Sentences with phrase «merges figuration and abstraction»

Kowalski merges figuration and abstraction with his latest oil paintings on canvas and related drawings.

Cobra is frequently remembered as a style of Northern European painting — merging figuration and abstraction — that emerged in the traumatic wake of World War II.

Bahman Mohassess and Leyly Matine - Daftary merged figuration and abstraction to create a new genre particular to Iran.

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Hansa artists» works represented in the Grey show include Jane Wilson's Portrait of Jane Freilicher (1957), an oil on canvas merging abstraction with figuration, and Jean Follett's Many - Headed Creature (1958), a piece that recreates a fragmented body on a wood panel out of junk and found objects — a light switch, socket cooling coils, a window, a screen, nails, a faucet knob, mirror twine, cinders, a caster, springs, and rope.

Chris Ofili creates intricate, kaleidoscopic paintings and works on paper that deftly merge abstraction and figuration.

During the same period of the late 1960s, and early 1970s in Europe, Gerhard Richter, Anselm Kiefer [49] and several other painters also began producing works of intense expression, merging abstraction with images, incorporating landscape imagery, and figuration that by the late 1970s was referred to as Neo-expressionism.

Here Bickerton's merging of figuration and abstraction comes to new levels: in m - DNA eve 3, for example, he has nearly obscured the image of the figure with impasto strokes of vibrant green, blue and yellow paint, blending the foreground and background until the model's bulging, exaggerated features seemingly emerge from the camouflage.

Sultan's series comprises a confluence of seeming dichotomies, merging the industrial materials of Minimalism with representational painting, stylistically combining figuration and abstraction, and making references to high and low culture, ranging from topical events to art historical iconography.

The resulting dynamic imagery moves and merges from figuration to abstraction and back again.

[2] The merging of figuration and abstraction in his artworks is the result of the process of erasure that Kanevsky employs.

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.

Moving back and forth between abstraction and figuration, he has depicted geometrical forms including dots, lines, triangles, square and ellipses, and rhythms of fresh and vivid colors on the pictorial plane, and has created unique, illusionistic worlds of painting wherein each motif influences and merges into each other while preserving a descriptive quality.

Pattern, shape, and symmetry emerge in the artist's highly detailed compositions that merge abstraction and figuration.