Explore Lee Krasner's journey
from figuration to abstraction through close looking at two of her works: Self - Portrait (1930) and Untitled, from the Little Images series (1948) in this gallery talk by Jenna Weiss, Manager of Public Programs.
Journey
from figuration to abstraction through a sequence of drawing, collage, stenciling, and painting in this afternoon studio workshop taught by contemporary artist Yevgeniya Baras.
Not exact matches
Diebenkorn's Bay Area figurative years
from the mid 1950s
through the mid 1960s marked a shift
from the artist's early
abstractions and set him apart
from the prevailing movement of the time and many of his contemporaries, for whom the movement of
abstraction was thought
to be in direct conflict with
figuration.
Richard Hickam's development reveals an underlying dedication
to abstraction and confrontation as it follows a non-conformist path
from photorealism
through unsparingly raw and gestural
figuration.
Hartigan continued
to refer
to Old Masters such as El Greco and Jean - Baptiste Greuze and
to experiment with balancing
figuration and
abstraction, but her later work,
from the 1980s
through the 2000s, tended toward the representational.
Working
through conceptual constructs including the new, the banal, and the sublime, he has taken his work
from its literal, deadpan beginnings in readymades
to baroque creations that extol innocence, beauty, sexuality, and happiness in confounding combinations of
abstraction,
figuration, sumptuous effect, and pure spectacle.