Sentences with phrase «from figurative forms»

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.

Cousins» work developed from figurative forms in terracotta and wood to abstractions of welded steel.

(1910 - 1962) American, yet imbued with visual culture of Europe, Franz Kline exemplifies the development of pictorial language from a figurative form that derives from Rembrandt and the other great masters whose work he knew well from visiting European museums, to abstraction.

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Students are encouraged to consider a number of start points such as working directly from the model, on Figurative Sculpture or Portrait Head courses to developing individual projects on the Free Form course.

Even earlier works like Fable II and Rite, both from 1957, earn their titles by the nonspecific figurative connotations of their bunched shapes; it would take only a little bit of further manipulation to turn those forms into the kind of stylized figures found in the paintings that Jan Müller was making around this time, or Bob Thompson just a little later.

A variety of shapes gathered together, presaging her later, figurative works inspired by African avatar - like forms that assemble objects from the person's life and gather them together.

A unique amalgamation of artist, Spiritualist and medium, the fascinating and unexpected story of Houghton has generated international interest from curators and writers who see her work as representing an abandonment of figurative form that anticipates the development of modern abstraction by artists such as Kandinsky or Malevich by several decades.

It also covers aesthetic forms and genres, from conceptual to formalist, abstract to figurative practices.

Regardless of the student's idea, figurative or abstract, I teach the Mentori method of carving, which involves blocking out the form from the massive block, followed by forming the shape and finishing.

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 today.

For his large sculptural installations, Ward reclaims materials he finds in his neighborhood — everything from debris to precious treasure — to create abstract and figurative forms.

The three large paintings in the exhibition mark Whitten's turn away from the overtly figurative to a form of subliminal figuration.

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.

Wrestled into figurative forms that evoked a sense of wonder, artwork was presented in a solo exhibition held from June 5 to July 17 at Dowling College's The Anthony Giordano Gallery in Oakdale.

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.

Hueller's work, while almost abstract, plays with three - dimensionality, figurative elements and shapes and forms derived from such diverse influences as surrealism and die Brücke.

Far from making a «statement» however, the absence of facial features enables his female forms to remain purely figurative.

15 October: William Tucker RA at Pangolin London — Explore the later development of Tucker's robust approach to the figurative form: see a selection of maquettes, monumental bronzes and watercolours from the last four decades.

Belgian artist, Michaël Borremans, creates mystery on the canvas through figurative painting, filing inanimate objects with a sense of humanity, and obscuring the life from any human forms.

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

During the late 1960s, Guston became frustrated with the limitations of abstraction and returned to figurative painting, amassing a potent language of motifs whose roots can be seen in the forms and shapes of Traveler III, and illustrating what Christoph Schreier refers to as subcutaneous figuration.2 Following his 1966 exhibition at the Jewish Museum in New York, Guston relocated to Woodstock, New York, embarking on what would become a two - year hiatus from painting.

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.

From performative and low - fi beginnings, Oursler has developed an ever - evolving multimedia and audio - visual practice utilising projections, video screens, sculptures and optical devices, which might take form as figurative puppets, ethereal talking automatons or immersive, cacophonous environments.

Similarly in a rare figurative composition by Johnson from 1946, watercolor shapes and colors overlap and coalesce to form an abstracted portrait of Asawa, later given to her.

Richard Green, London, 14 — 31 January 2015 And from the purely abstract to the sublimely figurative, in the form of paintings by Ken Howard RA, who presents his impressionistic cityscapes of London, Paris and New York at Richard Green gallery from Wednesday.

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.

In conjunction with her exhibition «Full Circle,» artist Summer Wheat shares the methods and cultural histories that guide her abstract - figurative work, from intuitive perception to ancient forms of representation and knowledge.

Exposure to the emerging New York School purged figurative aspects from his work, encouraging a simplified form of abstraction.

The sculptures have often been constructed from readymades but sculpted out of their original forms and combined to resemble figurative sculpture.

In fact this exhibition is organized in a way that allows the viewer to see the artist's progression from figurative to abstraction and how simple vegetal forms (the gnarly tree limbs, the nudes) would later reemerge as twisted abstract forms mounted onto pedestals.

In a new body of works on display at Victoria Miro Mayfair, figurative forms are conjured from a dynamic interplay of lines and marks.

Working in a bright palette and always with one eye on figurative forms and the other on architecture, Stokoe creates his scenes from a combination of memory, photographs and the everyday imagery.

Deeply informed by the history of sculpture — from mystical prehistoric sources up to the present moment — her ambiguous, figurative forms disrupt entrenched notions of the classical ideal.

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.

After gradually moving toward working with three - dimensional forms, in 1970 she made the artistic changes in scale and material and began creating figurative and non-figurative sculptures from burlap and resin, eventually moving to bronze, wood, stone, and steel.

Although the number of abstract painters increased substantially from the late 1900s onwards - in the form of Cubists, Suprematists, the De Stijl movement, Abstract Expressionism and the Minimalists - figurative artists continued to develop new techniques and methods.

From unconventional materials and processes, he creates figurative forms such as Self (1991).

OCY: Your paintings tend to achieve figurative forms, but almost turn away from the edge.

Above all, they turned away from figurative traditions and explored a new visual vocabulary based overwhelmingly on geometric forms, sharp planes and a primary palette.

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

Watch for the literal and figurative intersection of their works as Sato's sculptures originate from the ceiling and Miller's begin at the floor, toying with figure, form and space.

The tide turned when in the late 1950s the «Bay Area Figurative Movement» began to form in San Francisco from the ranks of the Abstract Expressionists: an increasing number of artists now criticized the non-figurative nature of Abstract Expressionism and revisited figuration.

This lead him to move away from relatively straightforward figurative representation into more abstract work concerned with questions of form and colour.»

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.

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

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.

You will be confronted with an explosion of color and form from both artists, the geometric figurative work of Vesod is equally matched in intensity from Morten Andersen.

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.

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.