Sentences with phrase «recognizable image painted»

It wasn't: it was a serious attempt at something new, a recognizable image painted with a vigor and spontaneity bforrowed from abstraction.

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Argue's large - scale paintings begin with universally recognizable images and scenes of iconic artworks — Picasso's Demoiselles d'Avignon, for instance — but with a veil of abstracted letters superimposed on top.
Highlighting politics, religion and popular culture, sex, citizenship, mysticism, and iconography, Figueredo paints and carves images that are both recognizable and falsified, compelling the viewer to believe in these dream - like stills as scenes from the past, present and future.
Rendered on a variety of coarse fabrics, recognizable images of human bodies and surfboards in the water pass in and out of view, subsumed by the water and mists which are created by the textures of the painted surfaces themselves.
The works on view at the exhibition evokes conversations between abstract forms and a variety of human or animal protagonists, as locations strike up to have a conversation with the people, recognizable images chat with paint smears while looping gestures address spectators within his imageries.
His latest carved plaster tablets and graphite drawings arrive at similar aesthetic states but from opposite directions: the painted tablets respond to surface texture and chance operations, excavating compositions through deconstructive sgraffito techniques, while the drawings depart from landscape imagery and are built up into complex, almost - recognizable images created through a process of repetitive mark - making, erasure, and re-drawing.
Geva primarily uses bold gestures to propel and push paint over the surface of multilayered canvases, sometimes done in diptychs, which often include recognizable images like birds, tree branches, and flowers.
His paintings are recognizable for thin contour lines and soft forms, in addition to an expressive use of color; though these works did not often contain imagery, they were sometimes based on landscapes and images.
Lisa Ruyter's immediately recognizable «style» is not a style at all, rather it is meant to represent the concept of a medium, in this case something that exists between painting and photography, placing a study of images and representation at the center of her artistic concerns.
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.
Grimes writes: «Although Ms. Freilicher... studied with Hans Hofmann, the influential teacher and theorist of abstraction, she put her expressionist style of paint - handling and all - over approach to the canvas at the service of recognizable images, a course that made her an outsider in an era dominated by abstraction.
The resultant works exhibit a harmonious balance of painting and sculptural relief, recognizable form and nonrepresentational image.
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
Although the paintings flirt with identifiable forms, they are kept from coalescing into fully recognizable images as each painting reveals an organic network of indecipherable, almost hieroglyphic marks.
Moving away from the recognizable images of architectural space, and by repositioning elements like a chair, a table, a curtain or a corner of a room, the paintings create ambiguity through using multiple viewpoints.
Frenetic paper cuts and dissected imagery braid together with paint and found materials to a point that Legere has done away with all distractions of recognizable imagery from the selected images.
The artistic oeuvre of Matthew Brannon consists of paintings, spatial installations and sound works, but he is best known for his letterpress and silkscreen prints, which set up elusive relationships between recognizable images and texts.
From the Whitney's website: Around 1910, Arthur Dove became the first American artist to make a painting that had no recognizable images in it.
Your paintings began more abstract and veered deeper into more recognizable figurative images over time.
Accordingly, many also sought to rid their art of any narrative content: «The new painting dispensed with recognizable images from the known world... It was an art that sought to negate the art of America's recent past as well as that of more distant times and places.»
In between are many of her most recognizable images, like her hyper - erotic paintings of pearls between glistening lips parted in ecstasy and her video of grimy, stiletto - heeled feet kicking through glass.
He also became an artist at a time when Conceptual and Minimalist art had challenged not only the act of painting or sculpting a recognizable image, but the very acts of painting or sculpting themselves.
Although Ms. Freilicher (pronounced FRY - licker) studied with Hans Hofmann, the influential teacher and theorist of abstraction, she put her expressionist style of paint - handling and allover approach to the canvas at the service of recognizable images, a course that made her an outsider in an era dominated by abstraction.
Drawing from such wide - ranging cultural areas as film, fashion photography, literature, mythology, news images, sports, and individuals she meets in her day - to - day life, Wylie paints colorful and exuberant compositions that are uniquely recognizable.
Locations talk to people, recognizable images chat with paint smears while looping gestures address spectators within the picture.
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