This logic of accumulation would lead to the development of Bayrle's «super-forms,» densely composed images in which smaller units are used to build
larger figurative forms.
Not exact matches
The
figurative work is composed of
large areas of color to
form spaces into which Diebenkorn placed a simplified standing or seated figure.
For his
large sculptural installations, Ward reclaims materials he finds in his neighborhood — everything from debris to precious treasure — to create abstract and
figurative forms.
The three
large paintings in the exhibition mark Whitten's turn away from the overtly
figurative to a
form of subliminal figuration.
The Chunk series consists of three, six - foot - square acrylic paintings plus two smaller paintings where
large portions of the canvas contain black or brown blocky
figurative structures accompanied by explosions of straight lines of bright colors with soft round
forms capping the ends.
Burr's various working
forms -
large scale platforms and installations, mirrored folding screens, found object arrangements, hinged
figurative forms, pinned collages, and blanket paintings, for example - are sometimes created for particular situations and bear the marks of that context.
Exhibition highlights include: two ornate,
figurative paintings by Australian artist Del Kathryn Barton; three
large - scale, realist paintings by Terry Rodgers portraying gaunt and privileged youth; conceptual portraits by Swedish artist Sara - Vide Ericson; a mixed - media fragmented figure by Brooklyn - based artist Nathaniel Mary Quinn; four small - scale sculptural works depicting contorted human
forms by Korean artist Dongwook Lee; and one
large - scale surrealist drawing by German artist Dennis Scholl; among others.
Meleko Mokgosi (b. 1981, Botswana) makes
figurative paintings that fit together to
form «chapters» in
large installations that suggest stories or narratives.
The exhibition «The Bottom Line» presents various aspects of drawing as a
form of contemporary art: from abstract to
figurative, from small format to
large, from rapid sketches to slow,
large - scale projects and from drawing as film to drawing as performance.
It is by far the
largest painting series the artist has embarked upon, in which she combines
figurative and abstract
forms.
Absurd and elegant,
figurative and abstract, Handforth's Dallas Snake animates the space, conversing with and taking on the
large «formal» sculptures nearby, such as Tony Smith's Willy (destroyed in 1962; fabricated in 1978), which is comprised of black geometric
forms.
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.
Paintings dedicated to Winehouse have
formed a recent infatuation for Martin, and here for the first time he will show a
large - scale,
larger - than - life,
figurative portrait of the tragic and iconic singer.
Female
forms depicted in a byzantine style, as the artist... more
Large mid-century abstract
figurative painting by Robert Gilberg, circa 1952.
These
large, vibrant,
figurative paintings explore the relationship between subject and environment, ultimately the variables that
form us as individuals.