Sentences with phrase «american photorealists»

Titled «Questioning Reality — Pictorial Worlds Today,» the exhibition provided what is perhaps the most exhaustive account of pictorial photorealism, gathering the art of American Photorealists Robert Bechtle, Chuck Close, Robert Cottingham, Don Eddy, Richard Estes, Ralph Goings, Howard Kanovitz, Malcolm Morley, John Salt and Ben Schonzeit.

The exhibition was dominated by such American Photorealists as Ralph Goings, Chuck Close, Don Eddy, Robert Bechtle and Richard McLean; but it included such influential European artists as Domenico Gnoli, Gerhard Richter, Konrad Klapheck, and Roland Delcol (fr).

Charles Bell was an American Photorealist and Hyperrealist painter, known for his large scale still lifes arranged in imaginary scenes and dynamic compositions.

Artist Eric Zener (b. 1966, Astoria, Oregon) is an American photorealist artist best known for figure paintings of lone subjects, often in or about swimming pools.

Ben Schonzeit (b. 1942) has been heralded as a central figure in the American Photorealist movement commencing in the early seventies.

In 20th - century sculpture, anatomical realism was exemplified by the polyester and bronze nudes of contemporary American photorealist artist John De Andrea (Couple, 1971), Model in Repose (1981, National Galleries of Scotland), Untitled Bronze # 1 (1984, Chazen Museum of Art) and Sphinx (1987).

• For more biographies of American photorealist artists, see: 20th Century Painters.

Richard Estes Biography, Streetscapes of American Photorealist Painter.

Chuck Close Biography of American Photorealist Painter, Portraitist.

Not exact matches

The fair has become more up - to - date than it used to be, with solo shows by established contemporaries like the photorealist painter of suburban ennui Robert Bechtle, at Gladstone, whose booth happily turns out to be opposite Fraenkel's, where there is a similarly moody selection of photographs of residential development in the American West by Robert Adams.

Known for her photorealist paintings and representational sculpture, Audrey Flack has had her art shown in such renowned institutions as the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

More photorealist paintings of young African (African American, Brazilian, or otherwise) men set against ornately patterned, Louis Quatorze - meets - Louis Vuitton backgrounds.

Charles Thomas «Chuck» Close (born July 5, 1940) is an American painter, artist and photographer who achieved fame as a photorealist, through his massive - scale portraits.

American artist Chuck Close rose as a prominent Photorealist painter, who made his name with huge, billboard - sized paintings of himself and his friends, reproduced from photographs in painstaking detail, seen in the minutely detailed texture of the skin and hair of his subjects.

Photorealists, Exhibit A Gallery, Savannah College of Art and Design, Georgia, October 2 — November 25, 1997 Allegory to the Portrait: Changing Faces, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, New York, September 21, 1997 — January 4, 1998 Project Painting, Basilico Fine Arts and Lehmann Maupin, New York, September 11 — October 11, 1997 (Catalogue) Views from Abroad: European Perspectives on American Art 3: American Realities, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, July 10 — October 5, 1997 (Catalogue) Thirty - Five Years at Crown Point Press: Making Prints, Doing Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., June 8 — September 1, 1997.

[6][23] This internationalization of photorealism is also seen in photorealist events, such as The Prague Project, in which American and non-American photorealist painters have traveled together to locations including Prague, Zurich, Monaco and New York, to work alongside each other in producing work.

As a result, many new types and forms of sculpture were pioneered by American artists, including monumental stonework (Mount Rushmore), Kinetic art (mobiles), assemblage, minimalist structures, photorealist statues, pop sculptures, environmental earthworks, and multi-media sculpture.

His work belongs to the photorealist tradition practised by American sculptor Duane Hanson, and others.

[6][11] Though Photorealists share some aspects of American realists, such as Edward Hopper, they tried to set themselves as much apart from traditional realists as they did Abstract Expressionists.

An Englishman, John Salt was the first foreign artist in the burgeoning Photorealist movement, which was originally considered an American genre.

He made his name as a photorealist, then as a pioneer of «New Expressionism», a movement which the great American critic Clement Greenberg described as «a tendency to make art, especially in painting, that's ugly.

A group of conceptual art objects is at the core of the exhibition — most of them playing on the title of Handel's famous composition, including works by Christian Marclay and Yoko Ono — juxtaposed with more traditional seascape paintings and prints, ranging from 19th - century American Luminist A.T. Bricher to the post — World War II photorealist Richard Estes.