Sentences with phrase «did figurative painting»

I did figurative painting as an undergraduate and in graduate school.

I guess that sounds a little snobbish to me, when I say nobody was doing figurative painting, whereas most of the artists in San Francisco were.

After painting this work, Kadish did some figurative paintings of swimmers.

Why does figurative painting seem to have «too much baggage» to a more abstract - inclined audience, or why can it often veer into being «embarrassing»?

Not exact matches

His paintings are so appealing at first sight, as delightful coloured patterns with pleasing figurative imagery, that many look no longer, or see no further, and for them the magical metamorphosis does not take place; they do not find that they are standing on a little terrace under a walnut tree looking through an overgrown garden straight towards the afternoon sun which is sparkling on the Seine below them, and all looking not as it would to them, but more mysterious, more overpowering, fuller of space and light and colour and overwhelmingly real and harmonious.

JS: There are also more abstract paintings, which don't have figurative characters.

The show includes early works in oil, watercolor, gouache and ink; Abstract Expressionist paintings done in California; and «Untitled (Horse and Rider)» (1954), considered one of his first mature figurative paintings.

Sometime in 1940 Rothko makes his last figurative painting, then experiments with Surrealism, and eventually does away entirely with any figural suggestion in his paintings, abstracting them further and paring them down to indeterminate shapes floating in fields of color - Multiforms as they were called by others - which were greatly influenced by Milton Avery's style of painting.

Don't be puzzled by Cecily Brown's abstract figurative paintings!

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.

Kramer didn't seem interested that Guston had painted figurative murals for a couple of decades before working in abstraction, and he made no connections between the new work and the old.

It's hard to divide a line — except that little painting in there, «Untitled» (1962 - 3) who owns it also asked me, «Did you ever make figurative paintings?»

What inspired you to do a show of figurative painting and sculpture?

A provocative figurative oil painting on paper of a couple the question asking, «So how do we finish this?

In media, he was all over the map: painting (abstract and figurative), drawing, photography, collage, sculpture, film, installation, performance, sound art; he did them all, often messy, counterintuitive combinations.

But I still had this desire to do a really strong show on new figurative painting, and I just adapted it to this commercial situation — a show that's supported by making sales, which we do in this sector.

The theme of «Unrealism» is very straightforward — the winds are shifting, and there's some very fresh figurative painting, and we're seeing this cycle just like we did in 1980 or» 82 — a new interest in figuration.

The artist does paint portraits, but the figurative work shown here celebrates gesture, line and surface more than the likeness of the sitter.»

Carroll's photographs call to mind multiple art historical influences — Greco - Roman figurative sculpture and its distinctive treatment of draping done in marble, the opulent cascades of textile pattern in Northern Renaissance painting, and the still life genre — in related series in Still / Life exhibited together for the first time.

In an unexpectedly combative interview in advance of the show's installation, he spoke to Artspace deputy editor Karen Rosenberg about what critics do or don't see in his work, whether figurative painting is having a resurgence, and why the word «political» carries so much baggage.

It's the same with figurative paintings, I care less about what it's a painting of than I do about how it's painted.

Yet from the mini-survey of his often klutzy - looking figurative paintings on view in «Cher Peintre,» I sensed a full - tilt Kippenberger retrospective might be in the offing at the Pompidou, and Gingeras has said, in fact, she would like to do such a show.

I don't think I could make figurative paintings specifically about a certain event.

Though Greene does do landscapes, aerial landscapes, and other figurative work, it will be his abstract paintings on display in Clifton Springs.

They feel stressful and cathartic — it's refreshing to see figurative painting that's smart but doesn't mask the artist's hand in layers of irony.

EC: «The story of British figurative painting doesn't begin in 1945.

Also, we had Leon Golub, who did his large, partially untreated canvases, and then we went from Arnulf Rainer to [Gérard] Gasiorowski, to Raoul De Keyser, who was then still alive and making these amazing abstract paintings, to Robert Ryman, to Malcolm Morley — from conceptual to abstract to figurative — to On Kawara, to Gerhard Richter, who reunites all these dimensions, to Dick Bengtsson, a tricky forgotten Swedish artist who died young, to Ed Ruscha, to Niele Toroni.

Simultaneously materialist and conceptual, abstract and figurative, textual and painterly, Hollingsworth makes us question the étre of painting in the way Donald Judd did with the object.

And then I spent a couple years making abstract painting and then went back to doing more of this funky, figurative thing.

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.

Do nt Let It Get The Next Generation is an original, large one - of - a-kind figurative painting signed by artist Lazaro Hurtado.

Many of his paintings are contemporary figurative in style with emphasis on design and are done with both oil and watercolor.

With one large painting done in his unmistakable palette and clean geometric style, we get his notable moniker THR (The Human Race, a graff crew from the 1980's) executed in neon orange alongside a prismatic vase and figurative head.

It doesn't matter whether they're abstract or figurative, we transfer the deformation of painting into sculptures.

His return had a slow pace as it was not until 1966 that he started to do more complex figurative paintings and exhibit them in gallery circles.

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.

It is an endearing mixture of high and low culture that leaves you puzzled for a bit, as you're not sure whether to like it or not, but when it comes to their execution, there is no doubt that the artist took figurative painting to a whole new level, and one that we certainly haven't seen in a while too — if we don't take art history books into consideration.

Did the advent of photography contribute to the disappearance of figurative painting from the history of arts?

From there, his almost flat, almost abstract works, with their contrasting planes of colour and reminiscences of doorways and cheerful bunting, provided Brazilian artists with a bridge between the bright, figurative paintings of Brazilian modernists such as Emiliano di Cavalcanti and Tarsila do Amaral and the geometric abstraction of the 1950s Neo-Concrete movement and Grupo Ruptura.

In the thousands of years of figurative work done by male artists we've seen painting after painting of rosy - breasted dewey - eyed languid, flushed women from Titian to Currin.

Today, you don't see much figurative painting with younger artists.

One could settle for a broader umbrella, and label him a figurative painter, yet that doesn't seem a perfect designation either: «I've been grappling with making figurative paintings in the last seven years,» he confesses.

DH When I started painting again I just kind of went figurative because I thought... Well, I don't know why!

And it does seem to be part of a new spark of interest in the expressionist and the painterly that is emerging in the art world of late, with several recent shows spotlighting painting of a decidedly figurative and subjective bent.

I liked abstract expressionism and modernism, but in college I figured out that I wanted to do these figurative narrative paintings.

«He also did some wonderfully humorous figurative paintings that were delightful.»

After doing those abstract works the first figurative painting I did was called A Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self.

Do you think you've gone back to figurative paintings in some way?

They didn't agree on what their position should be, or even how it should be dealt with in art, as two contrasting, rarely seen examples displayed here posit: Bearden's figurative photostat collages and abstract paintings by Norman Lewis.

He does not rate his technical abilities very highly compared with the Old Masters, and perhaps his paintings are the swan song of figurative art, as video art, computer art and digital cameras revolutionize our youth, capturing their attention for hours which were once spent doodling or sketching or painting or playing ball.