Sentences with phrase «through figuration»

As children, when we have an interest in art, the route is through figuration; not abstract.

Pilkington's work explores abstraction through figuration, investigating the role of the motif and the relationship it holds to drawing in contemporary abstract painting.

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This show is dedicated to works that convey narratives about the body through figuration or related processes.

Works that expressed a personal or political viewpoint through figuration were considered to be retrograde in comparison to the radical abstractions created by the great American painters of the forties and fifties.

In the years before the mid-1980s art market boom, Schnabel forged a pictorial language that embraced unconventional methods and materials with a visceral effect; he introduced to the American contemporary art scene a particularly European post-war sensibility through his admiration for Francis Picabia and his personal artistic dialogue with Sigmar Polke and Blinky Palermo; and he broke with the prevailing conceptualism through figuration, personal narratives and references to history and mythology.

This young, New York - based Russian artist works through figuration to arrive at paintings full of uncertainty and emotional energy.

Not exact matches

Through exuberant works that sometimes engage the heroic gesture or make use of pop imagery, artists explored the traditions of figuration and history paintings and offered new interpretations of abstraction.

In the starlets depicted by Laing, there is an erotic charge that echoes between surface and subject as the models shift between figuration and abstraction, their colour - blockedcostumes in tension with bodies contoured through half - tones.

Miro and Picasso's painterly re-invention of figuration through abstraction leaves me slack - jawed.

Journey from figuration to abstraction through a sequence of drawing, collage, stenciling, and painting in this afternoon studio workshop taught by contemporary artist Yevgeniya Baras.

Robert Colescott is «a proud instigator who fearlessly tackled subjects of social and racial inequality, class structure, and the human condition through his uniquely rhythmic and often manic style of figuration.»

Wood's interest in figuration extends to his inanimate objects, which gain distinct personalities through the artist's brush.

Steve Locke (born 1963) is an African American artist who explores figuration and perceptions of the male figure, and themes of masculinity and homosexuality through drawing, painting, sculpture, and installation art.

An eclectic contemporary master of figuration examined through multiple lenses in this career - spanning catalogue

Cinematic Visions examines how, through a variety of painterly strategies and gestures, figuration starts to break down and, conversely, how a residual figurative substratum can be found in even the most apparently abstract image.

Explore Lee Krasner's journey from figuration to abstraction through close looking at two of her works: Self - Portrait (1930) and Untitled, from the Little Images series (1948) in this gallery talk by Jenna Weiss, Manager of Public Programs.

Drawing on sexuality, feminine symbols, lore, figuration and abstraction, both artists animate their paintings through color and infuse depth through a thorough investigation of our collective history.

JEYes, in both of those works the figuration is produced through an expanded version of linear drawing, which is poured on as well as drawn with the brush.

Richter has repeatedly indicated his belief that the dichotomy between figuration and abstraction is essentially a fallacy, and his expression of the same ideas through vastly different styles throughout his career corroborates this assertion.

Through her dynamic application of paint and pop cultural references, Pensato's compositions extend the possibilities of action painting into bold figuration and abstraction.

THROUGH LOOSLY RENDERED FIGURATION Henry Taylor conveys a sense of authenticity and insight into the complexity of humanity.

Legacy in Continuum: Bay Area Figuration, on view at the Bakersfield Museum of Art from March 22 through May 27th is an exhibition that demonstrates the continuing impact of a very engaging, flexible style.

Mr. Cox explores the possibilities of the linear stripe through horizontal and vertical repetition of color pattern, and layering, while Ms. Peters subverts ancient and classical figuration and their permutations over different styles and periods.

Together, the works in the exhibition employ a heterogeneous range of aesthetic strategies, often emphatically representing the city's inhabitants through forms of bold figuration, and foregrounding New York itself as a location of conflict and possibility.

In this endeavor, Hughes aligns himself squarely within the tradition of painters like Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky, whose groundbreaking ideas gave rise to a main branch of contemporary American abstraction which espouses the possibility of conveying the full range of human experience through the raw materials of paint and renders moot the distinction between abstraction and figuration.

Exhibitionism's 16 exhibitions in the Hessel Museum are (1) «Jonathan Borofsky,» featuring Borofsky's Green Space Painting with Chattering Man at 2,814,787; (2) «Andy Warhol and Matthew Higgs,» including Warhol's portrait of Marieluise Hessel and a work by Higgs; (3) «Art as Idea,» with works by W. Imi Knoebel, Joseph Kosuth, and Allan McCollum; (4) «Rupture,» with works by John Bock, Saul Fletcher, Isa Genzken, Thomas Hirschhorn, Martin Kippenberger, and Karlheinz Weinberger; (5) «Robert Mapplethorpe and Judy Linn,» including 11 of the 70 Mapplethorpe works in the Hessel Collection along with Linn's intimate portraits of Mapplethorpe; (6) «For Holly,» including works by Gary Burnley, Valerie Jaudon, Christopher Knowles, Robert Kushner, Thomas Lanigan - Schmidt, Kim MacConnel, Ned Smyth, and Joe Zucker — acquired by Hessel from legendary SoHo art dealer Holly Solomon; (7) «Inside — Outside,» juxtaposing works by Scott Burton and Günther Förg with the picture windows of the Hessel Museum; (8) «Lexicon,» exploring a recurring motif of the Collection through works by Martin Creed, Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, Bruce Nauman, Sean Landers, Raymond Pettibon, Jack Pierson, Jason Rhoades, and Allen Ruppersberg; (9) «Real Life,» examines different forms of social systems in works by Robert Beck, Sophie Calle, Matt Mullican, Cady Noland, Pruitt & Early, and Lawrence Weiner; (10) «Image is a Burden,» presents a number of idiosyncratic positions in relation to the figure and figuration (and disfigurement) through works by Rita Ackerman, Jonathan Borofsky, John Currin, Carroll Dunham, Philip Guston, Rachel Harrison, Adrian Piper, Peter Saul, Rosemarie Trockel, and Nicola Tyson; (11) «Mirror Objects,» including works by Donald Judd, Blinky Palermo, and Jorge Pardo; (12) «1982,» including works by Carl Andre, Robert Longo, Robert Mangold, Robert Mapplethorpe, A. R. Penck, and Cindy Sherman, all of which were produced in close — chronological — proximity to one another; (13) «Monitor,» with works by Vito Acconci, Cheryl Donegan, Vlatka Horvat, Bruce Nauman, and Aïda Ruilova; (14) «Cindy Sherman,» includes 7 of the 25 works by Sherman in the Hessel Collection; (15) «Silence,» with works by Christian Marclay, Pieter Laurens Mol, and Lorna Simpson that demonstrate art's persistent interest in and engagement with the paradoxical idea of «silence»; and (16) «Dan Flavin and Felix Gonzalez - Torres.»

It may come as a surprise that Rashid Johnson's show «Anxious Men,» on view through December 20th at the Drawing Center, features some of the artist's first forays into figuration outside of his photographs and films.

Exhibitionism seeks to amplify this independent vision through individual exhibitions that, variously, consider aspects of the social landscape, the poetics and politics of space, language and semiotics, figuration and the grotesque, interiority and exteriority, pattern and decoration, and rupture and displacement, among many other possibilities.

Mullican sought both within himself and throughout the cosmos for the familiar as well as the awesome; he then strove to express the specific as well as the universal through his art, which encompasses both abstraction and figuration.»

Beyond bronze, he roamed through the history of sculpture and its materials, carving in stone, working in ceramics, moving between abstraction and figuration and occasionally even using found objects.

Often through exuberant work that engaged with heroic gesture or pop imagery, artists explored the traditions of figuration and history painting and offered a new interpretation of abstraction.

We will conclude our offsite exhibition program with Figuration in American Art: Selections from the Danforth Art Permanent Collection at North Hill, through March 2018.

It was through this intense study of the relationship between image and reality that Richter became increasingly fascinated with the idea that abstraction and figuration represent two sides of the same coin.

At a time when African American artists were expected to explore the African American experience through representation, figuration, and narration, the practices of Bearden and Lawrence — their mastery and ownership of that realm — freed Whitten to chart his own path.

The new paintings are created through Furnas's characteristic play with figuration and abstraction.

These artists, who rose to prominence through a series of group shows at the Hyde Park Art Center, approached figuration with wit and irreverence while drawing upon earlier art historical styles such as Surrealism, as well as self - taught art and popular forms such as comic book.

«BEN SCHONZEIT: ABSTRACT FIGURATION» continues through November 6, 2016.

Figuration is consistently explored through each of Tyler's paintings, clearly referencing formal qualities utilized art historical giants Phillip Guston and Willian De Kooning.

It's a relationship that lasted half a century, and that followed Diebenkorn through three distinct phases of his career: his early years working in an Abstract Expressionist mode, his move to figuration starting in 1955, and his later return to abstraction.

Other artists» approaches to filmmaking approximated various tropes and moods of poetry, bending the medium to poignant ends alternately vested in distance and immediacy: Stanya Kahn's evocations of abject absurdity through stand - up comedy; Barry Doupe's alienated dreams told in disjointed narrations and flattened, chromatically charged figurations; Ryan Trecartin's bewilderingly familiar stream - of - consciousness rants grounded by a intuitive, cinematic fluidity.

The 53 paintings and prints in the exhibition tell the story of how Pollock, Ossorio and Dubuffet influenced each other through not only their close friendships, but also through the sharing of ideas, techniques and even studio spaces... All three grappled with abstraction versus figuration, and each had an interest in process and materials.»

By shifting direction, I mean going from abstracted figuration to overt figuration, or returning to an old form to make a new painting, or even rummaging through historical imagery from the ancient world to the modern and from high art to commercial art and comic books to get his themes.

Meaning «step», the exhibition title, Paso, refers to a series of movements through abstraction and figuration.

Gilliam's red, blue, and green watercolor, Parade VII, employs color through staining; Thompson's humorous oil painting, The Golden Ass, features a more traditional application; McArthur Binion uses crayon and collage elements in his 2016 brown abstraction, DNA: Sepia II; Nathaniel Mary Quinn's Mean Ol' Teacher uses color as a way to bridge abstraction and figuration in a collaged face made up of many different harlequin features.

Through the work of five artists, the show explores the tension between figuration and abstraction, delicately balanced through the use of different mediums and often humorous expression of personal sensibiThrough the work of five artists, the show explores the tension between figuration and abstraction, delicately balanced through the use of different mediums and often humorous expression of personal sensibithrough the use of different mediums and often humorous expression of personal sensibilities.

He will be showing his work across Victoria Miro «s London locations (Mayfair and Wharf Road): «Meaning «step», the exhibition title, Paso, refers to a series of movements through abstraction and figuration.

With material as departure point, Lang's recent works explore the tensions between abstraction and figuration, and investigate space beyond the limitations of the human body through sculpture, reliefs, assemblage, paintings and collages.

As well as testifying to the by no means provincial nature of local collecting, the group show also raises issues questioning the very nature of art through works representative of various contemporary styles and movements: Conceptualism, Appropriation Art, Neo-Pop, Superkitsch, Arte Povera, Transavanguardia, Neo-Expressionism, various forms of Realism, YBA (Young British Artists), Düsseldorf School, Figuration, Abstractism and Hyperrealism.

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