Sentences with phrase «so figurative paintings»

If this commenting in any way on the conception so figurative paintings as windows into other lands?

Not exact matches

Even so, we are far more likely to paint for our readers a broad range of figurative meaning by keeping close to the literal field wherein that meaning takes root and flourishes, than by dispensing with the literal, and losing it and much of the figurative to boot.

His paintings are so appealing at first sight, as delightful coloured patterns with pleasing figurative imagery, that many look no longer, or see no further, and for them the magical metamorphosis does not take place; they do not find that they are standing on a little terrace under a walnut tree looking through an overgrown garden straight towards the afternoon sun which is sparkling on the Seine below them, and all looking not as it would to them, but more mysterious, more overpowering, fuller of space and light and colour and overwhelmingly real and harmonious.

With almost 40 works, this exhibition proposes a complete view of the artist's aesthetic development, starting with his figurative works, when he exhibited in Barcelona in the early 30's, until his latest abstract paintings of the 90's after going through the abstract expressionist stage that became so relevant in the United States during the 40s and 50s.

A provocative figurative oil painting on paper of a couple the question asking, «So how do we finish this?

And if Guston's fascination with the poetry of D. H. Lawrence, W. B. Yeats, and some other Italian and American writers links him to modernism, the political engagement of his figurative paintings — so utterly relevant right now — marks his entry into a later, very different visual tradition.

In an unexpectedly combative interview in advance of the show's installation, he spoke to Artspace deputy editor Karen Rosenberg about what critics do or don't see in his work, whether figurative painting is having a resurgence, and why the word «political» carries so much baggage.

FRANCIS PICABIA: OUR HEADS ARE ROUND SO OUR THOUGHTS CAN CHANGE DIRECTION Picabia was on the ground with the Dadaists in Paris, but this exhibition includes his later work, which has influenced contemporary painters — perverse figurative paintings that look like precursors to Pop Art, or pulp fiction book covers.

So I was then able to put in more of my figurative work with some symbolism and mythology into my painting.

His early paintings, his figurative still - lifes, particularly - not the late, softly fluid, lyrical abstractions that would profoundly influence the course of American art - are often so densely built up, so airtight with paint, that they've more or less had the life choked out of them; in the course of trying to keep them alive, they have in fact become dead things.

This subject matter — painted big and painted simple, or so they claimed — was as much about the human condition as any figurative self - portrait.

Among the other works are a Philip Guston figurative painting that could move his prices into a new register, so few of these works come to market.

His unease at the loss of figurative imagery in the painting at that time with which he had so much success eventually led his own work down deeply conflicted avenues.

The school focuses on the tradition of figurative painting, drawing, and sculpture, and so invites the vanguard of these fields to speak in an intimate setting to current students and the general public.

That is not only because Mr. Marshall's beautiful and biting figurative paintings have been picturing black life in America with such aplomb for so long.

Not so long ago it would have seemed hopelessly retrogressive for Tate Britain to put on an exhibition devoted to 100 years of British figurative painting.

Just as the figurative paintings of Giorgio Morandi, whom he admires, are not about merely depicting vessels, so Sean Scully's definitive abstract works have narrative structures when they evoke associations of figure and landscape, of window and mirror, or of religious forms and themes such as altar or resurrection.

Speaking of the figurative aspect of works that largely appear abstract, Kim has said, «I love a good abstract painting, but I'm often not interested in what people talk about when they talk about abstraction, so I prefer to apply my own content.»

Geopolitical damage, scars of violent activity, they are a part of the world which we live and that's what I am attempting to paint, so in the tradition of figurative painting where you render the world into two dimensions, I am rendering the real world in my case in three dimensions.

Is this then figurative painting, and if so what is the meaning of the term Abstract - Expressionism?

Based in Bali for more than two decades, the Italian artist Filippo Sciascia is widely known for Lux Lumina, an ongoing series of almost black and white figurative paintings, based on photographic and cinematic sources; their impasto surfaces heavily worked by the painter, who runs a dazzling gamut of painterly techniques, to the point the painting's skin cracks and tears so skillfully by intuitive calculation that its disintegration seems to be instigated from the inside out.

The show brings to light the popularity of abstract painting among artists at a time when figurative and representational art have become so prevalent.

We need to push abstract very hard so that it can match great figurative painting for complexity and spatiality.

But whilst I agree with that ambition of «more abstract», I am much more ambivalent about the idea that certain things that could be done in figurative painting can not now be done in abstract painting, and that by so restricting the scope of abstract painting it will inevitably come to fulfil that ambition of «more abstract».

So I think that I applied these things to my figurative painting.

As with so much of the artist's work, I find the hints of story in these paintings unimportant and their figurative aspects often awkward and off - putting.

It is beautifully paced so that inklings of the future were always there in hindsight, as it were; when you come to the Black Paintings, they still look irreducibly abstract in their visual lexicon, no matter how figurative they may be; and the same becomes true in reverse.

Lacing Action painting and Color Field painting with a postmodern twist, Zimmermann's abstract motifs seem to spring from more figurative representations: he uses computer graphics and «dithering» (a technique that displays images without firm edges so as to give a more colorful appearance) to deform images, texts and signs from his own massive archive of images, evoking the atlases of Gerhard Richter and Aby Warburg.

Well, that just throws up so many questions; but I'll merely say that looking at a great deal of old figurative painting, from Giotto to Matisse, seems a lot more real and a lot less rhetorical than the experience of looking at Stella, particularly if you define «rhetorical» as something designed to have a persuasive or impressive effect, but which lacks meaningful content.

By doing so he has intensified our understanding of figurative painting's familiar landmarks to the point of discomfort.

It was left to de Kooning to give an almost physical reassurance and an imaginative sense of a possible future to younger painters in Europe and American in the late Fifties, when many artists were seeking out ways of sustaining the validity of figurative painting at a time when abstract imagery of all kinds seemed to be so strongly in the ascendant.

Rail: So while you were checking out the Hairy Who contingent, did you also look at Ray Yoshida's comic - image collages and his weirdly stylized figurative paintings?

He overlays figurative screenprints with smeary abstractions, spills enamel like blood - spatter across a mundane landscape, scrawls words across a painting that already samples so many styles the congestion is almost deafening.

But instead of offering the expansive alternative history so many of us hoped for, the National Academy has showcased the collection of an organization called the Center for Figurative Painting, the brainchild of a man of means by the name of Henry Justin, whose taste is a Rocky Balboa blitz of swagger, flash, and bravado.

He was the first painter to return to figuration in the post-War era and was quite pioneering in linking high art and images from popular culture, so that today many celebrate him as the trailblazer of postmodern, figurative painting.

The viewers will be able to find out that the world of figurative painting is so much more than what a layman may think it is, and that the ideas and techniques are plentiful.

It was something Ad could have said because he was so adamant in his rejection of any kind of representation — he was the only New York School artist who never painted figurative works — although unlike most of the others he actually could draw and studied at the National Academy of Design.

Using completely stereotyped genres (figurative painting, travel photography, landscape painting, and so on), Miller has been engaged since the end of the 1970s in a global critique of the function of the auteur and the resulting loss of the work of art's «aura».

Figurative painting offers a form of personal semiotics; perhaps that is why it is so difficult to write and talk about a figurative painting, as we can only describe the components and the combination of elements that we already have words for and the figures, situations, textures and colors we Figurative painting offers a form of personal semiotics; perhaps that is why it is so difficult to write and talk about a figurative painting, as we can only describe the components and the combination of elements that we already have words for and the figures, situations, textures and colors we figurative painting, as we can only describe the components and the combination of elements that we already have words for and the figures, situations, textures and colors we recognize.

So I took a figurative work and I said, «Well, I want a figurative painting on the scale of the Abstract Expressionists,» you know, on a big scale.

LPB So you could look at a figurative painting and say this person really wants to be an abstract painter.

So, I stopped painting these dark, figurative, Goya and Velázquez kind of paintings.

Do you see yourself as an underdog of sorts by making figurative paintings in the context of so much abstraction?

I'm not so sure that space is always so straightforward as is being made out in figurative painting; it can be varied and weird and inventive and un-naturalistic.

So if people read your paintings as talking about consumerism or environmentalism based on the figurative forms in your work, are they simply reading too much into shapes and colors?

AMc: You said very early on that the reason you made your paintings so big was a wish to stand up to the abstract expressionists and create something figurative that would, to quote you, «knock them off the wall».

And because Richter is famously questioning of all the usual distinctions in painting — figurative versus abstract, mechanical reproduction versus painterly touch and so on — it's a particularly judicious selection.