Sentences with phrase «into figuration»

Apart from the very occasional, idle foray into figuration — «sans le même désespoir» — I have been at the abstract paint face, so to speak, for the best part of thirty years.

Along with Fairfield Porter (who wrote perceptively about his work), Jane Freilicher, Grace Hartigan and Larry Rivers, he infused a gestural approach into figuration, while also engaging traditional painting genres.

In fact it may be abstraction's strength (and hope)-- while individual «areas / objects» in an abstract painting may have some limitations over representational objects (how to create an abstract «part» that does not tip the painting into figuration), abstraction has the advantages of not being limited by subjects and a certain type of visual space.

A modernist genre painter, a virtuosic colorist, and a realist painter who traffics in otherworldly moments, Resika has integrated so many idioms of abstraction into figuration that he seems to be giving a middle finger to the art world's ever - changing avant - gardes.

Now, as my concern for our planet grows daily, I make art to express this, in the beautiful, mysterious language of abstraction that sometimes crosses into figuration, using my sub-conscious, and love for others and the planet

Shown for the first time, the exhibition includes early figurative drawings that mark Semmel's departure from abstraction into figuration.

I can certainly relate to how Pollock must have felt when Greenberg condemned him for sliding «back» into figuration — the exact opposite of my present situation where I am sliding «back» into abstraction.

When Abstract Expressionism ran out of steam in the late fifties and started to look institutionalized, only de Kooning thought of leaping into figuration again.

And it is fair to say that the School of London had little to offer the Bay Area until those artists broke away from abstraction into figuration, led by David Park in 1950.

Her large works now greet visitors stepping off the elevator on the sixth floor of the biennial — a semi-recent foray into figuration that might stun those who only know her by her Minimalist paintings, which received a solo exhibition at the Whitney in 1975.

The exhibition tracks the artist's evolution back into figuration and the various themes and symbols that comprise his controversial late works, including Blackboard (1969), Edge of Town (1969), The Studio (1969), and Flatlands (1970), which were included in the groundbreaking Marlborough Gallery show, and By the Window (1969), in which Guston creates poignant autobiographical statements.

With titles culled from media, music and pop - culture, his abstraction often veers into a figuration of the many references he draws on for his work.

But Hoyland wasn't a sculptor, and in painting, the pendulum was already swinging back into figuration in London.

The women as «collateral» produced works often more experimental than the mens», tied into figuration inspired by dance, as well as ideas and themes from philosophy and poetry.

It may come as a surprise that Rashid Johnson's show «Anxious Men,» on view through December 20th at the Drawing Center, features some of the artist's first forays into figuration outside of his photographs and films.

The most remarkable thing about his career is how clearly it divides into three distinct phases: he started as an abstract artist in the late 1940s and early «50s, was enormously celebrated even in his twenties, and at the height of his success he then moved into figuration in 1955 following a move to Berkeley, California.

He has distanced himself from Tachisme, the French version of Abstract Expressionism, either because of the movement's willingness to slide over into figuration and overt expression — or simply because he dislikes categories.

They can just go right into figuration... Ultimately it all boils down to this criterion: «Are the paintings interesting enough for you to want to walk into the gallery and look at them?»

Not exact matches

What is new in the last two decades or so is the wholehearted Catholic entry into the more recent con figuration of partisan political lobbying in Washington and state capitals.

Curated by Paul Schimmel, the show charts Guston's progress as he played with Color Field painting, moved into grid - like abstractions, and came gradually closer to figuration, combining the visual languages of Abstract Expressionism and Minimalism.

«There were those people who were trying to breathe new life into what was essentially 19th - century portraiture versus those people who were intent on making a truly modernist form of figuration.»

Her charged work, a distinctive mix of abstraction and figuration, delves into childhood memories and the emotional struggles of everyday life.

Although his approach remained Ab - Ex in spirit and attack, McNeil's use of figuration activated his painting, transmogrifying Pollock's decorative swirls into something resembling life.

In her distinctive mix of abstraction and figuration, she delved into childhood memories and the struggles of everyday life.

Single visceral brush strokes resolve into minute details and subtle narratives, creating compositions of remarkable complexity in which abstraction and figuration co-mingle.

Over the past twenty years, she has employed a diverse array of techniques and vocabularies, ranging from the cheerily clumsy figuration of folk painting to imitations of digital image editing (an interest that has also extended to the incorporation of digitally printed wallpaper and conversational text elements into her canvases).

For all of the prominence of black figuration in 2017, the weight of history was always present either in the background, or woven into the substitution and reclamations staged in the pictures themselves.

Thomas Chimes: Early Works (1958 - 1965), 2009 Text by Lisa Saltzman 56 pages, Hardcover Published by Locks Art Publications ISBN: 978 -1-879173-41-5 «Developing, in these formative paintings, a visual style indebted to the palette and compositional structures of such modernist forefathers as Marsden Hartley and Henri Matisse and emboldened by the stenographic proto - abstractions of such New York School predecessors as Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko, Chimes systematically put forth a series of paintings that pressed such experimentations with the limits of figuration into the realm of the theological, the philosophical and the historical.

Ironically, like Guston himself, Picabia's turn from Dada to figuration came into fashion in the 1980s.

It wasn't until the Abstract Expressionists abandoned figuration that the concept was reintroduced into the art historical canon of the 20th century.

She has continually shifted the terms of her practice, incorporating figuration, abstraction, digital techniques and gestural mark - making into compositions that confound expectations of pictorial space.

Soon, figuration started finding its way back into Havard's work, in the form of geometric symbols from Native American iconography that he caused to float across the surfaces of his canvases.

Through her dynamic application of paint and pop cultural references, Pensato's compositions extend the possibilities of action painting into bold figuration and abstraction.

THROUGH LOOSLY RENDERED FIGURATION Henry Taylor conveys a sense of authenticity and insight into the complexity of humanity.

Though their respective bodies of work appear formally disparate — Caris creates abstracted figurations and Amanda showcases figuration into her abstractions — each relies on a shared interest in times past.

Taking inspiration from artists such as Durer, Goya, and Rubens, she began to incorporate figuration into her work, as seen in «River Bathers» (1953) and «The Tribute Money» (1952).

For a while now Amy Sillman has been one of the most exciting painters working in America, creating bravura canvases that poke fun at the orthodox distinctions between figuration and abstraction, messing it all together into a humorous, thought - provoking, and often sexy stew.

His large - scale paintings collapse figuration and abstraction, encapsulate dynamic energy into geometric form and embrace imperfections and raw surfaces in an entirely human way.

Beginning in the 1960s, he obsessively collected newspaper clippings, cartoons and advertisements; these images fuelled his investigations into the distinctions between high and low culture, figuration and abstraction.

With a nod to the long lost divide between abstraction and figuration their divergent works take positions of figure, foreground, background, and architecture as a scene of unrelated moments forced into dialogue.

When I was a young man, leaving my student days behind and coming into the professional art world at the beginning of the «60s, the problem was that figuration had run out of steam — it had hit the buffers.

Since the 1950s, artist Maria Lassnig has incorporated painting techniques from various art - historical periods into her practice — realism, surrealism, and expressionism alike — in an effort to develop a distinct style of painting that blends figuration with abstraction.

In these works, the boundaries between painting and sculpture, and abstraction figuration, are called into question.

So I was linking these stories together and I wanted to bring the Ebony pages into these stories as well, and the penmanship paper, and the matter itself would build the figuration and be a kind of bandage, not falling apart and coming together in the same way as Bird in Hand but more like a bulbous bandage.

The subject of numerous international shows and much critical acclaim, these pieces signal the apotheosis of Sutcliffe's late style, emphasizing his movement away from figuration into the collaged geometricism of his works on paper and the dense gestural abstraction of his paintings.

Different in scale and style, his painterly production contemplates both intimate and delicate paintings where figuration fades into abstraction, as well as more exuberant and confrontational works that deploy references to pop culture, sexuality and consumerism.

blends figuration and abstraction to address into various subject matter.

With a compelling range of media, themes, figuration & abstraction, these works solidly fit into a show revolving around «love & fire.»

Always somewhere between abstraction and figuration, Kiefer's poetic and deeply psychological approach discusses hard social issues that are, thanks to him and his contemporaries, such as Georg Baselitz, Sigmar Polke, and Gerhard Richter, brought into the discussion, forcing Germany to face its terrible past.

Group exhibitions include Dynamo, curated by Serge Lemoine and Matthieu Poirier, Grand Palais, Paris, France, 2013; Abstraction / Figuration, Musée des Beaux Arts, Rennes, France, 2014; From Minimalism Into Algorithm, The Kitchen, New York, 2016; and Sixfold Symmetry: Pattern in Art and Science, Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum of Art, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York, 2017.