Sentences with phrase «personal symbolism»

Often, his works are layered with ominous narratives and recurring personal symbolism.

He used a highly personal symbolism that reflected his interests in childhood memory, dreams, hallucinations and psychotic episodes.

This will be a chance to consider Nash's iconic war paintings alongside his less famous experiments with abstraction and surrealism, from which he developed his distinctive yet elusive personal symbolism.

Using the additional skills that he had acquired making tanks, the number of his artworks soared and David began perfecting his own personal symbolism.

Creating otherworldly settings, she employed a highly personal symbolism that she preferred not to explain.

He took up realism at the height of Abstract Expressionism, but a realism so charged with psychological intensity, personal symbolism and hallucinatory weirdness that to call it realism didn't fit quite right either.

«Beuys viewed certain materials as having important associations with his past, and through repeated use they attained a personal symbolism.

They used impersonal, mundane reality, irony, and parody to «defuse» the personal symbolism and «painterly looseness» of abstract expressionism.

Her works raise important questions about cultural and sexual stereotypes, personal symbolism and the role of pleasure and beauty, in both art and life.

Titled «Gorky In Context,» Dr. Rand's lecture will help to explain the personal symbolism of the Armenian - born artist whose works are currently on view until November 6 in a DMFA exhibition, ARSHILE GORKY, 1904 - 1948: A RETROSPECTIVE.

An attempt to defuse the personal symbolism and painterly looseness of abstract expressionism, Pop Art merges popular and mass culture using instantly recognisable imagery and content, in the process elevating commonplace objects, people and symbols of everyday life to the level of fine art.

Jason's recent works are Pop + Street Art inspired images layered with Aztec, Mayan, and personal symbolism.

The works in the exhibition reference Persian miniature painting, creating an allegorical language that shifts between the political reality of Bahmanipour's home country, narrative construction, and personal symbolism.

Spawls writes:» [Carrington] refused to explain her personal symbolism, but called reading The White Goddess «the greatest revelation of my life».

A primary motif of these paintings is his brightly coloured, paisley patterns merging with abstract designs and motifs borrowed from art history, literature and Steven's personal symbolism used to create strange surreal and unsettling narratives.

His colorful, large - scale paintings are positioned in an ambiguous space between allegory and personal symbolism, as he adopts myths for the sake of personal expression and narrative.

Kent Knowles» colorful, large - scale paintings are positioned in an ambiguous space between allegory and personal symbolism.