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).
The result is a highly expressive painting
with no figurative references, reminiscent of Andre Masson's Automatic Drawing of 1924, with no subject or composition in mind.
She flirts
with figurative references within her abstraction, but it's never quite a body.
Not exact matches
Along
with Stettheimer, who is an obvious
reference point, I was reminded of Peter Dean, who was a member of the Rhino Horn group, as well as Bob Thompson —
figurative artists who packed a composition
with stuff and loved to jam color next to color.
MB: I am sure that the painting from Cluj is associated
with the term
Figurative Painting, which has regained more than a fashionable status in the art world, and the «old masters» have become key
reference points for many contemporary painters.
Fast gaining nationwide attention for her unique and fresh style, Ash Almonte uses
references to abstract expressionism and combines it
with a layered
figurative aesthetic.
These works marked his rejection of making
figurative art
with clear
references to the real world, and in particular his move away from the post-WWII Kitchen Sink group of artists who were painting ordinary scenes of everyday life.
The artist's barbershop paintings from 2007 - 2009 are shot
with color, and range from
figurative to completely abstracted, color - blocked canvases
referencing the architectural perspective of the space.
His work calls forth the tradition of
figurative narrative painting by subverting it
with personal cultural
references and depictions of pared down and theatrical urban settings.
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.
One of Australia's foremost contemporary artists working today, Barton's distinctive use of line across painting, illustration, video and collage creates a vibrant
figurative dream world, rich
with personal
references and poignant juxtapositions.
German - born and Los Angeles - based artist Florian Morlat works in a constructivist - Pop style that combines humble materials like cardboard and wood,
with absurdist
figurative gestures
referencing pop icons like the Beatles.
The stylistic origin is in Fritz Lang's film Metropolis (1927),
with figures that are neither abstract nor
figurative,
referencing art deco to Memphis, midcentury machinery diagrams to Cycladic sculpture.
This was the context in which Kitaj developed as an artist, and although his art may be associated
with the trends in
figurative painting and British pop art, the most important influence on his art was a sense of not belonging, Diaspora, spawning an oeuvre in which symbols and
references of visual, literary, historic and personal origin are brought together into colourful, narrative and complex compositions.
With our latest exhibition we have set out to exhibit a group of artists who work within the scope of analog painting
referencing the analogical representational elements of work that could be seen as
figurative or representational at times.
Antony Donaldson also moves freely between intangible and
figurative models, the featured Hollywood Pix (1967) combines painting
with references to 1930s American cinema.
The
figurative installations devised by de Jong, which are anchored in the (often mysterious) history or meaning of a location, combine an ironic
reference to the Old Masters
with a large dose of the present.
Diana Shpungin's animation Figure and Ground
references both literal and
figurative «ground»
with a shovel digging into a penciled texture.
Bronze sculptures by James Muir are typically realistic,
figurative artworks
with allegorical
references.
Shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 1994, Doig came to global prominence in the mid-2000s when his mysterious, richly layered,
figurative paintings,
with their multifarious
references to art history and popular culture, began to command astounding prices.
(It should be noted that Tatiana Berg's «Face» (1913), a
figurative painting that breaks character
with her other works, also seems to be
referencing Picasso.)
Where as a
figurative work of art might allow every viewer to engage
with it on the same level by
referencing some aspect of history or life
with which we are all familiar, an abstract artwork requires that every viewer that sees it begins anew, using their thoughts and feelings to arrive at some conclusion about what it could possibly mean.
An astonishingly confident show of large - scale
figurative paintings
with multiple
reference points in the 20th century history of the medium, this is clearly someone to watch out for in the future.
Le Va achieved this
with his next move into the realm of
figurative reference, by cleaving the blades into the vertical field of the wall.
Her signature use of rich bright color and dynamic composition continues to captivate viewers
with its contemporary content and
references to the history of
figurative painting.
Duchamp is not the only artist that Richter engages
with: some of his more
figurative works
reference canvases by Titian, Caspar David Friedrich and Vermeer, while his two large abstract paintings in Room 10, «Forest 3» and «Forest 4», draw strong comparisons in terms of colour, scale and delicacy,
with Monet's «Waterlilies».
The vast majority of the works selected by curator Lizzie Zucker - Saltz & Assistant Curator Ashley Westpheling are
figurative with many
reference pop icons such as Elvis, Marilyn & Donald Trump, while others portray local artists, performers, models and writers, such as performer Deonna Mann, artist Katie Walker, fellow resident studio denizen photographer Peter Frey.
At first he identified more closely
with the non-gestural artists in this school, Rothko, Newman and Ad Reinhardt, all of whom insisted on grand scale and the elimination of
figurative references.
in 1975 in sculpture her work uses a lot of found objects and
figurative references wharton is also influential for her part in founding artemesia city's imagist heyday of the 1970s though her predilection for found objects and
figurative references aligns her in part
with the practices of this older (5 words, 39 characters)
Thus a multiplicity of
references from
figurative associations, together
with the work's own essential and abstract nature, come together to form an independent spiritual unity.
«
Figurative painting» perhaps carries
with it a
reference to more academic work, which somewhat restricts the category.
For
reference, atomic swaps are
figurative blockchain contracts allowing crypto users to swap one crypto
with another almost instantly and without the need of an intermediary.