Sentences with phrase «in figurative»

I put all of the things I knew how to do in a figurative bowl, stirred them up, and poured out a freelance writing business.

That means that as time goes on, each individual mining for them has to work harder and harder (in a figurative sense — it's the computer that's working harder and using more electricity, and thus, costing more conventional money).

Obviously, they mean this in a figurative sense.

As a veteran Southern California trial lawyer, J. Craig Williams is no stranger to swimming with sharks, in the figurative sense.

«We live to survive our paradoxes,» the latter - day Canadian mythmaker Gord Downie sings, hinting at the internal contradictions we've carried along with us in our figurative canoes for centuries.

Exploring recent trends in figurative art, this exhibition will look at a particular strand of embodiment in contemporary art.

Plastic has a very long life span and we don't know how to get rid of it, so I began cutting it up and layering it, at first in a figurative way, and then as abstract works.

One of the most powerful forces to be reckoned with in the figurative tradition is Balthus.

Ofili used violent, vibrant colour in figurative paintings, drawing on several cultures - African, Aboriginal, African - American history to mention a few - all worked out in intricate pattern and texture, with glitter and collage and paint.

In the 20th century, watercolor was widely used by the Fauvists and early abstractionists like Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee, and then later in figurative painting by the likes of David Hockney and Francesco Clemente.

An exception in these figurative works is Entrance.

I need not speak in detail about this new manner, which appears in figurative as well as abstract art; but I think it is worth observing that in many ways it is a break with the kind of painting that was most important in the 1920's.

I've noticed, amongst my abstract painter friends, that they talk about their work in figurative terms.

In abstract art (if not in figurative art too), the content denotes what you get out of the whole thing, what you might see and feel at the time, and / or take away from the experience; what it «means», if you like.

But it was in the figurative paintings of Titian that Hayward discovered painting was about markings.

I'm not so sure that space is always so straightforward as is being made out in figurative painting; it can be varied and weird and inventive and un-naturalistic.

Similar twinned compulsions existed in Lanyon, even if his particular cultural situation meant his art more actively staged the contradiction, and that, when speaking of it, he emphasised its roots in the figurative tradition.

And what would you recommend to a young painter who wanted to learn how to paint in the figurative tradition?

The «tension» in the figurative depiction of space in Matisse's «Piano Lesson» is a case in point.

AB: Do you think there is an aspect of the abstract that you find necessary in these figurative works?

In Diary w / o Dates Allison Katz plays with self - portraiture, negotiating memory and projection in figurative painting.

EA: I was a printmaker at the Massachusetts College of Art, and I was interested in figurative work.

He does have a point about abstract space being unstable and ambiguous, as opposed to space that is stable and specific in figurative work.

How do you read space in an abstract painting as different from space in a figurative painting?

Known for working in a figurative style when others were beginning to experiment with abstraction, Neel has been hailed as an important figure in Twentieth Century art history.

Although she exhibited at blue - chip galleries, primarily Tibor de Nagy and Fischbach, Ms. Freilicher achieved only a modest level of fame in a career that lasted more than a half - century, although the revival of interest in figurative painting in the mid-1970s brought her in from the margins somewhat.

«Exactitude, Hyperrealist Art Today», published by Plus One Publishing and Thames and Hudson, is an imaginative and original book which presents a selection of contemporary artists, most of whom are represented by Plus One Gallery, working in a figurative, hyperrealist style.

The abstract tendencies of Jacklin are present in his figurative works, as his crowded city landscapes often appear as patterns of light and dark, making them simultaneously remote and familiar.

H, Painters find emotional depth and offbeat beauty in figurative works, Detroit News, May 16, 2012 Nathan, Emily, Gallery Shows LA: Holly Coulis, Artnet, April 12, 2012 Zevitas, Steven, 12 Must See Painting Shows, Huffington Post, March 2012 Publisher's Pick, New American Paintings, March 2012

Skilled in figurative works, as well as landscapes and more abstract compositions, he works in acrylics, watercolour, gouache and mixed - media such as collage.

In figurative painting we can report these experiences across the boundaries of language, geography and time.

That's the decade when the macho heroics of»50s Abstract Expressionism were replayed in figurative Neo-Expressionist art.

Rita Ackermann (b. 1968, Budapest) is a Hungarian - American painter renowned for subject matter that challenges and liberates traditional depictions of the female body and archetypes in figurative painting.

Wonner's mastery of form and color is as apparent in his figurative works as in his intricate still life paintings.

In recent years, he has painted in a figurative style based on photographs.

Porter remained steadfastly interested in figurative realism throughout his life even when his interest ran counter to the prevailing tide of Abstract Expressionism.

Another artist such as Willem de Kooningfeatured images of grotesque and violent women in a figurative aspect.

Solomon Fine Art, established in 1981, is recognised as one of Ireland's leading contemporary art galleries and has built its outstanding reputation representing both Irish and international artists working in both figurative and abstract styles.

Until 1988 he worked in a figurative manner, but after a stay in Amsterdam, where he was confronted by the uncompromisingly abstract work of such artists as Barnett Newman and Lucio Fontana, he abandoned the mythological themes in his art and aimed at greater honesty, clarity and directness.

«In figurative art, the mark has the greatest amount of content, the highest level of content,» he notes.

In Paris he became a confirmed abstractionist; in his work illusionistic space in figurative paintings yielded to uptilted planes and increasingly to a Cubist fracturing of the picture plane.

After years of depicting landscapes and portraits in figurative watercolors, she described her shift to abstract compositions as an effort to capture not what a place or event «looked like, but what it made [her] feel.»

This scenario then repeats itself in a figurative «train.»

Iovine specialized in figurative and portrait paintngs.

The painter's process relies on intuitive exploration that also springs from classical training in the French Academy in figurative work and studying American abstraction for two years.

Partially as a reaction against «Zombie Formalism,» these six established and emerging artists utilize their voices and life experiences to create a resurgence in figurative and landscape painting.»

Possibly a view from her apartment window at the time, it exemplifies her interest in figurative representations and urban existence.

At the same time, a resurgence of interest in figurative painting in our own moment, as evidenced by attention to the work of artists such as Lynette Yiadom - Boakye and Toyin Ojih Odutola, speaks to the continuing relevance of Nochlin's perspective for contemporary art.

Colescott candidly addresses the social and political pressures of race relations in the United States in his figurative paintings where Black subjects are observers, agents, and narrators of an incomplete and revised history.

Elina Merenmies follows in the figurative tradition, with formats ranging from small drawings to large scale paintings.