Sentences with phrase «on figurative representation»

Abstraction is especially difficult for Chinese painters since the whole art education in China is focused on figurative representation.

Some would argue that as African Americans, their belief in the modernist project came at the expense of being on the wrong side of the cultural politics of the time, and an emphasis on figurative representation.

Through her use of subtly articulated line and negative space, Ku references East Asian artistic traditions, while her focus on figurative representation through a predominantly female - centric subject matter, suggests a more contemporary Western perspective.

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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.

«Under the Skin» explored figurative representations that spoke to the viewer on an individual level.

In a queer analysis of figurative representation, emily north / em16 presents us with two large works on paper and one soft sculpture.

He is known for his figurative works and for many public commissions, including the 220 - foot Zodiac Screen (1961), a series of twelve monumental bas - relief representations of the Zodiac on what was then the Pan American World Airways terminal at Idlewild (now Kennedy) Airport.

em16 / emily north (July 27 — August 14) is an artist creating immersive work on bodies and paper to bring forth a queer analysis of figurative representation.

emily north / em16 is a Brooklyn artist creating immersive work on bodies and paper in a queer analysis of figurative representation.

Mitchell's paintings differed from her Abstract Expressionist colleagues because of their use of hot colors, and Ashbery picked up on this, noting that her palette brought her work closer to figurative representation than pure abstraction.

All figurative representation is abandoned for atmospheric qualities and all colors are displayed at once, layered on top of one another in each work.

Emphasis is placed on the representation and context in which these figurative elements are situated.

La Palestra (2001) by Manuel Neri, equally epitomizes the Bay Area Figurative Movement's predilection for an approach to figuration that hinges on non-specificity in representation.

Later works of the 1990s and the 2000s, such as Mortal Coils (1995) and Vespers Pool (2000) are centred on symbolic and figurative representations of death, moving between conscious and unconscious worlds.

Their mature post-abstract figurative paintings preserved a sophisticated dialogue between abstraction and representation — the image oscillating between a recognizable subject and a boldly colored, abstract arrangement of thick slabs on paint.»

She has written of her interest in «reconciling figurative representation and the formal concerns of creating illusionistic images on a flat surface.»

Displayed on heavy steel tables, they draw not only on the tradition of twentieth - century figurative sculpture — marks of artists as diverse as Aristide Maillol to Henry Moore are alive in these robust works — but also on the history of female representation in general.

But on closer inspection, despite a lack of figurative representation, each have a clear subject and evoke the sense of a person or situation as remembered by the painter and hinted at to the world via his art.

This figurative sculpture made from frozen fabric is the first work I saw on entering the fair and it's a perfect representation of the fair in taking a typically European sculpture pose and infusing it with African influence.

These examine notions of the raw intersection of race, gender, and sexuality through iconic, silhouetted figures, which offer an extended contemplation on the nature of figurative representation and narrative in contemporary art.

In his book Mondrian: On Humanity of Abstract Painting, the art historian Meyer Shapiro validates the importance of abstract art within the context of an art historical canon that has been dominated by figurative representation.

The works featured in the exhibition will span representations of landscape as well as figurative studies based on drawing practice.

Jordan Casteel is a figurative painter whose focus centres on exploring the representation of black men in our current times.

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