Sentences with phrase «on figuration»

Alice fought not only the expectations of society but also of the art world, which turned its back on figuration during the rise of Abstract Expressionism in the 1950s.

These early works emphasized the flatness of the picture plane while remaining representational, and this insistence on figuration placed him outside the contemporary avant - garde mainstream, in which abstraction and chance were key qualities.

The young painter had been working in geometric abstraction and was encouraged by Léger to focus on figuration.

Undeniably, this current focus on figuration carries with it the potential risk of re-investing the figure with «timeless values» — an appeal to art - historical constants in a moment of profound uncertainty.

Richard Diebenkorn's «Berkeley # 3» (1953) illustrates the artist's metamorphosis from abstraction to an emphasis on figuration.

Beginning with Bob Thompson's determined focus on figuration in abstraction's finest hour in Postwar New York; Alice Neel's sheer skill and commitment to the particular details and psychology of her subjects; Henry Taylor's funny, passionate take on his Los Angeles friends and neighbors; and young Brooklyn artist Daniel Heidkamp's gawky precision and plein air exuberance.

As time went on, Greenberg's orthodoxy when it came to his bans on figuration and multidimensional texture in painting became ripe for a backlash among artists seeking non-Greenberg-ian ideals.

The influential exhibition shifted the discussion away from conceptualism to focus on figuration by arguing that what many of the most interesting contemporary artists — Janine Antoni, Matthew Barney, Mike Kelley — had in common was their reimagining of the body.

Although the works rely on figuration, they operate within the realm of abstract painting.

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Herocross via their Facebook page have released details on the next Hybrid Metal Figuration figure, and it is none other than Mickey Mouse!

«There were those people who were trying to breathe new life into what was essentially 19th - century portraiture versus those people who were intent on making a truly modernist form of figuration.»

As time went on, I knew I wanted to work with figuration and gender identity.

Defying easy categorization, Amy Sillman's works on paper incorporate silkscreened, painted and drawn elements with imagery that vacillates between abstraction, figuration, traditional painting and comic illustration.

SL: But meantime the Bay Area painters were doing something on their own, forming a so - called figurative, Bay Area figuration, at this point.

Her painted works concentrate on process and medium, which establish formal relationships between figuration and abstraction.

Freud's adherence to realism and focus on the human figure, when abstraction and other progressive forms of practice were more prolific, moved him in and out of the spotlight until the 1980's when renewed international interest in painting and figuration gave his work a new significance.

Following in the tradition of The Club (1948 — 1962), an organization on East Eighth Street, where lectures and panel discussions openly aired the debate between figuration and abstraction, and inspired by The Club's renegade members who organized The Ninth Street Show (1951), an exhibit that shook up the establishment, downtown artists developed bylaws and launched their own spaces.

The artist has created an installation concentrating on Hispanic culture and language within the perimeter of the gallery, combining figuration and abstracted symbols with a deep bow to his heritage and city the of Los Angeles.

For her P.S. 1 project, Molly Larkey presents The Believers, a new series of sculptures that combine abstraction and figuration to comment on political and social ideologies.

Hansa artists» works represented in the Grey show include Jane Wilson's Portrait of Jane Freilicher (1957), an oil on canvas merging abstraction with figuration, and Jean Follett's Many - Headed Creature (1958), a piece that recreates a fragmented body on a wood panel out of junk and found objects — a light switch, socket cooling coils, a window, a screen, nails, a faucet knob, mirror twine, cinders, a caster, springs, and rope.

His collages, executed in ink on silk and burnished paper, layer mostly abstract and roughly rectilinear elements with an occasional geometric shape or scrap of figuration.

Chris Ofili creates intricate, kaleidoscopic paintings and works on paper that deftly merge abstraction and figuration.

The artist was known for her richly coloured compositions treading the line between figuration and abstraction, and has often been acknowledged for her influence on the work of her husband, the sculptor Anthony Caro, in what the couple themselves had -LSB-...]

Under their influence, Kline began to move away from the figuration, exploring the new abstract gestural technique on the large scale paintings.

Wednesday, Xaviera Simmons unveils a new series of body - centric work at The Kitchen and Booth Gallery is (by happy coincidence) hosting a panel discussion on the future of figuration right afterwards.

In this exchange of influence, Gueorguieva takes on Weitz's reoccurring theme of the mask and existentially rich nature of the reflection, and Weitz adapts Gueorguieva's implied figuration and propensity for vertical structure.

«Black Figuration on Blue» by Robert Motherwell, 1950.

Villar Rojas's installation at the Serpentine Sackler therefore provides the perfect chronological extension to Merz's conception of the non-heroic in art by prioritising the site and the viewer, while still making reference to two of the older artist's key concerns: the figuration - abstraction binary and the focus on «raw» materials.

Color - field painters can take on the scraps of abstraction or traces of figuration, like Seth Price and his enigmatic silhouettes, Ellen Berkenblit with horses and women, or Elliott Green between abstraction and landscape.

This exhibition tracks the transitional period of the great twentieth century painter Arshile Gorky, who moved from figuration to abstraction with his drippy, brightly colored oil on canvases.

• Tony Smith (1912 — 1980), sculptor who bridged AbEx and minimalism (dad of Kiki) Mel Kendrick (b. 1949), formalist process - based sculptor Chris Wilmarth (1943 — 1987), sculptor of steel, bronze, and etched glass Joel Shapiro (b. 1941), minimalist sculptor who flirts with figuration Christopher Wool (b. 1955), Neo-AbExer with a taste for graffiti and repetition Alex Hubbard (b. 1975), rising master of painterly materials and abstract coloration Josh Smith (b. 1976), Factory - like painter of great expressive volume Jacob Kassay (b. 1984), mirrored - painting - wunderkind - turned - sackcloth artist • Andy Warhol (1928 — 1987), Pop maestro and appropriationist world - changer David Robbins (b. 1957), artist and «Concrete Comedy» theorist David LaChapelle (b. 1963), lush photographer of celebrity decadence Ronnie Cutrone (1948 — 2013), Factory personality and East Village cult figure George Condo (b. 1957), Neo-Picassian painter of the grotesque Mark Dagley (b. 1957), Op abstractionist • Richard Serra (b. 1939), grand master of process art and the post-industrial sublime Grégoire Müller (b. 1947), painter of current - event appropriations Philip Glass (b. 1937), «Einstein on the Beach» composer Lawrence Chandler (b. 1951), composer, musician, and sound artist • Sol LeWitt (1928 — 2007), father of conceptual art, multitasking artistic outsourcer Adrian Piper (b. 1948), performance art innovator Mark Williams (b. 1950), monochromatic minimalist painter

The painter Nina Chanel Abney, now 35, has been on a tear since she first unveiled her visceral fusions of abstraction, figuration and politics at the Kravets Wehby Gallery in Chelsea in 2008.

He is considering a show on the use of palette knife techniques, which enabled artists like Jean Dubuffet and Twombly to develop their figuration.

Titled Unrealism — as much to indicate the show's focus on the heightened and surreal as to comment on the ubiquitous label «untitled», which serves as a lazy catch - all for work too of - the - moment to reference history, antecedents or fully thought - out ideas — the show was a not - to - miss tour de force, a revelation of the power of extreme figuration to elucidate the human condition — Tala Madani, Emily Mae Smith and Jonathan Gardner were among the standouts, with Jenny Saville, Richard Prince and John Currin among the 11 artists upholding the Gagosian brand.

These two poles of 20th - century American art — abstraction and figuration — also signify the African - American perspective on the movements, as articulated by these two revered (now deceased) artists.

Jill Weisberg uses nail polish on vintage adult magazine pages that blurs between figuration and abstraction, repulsion and desire.

I saw an unusual amount of figuration, much of which was highly skilled, bordering on illustration.

The drawings exhibited contain elements of both abstraction and figuration as forms take on multiple connotations.

Their work spans an extraordinary range of styles and techniques, from abstraction to figuration, minimalism to magical realism, and straight oil - on - canvas to mixed - media and installation based painting.

Having worked with with constructed, geometric and architectural forms from the late 1950s onwards, William Tucker had already begun to turn towards figuration when a visit to Italy in 1981 had a revelatory impact on his work.

But it also capitalizes on a new wave of figuration by younger artists who have tired of neo-formalist abstraction (a topic we have been covering in our conversation series surrounding Phaidon's new book Body of Art).

How important is it for you to be on that thin line between abstraction and figuration?

He had quit figuration in time for Abstract Expressionism, befuddling some of the same tired critics who jumped all over his seeming return to cartooning, only this time on big, bold canvases in oil.

Drawing on sexuality, feminine symbols, lore, figuration and abstraction, both artists animate their paintings through color and infuse depth through a thorough investigation of our collective history.

In her text on Brice's work in Vitamin P2, Coline Millard notes: «Just as [Brice's] painting hovers between figuration and abstraction, her figures occupy the limbo between the living and the dead.

ONE - Time Pad Thomas Scheibitz's work retraces the conceptual and painterly development of his career with a particular focus on the human figure and the existence of form between figuration and abstraction.

These ambiguous combinations of figuration and abstraction were first introduced to the public in Tillmans» Parkett Edition, 1992 - 98, 60 unique works on color - negative photographic paper.

JEYes, in both of those works the figuration is produced through an expanded version of linear drawing, which is poured on as well as drawn with the brush.

Though their respective bodies of work appear formally disparate — Caris creates abstracted figurations and Amanda showcases figuration into her abstractions — each relies on a shared interest in times past.

His painterly practice has always oscillated freely between figuration and abstraction, but in the past few years gained a specific focus on the relationship and dichotomies between Western and Asian approaches to landscape painting and nature.