Sentences with phrase «british modern painters»

Like the handful of British modern painters who are his peers — Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud and David Hockney — he rebelled against the austerity of abstract art and instead put the human self, in all its desire and suffering, at the centre of his universe.

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Applying modern science and forensic techniques to a century - old crime, Cornwell's research led to the publication of Portrait of a Killer, in which she identified the renowned British painter Walter Sickert as the Ripper.

Applying old - fashioned as well as modern forensic techniques to a century old crime, Patricia Cornwell's research led to the publication of Portrait of a Killer, in which she identified the renowned British painter Walter Sickert as the Ripper.

Reiterating his effusive rhetoric from 1958, Sylvester wrote of Bomberg on the occasion of an exhibition at the Herbert Art Gallery in Coventry in 1960: «I feel no other modern British painter is in the same class as Bomberg».23 This judgment, Sylvester later acknowledged, still referred exclusively to Bomberg's late work.

Despite the pronounced effect on his work of the hugely influential Russian - born French painter Nicolas de Stael, described by the art critic Marco Livingstone as, a godsend to Kinley, the young British painter apparently, trod a solitary path that has made him difficult to place in the pantheon of Modern British art.

This will be after taking in Robins sculpture, and Gary Wraggs paintings in Deal.Great that there are two shows of British Abstract Painting and Sculpture on at the moment.With Bill Tucker at Pangolin and Sams cracking show of 60s colour in Liverpool, Abstraction is far from a dead issue.Indeed there is a symposium by Matthew Macauley at a northern university [to be confirmed] coming up, with requests for papers.Two very good painters rang me to say go and see the Picasso show at Tate Modern, which I did.It was stunning and there were probably eight or so masterpieces in one room from one year!Tony and Sheila Caros show in Peterborough and Graham Boyd at the Cut, Frank Bowling in Dublin and Scully in Newcastle, Mali Morris at Women can't Paint at Turps Banana, loads to see, enjoy, think about and stimulate new work.I hope there are all those hungry [artistically] young Abstract Painters and Sculptors out there keen to extend thepainters rang me to say go and see the Picasso show at Tate Modern, which I did.It was stunning and there were probably eight or so masterpieces in one room from one year!Tony and Sheila Caros show in Peterborough and Graham Boyd at the Cut, Frank Bowling in Dublin and Scully in Newcastle, Mali Morris at Women can't Paint at Turps Banana, loads to see, enjoy, think about and stimulate new work.I hope there are all those hungry [artistically] young Abstract Painters and Sculptors out there keen to extend thePainters and Sculptors out there keen to extend the genre.!

Giacometti made Femme in 1928 - 29 and it was purchased by the painter Winifred Nicholson in the mid-1930s just as the European modern art movement was beginning to influence British art.

Rounding off a fine season of modern American art, which has seen stellar exhibitions at the Royal Academy and the British Museum, White Cube presents a retrospective of the works of Wayne Thiebaud, considered one of the US's greatest living painters and whose work has been shown all - too infrequently this side of the Atlantic in recent decades.

From 1972 to 1975 he was head of the Modern British department at the Bond Street dealers Colnaghi, where he played a significant part in the revival of critical scholarship then being directed towards early 20th - century British art, mounting revelatory exhibitions of the Chilean - born portraitist Álvaro Guevara and the Vorticist painter and printmaker Edward Wadsworth.

The Sainsbury Centre For Visual Arts presents «Francis Bacon and the Masters», the latest exhibition of works by the renowned British painter, bringing together over twenty - five major works by Bacon and juxtaposing them with old and modern masters, including Velázquez, Rembrandt, Titian, Michelangelo, Rodin, Van Gogh, Picasso, and Matisse.

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.

Joe has exhibited his watercolour paintings at the Singer & Friedlander Sunday Times Exhibition, Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour, Laing Art Exhibition, Chichester Open, Barings ING — Platform 100, World of Drawings and Watercolours, British Modern Masters, Royal Society of Marine Artists.

Clive Smith is a highly trained British painter interested in how contemporary painting can speak to modern societal issues.

The National Gallery, London, 13 June — 8 November 2015 This summer the National Gallery initiates a dialogue between two works of art made almost 700 years apart: the Annunciation (1307) by Sienese painter Duccio and Duccio Variations No. 3 (1999 - 2000), one of seven sculptures made in response to Duccio's painting by Sir Anthony Caro RA, a titanic figure in modern British sculpture.

The Figure in Modern British Art, an exhibition curated by Pallant House's artistic director Simon Martin, will bring together paintings and drawings by some of Britain's leading 20th - century painters, including Walter Sickert and Frank Auerbach.

Few British painters have played an active role in the modern abstract movement of post-war Europe.

Greatly influenced by the early modern art occurring in America, British painters followed the birth of every major movement across the ocean.

Over a period of approximately ten or twelve years, between the early 1960s and the early 1970s he produced work of tremendous ambition and audacity, with an impact that is almost palpable, and that should finally prompt a posthumous recognition that he is a modern British master — one of the great abstract painters of the 20th century.

The contemporary British painter George Shaw has something in common with the Greek - Italian modern artist Giorgio de Chirico.

Referencing the intentions of British neo ‐ romantic and modern painters, Stein's figures play upon the settings in which they are positioned, while her absurdist motifs work to distort and interrupt place and time; appearing to imitate each other across surfaces.

Roy and Marie Neuberger Collection: Modern American Painting and Sculpture, January 4 — 30 * Janicki, Sterne, Glasco, February 2 — 26 * An Exhibition of Sculpture and Drawings by Young British Sculptors, March 2 — 29 * Thirty - Fifth Annual Exhibition by the Professional Members, April 3 — May 6 * World at Work: An Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings Commissioned by Fortune, Presented on the Occasion of the Magazine's Twenty - Fifth Anniversary, May 12 — 15 An Exhibition of Cubism on the Occasion of the Fortieth Anniversary of The Arts Club of Chicago, October 3 — November 4 * Noguchi: Sculpture and Scroll Drawings, November 11 — December 7 * Accent Rugs Woven by Gloria Finn and Designed by American Painters, December 13, 1955 — January 3, 1956 * Melanesian Sculpture, December 13, 1955 — January 3, 1956 *

«In the last two years, the British painter, Zino Pece, has become one of the handful of painters who I think of as at the cutting edge of modern abstraction.

Bridget Riley is the most important British painter of the modern age.

In February, a series of exhibitions opens pairing works by female contemporary artists (priced between # 2,000 and # 35,000) and Modern British women (priced up to # 90,000) with the work of Gluck, a British painter born in 1895 who famously eschewed any gender - defining prefix.

This major exhibition of the much loved British painter L.S. Lowry demonstrates his connections and debts to French painting of the later 19th century and its determination to make art out of the realities of the emerging modern city.

Over a career spanning nearly 70 years he became the greatest British painter of the 20th century, a modern Master who relentlessly pursued his own esoteric project to capture the human body in all its frailty, obscenity and beauty.

MODERNIST ART For more information, see: Modern Art Movements (1860 - 1970) 20th Century Painters (1900 - 2000) British Painting: Contemporary

A pioneer of modern art, Ben Nicholson was one of the best English painters, but made his reputation largely because of his contribution to modern British sculpture (1930 - 70).

Aside from Francis Bacon, there is no more mesmerising modern British painter than Lucian Freud.

There is a palpable tension between painters and the current — inaccurate — British idea of what modern art is.

20): Early 19th century British painter J.M.W. Turner now looks like the forerunner of just about everything in modern art that 21st century people most admire, from Impressionism to Abstract Expressionism.

Painting a Century Modern British painters including Sandra Blow, Merlyn Evans and Victor Pasmore, shown alongside sculpture by their peers and contemporaries.

1987 British Art in the 20th Century, Royal Academy of Arts, London Works on Paper, Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London Current Affairs, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, and British Art Council tour to Mucsarnok, Budapest; National Gallery, Prague; Zacheta, Warsaw A School of London (Six Figurative Painters), The British Council; European touring exhibition to Oslo, Humlebeck, Venice and Dusseldorf The Saatchi Collection, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh

Born 1900, John Tunnard was a painter and designer whose work, like Graham Sutherland's, has been referred to as Neo-Romantic — a continuation of British landscape painting with a modern awareness.

2000 Andrew Dempsey Exhibition London Painters, Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City, and Museum of Contemporary Art, Monterrey, Mexico, April - September (presented by The British Council and Consejo Nacional para la Culturay las Artes) Encounters: New Art from Old, National Gallery, London, June 14 - September 17

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.

(For a brief guide to modern painters in Britain, see: Contemporary British Painting.)

Join Laura Castagnini, Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary British Art, for this in - depth tour of the All Too Human exhibition, and learn more about how painters Freud, Bacon and Rego strove to capture the most intimate of subjects: the human form.

In 1987, Mr. Fuller founded and edited the quarterly Modern Painters, principally to bring attention to British artists.

1956 Society of Sculptors and Associates, David Jones Gallery, Sydney, AU The Seasons (organised by the Contemporary Art Society), Tate Gallery, London, UK Artists of Fame and of Promise, presented by the Leicester Galleries, Brown Thomas Little Theatre, Dublin, IE Britisk Kunst 1900 — 1955, Kunstforening, Copenhagen, DK British Nátidskunst, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, NO Exposition Internationale de Sculpture Contemporaine, Musée Rodin, Paris, FR An Exhibition of Contemporary British Art, Silbermann Galleries, New York, US Mostra dei Premiati alla XXVIII Biennale, Messina, IT Yngre Britiska Skulptörer, Gothenburg, SE; Sandviken, SE; Linköping, SE; Tranås, SE; Lund, SE; Hälsingborg, SE; Halmstad, SE; Falkenberg, SE; Orebro, SE; Stockholm, SE 1955 Young British Sculptors (touring exhibition organised by the Arts Club of Chicago in collaborationwith the British Council), Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, US; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, US; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, US; Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, US; Art Gallery of Toronto, CA The New Decade: 22 European Painters and Sculptors, Museum of Modern Art, New York, US; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota, US; Los Angeles County Museum, California, US; San Francisco Museum of Art, California, US Summer Exhibition, Gimpel Fils, London, UK Eisenplastik, Kunsthalle, Bern, CH Documenta: Kunst des XX., Jahrhunderts, Kassel, DE Twentieth Century Sculpture (Victoria and Albert Museum Circulation Department), Harrogate Art Gallery, UK 54th London Group, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK Contemporary Painters, Sculptors and Craftsmen, City Art Gallery, Leeds, UK Junge Englische Bildhauer (organised in association with the British Council), Kunstverein, Munich, DE; Württembergische Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, DE; Kunstverein, Freiburg, DE; Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe, DE, Städtische Kunsthalle, Recklinghausen, DE; Kunstsammlungen der Stadt, Düsseldorf, DE; Kunstlering, Rotterdam, NL 1954 Sculpture in the Open Air (London County Council Third International Exhibition), Holland Park, London, UK Of Light and Colour, Gimpel Fils, London, UK British Painting & Sculpture, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK 53rd London Group, New Burlington Galleries, London, UK 1953 The Unknown Political Prisoner (sponsored by the Institute of Contemporary arts), Tate Gallery, London, UK IXe Salon de Mai, Palais de New York, Paris, FR Sculpture in the Home (Arts Council touring exhibition), College of Art, Gloucester, UK; Cotton Board, Manchester, UK; Temple Newsam House, Leeds, UK; County Museum, Warwick, UK; School of Art, Glasgow, UK; Art Gallery, Aberdeen, UK; School of Art, Great Yarmouth, UK; Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, UK; New Burlington Galleries, London, UK 2e Biennale de la Sculpture, Middelheim Park, Antwerp, BE Collectors» Choice, Gimpel Fils, London, UK 52nd London Group, New Burlington Galleries, London, UK 1952 Seven British Contemporary Artists, Black Hall, Oxford, UK New Aspects of British Sculpture, XXVI Biennale, Venice, IT Summer Exhibition, Gimpel Fils, London, UK 51st London Group, New Burlington Galleries, London, UK 1951 American Abstract Artists Group, 15th Anniversary Invitation Exhibition, Riverside Gallery, New York, US Festival of Britain, South Bank, London, UK Sculpture: Second International Exhibition of Sculpture (organised by the London County Council in association with the Arts Council), Battersea Park, London, UK British Abstract Art, Gimpel Fils, London, UK 50th London Group, New Burlington Galleries, UK 1949 Summer Exhibition, Gimpel Fils, London, UK 48th London Group, New Burlington Galleries, UK Galerie de France, Paris, FR

Known as the «pope of modern art», Read became Britain's leading interpreter of abstract paintings and abstract sculpture during the three decades 1930 - 1960, championing a number of modern artists like the painter Paul Nash (1889 - 1946) and the leaders of modern British sculpture like Jacob Epstein (1880 — 1959), Henry Moore (1898 - 1986), Ben Nicholson (1894 - 1982), Barbara Hepworth (1903 - 1975) and Anthony Caro (1924 - 2013).

An exclusive chance to see Lowry and the Painting of Modern Life — a major exhibition of landscapes by the much - loved British painter L.S. Lowry — the first of its kind held by a public institution in London since the artist's death.

One review declares, «Bridget Riley is the most important British painter of the modern age.»

, Francis Bacon: Figurabile, exhibition catalogue, Museo Correr, Venice 1993, p. 24 David Sylvester, «Bacon's Course», Modern Painters, vol.6, no. 2, summer 1993, pp. 15,16, reproduced p. 14 (colour) Michael Peppiatt, Francis Bacon: Anatomy of an Enigma, London 1996, pp.108 - 110 Fabrice Hergott, «La Chambre de Verre» in Francis Bacon, exhibition catalogue, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris 1996, p. 56 David Sylvester, «Un Parcours» in Francis Bacon, exhibition catalogue, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris 1996, pp.14 - 16 Hervé Vanel, «L'imagination technique» in Francis Bacon, exhibition catalogue, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris 1996, p. 67 Masterpieces of British Art from the Tate Gallery, exhibition catalogue, Metropolitan Museum, Tokyo 1998, pp. 152, 237, reproduced in colour p. 152 Reproduced: Harper's Bazarre, Jan. 1951, p. 52 (colour) John Rothenstein, A Brief History of the Tate Gallery, London 1958, p. 11 John Rothenstein, The Moderns and their World, London 1958, pl.91 (colour) Viewpoint, no. 1, 1962, p. 5 (colour) Ronald Alley, British Painting Since 1945, Tate Gallery, London 1966, p. 12, pl.2 (colour) Aldo Pellegrini, New Tendencies in Art, trans.

Francis Bacon and the Masters is the latest exhibition of works by the late - great British painter, bringing together over twenty - five major works by Bacon and juxtaposing them with old and modern masters, including Velázquez, Rembrandt, Titian, Michelangelo, Rodin, Van Gogh, Picasso and Matisse.

As a modern painter Lowry wished to show what the industrial revolution had made of the world, yet his dominant status in British art coincided with a disappearance of the industrialised world he engaged with.

The Sainsbury Centre For Visual Arts presents «Francis Bacon and the Masters», the latest exhibition bringing together over twenty - five major works by the great British painter Francis Bacon and juxtaposing them with old and modern masters, including Velázquez, Rembrandt, Titian, Michelangelo, Rodin, Van Gogh, Picasso, and Matisse.

Walker is a leading abstract painter, with works in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the British Museum, the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin and other museums across the world.