Sentences with phrase «on figurative imagery»

It embraces all postmodernist painters and sculptors who focus on figurative imagery, in order to portray the «real» rather than the ideal.

Not exact matches

His paintings are so appealing at first sight, as delightful coloured patterns with pleasing figurative imagery, that many look no longer, or see no further, and for them the magical metamorphosis does not take place; they do not find that they are standing on a little terrace under a walnut tree looking through an overgrown garden straight towards the afternoon sun which is sparkling on the Seine below them, and all looking not as it would to them, but more mysterious, more overpowering, fuller of space and light and colour and overwhelmingly real and harmonious.

Drawing on Arabic semiotics and dwelling on calligraphy as a means of interpretive transcendence, Koraïchi's work utilises letters and signage to evoke figurative imagery and present universal messages to a global audience.

You could fixate on the annihilation of a distinction between abstract and figurative imagery.

His works, made on vinyl foil and mounted on the walls, are in conversation with the architecture but also with Impressionist paintings, which can only be perceived as figurative imagery once the viewer has reached a certain distance from the work.

Working on the ridges — and at times on surfaces mounted behind them — Polke deploys an indescribable abundance of figurative and abstract imagery and painterly techniques.

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.

His imagery is modeled on toys, book illustrations, and figurative engravings, such as those depicting primitive North American life.

Although my work doesn't look on the surface much like his, I think he taught me about using iconic signifiers and figures that I could project myself into for emotion and as an avatar in paint (like Scott McCloud describes in his amazing book, Understanding Comics, that we do as comic readers), and create figurative narrative allegories that hopefully resonate deeper than most political cartoons and relate to Goya and other art historical uses of politics and allegory as much as the imagery could relate to underground comics and contemporary worlds.

Brown's reputation, based on her intensely painted canvases that synthesized figurative imagery with the dynamic gestures of abstract expressionism, grew towards the mid -»60s.

While the spotlight on her crisp collage paintings aligns with the demand for figurative painting, Akunyili Crosby draws admirers not just through elegant imagery and impeccable skill, but also through her unique and intimate perspectives on Nigerian and American life.

Employing funny, sad or even personal subjects and characters, rather than a generic body of work based on digitally - influenced techniques, Dispirito's imagery concentrates on the figurative.

It demonstrates how the artist was able to construct an incisive and multifaceted iconographic discourse that, via its playful and ironic veneer, set forth a critical reflection — not free from a certain degree of fascination — on consumer society and contemporary media imagery, at the same time as it explored and spilled over into the limits between the popular and the cult, the natural and the artificial, the figurative and the abstract.

During the early 1960s Kitaj concentrated on combining figurative imagery with abstraction and began to incorporate collage into his paintings, drawing on photography and cinema and referring to historical events and political circumstances.

On these ceramic plates, the imagery of Jamie's automatic drawings of the interior and exterior of his figurative art (heads, guts, organs), real matrices of his whole body of work, have been replaced by more slender, ethereal signs.

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.

Four canvases are hung on a government - blue steel armature, their figurative imagery pulled from archival sources such as stills from early 20th - century Australian films, or satirical comics.

Applying old master painting techniques to his works on canvas, the artist depicts hyper - realistic figurative imagery in portraits, landscapes, and still lifes.

On this often abstract ground, he adds figurative imagery to complete the drawing.

The museum described what to expect, symbolically: «Combining figurative imagery for the first time with his hallmark collage technique, Bradford creates a compelling juxtaposition that offers viewers the opportunity to consider critical moments when our nation was divided and will be particularly timely given the artwork's placement on the National Mall.»

The result is a figurative imagery brought on the very verge of the abstract, with its varying levels of clarity and decay.

His works deal with contemporary, historical and literary themes, and are marked by figurative imagery executed with spontaneous and vigorous handling of the paint and often done on large - scale formats.

He described his process of painting as a dialogue with his works, the meaning of which he was only able to access with some difficulty during this period: «For reasons I don't understand, in the late 1940s and early 1950s I focused on abstract art, despite the fact that I always felt that it had to do with figurative imagery, even though I didn't fully understand this imagery.

In this series of paintings and works on paper, I explore the reemergence of representation and figurative imagery in my abstract work.