Sentences with phrase «use figurative elements»

These works use figurative elements such as beefy legs under a straw skirt, big puppy - dog eyes, and intertwining bodies paired with a consistently experimental approach to forms of collage and mark - making.

For me, to get past gestural painting, I have to reconsider what it means to use figurative elements or still life or landscape to make an image.

By 1981, he had ceased using figurative elements, instead affixing yarn and thread to papier mâché - like cylinders and cones.

Consequently, he is often grouped with other artists of his time who used figurative elements, such as Italians Sandro Chia, Mimmo Paladino, and Enzo Cucchi; Germans Anselm Kiefer, Georg Baselitz, and Marcus Lüpertz; and Americans Julian Schnabel, David Salle, and Eric Fischl.

An abstract piece using figurative elements, the elements rely on poetic syntax, rather than forming a linear narrative.

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I am also interested in the graphic organizer that you use since it must cover a number of possibilities (character, setting, figurative language, literary elements), but, I am assuming, it is concise and not overwhelming.

As in his earlier Storm paintings where scraping gestures that erased figurative components became central to the composition, Cooke again uses abstract elements as building blocks for his new work.

Lerma uses layers of figurative as well as abstract elements, charcoal and colours, text, the blank canvas and smudges of paint to create vibrant, erratic compositions in which you recognize cartoonish figures, mysterious calligraphic signs, and vegetal varieties.

The Last Painting of the Century (1999) and Ultrazoomazipzamapopdeluxa (1998), two large acrylic, oil, and spray paint works, use figurative and abstract elements to represent energy, motion, and the relationship between reality and imagination, freedom and control.

By the mid-1950s, Calderara began to move away from figurative painting to embrace a more geometric approach, radically reducing both the scale and the compositional elements of his paintings through use of simple forms and flat blocks of nebulous and subtle colour.

Legs are the subject matter of choice of Cousin's oeuvre that examines the human condition and the history of painting through a mixture of figurative and geometric elements rendered in a distinctively painterly style using a bold colour palette and with particular attention to the symbolic meaning of the visual forms depicted in her work.

The show explores the wide range of media Kiff used to express a highly personal combination of figurative and abstract elements to depict the human condition.

Zoi Gaitanidou has been using embroidery to create elaborate tapestries that combine abstract patterns with figurative elements resulting in an intensity that recalls tribal art.

One aspect of early renaissance painting that I found inspiring was the use of repeating decorative elements in the backgrounds of the large figurative paintings.

Returning to figurative elements used early on in his career, Simmons has rendered hauntingly faint, barely visible outlines of ghostly crows in some of the paintings, signifying the racially charged cartoon characters.

The figurative and abstract elements of his paintings reinterpret the visual information of the world, through the use of sharp lines that create ominous compositions.

Also included are a number of paintings with collaged figurative elements which can be seen as transitions between the earlier Door paintings and the figurative imagery he currently uses.

Using an image of the cabins at Emma Lake, a small blue monochrome, a high horizon line and a figurative male element, Atkinson's work needles the dominance of the Emma Lake modernist vision.

Taking and reinventing classicist and old masters paintings as principal elements and focal points for his work in this show, he uses angular forms inspired by and abstracted from his historical outdoor use of the alphabet to compliment the figurative work that he pays homage to and slices - up in equal measure.

In 1967 - 68 an important shift took place in King's work, with the first of the Baggot Street paintings, in which figurative elements are replaced by plain fields of colour, forms are rendered geometrically and light is represented through the use of a single line.

Through portraiture, landscapes and still lifes, Calderara depicted the people, scenes and objects of his native Italy — all suffused by a delicate, misty light inspired by the atmospheric glow of Lake Orta in Vacciago, where the artist moved in 1934 with his wife Carmela, and where he would work for most of his life.By the mid-1950s, Calderara began to move away from figurative painting to embrace a more geometric approach, radically reducing both the scale and the compositional elements of his paintings through use of simple forms and flat blocks of nebulous and subtle colour.

It was there that they observed certain threads that would end up connecting a lot of the work in «Mirror Cells,» namely a movement toward the use of humble materials, figurative elements, and also what Panetta called «this idea of people willingly engaged with narrative, but also narratives that have to do with political issues, or with personal issues.»

Second, we can gather through drawings the artist made during this period that buried beneath the layers of brushed color are figurative elements which the artist uses as a start point for the life of the composition.