Sentences with phrase «reconciling figuration and abstraction»

Even at this early stage his interest in reconciling figuration and abstraction, and in representing events and memories with painterly symbols, was becoming evident in works such as Mr and Mrs Robyn Denny, 1960.

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Featuring 36 paintings and 53 drawings, many on loan from major museums and private collections, the exhibition draws together a compelling body of work that reveals the artist grappling to reconcile gestural and field painting, figuration and abstraction.

Known for his monumental wall reliefs and sculptures of animals from the 1970s, American artist Bernard Langlais (1921 — 1977) created a diverse oeuvre of paintings, sculptures and environments that shifted regularly and freely between abstraction and figuration — a shift that reflects Langlais» constant effort to reconcile his rural roots (in Maine) and keen sense of place with postwar artistic movements and ideologies.