Sentences with phrase «like figurations»

Walking the graffiti - filled streets of his Greenpoint neighborhood and working in his nearby Williamsburg studio, Brooklyn - based artist Eddie Martinez discusses the motivation to shift his paintings from Pop - like figurations to pared down abstractions.

The paintings serve as a continuation of the sculptural, war - like figurations which are part of a new series of work entitled «The Dawning of an Aspect.»

Referencing historical and contemporary news stories, internet gossip, and the artist's own experiences of Kenya, the paintings blend dream - like figuration with compositional references to Titian, Gauguin and other masters of Western art history.

Following international shows like «A New Spirit in Painting» (London Royal Academy, 1981) and «Zeitgeist» (Berlin, 1982), the term Neo-Expressionism began to be applied to other groups, like Figuration Libre in France, Transavanguardia in Italy, the «New Image Painters» and the so - called «Bad Painters.»

Not exact matches

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.

Referencing the history of painting, particularly the fraught legacies of hyper masculine artists like Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock, her canvases combined figuration with feminist cultural critique.

The exhibition was a miniature retrospective, beginning with works from the late 1960s, when Dodd, like a number of her artist friends and coevals, including Alex Katz, reacted against the dominance of abstraction by beginning to explore a plainspoken, forthright brand of figuration.

It should be noted that while the overall effect of Murray's work is one of abstraction, and the artist described herself as an abstract painter in an interview included in the 1987 catalogue, there are many representational elements and references in her paintings, in a stylized style emerging from cartoons, comics, and graffiti as well as from pop artists like Claes Oldenburg: works are shaped like shoes or cups and contains stylized abstracted but identifiable figuration and still - life imagery.

Vincent's figuration appears more like casual photography than any classic, naturalistic or expressive genre of painting.

Like many others, I have often repeated the orthodoxy that the early 1980s saw a return to painting, a rediscovery of figuration, an embrace of dramatic content and an explicit engagement with art history.

You can see women artists like Becky Suss, Shara Hughes, Yiadom - Boakye, Betty Tompkins, and Sarah McEneaney blazing trails around figuration.

Reacting in antithesis to the cool, rational approaches of Conceptualism and Minimalism in the 1970s, painters like Salle, Julian Schnabel, Jean - Michel Basquiat, and Eric Fischl in the United States and others like Albert Oehlen, Anselm Kiefer, and Georg Baselitz in Germany renewed the importance of expressive colour, texture, and figuration in their painting.

Color - field painters can take on the scraps of abstraction or traces of figuration, like Seth Price and his enigmatic silhouettes, Ellen Berkenblit with horses and women, or Elliott Green between abstraction and landscape.

• Tony Smith (1912 — 1980), sculptor who bridged AbEx and minimalism (dad of Kiki) Mel Kendrick (b. 1949), formalist process - based sculptor Chris Wilmarth (1943 — 1987), sculptor of steel, bronze, and etched glass Joel Shapiro (b. 1941), minimalist sculptor who flirts with figuration Christopher Wool (b. 1955), Neo-AbExer with a taste for graffiti and repetition Alex Hubbard (b. 1975), rising master of painterly materials and abstract coloration Josh Smith (b. 1976), Factory - like painter of great expressive volume Jacob Kassay (b. 1984), mirrored - painting - wunderkind - turned - sackcloth artist • Andy Warhol (1928 — 1987), Pop maestro and appropriationist world - changer David Robbins (b. 1957), artist and «Concrete Comedy» theorist David LaChapelle (b. 1963), lush photographer of celebrity decadence Ronnie Cutrone (1948 — 2013), Factory personality and East Village cult figure George Condo (b. 1957), Neo-Picassian painter of the grotesque Mark Dagley (b. 1957), Op abstractionist • Richard Serra (b. 1939), grand master of process art and the post-industrial sublime Grégoire Müller (b. 1947), painter of current - event appropriations Philip Glass (b. 1937), «Einstein on the Beach» composer Lawrence Chandler (b. 1951), composer, musician, and sound artist • Sol LeWitt (1928 — 2007), father of conceptual art, multitasking artistic outsourcer Adrian Piper (b. 1948), performance art innovator Mark Williams (b. 1950), monochromatic minimalist painter

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

He is considering a show on the use of palette knife techniques, which enabled artists like Jean Dubuffet and Twombly to develop their figuration.

The theme of «Unrealism» is very straightforward — the winds are shifting, and there's some very fresh figurative painting, and we're seeing this cycle just like we did in 1980 or» 82 — a new interest in figuration.

Although it has been argued that these lines resemble some of the geographical features that Diebenkorn observed in the suburban landscape, by the time he painted his Ocean Park paintings he felt he had resolutely abandoned figuration in favor of something much more spiritual and contemplative, as one influential critic noted, «[With the Ocean Parks]... one leaves behind labels like «Abstract Expressionism» and «Bay Area Figuration» and enters a breathtaking new world that is unique to Diebenkorn as Mondrian's or Still's or Rothko's are to their crfiguration in favor of something much more spiritual and contemplative, as one influential critic noted, «[With the Ocean Parks]... one leaves behind labels like «Abstract Expressionism» and «Bay Area Figuration» and enters a breathtaking new world that is unique to Diebenkorn as Mondrian's or Still's or Rothko's are to their crFiguration» and enters a breathtaking new world that is unique to Diebenkorn as Mondrian's or Still's or Rothko's are to their creators....

With artists who share a fascination with the subconscious and distorted figuration, this looks like a contemporary answer to the Whitney Museum's Real / Surreal.

These instantly recognizable works and series — which succeed in reinvigorating and complicating traditional categories like portraiture, history painting, figurations, and abstraction — have never before been brought together in a single exhibition.

One of your major contributions to painting is your continual refusal to admit the separation of abstraction and figuration, embedding people - like shapes doing hazily recognizable things in paintings that otherwise look like the gestural abstractions of de Kooning or Diebenkorn.

Further evolution of these Inpaintings led to the creation of pieces, specifically designed to explore the borders between abstraction and figuration, like Two Women at Table.

In this endeavor, Hughes aligns himself squarely within the tradition of painters like Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky, whose groundbreaking ideas gave rise to a main branch of contemporary American abstraction which espouses the possibility of conveying the full range of human experience through the raw materials of paint and renders moot the distinction between abstraction and figuration.

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.

Dealing with themes of power, gender, identity, sexuality and identity, Frank's grotesque figurations of the human form have been favorably compared to Francis Bacon and the artists cites painters like Velasquez, Goya, Gober and others as inspirations.

I bring up Alex Katz, a painter who bucked the postwar fashion for abstract expressionism in favor of figuration, and who at 90 is still painting, who likes to say that he's better at it now than ever before.

In this new series of works, he plays with absence and presence, abstraction and figuration, creating silhouette - like shapes that feel organic.

Topics will include formal accounts, connoisseurship (particularly controversies around Michelangelo and Rembrandt's drawings), technology (camera obscura, camera lucida), figuration and abstraction, and actual practice at a place like Cooper Union today.

Like all of Ortman's art it belies a furtive narrative figuration undergoing an analytical progression towards pure abstraction.

«While his contemporaries in Leipzig are using paint to explore the various forms of figuration that characterise their «school», over in Berlin, Anselm Reyle has been doing the opposite: revisiting the pioneering abstract work of people like Otto Freundlich, Barnett Newman, Ellsworth Kelly and Kenneth Noland, and giving it a disco treatment of neon, tin foil and glitter.

Figuration and abstraction converged with a re-emergence of cartoon - like imagery and developing a personal narrative took on a larger role in her works.

We look at Minimalism, Conceptualism, and Photorealism — which is the complete opposite — and the return of figuration in the 1980s with artists like Caroll Dunham.

Focusing on Philip Guston's mature production in abstraction and his later figuration, this book argues for Guston as a consistent artist whose generic shift in the late 60s, from Monet - like abstract hatchings to the cartoonish forms of his final decade and a half, reminded artists everywhere that courage is what it's all about.

Turning away from the approaches of artists like Pollok and Kline during the 1960s, Guston's paintings came to include his own cartoon - style realism, combining elements of gestural abstraction with a return to figuration.

She began in the 1950s with abstract echoes of Surrealism and figuration, much like early Rothko.

By painting between figuration and abstraction, I'm embracing ambiguity and the knowledge that sex is complex: calm, violent, pleasurable, sad, joyful... I think the unpredictable nature of oil paint can get closer to what real sexuality is like.»

And then think of Philip Guston, when he starts doing those Ku Klux Klan pictures, going from abstraction to figuration in conversation with people like Norman Lewis, Sam Gilliam, Betye Saar.

With its Abstract Expressionist - like handling and all - over composition «contaminated» by unfashionable history painting and figuration, it was seen as an irreverent take - off of both past and present masters.

Like the space that opens up when figuration gives way to abstraction, so too can language be unfolded into its many layers of authorship, readership and legibility.

It was there that Mr. Colacello, the man perhaps known best for being a sidekick to legendary artists like Andy Warhol who he worked alongside for 12 consecutive years at Interview Magazine, leapt from writer to curator with the debut of «The Age of Ambiguity: Abstract Figuration / Figurative Abstraction,» a selection of works all tied together with a theme of abstraction rooted in tangible objects and concepts.

Several of her early works show figuration that teeters on the edge of abstraction («March on Washington 1964»), while some large paintings demonstrate the brick - like pattern morph into a mosaic («Cherry Blossom Symphony,» 1973), and then there are her many watercolors that give us insight into her process.

I like how his work exists in a weird place somewhere between figuration and abstraction.

Sanya Kantarvosky: Sanya Kantarovsky does not like to hear his work discussed neatly in terms of figuration or abstraction; instead, he relates it to the graphic, calligraphic, and historic influences that guide his practice.

You kind of project figuration on to if you are like me.

Like Calder, whose abstract stabiles make playful allusions to the natural and animal realm, Joel Shapiro explores the metamorphic possibilities of geometric figures and forms, referencing the human body, spirit and gesture as he merges figuration with abstraction.

I have always liked his barbershop paintings, and the way he uses the paraphernalia of bottles and products, the mirrors and posters and illustrations of haircuts on the walls as a kind of abstraction — they make you think of abstract expressionist Hans Hofman's push - and - pull rectangles of dancing colour, and also at times of Dutch painter René Daniëls» plays between figuration and abstraction.

Filled with vibrant illustrations, this stunning volume traces Thomas's development as an artist: her transition from figuration to abstraction, her fascination with the natural world and space exploration, and the mesmerizing mosaic - like paintings she completed before her death.

More literal depictions of the figure hang on the opposite end of the room — examples from the comeback of representation in the»60s and»70s when movements like pop (Wayne Thiebaud) and eccentric figuration (Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon) allowed modern museums to hang figure painting without seeming old - fashioned.

During the 17th century Baroque era, the tradition of figuration was kept up by Old Masters like Rubens, and the Spanish school led by Velazquez.

The combination demonstrates that like warmth and cold or light and dark, abstraction and figuration are part of the same spectrum.