosque of Cairo; ceramic art in the form of pottery decorated with figurative painting and ivory carving as well as relief sculpture and the emergence of the «infinite pattern» of abstract ornamentation.

Although a master of both landscape and figurative works, Tomás O'Maoldomhnaigh is chiefly noted for his portrait art, which forms the basis of his thriving practice.

Her work can be defined as Figurative Representational form of art.

Featuring eight painters — four from L.A. and four from New York — the exhibition runs the gamut of current artistic styles, from Heather Gwen Martin's 2015 abstraction of figurative forms, titledCousins, to the hyper - realism of Marc Dennis» art historical pastiche Ironman, Captain America and a Russian Mobster Walk Into a Bar, which humorously constructs a new scenario for these three characters and Edouard Manet's famous painting A Bar at the Folies - Bergère.

Humour, sadness, elation, depression; pathos, ebullience, turbulence; love, hate, attraction, revulsion; pointing, pushing, pulling, cavorting; turning, tossing, tumbling, twisting; rock and roll, victory and defeat; all the elements, in fact, of intense human interaction and drama that were once the province of figurative art, particularly figurative painting — where they formed the pretext upon which was built a profound diversity of imaginative visual constructs — are seemingly no longer at the behest of figurative art, which languishes in states of mock - academia or faux - avant - gardism, by turns bathetic, mundane or grotesque... all that human content is now, surprisingly but necessarily, the prerogative of the abstract artist.

An abstracted figurative style, combining machine - age forms and the energetic imagery suggested by a vortex, this movement emerged in London at a moment when the staid English art scene had been jolted by the advent of French Cubism and Italian Futurism.