RR: I was always dependent
on the figurative elements, but I just slowly eliminated them.
The exhibition «Family Portraits», Condo is continuing the discourse
on the figurative element in painting, which is one of the fundamental aspects in the artist's oeuvre.
Not exact matches
On the other hand, in a series of large charcoal drawings from 2011, in a murky
figurative style redolent of bad»70s art, she is decidedly out of her
element.
Joffe introduces an
element of abstraction into her
figurative works, evincing a distinct style of painting that draws
on bold lines and geometric forms to create powerful human portraits.
Her fluid and deliberately disintegrating painting style is carried out
on a scale that boldly distorts the familiar
figurative elements of her work, and serves to heighten the sense of the physicality of paint and the process of painting itself.
Yet the best of his wacky compositions
on view, such as «Cement Truck» and «At the Door,» maintain a delicate and impressive balance between abstract and
figurative elements.
We love these collaborative works between Morgan Spry - Young and Daniel Giantomaso because you have to really focus
on each piece to find a narrative and
figurative elements.
Emphasis is placed
on the representation and context in which these
figurative elements are situated.
These
elements are
on splendid display in Study for Ovid - Windfall — a strong and beautiful female lunges into her mythical surroundings as she makes an upward gesture to the mysterious
figurative presence above.
Any remaining traces of Pop influences or
figurative elements present in his Map Paintings were stripped away, leading to an increasing focus
on material, process, and colour.
Returning to
figurative elements used early
on in his career, Simmons has rendered hauntingly faint, barely visible outlines of ghostly crows in some of the paintings, signifying the racially charged cartoon characters.
Light and effects it produces
on objects became the sole
elements of interest represented
on their paintings, while
figurative world and visual veracity slowly disintegrated.
The «Waterfall» paintings continued into 2000, but Steir worked concurrently
on installation projects (some were recreations of earlier projects) that incorporated more diverse
elements, including
figurative fragments, primary color, sculptural objects, and graphic symbols from Celtic lore.
An abstract piece using
figurative elements, the
elements rely
on poetic syntax, rather than forming a linear narrative.
The answer, I think, is that Anderson is at heart just as much an abstract painter as he is a
figurative one (certain earlier canvases verge
on total abstraction, and a suite of domestic interiors, shown at the Studio Museum in Harlem in 2009, are studded with nonrepresentational
elements).
Emanating through the
figurative and organic design
elements die - cut in the Tyvek panels, light casts distinct, graphic shadows
on the gallery floor and the adjacent walls — one white the other charcoal gray.
Combining patterns, shapes, and
figurative elements, Pittman's paintings reflect
on conceptions of time, mortality, beauty, and suffering.
Despite their geometric appearance - devoid as they are of any recognizable
figurative elements — the artist's horizontal bands of warm, organic colors are executed
on a fundamentally human scale.
Murray is particularly well known for her shaped canvases, which date from 1976,
on to which are painted both
figurative and non-
figurative elements.
For his upcoming exhibition at DUVE Berlin, Comas will develop his production process further, carrying
on his investigation of the always challenging inclusion of
figurative elements in abstract painting.
In works such as Almost a Bride (2015), the
figurative element is grouped with a variety of abstract marks of pure gesture; one gets the sense of an artist who eschews the vocabulary of pre-existing forms, instead putting a premium
on visceral connection.
First appearing as a
figurative element in his works
on paper in the mid-1990s, and since incorporated into his large - scale drawings, paintings, and films, masks were most recently featured in the artist's critically - acclaimed stage and costume design for the New York City Ballet's The Most Incredible Thing in 2016, a performance choreographed by Justin Peck and based
on Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale.