Sentences with phrase «into painterly abstraction»

Her weakness is for representational painting that dissolves into painterly abstraction, so naturally she counts Morandi, Celmins, Richter, Downes, and Tuymans among her favorites.

Within the work, fragments are enlarged or brought closer, photographs dissolve into painterly abstraction, and images remain mutable, reflecting an indexical relationship to the multiplicity of meanings projected onto them.

From afar, Untitled appears like a trompe l'oeil; however, upon closer consideration, the photographic realism dissolves into a painterly abstraction composed from a meticulous system of thick, accrued brushstrokes that endow the surface with a textured physicality.

Not exact matches

The San Francisco — born Mary Heilmann, perhaps the most unashamedly painterly of the lineup and the most established, at least in terms of her market, surveyed her current exhibition at the Neues Museum in Nuremberg, providing a few insights into her particular brand of transcendental color - based abstraction along the way.

Bold colors and extreme painterly expressionism turn Ms. Rubenstein's figurative elements into near abstraction.

Rendered in grisaille with the feathered brushwork synonymous with Richter's blurred painterly idiom, Italienische Landschaft dissolves before our eyes into a flat field of subtle grey striations, pushing the figurative into the realm of abstraction.

Finally, in the late 1960s (partially as a response to minimal art, and the dogmatic interpretations by some to Greenbergian and Juddian formalism), many painters re-introduced painterly options into their works and the Whitney Museum and several other museums and institutions at the time formally named and identified the movement and uncompromising return to painterly abstraction as «lyrical abstraction».

Yet Rothko's work, like Barnett Newman's, can be distinguished from the painterly abstraction that characterized much of American art in the late 1940s and 1950s (one thinks of Willem de Kooning's wet - into - wet impasto).

Works made in San Francisco immediately thereafter disclose a rapid growth in the artist's tendency to incorporate heterogeneous materials with burgeoning accumulations of found objects and magazine fragments, bringing representational content into dialogue with painterly abstraction.

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.

It could pass for one of those reductive lectures on how abstraction really works, but it manages to bring painterly metaphors into the video age.

Abstractionists working in a painterly, post-Minimalist manner — an approach that combines a pared - down, abstract vocabulary with either expressive brushwork or Pop art's theatricality — can be divided into two groups: those who are demonstrating abstraction's continuing vitality and those who are simply nostalgic for its high - toned rhetoric.

At the forefront of this new paradigm was HALE WOODRUFF, whose integration of African - design motifs into his colorful, large - scale canvases stood alongside an enigmatic and symbol - laden painterly abstraction in works by other painters.

By re-staging painterly craft as a playful irreverence between intractable materials and willful deliberation, the processes of abstraction, decoration and humour unfold into a heady mix of the serious and the sensual.

Beginning with The Tormentors of 1947 — 48, Guston gradually unravels the figurative scaffolding that he used throughout the 1940s into subtle painterly abstractions.

An intense drawing phase began in the late 1960s, culminating in a painterly break with the «purity requirements» of abstraction: Guston introduced crude figures and fragments of figures into his works; they populated his pink, red, black, and blue canvases - smoking, drinking, often painting as well.

The artist allows the supposedly pictorial subject matter to fade into painterly artifice, blurring the dichotomous line that segregates abstraction from figuration.

Rather than reinsert Burri into a clean narrative of painterly abstraction, it seems that the show's implicit mission is to transcend this exclusion by connecting Burri to so many other movements.

In the early 1950's, when his tall, angular presence first became known on the New York art scene, he showed painterly abstractions at several downtown galleries before branching into sculpture.

In Ghenie's revisionist approach, the verdigris patina of the bridge appears to slide off in painterly smears that move the previous representational paintings into a new realm of abstraction.

Ocular circles disturb an otherwise rigorous abstraction, and radial spatters of paint form arcs that translate her painterly gestures into a coherent depiction of eddying, organic motion.

Becoming a part of the group of painters associated with the School of Paris, in particular, Pierre Soulages, Nicolas de Staël, Alberto Giacometti and Sam Francis, Zao Wou - Ki incorporated traditional Chinese painterly practice into more colorful European abstraction.

Working with painterly abstraction as an agent of change, each of Sheridan's paintings compresses the time of its video counterpart into object.

Carolanna Parlato's show of recent paintings continues her long preoccupation with how lyrical abstraction might evoke ephemeral beauty combined with a certain rigor of process that actively arrests the form's potential drift into maudlin, painterly dramatics.

Often blurring the lines between figurative and geometric abstraction, the canvases from this period are characterized by painterly brush strokes and expansive compositions, often broken into smaller geometric regions of color and pattern.