Sentences with phrase «like figurative imagery»

These beautiful and rarely seen pieces will show an evolution from a pre-psychedelic, William Blake - like figurative imagery of the late «50s and early «60s, to the all over, highly intricate abstraction of the mid 1960s.

Not exact matches

Although my work doesn't look on the surface much like his, I think he taught me about using iconic signifiers and figures that I could project myself into for emotion and as an avatar in paint (like Scott McCloud describes in his amazing book, Understanding Comics, that we do as comic readers), and create figurative narrative allegories that hopefully resonate deeper than most political cartoons and relate to Goya and other art historical uses of politics and allegory as much as the imagery could relate to underground comics and contemporary worlds.

Like his earlier imagery, from the wrestler's mask to the deconstructed interior and exterior of the face, his figurative alter egos are always figures in suspense, mediums for generic representations that make it possible to fix a temporary, uninhibited state.

Bay Area figurative artists like Richard Diebenkorn, Elmer Bischoff, and Wayne Thiebaud adopted the vibrancy of the abstract style paired with representational imagery.

The Nature of Memory is poorly served by resorting to a vocabulary used to describe figurative imagery like «figure / ground.»