Sentences with phrase «direction of figurative art»

But trends in art, as in fashion, can be inexplicably fickle — and according to The Human Factor, a new exhibition at the Hayward Gallery in London, the pendulum swung back in the direction of figurative art during the Eighties.

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It focuses on the radical change of direction in the artist's career between 1930 — 1969, 50 key paintings and sculptural reliefs show how Pasmore reinvented himself as one of Britain's foremost exponents of British abstract art, having previously been known as one of its leading figurative artists.

His art developed in the London art scene beginning in the 1960s, when a dynamic generation of young artists took painting into a new direction by exploring impulses from both the figurative tradition and popular culture.

The best - known aspects of the Vogel Collection are minimal and conceptual art, but these donations also explore numerous directions of the post-minimalist period, including works of a figurative and expressionist nature.

But this other group of Fairfield Porter and Alex Katz and Jane Freilicher: it seemed to me that they were figurative painters or realist painters who didn't want to set - up in opposition to non-objective art, but — they were not opposed to this direction — but they wanted a space or a room for themselves.

He is known for being one of the pioneers of 20th century abstract art, as he changed his artistic direction from figurative painting to an increasingly abstract style, until he reached a point where his artistic vocabulary was reduced to simple geometric elements.