Sentences with phrase «with figurative form»

And I think in contrast here, there is this — as I said — openness to engage with narrative, to engage with figurative form in a kind of unapologetic way.

Not exact matches

Criticism may smile indulgently at the palpable deception in the claim that this was given to Moses at Sinai along with the Torah, but if we would read the meaning of figurative language, it is apparent that this was but an expression of the sense of a pervasive natural law: the religious impulse and revelation with which the name of Moses was associated was too great to embody itself in written form — not even the Torah was adequate; but it reposed ultimately in the divine impress upon the heart of man.

In G.S.F.C. 2.0 (Geometrical Sci - Fi Cyborg), hard - edged geometries filled with solid colors converge with organic lines to create vaguely figurative forms.

By the mid-1950s, Richard Diebenkorn along with David Park, Elmer Bischoff and several others formed the Bay Area Figurative School with a return to Figurative painting.

In line with the recent trend of figurative painting, this show, curated by Katrina Neumann, brings together a multigenerational group of artists who create paintings that consider the human form within real and imagined environments.

Of course, Nochlin was writing in parallel with Jeff Donaldson and Romare Bearden, titans of figurative work who elaborated a form of augmented reality called «the super real».

After leaving the field of clinical psychology in the mid-1940s, Truitt began making figurative sculptures, but turned toward reduced geometric forms after visiting the Guggenheim Museum with her friend Mary Pinchot Meyer to see H.H. Arnason's exhibition «American Abstract Expressionists and Imagists» in November 1961.

By the mid-1950s, Richard Diebenkorn abandoned abstract expressionism and along with David Park, Elmer Bischoff and several others formed the Bay Area Figurative School with a return to Figurative painting.

(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.

Whereas Bickerton's early works tackle form, function, and communication, with sometimes single words acting as the entire painting, his later figurative pieces are visually deafening, with bright color and cluttered objects mirroring the over-the-top excess featured as the work's subject.

Peter Shelton's sculptures incorporate both abstracted and figurative forms along with anatomical as well as architectural motifs.

In figurative paintings brimming with crisp, flat forms and bold outlines (evoking sign painting as well as the works of John Wesley), Keogh portrays headless female bodies that have been bisected at the waist, an empty suit of armor, and flowery vines that weave in and out of swords.

Heidi Glück's Untitled (wisely so) print is a true minimalist statement with much impact; John Goodyear's contribution is called Drawings and contains 17 little squares all arranged on top of one another — totem pole style — each containing some form, some suspiciously figurative.

But many artists are making a kind of figurative sculpture that feels new and transgressive, even though they're using forms and techniques associated with academic realism.

Wrestling with the simultaneous existence of abstraction and representation, «Painter» strikes a precarious note: ambiguous, but semi-recognizable forms recall the artist's early figurative works of the 1940s.

With a raw, gestural aesthetic, and containing both abstract patterns and figurative forms, Dial's work is considered comparable to that of iconic artists such as Anselm Kiefer, Willem de Kooning, and Robert Rauschenberg.

Featuring more than 100 works spanning from the early 1980s to the present, including a number of new and never - before - seen pieces, the exhibition juxtaposes graphic patterns with abstracted, figurative paintings, creating a fully immersive environment that underscores the artist's systematic dismantling of the hierarchy between design and fine art, and between three - dimensional form and two - dimensional representation.

Paladino's figurative paintings are invested with emotive religious, and spiritual imagery, which form allegorical tableaux.

Somehow rooted in nature yet seemingly devoid of any figurative form, Untitled XXV articulates a landscape brought alive with a sense of the human through the length, scale, form and emotive power of de Kooning's vigorous brushwork.

His use of classical figurative techniques with a honed attention to aesthetics of form and surface — such as in the velvety finished concrete or waxed iron patina surfaces of his sculptures — reflect an embrace of the making of objects that seems refreshingly out of step with the digital era.

Kristalova's Big Girl (2013) uses the traditions of ceramics to integrate a conventional figurative form with a ceramic elephant - headed figure.

Hueller's work, while almost abstract, plays with three - dimensionality, figurative elements and shapes and forms derived from such diverse influences as surrealism and die Brücke.

Insogna's devotional ceramic cauldrons reference scrying - an ancient form of divination, are paired with colorful abstract and symbolic figurative paintings to evoke a history of ritual practice.

Belgian artist, Michaël Borremans, creates mystery on the canvas through figurative painting, filing inanimate objects with a sense of humanity, and obscuring the life from any human forms.

Superimposing intricate networks of lines, dots and planes of colour, with recurring figurative motifs such as doors, windows, aeroplanes, railway tracks and fragments of the human form, Bernard Cohen creates dizzying arrangements, within which an internal sense of order is revealed to the viewer gradually over time.

The Chunk series consists of three, six - foot - square acrylic paintings plus two smaller paintings where large portions of the canvas contain black or brown blocky figurative structures accompanied by explosions of straight lines of bright colors with soft round forms capping the ends.

Previous to this I planned painting compositions with brush and ink using figurative forms and actual objects with color.

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.

Working in smoke - fired clay, the show features canvas panel with text, pastel drawings and her signature figurative «masks» forming an orchestra of individuals expressing emotions.

Like the «m - DNA» paintings, they begin with the artist's clay figurative forms, which here are cast in metal and fiberglass and mounted on concrete bases.

A number of Stoller's figurative works are partially masked, their eyes either hidden from view or altogether absent, hence «Lend Me Your Eyes,» which calls on us to witness these haunting works of art — each with its own contorted, marred and / or embellished form — with some degree of empathy for the subject.

In conjunction with her exhibition «Full Circle,» artist Summer Wheat shares the methods and cultural histories that guide her abstract - figurative work, from intuitive perception to ancient forms of representation and knowledge.

It's hard to characterize the art produced in Bushwick: there are endless studios of artists producing forms of traditional figurative painting while countless others are experimenting with digital images — some older talents but mostly younger ones.

Thanasi is a contemporary figurative sculptor whose work synthesizes classical forms with the conceptual experiential movement of the present through the placement of figurative and architectural pieces in dialogue with one another.

Legs are the subject matter of choice of Cousin's oeuvre that examines the human condition and the history of painting through a mixture of figurative and geometric elements rendered in a distinctively painterly style using a bold colour palette and with particular attention to the symbolic meaning of the visual forms depicted in her work.

It is straight figurative work with a strong abstract aspect by exact composition and reduction in form and colour.

Working in a bright palette and always with one eye on figurative forms and the other on architecture, Stokoe creates his scenes from a combination of memory, photographs and the everyday imagery.

After gradually moving toward working with three - dimensional forms, in 1970 she made the artistic changes in scale and material and began creating figurative and non-figurative sculptures from burlap and resin, eventually moving to bronze, wood, stone, and steel.

Disagreeing with Cubist fragmentation, they produced figurative art (mostly still lifes) basic forms stripped of detail and supposedly pure in colour, form and design.

Plus One Gallery artist Paul Day has spent over twenty years developing a highly personal approach to figurative sculpture with a particular interest in representing the figure in architectural space using high - relief, an art form that combines drawn composition and fully rounded sculpture.

Afternoon II uses soft browns and golds to establish an autumnal mood with the complex geometric forms suggesting a landscape and in some areas a figurative presence.

For her solo exhibition with Essex Flowers, Doreen Garner synthesizes abstract and figurative form in sculptural works which examine the paradox of vanity.

Watch for the literal and figurative intersection of their works as Sato's sculptures originate from the ceiling and Miller's begin at the floor, toying with figure, form and space.

Fusing figurative realism with graphic forms, Morgan's impeccably detailed images demonstrate an exceptional technique, while purposefully abstracting the human body — at times reducing it to its fundamental, skeletal structure.

These works use figurative elements such as beefy legs under a straw skirt, big puppy - dog eyes, and intertwining bodies paired with a consistently experimental approach to forms of collage and mark - making.

This lead him to move away from relatively straightforward figurative representation into more abstract work concerned with questions of form and colour.»

He sees abstraction as a form of gesture or geometry, in a superimposed position, sometimes combined or mixed with new figurative shapes.

You will be confronted with an explosion of color and form from both artists, the geometric figurative work of Vesod is equally matched in intensity from Morten Andersen.

He practiced an abstract style of ragged forms and jarring colors that evolved into a softer but equally enigmatic figurative manner with Symbolist undertones.

Figurative sculpture is having a bit of a moment in 2014, with a potential peak due in June when the Hayward Gallery opens its thematic summer show The Human Form, curated by director Ralph Rugoff.