A tireless visual inventor and improviser, Robert Rauschenberg
fused figuration and abstraction just as he married so many other loving couples, from painting and sculpture to performance and installation to art and technology — with wit and ease.
Not exact matches
Surface, shape, line,
and color are uniting concerns of these eleven artists whose works often
fuse together aspects of pure
abstraction,
figuration or narrative elements.
Here the tub form acts as a container for the body
and paint,
fusing figuration with
abstraction.
Tony Cragg's work supplants any longstanding art historical division between
abstraction and figuration: his sculptural innovation is to
fuse both styles in one work
and to make bronze into a malleable material.
The works often combine spontaneous
and deliberated gestures
and procedures,
fusing organic
and geometric as well as
abstraction and figuration.
South Korea native Jiha Moon
fuses her Eastern origins
and Western life in art works that combine
figuration with
abstraction.