Sentences with phrase «best figurative»

Just when abstraction started to match the complexity and variety of the content in the best figurative painting abstract artists turned away, seemingly needing to embrace something new, leading to all sorts of varieties of minimalism («hollowing out?»).

As for the «best figurative work of the past», it is interesting that painting was given such intellectual pre eminence in the Renaissance.

In this dynamic new group exhibition presented by Modern Eden Gallery and curated by beautiful.bizarre, 60 of the best figurative new contemporary artists from around the world were asked to consider the modern woman in all her complexities and contradictions.

ENGLISH ART MUSEUMS Works by England's best figurative artists can be seen in museums like: the National Gallery London and the Tate Britain.

The Human Factor An exploration of today's best figurative sculpture, with work by Jeff Koons, Paul McCarthy, Katharina Fritsch and many more.

Additionally, it gives an overview of the working practices of some of the best figurative artists working today.

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.»

«There are always good figurative painters, but tell me, when was the last time you saw a great survey of figurative painting in an American museum?»

My hunch is that any tension or pressure in abstract painting may come more from that quarter — the mindset of how they are constructed — rather than the reconcilliation of three - dimensions in two that you get with good figurative painting.

Not exact matches

We merged teams for better collaboration, implemented new reward mechanisms, reworked reporting structures, redesigned the whole office and literally knocked down walls - literal and figurative.

If the Cheap Nike Free Run can truly play their best with the flip of a figurative switch, now would be the time to make sure it's engaged.

It is a good rule that in trying to understand the Bible one should not have recourse to a figurative or allegorical explanation of any passage (outside those poetical and prophetical compositions which obviously have a symbolic intention) without first settling conclusions with the straightforward meaning, even if it seems offensive; for the offence may set up that tension in the mind through which we often reach the truth.

, and its Atlanta, one of the best literal and figurative communities on TV.

That makes Atlanta, and its Atlanta, one of the best literal and figurative communities on TV.

So for Christians to believe the actual, absolute, eternal lake of fire «hell», well if they only knew they were making something literal that was always meant to be figurative.

He hardly speaks in parables at all, though he does use figurative language, and in such discourses as that of the Vine and the Branches, and the Good Shepherd, he does approach the parable type.

Ever since Lee Trevino got zapped, the highly charged atmosphere on the links has turned Into a physical, as well as a figurative, concern

Well, the «mom» of our office, of course, who was designated as the figurative, and literal, mother of our office.

You might be scratching your head and wondering how admitting that you're at the end of your figurative rope is actually an indication of how damn good you are at raising humans, but hear me out.

Well, until that day, all we have are ridiculous portrayals of breastfeeding to hang our figurative hats on.

In literal as well as figurative terms, for after I've closed this live blog I'm going to put on my jacket.

There seems to be some kind of disconnect between knowing and doing in the teenage brain — and new work in neuroscience suggests this disconnect is literal as well as figurative.

Argo is a valentine to the cinema in the very convincing drag of a political thriller; a closing title reveals that Chambers was literally declared a national hero for his work with Mendez, and it's the movie's sly mission to get us thinking of him as a figurative one as well, for all those great ape makeups.

The Good Planet of the Apes — Wahlberg flexed both his figurative and literal muscles in this action - packed thriller and showed everyone exactly who it was that would take the action genre by storm.

There is a story amid all this figurative and literal excrement: a dirty - minded Freaky Friday riff with Bateman's workaholic family man switching bodies with his best friend, Ryan Reynolds» irresponsible, uber - douchey struggling actor.

While co-directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris (Ruby Sparks, Little Miss Sunshine) wring tension and suspense from the same - day build - up to the match, the match itself — captured by grainy, fuzzy TV cameras with the occasional, ground - level insert — and the immediate aftermath (symbolic and figurative, more than real or long - lasting), it's in the months - long lead - up to the match, following Billie Jean King (Emma Stone, never better) and Bobby Riggs (Steve Carell) where Battle of the Sexes steps up its game to offer a sympathetic, insightful, poignant, behind - the - scenes look at the private lives of the public personas who stepped onto the tennis court of the Houston Astrodome on September 20th, 1973, as Americans on both sides of the political divide watched in rapt attention.

There's also deadpan Greek filmmaker Athina Rachel Tsangari's Chevalier, in which a guys» weekend becomes a figurative and literal dick - measuring contest, as a group of insecure dudes try to determine who is «the best in general.»

There are a variety of ways to remove funding from chronically low - performing schools and transfer it to better schools (including moving the dollars in the figurative «backpacks» of the students) that merit serious consideration.

In upper grade levels, students will interpret personification in context as well as analyze the role of the figurative language within the text.

For a lesson plan designed to help teach students improve their reading comprehension, for example, you might state that at the end of the lesson, students should be able to read and understand figurative language, plot, climax, and other fiction characteristics, as well as the elements of nonfiction, and display the ability to find specific information in the text.

As well as the above, there are also a number of literary devices which can be used in figurative language as well.

As with most types of figurative language, students encounter similes in their daily speech as well as in literature.

As the 2014 CTS hammers down the rough, pockmarked asphalt between the fields and twists through sharp, deeply cambered corners under the oaks, it's as if we're being invited to shake down the car in a way that's literal as well as figurative.

The road to Hell is often paved with good intentions, and the figurative cobblestones that we lay down as pet parents will often have the opposite effects than originally intended.

Each level is a machine, and in order to best it, you must become an operative part of that figurative machine.

Richard Diebenkorn, the versatile artist best known for his association with the Bay Area Figurative Movement and later for his «Ocean Park» series of paintings, will have his catalogue raisonné published this fall by Yale University Press in conjunction with... Read More

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.

Society's obsession with female beauty is undeniable, but the beauty presented in advertising is two - dimensional in the figurative as well as the literal sense, airbrushed and Photoshopped to oblivion and usually devoid of all but the most basic emotion (Wow, that model's really happy with her new mascara!).

I rarely do figurative these days but when I do for my own pleasure, it does stabilise me in my productive abstract «zone» very well.

Opening at Mana Contemporary in Jersey City on Saturday, May 10 and continuing to August 1, 2014, the exhibition will present work from Resnick's entire six - decade career, including a rare 1937 portrait; quintessential Abstract Expressionist paintings from the 1940s and»50s; a selection of the large allover paintings of the 1960s through 1980s for which Resnick is best known; and a group of late figurative works.

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

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.

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.

An admired artist in India, Arpita Singh, who is best known for her figurative paintings of woman, often floating in an elusive space, rarely shows in America and that is our loss.

Al Johnson is better known for his figurative art works.

If the «contemporary» scene suffers from a crushing surfeit of concept and reference, which ends in tedium and irrelevance, the contemporary figurative scene suffers from a lack of internal criticism, from a failure to distinguish between what is well painted and what is good art, which ends in mediocrity and kitsch.

Selected Group Exhibitions 2016 — «Faculty Exhibition», Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL 2015 — «Wish List», Gallery Project, curated by Gloria Pritschet and Rocco DePietro, Toledo, Ohio and Ann Arbor, Michigan 2015 — «Roots», Linda Warren Projects, Chicago, IL 2015 — Noyes Cultural Arts Center, Evanston, IL 2015 — «Faculty Exhibition», Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL 2014 — «National Contemporary Painting», Weatherhead Gallery, University of Saint Francis, Fort Wayne, Indiana 2013 — «31st Juried Art Show», Wilmette Public Library, Wimette, IL 2012 — «30th Juried Art Show», Wilmette Public Library, Wimette, IL 2012 — «Narrative Fragments», Quidley & Company, Boston, MA 2011 — «Juxtaposed», juried by Alyssa Monks, Six Summit Gallery, Ivoryton, CT 2011 — «Paintworks», Gowanus Ballroom, curated by Kristin Kunc, Courtney Jordan & Hyeseung Marriage - Song, Brooklyn, NY 2011 — «Space Invaders», co-curated by Virginia Rose and John Nickle, Rose Contemporary, Portland, ME 2011 — «Cinematic Bodies», curated by Jamie Adams, Zolla Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL 2010 — «Snow», XL Projects, Syracuse University Gallery, Syracuse, NY 2010 — «Women Painting Women», Robert Lange Studios Gallery, Charleston, SC 2010 — «Remnants», Fuse Gallery, New York, NY 2010 — «Highlights» Island Weiss Gallery, New York, NY 2010 — «Conceptually Sound», Medialia Rack and Hamper Gallery, New York, NY 2010 — «Chicago Art Fair», shown by Linda Warren Gallery in Chicago, Illinois 2010 — «Looks good on Paper», DFN Gallery, New York, NY 2009 — «Water / Bodies», Eden Rock Gallery, St. Barths, F.W.I. 2009 — «Summer Exhibition 2009», curated by Eric Fischl, Matthew Flowers, Anne Strauss, New York Academy of Art, NY, NY 2009 — «Old School», Jack the Pelican, Brooklyn, NY 2009 — Caldwell Snyder, San Francisco, CA 2008 — «Small Works», Sarah Bain Gallery, Anaheim, CA 2008 — «City Lights», George Billis Gallery, New York, NY 2008 — «Chicago Art Fair», shown by Linda Warren Gallery in Chicago, Illinois 2008 — «Take Home a Nude» Art Auction at Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, NY 2007 — «Summer Exhibition 2007», curated by Eric Fischl, Jenny Saville, Vincent Desiderio, New York Academy of Art, NY, NY 2007 — «Four Handed Lift: Advocacy, Art, Spirit and Community», Moti Hasson Gallery, New York, NY 2007 — «Small Works», Sarah Bain Gallery, Anaheim, CA 2008 — «Chicago Art Fair», shown by Linda Warren Gallery in Chicago, Illinois 2006 — «Contemporary Imaginings, The Howard A. and Judith Tullman Collection», Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, Alabama 2006 — «Night of a Thousand Drawings», Group Show, Artist's Space, New York, NY 2006 — «AAF», shown by DFN Gallery, New York, NY 2006 — «Salon 2006», New York Academy of Art, New York, NY 2006 — «LA Art Fair», shown by Linda Warren Gallery in Chicago, Los Angeles, CA 2005 — «New Works», curated by Eric Fischl, Jane Gallery, St. Barthelemy, F.W.I. 2005 — «A Terrible Beauty: Figurative painting in the 21st Century», Grey McGear Modern, Santa Monica, CA 2005 — «Small Works», Sarah Bain Gallery, Brea, CA 2005 — «Cityscapes», Sarah Bain Gallery, Brea, CA 2005 — «Take Home a Nude» Art Auction at Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, NY 2005 — «Go Figure», George Billis Gallery, New York, NY 2004 — «Postcards from the Edge, Visual Aids Benefit», Brent Sikemma Gallery, New York, NY 2004 — «Night of a Thousand Drawings», Group Show, Artist's Space, New York, NY 2004 — «Points of Muse», Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago, IL 2004 — «Separate Visions», Sarah Bain Gallery, Brea, CA 2004 — «Still Life», Sarah Bain Gallery, Brea, CA 2004 — «27th Small Works Exhibition», New York, NY 2003 — «Space Invaders», curated by Peter Drake, Fish Tank Gallery, New York, NY 2003 — «26th Small Works Exhibition», New York, NY 2002 — «National Arts Club 26th Annual Student Show», National Arts Club, New York, NY

Known formerly for her figurative works in oil on canvas, as well as using everyday materials including biro and bleach, Saville has — since 2014 — been producing large - scale abstracts, made up of flawlessly gradating shades.