Sentences with phrase «rooted in surrealism»

Simple motifs which are often rooted in surrealism, such as the umbrella or the bowler hat becomes a palm tree, or martini glass, or a woman's groin repeatedly feature in Frosts» paintings, drawings, prints and slide - shows.

Saul is often associated with the Chicago Imagists, a group of artists typically defined by their Post-War tradition of fantasy - based art - making rooted in surrealism, pop culture, and the grotesque, as well as the Funk Artists of the San Francisco Bay Area.

This interest in the juxtaposition of divergent aesthetics has its roots in surrealism, [iii] and Gottlieb's passion for large - scale abstraction and mythology's potential to be a living form of expression placed him in the vanguard of American painting.

Influenced by her roots in surrealism and growing up surrounded by poets and writers, her subject matter alludes to comical and unpredictable narratives.

Not exact matches

From this cultural collision emerged a style whose roots lay abroad — for the most part in cubism and surrealism — but whose look and meaning were without precedent.

Youngest of his generation's greats, he was also the most literate, the most eloquent, and the most fully reflective of the movement's diverse roots in European modernism, including not only surrealism but also Matisse.