Sentences with phrase «form of surrealism»

A figurative painter at the outset of his career, Bischoff experimented with a form of surrealism during the 1940s before enthusiastically embracing Abstract Expressionism.

During her school days, talented young Trockel has already shown an undeniable interest is the grotesque and the unusual and majority of her early artworks were influenced by the later forms of surrealism.

Not exact matches

Gomes plays some tricky games with sound and voiceover, and an understated sense of surrealism lurks around the edges of the film, most notably in the form of the many animals that populate the film.

Wes Anderson's trademark ironic eccentricity and Roald Dahl's vaguely menacing but entirely lighthearted surrealism combine to form Fantastic Mr. Fox, Anderson's first animated effort, which uses the same maddeningly traditional stop - motion techniques as Isle of Dogs.

Draw out the surrealism fantasy stick figure composition made up of geometric shapes and then each child will begin to start shading their form.

Her sculptural stoneware and porcelain vessels display the influence of surrealism and her respect for natural organic forms, in contrast to the machine aesthetic prevalent in the pre-war era.

Enhanced by elements of surrealism and abstraction, her oeuvre responds to past forms of conceptualism, current art trends, interior design, and modernist architecture.

This interest in the juxtaposition of divergent aesthetics has its roots in surrealism, [iii] and Gottlieb's passion for large - scale abstraction and mythology's potential to be a living form of expression placed him in the vanguard of American painting.

With «Hernan Bas: The Dance of the Machine Gun & other forms of unpopular expression» at Lehmann Maupin's Lower East Side space, Bas's contemporary waifs have once again been transported to the aesthetic utopianism of German Romanticism, but this time they are shaped by a newfound interest in modernist theater, from Marinetti and the Futurists to the absurdist surrealism of Alfred Jarry's «Ubu Roi» (1896).

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.

[4] The result was a fluid composition that «well served Margo's brand of surrealism: a futuristic universe, inhabited by strange biological and architectural forms.»

The result is an exhibition where variety in scale, medium, and degree of abstraction is balanced by the strong continuity among all the works — a reliance on automatism, a juxtaposition of unexpected elements and conflicting temporalities, and the presence of organic forms — bringing to light the profound impact surrealism had on pre - and post-war American artists.

Merging in most successful way surrealism and Japanese influences, geometrical and organic forms his creations in stone are some of the most exquisite examples.

Influenced by surrealism, the studies of Freud and Jung, African art, and Pacific Northwest Native American art, Pousette - Dart pursued the transcendental not only in abstract forms, but also in the very way in which he applied paint.

The artist also refers to the legacy of surrealism: in her combination of forms and materials, and through the use of language in the titling.

Operating between documentary and fantasy — especially in the form of science fiction — his practice is influenced by both conceptualism and surrealism.

These works were both influenced by surrealism and a harbinger of Pop Art and, as such, form an art historic bridge between movements.

Despite the frenzied composition and garish, heavily saturated colors, every form is exceptionally neat, crisp, and flat, faintly reminiscent of Gorky's melding of synthetic cubism and surrealism.

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.

In the post-war era, interest in and connections between the UK and Latin American art shifted away from surrealism and muralism towards abstract geometric, kinetic and op art movements and then towards forms of conceptualism.

In 1938, after a brief affair with Samuel Beckett, she opened the Guggenheim Jeune gallery in Cork Street, London - the name being a crude imitation of the Parisian Bernheim Jeune Gallery - specializing in modern art, that is to say surrealism and various forms of geometric abstraction.

Yet here the line of representation inevitably blurs, as the artist nudges his forms toward abstraction and surrealism through softened edges, shifts in scale, lush but strange colors, manipulated perspective, and shapes and imagery that repeat but become altered over time.

The biomorphic forms and automatist elements came from surrealism and Picasso's work of the thirties.

Most scholarship has viewed Smith «s early work as developing out of surrealism and his later hard - edged forms as foreshadowing minimalism.

Her vocabulary of form is distinctive and grows out of organic surrealism.

The Logans strongly opposed all forms of modern art, including cubism, surrealism, and abstract expressionism.

He has at some point been identified with nearly every style of the 20th century — from surrealism's free association and the gestures of abstract expressionism to the cerebral forms of minimalism and the brutish marks of graffiti.

The American painter Arshile Gorky (1905 - 1948) created a personal language of form dealing with the iconography of the unconscious that enabled him to extend surrealism in the 20th century.

This group of noted American and British sculptors explores themes that range from social realism to otherworldly surrealism to abstraction of form.