Sentences with phrase «recognizable imagery»

He is also often cited as a significant influence on Pop Art for his use of recognizable imagery such as the American flag, targets, and maps.

, I have noticed a considerable uptick in the number of young painters working with recognizable imagery, some in, dare I say it, almost traditional modes.

It eliminated recognizable imagery in favor of a single image or object, often based on a grid, or rectangular form.

When I make a painting, especially one that contains recognizable imagery, I would like to find the kernel of the thing that is inherently mysterious.

In general these artists eliminated overt recognizable imagery in favor of abstraction.

Adding recognizable imagery seemed one way to extend the life of his latest theme.

Abstraction too is a functional preference rather than a rule; recognizable imagery does appear occasionally.

While recognizable imagery is decidedly present, it's not always paramount.

For him, any inclusion of recognizable imagery blocked the power of the paint.

One of the key figures in the Pop Art movement, his complex narratives of recognizable imagery are firmly situated in the cultural and political contexts in which they are made.

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.

Creating work at a time when abstract painting dominated the art scene, Katz forged an ingenious way to wed abstraction with recognizable imagery by paring down his compositions to their most fundamental elements.

Inspired by Jackson Pollock's allover gestural style and all - encompassing scale and Willem De Kooning's devotion to art history, Grace Hartigan began her career as an Abstract Expressionist in 1950's inserting recognizable imagery into her abstractions, which often consisted of fairly dense networks of geometric shapes.

Yayoi Kusama has been an Avant - garde mainstay since the 1960s with her instantly recognizable imagery and interactive installations that immerse viewers within.

Grace Hartigan, (born March 28, 1922, Newark, N.J., U.S. — died Nov. 15, 2008, Baltimore, MD.), an American painter best known for her Abstract Expressionist works of the 1950s, which gradually incorporated recognizable imagery.

In the 20 years since his death, Johnson's work has become an increasingly accurate depiction of our fragmented and overstimulated society and includes some of the most recognizable imagery from the twentieth and twenty - first centuries.

Velocity, of course, is also contingent upon kinetic factors such as mass and displacement, and it is this inherently sculptural aspect of Ohtake's practice which is often overshadowed by the more easily recognizable imagery of his media sampling.

Not limited to pure Abstraction, recognizable imagery often seeps into her oeuvre.

Harriet Korman has painted abstractly for the past four decades, continually fascinated by what can be expressed without recognizable imagery or associations.

Pop Art introduced recognizable imagery, drawn mainly from popular culture into art, severing the boundaries that had previously existed between traditional fine art and everyday life, and between so - called high art and low culture.

The home, in particular, is an ongoing theme for Chun, whose third exhibition at Poem 88 delivers her familiar world of primary colors and basic shapes in a variety of media, fluctuating between recognizable imagery and geometric form.

Prints with recognizable imagery indicative of particular artists like Richard Serra, Kara Walker, Glenn Ligon, the Guerilla Girls, Kiki Smith, and Vija Celmins wrap up a unique exhibition full of the drama and historical ruptures that formed the American experience over the last three centuries.

In response, Mulroney painted a vibrant mural filled with recognizable imagery drawn from everyday life that has been manipulated into a series of quirky pictures.

He often appropriates recognizable imagery from advertisements and branding campaigns in order to question the ways in which commercial media distorts the ways in which audiences see themselves and each other.

Herrera's wall paintings also meld recognizable imagery with abstraction, but on an environmental scale that he compares to the qualities of dance and music.

In the present work, Gorky explores the potential of crosshatching and shading to create a lively composition in which recognizable imagery is transformed into suggestive biomorphic forms.

Thematically, Herrera subverts recognizable imagery, from cartoons to fairy tales to Abstract Expressionism, to question the legibility and resonance of the language of abstraction, suggesting a non-linear syntax.

Besides depicting recognizable imagery in the black paintings, Pollock thickened his lines and pooled reflective enamel paint.

Many of them, many of the most abstract, began with more or less recognizable imagery — heads, parts of the body, fantastic creatures.»

Similarly, Keith Haring applied his own recognizable imagery to a well - worn Buick, employing his signature calligraphic style to transform the car into a rolling painting.

Many of O'Keeffe's abstractions don't contain recognizable imagery.

Creating work at a time when abstract painting dominated the art scene, Katz forged an ingenious way to wed abstraction with recognizable imagery by paring down his compositions to their fundamental elements.

Instead, it was closer to Pop - Art, whose banal but instantly recognizable imagery it shared.

This exhibition, done in collaboration with the Snite Museum of the University of Notre Dame, presents graphite drawings from the late 1960s to the 1990s that provide a comprehensive overview of his most recognizable imagery, a visual language instilled with the erotics of desire and vulnerability.

The return of recognizable imagery in current European and American painting is unlikely to deflect Bischoff from his course.

Among the hundreds of artists I consider each year while publishing New American Paintings, I have noticed a considerable uptick in the number of young painters working with recognizable imagery, some in, dare I say it, almost traditional modes.

«Yet the absence of recognizable imagery in his work aligns Mr. Bhavsar more with American traditions of abstract art, and in particular color field painting; one is reminded variously of the work of the American painters Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman and Jules Olitski.»

Strong and recognizable imagery, dead center aim on its genre, and a sense of excitement that draws readers in.»

Sangram Majumdar commented that moving away from recognizable imagery is «a way to arrive at a place that's a bit more unknown.

Working in all media, he has evolved a style uniquely his own, one that is strongly rooted in recognizable imagery, produced by way of a progressively refined craftsmanship based principally on the rigorous disciplines of drawing.

Bart Exposito's paintings and drawings have a foundation in abstraction, but almost always incorporate some degree of recognizable imagery to create a visual vocabulary based in typography, architecture, and mid-century design.

Stephanie Pierce's paintings evoke the meeting of recognizable imagery and abstraction.

John Hultberg (1922 - 2005) is best known for his dramatic, often dark landscapes and interiors scattered with recognizable imagery and marked by his innovative use of Read More»

With his unique combination of a technical invention, humor, irony, and recognizable imagery, Lichtenstein moved the line between mass reproduction and high art.

[24] Pop art merges popular and mass culture with fine art while injecting humor, irony, and recognizable imagery / content into the mix.

He fused popular and mass culture elements from television, advertisements, films, and cartoons, with the techniques of fine art while injecting humor, irony, and recognizable imagery and content into the final product.

Today, as so many abstract painters inch closer to an overt inclusion of recognizable imagery, fully invested representational painters are no longer just filling out the far end of the painting spectrum, but are playing a key, if yet unappreciated role in reunifying the entire painterly enterprise.