Sentences with phrase «of figurative imagery»

With collage — the juxtaposition of heterogeneous elements — and abstraction — the elimination of figurative imagery — as guiding principles, Chamberlain articulated the maxim that permeates his entire oeuvre: «it's all in the fit.»

What's really of the moment about the work isn't its content as such, but its meta - abstraction — the treatment of figurative imagery and nonfigurative gestures as equal actors in an overall visual project defined by its mood rather than its meaning.

His unease at the loss of figurative imagery in the painting at that time with which he had so much success eventually led his own work down deeply conflicted avenues.

(Summer Session III)(COURSE FULL) This figure painting class will explore in depth the development of figurative imagery in art.

Viewers in quest of figurative imagery were left simply with the drama of Hoyland's virtuoso handling of paint; the visual tug and pull as one field of colour leaked into or overlaid another, his vivid drips, spills and controlled pourings.

Not exact matches

Examples of various types of sound devices and figurative language found in the poems, such as alliteration, simile, metaphor, personification, onomatopoeia, and imagery.

Imagery of floods, both literal and figurative, recurs throughout the narrative and gives the novel a feeling of impending doom and a sort of inevitability, an ending that is never wished for but approaches relentlessly.

Floods both real (due to global warming) and figurative (tides of refugees washing ashore in the Mediterranean and elsewhere) dominate the imagery of Margaret Drabble's novel, The Dark Flood Rises.

His paintings are so appealing at first sight, as delightful coloured patterns with pleasing figurative imagery, that many look no longer, or see no further, and for them the magical metamorphosis does not take place; they do not find that they are standing on a little terrace under a walnut tree looking through an overgrown garden straight towards the afternoon sun which is sparkling on the Seine below them, and all looking not as it would to them, but more mysterious, more overpowering, fuller of space and light and colour and overwhelmingly real and harmonious.

Jack Whitten's narrative Abstract Expressionist works from the 1960s draw imagery from the Civil Rights movement, including ghosted images of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr; Joan Semmel's figurative paintings question representation of female sexuality through the lens of self - portraiture; Gay liberation and the AIDS crisis are the cultural context for narrative paintings by the late Hugh Steers (1963 — 1995).

His work occupies a unique place within the practice of contemporary photography, employing anachronistic production techniques, borrowing from the aesthetics of the finest figurative painters of the 19th and 20th centuries, and drawing upon the longstanding tradition of vanitas imagery.

Tal R has often used the word «kolbojnik», meaning leftovers in Hebrew, to describe his practice of sourcing and collecting a wide range of imagery, figurative and abstract, from high and low culture.

Working with figurative and portrait styled imagery, Lewis creates sculpted paper photo works that highlight bodies and the unseen tensions of the past, present and future.

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

His more realistic figurative imagery in the 1930s and»40s gave way to the influences of cubism and other forms of abstract art.

Drawing on Arabic semiotics and dwelling on calligraphy as a means of interpretive transcendence, Koraïchi's work utilises letters and signage to evoke figurative imagery and present universal messages to a global audience.

Abstract treatment of figurative images is featured in Ms. Fuchsberg's work: strong in rich color and raw textures; often provocative in content and imagery.

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.

These beautiful and rarely seen pieces will show an evolution from a pre-psychedelic, William Blake - like figurative imagery of the late «50s and early «60s, to the all over, highly intricate abstraction of the mid 1960s.

You could fixate on the annihilation of a distinction between abstract and figurative imagery.

Hinkle's largely figurative images combine photographic imagery with hand - drawn and painted details to create fantastical female figures of wonder.

This work embodies the best of Ringgold's style incorporating quilted patterning that is seamlessly melded with narrative and figurative imagery in a layered yet succinct composition.

Yoshida, who encouraged the use of commercial and popular cultural imagery, led a group of artists who came to be known as the Imagists who distinguished themselves from the art scenes in New York and Europe with high color figurative paintings and drawings.

After an initial dalliance with figurative painting in the 1950s he became a life - long proponent of the possibilities of non-figurative imagery, which possessed for him, he once wrote, «the potential for the most advanced depth of feeling and meaning».

Thomas Eggerer (b. 1963 Munich) blends abstract and figurative imagery in vivid, dreamlike fields of color.

Brown is an important participant in an artistic push of the last decade toward a rich, content - laden, figurative imagery.

In 1967, Philip Guston's lushly brushed imagery suddenly leapt from abstraction to a figurative style with overtones of cartooning.

Born in 1962, Andersson paints from her subconscious, creating complex compositions that bring together a variety of sources including Nordic figurative painting, folk art, film imagery and her personal history.

I became concerned with the issue of freedom of expression in figurative imagery, particularly the symbolic use of dark bodies.

The artists, such as Francesco Clemente, Enzo Cucchi, Sandro Chia and Mimmo Paladino, revived symbolism and figurative painting, as well as mythic imagery, rediscovered during the height of the movement.

Altered States looks at contemporary artists who explore psychedelia (mostly painting and some constructions with a mix of figuration, geometric and Op imagery) against a back drop of 1960s Op Art, figurative and Color Field paintings, as well as original rock posters from concerts at the Fillmore West, Avalon Ballroom and other San Francisco venues to set the stage and create the mood.

With the resurgence of figurative contemporary painting, painters of the 1980s — who experimented with appropriated imagery and photographic resources while critics challenged the relevance of their medium — offer a fruitful comparison.

Then there is the pleasure of seeking out the figurative imagery so tantalizingly hinted at in their intriguing titles.

Working on the ridges — and at times on surfaces mounted behind them — Polke deploys an indescribable abundance of figurative and abstract imagery and painterly techniques.

The figurative imagery characteristic of Marshall's paintings was largely absent from the galleries; instead they were dominated with monochromatic, text - based canvasses, and enormous replicas of American coinage, the sum of which totaled ninety - nine cents.

The Figure: Painting, Drawing, and Sculpture is a celebration of figurative art with a wealth of imagery displaying some of the finest examples of the genre in all mediums.

Working in a bright palette and always with one eye on figurative forms and the other on architecture, Stokoe creates his scenes from a combination of memory, photographs and the everyday imagery.

Gooding writes: «For Hoyland, it was necessary for paintings to be self - sufficient machines, constructed to convey a powerful charge of visual, mental and emotional energy without recourse to any historically established figurative imagery.

Various movements, themes, and styles are represented, including Abstract Expressionism, Color Field painting, Pop art, and Minimalism, as well as aspects of New Image Painting from the 1970s and beyond, recent developments in abstraction and figurative sculpture, and contemporary movements in photography, video, and digital imagery.

Alex Katz emerged in the 1950s as a figurative painter in an age of abstraction, challenging critics who shunned imagery in art, especially the figure.

Although my work doesn't look on the surface much like his, I think he taught me about using iconic signifiers and figures that I could project myself into for emotion and as an avatar in paint (like Scott McCloud describes in his amazing book, Understanding Comics, that we do as comic readers), and create figurative narrative allegories that hopefully resonate deeper than most political cartoons and relate to Goya and other art historical uses of politics and allegory as much as the imagery could relate to underground comics and contemporary worlds.

Her early paintings consist of figurative dreamlike imagery, with enigmatic themes involving childhood scenarios and women.

Brown's reputation, based on her intensely painted canvases that synthesized figurative imagery with the dynamic gestures of abstract expressionism, grew towards the mid -»60s.

Rossi, who spent several years as a Catholic nun before becoming an artist, was a member of the Chicago Imagists, an influential group defined by their common interest in non-Western and popular imagery, a dedicated pursuit of vivid and distorted figurative work, and a fondness for pop imagery and wordplay.

In contrast, much of the figurative painting shown was derived from photographic imagery.

The Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery exhibition guide suggests that «The atmosphere of greater sexual liberation of the ex-patriot (sic) community he (Bacon) encountered there, as opposed to attitudes in Britain where homosexuality remained illegal, may have influenced Bacon's creation of more explicit figurative imagery.»

Altered States looks at contemporary artists who explore psychedelia (mostly painting and some constructions with a mix of figuration, geometric and Op imagery) against a back drop of 1960s Op Art, figurative and Color Field paintings, as well as original rock posters.

Middlebrook's unprecedented absence of representational imagery heightens the figurative nature of the planks themselves, while allowing for landscape references to dominate the exhibition.

Using found imagery and carefully constructed tableaux, his seductive yet challenging figurative paintings explore complex ideas about history, memory, political extremism and art history and are influenced by his experiences growing up in the last years of Ceausescu's dictatorship.