Sentences with phrase «recognizable figures in her paintings»

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It was a terrain where snippets of faces or figures taken from an ad, a cartoon, or a news photo, or that might be recognizable on their own — Alice, say, from Alice in Wonderland, or a figure from Goya, or Hopalong Cassidy — were magically interwoven with, or painted over, patches of fabric or abstract markings.

As a leading member of the Abstract Expressionists, de Kooning startled much of the art world with the introduction in 1953 of his Women paintings, that «bore clearly recognizable images of females figures, and thus rejected the commitment to non-objectivity that previously characterized his own work and Abstract Expressionism more generally.

In more recent years, her deliciously recognizable painting style, with her Everyman and Everywoman figures and occasional mythic beast or bird has gained Applebroog enormous critical attention and success.

His followers also admire his absolute independence: When all the art world was abuzz about Abstract Expressionism in the»50s, Bischoff instead turned to painting recognizable (albeit loose and bold) figures, thereby — along with painters Richard Diebenkorn and David Park — launching the Bay Area's Figurative Movement.

Certainly, the idea that he was drawing recognizable shapes, prompted by his unconscious mind, in the air over his canvas — or alternatively that such figures were deliberately veiled beneath overlapping whirls of paint — is beguiling.

Up close, it is a mesmerizing environment, a space visitors can walk through, see billows and folds resembling sea foliage high above and observe that the patterns cut from the panels are actually free - falling bodies, figures rendered in a style recognizable from paintings by Jacob Lawrence.

The American street artist Keith Haring is famous for his instantly recognizable style of urban graffiti art - executed in marker ink, acrylic and Day - Glo paint - with its thick black lines and distinctive cartoon - like figures and forms.

A silicone - and - wax oil puddle by Virgile Ittah and Kai Yoda becomes a lonely island, a familiar childhood cartoon slits and sketches across the picture plane until it is barely recognizable in a piece by Antoine Donzeaud, «[a] memory is cast in a foggy figure on the brink of evaporation» in Henry Chapman series of abstract paintings.

In his instantly recognizable style of radically austere painting that had just recently catapulted him to artistic fame, Stella assigned each figure a geometrical shape, which he translated onto large - scale shaped canvases limned with metallic paint.