Sentences with phrase «of figurative subject»

As with painting, 19th century sculpture stressed the importance of figurative subjects that usually held some allegorical, religious, or political significance.

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Her fascinatingly deformed and twisted subjects, half abstract, half figurative, with their own decadent beauty, parallel the ravages of age.

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.

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.

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.

Fauvism depicted objects with intense arbitrary color, while Orphism was characterized by bright patches of color rather than a figurative subject.

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.

By merging formalist color fields with more traditional subjects, Diebenkorn revived a legacy of figurative depictions championed by the likes of Henri Matisse and continued by a new generation of representative painters.

Sly and obliquely, but also unmistakably, another Hockney show currently available in London, this time at Annely Juda Fine Art, the artist's regular dealer, casts doubt on the proposition the Royal Academy exhibition of his recent portraits seems determined to put forward, which is that nothing can match a figurative painting made when directly confronting the subject, with no technology to modify -LSB-...]

His work was not just about copying and the act of appropriation: it was also an existential gesture made by a realist artist, speaking through a figurative language of his relationship to his subject matter.

For if there was one subject that united these early canvases, at once figurative and abstract, landscape and still - life, it was the crucifixion, the martyrdom of Christ.

Bearden's relationship with abstract expressionism was an uneasy one, in part because of his figurative work, which often took up mythic subjects, was seen by some as out of step with the trajectory of art at the time.

Cleary touched on a number of subjects again and again in her figurative work.

Ann Gale is a Seattle - based figurative painter engaged in an intense observation of her subjects.

In this show six artists working in a figurative mode — including Dana Schutz, Henry Taylor and past NAP cover artist Keith Mayerson — demonstrate how the oldest of subject matters can, in the right hands, be as relevant as ever.

Artists from Istanbul represented in Double Crescent are Hale Tenger, whose edgy assemblage works, addressing issues of gender and identity, have been exhibited at the biennials in Saõ Paolo, Johannesburg and Istanbul; Ali Kazma, whose powerful videos of people at their occupations have been shown at the Istanbul Biennial; Ayşe Erkmen, whose witty architectural interventions have been featured at Art Basel, the Hamburger Bahnhof and the Sharjah Biennial; Gülsün Karamustafa, a multimedia artist whose research - based installations on subjects such as nomads and refugees have been shown at Documenta, the Salzburger Kunstverein and the Walker Art Center and Nazım Ünal Yılmaz whose large - scale figurative paintings have been exhibited at the Kunsthaus Stade in Germany and Contemporary Istanbul.

With Abstract Expressionism at the forefront of American painting, these artists, which included Richard Diebenkorn, David Park, Roland Peterson, and Wayne Thiebaud — often referred to as the Bay Area Figurative artists — explored inventive new ways to depict traditional subject matter — the figure, landscape, and still life.

Or let us say that light has always been and continues to be her subject, one that draws her into the border of region where the abstract and the figurative meet and sometimes merge.

The exhibition includes over thirty drawings of different sizes and subject matter by a selection of some of the world's leading figurative artists.

Drawing from the art - historical lineage of cubism, graffiti, cartoons, figurative painting and gestural abstraction, and appropriating subjects from mythology, advertising, print culture and consumerism, Aaron Curry's eagerly awaited survey exhibition at CAPC musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux next summer is as much about the breakdown of the human condition as it is the absurdities that define the perils of human evolution.

Sly and obliquely, but also unmistakably, another Hockney show currently available in London, this time at Annely Juda Fine Art, the artist's regular dealer, casts doubt on the proposition the Royal Academy exhibition of his recent portraits seems determined to put forward, which is that nothing can match a figurative painting made when directly confronting the subject, with no technology to modify or mediate the artist's immediate perception of what he is looking at.

Unlike traditional figurative paintings in which models are used as subjects, in his paintings Klein incorporated his models as an intrinsic part of the creative process.

The experience of growing up in New York City, surrounded by an extraordinary human landscape, along with my early background as a dancer, and then as a figurative painter, laid the foundation for my subject of choice.

Sotheby's started the evening's other 38 lots with the 2012 painting «Drown,» by the young Nigerian - born figurative painter Njideka Akunyili Crosby, who earlier this year was the subject of a one - woman show at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Fla..

Their subject matter includes all of the traditional categories within Western Art: figurative, landscape, portraiture, indoor and outdoor genre and still life paintings.

During this period, Rothko moved from expressive figurative and surrealist canvases to more abstract multiform subjects and finally to his signature abstractions — luminous rectangles of color suspended in space.

The Firestone gallery show overlaps with a larger retrospective of Shapiro's work on view at the National Academy Museum and School that begins with some of the Abstract Expressionist work but goes much further into the figurative work of the 1990s, which took as its subject matter women artists, Jewish identity, dance and her passion for dolls.

Abstract photography emerged during a shift from figurative subjects in other fields of art in the early 1900s.

Stella's hard - edged, wall - scale abstractions are honored in the first major retrospective to grace the Whitney's new building, while Katz's stylized figurative portraits have been the subject of several major museum exhibitions.

By making a figurative element the subject of his drawings, Berthot was challenging «modernistic notions of what is or what is not acceptable.»

The portrait's theme, which is mostly included under figurative paintings, is one of the ancient art subjects from Greece and Rome.

An example of modern art paintings with a figurative subject is The Fear of Life, oil paint on canvas by Zhana Viel.

There is a painting of a reclining nude in the show, which of course is a traditional subject for figurative painting, but we nicknamed this work «Billboard,» because the figure seems to command the presence of demanding a billboard all to herself.

Considered one of the most important figurative artists of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, Fischl's work has been the subject of numerous solo and major group exhibitions and is represented in many museums, as well as prestigious private and corporate collections.

Matisse's transformative impact on their works is revealed not only by their adaptations of his palette and pictorial structures but also through their choice and appropriation of his subject matter — still lifes, landscapes, figurative works, studio interiors, and portraits.

Robinson, 66, is known for his figurative, melodramatic scenes of desire inspired by covers of 1940s pulp paperbacks, as well as his ongoing over-sized still - life subjects of food, pharmaceutical products and stacks of cash.

It includes figurative paintings, such as landscapes, still lifes and portraits, many of which are based on photographs, such as the series S. and Child, a personal and intimate variation on the traditional subject of the Madonna and Child.

At a time during the Civil Rights movement when African American artists were expected by many to create figurative work explicitly addressing racial subject matter, Gilliam persisted in pursuing the development of a new formal language that celebrated the cultivation and expression of the individual voice and the power of non-objective art to transcend cultural and political boundaries.

«Offers a great insight into sources of [Sasnal's] inspirations and fields of interest: painting about painting, figurative painting and portraits, the history of Poland and travel shots... The book itself is a journey full of facts and intriguing perspectives on materiality and subject matter of Sasnal's paintings and his way of deconstructing the different symptoms of current times... Jam - packed with fascinating personal stories and facts from the artist's life.

Depending on a subject, he works with very different methods and techniques, from geometric abstraction to the academic figurative, or collage and the use of contemporary tools.

Jenny Saville's figurative painting is an extraordinary one, characterized by high - caliber brush strokes and a rich use of color that accurately transmits her subject's physical, but also mental state.

While Eisenman's figurative style references a range of academic traditions — from WPA murals to surrealism — her razor - sharp wit and intimate subject matter reveal a language that is completely her own.

With artists young and old tackling subject matter ranging from figurative landscapes to digital glitches to the eternity of the circle, it is clear that the world of abstraction is thriving in contemporary Chinese art.

Part of a generation of artists that reacted against the dominant action - oriented, gestural style of Abstract Expressionism, Wesselmann took interest in quotidian, figurative, and popular subject matter, as well as the representational and graphic qualities afforded by collage.

Humorously composed themes of Barbara's Fast Food and it's Consumption are the main subjects of her figurative paintings.

Translated through the disciplinary of painting, South Korean artist Hyunju Kim investigates subjects that concern the subconscious, memory, and feeling, which are painted onto canvases that are aesthetically surreal and figurative.

He studied at the New York Academy of Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts — both bastions of traditional figurative painting and sculpture — and he paints with his subjects arranged in frontal poses, as if for a photograph (which, since these look like paintings from photos, they probably were).

have been the subject of significant exhibitions or publications, but this is the first major volume to focus on the broader impact of figurative art to connect artists and collectives from different generations and regions of the country.»

After his last truly Futurist works — a series of paintings on war themes — Severini painted in a Synthetic Cubist mode, and by 1920 he was applying theories of classical balance based on the Golden Section to figurative subjects from the traditional commedia dell» arte.

In the wide range of art the gallery offers, subjects range from water and beach scenes, boats, landscape, flower arrangements, graphic paintings of musicians, fifties photographic paintings, birds, fish, traditional still life, figure painting, portraits and trees, covering every major contemporary figurative category and genre.