Sentences with phrase «making figurative images»

But the idea that 40,000 years of humanity making figurative images should no longer be possible because of Donald Judd's empty boxes was, and is, ridiculous.

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The Figurative Arts Residency offers artists interested in representational and figurative subjects a unique opportunity to hone skills and advance techniques of image - and formFigurative Arts Residency offers artists interested in representational and figurative subjects a unique opportunity to hone skills and advance techniques of image - and formfigurative subjects a unique opportunity to hone skills and advance techniques of image - and form - making.

In an attempt to avoid the trappings of abstract and figurative art, the artists made extensive use of collage and assemblage, appropriating images and incorporating real objects into the work.

Four years later, his father hanged himself; Guston discovered the body and subsequently sought solace by hiding in a cupboard lit by a naked bulb, the image of which would become a prevailing motif in the oddly disquieting, figurative, often autobiographical paintings he began to make in his fifties.

In the mid-60s, Brehmer began making enlarged reproductions of postage stamps, franked and perforated around the edges, which impose an abstract language onto the figurative images borne by the stamps, while at the same time reinforcing their identity as stamps.

Also, previously, the major retrospectives at the Whitney had showcased only recent developments in abstraction; in the case of the New Image show, figurative art made its way into the exhibition.

For me, to get past gestural painting, I have to reconsider what it means to use figurative elements or still life or landscape to make an image.

MG From the outset, but especially in the 1980s and 1990s, Polke would always make paintings that were abstract but contained figurative images.

Jenny Scobel makes portraits or figurative paintings of children and women that blend a scene of innocent - like faces with images that suggest an underlying dark or disturbing story.

«This exhibition proposes an alternate history of figurative painting, sculpture, and vernacular image - making from the 1960 to the present that has been largely over-looked and undervalued,» Nadel writes in the accompanying catalogue, published by D.A.P.

One is making these fantastic mixed media portraits that use flattened patterns to create a figurative image, combining geometry and a variety of tones to

His photographic works are made without the use of a camera, instead producing images, both figurative and abstract, with handmade «negatives.»

Unsurprisingly, his biggest influences are painters who worked with figurative representation but nevertheless made strange images (Stegner calls it «weird figuration»): Balthus, Otto Dix, and Alice Neel among them.

«People with too strong of a love for figurative art often can tend to be very conservative and overly respectful to the traditions of realistic or academic approaches to image making.

She produced a series of awe - striking images titled «Caryatid» in 1980 as part of her Temple project using the diazotype process — used most commonly for creating architectural blueprints — in which she projected images or negatives made from transparent tissue paper and acetate onto large sheets of light - sensitive paper and exposed (sometimes as long as overnight) to create cyan and sepia - toned figurative photographs.

Dominic Eichler Looking back over the last 20 years of your art - making, it is striking how you have circled and constantly returned to a diverse range of genres, modes of reproduction and printing techniques while exploring both figurative and abstract images, and that all of these approaches still find their place in your recent exhibitions and publications, such as Manual (2007).

Leveille: I speak in a language of pictures.In a similar way that contemporary figurative painters such as Currin, Kerry James Marshall, and Robin Francis Williams use a sense narrative, I also use it as an artistic tool.This is very inspiring in its own right to me, the exploration of an image, not in service TO narrative but that employs these things as tools to make an emotional connection with the viewer.

Motivated to try his hand, Schwabe made his first figurative sculpture in cast bronze based on the published image of a ballet dancer.

It tracks his artistic evolution from the 1930s and early 1940s, when he made loosely figurative images based on mythical or primeval themes, to the late 1940s and early 1950s, when he pioneered the

For his fourth exhibition, figurative painter Jason Shawn Alexander returns to his provocative and courageously revealing form of image - making of pivotal earlier works of his career, particularly those of the Insomnius and Undertow series.

Media range from painting, drawing and collage to photography, video and sculpture, and content ranges from abstract to figurative, but all share a sensibility that merges concept, image and mark - making.

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Although she is influenced by her visual environment, especially the images she sees in nature, her objective is not to make pictures of anything figurative, but is rather to convey the ephemeral qualities of emotion and «inner life.»

Featuring a selection of 80 figurative works and landscapes in a wide range of materials and media including pencil, ink, oil stick and charcoal, drawings, prints and paintings, Alex Katz: Seeing, Drawing, Making demonstrates how the artist explores and elaborates the same image through diverse media.

As the artist himself has said, «You can't invent a painting from scratch; you are working with an entire tradition... The pictorial language of the 20th century, from Kurt Schwitters's collages to Jackson Pollock's drip paintings, makes up a range of possibilities that I utilise in order to create a transhistorical figurative painting — a painting of the image as such, of representation» (A. Ghenie, quoted in «Adrian Ghenie in Conversation with Magda Radu,» Adrian Ghenie: Darwin's Room, exh.

A collection of richly textured works, which blend gestural painting, figurative drawing and collage on everything from small pieces of cardboard to boards measuring nearly 4 x 6 feet, the exhibition is an audacious debut in a city where the shadows of Abstract Expressionism still loom large whenever an artist splatters, drips, scrapes, pours, or otherwise flings paint at or on a surface to make an image.

Marcel Dzama: With a strong narrative bent, it makes perfect sense that artist Marcel Dzama would embrace the moving image along with his signature figurative drawings, which channel the surrealistic armies of Henry Darger along with rabbit holes pioneered by Marcel Duchamp (Dzama's admitted muse) and pal film director Spike Jonze.

The photographs exhibited by Daniel Gordon (b. 1980) represent the final stage of a process that starts with the construction of life - size figurative sculptures made from cut paper and other images, often culled from the internet.

Last year I was in the downstairs gallery at the legendary Salmagundi Art Club on Fifth Avenue, and was not surprised to see that all the paintings, each a figurative image and made within the previous year, had been artfully signed by the artists.

By the 1980s, Graeber was making large scale paintings that combine figurative and abstract elements to create potential meanings through the juxtaposition and layering of disparate images.

I decided to make both paintings and sculptures, and in the paintings I worked with large geometric lines, extensions of three - dimensional letters, or objects that played on the surreal, elongated, figurative images in Lam's work that sometimes depict Yoruba deities like Eleguá, Yemayá or Changó.

The incorporation of the viewers reflected image makes the interactive and figurative exchange fundamental to the experience of the work.

As the years tumbled onward, Gerson experimented with almost every imaginable abstract and figurative approach to image making, including Geometric Abstraction, Color Field Painting, and Lyrical Abstraction.

What we are left with is a series of abstract feelings forcefully made figurative — small precious objects that are catalysts for further images that we will never be able to visualise as they do not exist but in (y) our memory.

Alternative Figures in American Art, 1960 to the Present proposes an alternate history of figurative painting, sculpture, and vernacular image - making from 1960 to the present that has been largely overlooked and undervalued.

Wintergreens has been made by adding layer upon layer of material, unlike working with a predetermined figurative image.

Indeed, the technology of the time was entitling new forms of image making and consumption to the general public; it seemed, as the story goes, painters making pictures, abstract, figurative or otherwise, wasn't taken seriously again until a decade after considering Philip Guston's 1970 Marlborough Gallery show.