Melcarth's works resembles both those of Renaissance masters and 20th -
century figurative painters like Thomas Hart Benton.
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.
Not exact matches
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.
Alice Neel is today recognised as one of the greatest American
figurative painters of the twentieth
century.
His extraordinary achievements throughout his career have made him one of the most influential
figurative painters of the late 20th and early 21st
centuries.
His artwork is represented in many distinguished museums throughout the world and has been featured in over one thousand publications.His extraordinary achievements throughout his career have made him one of the most influential
figurative painters of the late 20th and early 21st
centuries.
He references the great
figurative painters, not so much of the 20th
century, but from earlier periods.
His work occupies a unique place within the practice of contemporary photography, employing anachronistic production techniques, borrowing from the aesthetics of the finest
figurative painters of the 19th and 20th
centuries, and drawing upon the longstanding tradition of vanitas imagery.
The programme you've announced for this year has an emphasis on the twentieth
century; a show covering a
century of British
figurative painters centred on Francis Bacon and Lucien Freud; a show on the art after the First World War, followed by a show of the Victorian pre-Raphaelite
painter Edward Burne - Jones...
Probably no other twentieth -
century American
figurative painter developed as singular a style as Alice Neel.
(New York, NY)-- VENUS is pleased to present Bernard Buffet: Paintings from 1956 to 1999, an exhibition of important and historic works by the renowned late
figurative painter, who remains one of the most controversial French artists of the 20th
century.
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.
Lucian Freud is considered one of the most important
figurative painters of the 20th and 21st
centuries.
When the German dealer Susanne Vielmetter first moved out to L.A. around the turn of the
century, one of the most interesting artists she encountered there was Kim Dingle, a
figurative painter who specialized in portraits of «little girls doing unspeakable things,» the gallerist recalls.
He is widely regarded as one of the greatest
figurative painters of the twentieth and twenty - first
centuries.
16 October: The Naked and the Nude at 20th
Century Theatre — See artworks by emerging
figurative painter Rodolfo Villaplana.
One of the foremost American
figurative painters of the twentieth
century, Neel is known for her portraits of family, friends, neighbors, and locals as well as writers, poets, and other cultural and political figures.
The immense influence on generations of young artists is additionally straitened by the fact that Eric Fischl is still innovative, progressive and one of the most influential
figurative painters of the late 20th and early 21st
centuries.
The most influential and original
figurative painter of the second half of 20th
century, Francis Bacon's distorted abstract forms capture the traumatized post-war era.
One of the greatest
figurative painters of the 20th
century, Francis Bacon's Surrealist work was as often a break from tradition as it was a continuation.
The most influential
figurative painter of the late 20th
century, Bacon is featured in almost all major collections around the world whilst his auction results regularly hit the stratosphere level.
To represent the next distinguished generation of
figurative German
painters, Neo Rauch will be exhibited to anchor the central importance of German art in the twentieth and twenty - first
centuries.
With a practice spanning the 1920s to the 1980s, Alice Neel (1900 - 1984) is widely regarded as one of the foremost American
figurative painters of the twentieth
century.
Tracey Emin's My Bed (1998) is a fine example of the installations that now fill up our galleries — they are the collages of the early 21st
century — and Jenny Saville's Propped (1992) has powerful things to say about bodies in the age of obesity (also, she is about the greatest
figurative painter we have right now).
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.
Painting at a time when
figurative art was largely ignored, Balthus is recognised as one of the most controversial and innovative 20th
century painters.
This display explores the pioneering role that
painters such as Francis Bacon, Lucien Freud and David Hockney played in the reinvention of
figurative art in the second half of the 20th
century.
ENGLISH
FIGURATIVE PAINTING For details of portraiture, genre painting & subject pictures, see: English Figurative Painting Portrait art of 18th / 19th century William Hogarth (1697 - 1764) Painter, Engraver, Satirist Joshua Reynolds (1723 - 92) Portraitist, President Royal Academy William Blake (1757 - 1827) Watercolourist, Illustrator, Engraver Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 - 82) Romantic leader of Pre-Raphaelites Alfred Stevens (1817 - 75) Sculptor, painter and
FIGURATIVE PAINTING For details of portraiture, genre painting & subject pictures, see: English
Figurative Painting Portrait art of 18th / 19th century William Hogarth (1697 - 1764) Painter, Engraver, Satirist Joshua Reynolds (1723 - 92) Portraitist, President Royal Academy William Blake (1757 - 1827) Watercolourist, Illustrator, Engraver Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 - 82) Romantic leader of Pre-Raphaelites Alfred Stevens (1817 - 75) Sculptor, painter and
Figurative Painting Portrait art of 18th / 19th
century William Hogarth (1697 - 1764)
Painter, Engraver, Satirist Joshua Reynolds (1723 - 92) Portraitist, President Royal Academy William Blake (1757 - 1827) Watercolourist, Illustrator, Engraver Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 - 82) Romantic leader of Pre-Raphaelites Alfred Stevens (1817 - 75) Sculptor, painter and mu
Painter, Engraver, Satirist Joshua Reynolds (1723 - 92) Portraitist, President Royal Academy William Blake (1757 - 1827) Watercolourist, Illustrator, Engraver Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 - 82) Romantic leader of Pre-Raphaelites Alfred Stevens (1817 - 75) Sculptor,
painter and mu
painter and muralist.
An American artist who spent most of his adult life in London, Kitaj was among the most ambitious
figurative painters of the late 20th
century.
• Introduction • LIST OF FAMOUS
PAINTERS (1700 - 1900)- English Figurative Painters (18th and 19th Century)- English Landscape Painters (18th and 19th Century)- American Figurative Painters (18th and 19th Century)- American Landscape Painters (19th Century)- Japanese Ukiyo - e Artists (19th Century)- Romantic Painters - Pre-Raphaelite Painters - Realist Painters - Barbizon Plein Air Painters - Symbolists - Impressionist Painters - Neo-Impressionists - Nabis - Post-Impressionists - Russian Figurative Painters (19th Century)- Russian Landscape Painters (19th Century)- Australian School (19th Century)- Art Nouveau / Poster D
PAINTERS (1700 - 1900)- English
Figurative Painters (18th and 19th Century)- English Landscape Painters (18th and 19th Century)- American Figurative Painters (18th and 19th Century)- American Landscape Painters (19th Century)- Japanese Ukiyo - e Artists (19th Century)- Romantic Painters - Pre-Raphaelite Painters - Realist Painters - Barbizon Plein Air Painters - Symbolists - Impressionist Painters - Neo-Impressionists - Nabis - Post-Impressionists - Russian Figurative Painters (19th Century)- Russian Landscape Painters (19th Century)- Australian School (19th Century)- Art Nouveau / Poster D
Painters (18th and 19th
Century)- English Landscape
Painters (18th and 19th Century)- American Figurative Painters (18th and 19th Century)- American Landscape Painters (19th Century)- Japanese Ukiyo - e Artists (19th Century)- Romantic Painters - Pre-Raphaelite Painters - Realist Painters - Barbizon Plein Air Painters - Symbolists - Impressionist Painters - Neo-Impressionists - Nabis - Post-Impressionists - Russian Figurative Painters (19th Century)- Russian Landscape Painters (19th Century)- Australian School (19th Century)- Art Nouveau / Poster D
Painters (18th and 19th
Century)- American
Figurative Painters (18th and 19th Century)- American Landscape Painters (19th Century)- Japanese Ukiyo - e Artists (19th Century)- Romantic Painters - Pre-Raphaelite Painters - Realist Painters - Barbizon Plein Air Painters - Symbolists - Impressionist Painters - Neo-Impressionists - Nabis - Post-Impressionists - Russian Figurative Painters (19th Century)- Russian Landscape Painters (19th Century)- Australian School (19th Century)- Art Nouveau / Poster D
Painters (18th and 19th
Century)- American Landscape
Painters (19th Century)- Japanese Ukiyo - e Artists (19th Century)- Romantic Painters - Pre-Raphaelite Painters - Realist Painters - Barbizon Plein Air Painters - Symbolists - Impressionist Painters - Neo-Impressionists - Nabis - Post-Impressionists - Russian Figurative Painters (19th Century)- Russian Landscape Painters (19th Century)- Australian School (19th Century)- Art Nouveau / Poster D
Painters (19th
Century)- Japanese Ukiyo - e Artists (19th
Century)- Romantic
Painters - Pre-Raphaelite Painters - Realist Painters - Barbizon Plein Air Painters - Symbolists - Impressionist Painters - Neo-Impressionists - Nabis - Post-Impressionists - Russian Figurative Painters (19th Century)- Russian Landscape Painters (19th Century)- Australian School (19th Century)- Art Nouveau / Poster D
Painters - Pre-Raphaelite
Painters - Realist Painters - Barbizon Plein Air Painters - Symbolists - Impressionist Painters - Neo-Impressionists - Nabis - Post-Impressionists - Russian Figurative Painters (19th Century)- Russian Landscape Painters (19th Century)- Australian School (19th Century)- Art Nouveau / Poster D
Painters - Realist
Painters - Barbizon Plein Air Painters - Symbolists - Impressionist Painters - Neo-Impressionists - Nabis - Post-Impressionists - Russian Figurative Painters (19th Century)- Russian Landscape Painters (19th Century)- Australian School (19th Century)- Art Nouveau / Poster D
Painters - Barbizon Plein Air
Painters - Symbolists - Impressionist Painters - Neo-Impressionists - Nabis - Post-Impressionists - Russian Figurative Painters (19th Century)- Russian Landscape Painters (19th Century)- Australian School (19th Century)- Art Nouveau / Poster D
Painters - Symbolists - Impressionist
Painters - Neo-Impressionists - Nabis - Post-Impressionists - Russian Figurative Painters (19th Century)- Russian Landscape Painters (19th Century)- Australian School (19th Century)- Art Nouveau / Poster D
Painters - Neo-Impressionists - Nabis - Post-Impressionists - Russian
Figurative Painters (19th Century)- Russian Landscape Painters (19th Century)- Australian School (19th Century)- Art Nouveau / Poster D
Painters (19th
Century)- Russian Landscape
Painters (19th Century)- Australian School (19th Century)- Art Nouveau / Poster D
Painters (19th
Century)- Australian School (19th
Century)- Art Nouveau / Poster Designers
The zeitgeist is very much on her side: A retrospective of the African - American
figurative painter Kerry James Marshall arrives at New York's Met Breuer this month, and next summer, London's Tate Modern will mount a major exhibition on the shifting definition of «black art» in the United States in the past
century.
The
figurative painter Frank Auerbach is widely - regarded as one of Britain's best loved living artists, his intense working methods and uncompromising attitude to his own work have made him a celebrated exponent of painting in the 21st
century.
In the master bedroom on the second floor, which is dominated by a fine 19th
century Chinese coromandel screen, designer Cecilie Starin shows off a selection of Bay Area School
figurative painter Elmer Bischoff's drawings as well as a striking Martin Puryear etching from John Berggruen Gallery.
At the beginning of the 20th
century, the ambition of the great
painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art because it was abstract, not
figurative.
PAINTING COLOURS For details of colour pigments used by 18th
century English figurative painters, see: Eighteenth Century Colour p
century English
figurative painters, see: Eighteenth
Century Colour p
Century Colour palette.
Our exhibition brings together, for the first time, two of the twentieth -
century's most influential
figurative painters: Milton Avery and David Park.
Those four squares of abstraction should remind you a little bit of the motifs that Hartley has used, Marsden Hartley in the 20th
century, an important American abstract
figurative painter, an important American
painter.
Best Modern
Painters (c.1700 - present) We profile ALL the great 18th
century masters of English
figurative painting, like William Hogarth and Joshua Reynolds, as well as ALL the main members of the school of English landscape painting including JMW Turner, Constable and Richard Parkes Bonington.
1987 British Art in the 20th
Century, Royal Academy of Arts, London Works on Paper, Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London Current Affairs, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, and British Art Council tour to Mucsarnok, Budapest; National Gallery, Prague; Zacheta, Warsaw A School of London (Six
Figurative Painters), The British Council; European touring exhibition to Oslo, Humlebeck, Venice and Dusseldorf The Saatchi Collection, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
Radical
Figurative Art from Sickert to Bevan, James Hyman Fine Art, London, England 2002 Five
Painters, Kilkenny Arts Festival, Kilkenny, England 2000 Painting, I Love, Michael Hue - Williams Fine Art, London Look Out: Art, Society, Politics, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton, England; traveled to Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, England; and Wolsey Art Gallery, Ipswich, England 1999 Bacon, Bevan, Guston and Baselitz, Michael Hue - Williams Fine Art, London The School of London: From Bacon to Bevan, Musee Maillol, Paris; traveled to Auditorio de Galicia, de Santa Maria Compostela, Spain; and Kunsthaus Wien, Austria 1998 Last Dreams of the Millennium — The Reemergence of British Romantic Painting, Stephen Solovy Art Foundation; traveled to California State University; Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler TX; Manoa Art Gallery, University of Hawaii, Honolulu 1996 Masculine Measure, Michael Kohler Arts Centre, Sheboygan, Wisconsin 1995 Inside Out, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut; traveled to Galeria Arialdo Ceribelli, Bergamo, Italy 1994 Here and Now: Painting since 1970, Serpentine Gallery, London, England 1993 The Portrait Now, National Portrait Gallery, London, England 1992 British
Figurative Painting of the 20th
Century, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel 1991 Out of Limbo, Foundacion Luis Cernuda, Seville, Spain Five
Painters from London, Colegio de Arquitectos, Malaga, Spain 1990 Inconsolable, Louver Gallery, New York, New YorK Picturing People:
Figurative Art in Britain 1945 — 84, British Council touring exhibition: National Gallery, Kuala Lumpur; Museum of Art, Hong Kong; National Gallery, Harare, Zimbabwe 1989 Prospect 89, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany 1988 European Painting and Sculpture, L.A. Louver, Venice, CA Contemporary Portraits, Flowers East, London, England Aperto 88, XLIII Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
1981: «Eight
Figurative Artists», Yale Center for British Art, New Haven 1984: «The Hard Won Image», Tate Gallery 1986: «Forty Years of Modern Art», Tate Gallery 1987: «British Art in the 20th
Century», Royal Academy of Arts. 1987: «A School of London: Six
Figurative Painters», Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo; Museum of Modern Art, Louisiana; Museo d'Arte Moderna, Venice; Kunstmuseum, Dusseldorf.
Sarah Glennie, Director of IMMA, said: «We are delighted to announce today that the IMMA Collection has secured an important long - term loan of 50 works by Lucian Freud (1922 - 2011); one of the greatest
figurative painters of the 20th -
century.
He also purchased works by the great still - life and genre -
painter Jean Chardin, the leader of the French Realists Gustave Courbet, the 19th
century modernist Edouard Manet (an important link in a chain between Goya and Matisse), the Impressionist leader Claude Monet (peerless
painter of light), the great
figurative artist Edgar Degas, and the great colourist Henri Matisse.
Peter Kröning, a wood sculptor, and Daniel Wiesenfeld, a
figurative painter, create their art with materials and techniques that have been around for
centuries.
What thoughts or advice would you give someone seeking rigorous
figurative training but also wants to be a 21st
century painter painting modern concerns.
He is the most self effacing British
painter of the twentieth
century, abandoning
figurative painting in 1947, when he was 39, in favour of the abstract, behind which he concealed himself for five decades.