Sentences with phrase «of figurative abstraction»

The essay connects abstract expressionism to modern European painting and advances the appreciation of figurative abstraction of Soutine's work among his contemporaries, especially de Kooning (see Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan.

Ellipsis: Group show of figurative abstraction in various media; opens 5 p.m. Saturday, through May 14; d.m. allison gallery, 2709 Colquitt, 832-607-4378, dma-art.com.

Ellipsis: Group show of figurative abstraction in various media, through May 14; d.m. allison gallery, 2709 Colquitt, 832-607-4378, dma-art.com.

Character Traits brings together nine young artists who reinvigorate the rich intersection of figurative abstraction via distinctive compositions, materials and processes.

Not exact matches

The exhibit will include stunning hyper - realistic work by Churchill - Johnson — stark political statement contrasted with delicate, minimalist abstraction by Uyesaka — deeply engaging abstract oils by Scorzelli — dynamic and powerful ceramic insights by Rosenberg - Dent — fanciful, abstract adventures by Lehrer — an unsettling mixed - media installation with video by auto - expressionist, Metrov — striking figurative vs abstract works by Ferris — a lively «abolish blandness» painting by Lytle contrasted with fabulous yarn work from the early 90's — and a pair of McCracken's, always delightful, miniatures.

If abstraction is favored by undiscerning speculator collectors as well as museums hoping to advance a fast - forward chronology of art history, there is still no small amount of figurative work on the scene.

Organized by Paul Schimmel, this selection of 36 paintings and 53 drawings, traces the development of Guston's work during this transitional period from abstraction to the beginnings of his iconic figurative works.»

Drawing from the art - historical lineage of cubism, cartoons, figurative painting and gestural abstraction, and appropriating subjects from mythology, advertising, print culture and consumerism, Comic Future is as much about the breakdown of the human condition as it is about the absurdities which define the perils of human evolution.

Although the artist's figurative abstractions may appear crude at first glance, closer examination reveals works vibrating with energy and pulse, creating an all - out assault on the viewer's concept of reality.

Remaining defiantly figurative despite an art scene that swung increasingly toward abstraction, and choosing as his subjects those places and homes to which he felt most deeply connected, Porter produced a body of work of tremendous personal significance and emotional power.

Most of Khanna's work is figurative; he chose not to explore abstraction unlike most of his contemporaries.

A unique amalgamation of artist, Spiritualist and medium, the fascinating and unexpected story of Houghton has generated international interest from curators and writers who see her work as representing an abandonment of figurative form that anticipates the development of modern abstraction by artists such as Kandinsky or Malevich by several decades.

Whether appropriated by some contemporary figurative painters or aligned with some sort of new figuration, where the painters «find everything to be a matter of images» (to quote Barry Schwabsky from the online catalogue for «A New Subjectivity»), Abstraction clearly and demonstratively engages with the problems of painting (and collage and sculpture) despite the surprising conservatism of Kerry James Marshall.

Rendered in grisaille with the feathered brushwork synonymous with Richter's blurred painterly idiom, Italienische Landschaft dissolves before our eyes into a flat field of subtle grey striations, pushing the figurative into the realm of abstraction.

Representing a stylistic transformation from his previous figurative practice to monumental geometric abstractions, these pieces capture a sense of the Ocean Park community of Southern California where the artist created them between 1967 and 1988.

What is begun with figurative photographs, his abstractions distill, bringing the malleability of photographic objecthood to the forefront of every piece.

Kramer didn't seem interested that Guston had painted figurative murals for a couple of decades before working in abstraction, and he made no connections between the new work and the old.

Tworkov's figurative abstractions are a little known part of his oeuvre as he is primarily celebrated for his Abstract Expressionist period of the early 1950s.

The works begins with his early realist, figurative abstractions, to a «proto - synthetic cubism,» straight through the famous series of women that dominated the 1950s, ending in his increasingly «expansive,» looser renderings of the 1960s.

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.

But at a time when the art world was tilting toward abstraction and internationalism, Mr. Colville was also something of an outsider, dedicated to figurative painting and to his native Canada, where he was revered by many as «painter laureate.»

While de Kooning, like the «action» painters of the time, used gestural brushstrokes, most her work was figurative and representational, and rarely pure abstraction.

With its inclusion of abstraction along with figurative work, it struck some viewers as not explicitly gay enough, as dodging the political issues its title raised.

But if you look at a lot of this abstract painting and you put it against the history of abstraction, or you look at this figurative painting and you put it against the history of straight - up, Modernist figurative painting, a lot of these artists are not really offering anything that adds much.

Late in his life, the painter of modern orientation attempted to re-introduce elements of abstraction into his new figurative style, a feat that can be seen in several of his works from 1980.

Neel challenged the artistic conventions of her time by pursuing a career as a figurative painter when her contemporaries favored abstraction.

Known for his figurative abstraction, Taylor will spend January living and working at Museo Taller Jose Clemente Orozco (the historic former residence and workshop of the late Mexican muralist) and, at the end of the month, the works produced during that time will be presented in an exhibition in the space.

Influenced by representational artists such as Fairfield Porter and Alex Katz, during her studies Fish was not always encouraged in her realistic approach, considering the fact that prestigious university's art programs advocated the idea of inferiority of the figurative painting in relation to abstraction or conceptual work.

His recent paintings and prints contain elements of a figurative, cartoon, Surrealist, and Pop heritage combined with an equal interest in painterly abstraction.

This exhibition takes as its focus Tucker's figurative work, which pushes the figurative to the brink of abstraction.

I have no sense that this is «abstracted from» anything, yet it does have some connections to picture - making and composition that I think of as «figurative» even within the larger frame of abstraction.

(1910 - 1962) American, yet imbued with visual culture of Europe, Franz Kline exemplifies the development of pictorial language from a figurative form that derives from Rembrandt and the other great masters whose work he knew well from visiting European museums, to abstraction.

Vito Schnabel Gallery is pleased to present The Age of Ambiguity: Abstract Figuration / Figurative Abstraction, a group exhibition that will mark...

These early works feature his inventive juxtaposition of abstraction with surreal figurative imagery.

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.

Currently on view at MCA Chicago through May 20, the exhibition spans Pindell's five - decade career, «featuring early figurative paintings, pure abstraction and conceptual works, and personal and political art that emerged in the aftermath of a life - threatening car accident in 1979.

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.

His pictures stand between abstraction and figuration and he is, in his own words (which he has tired of hearing thrown back at him) a figurative painter of emotional situations.

The are few overt reference to the figurative images still prevalent (and perhaps unexpected) in some works of the thirties, whose creators were so militant about abstraction.

The exhibition will give a rounded view of Neel's career, showing her to be a radical painter in the figurative tradition — which was unjustly eclipsed in a period of high abstraction.

The works in Surrealism USA are borrowed from public and private collections in the United States and abroad, and all aspects of the Surrealist movement in America are represented: the figurative depictions of a fantasy world by Peter Blume, Dorothea Tanning, and Helen Lundberg; the social surrealism of O. Louis Guglielmi, James Guy and Walter Quirt; the imaginary landscapes of Kay Sage and Yves Tanguy; Joseph Cornell's enigmatic and poetic constructions; the lyrical abstractions of Arshile Gorky and William Baziotes; the automatic experiments of Jackson Pollock and Gerome Kamrowski.

For Locks Gallery, Joy Feasley has created paintings that demonstrate a skillful integration of landscape, abstraction, pattern and decoration, and figurative imagery.

A selection of earlier photographs is also included to provide a context for Tillmans» passage from figurative and representational imagery to abstraction.

Wrestling with the simultaneous existence of abstraction and representation, «Painter» strikes a precarious note: ambiguous, but semi-recognizable forms recall the artist's early figurative works of the 1940s.

The work moves through several recognisable phases: from the carefully constructed figurative pictures of the late 1940s; into various degrees of object - based abstraction; to an even simpler sort of still life painting in the 1970s and early 1980s.

The technique of layering and building up of the surface, expanding or contracting the composition, appears across both Spann's abstractions and figurative work.

One of these is her movement between abstraction and figurative representation.

Audiences today generally know Richard Diebenkorn's career in terms of three major evolutions: the Sausalito, Albuquerque, Urbana, and «early Berkeley» periods of Abstract Expressionism (1947 - 1955); the Berkeley figurative / representational period (1955 - 1966); and the Ocean Park (1967 - 1988) and Healdsburg (1988 - 1992) series of abstractions.

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.

In Paris, Abboud was influenced by the works of Pierre Bonnard, Roger Bissière and Nicolas de Staël, and began to shift from a Lebanese tradition of figurative and landscape painting to colourful abstraction.