Dubuffet's black and white drawings, in particular his Conjectures [April 16, 1975 — May 29, 1975], Memorations [September 2, 1978 — January 5, 1979] and Situations [April 23, 1978 — April 24, 1980] series contain cut -
out figurative imagery collaged into their surrounding landscape.
Then there is the pleasure of seeking
out the figurative imagery so tantalizingly hinted at in their intriguing titles.
Not exact matches
Some canvases feature abstracted, atomised forms, while others have more densely overlaid
imagery in which it is possible to pick
out figurative elements.
The ten artists in this exhibition depict ways tactile surfaces and abstract
imagery stand
out to manifest carnality and
figurative representation when the physical body is detached.
It was left to de Kooning to give an almost physical reassurance and an imaginative sense of a possible future to younger painters in Europe and American in the late Fifties, when many artists were seeking
out ways of sustaining the validity of
figurative painting at a time when abstract
imagery of all kinds seemed to be so strongly in the ascendant.
Considered part of the second generation of the Bay Area
Figurative movement, influential artist Joan Brown obsessively painted everyday
imagery from her own life: domestic scenes, swimming excursions in the San Francisco bay, or
outings to the opera with her husband.