Sentences with phrase «different generations of painters»

Not exact matches

Posterity has taken a rather different view, and Guston is now regarded as one of the great painters of his generation.

And they had a different point of view than the other galleries that existed at the time, and they were particularly interested in the Pictures Generation [a loose affiliation of conceptual photographers and painters who emerged in the mid-70s and appropriated media and advertising in their work], which by that time had become almost underground.

The picture plane here though is an arena quite different to the one set up by Harold Rosenberg for the previous generation of American abstract painters.

Of different generations (with at least one in between them) these two painters embody «style» as an ideal.

The anachronism implies a continuity between the myths of hard - drinking artists from different eras: as if the beer - swilling painters of the Dutch Golden Age, the absinthe - addled wretches of 19th - century Paris, the tough guys of the New York School, liquored - up and rowdy at the Cedar Tavern, and several generations of British artists, stumbling out drunk in the late afternoon from Soho's Colony Room Club, could all be imagined in some timeless bar - room.

By not painting from life, Doig and most mid-career painters of the late 20th and 21st century have, it seems to me, a fundamentally different relationship with modernist painterly tradition from the generation above them — Freud, Leon Kossoff, Frank Auerbach, even David Hockney.

Landscape painters Philip, Ellen and Susan Hale, Caroline Atkinson, William Trost Richards, Anna Brewster, Eleanor Price and Frank Mathewson — whose work is on view in this exhibition — span generations, different artistic styles and schools of painting.

Bringing together a broad range of painters of different countries and of different generations, the exhibition seeks to address various approaches to painting today.

She is one of a generation of painters who explore the different possibilities offered by the medium to displace reality, to undermine any attempts at faithful representation

Such an artistic upbringing instilled in Chiara a unique sensibility — reserved and determined, fragile and audacious — which she expresses in her documentary films about artists she admires: the painter Brice Marden; the architect Frank Gehry; and the group of women artists of different generations — Nancy Spero, Marina Abramovic, Kiki Smith, Ghada Amer, and Swoon — whose lives she chronicled in Our City Dreams (2008), which won her international critical acclaim.

If I had to place Bram van Velde in the landscape of American painting, I would probably locate him somewhere between two other painters of roughly the same generation, but stylistically very different: Philip Guston and Agnes Martin.

(Might not a sharply focused exhibition of works by Remington, Thomas Nozkowski and Chuck Webster — painters from three different generations — cast a very different light on the issue of figure / ground?)

His practice spans through different abstract art techniques and styles that would later be used by generations of abstract painters.

Heilmann's big ideas and promiscuous use of different media have made her a hero for a new generation of painters, not least the women leading abstract American art today.

Together, the fairs gave us perfectly complementary opportunities to expose two radical painters of different generations to broader global audiences.»

The exhibition runs in parallel to a survey of celebrated painter Patrick Caulfield (1936 — 2005), offering visitors the chance to see alongside each other two complementary British painters from different generations.