Sentences with phrase «into figurative forms»

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.

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By sixth grade, the standards become more detailed and specific, including understanding figurative and connotative meanings of words; analyzing the impact of a specific word choice on meaning and tone; considering how a particular stanza fits into the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of the theme; and contrasting the reading and multimedia experience of a text and various forms or types of poetry in terms of their approaches to similar themes and topics.

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.

The figurative work is composed of large areas of color to form spaces into which Diebenkorn placed a simplified standing or seated figure.

Curator Glen Cebulash, whose own work has beautifully deconstructed the figurative into interacting planes and color forms in both painting and collage, opines that realism «is a fascinating and slippery concept and one that confounds as much as it clarifies.»

Joffe introduces an element of abstraction into her figurative works, evincing a distinct style of painting that draws on bold lines and geometric forms to create powerful human portraits.

Cindy Walton's iconography whether abstract or figurative, is transforming nature into abstract forms.

The modified vessels morph into almost figurative forms despite their initial familiarity.

LaToya Ruby Frazier's straight documentary photography has reignited this sleeping form and made it into a raging beast; Louis Fratino's personal, painterly depictions of everyday gay life raise the bar of figurative - visionary painting, as do the stitched, painted, and sewn works of Tschabalala Self; ditto Katherine Bernhardt.

The grand special exhibition on occasion of the inauguration of the enlarged Kunstmuseum Basel will map the medium's extraordinarily dynamic evolution: the classical idea and form of sculpture grows more flexible and abstract as some artists integrate the trivial stuff of everyday life into their art or blur its spatial and conceptual boundaries, even as others return to the figurative tradition in an effort to set the genre on a new solid foundation.

Initially built around artists who emphasize the human form and figurative concerns, the gallery program embraces unparalleled craft, counter trend experimentation, New Media, and deviations into abstraction, installation - forward, and object - based works to expand the greater initiative of the program.

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

He practiced an abstract style of ragged forms and jarring colors that evolved into a softer but equally enigmatic figurative manner with Symbolist undertones.

The result is surprising and powerful as it redefines how abstract forms can transform into figurative ones.

Drawn from life, French's observations manifest into faceless, figurative forms, emotionally charged, androgynous and anonymous.

Grau - Garriga introduced a new dimension into the art of tapestry where he took the traditionally figurative flat form and eliminated its expensive materials such as gold threads and silks.

Already, we see the young artist negotiating between the abstract and figurative, reducing organic forms into geometric configurations and using the branches of trees as a way to frame or delineate space.

After stripping his art down to its essentials, he started adding color back in and transformed his primal forms into disorderly masses on raw canvases that weren't truly figurative or abstract.

Adam Welch, director of Greenwich House Pottery, has said, «Though these works fit within a continuation of the ceramic figurative tradition, she defies convention, converting her clay canvases into three - dimensional form.

The early Pictographs were created with a defined grid structure in order to organize theimages, often figurative and fragmented, in a utilitarian manner.Around 1948, Gottlieb began deconstructing the grid in an effort to find an alternative way to balance nature's interrelated forces: order and chaos.The earliest work on view, Inscription to a Friend, 1948, is an example of Gottlieb's initial attempts to integrate abstract forms that could still be relatable to a larger universal language, without the help ofthe grid.Inscription, 1954, demonstrates Gottlieb's further progression into purely abstract imagery using an evocative and highly developed lexicon.

What's on view: The gallery, which is separated into two exhibition spaces, contains a series of Fraga's amorphous, figurative paintings on crinkly found paper in one space, while in the other, his collection of altered found objects and materials forms the basis of a spacious, room - sized installation.

Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun's figurative and abstract paintings, and etchings construct a modern /» primitive» encounter, that is as much a means of inscribing a new aesthetic concept of form and space, as it is an inquiry into colonial imperialism.

Schütte makes familiar forms of expression, like memorial portraiture and figurative sculpture, strange through evocative, often disturbing alterations, such as in his treatment of the female nude in his «Bronzefrauen» series (Bronze Women, 1999 - ongoing) where figurative shapes morph into abstract or mutant forms, or his «Alte Freunde» series, in which the subjects» despondent expressions highlight the vulnerability of the individual against the cruelty and complexity of the vast world.

Paintings from the 1950s include such works as Stephen Pace's Untitled (51 - 90), a dynamic abstract painting in which forms move into and through the picture plane in the mode of the art of Pace's teacher Hans Hofmann, Melville Price's Untitled (ca. 1959), a gestural painting in the abstract expressionist idiom in which figurative elements have a suggestive presence, and George Segal's Three Nudes (1959), in which a psychological tension is conveyed in the expressively treated figures that are integrated into spaces defined by veils or blankets of color.

In so doing, he demonstrated that figurative realism could once again be made into a vital art form.

Featuring eight painters — four from L.A. and four from New York — the exhibition runs the gamut of current artistic styles, from Heather Gwen Martin's 2015 abstraction of figurative forms, titledCousins, to the hyper - realism of Marc Dennis» art historical pastiche Ironman, Captain America and a Russian Mobster Walk Into a Bar, which humorously constructs a new scenario for these three characters and Edouard Manet's famous painting A Bar at the Folies - Bergère.

So if people read your paintings as talking about consumerism or environmentalism based on the figurative forms in your work, are they simply reading too much into shapes and colors?

Dale continues his push into expressionist abstract painting, while Daniel abstracts figurative forms.