Sentences with phrase «towards figurative works»

Despite my natural aesthetic inclination towards figurative works, I felt there was something strangely thoughtful and intimate about her abstract forms.

An accomplished painter of portraits and still lives, Rae Whalen has gravitated towards figurative work.

Ipoustéguy gradually moved towards figurative work, and some of his early sculptures were abstracted heads in bronze, such as Jeanne d'Arc (Joan of Arc, 1957), Roger Binne (1959), Homme qui rit (Man who laughs, 1960), and Tete de mort (Skull, 1961).

Not exact matches

His early work was figurative but he moved towards abstraction from the late 1960s onwards, and is renowned for his large - scale paintings saturated with colour.

There is, or was, a leaning towards putting representation and figurative work down, and if there's a comeback I'm glad to hear.

A selection of sculptures, reliefs and paintings by artists working in the area will be exhibited to complement the Gallery's major spring exhibition, Victor Pasmore: Towards a New Reality, which illustrates Pasmore's controversial move from figurative to abstract art.

However, Glasco's paintings stood apart from the prevailing Abstract Expressionism, remaining distinctly figurative, densely worked and stylised, and it was Jean Dubuffet, not Pollock, who would provide a catalyst for change in Glasco's work towards the more textural and abstract.

By the turn of the last century, Munch had worked his way towards a figurative style shaped by the emotions that preoccupied him — anxiety, loneliness, jealousy, fear, and grief.

Painter, illustrator, graphic designer and graffiti artist, Rems 182's imagery unites violence, eroticism, and strength in both large - scale and smaller portraits characterised by a use of multiple perspectives that create a unique softness in each image that allows the various expressions to complement each other while revealing the complexities of human emotion Having a background as a graffiti writer his work combines both letter - based and complex figurative images, or as the artist himself explains: «I fuse my graffiti writer language with my modern figurative art experience in perennial tension towards abstract disaggregation.»

While it was around this time that Frankenthaler's canvases began to achieve a lightness — a kind of openness that allowed the composition to breathe — it was in the 1970s that the artist had moved away from the literal and figurative landscapes seen in her early work, such as the celebrated Mountains and Sea from 1952, and towards a more emotional and expressive representation of Color Field paintings where she developed a new sumptuousness and sensuality characterized in the present work.

Though indicative of his increasing turn towards abstraction, these works offer momentary glimpses of figurative reality: underwater kingdoms, galactic voids, smoke, electricity and molecular tissue lurk within their depths.

Having embraced a collecting style that pairs conceptually ambitious work with more classical approaches towards lyrical and figurative painting, Blumenthal's shows have been a distinct analog to his own collection, which features work by Darren Bader, Isa Genzken, Chris Burden, and Mary Weatherford, among others.