Paintings from the 1950s include such works as Stephen Pace's Untitled (51 - 90), a dynamic abstract painting in which forms move into and through the picture plane in the mode of the art of Pace's teacher Hans Hofmann, Melville Price's Untitled (ca. 1959), a gestural painting in the abstract expressionist idiom in
which figurative elements have a suggestive presence, and George Segal's Three Nudes (1959), in which a psychological tension is conveyed in the expressively treated figures that are integrated into spaces defined by veils or blankets of color.
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.
Emphasis is placed on the representation and context in
which these figurative elements are situated.
Not exact matches
It was about time for a shift in the Houston painter's work,
which for the past several years has been characterized by cartoonish
figurative elements duking it out with a whirling array of abstract
elements from hard - edged to splashy.
Some canvases feature abstracted, atomised forms, while others have more densely overlaid imagery in
which it is possible to pick out
figurative elements.
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.
His imagery,
which had once been entirely abstract, in his later years became ever more eclectic, and recognisable
figurative elements appeared with increasing frequency.
Abstract art is often divided into two categories, Semi-Abstraction, in
which the imagery is still tethered to
figurative shapes or styles, and Pure Abstraction, in
which the visual
elements are completely independent.
Kusaka works often combine
elements of
figurative representation with more abstract features, yet in her new solo show — her first in Italy — she opted to present ceramics
which purely geometric, and thus abstract, patterns.
These architectural monuments are captured against a grand, thick forest,
which reveals and hides its part in a dynamic tension that is an integral part of Peter Doig's
figurative painting — the artist often delves into moments of tranquillity and contrasts them with uneasy oneiric
elements.
In the Addresses series, Bartlett reinterprets the square - and - triangle house icon,
which is one of the four
figurative elements of her monumental piece Rhapsody, 1976 *.
Kocsis works in multimedia installation, video and painting,
which integrates abstract and
figurative elements.
Over a long career, she has worked in various media and genres, and may be best known for her paintings and sculptures, in
which abstract and
figurative elements with allusions to history and myth come together to mine psychic depths.
It's been ten years since the Bristol - based multimedia artist's first solo show,
which was also in Los Angeles, now Francis returns with his information - rich canvases,
which often depict violent, urban scenes and contain both
figurative and abstract
elements — rendered in acrylic and oil, charcoal, and ink.
The exhibition «Family Portraits», Condo is continuing the discourse on the
figurative element in painting,
which is one of the fundamental aspects in the artist's oeuvre.
What followed were
figurative works
which introduced an erotic, psychological
element to the Social Realism of the day, and murals for public buildings that didn't always please the public.
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.
Installations involving architectural and interior design
elements including walls, mirrors and windows further complicate West's
figurative sculptures,
which previously appeared alongside work by Howard in ATLBNL, the 2016 Atlanta Biennial at Atlanta Contemporary.
He was known then for painting «abstracted architectural interiors where towers, gabled roofs, and arched doorways combine with geometric solids and intersecting planes to form a framework in
which various
figurative elements are situated.»
Imran Qureshi is known for his beautifully crafted paintings
which portray a delicate repetition of decorative motifs and
figurative elements.
These recurring
elements derive primarily from the artistic conventions of ancient Greece and Rome,
which, while known primarily for
figurative art, employed a set of repeated abstract forms as a common parlance.
Arnold Topp was a German painter known for his colorful, cubist paintings,
which often contain
figurative, scenic and architectural
elements.
«Numerous
figurative elements are at play in Beatriz Milhazes» paintings, but they appear there neutralized in relation to the real,
which serves as their model.
Bartlett is best known for her paintings and prints in
which familiar subjects — ranging from houses and gardens to oceans and skies — are executed in a style that combines
elements of both representational and abstract art; indeed, she has commented that she does not accept a distinction between
figurative and abstract art.
Murray is particularly well known for her shaped canvases,
which date from 1976, on to
which are painted both
figurative and non-
figurative elements.
He abandoned his earlier,
figurative way of working
which involved modelling in clay and casting in bronze, and began to make purely abstract works: sculpture constructed and welded in steel, comprising beams, girders and other found
elements painted in bright colours.
Her work,
which is imbued with a highly personal character, is innovative exploration of form, subject matter and space, in
which abstract and
figurative elements combine to offer impressions of both microscopic and macroscopic universes.
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.
Humour, sadness, elation, depression; pathos, ebullience, turbulence; love, hate, attraction, revulsion; pointing, pushing, pulling, cavorting; turning, tossing, tumbling, twisting; rock and roll, victory and defeat; all the
elements, in fact, of intense human interaction and drama that were once the province of
figurative art, particularly
figurative painting — where they formed the pretext upon
which was built a profound diversity of imaginative visual constructs — are seemingly no longer at the behest of
figurative art,
which languishes in states of mock - academia or faux - avant - gardism, by turns bathetic, mundane or grotesque... all that human content is now, surprisingly but necessarily, the prerogative of the abstract artist.
In the same way that Willem deKooning's abstractions contained
figurative elements (sometimes with bizarre results), until almost the end of his life, there has been a transitional period with Aho's abstractions in
which vignettes of landscape
elements could still be discerned among the dabs and slashes and undefined forms.