Sentences with phrase «towards figurative expressionism»
During the 1950s, a trend towards figurative expressionism emerged in reaction to the rise and dominance of abstract expressionism.
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Brown's reputation, based on her intensely painted canvases that synthesized figurative imagery with the dynamic gestures of abstract expressionism, grew towards the mid -»60s.
Meanwhile, in America, in 1970, Philip Guston (1913 - 80) switched from abstract expressionism towards a more figurative style of social realism - a precursor of US neo-expressionism - influencing many post-war artists in the process.
Basil Beattie's career spans the emergence in Britain, in the late 1950s, of abstract expressionism, through to his more recent emphasis on figurative signs that meld gritty northern muscularity with a voluptuous sensuality towards the painted surface.