Sentences with phrase «british figurative»

With the rest of the loose confederation known as the School of London, which includes contemporaries such as Lucian Freud, Leon Kossoff, RB Kitaj, Michael Andrews and the late Francis Bacon, Auerbach has spearheaded a renaissance in British figurative art, championing the easel just as Abstract Expressionism was signalling its demise, and revitalising portraiture as Pop and Conceptual Art was declaring such unselfconscious devotion impossible.

The influential British figurative artist Peter de Francia would have turned 96 this year.

Radical Figurative Art from Sickert to Bevan, James Hyman Fine Art, London, England 2002 Five Painters, Kilkenny Arts Festival, Kilkenny, England 2000 Painting, I Love, Michael Hue - Williams Fine Art, London Look Out: Art, Society, Politics, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton, England; traveled to Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, England; and Wolsey Art Gallery, Ipswich, England 1999 Bacon, Bevan, Guston and Baselitz, Michael Hue - Williams Fine Art, London The School of London: From Bacon to Bevan, Musee Maillol, Paris; traveled to Auditorio de Galicia, de Santa Maria Compostela, Spain; and Kunsthaus Wien, Austria 1998 Last Dreams of the Millennium — The Reemergence of British Romantic Painting, Stephen Solovy Art Foundation; traveled to California State University; Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler TX; Manoa Art Gallery, University of Hawaii, Honolulu 1996 Masculine Measure, Michael Kohler Arts Centre, Sheboygan, Wisconsin 1995 Inside Out, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut; traveled to Galeria Arialdo Ceribelli, Bergamo, Italy 1994 Here and Now: Painting since 1970, Serpentine Gallery, London, England 1993 The Portrait Now, National Portrait Gallery, London, England 1992 British Figurative Painting of the 20th Century, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel 1991 Out of Limbo, Foundacion Luis Cernuda, Seville, Spain Five Painters from London, Colegio de Arquitectos, Malaga, Spain 1990 Inconsolable, Louver Gallery, New York, New YorK Picturing People: Figurative Art in Britain 1945 — 84, British Council touring exhibition: National Gallery, Kuala Lumpur; Museum of Art, Hong Kong; National Gallery, Harare, Zimbabwe 1989 Prospect 89, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany 1988 European Painting and Sculpture, L.A. Louver, Venice, CA Contemporary Portraits, Flowers East, London, England Aperto 88, XLIII Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy

This is the catalogue of the March 2018 Tate gallery exhibition «All Too Human» on the theme of British figurative painting since the first world war.

Artistic Director Simon Martine curates a unique exhibition of artworks by some of the leading British figurative artists of the 20th century from Frank Auerbach to Lucian Freud.

Flowers Gallery is pleased to present new work by British figurative painter Claerwen James.

While portraiture and human figures are prominent in the work of current British figurative painting, they are few and far between in Carnegie's recent works, with a solitary seated female the only painted figure present in her solo show at Andrea Rosen in New York this spring.

In association with the year - long display «Radical Figures: Post-war British Figurative Painting» at the Manchester Art Gallery, Dr Rina Arya will be giving a talk on Francis Bacon, entitled: «Post-war British figurative painting».

Not so long ago it would have seemed hopelessly retrogressive for Tate Britain to put on an exhibition devoted to 100 years of British figurative painting.

The exhibition «Radical Figures: Post-war British Figurative Painting» displays the following Francis Bacon pieces: «Portrait of Henrietta Moraes on a Blue Couch», 1965, and «Portrait of Lucian Freud», 1951 (pictured).

But then this excellently curated exposition turns astutely to include (also from the Wilson gift) an array of post-war British figurative art, with works by Lucian Freud, John Minton, Bomberg, Frank Auerbach, Michael Andrews, William Coldstream, Victor Willing, linked to Pallant House's past by two works by John Davies and again Frank Auerbach, both from the Hussey bequest.

Premiering at The Lowry's cross-arts festival Week 53, Personal Feeling is the Main Thing is leading British figurative painter Chantal Joffe's first solo exhibition in the North of England.

Francis Bacon (1909 — 1992), the Irish - born British figurative artist, is considered a major figure of 20th - century art.

Napoleone cites two little - known artists whose work has recently been added to the collection: Claudette Johnson, a Black British figurative artist in her sixties who has been «totally ignored», and the American graphic designer and artist Elaine Lustig Cohen who is now in her eighties.

Elena Crippa, curator of All Too Human: Bacon, Freud and a Century of Painting Life at Tate Britain, on «the incredible continuity in British figurative painting»

Lynette Yiadom - Boakye is a British figurative painter who began working in etching for the first time this past year.

Francis Bacon was an Irish - born British figurative painter known for his bold, graphic and emotionally raw imagery.

Elena Crippa: «While in the United States, Germany or Italy we speak of a «return» to figurative painting, there is an incredible continuity in British figurative painting across many decades.

EC: «The story of British figurative painting doesn't begin in 1945.

The programme you've announced for this year has an emphasis on the twentieth century; a show covering a century of British figurative painters centred on Francis Bacon and Lucien Freud; a show on the art after the First World War, followed by a show of the Victorian pre-Raphaelite painter Edward Burne - Jones...

For 2018, there's an esteemed group of expert judges to decide the finalists and Overall Winner, including Peter Brown NEAC (British Figurative Painter), Luci Noel (Director of the Affordable Art Fair Hampstead and Battersea, Autumn Collection), Jacqui McIntosh (Exhibition Manager, Drawing Room Gallery), Siska Lyssens (Freelance Arts Writer), Mark Roscoe (Portrait Artist and Winner of the Jackson's Open Painting Prize 2017) and Karl Bielik (Abstract Painter).

Not exact matches

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Moving from figurative to abstract painting, British painter Cecily Brown thinks about the qualities of paint itself:» When the body disappears it's almost like there's no» there» there,» she explains.»

In 1999 he co-founded the Stuckist movement, which railed against the dominance of the Young British Artists» conceptual art, in favour of contemporary figurative work.

One of the most talented and unpredictable British artists today, Phil Hale is a figurative painter especially known for his characteristically intense paintings and portraits.

British painter Lucian Freud is a great figurative artist with an immense following who was always going in and out of style in his 70 years of working.

With his predominantly figurative work Tom French is a highly regarded and much collected British artist.

in col.) A School of London: Six Figurative Painters, British Council tour, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, May - June 1987, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humelbaek, June - Aug., Museo d'arte moderna, Ca» Pesaro, Venice, Sept. - Oct., Kunstmuseum, Düsseldorf, Nov. 1987 - Jan.

It focuses on the radical change of direction in the artist's career between 1930 — 1969, 50 key paintings and sculptural reliefs show how Pasmore reinvented himself as one of Britain's foremost exponents of British abstract art, having previously been known as one of its leading figurative artists.

British artist Gary Hume is known for his brightly - colored, Minimalist paintings, which are usually figurative, yet highly reduced and abstracted.

Highlights include works by the installation artist Rebecca Horn presented by Sean Kelly Gallery, paintings by the American Modernist Beauford Delaney presented by Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, and figurative works by the renowned British artist Lucian Freud presented by Acquavella Galleries.

- Peter Doig1 British / Canadian artist Peter Doig stands in a position seemingly riddled with contradictions: straddling national identities; employing a medium (photography) historically thought to lead to the eventual disappearance of his own medium (painting); and working within a continuum of large scale figurative and landscape oil paintings.

Perhaps because of the incandescence of the YBAs in the 1990s, British art in the 1980s often gets short thrift in terms of column inches in histories of modern and contemporary art, but — as Ikon's new show on the decade should demonstrate — it was a period of free - wheeling experimentation, in which figurative painting made a comeback, the variety of abstract styles increased, installation art grew in ambition and cut - and - paste appropriation prevailed.

His large abstracts of the Sixties — one of which, the succinctly titled 17.7.69, hangs in the Academy's current show «British Art in the Twentieth Century» as a reproof to academic shortsightedness — were massive walls of colour, mutely resistant to the figurative imagination.

Quinn is a member of the YBA (Young British Artists) and is best know for his challenging figurative sculptures such as Self, the artist's portrait cast in his own blood and Alison Lapper Pregnant, a massive marble sculpture installed on the -LSB-.....]

For the first time Hauser & Wirth presents 2D work of Thomas Houseago, the British born artist who is renowned for his raw, massive, figurative sculptures made of so called lo - fi materials such as plaster and plywood.

Kitaj had a significant influence on British pop art, with his figurative paintings featuring areas of bright colour, economic use of line and overlapping planes which made them resemble collages, but eschewing most abstraction and modernism.

By the end of the 1980s, Caulfield's style would seem the antithesis to oh - so - earnest British painters of drab figurative existentialism such as Stephen Conroy, Leon Kossoff, Frank Auerbach and Lucian Freud, or the macho neo-expressionism of Julian Schnabel and Francesco Clemente in the US.

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.

When Doig came to prominence in the 1990s, his figurative painting was somewhat out of kilter with the neo-conceptualism of the Young British Artists (YBA).

They allow Hepworth and other British artists like Henry Moore, Victor Pasmore, Ben Nicholson and Jacob Epstein to be seen in the context of European modernism — as pioneers of the abstraction that was sweeping away figurative art.

Blair McLaughlin is a British contemporary artist whose figurative paintings focus on the cultural differences in our consumption of violence and the aestheticization of violence in popular culture and media.

R.B. Kitaj was a major influence on British pop art due to his brightly colored figurative paintings.

This means stepping around some areas: if you look at the Black British avant - garde, for example, it's figurative: Yinka Shonibare, Lubaina Himid, Isaac Julien, Lynette Yiadom - Boakye.

British artists Tim Noble and Sue Webster have received widespread acclaim for their shadow sculptures, which transform seemingly abstract assemblages of objects, such as household rubbish, into figurative shadow portraits.

Quinn is a member of the YBA (Young British Artists) and is best know for his challenging figurative sculptures such as Self, the artist's portrait cast in his own blood and Alison Lapper Pregnant, a massive marble sculpture installed on the fourth plinth at Trafalgar Square in London featuring a pregnant woman born with no arms and severely shortened legs.

Born on December 8, 1922, in Berlin, Germany, Lucian Michael Freud was a British painter and draughtsman and considered to be the leading figurative painter of his time.

Blair McLaughlin is a British contemporary artist whose figurative paintings focus on the cultural differences in our consumption of violence.

Fitzwilliam Museum, 3 December - 21 April 2014 Although an important figure in modern British art, John Craxton RA — the subject of a major survey at the University of Cambridge's Fitzwilliam Museum — spent much of his time in Crete from the 1960s to his death in 2009, taking influence from Mediterranean light, landscape and myths for his highly graphic figurative works.

When compared to their figurative counterparts, ranging across generations from Frank Auerbach to Jenny Saville, British abstract artists are practically invisible in America.