Sentences with phrase «of figurative images»

Elementos Tierra, Aire, Fuego, and Agua explores the subjects of earth, air, fire, and water in Villarreal's unique style of figurative images and structural compositions which complement and complete each other in this series.

For this comprehensive show at Museum Brandhorst — which features thirty - three pictures on canvas, some thirteen display cases full of drawings, and, surprisingly, two videos — Guyton takes his formal vocabulary in new directions: «Wade Guyton: Das New Yorker Atelier» promises a journey into the dangerous shoals of figurative images.

Encouraged by his insistence that he has never been an abstract painter, and by certain suggestive colours and forms - an arrow, say, or an overcast grey - the viewer would begin to discern all kinds of figurative images, even scenarios, where none was available at first.

The degree of illusion of their figurative images and motifs was taken to extremes, since reality seen through the media and its consumable outer sheen was the key theme of Pop Art.

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.

Walking around a canvas, building a structure from blocks and streaks of color, he would see the possibility of a figurative image.

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Myth is born of the revealed Word of God, but because it is figurative, it has no visible image.

In Captain Stormfield's visit to heaven, he learns that the conventional image of angels as winged, white - robed figures bearing haloes, harps, and palm leaves is a mere illusion generated for the benefit of humans, who mistakenly take «figurative language» to be a realistic depiction.

Alienation was thus his destiny, and amid his numerous violent clashes, director Refn shrewdly pinpoints — through images of a free Bronson getting trapped in his parents» locked car, proving unable to open a locked gate, and facing closing doors — how psychosis of this extreme sort could only lead to literal and figurative captivity.

As a figurative artist I operate as someone who has hunches about the importance of an image to me.

The individual strength of images is challenged and enhanced by their presentation, fluidly interweaving the figurative and abstract.

Using a fashion sketchbook with figurative templates as its foundation, How to Ruin an Omelet is a lively amalgam of text and image.

Here are some of my more surreal figurative pastels from when I lived in southern Mexico.Click on the images for sizes and prices email me at [email protected] with any questions.

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).

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.

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.

The Figurative Arts Residency offers artists interested in representational and figurative subjects a unique opportunity to hone skills and advance techniques of image - and formFigurative Arts Residency offers artists interested in representational and figurative subjects a unique opportunity to hone skills and advance techniques of image - and formfigurative subjects a unique opportunity to hone skills and advance techniques of image - and form - making.

There is also the space of images, pictorial space, where figurative sculpture resided before the polemics of Minimalism.

These contri - butions remind us that in our digital era — marked by a satu - ration of images — contemporary practices are perhaps more figural than figurative, and that expressiveness is to be thought as a critical tool rather than the testimony of an ever uncertain subjectivity.

In an attempt to avoid the trappings of abstract and figurative art, the artists made extensive use of collage and assemblage, appropriating images and incorporating real objects into the work.

These beautiful, figurative blueprints clearly show his rejection of Abstract Expressionism and signal the beginning of his innovative use of everyday objects, silkscreened images and mixed media, which would culminate in his celebrated «combines» of the late 1950s.

This logic of accumulation would lead to the development of Bayrle's «super-forms,» densely composed images in which smaller units are used to build larger figurative forms.

Simultaneously classical and contemporary in scope, it contains roughly 300 images, how - to diagrams, and information about figurative art movements of the past as well as profiles of some of the greatest practitioners working today... featuring examples of Zeller's own work and also some of his best contemporary peers, who collectively bring the figurative tradition forward into a new era.»

Four years later, his father hanged himself; Guston discovered the body and subsequently sought solace by hiding in a cupboard lit by a naked bulb, the image of which would become a prevailing motif in the oddly disquieting, figurative, often autobiographical paintings he began to make in his fifties.

These works, which completely eschew paint are full of mystery, the original figurative image being progressively buried into the surface.

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.

In the mid-60s, Brehmer began making enlarged reproductions of postage stamps, franked and perforated around the edges, which impose an abstract language onto the figurative images borne by the stamps, while at the same time reinforcing their identity as stamps.

We've only got two images to go on and since one of the two figurative works reminds us a little of careful brushwork and delicate landscapes Echo Eggebrecht has become known for (minus the figure), this show gets a nod.

Chris Bedford and Baltimore - based artist Zöe Charlton discuss the meanings behind her surreal life - size figurative drawings and how people relate to images of bodies.

Cinematic Visions examines how, through a variety of painterly strategies and gestures, figuration starts to break down and, conversely, how a residual figurative substratum can be found in even the most apparently abstract image.

This exhibition focuses on two new series: figurative sculptures and a print edition based on discarded images of divorcées from newspaper archives, dating from the 1930's -1970's.

By interacting with the photographed shadows in the image, the real cast shadows of the salient frame create a coalescence of figurative and real spaces, activating the symbolic tension between materiality and immateriality.

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.

Finding himself drawn to figurative images displaying a complexity of expression, Lawson's resulting paintings each focus on a single figure from torso up, all including faces and hands.

Robyn Stone's figurative paintings confront us with difficult yet darkly beautiful images of adolescent vulnerability and fragility.

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 focuses on the artist's methodology, from his use of repeated systems to figurative drawings that explore alternate means of creating an image.

But the idea that 40,000 years of humanity making figurative images should no longer be possible because of Donald Judd's empty boxes was, and is, ridiculous.

Jenny Scobel makes portraits or figurative paintings of children and women that blend a scene of innocent - like faces with images that suggest an underlying dark or disturbing story.

«This exhibition proposes an alternate history of figurative painting, sculpture, and vernacular image - making from the 1960 to the present that has been largely over-looked and undervalued,» Nadel writes in the accompanying catalogue, published by D.A.P.

One is making these fantastic mixed media portraits that use flattened patterns to create a figurative image, combining geometry and a variety of tones to

His photographic works are made without the use of a camera, instead producing images, both figurative and abstract, with handmade «negatives.»

Their sculptures, fusing almost readymade images and almost unforeseen forms, are thus the very concrete synthesis of a position that straddles two options: an expressionist subjectivism based on an authentically Pop imaginary and a distanced figurative conceptualism.»

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

Image painting — here, a term to include a broad range of figurative and representational approaches — served as a vehicle for issues and activism: gender, First Nations culture, social injustice, and a global reckoning of environmental concerns.

In the work of David Bolduc, Harold Klunder, Paul Fournier, Alex Cameron, Paul Hutner, Howard Simkins, Eric Gamble and Christopher Broadhurst, among others in Toronto and elsewhere, figurative images are woven into the abstract concerns of the activity of painting.

«People with too strong of a love for figurative art often can tend to be very conservative and overly respectful to the traditions of realistic or academic approaches to image making.

She produced a series of awe - striking images titled «Caryatid» in 1980 as part of her Temple project using the diazotype process — used most commonly for creating architectural blueprints — in which she projected images or negatives made from transparent tissue paper and acetate onto large sheets of light - sensitive paper and exposed (sometimes as long as overnight) to create cyan and sepia - toned figurative photographs.

In the early 1980s Dokoupil emerged as a leading champion of a new generation of international artists who, in opposition to the minimal and conceptual art of the 1970s, rediscovered painting and the use of figurative, expressionist images.

However, the images are not figurative and each embody a sense of abstraction which blocks the viewer from gazing directly onto the horrific scenes, leaving only clues to piece together an otherwise fragmented narrative.