Sentences with phrase «modernist figurative sculptor»

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Modernist sculptors largely missed out on the huge boom in public art resulting from the demand for war memorials for the two World Wars, but from the 1950s the public and commissioning bodies became more comfortable with Modernist sculpture and large public commissions both abstract and figurative became common.

Despite — or, possibly, because of — its racial connotations, it's been the noncolor of choice for an unusual number of recent London exhibitions, among them Indian modernist F. N. Souza's black - on - black figurative paintings from 1965 at Grosvenor Gallery; Korean sculptor Meekyoung Shin's «Untitled (Black Series),» 2013 — comprising exquisite vases made of soap manipulated to mimic coal - colored ceramics — at Sumarria Lunn Gallery; and the late English filmmaker Derek Jarman's assemblaged «Black Paintings» from the 1980s and early»90s at Wilkinson.

I'm not in any way advocating anyone starts mimicking the spaces (or anything else) of figurative art; I am suggesting (yet again, tiresomely) that abstract painters and sculptors compare their output with the best achievements of figuration, which of course includes some great modernist art, if that's what you want to call it.