Sentences with phrase «of figurative motifs»

His work of the last three years has witnessed an increasing interplay of figurative motifs with more formal abstracted painting in a manner that explores the nature of the medium and its history in relation to the shifting imagery of contemporary life.

The English sculptor Henry Moore (1898 - 1986) brought about a renewed interest in direct carving and enriched the formal vocabulary of the medium by his continuous examination of figurative motifs and abstract shapes derived from natural phenomena.

In Untitled, there is a rhythmic, almost calligraphic quality to the way in which he has, in an almost ritualistic process and in the absence of any figurative motif, amassed these darting ink - marks on the surface.

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Following the logic that this figurative motif exists only as long as consumption is resisted, the body and use - value of this character remain as hypothetical values.

And Jhaveri Contemporary from Mumbai, will introduce you to the luscious semi-abstract figurative paintings of Mohan Samant (1924 - 2004), whose motifs are sometimes reinforced by delicate bent wires that float above the canvas, resembling drawing in ink.

Many of her motifs are human figures and birds so figurative, yet their gender - neutral, profound expressions remind us religious sculptures with abstract and enigmatic quality.

Without figurative motifs to distract the viewer's attention, Richter's application of paint onto the vast canvas is a demonstration of reduction at its most convincing.

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.

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).

Another influential aspect of de Kooning's work over the decades has been his ability to explore abstract forms in some works while, at the same time, exploring frankly figurative or landscape motifs in other works.

Ranging from painterly abstraction to figurative interiors and landscapes, Hurvin Anderson's solo exhibition at New Art Exchange, Nottingham, expands on two long - standing motifs of the barbershop interior and the municipal park landscape and includes his Arts Council Collection commission, Is It OK To Be Black?

By combining the motif inherent in the Penguin book, Miller found a way to marry aspects of Pop Art, abstraction and figurative painting at once, with his writer's love of text.

Superimposing intricate networks of lines, dots and planes of colour, with recurring figurative motifs such as doors, windows, aeroplanes, railway tracks and fragments of the human form, Bernard Cohen creates dizzying arrangements, within which an internal sense of order is revealed to the viewer gradually over time.

During the late 1960s, Guston became frustrated with the limitations of abstraction and returned to figurative painting, amassing a potent language of motifs whose roots can be seen in the forms and shapes of Traveler III, and illustrating what Christoph Schreier refers to as subcutaneous figuration.2 Following his 1966 exhibition at the Jewish Museum in New York, Guston relocated to Woodstock, New York, embarking on what would become a two - year hiatus from painting.

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.

Overpainted Paintings are a series of works in which Schuyff adds abstract and organic motifs to figurative art found in junk shops.

He commonly engages in the history of art by taking motifs and iconography from twentieth century figurative and abstract art and reworking them in pointedly «low» media such as ink drawing, graffiti, cartoon and collage.

are a series of works in which Schuyff adds abstract and organic motifs to figurative art found in junk shops.

Hold On features the works of three Vancouver artists exploring stasis, pauses, and revolution as both literal and figurative motifs.

Lacing Action painting and Color Field painting with a postmodern twist, Zimmermann's abstract motifs seem to spring from more figurative representations: he uses computer graphics and «dithering» (a technique that displays images without firm edges so as to give a more colorful appearance) to deform images, texts and signs from his own massive archive of images, evoking the atlases of Gerhard Richter and Aby Warburg.

The jugs are etched with figurative motifs and represent the five rivers of the underworld, which according to Greek mythology, possess a distinct power to help lead those into the afterlife.

Manipulating the formal attributes of linework, each artist in the exhibition explores the malleability of art's most basic foundation — giving whimsical, geometric, figurative or outlandish life to a common singular motif.

Where the nine hundreds can be considered as the avant - garde century, the age - old motif of the mutual influence and interference between word and image on the one hand and figurative arts and literature on the other gains a new specific setup precisely with avant - gardist culture.

Imran Qureshi is known for his beautifully crafted paintings which portray a delicate repetition of decorative motifs and figurative elements.

Those four squares of abstraction should remind you a little bit of the motifs that Hartley has used, Marsden Hartley in the 20th century, an important American abstract figurative painter, an important American painter.

Toby Ziegler's recent paintings on aluminium are works of pure abstraction that begin with a figurative motif.

Displaying an intricate balance of abstract and figurative elements, Ofili's new suite of paintings is dominated by complex arrangements of repeated triangular motifs.

Chia incorporated Italian Mannerism, Cubism, Futurism and Fauvism in his narrative religious works; Paladino composed large mythological pictures with both geometric and figurative motifs; Cucchi produced romantic scenes of giants and mountains, inspired by Surrealism, and incorporated the use of extra items, made from metal or clay, in his painted works; Clemente was noted for his self - portraiture and intimate figurative works.

Doze Green was also a significant member of the early community of writers who crossed over with an experimental style that included the use of archetypal icons, poetic typography, figurative motifs and painterly styles.