Sentences with phrase «through figurative abstraction»

After his segue through figurative abstraction in the 80s and 90s, Fleming made a return to geometric abstraction in the 2000's with an emphasis on illusory compositions and visual perception.

Not exact matches

The works begins with his early realist, figurative abstractions, to a «proto - synthetic cubism,» straight through the famous series of women that dominated the 1950s, ending in his increasingly «expansive,» looser renderings of the 1960s.

Currently on view at MCA Chicago through May 20, the exhibition spans Pindell's five - decade career, «featuring early figurative paintings, pure abstraction and conceptual works, and personal and political art that emerged in the aftermath of a life - threatening car accident in 1979.

The work moves through several recognisable phases: from the carefully constructed figurative pictures of the late 1940s; into various degrees of object - based abstraction; to an even simpler sort of still life painting in the 1970s and early 1980s.

Dona Nelson: Stand Alone Paintings, which opens May 12 and runs through August 12, will feature over 30 paintings drawn from the last four decades, bringing together rarely shown figurative works alongside more recent abstractions.

These painters focused on depicting contemporary life through innovative figurative works, rather than the abstraction, minimalism, and conceptualism that dominated contemporary art at the time.

Ellipsis: Group show of figurative abstraction in various media, through May 14; d.m. allison gallery, 2709 Colquitt, 832-607-4378, dma-art.com.

In the early 1960s, Leslie's style evolved from pure abstraction to figurative realism, distilling his background in film to be fully realized through painting.

Through the exhibition Energy / Experimentation: Black Artists and Abstraction, 1964 — 1980 (2006)-- which highlighted numerous black artists working in abstract painting or sculpture — and her scholarly work on African American conceptualists, Jones has prompted a reevaluation of the view that African American art of the period was predominantly figurative or representational.

He defined himself as a figurative artist who went through Abstract Expressionism, Geometric Abstraction and a number of other styles of painting, but who had always been a figurative painter because his greatest interest was in people.

Wolk - Simon says that this new awareness helps to work through certain biases: «For a long time, abstraction was modern art's preeminent triumph, and artists working in the figurative tradition were not seen as modern, but now with a renewed interest in Italian modern art comes a renewed interest in figurative art.»

Moving from figurative depiction, both artists are diving into a sphere of abstraction and dynamics, opening up their pictorial dialogue by exploring the abstract landscapes which emerge through the amalgamation of their creational spirits.

Ellipsis: Group show of figurative abstraction in various media; opens 5 p.m. Saturday, through May 14; d.m. allison gallery, 2709 Colquitt, 832-607-4378, dma-art.com.

Through a profound exploration of his personal relationship with figurative painting over the years, compounded by his personal conception of abstraction, with My Wall Tweedy achieves an deep understanding of his own history as a painter, laying the foundation for a future of infinite possibilities.

But Schnabel's work always oscillates between reduced, gestural abstraction and some figurative elements, and I think you see that through all of his works.

Diebenkorn's Bay Area figurative years from the mid 1950s through the mid 1960s marked a shift from the artist's early abstractions and set him apart from the prevailing movement of the time and many of his contemporaries, for whom the movement of abstraction was thought to be in direct conflict with figuration.

★ Philip Guston: «A Centennial Exhibition» (through April 27) On the 100th anniversary of this Abstract Expressionism best - known apostate, this large exhibition includes one of his last abstractions but concentrates on the indelible figurative work of his last decade — the 1970s — which did so much to inspire the painters of the 1980s.

By synthesizing extremes of immediacy and meditative distance, and by rendering the ephemeral movements of abstraction through techniques usually reserved for figurative subjects, Vance depicts reality in the act of making itself seen, before it has had the chance to conform to expectations.

Howardena Pindell: What Remains to Be Seen traces the themes and visual experiments that run through the New York — based artist's five decades - long career, featuring early figurative paintings, pure abstraction and conceptual works, and personal and political art that emerged in the aftermath of a life - threatening car accident in 1979.

Opening with Picabia's solid early Cubist paintings which quickly diffused various critics» claims of painterly illiteracy, the show plows ahead through Picabia's scintillating obsession with Dada, examines his short - lived fascination with film, explores cutting edge experiments with Renaissance and Transparency painting techniques, shows his controversial war - time figurative paintings, and ends (rather deflatedly) with his return to Abstraction.

As he matured, his early landscapes and figurative works, often of men at work with machinery, segued through surrealism and into abstraction, with traces first of Thomas Hart Benton and Grant Wood, perhaps, and of Paul Cézanne, Pablo Picasso and Max Ernst.

Through Ribak's evolution from socially - inclined figurative genre scenes to abstraction, the artist remained committed to the notion of documentation and observation.