Sentences with phrase «from figurative»

Zuckerberg said he hopes other tech platforms can learn from the figurative «playbook» Facebook has put out for dealing with abuse.

This show spans Ribak's career, from the figurative, realist works belonging to the Ashcan movement to his abstract explorations replete with organic, biomorphic forms and a calligraphic style.

«Elmer Bischoff: Paintings from the Figurative Period, 1954 - 1970,» John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California, 1990.

«What you are suggesting for abstract painting, is a total separation from figurative painting.

Beginning in 1921, a series of creative breakthroughs led Davis away from figurative painting and toward a more abstract expression of the world he inhabited.

I'm not persuaded that a consistently logical link or thread exists or can be manufactured that will prove to be a unifying theory bringing together figurative and abstract painting (as an aside I have never seen the point of making abstract works that claim direct descent from the figurative).

An extraordinary colorist whose style transformed from figurative expressionism to lyrical abstraction, Beauford Delaney was born in Knoxville, Tennessee in 1901.

These paintings were a departure from his figurative work, he wanted to «make work that wasn't fed by some visual object or illusion of space.

At sixteen I rented my first loft at 6 Bleecker Street near the Bowery (sublet from the figurative painter Leland Bell) and sharing it with Michael Steiner.

While painting this way, Pollock moved away from figurative representation, and challenged the Western tradition of using easel and brush.

Thus a multiplicity of references from figurative associations, together with the work's own essential and abstract nature, come together to form an independent spiritual unity.

Moving from figurative work to painting intimate garden views is a natural new direction for Saskatoon artist Laureen Marchand.

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Turning away from figurative work, he joined two painted panels in «Window, Museum of Modern Art, Paris.»

Included works range from figurative / representational painting and film to process - based sculptural works and performances that register the presence and absence of bodies and objects.

This exhibition focuses on paintings from the IMMA Collection from the figurative to the abstract.

Stylistically, Guston's evolution from figurative art to Abstract Expressionism was gradual.

He is known for being one of the pioneers of 20th century abstract art, as he changed his artistic direction from figurative painting to an increasingly abstract style, until he reached a point where his artistic vocabulary was reduced to simple geometric elements.

Generously splashed, daubed, and poured, Doig's painterly composition falls in and out of focus, from figurative to abstract.

We talked about the painting process, his shift to shaped canvases, and his transition from figurative work to abstraction.

However, the artist does not foresee a permanent switch from figurative to landscape painting.

Early on, Gilliam, 82, distanced himself from his figurative roots and embraced abstraction defined by his deft relationship with color.

Through portraiture, landscapes and still lifes, Calderara depicted the people, scenes and objects of his native Italy — all suffused by a delicate, misty light inspired by the atmospheric glow of Lake Orta in Vacciago, where the artist moved in 1934 with his wife Carmela, and where he would work for most of his life.By the mid-1950s, Calderara began to move away from figurative painting to embrace a more geometric approach, radically reducing both the scale and the compositional elements of his paintings through use of simple forms and flat blocks of nebulous and subtle colour.

About The Artist From figurative painting, collage and installation to cartography and picture - book making, Oliver Jeffers» practice takes many forms.

Deeply influenced by his exile during World War II, the artist shifted away from figurative representation - distinctive trait of the Roman School period - and adapted a more evocative style, embracing the neo-cubist, informal tendencies of the 50s and 60s.

Iva draws extensively from figurative sources to create curled objects in stone that appear as full and fluid as... Continued

They range from figurative to abstract paintings, from assemblage to photography, and from conceptual to classical in their approach.

Whitaker realigned his practice from figurative art to abstraction and op art.

Iva draws extensively from figurative sources to create curled objects in stone that appear as full and fluid as a living, fleshy body would be.

Among these are the artist's most famous, landmark paintings — among them Pink Angels (1945), Excavation (1950), and the celebrated third Woman series (1950 — 53)-- plus in - depth presentations of all his most important series, ranging from his figurative paintings of the early 1940s to the breakthrough black - and - white compositions of 1948 — 49, and from the urban abstractions of the mid 1950s to the artist's return to figuration in the 1960s, and the large gestural abstractions of the following decade.

After his first visit to the United States in 1959, when he became acquainted with the work of painter Kenneth Noland and sculptor David Smith, he moved away from figurative art entirely.

These pieces range from figurative photography by Trisha Donnelly to whimsical fruit stickers by Guyton / Walker, all enclosed in an exclusive archival box by Stuart Bailey and David Reinfurt.

Entitled 20IN15 this group show was organized with the intention to round up truly diverse names in contemporary art, ranging from figurative to street art, from surrealism to abstraction.

As a member of the Abstraction - Création group and with influence from the continental avant - garde, Hepworthmovedaway from representation andshifted from figurative to abstract forms, althoughher works continued to maintain a visual affinity with the human form

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.

Sir Anthony started his career as an assistant to the sculptor Henry Moore before moving away from figurative shapes to abstract forms.

This exhibition follows Wassily Kandinsky's intriguing journey from figurative landscape painter to modernist master, as he strove to develop a radically abstract language.

The exhibition comprised drawings and paintings, from her figurative trees and portraits to her most significant abstract works.

It is all a far cry from the figurative humanism of the High Renaissance.

His collection ranged from figurative works from the first half of the 20th century to refined abstract pieces from 1950 forward.

The exhibition in Rostock shows newer as well as less - known works illustrating Scully's development from figurative to abstract art.

Constructed of torn newspaper pasted to wire armatures and loosely painted with a wash of casein, the sculptures in that exhibition marked a radical departure from the figurative paintings and drawings that had dominated Oldenburg's artistic production in the preceding years.

2002, Havana): In his long career as a painter, graphic artist and sculptor, Julio Girona has worked in a range of styles, from figurative to symbolic abstraction.

from the figurative depiction of the woman's body in Rampant Vulnerability, the vein - like structures of Strange Labor, to the connotations of the vaginal form in Bombyx Travels.

On view at the Gallery's 32 East 57th Street location through October 26, 2013, Excursions en no man's space features 44 works on paper made late in the artist's career ranging from black and white to the primaries: red, yellow, and blue, and in form from figurative to abstract.

People often ask me how my work went from figurative (like Kitchen, 1990 — 96) to abstract (more recent monochromatic pieces).

They range in content from figurative to abstract and elemental forms.

Excursions en no man's space features 52 works on paper, ranging in palette from bright reds and yellows to pure black and white, and in content from figurative to abstract and elemental forms.

Painters Ellen Delaney, Ellen Kolansky, Barbara Muth, Gail Spencer Saour, and Susan Sherwin bring unique perspectives and aesthetic to the medium with their diverse techniques and styles from figurative to landscape to abstract.

The exhibition presents how these pioneering artists turned away from figurative traditions and explored a new visual vocabulary based on geometric forms, sharp planes and a primary palette