Sentences with phrase «about figurative painters»

Last December, Sharon Butler wrote in The Brooklyn Rail about figurative painter Matthew Miller's... read more... «Studio Visit: Matthew Miller and the Drama of Subtlety»

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I don't align myself with the present - day figurative painters, and I don't sit on panels about figurative art.

Moving from figurative to abstract painting, British painter Cecily Brown thinks about the qualities of paint itself:» When the body disappears it's almost like there's no» there» there,» she explains.»

Sean Mahan is a social realist figurative painter who works with graphite and acrylic washes on wood to depict a sense of wonder about the innate warmth of the human character and its conflict with structures of power and control.

It was about time for a shift in the Houston painter's work, which for the past several years has been characterized by cartoonish figurative elements duking it out with a whirling array of abstract elements from hard - edged to splashy.

He had just left the Chelsea School of Art after an unsatisfactory period as a figurative painter in an institution that overvalued abstract expressionism, and was «thrashing about as an artist» attempting to express his perplexity and anger at the dismal political situation facing the left at the time.

After a twenty year career as a figurative painter, I began painting abstractly two years ago and have been conflicted about it ever since, thanks in large measure to the state of the art world.

John Hoyland: I was a figurative painter for about eight years before I even dreamed of moving into abstraction.

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.

Written by Daniel Maidman I am an American figurative painter, and I write about art, so D / RAILED asked me to write about where American figurative...

His first exhibition there, in 1952, was warmly received by New York painters, but fellow critics were considerably less open - minded about his figurative expressionistic painting.

The influential figurative painter talks about «The Gap,» the exhibition of Belgian artists he organized for the London gallery Parasol Unit, and his upcoming retrospective in Doha.

Figurative painter and former Turner prize nominee Dexter Dalwood talks to Gemma Kappala - Ramsamy about his cultural highlights, from the new Carl Andre exhibition to Kevin Spacey's political drama

You were talking about something that was completely uninteresting to you when you started your work, which was the early - «60s and late -»50s battle between the conceptual and the process artists with the figurative people and action painters, and those painters with abstract painters: abstraction versus figuration.

Tracey Emin's My Bed (1998) is a fine example of the installations that now fill up our galleries — they are the collages of the early 21st century — and Jenny Saville's Propped (1992) has powerful things to say about bodies in the age of obesity (also, she is about the greatest figurative painter we have right now).

It's a really interesting show, though it does start with two painters that I can't get too excited about: Tomma Abts, who won the Turner Prize in 2006 and who's rarely exhibited in the UK since, and Simon Ling, a figurative painter who paints buildings that look on the verge of collapse.

The Prize will expand opportunities for the public, who may not be familiar with figurative realist painting, to learn more about the creative vision of talented women painters in this increasingly popular genre.

The big show about to hit town is for South African figurative painter Marlene Dumas, at Tate Modern.

Sonia Boyce was born in London in 1962, where she still lives and works, and in the early 1980s emerged as a figurative painter, quickly gaining critical attention as part of the black British arts movement, for works that spoke about racial identity and gender.

His followers also admire his absolute independence: When all the art world was abuzz about Abstract Expressionism in the»50s, Bischoff instead turned to painting recognizable (albeit loose and bold) figures, thereby — along with painters Richard Diebenkorn and David Park — launching the Bay Area's Figurative Movement.

FAD caught up with one of the most significant figurative painters of his generation Jonathan Wateridge to ask about his work ahead of his new exhibition with Pace London and HENI.

Akin to figurative painters such as Dana Schutz or George Condo, in a decidedly contemporary attitude about method and risk, Hickam reconciles a sense of detachment with a sense of imperative.

Pervaneh Matthews belongs to that unpretentious set of Irish painters who create wonderful figurative art without any intellectual angst about its true meaning.

Learn more about the life and work of landscape and figurative painter Frank Auerbach ahead of his exhibition at Tate...

Then my figurative painter friends talk about their work's abstract qualities.

He's now telling me why he no longer cares about painters like Max Beckmann, and why he thinks figurative painting is fundamentally incapable of expression.

You and I have been talking lately about how much we like Katherine Bradford's term «freedom painter» because it describes an approach to painting and does away with categories like abstract and figurative.

Such was the case with two fairly recent recruits: the figurative painter Alex Katz, 86, and the multimedia artist Elaine Sturtevant, 82, who since the»60s has explored ideas about authenticity and authorship in her groundbreaking reproductions of paintings by Andy Warhol, Marcel Duchamp, Jasper Johns, and others.

I've noticed, amongst my abstract painter friends, that they talk about their work in figurative terms.

Cedar Rapids, Iowa About Blog Karen Cooper is a figurative painter, who paint with oil or acrylic paints on canvas.

Cedar Rapids, Iowa About Blog Karen Cooper is a figurative painter, who paint with oil or acrylic paints on canvas.