Sentences with phrase «with figurative imagery»

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

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.

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

Not exact matches

His paintings are so appealing at first sight, as delightful coloured patterns with pleasing figurative imagery, that many look no longer, or see no further, and for them the magical metamorphosis does not take place; they do not find that they are standing on a little terrace under a walnut tree looking through an overgrown garden straight towards the afternoon sun which is sparkling on the Seine below them, and all looking not as it would to them, but more mysterious, more overpowering, fuller of space and light and colour and overwhelmingly real and harmonious.

Working with figurative and portrait styled imagery, Lewis creates sculpted paper photo works that highlight bodies and the unseen tensions of the past, present and future.

These early works feature his inventive juxtaposition of abstraction with surreal figurative imagery.

His imagery, which had once been entirely abstract, in his later years became ever more eclectic, and recognisable figurative elements appeared with increasing frequency.

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

Hinkle's largely figurative images combine photographic imagery with hand - drawn and painted details to create fantastical female figures of wonder.

This work embodies the best of Ringgold's style incorporating quilted patterning that is seamlessly melded with narrative and figurative imagery in a layered yet succinct composition.

Yoshida, who encouraged the use of commercial and popular cultural imagery, led a group of artists who came to be known as the Imagists who distinguished themselves from the art scenes in New York and Europe with high color figurative paintings and drawings.

After an initial dalliance with figurative painting in the 1950s he became a life - long proponent of the possibilities of non-figurative imagery, which possessed for him, he once wrote, «the potential for the most advanced depth of feeling and meaning».

In 1967, Philip Guston's lushly brushed imagery suddenly leapt from abstraction to a figurative style with overtones of cartooning.

Viewers in quest of figurative imagery were left simply with the drama of Hoyland's virtuoso handling of paint; the visual tug and pull as one field of colour leaked into or overlaid another, his vivid drips, spills and controlled pourings.

His work is characterized by a figurative imagery mixed with abstractions.

His unease at the loss of figurative imagery in the painting at that time with which he had so much success eventually led his own work down deeply conflicted avenues.

His works, made on vinyl foil and mounted on the walls, are in conversation with the architecture but also with Impressionist paintings, which can only be perceived as figurative imagery once the viewer has reached a certain distance from the work.

I became concerned with the issue of freedom of expression in figurative imagery, particularly the symbolic use of dark bodies.

Williams made a name for herself in the 1980s with her figurative, feminist sexual imagery.

Altered States looks at contemporary artists who explore psychedelia (mostly painting and some constructions with a mix of figuration, geometric and Op imagery) against a back drop of 1960s Op Art, figurative and Color Field paintings, as well as original rock posters from concerts at the Fillmore West, Avalon Ballroom and other San Francisco venues to set the stage and create the mood.

With the resurgence of figurative contemporary painting, painters of the 1980s — who experimented with appropriated imagery and photographic resources while critics challenged the relevance of their medium — offer a fruitful compariWith the resurgence of figurative contemporary painting, painters of the 1980s — who experimented with appropriated imagery and photographic resources while critics challenged the relevance of their medium — offer a fruitful compariwith appropriated imagery and photographic resources while critics challenged the relevance of their medium — offer a fruitful comparison.

The figurative imagery characteristic of Marshall's paintings was largely absent from the galleries; instead they were dominated with monochromatic, text - based canvasses, and enormous replicas of American coinage, the sum of which totaled ninety - nine cents.

The Figure: Painting, Drawing, and Sculpture is a celebration of figurative art with a wealth of imagery displaying some of the finest examples of the genre in all mediums.

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.

Pairing a figurative style with self - generated imagery and formal composition appropriated from her photographic practice, Cedar's paintings combine painterly gestures with articulated surfaces, oblique perspective shifts with flatness — the scenes wavering between depiction, memory, and fantasy.

Her early paintings consist of figurative dreamlike imagery, with enigmatic themes involving childhood scenarios and women.

Brown's reputation, based on her intensely painted canvases that synthesized figurative imagery with the dynamic gestures of abstract expressionism, grew towards the mid -»60s.

Join us for a studio visit with painter Michael Kvium, particularly known for his characteristic figurative imagery.

Altered States looks at contemporary artists who explore psychedelia (mostly painting and some constructions with a mix of figuration, geometric and Op imagery) against a back drop of 1960s Op Art, figurative and Color Field paintings, as well as original rock posters.

While the spotlight on her crisp collage paintings aligns with the demand for figurative painting, Akunyili Crosby draws admirers not just through elegant imagery and impeccable skill, but also through her unique and intimate perspectives on Nigerian and American life.

Also included are a number of paintings with collaged figurative elements which can be seen as transitions between the earlier Door paintings and the figurative imagery he currently uses.

With collage — the juxtaposition of heterogeneous elements — and abstraction — the elimination of figurative imagery — as guiding principles, Chamberlain articulated the maxim that permeates his entire oeuvre: «it's all in the fit.»

During the early 1960s Kitaj concentrated on combining figurative imagery with abstraction and began to incorporate collage into his paintings, drawing on photography and cinema and referring to historical events and political circumstances.

Painter, illustrator, graphic designer and graffiti artist, Rems 182's imagery unites violence, eroticism, and strength in both large - scale and smaller portraits characterised by a use of multiple perspectives that create a unique softness in each image that allows the various expressions to complement each other while revealing the complexities of human emotion Having a background as a graffiti writer his work combines both letter - based and complex figurative images, or as the artist himself explains: «I fuse my graffiti writer language with my modern figurative art experience in perennial tension towards abstract disaggregation.»

The early Pictographs were created with a defined grid structure in order to organize theimages, often figurative and fragmented, in a utilitarian manner.Around 1948, Gottlieb began deconstructing the grid in an effort to find an alternative way to balance nature's interrelated forces: order and chaos.The earliest work on view, Inscription to a Friend, 1948, is an example of Gottlieb's initial attempts to integrate abstract forms that could still be relatable to a larger universal language, without the help ofthe grid.Inscription, 1954, demonstrates Gottlieb's further progression into purely abstract imagery using an evocative and highly developed lexicon.

His work of the last three years has witnessed an increasing interplay of figurative motifs with more formal abstracted painting in a manner that explores the nature of the medium and its history in relation to the shifting imagery of contemporary life.

Considered part of the second generation of the Bay Area Figurative movement, influential artist Joan Brown obsessively painted everyday imagery from her own life: domestic scenes, swimming excursions in the San Francisco bay, or outings to the opera with her husband.

The museum described what to expect, symbolically: «Combining figurative imagery for the first time with his hallmark collage technique, Bradford creates a compelling juxtaposition that offers viewers the opportunity to consider critical moments when our nation was divided and will be particularly timely given the artwork's placement on the National Mall.»

The result is a figurative imagery brought on the very verge of the abstract, with its varying levels of clarity and decay.

Bay Area figurative artists like Richard Diebenkorn, Elmer Bischoff, and Wayne Thiebaud adopted the vibrancy of the abstract style paired with representational imagery.

Altered States: A Psychedelic Legacy, features contemporary artists who explore psychedelic art — mostly painting and some constructions with a mix of figuration, geometric and Op imagery — against a back drop of 1960s Optical Art, figurative and Color Field paintings, as well as original rock posters from concerts at the Fillmore West, Avalon Ballroom and other San Francisco venues, which sets the stage and creates the mood.

Her new work — combining pouring and staining with still life, figurative, and architectural imagery — looks terrific.

His works deal with contemporary, historical and literary themes, and are marked by figurative imagery executed with spontaneous and vigorous handling of the paint and often done on large - scale formats.

Rossi first exhibited her work in late - 1960s Chicago where she became associated with the Chicago Imagists, a group of young artists known for their shared interest in non-Western and popular imagery, their pursuit of vivid and distorted figurative work, and their fondness for comic gags or puns.

The artist was initially associated with the New York School of abstract art, but he totally abandoned pure abstraction in the 1950s and turned to figurative art and quasi-abstract cartoon imagery.