Sentences with phrase «european figurative tradition»

It broke with the whole European figurative tradition represented by the Slade School, where the legacy of Sickert and Bomberg had hit the buffers.

If, on the other hand, the artist is aligned with the more conservative European figurative tradition rooted in perceptual study, the painting will be signed.

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Mr. Gervits graduated from the National Academy of Fine Arts, Repin Institute, in St. Petersburg, Russia, where his mastery of art was honed by deep - rooted European traditions of figurative art.

I see myself as essentially a figurative painter in the European tradition, attempting to maintain my craft at the highest level, using paint to explore issues of truth, meaning and value.

Rarely do these commissions make any kind of larger statement about American art, but last fall, when Barack Obama selected Kehinde Wiley — a figurative painter who deploys the techniques, poses and patterns of the grand tradition of Baroque European paintings to portray contemporary black and brown men he finds on the street — to paint his official portrait for the Smithsonian, it at least reflected the Obamas» well - developed connections to the world of culture.

Her figurative paintings are drawn from her own fictitious set of characters and allude to traditions of European portraiture.

Lynette Yiadom - Boakye «s figurative paintings are drawn from her own fictitious set of characters and allude to traditions of European portraiture.

But his work was also steeped in various figurative and avant - garde traditions of postwar European art.

It demonstrates that today, following detours into abstract sculpture and object art, there is no sculptor who is as exceptional as Thomas Schütte in picking up the extensive European tradition of figurative sculpture, from the archaic right up to Rodin and Maillol.

Meleko Mokgosi (b. 1981, Botswana; lives and works in New York City) produces large - scale figurative paintings that rethink the tradition of historical European compositions.

On view May 2 through August 12, 2018, these large - scale figurative paintings rethink the tradition of historical European compositions by depicting daily life in southern African nation - states and post-colonial ideals of democracy.