Sentences with phrase «more figurative works»

As his work progressed, the heightened colors and elegant lines of the abstractions began to creep into the more figurative works, and the coincidence of figures and abstractions continued well into the 1940s.

Duchamp is not the only artist that Richter engages with: some of his more figurative works reference canvases by Titian, Caspar David Friedrich and Vermeer, while his two large abstract paintings in Room 10, «Forest 3» and «Forest 4», draw strong comparisons in terms of colour, scale and delicacy, with Monet's «Waterlilies».

They have a connection to the more figurative works, like a shadow world.

Painters» Table (PT): There hasn't been a major retrospective of Resnick's work since the one in Houston in 1985, a show which pre-dated his later, more figurative work.

Then when I moved to Berkshire and turned to more figurative work it was Bernard Dunstan who influenced me.

Perhaps another aspect to consider in accounting for Scully's popularity in China is the fact that abstract work, in comparison to more figurative work, is harder to censor.

There, Mitchell painted what she called «expressionist landscapes» — increasingly abstract works that were far removed from her earlier, more figurative work.

Not exact matches

While geo - specifically Canadian, and working within a coloniality of power that I often felt obliged to critique, I think my identity growing up in Canada was more mobile than nationalist, if not badly mangled, bleeding through the figurative membranes of its Canadian - ness, as something that was always already foreign to itself, as I really didn't have a sense of what it meant to be a Canadian but at the same time I tried to account for the people I met and the ideas I encountered in the context of living a life in the service of something larger than one's nation state, trying to understand what it meant to be of service to society.

«Medium to large format abstract work is generally more sought after than figurative [work],» says Heyman, «as a figurative piece, especially a portrait, may convey something about a character's personality or history, whereas abstract work is usually more subtle and can be more open to interpretation.

When he returned to painting in the Bay Area in mid-1965 his resulting works summed up all that he had learned from his more than a decade as a leading figurative painter.

Since the mid-1980s she has returned to figurative work, using fabric and more dynamic brushwork and motifs.

His early work was figurative and often described as expressionist, but from the mid 1960s his paintings became more geometric.

Bringing together more than 90 works from pubic and private collections, the exhibition features paintings and works on paper spanning the early 1930s through the late 70s, from his early depictions of African masks and figurative works to the abstract images for which he is most recognized.

How does his work compare with more recent figurative painters dealing with psycho - sexual content?

In this period his work became more figurative, drawing inspiration from the dynamic life of the city, its dancers, discos and sports.

Although he continued to promote abstract work produced in Britain and throughout Europe, Sylvester believed at this time that figurative art «was capable of going further... that [it] could be more complex, more specific, richer in human content».18 By 1958, however, Sylvester had undergone what he later described as a «Damascene conversion'to the profound achievements of recent American abstraction.

It travels through the marketplace a lot more smoothly than figurative work does.

In her previous work, she dealt with a more figurative style.

The artists work in a variety of unique and innovative ways; some incorporating a more traditional figurative approach, while others are combining metalpoint with other media to produce striking and unexpected results.

Surprising everyone, on the last day of installation Otto Zitko digressed from his signature unending line, inserting his first figurative work — a quote of Käthe Kollwitz's «No More War.»

More generally, the chapters of «America Is Hard to See» pay homage to a number of those seminal exhibitions through which the Whitney has historically recognised and advocated for emerging American art: «Anti-Illusion: Procedure / Materials» (1969), for instance, with its defiant presentation of the post-minimalism of Richard Tuttle and others, or «New Image Painting» (1979), which celebrated a revival of figurative painting in an artistic climate dominated by conceptual work.

Abstraction — from the purely decorative to the brutally austere — is more easily commodified than figurative work.

The artist does paint portraits, but the figurative work shown here celebrates gesture, line and surface more than the likeness of the sitter.»

This at the same moment that Schutz's work has gotten more figurative, controlled, illustrative, and defined.

Impressively, it has continued to be the dominant medium for more than a decade, first with an explosion of figurative work in the early 2000s, and now with an extreme focus on abstraction.

The figures and grounds are given equal weight by the artist, who installed gestural figurative paintings influenced by art history and kitsch alongside more minimal works that borrow basic television patterns and computer graphics.

In the 1960s, Schwabacher's work transitioned into more figurative and representational imagery.

What makes de Kooning such a great artist may be something far more subtle, far more interior to painting itself and perhaps expressed best in his earlier works, those that are, again, often described as transitional, from figurative works of the early 40s to even abstractions such as Painting, Attic, or Excavation.

Featuring more than 100 works spanning from the early 1980s to the present, including a number of new and never - before - seen pieces, the exhibition juxtaposes graphic patterns with abstracted, figurative paintings, creating a fully immersive environment that underscores the artist's systematic dismantling of the hierarchy between design and fine art, and between three - dimensional form and two - dimensional representation.

Starting with figurative canvases that combined assemblage and more conventional applications of oil on canvas, Otero has formulated a body of work that recently cashiered personal motifs (previously drawn from his own island history).

The First World War saw a transition from the near abstraction of his Vorticist work to a more figurative and expressionist style.

So I was then able to put in more of my figurative work with some symbolism and mythology into my painting.

Dona Nelson: Stand Alone Paintings, which opens May 12 and runs through August 12, will feature over 30 paintings drawn from the last four decades, bringing together rarely shown figurative works alongside more recent abstractions.

On a material basis, the trio's work couldn't be more different — from digital prints to rough - hewn figurative sculpture — but connective themes between the shows enrich each in turn, bridging generations, conceptual approaches and subject matter.

In the large enamel and oil on canvas, Number 7, 1952, one can see not only a head, but also Pollock's own footprint in the upper right corner, and the exhibition catalogue points out that Pollock's re-engagement with more overtly figurative work may have been due in part to his time staying at Ossorio's home.

Where there's little modeling in work by Leon Golub and George Cohen, Lerner's paintings and drawings have always had a sense of volume, and his work since the 1970s has continued to tap similar mythic and metaphorical material (mummies, hanged or tortured figures) but in a more classical figurative style.

The Human Factor An exploration of today's best figurative sculpture, with work by Jeff Koons, Paul McCarthy, Katharina Fritsch and many more.

The Andersons had far more easygoing friendships with Guston, whom they championed for having the courage to shift from abstract to figurative work when critics initially panned him, and Diebenkorn, whom they affectionately call Dick, and whose work they collected in depth.

«Many people claim to see a sharp division between the works they label «abstract» and the more recognizably figurative work.

While the paintings still hew to the cadre of influences that Martinez is often mentioned alongside — Picasso, Willem de Kooning, Philip Guston — they have more or less abandoned the figurative elements of epic earlier work, like «The Feast,» a dense triptych from 2010.

Picasso's range is further exposed through the juxtaposition of two divergent works with a Bacchic theme: the vibrant linocut Bacchanale avec Chevreau et Spectateur (1959) and the more figurative aquatint Bacchanal (1985).

Kusaka works often combine elements of figurative representation with more abstract features, yet in her new solo show — her first in Italy — she opted to present ceramics which purely geometric, and thus abstract, patterns.

The latter are glazed ceramic vessels that are more figurative and sculptural, a new medium for Ramirez and reminiscent of his earlier work and installations.

Moving into the personal and more blatantly figurative, Venice, California's De Soto Gallery presents an incredible and playful series by Denis Darzacq that captures young people with a range of disabilities responding to a previous body of Darzacq's work that dealt with hip - hop dancers and performers.

Despite the title of the painting, the work feels more abstract than figurative — yet one remembers that nature is a forceful originator of nonobjective art.

While the works are all figurative, they could not be more different.

She began making figurative works that were more poetic than perfect, which caught the art world's fancy.

Spanning the figurative to the fantastic, the «indigenous» to the «modern», Farmer's sculptures wear their influences without apology, and I very much appreciated being encouraged to recall the inspirational early work of Mike Kelley, as well as more obscure connections to aspects of the work of Wallace Berman.

During the»60s, her work became more figurative, evoking Surrealist combinations of male and female sexual organs.

Cartwright Hall Art Gallery has chosen three works that are representative of Shrigley's art: a humorous drawing, a text - based work and a more figurative piece.