Sentences with phrase «as figurative painters»

That's because I'd always thought of the essential Guston as the figurative painter of the 1970s.

Neel challenged the artistic conventions of her time by pursuing a career as a figurative painter when her contemporaries favored abstraction.

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.

The experience of growing up in New York City, surrounded by an extraordinary human landscape, along with my early background as a dancer, and then as a figurative painter, laid the foundation for my subject of choice.

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.

Like Francis Bacon, though, it pleased Hodgkin to refer to himself as a figurative painter; and, as with Bacon's suggestion that his own smeared agonies were realist, Hodgkin's use of the term figurative seemed to most viewers of these sumptuously coloured abstractions nothing more than a tease.

After beginning as a figurative painter with socio - political themes, he won an international reputation as an abstract artist.

In 1991, a retrospective of this artist's works in the Musee de la Marine in Paris showed his talent as a figurative painter.

Jordan Richardson paints from a place of incredulity and with this approach he appears to deliberately defy easy categorisation as a figurative painter.

So those two are really important, and then there are all of the figurative artists that I love, because I think of myself as a figurative painter.

Oliveira came into prominence as a figurative painter in the late 1950s, counter to the dominant Abstract Expressionist trend.

David Gerstein is an Israeli painter and sculptor who began as a figurative painter and illustrator of children books and was recipient of the Israel Museum Prize for illustration.

Using traditional methods as figurative painter, I am intrigued with painting the fragility and impermanence of everyday scenes.

I think she has a way to go as a figurative painter; her work partly comes out of the swagger portrait and late 19th - century French tradition of Manet and Degas.

In a different vein, «Mother's Watchful Eye» reveals Joseph Kleitsch as a figurative painter.

The white of the canvas was of extreme importance to Forge, who began his career as a figurative painter but, after years of frustration, traded realism for the real — a search for «a sense of truth,» as he termed it in the interview, that was inspired by his friendship with Alberto Giacometti and, later, by the «very vivid correspondence with my sense of the world, my sense of reality,» that he found in the work of Robert Rauschenberg.

Bowling began his career as a figurative painter, having been briefly involved in the British Pop Movement of the»50s and»60s.

Bowling began his career as a figurative painter, and was involved in the British Pop Movement of the»50s and»60s.

Alex Katz emerged in the 1950s as a figurative painter in an age of abstraction, challenging critics who shunned imagery in art, especially the figure.

Neel worked as a figurative painter throughout the decades of WPA realism, postwar abstract expressionism, 1960s Pop, and 1970s minimalism.

Entering this space evokes the experience of stepping into a painting, informed by Baggesen's formal training as a figurative painter in the Netherlands in the 1990s (she studied at the Rijksakademie from 1996 — 1997 under painter Luc Tuymans).

Distinguished for his abstract colour fields, Frank Bowling began his career as a figurative painter.

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.

As a figurative painter, Auerbach's focused his creativity on portraits and city scenes in and around Camden Town.

William H. Bailey is an American artist, best known as a figurative painter whose work is in major collections, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.

What are the things that draw my attention, as a figurative painter?

After four decades spent in the shadows — as Mr. Freud's partner, as a woman artist and as a figurative painter when the genre was pronounced dead — Ms. Paul, now 58, is drawing attention for her soulful and melancholy portraits.

Kong began as a figurative painter and studied art at museums.

She first gained recognition as a figurative painter, had her first London show in 1921 and was invited to join the London Group in 1922.

Bowling began his career as a figurative painter, but moved towards abstraction after moving from Britain to New York in 1966.

Although she began her practice as a figurative painter, she has abandoned the figure in search of more intimate portrayals of the human essence.

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Of course, he made his mark as a young figurative painter and drawer after attending the Norwegian Nerderum School as a teenager.

When he returned to painting in the Bay Area in mid-1965 his resulting works summed up all that he had learned from his more than a decade as a leading figurative painter.

One of the foremost American figurative painters of the twentieth century, Neel is known for her portraits of family, friends, and neighbors as well as the writers, poets, and other cultural and political figures she encountered in a career spanning the 1920s to the 1980s.

As is typical, many galleries are bringing out the big guns for the new season — from Agnes Martin at The Pace Gallery in New York to a well structured survey of Bay Area figurative painter, Nathan Oliveira, at John Berggruen Gallery in San Francisco.

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

Alice Neel is today recognised as one of the greatest American figurative painters of the twentieth century.

Stefan Szczesny September 13 — October 9, 2012 The exhibit explores the early 80s, when Szczesny emerged as one of the protagonists of a young generation of bold figurative painters in the German - speaking world who came to be known as «Neue Wilde.»

These lectures enthusiastically commend less visually appealing works almost as if they will be good for us, cod - liver oil for the eyes — but twentieth - century figurative painters Alice Neel, Sylvia Sleigh, and Philip Pearlstein simply do not paint as beautifully as Courbet or Renoir.

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.

Beginning his career as a figurative, expressionist painter, Segal soon transitioned to figurative sculpture.

But when it comes to viewing David Park's body of work, this book shines with superb color plates dispersed throughout, showing Park's development as a painter from his early days, his non-figurative period, his return to figurative painting, and his final figurative work in gouache.

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.»

Picking up the baton from generations of male figurative painters, such as Lucian Freud, to whom she is frequently compared, Jenny Saville is often credited with a «reappropriation» of the female figure.

Probably no other twentieth - century American figurative painter developed as singular a style as Alice Neel.

With a practice spanning the 1920s to the 1980s, Neel is widely regarded as one of the foremost American figurative painters of the twentieth century.

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.

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.

A few years before the memorable crit at MassArt, his work had been included in the Corcoran Gallery's 40th Biennial of Contemporary American Painting, which critics saw as an antidote to the «camp and kitsch» of figurative painters like David Salle and Eric Fischl.