Sentences with phrase «with figuration»

He also developed a hybrid style combining abstraction with figuration.

Adrian Piper came to prominence in the mid-1960s with drawings and paintings centered around the artist's LSD experiences, where she still experimented with figuration.

[15] Despite this, Thomas was still discriminated against as a black female artist and was critiqued for her abstract style as opposed to other Black Americans who worked with figuration and symbolism to fight oppression.

He has a safe seat in British art history as the man who completely broke with figuration in British sculpture, replacing the biomorphic and natural images of Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth with a totally non-representational art that was hailed by the American critic Clement Greenberg in the 1960s as the future of modernism.

«Across the Tisch collection there are moments of great figuration, but also fabulous abstract compositions by artists who are dealing with figuration and abstraction at the same time»

This reversing of his subjects is also one of Baselitz's trademark imagery, along with figuration and controversial themes.

We will conclude our offsite exhibition program with Figuration in American Art: Selections from the Danforth Art Permanent Collection at North Hill, through March 2018.

Joe is so engaged with abstraction's relationship with figuration, the idea of presenting his work here made a lot of sense within the context of the museum's collection, given the Albright - Knox's extraordinary history with Abstract Expressionism.

Next Thursday is the opening of «Latin Explorations» a new exhibition curated by Pablo Aravena that will showcase the work of five artists with artistic backgrounds that began in the streets and whose current work exhibits experimentation with figuration and syncretism in Spain and Latin America.

Alex Katz's way with figuration and abstraction was surely an influence too.

As Helen Molesworth astutely notes, Hesse's early production is marked by «jumbles of energetic abstraction held in a kind of violent contrapusto with figuration.»

«When you have an art history that's so saturated with figuration, what do you have that's any different than anybody else?

This is evident in the drawings that excite the vocabulary of abstract forms at the border with figuration.

Over the years, he became increasingly preoccupied with figuration and human conditions.

Ofili is, at heart, a modernist; his compositions are concerned as much with figuration, color, and texture as they are with identity and mythology.

The new paintings are created through Furnas's characteristic play with figuration and abstraction.

He has divided critics from the start, yet through all the highs and lows, Schnabel never stopped painting, throwing big ideas (about time, and about abstraction's push - pull with figuration) at ever bigger and less conventional canvases.

Fascinated by Arshile Gorky and Orphic Cubism, Cedar's work pushes and pulls figures back and forth between rich geometric backdrops of abstraction, constantly toying with figuration, color, form, and space.

This pairing charts the origin of Byars's aesthetic and examines the artist's obsession with figuration and his lifelong quest for perfect form.

A recent self - portrait by Manuel Mathieu, whose personal, expressionistic work blends abstract elements with figuration.

Abstraction has made up a dominant portion of Richter's output since the 80s, inaugurating a fruitful dialectic with figuration, and Large Abstracts collects works produced between 1986 and 2006.

Most of the artists we are nationally proud of are sideshow performers who dallied with figuration long after it was blown apart by Jackson Pollock.

Diebenkorn's Bay Area figurative years from the mid 1950s through the mid 1960s marked a shift from the artist's early abstractions and set him apart from the prevailing movement of the time and many of his contemporaries, for whom the movement of abstraction was thought to be in direct conflict with figuration.

Consequently Golub's long prior preoccupation with figuration was seen in a new light.

-- Michelle Cotton «Oscillating between image and object, Orchardson's sculptural interventions deal equally with figuration and abstraction, physicality and immateriality, and it's this instability that ensures the work retains a degree of autonomy, resisting being read in any singular way.»

The advent of modernism in the early 20th century is often presented as a linear progression towards abstraction, with figuration giving way to more conceptual and theoretical visual imagery, as exemplified by artists such as Mondrian, Kandinsky and Pollock.

Now it is doing the same with figuration.

Combining traditions of natural illustration with figuration, psychedelia, and abstraction, she entices viewers to contemplate both the thrill of exploration and the limits of existence.

For those, who feel they can only move forward, by removing all contact with figuration, do so!

The works express a dialogue with figuration and natural elements, as well as with the personal history of the artist (memories from his childhood or from recent trips to Africa and America).

You've probably seen Dunham's cartoonish paintings of nudes in colorful landscapes that blend abstraction with figuration, but did you know he's also a really great writer?

By resisting being labeled as a black woman artist, Thomas received criticism for «her abstract style as opposed to other Black Americans who worked with figuration and symbolism to fight oppression.»

In terms of scale, and in the break with figuration, the Moun Room can be regarded as a departure for Houseago.

The painting thus anticipates another artistic approach that along with figuration would play a role in Richter's œuvre: abstraction.

Even in his most abstracted compositions, characterized by saturated color and sweeping brushstrokes, Appel retained a relationship with figuration, as in Birds over the Village.

The exhibition features work from the early 1920s through 1981, tracing her artistic development from realist sculpture to her experimentation with figuration and abstraction in her painting and sculptural practices.

My last few paintings or shows I have been dealing with figuration and abstraction.

As time went on, I knew I wanted to work with figuration and gender identity.

Hansa artists» works represented in the Grey show include Jane Wilson's Portrait of Jane Freilicher (1957), an oil on canvas merging abstraction with figuration, and Jean Follett's Many - Headed Creature (1958), a piece that recreates a fragmented body on a wood panel out of junk and found objects — a light switch, socket cooling coils, a window, a screen, nails, a faucet knob, mirror twine, cinders, a caster, springs, and rope.

Here, you've mentioned how in these shows artists were taking a variety of approaches simultaneously, with figuration and abstraction oscillating and with every sort of style going on at once.

In this work from 1960 Lewis again combines abstraction with figuration, and the tension is palpable.

The celebration also announces Whitford's representation of the Estate of the Artist, who enjoyed a career that spanned some sixty - five years, during which he experimented with Figuration and Abstraction alike.

The selection of 1960s Jack Whitten paintings and drawings currently on view at Allan Stone Projects, in Chelsea, beautifully merge the influence of Abstract Expressionism, which weighed heavily on many artists of the time, with figuration.

She experiments with figuration and abstraction, exploring themes around pop culture, technology, and traditional painting.

As this exhibition made clear, Semmel is, at her core, a painter who has tested the limits of blending abstraction with figuration.

In light of the Civil Rights Movement of its time, Garden in Bessemer combines abstraction with figuration and landscape, with ghosted images of a contested landscape occupied by ghosts and voices from the past.

Their work typically incorporates such contradictions as abstraction with figuration, modernism with folklore, technology with craft, and comedy with tragedy.