While most of his contemporaries had begun
with figural representation and moved towards abstraction, Leslie's work followed the opposite trajectory.
Not exact matches
Focusing on Lassnig's self - portraiture, the exhibition presents works by the artist — most of them never previously exhibited in the U.S. — from all creative periods of her career, spanning her early involvement
with graphic abstraction in Paris and Art Informel, to her later shift to
figural representation.
He began experimenting
with color, divorcing it from
figural representation, and applying it in «marks and patches.»
Beginning
with her roots in graphic abstraction and ending
with her work in
figural representation, the exhibition will be the largest collection of her work to date.
Figuration is often marginalized — along
with prewar American art in general — in mainstream accounts of the 20th century, which is typically portrayed as a progressive obliteration of
figural representation.
A show currently running at MoMa Ps1 focuses on Lassnig's self - portraiture, the exhibition presents works by the artist — most of them never previously exhibited in the U.S. — from all creative periods of her career, spanning her early involvement
with graphic abstraction in Paris and Art Informel, to her later shift to
figural representation.
The exhibition at MoMA PS1 in New York presents works by Maria Lassnig from all periods of her career, most of them never previously exhibition in the U.S. and spanning her early involvement
with graphic abstraction in Paris and Art Informel, to her later shift to
figural representation.