Sentences with phrase «of figurative representations»

This reference back to an earlier event may take the form of a figurative representation of a cause which, however, is only designed vividly to express and impress on the mind the state of affairs actually observed.

In a queer analysis of figurative representation, emily north / em16 presents us with two large works on paper and one soft sculpture.

Kusaka works often combine elements of figurative representation with more abstract features, yet in her new solo show — her first in Italy — she opted to present ceramics which purely geometric, and thus abstract, patterns.

em16 / emily north (July 27 — August 14) is an artist creating immersive work on bodies and paper to bring forth a queer analysis of figurative representation.

emily north / em16 is a Brooklyn artist creating immersive work on bodies and paper in a queer analysis of figurative representation.

«I just thought it was so different from anything that I had seen because, at the time, so many of the artists of color were working in heavy abstraction or very differently in terms of figurative representation.»

The only glimpse of figurative representation in the exhibition, the works by Heller are emblematic of the artist's interest in moments of intimate transformation.

Barbara Wagner's love of figurative representation is what makes this silkscreen print so typical of her work.

But on closer inspection, despite a lack of figurative representation, each have a clear subject and evoke the sense of a person or situation as remembered by the painter and hinted at to the world via his art.

These examine notions of the raw intersection of race, gender, and sexuality through iconic, silhouetted figures, which offer an extended contemplation on the nature of figurative representation and narrative in contemporary art.

Her re-introduction of figurative representation, interpreted in a painterly manner rather than necessarily striving for an antiquated sense of realism, paved the way for the New Figuration and Neo-Expressionist artists of the 1970s and 1980s.

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What is at stake here is not a single text, but the entire meaning of the whole revelation: the opposition between YHWH and «the» figurative representations of the gods, and the very definition of the God of Israel.

As Vergote remarks quite accurately «The religious content of mystical visions is not different from the content of faith; figurative representations are derived from natural perceptions., As far as revelation is concerned, visions add absolutely nothing.

The opening is the first of many sequences in «Under the Skin» that feel more figurative than «real» — moments in which we suspect we're seeing the poetic representation of a thing, not necessarily the thing itself.

One suggests the tiger in the book is figurative, a representation of things that are preventing the protagonist from releasing his sadness.

We use a mix of the serious (putting words in families, making personal connections to words, drawing figurative representations) and the silly (acting out words with wild exaggeration, doing competitive games).

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).

Through her use of subtly articulated line and negative space, Ku references East Asian artistic traditions, while her focus on figurative representation through a predominantly female - centric subject matter, suggests a more contemporary Western perspective.

While this exhibition began somewhere between the vague boundaries of figurative art and realism, it coalesced quickly into something more personal, that is, a representation of those artists who have been foremost in my mind over the course of my own experience and personal development.

He established himself as a major artist of the movement in Italian figurative painting known as the Transavanguardia, a Neo-Expressionist movement that sought to re-emphasize color and representation in reaction to the Conceptual Art of the times.

Linked by the works» engagement with figurative representation, the show displayed a diverse range of mediums from monoprint and watercolor to photography and sculpture, most of which explore notions relating to identity, society and isolation.

He is known for his figurative works and for many public commissions, including the 220 - foot Zodiac Screen (1961), a series of twelve monumental bas - relief representations of the Zodiac on what was then the Pan American World Airways terminal at Idlewild (now Kennedy) Airport.

This series is a figurative representation of the exchange of life between man and nature.

The ambivalence of these works — the need to both embrace and assault the mechanisms of figurative art — brings the artists right to the centre of their representations.

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.

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

However, «Cowboys» can be seen not only as a cynical representation of reality, but also, in the critical tradition of Conceptual art, as a piercing inquiry into the ethos of the American vernacular, and even as the existential gesture of a figurative and realist artist.

Featuring more than 100 works spanning from the early 1980s to the present, including a number of new and never - before - seen pieces, the exhibition juxtaposes graphic patterns with abstracted, figurative paintings, creating a fully immersive environment that underscores the artist's systematic dismantling of the hierarchy between design and fine art, and between three - dimensional form and two - dimensional representation.

Her work sits within the realm of emotional abstraction, with geometric and seemingly coincidental outlines of bodies or vases as her only hint at figurative representation.

The problem with figurative art at the time was that it had run out of steam, but the polemic was that you couldn't do it any more, which seemed absurd after 4,000 years of people making representations of each other.

The artists included in this exhibition will present a diverse selection of works that are linked by a shared engagement with figurative representation in contemporary art.

His figurative works explore the representation of the human body as a site where identity is transformed, theatrically expressed and concealed, in a fusion of organic and inorganic, skin and plastic, feminine and masculine, representation and nature.

Using both figurative representation and formal abstraction, Ted Lawson creates a narrative progression of forms that reveals something conceptually greater than the sum of their parts.

Even those pieces that are not traditional paintings critically engage the legacy of postwar Abstract Expressionism, which eradicated figurative representation in favor of all - over gestural marks that were considered to be indexical references to the hands and psyches of the artists, who were becoming cultural icons in their own right.

Teasing out common themes, from representations of joy and loneliness to masks and the carnivalesque, this highly illustrated publication offers a very personal journey through contemporary figurative art.

The gallery is specialized in the representation of young german figurative painters.

Not merely figurative or abstract representations of bodies, the works seem to invoke the somatic conditions of being a body.

She creates a personal and contemporary fiction within her works, bringing to light issues of race and representation throughout the history of traditional figurative painting: «My work is a form of tribute, analysis and intervention: tribute out of sincere admiration for the figurative tradition; analysis, by making something vast,» the role of race in the history of figurative painting «comprehensible to both myself and to my viewers; and intervention, by positioning a woman - of - color as primary picture - maker, in whose hands the figurative tradition is refashioned.»

The idealized, abstract quality of the forty - five objects displayed, including sculpture, paintings, and several funerary masks, demonstrated the Egyptian belief that figurative representation was not only the physical record of an individual, but his / her link to immortality.

Most belong to the generation of painters who followed Abstract Expressionism and navigated between abstraction and representation to reach a new understanding of the use of colour, formalism and figurative painting.

In conjunction with her exhibition «Full Circle,» artist Summer Wheat shares the methods and cultural histories that guide her abstract - figurative work, from intuitive perception to ancient forms of representation and knowledge.

Later he continued along this more figurative vein, with representations of characters from the Iliad in a sculptural re-enactment of the Trojan wars in steel and clay.

Belgian painter Luc Tuymans (born 1958), one of the key figures in the 1990s revival of figurative painting, is also one of contemporary art's great history painters, tackling historical traumas and their representations in a restrained — though resolutely painterly — style and pale, muted palette.

Mitchell's paintings differed from her Abstract Expressionist colleagues because of their use of hot colors, and Ashbery picked up on this, noting that her palette brought her work closer to figurative representation than pure abstraction.

... As he translates the rhythms of the urban landscape into increasingly abstract terms, without ever fully abandoning a figurative impulse, Bradford deftly operates at the intersection of abstraction and representation like few before him.

An accomplished figurative painter, Felice «strives, through her portraits of women, to provide a counterpoint to the passive representations found in art historical tradition.

All figurative representation is abandoned for atmospheric qualities and all colors are displayed at once, layered on top of one another in each work.

Elizabeth Jaeger is a New York based sculptor who explores notions of memento mori by embedding emotions and experiences within handmade representations of everyday objects and figurative sculptures.

For a moment Pollock had attenuated line almost to the point of its being free of representation, but this was an extreme moment of style, with which he was deeply troubled, as it cut him off from his earlier inspirations, and from which he returned to allow abstract line to morph into figurative signs in the black paintings of 1952.

Some would argue that as African Americans, their belief in the modernist project came at the expense of being on the wrong side of the cultural politics of the time, and an emphasis on figurative representation.