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Adding to the complexity, the motifs throughout the show are derived from natural forms when they aren't figurative, which gives many works a great pictorial punch and, sometimes, narrative import.
Yet he did make things anew, and reinvigorated figurative sculpture with his massed crowds of laughing, grimacing life-sized Chinese figures (whose heads were all derived from the same Belgian art nouveau bust), his choreographed single and multiple groups, his lone dwarf standing at the end of a long corridor, or among columns.
Cassandre (the pseudonym of Adolphe-Jean-Marie Mouron) used figurative geometry and modulated planes of colour, derived from Cubism, to revitalize postwar French poster design.
His figurative work derives from photographic images that, projected onto canvas, become the basis for moody, evocative landscapes and, occasionally, portraits, such as this luminous "804 Lesende" ("Girl Reading"), on view in Richter's current exhibition at the Marian Goodman Gallery (through November 30th).
This theoretical account is derived from the Graded Salience Hypothesis (GSH) [Giora, R. (1997). Understanding figurative and literal language: The Graded Salience Hypothesis. Cognitive Linguistics, 7, 183 206; Giora, R. (2003). On our mind: Salience, context and figurative language.
The mechanism for the figurative-cue processing appears to develop based on agency-related experience derived from the contingency cue; infants begin self-recognition of noncontingent images (e.g., photos and recorded videos) after they acquire abilities related to contingent images (e.g., mirrors and live videos) (Bigelow 1981; Courage et al. 2004).
Traditional figurative art is the answer, I suppose, although considering the stress on work derived from a priori, abstract procedural systems, there's no reason why Chuck Close's grid portraits could not have been thrown into the stew.
Works by Charles Long are similarly befuddling: vaguely Giacometti-esque, vaguely figurative skinny sculpture in papier-mâché, plaster, and assorted debris on steel armatures, their forms derived from found patterns of bird droppings.
Not to be confused with Nye Bevan Beyoncé beyond the pale not pail; this pale is derived from the Latin palus, a stake as used to support a fence (cf palisade); hence the figurative meaning of beyond the pale as being outside the boundary, unacceptable biannual or biennial?
Elif, though, turned her nose up at Turkey's Abstract Expressionists, wondering what she was supposed to derive from all that anti-figurative imagery.
By contrast, Kent Williams' current paintings and drawings derive much of their potency from exemplifying figurative painting's alluring tactility and coincidental ties to the long history of eroticized representation.
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