Sentences with phrase «whose figurative abstractions»

Not exact matches

(1910 - 1962) American, yet imbued with visual culture of Europe, Franz Kline exemplifies the development of pictorial language from a figurative form that derives from Rembrandt and the other great masters whose work he knew well from visiting European museums, to abstraction.

The are few overt reference to the figurative images still prevalent (and perhaps unexpected) in some works of the thirties, whose creators were so militant about abstraction.

After experimenting with figurative art, Spanish - born artist Esteban Vicente (1903 - 2001) immigrated to the U.S. in 1936, embraced abstraction and teamed up with Abstract Expressionists like Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, whose New York studio was on the same floor as Vincente's.

It wasn't surprising, then, that these abstract paintings, whose abstraction never seemed absolute, soon had figurative elements (mushrooms and tin cans) sprouting up in their midst, elements that Hawkins described as «not non-representational».

During the late 1960s, Guston became frustrated with the limitations of abstraction and returned to figurative painting, amassing a potent language of motifs whose roots can be seen in the forms and shapes of Traveler III, and illustrating what Christoph Schreier refers to as subcutaneous figuration.2 Following his 1966 exhibition at the Jewish Museum in New York, Guston relocated to Woodstock, New York, embarking on what would become a two - year hiatus from painting.

This exhibition highlights the extensive career of Los Angeles - based artist Walter Askin whose multi-faceted work ranges from sardonic graphic works, large painterly abstractions, to vibrant figurative sculptures.

Hassel Smith, a major figure in Bay Area art whose expressionist abstractions and figurative paintings were admired for their improvisational zeal, potency and humor, has died at age 91.

Conceived as the companion to Black in the Abstract, Part 1: Epistrophy, which explored the fragmentation of the figurative as well as the loose and expansive nature of abstraction, this section chronicles the history of black artists whose work relies on the drama of restraint.

An extraordinary colorist whose style transformed from figurative expressionism to lyrical abstraction, Beauford Delaney was born in Knoxville, Tennessee in 1901.