Sentences with phrase «totemic imagery»
Abstract expressionists utilized a variety of techniques in order to find the hidden, totemic imagery they hoped would connect viewers with their subconscious selves.
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Drawing from African sculpture, cast - off industrial materials and totemic imagery, David Smith shared some symbology with his Abstract Expressionist colleagues.
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Formally, the works are defined by Hull's distinctive and characteristic visual style - angular figures, bold, graphic lines and marks in black, contrasted with gestural abstraction in vivid, sometimes shocking, color, and recurring imagery — ships and nautical themes, and court jester or clown - like figures alone or interacting in totemic or frieze - like compositions.
Soon, A.R. Penck was enjoying a worldwide attention for his paintings with pictographic, primitivist imagery of human forms and other totemic designs.
His practice is a diverse collage directly on the walls of various buildings, compiled from different elements and imagery from ancient civilizations and subcultures into large - scale totemic assemblages.
Through his art he personified the historical imagery, mythical creatures and totemic figures of the past, depicting them with a true modernity of form.
In the 1980s he became known worldwide for paintings with pictographic, neo-primitivist imagery of human figures and other totemic forms.
Bickerton's mixed media work, titled Tormented Self - Portrait (Susie at Arles) No. 2 (1987 — 88), went beyond appropriation and re-signification of commercial imagery by creating a totemic tableau.
AR Penck (Ralf Winkler) is a German painter, printmaker and sculptor who received worldwide recognition for his paintings with pictographic, neo-primitivist imagery of human figures and other totemic forms.