Sentences with phrase «made figural»

In this epically titled solo show, «The Birth of Stockholm,» an antechamber of the artist's projected handwritten meditations on art and on the Swedish capital and an array of Beninese - made figural sculptures will lead into a room - size — or rather, house - like — installation.

The coherence of this story made figural interpretation possible; certain events within and outside of scriptural narrative were viewed as having prefigured or reflected the central biblical events.

Wheat — who cites Sue Williams, Caroll Dunham, and Willem de Kooning as her favorite artists — makes figural depictions of anonymous individuals, using a selection of vividly clashing colors and thick impasto.

In this interview from 1977, Katz talks about the development of his work and the decision to continue making figural work during the high - energy period of Abstract Expressionism.

Not exact matches

Sometime in 1940 Rothko makes his last figurative painting, then experiments with Surrealism, and eventually does away entirely with any figural suggestion in his paintings, abstracting them further and paring them down to indeterminate shapes floating in fields of color - Multiforms as they were called by others - which were greatly influenced by Milton Avery's style of painting.

While still retaining an interest in architecture and urban landscape, Marca - Relli experimented with abstract collage, integrating figural elements made from textiles, drawings, metals, and plastics: this would become the defining practice of his career.

The drawings Study of Aldo I and Study of Aldo II, both 2015, play with inverted value by making routine figural sketches into rich studies in tone and density, electrified by her use of white charcoal.

The work is Baroque by Louise Bourgeois, a fascinatingly introspective marble sculpture she made in 1970 that coils what seem to be two or three figures (their heads help to orient the figural suggestion) in a huddled mass, rhythmically striated unlike many of the smoothly polished marble works I had seen.

His recent exhibition, which he titled — with admirable didactic zeal — «MOLTINGSEXOSKELETONSSHROUDS,» comprised several figural groups made of Belgian linen.

Roth also made more figural and image - based mixed - media assemblages in shadow - box frames, and included collage elements in some of his paintings.

His choice of colors — mainly primary colors, different fleshy tones, browns, and blacks — contribute to the figural readings of the works, regardless of how they are made.

This, though, is not instantly obvious, because instead of the familiar Gormley munchkins of old, the lead casts made of his naked self, we get a set of ambiguous geometric shapes, in various materials, that reveal their figural identity very, very slowly.

Is it an unlikely exercise in form, its fluid, undulating lines and figural positioning making for a perfectly balanced composition?

While Chicago art making has historically been strongly figural and representational, the Minimalism and conceptual art movements of the 1960s had a definite impact on many Chicago - based artists who emerged in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Referencing political and social awareness in this age of police violence and Black Lives Matter, works by the artists «traverse the psychic and spiritual landscape of Black erasure through narrative - figural styles; often negotiating high and low forms of image making.»

As Jaffe's annotations make clear, the transition from those heart - rending figural paintings to abstraction was made in the later 1950s, at about the time when Rothko, Newman, Gorky, De Kooning and others were similarly eliminating the realism from their work.

I establish an illusion of the real that isn't fixed, that is figural, an evolving strange world of make believe.

Exceptional studio made porcelain table lamp with figural and geometric decoration on a wood base, China, 1960s.