Sentences with phrase «as figurative artists»

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.

As a figurative artist I operate as someone who has hunches about the importance of an image to me.

is personally deeply meaningful to me as a figurative artist who happens to be a woman.

He defined himself as a figurative artist who went through Abstract Expressionism, Geometric Abstraction and a number of other styles of painting, but who had always been a figurative painter because his greatest interest was in people.

Albert Irvin, the painter, who has died aged 92, started out in the 1950s as a figurative artist of the kitchen sink school, but after discovering Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko at a famous Tate exhibition in 1956 he reinvented himself as an exponent of a dazzlingly vigorous abstract expressionism, becoming one of Britain's most respected abstract artists.

It was at this point that Philip Guston returned to his roots as a figurative artist and started to produce work littered with cigarette butts, tin cans, and cartoon Klansmen, rendered in a style that was key to the development of cartoon realism and Neo-expressionism.

The works deal with Nagel's fractious relationship with clothing as a figurative artist.

Alex Katz (born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1927) is generally seen as a figurative artist associated with the Pop art movement.

Joan Brown's career as a figurative artist spans the period 1955 - 1965, and for half of that time she was a student.

Despite this, her time as a figurative artist was intense and productive and provided some of the most important works of the Movement.

She was always, after her student years as a figurative artist training at St Martin's School of Art in London (1941 - 46) and the Royal Academy Schools (1946 - 47), an abstractionist.

It's a wide range of pieces, really looking at the idea of bridging two points between working as a figurative artist but also having fluid abstraction going on in the process.

Hannah is a self - described «idiosyncratic» painter, having emerged improbably from New York's punk 1970s demimonde as a figurative artist obsessed with painterly technique and single - mindedly focused on reviving the narrative tradition in painting.

He started out as a figurative artist, imitating the work of the first artists who inspired him.

Known as a figurative artist, Life Magazine described him as «the dean of U.S. nude painters,» yet he was an exceptional landscape painter and also produced an exceptional body of still life compositions.

In our conversation, Mario opens up about his journey from starting out as a figurative artist and moving more toward abstract art perspective.

As a figurative artist, Jackson captures intimate settings and uses them as a gateway to ponder the complexities of the human experience, as well as the society that influences them.

Not exact matches

One of the wryly witty aspects is of how tortured lives are ascribed to artists, as Jason's upbringing seems relatively normal and uninteresting, but with a play that is so wildly exaggerated to as to include a boorish father and an ending that includes suicide for its main characters, Ms. Sinclair takes the figurative and ascribes the literal.

As a Bay Area Figurative Abstract artist I'm represented in numerous collections in the US, Mexico and Canada.

The artist has invoked afros in his figurative work and as abstract motifs for two decades.

Very soon, he became equally well known and successful as a Bay Area Figurative artist.

Along with Stettheimer, who is an obvious reference point, I was reminded of Peter Dean, who was a member of the Rhino Horn group, as well as Bob Thompson — figurative artists who packed a composition with stuff and loved to jam color next to color.

A unique amalgamation of artist, Spiritualist and medium, the fascinating and unexpected story of Houghton has generated international interest from curators and writers who see her work as representing an abandonment of figurative form that anticipates the development of modern abstraction by artists such as Kandinsky or Malevich by several decades.

Often identified together as Bay Area Figurative Artists, they applied Abstract Expressionist methods to representational subjects.

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.

As figurative painting made a comeback in the late»80s and»90s, a younger generation of artists began to see Katz with new appreciation.

As one of the leading realist artists working in the United States, William Beckman is celebrated for the intimacy and emotional power of his figurative drawings.

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.

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.

Although a critical force within the group, the artist's contributions to Memphis — in the form of graphic patterns — were only a small segment of her career; as the ICA show makes clear, Du Pasquier is a multifaceted artist, and she became particularly interested in abstract and figurative painting.

As Peter Schjeldahl writes in The New Yorker, «Outlasting insult and condescension, a woman among competitive men, and a figurative artist in times agog for abstraction, she triumphed.»

Solo and group exhibitions showcase abstract as well as figurative work from a diverse body of artists from the U.S., Asia, Latin America and Europe.

«The Figurative Artist's Handbook... is a very beautiful book to look through, so it may be challenging for those who use it as a handbook to let it get dirty and dog - eared, just like the previous generation did with their [Andrew] Loomis books.

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.

Just as suddenly, he put it all aside, with repercussions for artists between abstract and figurative today.

Throughout this process a distinct distillation of choices developed for each artist that is wide - ranging but particular: both figurative and abstract, sculptures and some works on paper have been selected in addition to paintings, and historical as well as contemporary works, are juxtaposed.

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.

Los Angeles, fine artist Anja Salonen returns to figurative painting with psychological portraits of herself and her friends posing with chains, wigs, sunglasses; all elements the artist explains as connected to the formation of the personalities of those shown.

Leon Kossoff is one of Britain's greatest living artists, best known for his impastoed figurative and cityscape paintings and his heavy emphasis on drawing, both as a medium itself and as an intrinsic part of his painting process.

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.

They're not about herself, but in her words, «about figurative painting and the artist as picture - maker.»

But like Elmer Bischoff and David Park, with whom he made the turn to figurative painting a few years later, Diebenkorn was asking questions that abstract expressionism couldn't always answer, even though, as the early works in the show at the Royal Academy (until 7 June) suggest, he was a loyal and talented disciple: the LA Times described him as «one of the most gifted artists in the American non-objective field».

She was a featured artist in Southwest Magazines Figurative Issue November 2003 and was selected as an «Artist to Watch» in their November 2002 artist in Southwest Magazines Figurative Issue November 2003 and was selected as an «Artist to Watch» in their November 2002 Artist to Watch» in their November 2002 issue.

In this show six artists working in a figurative mode — including Dana Schutz, Henry Taylor and past NAP cover artist Keith Mayerson — demonstrate how the oldest of subject matters can, in the right hands, be as relevant as ever.

Assael is recognized nationally as one of the leading representational figurative artists of his generation.

Matisse stands as the artist who most directly got under the skin of his work, and indeed there have been few artists who have engaged as deeply and as intelligently with Matisse's paintings, and yet managed to create a distinctly American panorama, both in his figurative work and, to a point, his later abstract canvases.

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.

Lonely Old Slogans traces Richter's earliest, colour - intensive abstract improvisations through to his figurative works, described by the artist as a new form of history painting.

With Abstract Expressionism at the forefront of American painting, these artists, which included Richard Diebenkorn, David Park, Roland Peterson, and Wayne Thiebaud — often referred to as the Bay Area Figurative artists — explored inventive new ways to depict traditional subject matter — the figure, landscape, and still life.