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