The five new works by Florian Pumhösl are studies showing configurations of grids and circles, deriving
from figurative depictions on Byzantine coins on which one can read a slow dissolution of the depicted portrait, bust or figure.
(2016), step away
from figurative depiction altogether, whereas others, like The Funny Pleasures of War (2015 - 16), bring in fragments of the human body or iconographic symbols like the skull.
Moving
from figurative depiction, both artists are diving into a sphere of abstraction and dynamics, opening up their pictorial dialogue by exploring the abstract landscapes which emerge through the amalgamation of their creational spirits.
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.
Not exact matches
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.
The works in Surrealism USA are borrowed
from public and private collections in the United States and abroad, and all aspects of the Surrealist movement in America are represented: the
figurative depictions of a fantasy world by Peter Blume, Dorothea Tanning, and Helen Lundberg; the social surrealism of O. Louis Guglielmi, James Guy and Walter Quirt; the imaginary landscapes of Kay Sage and Yves Tanguy; Joseph Cornell's enigmatic and poetic constructions; the lyrical abstractions of Arshile Gorky and William Baziotes; the automatic experiments of Jackson Pollock and Gerome Kamrowski.
Peres Projects is pleased to present Wild Style: Exhibition of
Figurative Art, a group exhibition exploring
depictions of the human figure by contemporary artists and unidentified African artists active
from 200 BC to the present.
Pairing a
figurative style with self - generated imagery and formal composition appropriated
from her photographic practice, Cedar's paintings combine painterly gestures with articulated surfaces, oblique perspective shifts with flatness — the scenes wavering between
depiction, memory, and fantasy.
Her work joins that of peers like Genieve Figgis and Vera Iliatova (as well as that of certain female
figurative painters
from previous generations, such as Nicole Eisenman, Marlene Dumas, and Florine Stettheimer) in combatting art historical tropes with lyrical and complex
depictions of women.
From the early 1970s Dine's oil paintings, prints (perhaps his most successful work, usually sensitive and simple
depictions of tools, robes, etc.) and drawings became increasingly
figurative.
Consisting of 11,500 identically sized pieces of coloured glass, arranged at random by computer, it triggered a protest
from the archbishop of the cathedral Cardinal Joachim Meisner (b. 1933), who favoured a more appropriate
figurative depiction of 20th - century Catholic martyrs.