Sentences with phrase «british figurative artist»

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

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.

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.

Not exact matches

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

I thought he might be British and perhaps one of the generation of the illustrator / artists who emerged, post-Hockney, from London's Royal College of Art that included figurative draughtsnman Adrian George, brilliant colourist Glynn Boyd Hart (1948 - 2003) and maybe even Paul Leith.

In 1999, Thomson was the co-founder, with Billy Childish of the Stuckism art group, which set out to promote figurative painting, in opposition to conceptual art, which they identified with the Turner Prize (whose jury chairman was Sir Nicholas Serota) and the Young British Artists, of which Tracey Emin (who had once been in a relationship with Childish) was a leading representative.

Ralph Rugoff, Stephanie Rosenthal, «MIRRORCITY: London artists on fiction and reality», Hayward Publishing, London, November, pp. 54 - 55 Naomi Beckwith, Donatein Grau, Jennifer Higgie, Lynette Yiadom - Boake, «Lynette Yiadom - Boake», Prestel Publishing David Bindman, Henry Louis Gates Jr., «the Image of the Black in Western Art, Part 2», Belknap Harvard, London, pp.297 - 298 «Face To Face, British Portrait Prints from the Clifford Chance art collection», Hampton Printing, Bristol, p. 13 Pinacoteca Agnelli, «Works From The Mario Testino Collection», Rizzoli «A Brush With The Real, Figurative Painting Today», Laurence King Publishing Ltd, London, pp.218 - 223

Bourgeois had sent a set of figurative watercolours to the British artist Tracey Emin, after an initial meeting with her more than five years ago which developed first into a friendship, and finally into a rare working relationship — Bourgeois had always shown hesitancy in working with artists during the bulk of her long, illustrious career.

In this free exhibition, British artist Tom Ellis presents a newly commissioned series of works pairing his enigmatic figurative paintings with self - made furniture.

Himid, perhaps the artist most explicitly associated with identity politics, was at the vanguard of the black British arts movement in the 1970s and»80s, and was nominated for figurative paintings exploring the impact of colonialism on displaced individuals.

British artist Jessie Makinson paints exquisite multi-layered figurative compositions that drop art historical references as well as borrow patterns and motifs from other times.

Opening: «Nicola Tyson: Works on Paper» at Petzel Gallery A British artist who lives and works in New York, Nicola Tyson is celebrated for her figurative paintings and drawings that express a psychological state of being.

The first major 20th century British sculpture exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts for 30 years is set to take place early next year.The survey will be a chronological tour to» represent a unique view of the development of British sculpture» Works have been chosen to highlight the artists» figurative and abstract choices, comparing works such as Phillip King's Genghis Khan and Edwin Lutyens's Cenotaph.

Parafin presents the British painter Justin Mortimer, widely regarded as one of the leading figurative painters working today, and an emblematic figure for a younger generation of artists.

Patron of the artists and socialite Lady Cunard joined the British Committee and Laura Knight, an artist known for her realist, figurative painting, was also part of the selection committee.

Stephen McKenna (sometimes signing as SMCK)(20 March 1939 — 4 May 2017) was a British - born visual artist known for his postmodern figurative paintings.

The British contribution to early Modernist art was relatively small, but since World War II British artists have made a considerable impact on Contemporary art, especially with figurative work, and Britain remains a key centre of an increasingly globalized art world.

[105] The Federation of British Artists hosts shows of traditional figurative painting.

Patrick Heron CBE (30 January 1920 — 20 March 1999) was a British abstract and figurative artist, writer, and polemicist, who lived in Zennor, Cornwall.

YALE CENTER FOR BRITISH ART In 1976, American - born R.B. Kitaj applied the label School of London to his work and that of other figurative artists then living in that city.

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1981: «Eight Figurative Artists», Yale Center for British Art, New Haven 1984: «The Hard Won Image», Tate Gallery 1986: «Forty Years of Modern Art», Tate Gallery 1987: «British Art in the 20th Century», Royal Academy of Arts. 1987: «A School of London: Six Figurative Painters», Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo; Museum of Modern Art, Louisiana; Museo d'Arte Moderna, Venice; Kunstmuseum, Dusseldorf.

To protest against what they saw as the dominance of conceptual art and the Young British Artists, at the expense of figurative painting, Billy Childish and Charles Thomson unleashed the Stuckist Manifesto in 1999, taking their name from Tracey Emin's reported criticism that their figurative work was «Stuck!

Auerbach is often associated with a circle of figurative painters known as the School of London, a term used by R.B.Kitaj in 1976 when speaking of British artists he particularly admired.

The Turner prize - winning British artist debuts a fresh series of her signature figurative paintings, absorbing and elegant oils populated by black men and women.