Sentences with phrase «of figuration»

Incorporating elements of abstraction with hints of figurations, her works are dynamic aggregations of an entangled atmosphere filled with familiar symbols, shapes and environments.

The artist Terry Winters has been exploring the expanded field of abstraction in his paintings since the 1970s, using forms of figuration drawn from the natural and technological worlds as sources of inspiration.

Bell's quirky style of figuration as well as her devout Catholicism inspired Grant's lively and poignant suite Easter's Best (2013), five medium - size, acrylic, ink and colored pencil drawings on watercolor paper.

Everyone knew that in the «80s there was «A New Spirit in Painting» [the title of a influential 1981 group show of Transavanguardia, German Neo-Expressionism, late Picasso, and Americans like David Salle and Julian Schnabel at London's Royal Academy], and that had to do with a new kind of figuration.

It's a refined show, carefully studied; the viewer's attention bounces back and forth among three different types of photographs: abstract works made in the dark room with an analog process; elements of figuration emerging from irregular abstract patterns; and pictures from the pages of the Los Angeles Times that have been wildly altered with Photoshop tools, resulting in dark captivating images with heavily solarized colors.

Samra's early works, for example, demonstrate his initial interest in surpassing the boundaries of figuration with drawings of subjects that stir despite their stationary positions such as in Quran Reader (1978), which depicts a male protagonist whose body appears to dissolve.

Organized by the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), Procession considers the complexity of Lewis's art in its entirety, examining his use of figuration within his abstract expressionist style, his ability to integrate social issues and abstraction, and the surprising and expressive palette he championed throughout his career.

Through exuberant works that sometimes engage the heroic gesture or make use of pop imagery, artists explored the traditions of figuration and history paintings and offered new interpretations of abstraction.

In the early series Hunting and Fishing, Kooiker probed the limits of figuration with extremely out - of - focus nudes fleeing his camera, leaving the viewer to witness the sport of voyeurism.

The selection of paintings and works on paper exhibited here highlight how the artist represented the socio - political mood after the Second World War with his unique combination of figuration and abstraction.

From 10 April, Camden Arts Centre will host an exhibition by another icon of contemporary painting, Jo Baer, whose ascetic beginnings as a Minimalist in the 1960s gave way in subsequent decades to a picaresque mode of figuration in which bodies, objects, symbols and landscapes are mapped out across a canvas, dreams seeming to take on diagrammatic form.

Baj then put the boundaries of figuration under pressure as he introduces his recognisable rectangular - headed Ultra Bodies into found figurative paintings.

But it also capitalizes on a new wave of figuration by younger artists who have tired of neo-formalist abstraction (a topic we have been covering in our conversation series surrounding Phaidon's new book Body of Art).

We look at Minimalism, Conceptualism, and Photorealism — which is the complete opposite — and the return of figuration in the 1980s with artists like Caroll Dunham.

On the edge of figuration and abstraction, Yanai, with his interplay of colours and forms, accomplishes to elicit placeless and timelessness, allowing the viewer to easily identify himself / herself with the artist's imagery.

Brand New Gallery is pleased to present «Imagine» a group exhibition that features more than 60 artists who are experimenting the possibilities of figuration in painting.

This sensibility speaks to the heightened color of Schutz's rambunctious mix of figuration and abstraction in wildly imaginative scenarios.

Often drawing from Poland's sociopolitical atmosphere in the wake of the Second World War, Wróblewski's singular practice is characterized by a unique blend of figuration and abstraction.

This first volume to feature all of Oehlen's early self portraits reveals his balancing of figuration with abstraction, and his simultaneous questioning of the practice and history of art.

Through the use of abstraction, CARRIE MOYER's paintings titled Avatar (2007) and Tender Star (2007) offer another view of figuration through a feminist lens.

Chicago was, in fact, host to a number of painters and sculptors dedicated to an idiosyncratic brand of figuration, including the «Monster Roster»: an informal group that included Golub, his wife Nancy Spero, Seymour Rosofsky, H. C. Westermann, and June Leaf.

His work is an intricate and multilayered synthesis of figuration and abstraction.

Traces of figuration make the job of viewing Regatta easier.

Procession will consider the complexity of Lewis» art by examining the role of figuration within abstract expressionism and how Lewis subtly referenced social issues within an essentially abstract mode.

That is, not everyone gets geometric abstraction, even if it is very good and very beautiful like Mondrian, but everyone gets a picture of a canoe on a still lake because it speaks the universal language of figuration.

The painting also signaled his embrace of figuration and commitment to painting black figures with black paint and considering blackness in cultural, social, and aesthetic terms.

Various artists who had worked in an abstract style before the war, notably Henry Moore for instance, returned to a period of figuration as a means to process their need to reassert the primacy of the human body after years of witnessing its destruction.

3 Rothko might have found solace had he not felt his rejection of figuration to be irreversible.

More important, the chief concerns of the best painters of the past two decades, in this country at any rate, have not had to do with the question of figuration versus abstraction, but rather with certain formal problems that have arisen out of the recent history of painting itself.

You will discover something that was always in the best of figuration, but it had nothing to do with the known, rather the unknown (yet familiar?)

The overlaying figure, circles, lines, spots or blurs, certainly qualify as abstraction, yet still within the logic of the composition, they teeter on the verge of figuration.

An eclectic contemporary master of figuration examined through multiple lenses in this career - spanning catalogue

Cecily Brown draws inspiration from sources as diverse as Goya, Joan Mitchell, and Willem de Kooning, and her paintings combine aspects of both figuration and abstraction.

Proportionally, the amount of figuration in the art world now, compared to abstraction or even, say, landscape painting, is insurmountable.

The exhibition is the first to explore Still's striking figurative work created before World War II, which points to the significance of figuration throughout the artist's oeuvre, even in his most apparently non-representational compositions.

Jones rejected the notion that this art historical narrative signaled the end of figuration.

Procession considers the complexity of Lewis» art in its entirety: It examines the role of figuration within Abstract Expressionism, considers how Lewis integrated social issues with abstraction, and highlights the surprising and expressive palette the artist championed throughout his career.

Think of echoes of figuration in Pollock or Willem de Kooning, who veered from abstraction to Woman I and back.

It is unclear how his new exploration of figuration will be realized in his cyclorama.

Tiny, intricate markings in pen and ink give way to rhythmic, voluminous forms that dip in and out of figuration and abstraction.

The most fascinating response was that of Philip Guston, who seemed to come out of the other side of abstraction into an alternative world of figuration, ironic, often amusing, but at heart deadly serious about human failure, and how hollow the pose of artistic heroism had become.

Over the past fifteen years Havekost has established himself as one of the most exciting young painters to explore the limits and implications of figuration in contemporary art.

Ranging from an early Adolph Gottlieb pictogram with body shapes and parts appearing within a primitivist grid to a new bronze sculpture by Lesley Dill of a perforated dress form bearing language from a Salvador Espriu poem, the exhibition offers a broad view of figuration and includes sculpture, drawing, and painting.

With the advent of modernism in the twentieth century, the relevance of figuration and realism was further questioned.