Further
details of figurative art identified in these last two seasons included many more corpulent clay figurines, an intriguing snail figurine, a pair of enigmatic «female torso» pendants, and a broken - up finely carved standing figure, originally almost a meter in height.
Not exact matches
In the introduction to a 2003 essay on Tomaselli's work in Parkett magazine, curator James Rondeau writes: «Over the course
of the last ten years, Fred Tomaselli has established an international reputation for his meticulously crafted, richly
detailed, deliriously beautiful works
of both abstract and
figurative art.
The Figure in Contemporary
Art @ Rosenfeld Porcini An impressive collection of figurative art including a totem by Huma Bhabha and the fantastic rustic detail of Nicola Samori's painti
Art @ Rosenfeld Porcini An impressive collection
of figurative art including a totem by Huma Bhabha and the fantastic rustic detail of Nicola Samori's painti
art including a totem by Huma Bhabha and the fantastic rustic
detail of Nicola Samori's painting.
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 muralist.
Disagreeing with Cubist fragmentation, they produced
figurative art (mostly still lifes) basic forms stripped
of detail and supposedly pure in colour, form and design.
ENGLISH SCHOOLS
OF ART For details of figurative artists in England, please see: English Figurative Paintin
OF ART For
details of figurative artists in England, please see: English Figurative Paintin
of figurative artists in England, please see: English Figurative
figurative artists in England, please see: English
FigurativeFigurative Painting.
Superrealism Emerging out
of Pop
Art and Photorealism, this is an American - based
figurative genre in which certain stereotypical individuals are re-created down to the last true - to - life
detail, using polyester / fibreglass and other materials including human hair.
These include: JMW Turner (a painter arguably 50 years ahead
of his time); Claude Monet (the first revolutionary
of modern painting); Ilya Repin (the first painter to capture the authentic
detail of life in Russia); Picasso (for his mastery
of figurative and abstract
art in almost all media); Marcel Duchamp (the pioneer of Dada and Object Art, from which Conceptual Art emerged); the husband and wife team Christo and Jeanne - Claude (empaquetage, or packaging); Andy Warhol (the first and arguably greatest postmodernist); Gilbert & George (living sculptures); Damien Hirst (art's greatest self - publicist) and of course the graffiti terrorist Bank
art in almost all media); Marcel Duchamp (the pioneer
of Dada and Object
Art, from which Conceptual Art emerged); the husband and wife team Christo and Jeanne - Claude (empaquetage, or packaging); Andy Warhol (the first and arguably greatest postmodernist); Gilbert & George (living sculptures); Damien Hirst (art's greatest self - publicist) and of course the graffiti terrorist Bank
Art, from which Conceptual
Art emerged); the husband and wife team Christo and Jeanne - Claude (empaquetage, or packaging); Andy Warhol (the first and arguably greatest postmodernist); Gilbert & George (living sculptures); Damien Hirst (art's greatest self - publicist) and of course the graffiti terrorist Bank
Art emerged); the husband and wife team Christo and Jeanne - Claude (empaquetage, or packaging); Andy Warhol (the first and arguably greatest postmodernist); Gilbert & George (living sculptures); Damien Hirst (
art's greatest self - publicist) and of course the graffiti terrorist Bank
art's greatest self - publicist) and
of course the graffiti terrorist Banksy.
I need not speak in
detail about this new manner, which appears in
figurative as well as abstract
art; but I think it is worth observing that in many ways it is a break with the kind
of painting that was most important in the 1920's.
Filling the rear part
of CHARLIE SMITH is Joshua Raffell — a graduate
of Chelsea College
of Art and Design — with another his mixed media
figurative sculptures; provocative and a little disturbing — a patchwork grotesque, the artist's puppet - like figures — sometimes kinetic in nature — are like a Frankenstein's monster with an overt sexuality stitched into the intricate
detail of colourful fabrics alluding to taboos that would normally illicit the opposite response in society.