Previous to this I planned painting compositions with brush and ink
using figurative forms and actual objects with color.
Often
using the figurative form as a base, she subverts the viewers» expectations by implementing several textures, patterns, and materials.
Not exact matches
Here is the first point to be clear on: All metaphors (or other
forms of
figurative writing) rely first on literal definitions before they can be of any
use as figures of speech.
Pages of download: Teacher presentation in PDF and powerpoint
form: 1 - Lesson essential question 2 - 3 - Activating Activity 4 - 5 - Literal vs.
Figurative language 6 - Why should I use figurative
Figurative language 6 - Why should I
use figurativefigurative language?
Related terms: language features and their effects structural features sentence
forms emotive language
figurative language types These pages can be
used in a number of ways, homework, class activities, interest groups, formal lessons, booklet style, as an introduction to writing and poetry instruction etc
This logic of accumulation would lead to the development of Bayrle's «super-
forms,» densely composed images in which smaller units are
used to build larger
figurative forms.
But many artists are making a kind of
figurative sculpture that feels new and transgressive, even though they're
using forms and techniques associated with academic realism.
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.
His
use of classical
figurative techniques with a honed attention to aesthetics of
form and surface — such as in the velvety finished concrete or waxed iron patina surfaces of his sculptures — reflect an embrace of the making of objects that seems refreshingly out of step with the digital era.
Kristalova's Big Girl (2013)
uses the traditions of ceramics to integrate a conventional
figurative form with a ceramic elephant - headed figure.
Handaxes are considered the longest -
used tool in human history and figure stones are naturally occurring stones that prehistoric people collected for their
figurative qualities, such as faces and animal
forms.
Using both
figurative representation and formal abstraction, Ted Lawson creates a narrative progression of
forms that reveals something conceptually greater than the sum of their parts.
Here,
figurative artists
use the human
form as a tool to express varied content and contemporary issues.
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.
Over the past thirty years Charles Ray has produced a precise and widely admired body of work in a variety of media
using both abstract and
figurative forms.
Plus One Gallery artist Paul Day has spent over twenty years developing a highly personal approach to
figurative sculpture with a particular interest in representing the figure in architectural space
using high - relief, an art
form that combines drawn composition and fully rounded sculpture.
Afternoon II
uses soft browns and golds to establish an autumnal mood with the complex geometric
forms suggesting a landscape and in some areas a
figurative presence.
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.
In the tempestuous art world of the time, the
use of
figurative objects was deemed a
form of apostasy.
Exploring the aesthetics of self - destruction, Lionel Maunz
uses cast iron, concrete, and steel to create dystopian
figurative sculptures — surprisingly organic
forms that appear distorted by dismemberment and decay.
An abstract piece
using figurative elements, the elements rely on poetic syntax, rather than
forming a linear narrative.
Already, we see the young artist negotiating between the abstract and
figurative, reducing organic
forms into geometric configurations and
using the branches of trees as a way to frame or delineate space.
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.
The artist looks to the
use of geometry in Islamic art as opposed to
figurative forms seen in other artistic traditions.
Over the past thirty years he has produced a precise and widely admired body of work in a variety of media
using both abstract and
figurative forms.
Artists work with landscapes to navigate the artist mind
using figurative and abstract
forms.
The early Pictographs were created with a defined grid structure in order to organize theimages, often
figurative and fragmented, in a utilitarian manner.Around 1948, Gottlieb began deconstructing the grid in an effort to find an alternative way to balance nature's interrelated forces: order and chaos.The earliest work on view, Inscription to a Friend, 1948, is an example of Gottlieb's initial attempts to integrate abstract
forms that could still be relatable to a larger universal language, without the help ofthe grid.Inscription, 1954, demonstrates Gottlieb's further progression into purely abstract imagery
using an evocative and highly developed lexicon.
By breaking boundaries between classic
forms and contours, he creates
figurative and abstract landscape images
using symbolic and geo shapes.
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.
One of the great exponents of the New York School of gestural painting, Dutch - born Willem de Kooning was noted for his biomorphic synthesis of
figurative and abstract styles, often
using the female
form.
Since then, the term London School has been
used to refer to the group of artists associated with the city at that time, who continued to practise
forms of
figurative work, in the face of the avant - garde establishment.