Sentences with phrase «with figuration and abstraction»

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

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

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

«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»

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

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.

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.

Not exact matches

It is a tragedy, but during his short life span he left us with so much poetry, drawings and painting in which he married text and image, abstraction, figuration and historical information mixed with contemporary critique.

Curated by Paul Schimmel, the show charts Guston's progress as he played with Color Field painting, moved into grid - like abstractions, and came gradually closer to figuration, combining the visual languages of Abstract Expressionism and Minimalism.

A trove brimming with variety, from small abstractions, lyrical figuration, to taped performances, and their associated sculptural sets, Brātescu's protean energies were a welcome surprise.

Defying easy categorization, Amy Sillman's works on paper incorporate silkscreened, painted and drawn elements with imagery that vacillates between abstraction, figuration, traditional painting and comic illustration.

In the starlets depicted by Laing, there is an erotic charge that echoes between surface and subject as the models shift between figuration and abstraction, their colour - blockedcostumes in tension with bodies contoured through half - tones.

With minimal fuss, Bradley works in series, picking up and discarding styles and oscillating between abstraction and figuration as it suits him.

The exhibition was a miniature retrospective, beginning with works from the late 1960s, when Dodd, like a number of her artist friends and coevals, including Alex Katz, reacted against the dominance of abstraction by beginning to explore a plainspoken, forthright brand of figuration.

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.

Whether appropriated by some contemporary figurative painters or aligned with some sort of new figuration, where the painters «find everything to be a matter of images» (to quote Barry Schwabsky from the online catalogue for «A New Subjectivity»), Abstraction clearly and demonstratively engages with the problems of painting (and collage and sculpture) despite the surprising conservatism of Kerry James Marshall.

He has traveled the back roads and unmarked lanes of Windham County with pastels and sketchbook in tow, depicting the landscape in a signature style that hovers between abstraction and figuration.

During the same period of the late 1960s, and early 1970s in Europe, Gerhard Richter, Anselm Kiefer [49] and several other painters also began producing works of intense expression, merging abstraction with images, incorporating landscape imagery, and figuration that by the late 1970s was referred to as Neo-expressionism.

Incorporating elements of abstraction with hints of figurations, her works are dynamic aggregations of an entangled atmosphere filled with familiar symbols, shapes and environments.

This catalog, another first, documents the Nasher show, a 10 - year survey exploring the arc of her practice which has evolved from a more painterly style to decidedly emphatic approach, mixing figuration and abstraction with a riot of bold color, symbols, and meaning.

His work alternated between abstraction and figuration, but always with vibrant colors defining planar compositions.

The paintings, with richly hued backgrounds, depict androgynous figures and abstracted and historically vague settings to blur the line between abstraction and figuration.

Color - field painters can take on the scraps of abstraction or traces of figuration, like Seth Price and his enigmatic silhouettes, Ellen Berkenblit with horses and women, or Elliott Green between abstraction and landscape.

Thomas Chimes: Early Works (1958 - 1965), 2009 Text by Lisa Saltzman 56 pages, Hardcover Published by Locks Art Publications ISBN: 978 -1-879173-41-5 «Developing, in these formative paintings, a visual style indebted to the palette and compositional structures of such modernist forefathers as Marsden Hartley and Henri Matisse and emboldened by the stenographic proto - abstractions of such New York School predecessors as Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko, Chimes systematically put forth a series of paintings that pressed such experimentations with the limits of figuration into the realm of the theological, the philosophical and the historical.

Leslie Camhi in the Village Voice: «Zigzagging between figuration and abstraction, his disparate oeuvre is filled with conceptual antics, optical pleasures, and abject traces of his melancholy presence....

Merz is concerned, rather, with the opposition, or the adjacency, of figuration and abstraction, and with the parallel practice of exploring diverse media.

Associating his influences with Social Realists «he fell in with» when he arrived in New York, Sims describes them as «a cohort of individuals who bridged the gap between abstraction and figuration... the use of energetic color and gesture, and a sensibility that would be described as gritty.»

An introduction to the American artist who sustained virtuosity in a range of styles, from gestural abstraction to figuration and back again — illustrated with works offered in May to benefit The Donald and Barbara Zucker Family Foundation

Presented with an interesting balance levitating between abstraction and figuration, Hooray We Are All Broken was Jim's way of tackling what he calls as «the so - called reality.»

He began his artistic explorations with visual experimentation inspired by the work of pioneers of geometric abstraction, such as Kazimir Malevich and Piet Mondrian, as well as by the playful and whimsical figuration of Paul Klee.

ONE - Time Pad Thomas Scheibitz's work retraces the conceptual and painterly development of his career with a particular focus on the human figure and the existence of form between figuration and abstraction.

Here the tub form acts as a container for the body and paint, fusing figuration with abstraction.

Beginning with representational imagery, she reworks and layers her images for a result that sits between figuration and abstraction.

His work, from early minimal objects to increasingly expansive and complex forms, has always dealt with such central issues of the sculptural tradition as size and scale, balance and imbalance, figuration and abstraction.

Again, this relationship between figuration and abstraction has stayed with her.

It was a diverse scene that held out a hint of utopian promise at a time when Abstract Expressionism was waning and new categories had not yet hardened: It included many more women than the uptown art world; it was not completely white; abstraction and figuration jostled side by side (if not always comfortably), along with genre - bending sculpture; and the gloriously messy birth of modern performance art took place in the midst of it all.

At least since the days of Delacroix and Manet, painting has vacillated between figuration and abstraction, with attention sometimes given to the smears of paint and at other times to the object those smears depict.

The work of the American artist Carroll Dunham can be characterized as exploratory, fluctuating between figuration and abstraction, between painting and drawing, shaped with tendencies toward caricature.

Composition with Two Figures, 1979, and Face and Feather, 1979, push the question of figuration versus abstraction to its limits, to the point where it becomes difficult to distinguish the human figure within the abstract composition.

On the edge of figuration and abstraction, Yanai, with his interplay of colours and forms, accomplishes to elicit placeless and timelessness, allowing the viewer to easily identify himself / herself with the artist's imagery.

With a nod to the long lost divide between abstraction and figuration their divergent works take positions of figure, foreground, background, and architecture as a scene of unrelated moments forced into dialogue.

Made one - year after Whitten moved from his native Alabama to New York City, Form (3rd Set) 2 is a diptych of mysterious and haunting images built on the tension between figuration and abstraction with two smoky forms emerging from the surrounding darkness.

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

Since the 1950s, artist Maria Lassnig has incorporated painting techniques from various art - historical periods into her practice — realism, surrealism, and expressionism alike — in an effort to develop a distinct style of painting that blends figuration with abstraction.

It flirts with different genres of abstraction and figuration, and this was in itself enough to secure him powerful critical support.

These paintings combine abstraction and figuration in layered, painterly compositions in which the artist strives to convey his own personal and particular view of the world with «extreme clarity.»

In «Meta - Modern» practice there is extension and deconstruction of formalism, which blurs lines between abstraction and figuration, and employs the use of non-traditional with traditional painting materials, which is found in much of Vernacular art.

With regard to the conflicting ideas of abstraction and figuration, Butler has always considered this conflict to be a natural and unavoidable effect of putting paint on canvas.

Initially concerned with abstraction, his work moved to figuration in the mid-1970s, when it became preoccupied with the effects of light and movement.

Peter Schjeldahl writes in the October 9th, 2017 issue of The New Yorker, «The happiest surprise in Trigger is a trend in painting that takes inspiration from ideas of indeterminate sexuality for revived formal invention... Christina Quarles... rhymes ambiguous imagery of gyrating bodies with dynamics of disparate pictorial techniques... The wholes and parts of bodies in Quarles's cheerfully orgiastic pictures entangle in alternating styles of line, stroke, stain, and smear... called to mind early nineteen - forties Arshile Gorky and Willem de Kooning, who fractured Picassoesque figuration on the way to physically engaging abstraction... Quarles playing that process in reverse, adapting abstract aesthetics to carnal representation.