Lorca is not hiding his fascination by
classical painters such as Rembrandt and Diego Velazquez and that influence can be observed in his Baroque influenced work which is dealing with sensitive issues such as violence, sensuality, innocence and childhood.
He also says he has always harboured an admiration for
classical painters such as Johannes Vermeer and Diego Vélazquez.
Not exact matches
PIERRE Banchereau — I like the
classical Flemish
painters of the 17th century,
such as Jan van Huysum, the flower photos of Hans - Peter Feldmann, the opulent décor of the Villa Boscogrande in Luchino Visconti's The Leopard, or the work of the German visual artist Gerhard Richter.
An heiress of pathbreaking abstractionists like Lee Krasner and Joan Mitchell, the British
painter Cecily Brown updates the idiom of Ab - Ex painting by reaching back farther into history, summoning
such figurative touchstones as the harrowing caricatures of Goya and the
classical reposes of Poussin and Ingres.
Painters such as Adrianne Rubenstein and Bill Saylor ride a fine line between
classical abstraction and personally coded imagery in their work.
Incorporating a hybridisation of
classical influences,
such as Raphael, Goya, Velazquez, Picasso and Manet, his work demonstrates a distinctive style which he coined «Artificial Realism» in the early 80s when he emerged as
painter on the New York art scene.
Given my involvement as a geometric abstract
painter over the years, I have indelibly respected and admired Ortman's block - like paintings, each built in a hybrid manner related to a kind of folk constructivism — a way of working that recalls some strains of
classical music,
such as Bartók and Dvorak, and to a lesser extent, the folk - style sculpture of H. C. Westermann and the faux - systemic paintings of Alfred Jensen recently shown at Pace.
In addition to artists from these specific schools, the twentieth century saw the emergence of several individual portrait
painters,
such as the versatile Graham Sutherland, the expressive surrealist Francis Bacon, the
classical Lucien Freud and the famous «impastoist» Frank Auerbach.