Sentences with phrase «into figurative works»

At this point, Bischoff was basing his paintings on preparatory sketches, and had not yet figured out how to incorporate the improvisational methods we associate with Abstract Expressionism into his figurative works.

Based on photographic source images, her immersive paintings of diverse scale have more recently moved into figurative works rendered in rich hues of oil paint.

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.

The Firestone gallery show overlaps with a larger retrospective of Shapiro's work on view at the National Academy Museum and School that begins with some of the Abstract Expressionist work but goes much further into the figurative work of the 1990s, which took as its subject matter women artists, Jewish identity, dance and her passion for dolls.

For your upcoming exhibition with Kaikai Kiki, how have you incorporated more of your personal experiences into your figurative work?

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A raw glimpse into South Sudan that lacks conciseness, but mostly works due to its elemental, figurative approach.

Both abstract and figurative, Murez» work is often narrative: sculptural installations that set the stage and invite viewers to be transported into the story.

We offer a strong figurative tradition in the Drawing, Painting and Sculpture Studios that can be used as a foundation for students to move on into other artistic avenues, or that can be developed as an end in itself to produce work within a figurative genre.

Showing work made over this expansive time period will offer an insight into Hodgkin's relationship to India while also revealing the evolution of his pictorial language — from the figurative work of the 1960s through to the dynamic, gestural style of recent years.

The assertion that drawing, however figurative, is design, brought further forward into our consciousness by Cézanne's heroic struggle --(«I advance my canvas, understand, together, all at the same time»)-- and developed, and explained in words, so eloquently by Matisse, was simply the way Bonnard's eye's mind worked.

The work of these artists was brought into fresh focus and given renewed impetus by the revival of interest in figurative painting by a younger generation that took place in the late 1970s and the 1980s (see neo-expressionism and new spirit painting).

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.

Like the poet's descent into hell, Orpheus Selection: In Search of Darkness is an exploration into the unearthly and unknown, where both abstract and figurative works are charged with unsettling energy.

In an attempt to avoid the trappings of abstract and figurative art, the artists made extensive use of collage and assemblage, appropriating images and incorporating real objects into the work.

Simultaneously classical and contemporary in scope, it contains roughly 300 images, how - to diagrams, and information about figurative art movements of the past as well as profiles of some of the greatest practitioners working today... featuring examples of Zeller's own work and also some of his best contemporary peers, who collectively bring the figurative tradition forward into a new era.»

These works, which completely eschew paint are full of mystery, the original figurative image being progressively buried into the surface.

In her catalogue essay for the exhibition, Keith offers a scholarly investigation into Gaines» work and challenges the notion that African - American artists of the period focused predominantly on figurative expression.

Known for his playful integration of abstract elements into figurative scenes, Philip Guston was a Canadian - born American artist who achieved recognition and fame by working in two seemingly different (yet connected) styles — Abstract Expressionism and Representational Painting.

Late in his life, the painter of modern orientation attempted to re-introduce elements of abstraction into his new figurative style, a feat that can be seen in several of his works from 1980.

Although clearly a figurative work, it is easy to draw comparisons to Diebenkorn's earlier landscape works like Berkeley # 53 that effectively dissolved and divided the Californian vistas into competing patchworks of painterly color separated by crisp edges and the occasional line.

He marked the shift with his first foray into figurative paintings, which made up half of the eight works in the exhibition.

Curated by Susan Davidson, this long - awaited exhibition to be held at the Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Guggenheim Bilbao and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice considers the artist's works on paper as an essential component in his signature transformation of the traditional figurative line into a non-figurative graphic expression.

When confronted with Vaughn Spann's work there is an immediate intrigue into the compositional delicacies between the figurative and abstraction.

The work moves through several recognisable phases: from the carefully constructed figurative pictures of the late 1940s; into various degrees of object - based abstraction; to an even simpler sort of still life painting in the 1970s and early 1980s.

In the 1960s, Schwabacher's work transitioned into more figurative and representational imagery.

Between the 1930s and 1950s Pirandello produced a number of psychologically intense figurative works, which often depicted women in various states of undress, shielding their eyes or staring blankly into the distance.

With Kelly's return to the States, he moved away from figurative painting into the crisp, carefully wrought geometries of his mature style.

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.»

It is in these sketchbooks that Goya's figurative work really comes into its own and it is for this reason that the current exhibition at the Courtauld Gallery is of particular prominence.

So I was then able to put in more of my figurative work with some symbolism and mythology into my painting.

In the work of David Bolduc, Harold Klunder, Paul Fournier, Alex Cameron, Paul Hutner, Howard Simkins, Eric Gamble and Christopher Broadhurst, among others in Toronto and elsewhere, figurative images are woven into the abstract concerns of the activity of painting.

Evidently, his works with collaged canvas — like his experiments in the mid -»50s with abstract paper collage — would feed into his turn to figurative collage - making in 1963.

Among the other works are a Philip Guston figurative painting that could move his prices into a new register, so few of these works come to market.

Employing a range of materials including bronze, wood, terracotta, silicone, concrete and silver, Tallur L.N. creates sculpture, wall pieces, site - specific installations and interactive work that delve deep into the dichotomies between the tangible and the ethereal, the figurative and the abstract, and the decorative and the conceptual.

Moving into the personal and more blatantly figurative, Venice, California's De Soto Gallery presents an incredible and playful series by Denis Darzacq that captures young people with a range of disabilities responding to a previous body of Darzacq's work that dealt with hip - hop dancers and performers.

He began reintroducing figurative elements — clumsy hands, cigarettes, light bulbs — into his work in the late 1960s.

Remarking on the «Women Painting Women: Our Collective Conscience,» Demato pointed out that the show not only reveals a snapshot of the current state of painters working in contemporary figurative realism today but provides insights into the different muses influencing female painters today.

While during the 1940s Arshile Gorky's and Willem de Kooning's figurative work evolved into abstraction by the end of the decade.

These artists (like Eric Fischl, David Salle, Elizabeth Murray, Kenny Scharf, Julian Schnabel) ignored critic Clement Greenberg and his prescriptive view of Modernism that had influenced the previous generation of artists, and instead crafted works that combined figurative subjects, abstract landscapes, and intuitive mark - making into volatile works of art.

In Kohler's aesthetic deviation into the abstraction in his Pareidolia series of geometric cardboard constructions, we see him continuing the conceptual threads created in his figurative work which speaks to hope and hopelessness.

Known for his playful integration of abstract elements into figurative scenes, Philip Guston was a Canadian - born American artist who achieved recognition and fame by working in two seemingly different (yet connected) styles — Abstract Expressionism and...

Employing a range of materials, Tallur L.N. creates sculpture, wall pieces, site - specific installations and interactive works that delve deep into the dichotomies between the tangible and the ethereal, the figurative and the abstract, and the decorative and the conceptual in order to reveal new meanings on contemporary existence.

With this new work, Chia maintains the focus and aesthetic he's known for: He's considered to be a core member of the Italian Transavantguadia (Beyond the Avant Garde) movement, a term coined to describe the artists who resisted the conceptualism and minimalism of the «60s and «70s, instead choosing to «move beyond» into a more painterly aesthetic favoring expressionist and figurative themes.

Wall texts lay out his basic themes and motifs, from strange meditations on Donald Duck and the «tent paintings» in the 1960s to later works that took up symbols from Germany's Nazi past, and repurposed them as surreal «dithyrambs,» a term borrowed from Greek poetry but reinvented by Lüpertz as a catchall for his not - quite - abstract forays into abstraction and not - quite - figurative exercises in drawing real things in the world.

During the next three decades, he established himself as one of the most important Chinese contemporary painters, whose figurative works delve into the human psyche, exploring personal and collective memory in the wake of the Cultural Revolution.

In his previous works, Efrat's engraving and subtracting accumulated into figurative images: moon craters or the face of a monkey, among rest.

In 1945 in New York, Willem de Kooning merged together his Cubist and Surrealist tendencies into a figurative abstract called Pink Angels, which is considered his first abstract expressionist work.

Schimmel has organized major one - person retrospectives for artists Chris Burden, Willem De Kooning, Takashi Murakami, Laura Owens, Sigmar Polke, Charles Ray, and Robert Rauschenberg, and significant thematic exhibitions such as The Interpretive Link: Abstract Surrealism into Abstract Expressionism, Works on Paper, 1938 - 1948 (1987), The Figurative Fifties: New York Figurative Expressionism (1988), Hand - Painted Pop: American Art in Transition 1955 — 62 (1992), Helter Skelter: LA Art in the 1990s (1992), Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object, 1949 - 1979 (1999), Ecstasy: In and About Altered States (2006), and Collection: MOCA's First 30 Years (2010).

When I came back to New York, and came into the feminist movement, that was the change that triggered the figurative work.