AM: Youâ $ ™ re seen as one of the pre-eminent British
contemporary figurative painters working today, but you seem to be linked with the street art movement â $ «perhaps through association â $ «as the majority of the other Lazarides artists having this sort of background.
Jerome Witkin is recognized as one of the most formidable
contemporary figurative painters.
Art historian Judith Wilson characterized that Provincetown summer as exemplifying an «ecstasy of influence»: the influences of
contemporary figurative painters on Thompson's work.
He is one of the seven painters included in the book Selected
Contemporary Figurative Painters, published in 2010 by the Tianjin People's Fine Arts Publishing House and edited by Qimin Liu, which introduces contemporary American realist painting to the Chinese audience.
Leveille: I speak in a language of pictures.In a similar way that
contemporary figurative painters such as Currin, Kerry James Marshall, and Robin Francis Williams use a sense narrative, I also use it as an artistic tool.This is very inspiring in its own right to me, the exploration of an image, not in service TO narrative but that employs these things as tools to make an emotional connection with the viewer.
I thought it would be interesting to put them in a context with several other generations of
contemporary figurative painters, who are continuing to do vital work and are changing with the times.
Part of a group of
contemporary figurative painters in New York (including John Currin, Will Cotton, and Lisa Yuskavage), she is also associated with Pop Surrealism.
Whether appropriated by
some contemporary figurative painters or aligned with some sort of new figuration, where the painters «find everything to be a matter of images» (to quote Barry Schwabsky from the online catalogue for «A New Subjectivity»), Abstraction clearly and demonstratively engages with the problems of painting (and collage and sculpture) despite the surprising conservatism of Kerry James Marshall.
Contemporary Figurative painter.
Julio Reyes is
a contemporary figurative painter and former promising soccer player from Los Angeles.
«For
contemporary figurative painter Kent Williams, «the tactile qualities of the painted surface, the mark - making itself, plays as big a role in the resonance of a work» as its narrative aspects.
Royo (Jose Mateu San Hilario) is a Spanish
Contemporary Figurative painter whose exuberant brushstroke technique achieves intense luminosity and a sense of great vitality.
A noted
contemporary figurative painter, Stevovich grew up in Washington, D.C., and as a young chil...
Medium: Oil painting on linen Image size: 5.75 x 4 inches Frame size: 14 x 12 x 2 inches Signed at lower right: AVS A noted
contemporary figurative painter, Stevovich grew up in Washington, D.C., and as a young child spent time roaming the halls of the National Gallery of Art, where he was particularly drawn to the Renaissance paintings that would come to inform his work.
Medium: Oil painting on linen Image size: 4.25 x 3.75 inches Frame size: 13.25 x 12.25 x 2 inches Signed at lower right: AVS A noted
contemporary figurative painter, Stevovich grew...
Medium: Oil painting on linen Image size: 6.25 x 5.5 inches Frame size: 15.25 x 14.25 x 2 inches Signed at lower right: AVS A noted
contemporary figurative painter, Stevovich grew u...
Medium: Oil painting on linen Image size: 10 x 7.25 inches Frame size: 19 x 16 x 2 inches Signed at lower right: AVS A noted
contemporary figurative painter, Stevovich grew up in Wa...
Jim Kempner Fine Art is pleased to announce UNSUNG, its first exhibition with
the contemporary figurative painter Carole Freeman.
Famous Irish artists born in, or associated with, Wicklow include: George Campbell, (Still Life and Landscape Artist); Lilian Lucy Davidson, (Landscape, Portrait and Genre Painter); Richard Kingston, (Landscape, Still Life and Flower Painter); Brian Maguire, (Expressionist Painter); Rasher (Mark Kavanagh)(Contemporary Figurative and Still Life Painter); Camille Souter, (Landscape Artist); Michael Cullen, (Modern Artist); Damien Flood, (Contemporary Pop Artist); Brian Henderson, (Contemporary Abstract Artist); John Jobson, (Painter and Sculptor); Cecil King, (Abstract Artist); Eoin O'Connor, (Contemporary Abstract Painter); Laurence O'Toole, (
Contemporary Figurative Painter, Landscape Artist); Stanley Pettigrew, (Landscape Artist and Illustrator); Yann Renard - Goulet, (Sculptor); Liam Treacy, (Impressionist Style Still Life and Landscape Painter); Mabel Young, (Landscape Artist).
Not exact matches
The
contemporary collectors who cut their teeth on younger artists are going back to wonderful
figurative painters like Neel.
BB: I consider myself at the moment an abstract
painter enthralled with observational painting, but one issue I have with post-war and
contemporary figurative painting is how overbearing the «abstraction» can be sometimes.
MB: I am sure that the painting from Cluj is associated with the term
Figurative Painting, which has regained more than a fashionable status in the art world, and the «old masters» have become key reference points for many
contemporary painters.
His
contemporaries were the abstract expressionists, though he was never really one of them because he was a
figurative painter.
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.
Midwest
Painters Demonstrate Realism and Its Discontents By Jud Yalkut Taking its cue from Sigmund Freud's treatise on psychology and civilization, the current exhibition by the Midwest Paint Group tackles the place of realism and
figurative art in
contemporary times.
Neel challenged the artistic conventions of her time by pursuing a career as a
figurative painter when her
contemporaries favored abstraction.
Her work relates to some of Chicago's existential
figurative painters of the 1950s, but with a distinctively
contemporary visage.
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.
FRANCIS PICABIA: OUR HEADS ARE ROUND SO OUR THOUGHTS CAN CHANGE DIRECTION Picabia was on the ground with the Dadaists in Paris, but this exhibition includes his later work, which has influenced
contemporary painters — perverse
figurative paintings that look like precursors to Pop Art, or pulp fiction book covers.
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.
The
figurative painter Lois Dodd, the last living founder of the Tanager Gallery (1952 - 1962), the most influential of the artist - run galleries that clustered on East 10th Street, said it was difficult for people in today's supercharged
contemporary art world to imagine how profoundly uninterested collectors and dealers were in the 1950s in most art being made at the time.
These
painters focused on depicting
contemporary life through innovative
figurative works, rather than the abstraction, minimalism, and conceptualism that dominated
contemporary art at the time.
Rarely do these commissions make any kind of larger statement about American art, but last fall, when Barack Obama selected Kehinde Wiley — a
figurative painter who deploys the techniques, poses and patterns of the grand tradition of Baroque European paintings to portray
contemporary black and brown men he finds on the street — to paint his official portrait for the Smithsonian, it at least reflected the Obamas» well - developed connections to the world of culture.
Their influence has extended to artists as diverse as abstract
painter Jack Bush and the
Painters Eleven, as well as
contemporary Scottish (and former Montréaler)
figurative painter Peter Doig.
The fact he maintained a commitment to the
figurative tradition to some degree [1] makes this
painter truly stand out from the rest of his famous
contemporaries who opted for the pure abstraction style.
Probably benefiting from the buzz around the New Museum's current exhibition Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon (until 21 January 2018), which features some of the same artists, Engender shows how
contemporary painters are complicating identity and the body with a range of abstract and
figurative strategies.
Pure abstraction suffers from its association to «Zombie Formalism,» what the
painter and critic Walter Robinson called abstraction made to feed the market, while the bulk of
contemporary figurative painting does little more than illustrate the conceptual and / or political leanings of the artist.
Remarking on the «Women Painting Women: Our Collective Conscience,» Demato pointed out that the show not only reveals a snapshot of the current state of
painters working in
contemporary figurative realism today but provides insights into the different muses influencing female
painters today.
Belgian
painter Luc Tuymans (born 1958), one of the key figures in the 1990s revival of
figurative painting, is also one of
contemporary art's great history
painters, tackling historical traumas and their representations in a restrained — though resolutely painterly — style and pale, muted palette.
During the next three decades, he established himself as one of the most important Chinese
contemporary painters, whose
figurative works delve into the human psyche, exploring personal and collective memory in the wake of the Cultural Revolution.
Jonas Woods is a
contemporary American
figurative painter known for his lush use of color.
With the resurgence of
figurative contemporary painting,
painters of the 1980s — who experimented with appropriated imagery and photographic resources while critics challenged the relevance of their medium — offer a fruitful comparison.
Sherri Wolfgang is a
Contemporary Renaissance
painter and is known for her
figurative works.
Sherri Wolfgang is a
Contemporary Renaissance
painter known for her
figurative works.
The intense color and sunlight of the west coast, along with the influence of the Society of Six, Bay Area
Figurative painters, and other
contemporary northern California artists, gives her art its singular character.
Already quite of reputable figure with a handsome international following as an illustrator of comics and graphic novels (under the name Rebecca Guay), Leveille is now recognized as a formidable
figurative painter, whose works show «a distinct influence from the great Renaissance masters revamped with a fresh dosage of
contemporary cleanliness and edge».
While it's true that he was a slightly younger
contemporary of
painters like Julian Schnabel and Francesco Clemente, who were making a mark with
figurative works at the beginning of the 1980s, most of the outstanding black
painters of the generation preceding Marshall's own — Frank Bowling, Ed Clark, Sam Gilliam, Howardena Pindell, Jack Whitten — were committed abstractionists.
Sherri Wolfgang is a
contemporary renaissance
painter and is known for her
figurative works.
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