Sentences with phrase «on figural»

Bucking the prevailing winds of Abstract Expressionism, he embarked on a figural body of work that captured the attention of the art world through its canniness and qualities of satire, empathy and craftsmanship.

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Seen this way, discussion of Islamic art can finally move from tired questions about the lack of figural representation to more interesting conversations on, for example, the complex relationships presumed between icons and idolatry or on Byzantine and patristic influences.

I was also predisposed to welcome, at a much later date, the work of my Yale colleagues Brevard Childs and Hans Frei on canonical reading and on narrative and figural scriptural interpretation, respectively.

Calvin, on the other hand, refuses «to torture David's words,» as he puts it, with such a figural reading.

But he does not hesitate to offer figural readings of the Bible, drawing on patristic, medieval, and Reformational patterns of interpretation.

Marcel Wanders» total environment will include several bodies of work: large abstract figural mirrors, such as Dysmorphophobia 1, 2 and 3, with carved details and cutouts, create an illusion of a character or ghostly figure; Self 2 is a steel cabinet and kinetic piece, balancing a sculptural ovoid form that abstracts a human head and physically rocks on the top surface; Tempter, an over-sized adult rocking unicorn is cast in bronze with metal chain stirrups; Shiqule Nuhai, two ceramic vases, monumental in height, reference Marcel Wanders» Delft Blue collection with a darker sensibility, using black glaze.

Focusing on Lassnig's self - portraiture, the exhibition presents works by the artist — most of them never previously exhibited in the U.S. — from all creative periods of her career, spanning her early involvement with graphic abstraction in Paris and Art Informel, to her later shift to figural representation.

Pepi absorbed the lessons of the Old Masters as well as the aesthetic of the Futurists such as Boccioni and Ballo, and was especially taken by the work of Matta, whose delicate figural gestures are a clear influence on Pepi's watercolors.

• A superb bronze figural inkwell by the Nuremberg artist Peter Vischer the Younger, on loan from the Ashmolean museum in Oxford, whose decoration evokes the carpe diem theme with an inscription urging its viewers to «reflect on life, not death.»

For the past several years, Cobourn's work has been based on landscape imagery; the new work is more abstract but contains figural references.

Bartlett has been a commercial success since the 1970s when her highly acclaimed artwork, Rhapsody (1975 - 76, collection Museum of Modern Art), a painting based on geometry and the figural motifs of house, tree, mountain, and sea on 987 gridded, enameled steel plates was shown in May 1976 at the Paula Cooper Gallery in New York.

Among all the abstraction, there are some figural pieces and phenomenal drawings on auction in Paris.

The 13 works on view highlight the formal similarities between the artists» work and illustrate a parallel shift in their conception of pictorial space — from a figural abstraction to a new sense of openness and expansiveness.

The Time Is Now features artists who represent a variety of positions on the spectrum from figural representation to abstraction, including: Magdalena Abakanowicz, Ruth Asawa, Hannelore Baron, Mary Bauermeister, Lee Bontecou, Deborah Butterfield, Barbara Chase - Riboud, Elaine de Kooning, Jay DeFeo, Claire Falkenstein, Gertrude Greene, Nancy Grossman, Grace Hartigan, Lee Krasner, Yayoi Kusama, Lee Lozano, Alice Trumbull Mason, Joan Mitchell, Alice Neel, Louise Nevelson, Agnes Pelton, Florence Miller Pierce, Irene Rice Pereira, Anne Ryan, Betye Saar, Kaye Sage, Janet Sobel, Nancy Spero, Dorothea Tanning, Lenore Tawney, Alma Thomas, Charmion von Wiegand, and Claire Zeisler.

Richard Loftis August 14 - October 15, 2000 This selection of work from Lee's Summit, Missouri, photographer Richard Loftis draws from his diverse essays on Vietnam, classic aircraft, and figural studies.

Although he may be better known for his larger - than - life - sized, grisaille, figural paintings, Alfred Leslie spent the 1950s working in an abstract expressionist vein, creating paintings of explosive color as well as small - scale abstract works on paper.

(New York City, March 10, 2010)-- Michael Rosenfeld Gallery is pleased to present Unconscious Unbound: Surrealism in America, the gallery's first exhibition in over a decade dedicated to the influence of surrealism on American figural and abstract art.

Influenced by the emergence of abstract expressionism, the New York School, Color Field Painting and the Washington Color School, Gilliam's early style developed from brooding figural abstractions to large paintings of flatly applied color and paintings of diagonal stripes on square fields.

In her second gallery solo exhibition, Michelle will debut a series of seven acrylic - on - linen paintings that extend her text - based drawings into new figural ground.

In the series, «Lost Dogs and Half - Eaten Apples,» Farmer presents smaller figural works displayed on a low table.

And although Meise's sculptural objects at first glance appear dry and reserved, on closer inspection they no less distinctly refer to the figural.

Focusing on the theme of figural representation, the exhibition will present the diverse means by which this singular -LSB-...]

Her elegant Kufic, 1965 — consisting of skeins of yellow gestures on a yellow ground from which figural forms seem to emerge — looked like a predecessor to Amy Sillman's queering of Ab - Ex, especially Sillman's Fatso (2009).

Martin, whose work is currently on view at the Whitney's figural - painting show «Flatlands,» has become a buzzy emerging artist for these perplexing images, and now, at Bodega, he'll show more of them in a show titled «Eczema Song,» which, if its loopy press release is any proof, will be as weird and hypnotic as anything else he's done.

Better known today for tall, blocky, figural bronzes, Shapiro was only doing what most sculptors do: exploring the effect of form on space.

An emphasis on materials and process is evident today in the wildly different methods of figural artist Dana Schutz and abstractionist Mark Grotjahn.

Varied subjects, such as figural fragments, drapery, and architectural relief appear on a typical single Baroque study sheet for the sake of economy and for the rehearsal of an image.

The Time Is N ♀ w features artists who represent a variety of positions on the spectrum from figural representation to abstraction, including: Magdalena Abakanowicz, Ruth Asawa, Hannelore Baron, Mary Bauermeister, Lee Bontecou, Deborah Butterfield, Barbara Chase - Riboud, Elaine de Kooning, Jay DeFeo, Claire Falkenstein, Gertrude Greene, Nancy Grossman, Grace Hartigan, Lee Krasner, Yayoi Kusama, Lee Lozano, Alice Trumbull Mason, Joan Mitchell, Alice Neel, Louise Nevelson, Agnes Pelton, Florence Miller Pierce, Irene Rice Pereira, Anne Ryan, Betye Saar, Kaye Sage, Janet Sobel, Nancy Spero, Dorothea Tanning, Lenore Tawney, Alma Thomas, Charmion von Wiegand, and Claire Zeisler.

Wilson's graphic fluency and absurdist sense of humor (one piece features typewriter keys floating like water lilies, another pairs two gramophone horns blasting particles at each other) recall the 1970s paintings of Philip Guston, whose figural motifs flowed with a prolificacy and naturalness verging on the speed of thought.

That same loud and voluptuous defiance of time and mortality is broadcast loud and clear by Harriette Joffe in figural works on a bold scale, such as Blue Maya, a secure life drawing rendered in monumental splendor with electric flashes of bright blue and pink to put to rest any sense of the «dying of the light.»

A show currently running at MoMa Ps1 focuses on Lassnig's self - portraiture, the exhibition presents works by the artist — most of them never previously exhibited in the U.S. — from all creative periods of her career, spanning her early involvement with graphic abstraction in Paris and Art Informel, to her later shift to figural representation.

As she embarked on this quest the figural elements began to disappear from her work.

This «dissident» figural painter has proved that sixty - three years after his first solo show at Roko Gallery in New York, he'll always be worth splurging on.

In this epically titled solo show, «The Birth of Stockholm,» an antechamber of the artist's projected handwritten meditations on art and on the Swedish capital and an array of Beninese - made figural sculptures will lead into a room - size — or rather, house - like — installation.

The title of this exhibition, Weird Sisters, refers to the three figural vases also on view.

The works bequeathed to the Frick transform the museum's holdings in drawings, enlarging them by nearly a third, while complementing the permanent collection's focus on landscape and figural subjects.

They meditate on the language of the figural, on its limits and on its inability to speak.

Presenting works in diverse media, we promote art that contributes to important art - historical movements, with particular focuses on innovations in color - field abstraction, figural realism and performance art.

While Chicago art making has historically been strongly figural and representational, the Minimalism and conceptual art movements of the 1960s had a definite impact on many Chicago - based artists who emerged in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Kim Howells Turner Prize Row: I Love Art - the Artists Who Pass the Dr Kim Howells Taste Test Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales); November 1, 2002; 545 words... a major influence on contemporary figural sculpture.

The Jazz Age movement, known for its sleek depictions of industry that tend to fall just on the romantic side of Photorealism — which mostly subsided in favor of more comforting figural works as the Great Depression (and American Regionalism) rolled in — is the subject of an upcoming survey at San Francisco's de Young Museum.

In total contrast, the oil monotype, «Duke Ellington on Stage» (1972), exudes a lively spontaneity within the tight figural arrangement of musicians.

On the other, they are conceived from the outset as abstract structures whose figural elements are only gradually revealed.

George McNeil, Figural Composition # 2, 1932, oil on paper mounted on wood, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Patricia and Phillip Frost, 1986.92.68

On view at Ferrin Contemporary is «EXPOSED: Heads, Busts, and Nudes,» an exhibition of figural ceramic sculpture from 1970 to the present, which features masterworks from estates and private collections, alongside recent work direct from artist studios.

Exceptional studio made porcelain table lamp with figural and geometric decoration on a wood base, China, 1960s.

A beautiful neoclassical style three - bulb lamp in urn form variegated marble with figural and neoclassical bronze mounts on footed square marble base.

Curvaceous steel shaft of «cut - away» scrolls, resulting in a figural looped form on a resin base.