Not exact matches
Even in this case, it must be noted that certain photographs represent a private sketch group meeting in one of the women
artists» homes; in the other, the model is draped; and the large group
portrait, a co-operative effort by two men and two women students of Repin's, is an imaginary gathering together of all of the Russian
realist's pupils, past and present, rather than a realistic studio view.
Keeping It Real Beijing
artist Liu Xiaodong's expressive
realist portraits, touching on some of the most vital social problems in China, have brought him respect in his home country — and a high level of visibility internationally Barbara Pollack
In the April 1999 issue of American
Artist magazine the contemporary
realist painter Jack Beal is quoted as saying about his commissioned
portraits, «I tell my clients that when my
portrait of them is finished, they will hate it — and their spouse will hate it even more.
Leslie has been called an Abstract Expressionist and a
realist, a Pop
artist and a
portrait painter, an underground filmmaker and a traditionalist, in your face, and simply a painter.
Though he is often called a Pop
artist, Blake has turned his hand equally successfully to
realist urban painting, illustration, collage, sculpture, and formal commissioned
portraits.
(A pendant show here, Kerry James Marshall Selects, offers a revealing glimpse of the
artist's sources and inspirations: a stern
portrait from the workshop of Hans Holbein, flowing figure studies by Veronese, a social -
realist lithograph by his former teacher Charles Wilbert White, and a photograph of Gerhard Richter's wife, smudged with paint.)
Chicago
artist Marla Friedman's recent
portrait sculpture of the legendary Apollo 13 astronaut Captain James A. Lovell, Jr. follows the historic and time - honored
realist tradition.
Exhibition highlights include: two ornate, figurative paintings by Australian
artist Del Kathryn Barton; three large - scale,
realist paintings by Terry Rodgers portraying gaunt and privileged youth; conceptual
portraits by Swedish
artist Sara - Vide Ericson; a mixed - media fragmented figure by Brooklyn - based
artist Nathaniel Mary Quinn; four small - scale sculptural works depicting contorted human forms by Korean
artist Dongwook Lee; and one large - scale surrealist drawing by German
artist Dennis Scholl; among others.
LIVES
Artist Barkley L. Hendricks (1945 - 2017), who was known for his
realist portraits, dies on April 18.
Lucian Freud (1922 - 2011) British
realist - one of the best
portrait artists of the modern era.
Although
realist sculpture first emerged in the form of
portrait busts of Roman Emperors (compare these gritty works with romantic Greek sculpture), and was continued most memorably by sculptors like Auguste Rodin (1840 - 1917), it wasn't until the advent of Pop - Art in the 1960s that
artists like Duane Hanson (1925 - 96), John De Andrea (b. 1941) and Feuerman began to produce superrealist figurative sculpture.
BEST IRISH
ARTISTS For a list of the leading Irish painters, including exponents of realist portrait painting, see: Best Irish A
ARTISTS For a list of the leading Irish painters, including exponents of
realist portrait painting, see: Best Irish
ArtistsArtists.
Ivan Le Lorraine Albright was an American magic
realist painter and
artist, well known for his self -
portraits, character studies, and still life paintings.
The collection of American art includes works by the great 18th century history painter John Singleton Copley; the Francophile Mary Cassatt, a leading figure in the American Impressionism movement; the portraitist Gilbert Stuart; the painter of the cowboy west Frederic Remington; the wonderful 19th century
realists Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins; the post-Impressionist Whistler; the virtuoso society
portrait painter John Singer Sargent; the Pop -
Artists Jasper Johns, Edward Ruscha, Andy Warhol, and Roy Lichtenstein; co-inventors of «Action - Painting» Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner; and the Abstract Expressionist Mark Rothko, to name but a few.