Sentences with phrase «for figurative subjects»

By synthesizing extremes of immediacy and meditative distance, and by rendering the ephemeral movements of abstraction through techniques usually reserved for figurative subjects, Vance depicts reality in the act of making itself seen, before it has had the chance to conform to expectations.

For figurative subjects such as animals, plants, and insects, you can just draw from real life, but you will need to invent ingenious ways to represent matters such as energy, motion, magnetism, or electricity.

Not exact matches

Drenda Duff — Drenda Duff regards figurative art, composed and arranged in natural surroundings, as a favorite subject for her drawings and paintings.

Figurative painter Mark Van Yetter relates how his penchant for American style and subject matter has persisted for twenty years.

For if there was one subject that united these early canvases, at once figurative and abstract, landscape and still - life, it was the crucifixion, the martyrdom of Christ.

The experience of growing up in New York City, surrounded by an extraordinary human landscape, along with my early background as a dancer, and then as a figurative painter, laid the foundation for my subject of choice.

The Firestone gallery show overlaps with a larger retrospective of Shapiro's work on view at the National Academy Museum and School that begins with some of the Abstract Expressionist work but goes much further into the figurative work of the 1990s, which took as its subject matter women artists, Jewish identity, dance and her passion for dolls.

There is a painting of a reclining nude in the show, which of course is a traditional subject for figurative painting, but we nicknamed this work «Billboard,» because the figure seems to command the presence of demanding a billboard all to herself.

Robinson, 66, is known for his figurative, melodramatic scenes of desire inspired by covers of 1940s pulp paperbacks, as well as his ongoing over-sized still - life subjects of food, pharmaceutical products and stacks of cash.

He studied at the New York Academy of Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts — both bastions of traditional figurative painting and sculpture — and he paints with his subjects arranged in frontal poses, as if for a photograph (which, since these look like paintings from photos, they probably were).

Howard's simple and distancing backgrounds (in his figurative works) became the subjects for these modernist - leaning abstractions.

A number of Stoller's figurative works are partially masked, their eyes either hidden from view or altogether absent, hence «Lend Me Your Eyes,» which calls on us to witness these haunting works of art — each with its own contorted, marred and / or embellished form — with some degree of empathy for the subject.

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.

Besides all the high - end artworks, the special thing about this exhibition, The Age of Ambiguity: Abstract Figuration / Figurative Abstraction is the curator, who is responsible for the subject and selection of works.

ENGLISH FIGURATIVE PAINTING For details of portraiture, genre painting & subject pictures, see: English Figurative Painting Portrait art of 18th / 19th century William Hogarth (1697 - 1764) Painter, Engraver, Satirist Joshua Reynolds (1723 - 92) Portraitist, President Royal Academy William Blake (1757 - 1827) Watercolourist, Illustrator, Engraver Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 - 82) Romantic leader of Pre-Raphaelites Alfred Stevens (1817 - 75) Sculptor, painter andFIGURATIVE PAINTING For details of portraiture, genre painting & subject pictures, see: English Figurative Painting Portrait art of 18th / 19th century William Hogarth (1697 - 1764) Painter, Engraver, Satirist Joshua Reynolds (1723 - 92) Portraitist, President Royal Academy William Blake (1757 - 1827) Watercolourist, Illustrator, Engraver Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 - 82) Romantic leader of Pre-Raphaelites Alfred Stevens (1817 - 75) Sculptor, painter andFigurative Painting Portrait art of 18th / 19th century William Hogarth (1697 - 1764) Painter, Engraver, Satirist Joshua Reynolds (1723 - 92) Portraitist, President Royal Academy William Blake (1757 - 1827) Watercolourist, Illustrator, Engraver Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 - 82) Romantic leader of Pre-Raphaelites Alfred Stevens (1817 - 75) Sculptor, painter and muralist.

Uninterested in the figurative subject matter or the political implications of Surrealism, whose aim was to effect revolution, he nevertheless took to its theory of «psychic automatism,» which accorded with his feeling for Freudian psychoanalysis and the work of the French Symbolist poets.

In Mr. Katz's bathroom is a series of black - and - white photographs of New York City life by Rudy Burckhardt, the Swiss filmmaker and an ardent supporter of Mr. Katz in the 1950s, when he was scorned for daring to pursue figurative subject matter during the reign of Abstract Expressionism.

Gormley, well - known for his figurative casts, has been the subject of exhibitions throughout the world since the early 1980s.

Yet for all the shock of the shift in subject, very little changed in the actual style of painting that was called «Bay Area Figurative.»

Elected an Academician in 2013, painter Chantal Joffe is renowned for her expressive, figurative paintings, which often feature women and children as their subjects.

Chicago is famous for having cultivated a funky, figurative kind of painting, naively expressionist in style, weird, fantastic or vulgar in subject, and obsessive — filling the canvas completely — in presentation.

He is well known for his figurative work, particularly depictions of the human head, but he has also addressed architectural subjects.

While for this show Jacquelet continues his exploration of figurative painting, he has expanded both the size and the subject matter of his works.

This American artist and art professor is well known for her figurative style of painting incorporating subjects of surrealism.

Bartlett is best known for her paintings and prints in which familiar subjects — ranging from houses and gardens to oceans and skies — are executed in a style that combines elements of both representational and abstract art; indeed, she has commented that she does not accept a distinction between figurative and abstract art.

Rita Ackermann (b. 1968, Budapest) is a Hungarian - American painter renowned for subject matter that challenges and liberates traditional depictions of the female body and archetypes in figurative painting.

In About Face, an exhibition in the Creative Alliance's main gallery, Sherald and contemporaries Rozeal, Ebony G. Patterson, and Tim Okamura presented a delightful mishmash of styles acknowledging a diverse range of contemporary figurative depiction specifically for and about black subjects.

Paul Resika, also a figurative Second Generation New York School Painter, is represented by Provincetown Pier (Little Orange), and perfectly exemplifies the use of luminous color, and solitary subjects that Resika is so well - known for.

She has chosen her subjects for this body of work with an eye toward representations of women not typically seen in the canon of figurative painting.

Exploring achievements far beyond his reputation as a leading illustrator and teacher, this exhibition spans evocative landscapes firmly rooted in the Neo-Romantic tradition, exotic subject matter inspired by international travel, figurative work including portraits of young men, book illustrations, posters and lithographs, and ambitious late work that sought a new context for history painting.