Sentences with phrase «with figurative subject»

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.

An example of modern art paintings with a figurative subject is The Fear of Life, oil paint on canvas by Zhana Viel.

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Her fascinatingly deformed and twisted subjects, half abstract, half figurative, with their own decadent beauty, parallel the ravages of age.

Fauvism depicted objects with intense arbitrary color, while Orphism was characterized by bright patches of color rather than a figurative subject.

By merging formalist color fields with more traditional subjects, Diebenkorn revived a legacy of figurative depictions championed by the likes of Henri Matisse and continued by a new generation of representative painters.

Sly and obliquely, but also unmistakably, another Hockney show currently available in London, this time at Annely Juda Fine Art, the artist's regular dealer, casts doubt on the proposition the Royal Academy exhibition of his recent portraits seems determined to put forward, which is that nothing can match a figurative painting made when directly confronting the subject, with no technology to modify -LSB-...]

Bearden's relationship with abstract expressionism was an uneasy one, in part because of his figurative work, which often took up mythic subjects, was seen by some as out of step with the trajectory of art at the time.

With Abstract Expressionism at the forefront of American painting, these artists, which included Richard Diebenkorn, David Park, Roland Peterson, and Wayne Thiebaud — often referred to as the Bay Area Figurative artists — explored inventive new ways to depict traditional subject matter — the figure, landscape, and still life.

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.

The paintings are figurative and large in scale and scope, with subjects often drawn from mythology and biblical images.

Sly and obliquely, but also unmistakably, another Hockney show currently available in London, this time at Annely Juda Fine Art, the artist's regular dealer, casts doubt on the proposition the Royal Academy exhibition of his recent portraits seems determined to put forward, which is that nothing can match a figurative painting made when directly confronting the subject, with no technology to modify or mediate the artist's immediate perception of what he is looking at.

The experience of growing up in New York City, surrounded by an extraordinary human landscape, along with my early background as a dancer, and then as a figurative painter, laid the foundation for my subject of choice.

Sotheby's started the evening's other 38 lots with the 2012 painting «Drown,» by the young Nigerian - born figurative painter Njideka Akunyili Crosby, who earlier this year was the subject of a one - woman show at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Fla..

The Firestone gallery show overlaps with a larger retrospective of Shapiro's work on view at the National Academy Museum and School that begins with some of the Abstract Expressionist work but goes much further into the figurative work of the 1990s, which took as its subject matter women artists, Jewish identity, dance and her passion for dolls.

«Offers a great insight into sources of [Sasnal's] inspirations and fields of interest: painting about painting, figurative painting and portraits, the history of Poland and travel shots... The book itself is a journey full of facts and intriguing perspectives on materiality and subject matter of Sasnal's paintings and his way of deconstructing the different symptoms of current times... Jam - packed with fascinating personal stories and facts from the artist's life.

In his distinctive caricaturistic style, Pettibon juxtaposes figurative images with fragmented texts throughout all mediums and subject matters.

Depending on a subject, he works with very different methods and techniques, from geometric abstraction to the academic figurative, or collage and the use of contemporary tools.

Figurative painting is cool again, according to Doron Langberg, a Queens - based painter who combines a mythical tie - dye painting style with human subjects in sometimes quite compromising positions.

With artists young and old tackling subject matter ranging from figurative landscapes to digital glitches to the eternity of the circle, it is clear that the world of abstraction is thriving in contemporary Chinese art.

He studied at the New York Academy of Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts — both bastions of traditional figurative painting and sculpture — and he paints with his subjects arranged in frontal poses, as if for a photograph (which, since these look like paintings from photos, they probably were).

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.

Depicting a variety of subjects, his art is infused with meaning, mood and atmosphere whether the subject is figurative, landscape, architectural or inspired by nature.

His work portrays subjects from his own personal world — friends, family members, contemporaries — alongside wider know characters such as sports heros and historical figures to produce loose figurative portraits calling in broader contextual themes, often dealing with the concept of community.

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.

The last five years of his artistic practice focused on AIDS as a subject matter, drawing on community experience and mixing dreamlike allegory with figurative realism.

His use of encaustic, with its physicality, impasto and transparencies, allows him to create figurative works in which the gesture, the actual act of painting, is just as important and meaningful as the depicted subject.

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.

Uninterested in the figurative subject matter or the political implications of Surrealism, whose aim was to effect revolution, he nevertheless took to its theory of «psychic automatism,» which accorded with his feeling for Freudian psychoanalysis and the work of the French Symbolist poets.

, takes this idea one step further as the collages evolve from abstracted Baroque-esque designs that incorporate symbols of these subcultures to personified figurative subjects with clearly recognizable human faces and bodies.

Working from detailed sketches in a painterly, expressionist style and with a primarily figurative subject matter, the artist skilfully transitions between warm and cold palettes, creating deeply atmospheric canvases.

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

His subjects hover between traditional figurative painting and portraiture, with subjects often seemingly caught in an interrupted moment, as if the sitter has just realized the artist's presence.

Drawn to the marginalized in society who are often overlooked, artist Linda Colsh depicts elderly subjects in layered figurative scenes silkscreen printed onto fabrics she alters with ink, dye, and paint then stitches into textile artworks.

The surprisingly cohesive body of work in Hahn's New York solo debut contends with the history of traditional figurative painting, in which female subjects possess sensuous beauty offset, generally, by a benzo - like tranquility.

It is a simple painting, which offers a subtle and ironic statement on contemporary art: these dandies, who seem to epitomize an art world obsessed with abstraction and minimalism, are themselves the subject of a traditional figurative painting.

Realistic or abstract, figurative or landscape, color or black and white — with no subject or sensibility off - limits, Jensen's discernment was, in itself, an art.

Playing with pictorial space of the canvas — often closing in on her subject — Otto - Knapp creates a visual language that oscillates between the abstract and the figurative, reflecting the movement she captures in paint.

Poised formal arrangements in a space left undetermined but psychologically unsettling, with titles generated by a random computer programme, Seal offers up imagined subjects, with fictitious titles that refute the idea that figurative painting needs to have a subject at all.

An pioneer of first generation Abstract Expressionism, Philip Guston broke ranks with his peers toward the end of the 1960s when he transitioned to applying his rich gestural brushstrokes and jittery lines to figurative subjects, often derived from the gritty urban visions that came to the artist during insomniac nights of coffee drinking and cigarette smoking.

Santalov switches effortlessly between meticulous geometric drawings and figurative work, juxtaposing rural subjects with urban cityscapes.

As with painting, 19th century sculpture stressed the importance of figurative subjects that usually held some allegorical, religious, or political significance.

From the pieces which accentuate the beauty of their subjects, such as those of Anna Rose Bain, to pieces with psychological connotations seen in the works of Zack Zdrale, Contemporary Figuration will present a collection of artworks that blend styles, genres, and themes to shed light on the many - sided world of figurative painting.

Jansen's work is a result of working between abstract and figurative elements, crossing action painting with objective subject matter.

In the 1960s, Iannone produced abstract expressionist works, yet from the 1970s onwards, she has developed in a more figurative direction with herself, her partner, and what she calls «ecstatic unity» as central subjects.

She has chosen her subjects for this body of work with an eye toward representations of women not typically seen in the canon of figurative painting.

Her work, which is imbued with a highly personal character, is innovative exploration of form, subject matter and space, in which abstract and figurative elements combine to offer impressions of both microscopic and macroscopic universes.

They did not borrow from each other; they looked long and thoughtfully at each other's work during their shared years...» Many of Edith's late figurative paintings have a kind of shorthand that resembles that of David Park, but Edith also had a deep engagement with landscape painting, a subject that David had left alone.

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.

Another highlight of the show is African artist Boris Nzebo's multi-layered paintings and collages, interlacing figurative subjects with the architectural forms.