Sentences with phrase «on figurative forms»

So if people read your paintings as talking about consumerism or environmentalism based on the figurative forms in your work, are they simply reading too much into shapes and colors?

Working in a bright palette and always with one eye on figurative forms and the other on architecture, Stokoe creates his scenes from a combination of memory, photographs and the everyday imagery.

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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.

Here is the first point to be clear on: All metaphors (or other forms of figurative writing) rely first on literal definitions before they can be of any use as figures of speech.

By sixth grade, the standards become more detailed and specific, including understanding figurative and connotative meanings of words; analyzing the impact of a specific word choice on meaning and tone; considering how a particular stanza fits into the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of the theme; and contrasting the reading and multimedia experience of a text and various forms or types of poetry in terms of their approaches to similar themes and topics.

Students are encouraged to consider a number of start points such as working directly from the model, on Figurative Sculpture or Portrait Head courses to developing individual projects on the Free Form course.

Kalm notes: «This presentation focuses on a select group of figurative artists who formed connections both personally and aesthetically between post war Paris and New York.

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

On the occasion of «The Great Mother» and Phaidon's new book Body of Art, Artspace's Karen Rosenberg spoke to Gioni about the enduring appeal of figurative sculpture, his influences from Catholic church statues to Mike Kelley, and why he thinks this art form is especially vital today.

Heidi Glück's Untitled (wisely so) print is a true minimalist statement with much impact; John Goodyear's contribution is called Drawings and contains 17 little squares all arranged on top of one another — totem pole style — each containing some form, some suspiciously figurative.

Their sculptures, fusing almost readymade images and almost unforeseen forms, are thus the very concrete synthesis of a position that straddles two options: an expressionist subjectivism based on an authentically Pop imaginary and a distanced figurative conceptualism.»

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.

Ignoring the traditional distinction between naturalistically depicted and abstracted figures, the sensuous color and bold, sinuous contours of these elusive and lyrical paintings play on the tension between figurative references and abstract forms.

In the 1980s, Smith turned the figurative tradition in sculpture inside out, creating objects and drawings based on organs, cellular forms, and the human nervous system.

Belgian artist, Michaël Borremans, creates mystery on the canvas through figurative painting, filing inanimate objects with a sense of humanity, and obscuring the life from any human forms.

The encounter had its influence on Caro's practice too, turning him away from the figurative style that had characterised his work at that time and progressing toward the geometric forms he had seen in Noland's work.

His early prints tended toward the figurative, often portraying human forms on abstract backgrounds.

During the late 1960s, Guston became frustrated with the limitations of abstraction and returned to figurative painting, amassing a potent language of motifs whose roots can be seen in the forms and shapes of Traveler III, and illustrating what Christoph Schreier refers to as subcutaneous figuration.2 Following his 1966 exhibition at the Jewish Museum in New York, Guston relocated to Woodstock, New York, embarking on what would become a two - year hiatus from painting.

The book is a beauty... There is, throughout Ms. Jones's essay and the book as a whole, voluminous documentation of work by major artists who still rarely figure in most histories of American postwar art, like Betye Saar, who made intricate figurative drawings on covered glass windows; Senga Nengundi, who was conjuring unusual forms from sand and pantyhose before Ernesto Neto was even a teenager; and John Outterbridge, whose multifarious assemblages took on a gamut of styles.

Like the «m - DNA» paintings, they begin with the artist's clay figurative forms, which here are cast in metal and fiberglass and mounted on concrete bases.

A number of Stoller's figurative works are partially masked, their eyes either hidden from view or altogether absent, hence «Lend Me Your Eyes,» which calls on us to witness these haunting works of art — each with its own contorted, marred and / or embellished form — with some degree of empathy for the subject.

Although largely focused on abstract forms, Nitegeka, as our reviewer points out, also makes a return to some figurative work in order to explicate his theme.

Tillmans» abstractions, that have pushed the boundaries and definitions of the photographic form, are placed alongside his once again sharp focus on the figurative.

In a new body of works on display at Victoria Miro Mayfair, figurative forms are conjured from a dynamic interplay of lines and marks.

The grand special exhibition on occasion of the inauguration of the enlarged Kunstmuseum Basel will map the medium's extraordinarily dynamic evolution: the classical idea and form of sculpture grows more flexible and abstract as some artists integrate the trivial stuff of everyday life into their art or blur its spatial and conceptual boundaries, even as others return to the figurative tradition in an effort to set the genre on a new solid foundation.

If traditional sculpture concentrates on the materialisation of an intangible idea in three - dimensional space, Morrison's eccentric, amorphous surfaces seem to reverse the process, becoming figurative the moment his readymades take their final forms.

Above all, they turned away from figurative traditions and explored a new visual vocabulary based overwhelmingly on geometric forms, sharp planes and a primary palette.

COLOR, FORM brings together the figurative works of 3 up and coming NYC artists on the cusp of mainstream recognition.

The exhibition presents how these pioneering artists turned away from figurative traditions and explored a new visual vocabulary based on geometric forms, sharp planes and a primary palette

Excursions en no man's space features 52 works on paper, ranging in palette from bright reds and yellows to pure black and white, and in content from figurative to abstract and elemental forms.

On view at the Gallery's 32 East 57th Street location through October 26, 2013, Excursions en no man's space features 44 works on paper made late in the artist's career ranging from black and white to the primaries: red, yellow, and blue, and in form from figurative to abstracOn view at the Gallery's 32 East 57th Street location through October 26, 2013, Excursions en no man's space features 44 works on paper made late in the artist's career ranging from black and white to the primaries: red, yellow, and blue, and in form from figurative to abstracon paper made late in the artist's career ranging from black and white to the primaries: red, yellow, and blue, and in form from figurative to abstract.

Concurrent with a solo show of works on paper and paintings at Shrine on the Lower East Side, Breitenbach highlights his singular figurative model, giving dimension to the elemental outline of his forms.

Surrounded on all sides by monumental red and blue fluid, figurative forms on both stretched and unstretched canvases, we spoke about her upcoming exhibition, Bakos Rita Ackermann at the Ludwig Múzeum in Budapest, Hungary, November 17, 2011 to February 12, 2012.

The phrase «figure painting» is an imprecise alternative to the equally vague umbrella term «figurative painting» which itself commonly refers to a type of representational art, based on figure drawing, in which the focus is on the realism of the human form without encroaching on the more «artificial» genre of portraiture.

An abstract piece using figurative elements, the elements rely on poetic syntax, rather than forming a linear narrative.

Absurd and elegant, figurative and abstract, Handforth's Dallas Snake animates the space, conversing with and taking on the large «formal» sculptures nearby, such as Tony Smith's Willy (destroyed in 1962; fabricated in 1978), which is comprised of black geometric forms.

After stripping his art down to its essentials, he started adding color back in and transformed his primal forms into disorderly masses on raw canvases that weren't truly figurative or abstract.

The early Pictographs were created with a defined grid structure in order to organize theimages, often figurative and fragmented, in a utilitarian manner.Around 1948, Gottlieb began deconstructing the grid in an effort to find an alternative way to balance nature's interrelated forces: order and chaos.The earliest work on view, Inscription to a Friend, 1948, is an example of Gottlieb's initial attempts to integrate abstract forms that could still be relatable to a larger universal language, without the help ofthe grid.Inscription, 1954, demonstrates Gottlieb's further progression into purely abstract imagery using an evocative and highly developed lexicon.

The encounter had its influence on Caro's practice, turning him away from the figurative style that had characterized his art at that time and toward the kinds of geometric forms he had seen in Noland's work.

What's on view: The gallery, which is separated into two exhibition spaces, contains a series of Fraga's amorphous, figurative paintings on crinkly found paper in one space, while in the other, his collection of altered found objects and materials forms the basis of a spacious, room - sized installation.

Demester takes an experimental approach to his work, painting in oil, on bronze, in abstract and figurative styles, each potential tools to give form to light on a landscape,...

These works on paper, informed by the planes and angles of architectural forms, represent a shift in Mang» ong» o's practice from his early figurative work to pure abstraction.

The weight and gravity of each sculpture softens on closer inspection to reveal subtle differences in surface texture and figurative form.

Well, they remained very British despite the war, despite the victory and despite even the Swinging Sixties, continuing a concentration on the figurative, a carefulness with colour and a fascination with form which was there before the war and still continues today.

In the 1980s, Kiki Smith literally turned the figurative tradition in sculpture inside out, creating objects and drawings based on organs, cellular forms, and the human nervous system.

Figurative painting as a genre is celebrated here as well, whether or not this style of work is «on trend», and celebrated in its myriad forms.

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.

Drawing on any number of figurative and abstract histories of painting the world around us, Crowner's work is a refreshingly nuanced interpretation, one that draws similar graceful curvatures and natural forms from cut and sewn canvases.

Known for her crepuscular landscapes and figurative tableaux that engage with the history of painting, Otto - Knapp's signature style employs subtle washes of watercolor, slowly built up layer by layer on the surface of the canvas to create form.

The stark contrasts in light and shadow, as well as the emphasis on line and form, illustrate the beauty of Katz's reductive black and white landscapes and figurative work.