Sentences with phrase «as figurative art»

The majority of the experts connect Doig's art with Postmodernism, however there are those who describe his art as figurative art, and even abstract art.

On the other hand, many experts and critics describe his work as figurative art.

Realness is quality, and this applies as much to abstract art as figurative art.

Not exact matches

European cave paintings were seen as evidence of a «creative explosion» sometimes attributed to a brain mutation, a theory reinforced by the apparent age discrepancy between figurative art in Europe and other, more recent art elsewhere.

As in Melville's brooding gangster classic, Mamet's film focuses on a lonely, figurative samurai devoted to a governing code, in this case a jiu - jitsu instructor named Mike Terry (Chiwetel Ejiofor) who runs a Los Angeles martial arts academy where he trains both lay people and cops.

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

If abstraction is favored by undiscerning speculator collectors as well as museums hoping to advance a fast - forward chronology of art history, there is still no small amount of figurative work on the scene.

My work is evolving all the time and after 35 years as a figurative artist I've recently discovered ways to express myself through abstract art which has been the most exciting and liberating experience I've had for ages.

Drawing from the art - historical lineage of cubism, cartoons, figurative painting and gestural abstraction, and appropriating subjects from mythology, advertising, print culture and consumerism, Comic Future is as much about the breakdown of the human condition as it is about the absurdities which define the perils of human evolution.

It features works by abstract and figurative painters and sculptors, as well as pioneers of installation and performance art.

By the 1960s, he had established himself as an original force in London's art scene, with a style that brilliantly combined figurative, symbolic and abstract elements.

Remaining defiantly figurative despite an art scene that swung increasingly toward abstraction, and choosing as his subjects those places and homes to which he felt most deeply connected, Porter produced a body of work of tremendous personal significance and emotional power.

Five years ago, he curated a show at Colby of such young art stars as Elizabeth Peyton, Peter Doig and Merlin James, who work in the same figurative territory staked out by Katz.

Spent 1939 - 47 in the Argentine, working part of the time in a figurative style, but in 1946 helped to found the avant - garde Altainira Academy at Buenos Aires, his ideas about the need for new art to express the modern world as revealed by science leading to the publication of the Manifiesto Blanco.

Pauline has exhibited her work annually in Boston since 1998 and has also continued to exhibit in Australia where she was the recipient of a coveted prize for oil painting in the prestigious national juried exhibition, The A.M.E. Bale Art Awards, known as Australia's premier awards for traditional realism and figurative aArt Awards, known as Australia's premier awards for traditional realism and figurative artart.

At the time, I imagined that our nonrepresentational, process - or - performance - based, and conceptual art would save Chicago from a group of artists whom I now love, the figurative surrealists — Jim Nutt, Roger Brown, Christina Ramberg, Gladys Nilsson, and Jeff Koons's teacher Ed Paschke — known as Chicago Imagists.

Marlene Dumas, a figurative painter whose career has benefited from Neel's trailblazing, first stumbled across a Neel reproduction as an art student during the 1970s.

The book, edited by Trevor Schoonmaker, Curator of Contemporary Art at the Nasher, brilliantly presents a masterful look at the figurative painting, a selection of which can be seen in the next iteration of Soul of a Nation, which opened earlier this month at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, as well as in the exhibition catalogue, available from the Tate, which features Hendricks» painting «What's Going On» (1974) on the cover.

This workshop allowed participants to gain a deeper understanding of the art world as they consider the techniques and styles of a range of figurative artists while developing their own skills and styles.

Although he continued to promote abstract work produced in Britain and throughout Europe, Sylvester believed at this time that figurative art «was capable of going further... that [it] could be more complex, more specific, richer in human content».18 By 1958, however, Sylvester had undergone what he later described as a «Damascene conversion'to the profound achievements of recent American abstraction.

He established himself as a major artist of the movement in Italian figurative painting known as the Transavanguardia, a Neo-Expressionist movement that sought to re-emphasize color and representation in reaction to the Conceptual Art of the times.

Often zigging when the established art world zagged, Wiley began creating large, unctuous paintings inspired by the Abstract Expressionist and Bay Area Figuration movements of the time, only to swiftly move away from them in the late»60s to develop his cartoonish figurative style, which waned in popularity as Minimalist and Conceptual art became fashionable.

But at a time when the art world was tilting toward abstraction and internationalism, Mr. Colville was also something of an outsider, dedicated to figurative painting and to his native Canada, where he was revered by many as «painter laureate.»

Over 300 pages illustrated with Zeller's own exquisite drawings and paintings as well as works by nearly 100 historical and contemporary figurative art masters, the book includes some of the finest figurative art of the past and the present day.

We have included both the abstract planer painting and the figurative - expressive - painterly expression as key exponents for our era's pictorial art.

Simultaneously classical and contemporary in scope, it contains roughly 300 images, how - to diagrams, and information about figurative art movements of the past as well as profiles of some of the greatest practitioners working today... featuring examples of Zeller's own work and also some of his best contemporary peers, who collectively bring the figurative tradition forward into a new era.»

We tend to think of the history of art as a series of exceptionally unique ideas, but in fact, the figurative painting tradition is deeply conventional, and artists have mined narrow spaces for invention.

They also wanted to avoid what they saw as the traps of figurative art, which was seen as either petty - bourgeois or as Stalinist socialist realism.

Wylie's bold, large - scale figurative paintings draw on ancient and folk art, such as Mexican street art and contemporary Egyptian Hajj painting, as well as art history and film.

Influenced by representational artists such as Fairfield Porter and Alex Katz, during her studies Fish was not always encouraged in her realistic approach, considering the fact that prestigious university's art programs advocated the idea of inferiority of the figurative painting in relation to abstraction or conceptual work.

Presenting paintings from the 1930s and»40s as well as more figurative sculptures carved from wood and stone, «John Dunkley: Neither Day nor Night» opens at Pérez Art Museum Miami May 26, 2017.

Leslie Lyons and J.B. Wilson draw inspiration from this art historical oddity, creating sublimated print tiles that both reference the «Unswept Floor» as well figurative tile works which «remove the trappings of mythologizing human behavior and return to a place of rational accounting and purification.»

It has been difficult for art history to assimilate the figurative work of an avowedly conceptual artist such as Adrian Piper, who has painted since the mid-1960s.

Bearden's relationship with abstract expressionism was an uneasy one, in part because of his figurative work, which often took up mythic subjects, was seen by some as out of step with the trajectory of art at the time.

Artists from Istanbul represented in Double Crescent are Hale Tenger, whose edgy assemblage works, addressing issues of gender and identity, have been exhibited at the biennials in Saõ Paolo, Johannesburg and Istanbul; Ali Kazma, whose powerful videos of people at their occupations have been shown at the Istanbul Biennial; Ayşe Erkmen, whose witty architectural interventions have been featured at Art Basel, the Hamburger Bahnhof and the Sharjah Biennial; Gülsün Karamustafa, a multimedia artist whose research - based installations on subjects such as nomads and refugees have been shown at Documenta, the Salzburger Kunstverein and the Walker Art Center and Nazım Ünal Yılmaz whose large - scale figurative paintings have been exhibited at the Kunsthaus Stade in Germany and Contemporary Istanbul.

Although all of the artists have donated works to help to support the magazine and the development of the art school, this exhibition has been carefully considered to reflect that which is current, significant and critical in contemporary painting, including abstract works by Thomas Nozkowski, Mali Morris and Phil Allen, and painters who have championed a figurative approach such as Chantal Joffe, Neal Tait and Dinos Chapman.

He attended Pratt Institute and presently teaches at The School of Visual Arts in New York as well as The New York Academy of Figurative Art.

This workshop allows participants to gain a deeper understanding of the art world as they consider the techniques and styles of a range of figurative artists while developing their own skills and styles.

WHAT IT IS: $ 627,000 AIM: To foster contemporary figurative art, as in the style of the late Russia master painter Arkady Plastov ELIGIBILITY: Any contemporary artist working in the figurative style.

September 27 - 28 Ann Agee, long known as a figurative ceramicist, explores the intersection of domestic space and art production, merging decorative and fine arts and playing with historical conventions of art as seen through contemporary eyes.

However, «Cowboys» can be seen not only as a cynical representation of reality, but also, in the critical tradition of Conceptual art, as a piercing inquiry into the ethos of the American vernacular, and even as the existential gesture of a figurative and realist artist.

It focuses on the radical change of direction in the artist's career between 1930 — 1969, 50 key paintings and sculptural reliefs show how Pasmore reinvented himself as one of Britain's foremost exponents of British abstract art, having previously been known as one of its leading figurative artists.

In those days, people would have seen gestural abstract painting or color field painting as sweeping away figurative art.

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.

Born in Dublin, Scully began his career as a figurative painter in London, in the years when Freud and Bacon still dominated Britain's art climate.

Paul Cézanne has long been acknowledged as a defining influence on 20th - century art, yet his figurative work has hitherto been relatively undervalued.

Drawing from the art - historical lineage of cubism, graffiti, cartoons, figurative painting and gestural abstraction, and appropriating subjects from mythology, advertising, print culture and consumerism, Aaron Curry's eagerly awaited survey exhibition at CAPC musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux next summer is as much about the breakdown of the human condition as it is the absurdities that define the perils of human evolution.

Moving from art - school grad to accomplished young artist - his shows include Kavi Gupta gallery, Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art, a recent attention grabbing appearance at Art Basel Miami Beach as well as an upcoming solo at New York's Lehmann Maupin Gallery - Otero quickly became a virtuoso of the newfangled mash up of abstract and figurative painting that constitutes today's new Nouveau Realisme (think Mark Bradford sans the racial essentialisart - school grad to accomplished young artist - his shows include Kavi Gupta gallery, Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art, a recent attention grabbing appearance at Art Basel Miami Beach as well as an upcoming solo at New York's Lehmann Maupin Gallery - Otero quickly became a virtuoso of the newfangled mash up of abstract and figurative painting that constitutes today's new Nouveau Realisme (think Mark Bradford sans the racial essentialisArt, a recent attention grabbing appearance at Art Basel Miami Beach as well as an upcoming solo at New York's Lehmann Maupin Gallery - Otero quickly became a virtuoso of the newfangled mash up of abstract and figurative painting that constitutes today's new Nouveau Realisme (think Mark Bradford sans the racial essentialisArt Basel Miami Beach as well as an upcoming solo at New York's Lehmann Maupin Gallery - Otero quickly became a virtuoso of the newfangled mash up of abstract and figurative painting that constitutes today's new Nouveau Realisme (think Mark Bradford sans the racial essentialism).

After moving to Los Angeles in 1977, she continued her studies in drawing, printmaking and photo etching at UCLA as well as figurative and non-objective abstract expressionist painting at the Brentwood Art Center.

Her deceptively romantic - naive visual language dissolves distinctions between abstract and figurative art, and her paintings exhibit a whimsical engagement with sources as various as Color Field painting, Pattern & Decoration, children's book illustration and textile design.