Sentences with phrase «terms figuration and abstraction»

In fact, «I often avoid using the terms figuration and abstraction because I've always tried to have it both ways.»

Not exact matches

She has continually shifted the terms of her practice, incorporating figuration, abstraction, digital techniques and gestural mark - making into compositions that confound expectations of pictorial space.

At the time, Andersson was not well known in the States, yet it was immediately clear that her paintings epitomized an approach to form that could be characterized in Ferguson's terms: Old dichotomies of abstraction and figuration had been erased, and art history had become available as a kind of stylistic smorgasbord to be drawn on at will.

Using emphatic but controlled paint strokes, dabs, drips, and smears, these images simultaneously recede and approach in terms of abstraction and figuration, which cleverly simulates the equivalent qualities of memory as a sensory experience.

Sanya Kantarvosky: Sanya Kantarovsky does not like to hear his work discussed neatly in terms of figuration or abstraction; instead, he relates it to the graphic, calligraphic, and historic influences that guide his practice.