Sentences with phrase «with figurative»

I found it to be very therapeutic to both reminisce about the events of the past year and start over with a figurative and literal clean slate.

The subjects dealt with are released from the political - social complaints that have characterized the two decades of the Equipo Crónica, a Valencian collective that combined elements of Pop Art with the figurative aesthetic of Nueva Figuración movement, highlighting a critical look at Spanish dictator Francisco Franco and art history itself.

Interestingly I see abstract painters having to compete with the best of figurative painters in a way that I don't seem to see abstract sculptors having to compete with figurative sculptors.

Tracey Emin once accused her former boyfriend, artist Billy Childish, of being «stuck, stuck, stuck» with figurative painting; hence the «stuckism» movement.

This is where a comparison with figurative painting would come into its own.

People continue to make art that mixes «abstract» principles with figurative imagery to one degree or another.

Although in the 1970s Resika was associated with the Figurative School, which included Fairfield Porter, Leland Bell, and Robert De Niro, he is not attached to movements.

I am so impressed with the figurative painters working these days.

I feel that we still have a tendency to look at abstract work with figurative expectations, which condition us on what to look for and what to not look for.

Yes, early in the 20th century a bunch of people — maybe the Russian constructivists are the best example — made very pure (abstract art that tried to break decisively with figurative art) abstract art: they believed a new world was about to dawn.

In his sculptures, the artist's body is often substituted with figurative elements.

Contrasting Kosuth's brand of Conceptual art with figurative painting by young artists, Kuspit observes: «With Kosuth, self - criticality, and its larger relationship to life, have become overintellectualized, overexposed; art here is no longer subversive, except perhaps to itself.

I find that this easy «style - spotting» happens a lot with abstraction, but less so with figurative or representational art.

They teem with figurative references to vestigial body parts (fingers, hands, eyes, noses, lips, sex organs); flora (leaves, cacti); fauna (birds, snakes); domestic objects (windows, doors, pieces of furniture, kitchen utensils, handkerchiefs); symbols (arrows, speech balloons, hearts).

As a young artist in the 1950s, Pearlstein exhibited both abstracts and figures, but it was deKooning that advised him to continue with figurative work.

In the arts, this dynasty was noted for architectural structures like the al - Azhar Mosque and the al - Hakim Mosque of Cairo; ceramic art in the form of pottery decorated with figurative painting and ivory carving as well as relief sculpture and the emergence of the «infinite pattern» of abstract ornamentation.

He described his process of painting as a dialogue with his works, the meaning of which he was only able to access with some difficulty during this period: «For reasons I don't understand, in the late 1940s and early 1950s I focused on abstract art, despite the fact that I always felt that it had to do with figurative imagery, even though I didn't fully understand this imagery.

Toby Ziegler's recent paintings on aluminium are works of pure abstraction that begin with a figurative motif.

I remember thinking, Now I know what's going to happen with figurative painting.

Rothko's first fully abstract paintings, the Multiforms represent the crucial fulcrum point of his career, functioning at once as a direct reckoning with his figurative work of the early 1940s and a bridge toward his later classic paintings.

The argument continues with figurative painting from the 1970s by Philip Guston, and proceeds via influential paintings of the 1980s and 1990s by Thomas Lawson, Kerry James Marshall, Luc Tuymans and others.

The tapestries are essentially abstract works that blend rich color and overlapping patterns with figurative imagery, and each is unique.

That gives abstraction something of the charge more readily associated with the figurative.

Like other photo - based painters, such as Gerhard Richter, Marlene Dumas and Luc Tuymans, Kahrs» methodology deals with figurative subject matter overlaid with a haze of ambiguity.

Wecerka experiments with figurative, abstract and ornamental approaches, maintaining a keen interest in multidisciplinary methods.

The British contribution to early Modernist art was relatively small, but since World War II British artists have made a considerable impact on Contemporary art, especially with figurative work, and Britain remains a key centre of an increasingly globalized art world.

Sam will be featured at Papillion in November with figurative sculptor and painter Derek Fordjour.

Exploring the «living medium» of oil paints, Bowman presents paintings with both figurative and abstract elements — with characteristic lively brushwo...

Her work mixes abstract with figurative, using found and raw materials combined in constructions, which often serve to surprise and titillate with their mild poking irreverence.

The art is diverse with figurative and abstraction making a strong showing, said Rowan.

The rugged forms and bravado brushstrokes are imbued with figurative possibilities, and the limited palette of gray black, salmon pink and verdant green have a prescient power, later revealed in Guston's final and explosive figurative works.

It is a philosophy evidenced in a long career that began with figurative sculpture in clay and plaster when he was an assistant to Henry Moore, before moving to abstract sculpture in steel.

While some paintings in the show are interspersed with figurative elements, Chris Martin is fully committed to an abstract style of painting that enables him to access different levels of language and image in limitless expression.

A perfect blend of geometric deconstructionism with figurative elements the artist masterfully composes intense images.

Heimo Zobernig at Kunsthaus Bregenz — his first floor installation of empty shelves that were in relation to / merged with the figurative model.

The mural combines his typographically inclined abstract stylings with figurative elements — somewhat of a first for him.

I am using a bit of surrealism to incorporate the natural world that surrounds me with the figurative work I've been painting for many years.»

As mentioned earlier, Wolfgang Tillmans often exhibits his abstract photographs mixed in with his figurative works.

GECHTOFF: I was just trying to do a painting that was basically abstract, with some figurative suggestion to it.

Laureano García (b. 1922, Sancti Spiritus): An architect by training, Garcia has designed parks and residential buildings, and his murals and paintings — García is particularly known for his still lifes — combine abstraction and geometry with figurative elements.

The jugs are etched with figurative motifs and represent the five rivers of the underworld, which according to Greek mythology, possess a distinct power to help lead those into the afterlife.

With its figurative sensibility, and lack of video works, there is a tranquil pace to the way this show unfolds.

With his figurative, narrative style of painting and his choice of subjects, Spencer has contributed significantly to the development of modern art.

In several pictures on view made circa 1960, Petersen appears in his stride and confidently in step with the figurative expressionism already practiced hereabouts for several years by older contemporaries such as David Park (1911 - 1960) and Elmer Bischoff (1916 - 1990).

She studied with figurative artist Leon Kroll and briefly with abstractionist Hans Hofmann.

Zoi Gaitanidou has been using embroidery to create elaborate tapestries that combine abstract patterns with figurative elements resulting in an intensity that recalls tribal art.

Graduating in visual arts from LUCA School of Arts in Brussels and having a Masters degree in Painting from PXL College in Hasselt, his large - scale paintings and textural wall hangings fuse American Abstract Expressionism with figurative elements derived from Oriental and European symbolism.

With the figurative paintings, McKinniss works from photographs — both found images and pictures he has taken himself.

Graduating in visual arts from LUCA School of Arts in Brussels and having a Masters degree in Painting from PXL College in Hasselt, his large - scale paintings and textural wall hangings fuse American Abstract Expressionism with figurative elements derived from Middle Eastern to European symbolism.

With figurative painting, no problem; but how do we reconcile illusion with being abstract?