Sentences with phrase «best figurative sculptors»

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

I know I'm being annoying (I can't help it), but I'm not trying to say Studio Schoolers are smarter than Brancasterites — or that figurative sculptors are better than abstract sculptors.

On display are Magdalena Abakanowicz» Hurma, an epic figurative environment by the Polish sculptor; Isaac Julien's Western Union: Small Boats, a video installation on migration and the hope for a better life; George Osodi's Oil Rich Niger Delta, a photographic essay on the people of Nigeria; and Photography and Sculpture: A Correlated Exhibition (new and vintage photography linked to contemporary sculpture).

• Alberto Giacometti (1901 - 66) Swiss sculptor noted for his «existentialist» figurative and semi-abstract art, as well as his avant - garde Surrealist abstract sculpture.

Barry Flanagan, Welsh - born sculptor (born Jan. 11, 1941, Prestatyn, North Wales — died Aug. 31, 2009, Ibiza, Spain), was best known for his series of monumental elongated bronze hares, which, though essentially figurative, convey an incredible sense of movement, energy, and irreverent whimsy.

Henri Laurens (1885 - 1954) French sculptor, printmaker, designer and illustrator, noted for his voluptuous nudes and later outstanding figurative work as well as his Cubist «constructions», of wood and polychrome plaster.

Interestingly I see abstract painters having to compete with the best of figurative painters in a way that I don't seem to see abstract sculptors having to compete with figurative sculptors.

I'm not in any way advocating anyone starts mimicking the spaces (or anything else) of figurative art; I am suggesting (yet again, tiresomely) that abstract painters and sculptors compare their output with the best achievements of figuration, which of course includes some great modernist art, if that's what you want to call it.