Sentences with phrase «early figure paintings»

Garish by comparison with the artist's earlier figure painting, the vibrant colours of Seated Woman overlap to confuse the relationship between the figure and its background, causing abstract sections of colour to protrude and recede independent of the form they describe.

Not exact matches

Investor lending rose in March for the first time in more than a year, official figures earlier this month showed and asking price figures from consultancy SQM Research paint the picture of a market that is still strong.

It was indeed only in the early Renaissance, in the liturgical drama which influenced the subject matter of the newly recovered art of painting — where the resurrection did get attention — that Magdalene was returned to prominence and became for the first time an officially popular figure.

Rauschenberg's early combine paintings from the 1950s and»60s can sell for eight - figure sums, but his most recent works are priced at around $ 500,000.

Her latest canvases in bold, colorful patterns, which she completes at a ferocious pace, retail in the mid — six figures at New York's Gagosian Gallery and London's Victoria Miro; one of her rare early paintings sold at auction in November 2008 for $ 5.79 million, a record at the time for a living woman artist.

In the show at Betty Cuningham Gallery you are exhibiting both recent figure and earlier still life paintings.

This period, and these female figure paintings, set the stage for Tworkov's transition into larger - format canvases in the early 1950s, when he loosened his line and painted mostly abstract compositions, relying on the figure.»

Even earlier works like Fable II and Rite, both from 1957, earn their titles by the nonspecific figurative connotations of their bunched shapes; it would take only a little bit of further manipulation to turn those forms into the kind of stylized figures found in the paintings that Jan Müller was making around this time, or Bob Thompson just a little later.

Terre verte also figures in two single - panel monochromes whose composition — a large rectangle or square resting on a smaller rectangle — recalls Marden's early paintings and drawings, particularly their disclosure, in the lower rectangle, of the many layers used to build up the painting.

The three paintings and a collage, all featuring the same figure with folded arms, seem to be rooted in the painterly tradition reminiscent of Otto Dix and even early Tair Salakhov.

... From the early colorful efforts to the final... marvelously rough paintings accompanied by simple figures, [his works] clearly need to be organized within a revised understanding of the art of his time.»

During the late 1950s and early 1960s Frank Stella was a significant figure in the emergence of Minimalism, Post-Painterly Abstraction and Color Field painting.

Also Monday, an eerie 1991 painting of a moonlit white canoe with a figure slumped in its hull fetched almost $ 26 - million (U.S.), a new world record for the artist, Peter Doig, 56, who spent most of his early years in Canada.

His early work passed though the styles of impressionism, Orphism, Dada, Surealism, and verbal and visual collagel his later art extended from composition that superimpose linear painted figures upon one another (and, sometimes, several of those on apinted ground), to painting based on pinup nudes and commercial illustrations and, finally, to coarse, heavily textured canvases that depict totems, masks and shields.

Those familiar with Robert Greene's early paintings of figures, architecture, and landscape combined in fairy - taleish scenarios would recognize a shift in the artist's most recent abstract works.

«Figures had to be situated solidly in [their] environment» and a chair is an extremely effective visual anchor (J. Bishop, «Making Matisse His Own: Richard Diebenkorn's Early Abstractions and Figurative Paintings,» in J. Bishop & K. Rothkopf, Matisse / Diebenkorn, exh.

It was me creating my early paintings and then figuring out the arc of a particular character.

[2] In the early 1960s, he concentrated on specific archetypes in paintings and woodcuts, mostly of rebels, heroes, and shepherds, becoming increasingly interested in anamorphosis, the distorted or monstrous representation of an image, as exemplified in the proportions and facial features of his figures.

A leading figure of the Korean Tansaekhwa, or «monochrome painting» group, Chung is recognized for the innovative painting method he developed in the early 1970s, which the critic Kwang Suh Oh describes as «taking off / removing» and «re-painting.»

That's a figure she developed later on, in the early 1960s, when she created one of her few paintings series, the Swan Lake series.

This figure derives from an earlier painting, Wall Jumpers (2002), the source of which was a media image showing Palestinians scrambling over the separation barrier built by Israel in the occupied territories.

Similar in spirit to Tomaselli's earlier work which referenced the relationship between the sub-culture of psychedelia and utopianism, these new paintings expand the dialogue into a fictive landscape where figures populate a frenzied, cosmic and other worldly universe.

In Twisted Figures, his third solo show at 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel, Hughes's latest series of acrylic paintings pushes this language into a new phase in which the shapes on the canvases continue to self - confidently assert their own presence, yet begin to move beyond an earlier, more matter - of - fact reliance on organic and visceral associations.

Mostly paintings and drawings are featured, along with some photography, mixed - media works and sculpture by artists active in the early, middle and late periods of the century, and many contemporary figures still working today such as Hurvin Anderson, Stan Douglas, Kori Newkirk, Lorna Simpson, Mickalene Thomas and Barkley L. Hendricks (whose «New Orleans Niggah,» 1973 covers the volume).

This work is the first in Vicuña's series of paintings from the early 1970s, Heroes of the Revolution, in which she depicted important political figures of international and Latin American socialism: Karl Marx, Lenin, Fidel Castro, Salvador Allende, and Violeta Parra.

One of the most respected figures of Abstract Expressionism, Joan Mitchell (1925 - 1992) came to an early attention with her lyrical abstract paintings.

«Blue Umbrella # 2» (1972)-- Perhaps Katz's best - known image, painted of his wife Ada beneath an umbrella, this work is an early example of Katz's use of the environment as a setting for the figure.

First shown in a solo exhibition at Metro Pictures, New York, in 1986, this work was one of four figurative paintings that featured iconic political figures and groups from the late 1960s and early 1970s, including Angela Davis, the Black Panther leader Kathleen Cleaver, and the experimental troupe the Living Theatre.

However, in the wake of the Watts riots, and the general breakdown of urban life in the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Marshall focused on «an examination of the historical absence, or «invisibility» of the black figure in the tradition of painting.»

The show takes the considerable risk of starting not with a punchy, scene - setting overture, but a roomful of intriguing, mostly small early paintings by key figures.

The National Portrait Gallery, meanwhile, looks at the origins of art photography via the work of four celebrated figures of the Victorian era, and Tate Modern takes things further with Shape of Light, which entwines the histories of photography and abstract art from the early 20th century to now and positions work by the likes of Man Ray and Thomas Ruff against abstract paintings, sculptures and installations.

LG: I'm curious about your mentioning your early figurative paintings, wonder if you could speculate about how painting the figure might differ from your still lifes?

Exhibitionism's 16 exhibitions in the Hessel Museum are (1) «Jonathan Borofsky,» featuring Borofsky's Green Space Painting with Chattering Man at 2,814,787; (2) «Andy Warhol and Matthew Higgs,» including Warhol's portrait of Marieluise Hessel and a work by Higgs; (3) «Art as Idea,» with works by W. Imi Knoebel, Joseph Kosuth, and Allan McCollum; (4) «Rupture,» with works by John Bock, Saul Fletcher, Isa Genzken, Thomas Hirschhorn, Martin Kippenberger, and Karlheinz Weinberger; (5) «Robert Mapplethorpe and Judy Linn,» including 11 of the 70 Mapplethorpe works in the Hessel Collection along with Linn's intimate portraits of Mapplethorpe; (6) «For Holly,» including works by Gary Burnley, Valerie Jaudon, Christopher Knowles, Robert Kushner, Thomas Lanigan - Schmidt, Kim MacConnel, Ned Smyth, and Joe Zucker — acquired by Hessel from legendary SoHo art dealer Holly Solomon; (7) «Inside — Outside,» juxtaposing works by Scott Burton and Günther Förg with the picture windows of the Hessel Museum; (8) «Lexicon,» exploring a recurring motif of the Collection through works by Martin Creed, Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, Bruce Nauman, Sean Landers, Raymond Pettibon, Jack Pierson, Jason Rhoades, and Allen Ruppersberg; (9) «Real Life,» examines different forms of social systems in works by Robert Beck, Sophie Calle, Matt Mullican, Cady Noland, Pruitt & Early, and Lawrence Weiner; (10) «Image is a Burden,» presents a number of idiosyncratic positions in relation to the figure and figuration (and disfigurement) through works by Rita Ackerman, Jonathan Borofsky, John Currin, Carroll Dunham, Philip Guston, Rachel Harrison, Adrian Piper, Peter Saul, Rosemarie Trockel, and Nicola Tyson; (11) «Mirror Objects,» including works by Donald Judd, Blinky Palermo, and Jorge Pardo; (12) «1982,» including works by Carl Andre, Robert Longo, Robert Mangold, Robert Mapplethorpe, A. R. Penck, and Cindy Sherman, all of which were produced in close — chronological — proximity to one another; (13) «Monitor,» with works by Vito Acconci, Cheryl Donegan, Vlatka Horvat, Bruce Nauman, and Aïda Ruilova; (14) «Cindy Sherman,» includes 7 of the 25 works by Sherman in the Hessel Collection; (15) «Silence,» with works by Christian Marclay, Pieter Laurens Mol, and Lorna Simpson that demonstrate art's persistent interest in and engagement with the paradoxical idea of «silence»; and (16) «Dan Flavin and Felix Gonzalez - Torres.»

Although Bischoff went on to paint colorful, thickly pigmented scenes of figures in interior or landscape settings for nearly two decades, by the early seventies he was, by his own admission, losing interest in the figure as subject matter.

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In Bischoff's earliest non-representational paintings the abstract shapes are large, still deriving from figures against a background; gradually, the shapes have become smaller and more fragmented.

These new works represent a departure from the earlier paintings shown concurrently at the Hammer Museum that primarily focus on the figure.

Earlier that same day, I had walked to the Nasher to see First Sculpture: Handaxe to Figure Stone and the Dallas Museum of Art to see the Edward Steichen mural paintings.

Fischl has been a celebrated figure in the New York art world since the early 80's and he continues to paint and exhibit nationally and internationally.

Alex Katz (b. 1927), a key New York - based artist since the early 1960s, is a towering figure in contemporary painting

Based in Los Angeles since the early 1970s, Jackson has expanded the definition and practice of painting more than any other contemporary figure.

Though senior figures have displaced Doig as the most expensive living European painter — first Freud in 2008, then Gerhard Richter, twice — he continues to command stellar prices, including $ 12m last year for «The Architect's House in the Ravine» (1991), another example of the early 1990s paintings based on memories of Canada that remain his bestsellers.

Inspired by the painting Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog (1818) by the German artist David Caspar Friedrich, Kiefer's human figure dominates the landscape connecting two periods of German history, the imperialist ideas of the early 19th century manipulated by the Third Reich that lead to the Holocaust.

Chapter 1: Things Must be Pulverized: Abstract Expressionism Charts the move from figurative to abstract painting as the dominant style of painting (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Willem de Kooning, Barnett Newman Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko Chapter 2: Wounded Painting: Informel in Europe and Beyond Meanwhile in Europe: abstract painters immediate responses to the horrors of World War II (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Jean Dubuffet, Lucio Fontana, Viennese Aktionism, Wols Chapter 3: Post-War Figurative Painting Surveys those artists who defiantly continued to make figurative work as Abstraction was rising to dominance - including Social Realists (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Francis Bacon, Lucien Freud, Alice Neel, Pablo Picasso Chapter 4: Against Gesture - Geometric Abstraction The development of a rational, universal language of art - the opposite of the highly emotional Informel or Abstract Expressionism (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Lygia Clark, Ellsworth Kelly, Bridget Riley, Yves Klein Chapter 5: Post-Painting Part 1: After Pollock In the aftermath of Pollock's death: the early days of Pop, Minimalism and Conceptual painting in the USA (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, Cy Twombly Chapter 5: Anti Tradition - Pop Painitng How painting survives against growth of mass visual culture: photography and television - if you can't beat them, join them (1960s and 70s) Key artists discussed: Alex Katz, Roy Lichtenstein, Gerhard Richter, Andy Warhol Chapter 6: A transcendental high art: Neo Expressionism and its Discontents The continuation of figuration and expressionism in the 1970s and 80s, including many artists who have only been appreciated in later years (1970s & 80s) Key artists discussed: Georg Baselitz, Jean - Michel Basquiat, Anselm Kiefer, Julian Schnabel, Chapter 7: Post-Painting Part II: After Pop A new era in which figurative and abstract exist side by side rather than polar opposites plus painting expands beyond the canvas (late 1980s to 2000s) Key artists discussed: Tomma Abts, Mark Grotjahn, Chris Ofili, Christopher Wool Chapter 8: New Figures, Pop Romantics Post-cold war, artists use paint to create a new kind of «pop art» - primarily figurative - tackling cultural, social and political issues (1990s to now) Key artists discussed: John Currin, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, Neo Rauch, Lucpainting as the dominant style of painting (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Willem de Kooning, Barnett Newman Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko Chapter 2: Wounded Painting: Informel in Europe and Beyond Meanwhile in Europe: abstract painters immediate responses to the horrors of World War II (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Jean Dubuffet, Lucio Fontana, Viennese Aktionism, Wols Chapter 3: Post-War Figurative Painting Surveys those artists who defiantly continued to make figurative work as Abstraction was rising to dominance - including Social Realists (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Francis Bacon, Lucien Freud, Alice Neel, Pablo Picasso Chapter 4: Against Gesture - Geometric Abstraction The development of a rational, universal language of art - the opposite of the highly emotional Informel or Abstract Expressionism (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Lygia Clark, Ellsworth Kelly, Bridget Riley, Yves Klein Chapter 5: Post-Painting Part 1: After Pollock In the aftermath of Pollock's death: the early days of Pop, Minimalism and Conceptual painting in the USA (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, Cy Twombly Chapter 5: Anti Tradition - Pop Painitng How painting survives against growth of mass visual culture: photography and television - if you can't beat them, join them (1960s and 70s) Key artists discussed: Alex Katz, Roy Lichtenstein, Gerhard Richter, Andy Warhol Chapter 6: A transcendental high art: Neo Expressionism and its Discontents The continuation of figuration and expressionism in the 1970s and 80s, including many artists who have only been appreciated in later years (1970s & 80s) Key artists discussed: Georg Baselitz, Jean - Michel Basquiat, Anselm Kiefer, Julian Schnabel, Chapter 7: Post-Painting Part II: After Pop A new era in which figurative and abstract exist side by side rather than polar opposites plus painting expands beyond the canvas (late 1980s to 2000s) Key artists discussed: Tomma Abts, Mark Grotjahn, Chris Ofili, Christopher Wool Chapter 8: New Figures, Pop Romantics Post-cold war, artists use paint to create a new kind of «pop art» - primarily figurative - tackling cultural, social and political issues (1990s to now) Key artists discussed: John Currin, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, Neo Rauch, Lucpainting (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Willem de Kooning, Barnett Newman Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko Chapter 2: Wounded Painting: Informel in Europe and Beyond Meanwhile in Europe: abstract painters immediate responses to the horrors of World War II (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Jean Dubuffet, Lucio Fontana, Viennese Aktionism, Wols Chapter 3: Post-War Figurative Painting Surveys those artists who defiantly continued to make figurative work as Abstraction was rising to dominance - including Social Realists (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Francis Bacon, Lucien Freud, Alice Neel, Pablo Picasso Chapter 4: Against Gesture - Geometric Abstraction The development of a rational, universal language of art - the opposite of the highly emotional Informel or Abstract Expressionism (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Lygia Clark, Ellsworth Kelly, Bridget Riley, Yves Klein Chapter 5: Post-Painting Part 1: After Pollock In the aftermath of Pollock's death: the early days of Pop, Minimalism and Conceptual painting in the USA (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, Cy Twombly Chapter 5: Anti Tradition - Pop Painitng How painting survives against growth of mass visual culture: photography and television - if you can't beat them, join them (1960s and 70s) Key artists discussed: Alex Katz, Roy Lichtenstein, Gerhard Richter, Andy Warhol Chapter 6: A transcendental high art: Neo Expressionism and its Discontents The continuation of figuration and expressionism in the 1970s and 80s, including many artists who have only been appreciated in later years (1970s & 80s) Key artists discussed: Georg Baselitz, Jean - Michel Basquiat, Anselm Kiefer, Julian Schnabel, Chapter 7: Post-Painting Part II: After Pop A new era in which figurative and abstract exist side by side rather than polar opposites plus painting expands beyond the canvas (late 1980s to 2000s) Key artists discussed: Tomma Abts, Mark Grotjahn, Chris Ofili, Christopher Wool Chapter 8: New Figures, Pop Romantics Post-cold war, artists use paint to create a new kind of «pop art» - primarily figurative - tackling cultural, social and political issues (1990s to now) Key artists discussed: John Currin, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, Neo Rauch, LucPainting: Informel in Europe and Beyond Meanwhile in Europe: abstract painters immediate responses to the horrors of World War II (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Jean Dubuffet, Lucio Fontana, Viennese Aktionism, Wols Chapter 3: Post-War Figurative Painting Surveys those artists who defiantly continued to make figurative work as Abstraction was rising to dominance - including Social Realists (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Francis Bacon, Lucien Freud, Alice Neel, Pablo Picasso Chapter 4: Against Gesture - Geometric Abstraction The development of a rational, universal language of art - the opposite of the highly emotional Informel or Abstract Expressionism (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Lygia Clark, Ellsworth Kelly, Bridget Riley, Yves Klein Chapter 5: Post-Painting Part 1: After Pollock In the aftermath of Pollock's death: the early days of Pop, Minimalism and Conceptual painting in the USA (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, Cy Twombly Chapter 5: Anti Tradition - Pop Painitng How painting survives against growth of mass visual culture: photography and television - if you can't beat them, join them (1960s and 70s) Key artists discussed: Alex Katz, Roy Lichtenstein, Gerhard Richter, Andy Warhol Chapter 6: A transcendental high art: Neo Expressionism and its Discontents The continuation of figuration and expressionism in the 1970s and 80s, including many artists who have only been appreciated in later years (1970s & 80s) Key artists discussed: Georg Baselitz, Jean - Michel Basquiat, Anselm Kiefer, Julian Schnabel, Chapter 7: Post-Painting Part II: After Pop A new era in which figurative and abstract exist side by side rather than polar opposites plus painting expands beyond the canvas (late 1980s to 2000s) Key artists discussed: Tomma Abts, Mark Grotjahn, Chris Ofili, Christopher Wool Chapter 8: New Figures, Pop Romantics Post-cold war, artists use paint to create a new kind of «pop art» - primarily figurative - tackling cultural, social and political issues (1990s to now) Key artists discussed: John Currin, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, Neo Rauch, LucPainting Surveys those artists who defiantly continued to make figurative work as Abstraction was rising to dominance - including Social Realists (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Francis Bacon, Lucien Freud, Alice Neel, Pablo Picasso Chapter 4: Against Gesture - Geometric Abstraction The development of a rational, universal language of art - the opposite of the highly emotional Informel or Abstract Expressionism (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Lygia Clark, Ellsworth Kelly, Bridget Riley, Yves Klein Chapter 5: Post-Painting Part 1: After Pollock In the aftermath of Pollock's death: the early days of Pop, Minimalism and Conceptual painting in the USA (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, Cy Twombly Chapter 5: Anti Tradition - Pop Painitng How painting survives against growth of mass visual culture: photography and television - if you can't beat them, join them (1960s and 70s) Key artists discussed: Alex Katz, Roy Lichtenstein, Gerhard Richter, Andy Warhol Chapter 6: A transcendental high art: Neo Expressionism and its Discontents The continuation of figuration and expressionism in the 1970s and 80s, including many artists who have only been appreciated in later years (1970s & 80s) Key artists discussed: Georg Baselitz, Jean - Michel Basquiat, Anselm Kiefer, Julian Schnabel, Chapter 7: Post-Painting Part II: After Pop A new era in which figurative and abstract exist side by side rather than polar opposites plus painting expands beyond the canvas (late 1980s to 2000s) Key artists discussed: Tomma Abts, Mark Grotjahn, Chris Ofili, Christopher Wool Chapter 8: New Figures, Pop Romantics Post-cold war, artists use paint to create a new kind of «pop art» - primarily figurative - tackling cultural, social and political issues (1990s to now) Key artists discussed: John Currin, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, Neo Rauch, LucPainting Part 1: After Pollock In the aftermath of Pollock's death: the early days of Pop, Minimalism and Conceptual painting in the USA (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, Cy Twombly Chapter 5: Anti Tradition - Pop Painitng How painting survives against growth of mass visual culture: photography and television - if you can't beat them, join them (1960s and 70s) Key artists discussed: Alex Katz, Roy Lichtenstein, Gerhard Richter, Andy Warhol Chapter 6: A transcendental high art: Neo Expressionism and its Discontents The continuation of figuration and expressionism in the 1970s and 80s, including many artists who have only been appreciated in later years (1970s & 80s) Key artists discussed: Georg Baselitz, Jean - Michel Basquiat, Anselm Kiefer, Julian Schnabel, Chapter 7: Post-Painting Part II: After Pop A new era in which figurative and abstract exist side by side rather than polar opposites plus painting expands beyond the canvas (late 1980s to 2000s) Key artists discussed: Tomma Abts, Mark Grotjahn, Chris Ofili, Christopher Wool Chapter 8: New Figures, Pop Romantics Post-cold war, artists use paint to create a new kind of «pop art» - primarily figurative - tackling cultural, social and political issues (1990s to now) Key artists discussed: John Currin, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, Neo Rauch, Lucpainting in the USA (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, Cy Twombly Chapter 5: Anti Tradition - Pop Painitng How painting survives against growth of mass visual culture: photography and television - if you can't beat them, join them (1960s and 70s) Key artists discussed: Alex Katz, Roy Lichtenstein, Gerhard Richter, Andy Warhol Chapter 6: A transcendental high art: Neo Expressionism and its Discontents The continuation of figuration and expressionism in the 1970s and 80s, including many artists who have only been appreciated in later years (1970s & 80s) Key artists discussed: Georg Baselitz, Jean - Michel Basquiat, Anselm Kiefer, Julian Schnabel, Chapter 7: Post-Painting Part II: After Pop A new era in which figurative and abstract exist side by side rather than polar opposites plus painting expands beyond the canvas (late 1980s to 2000s) Key artists discussed: Tomma Abts, Mark Grotjahn, Chris Ofili, Christopher Wool Chapter 8: New Figures, Pop Romantics Post-cold war, artists use paint to create a new kind of «pop art» - primarily figurative - tackling cultural, social and political issues (1990s to now) Key artists discussed: John Currin, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, Neo Rauch, Lucpainting survives against growth of mass visual culture: photography and television - if you can't beat them, join them (1960s and 70s) Key artists discussed: Alex Katz, Roy Lichtenstein, Gerhard Richter, Andy Warhol Chapter 6: A transcendental high art: Neo Expressionism and its Discontents The continuation of figuration and expressionism in the 1970s and 80s, including many artists who have only been appreciated in later years (1970s & 80s) Key artists discussed: Georg Baselitz, Jean - Michel Basquiat, Anselm Kiefer, Julian Schnabel, Chapter 7: Post-Painting Part II: After Pop A new era in which figurative and abstract exist side by side rather than polar opposites plus painting expands beyond the canvas (late 1980s to 2000s) Key artists discussed: Tomma Abts, Mark Grotjahn, Chris Ofili, Christopher Wool Chapter 8: New Figures, Pop Romantics Post-cold war, artists use paint to create a new kind of «pop art» - primarily figurative - tackling cultural, social and political issues (1990s to now) Key artists discussed: John Currin, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, Neo Rauch, LucPainting Part II: After Pop A new era in which figurative and abstract exist side by side rather than polar opposites plus painting expands beyond the canvas (late 1980s to 2000s) Key artists discussed: Tomma Abts, Mark Grotjahn, Chris Ofili, Christopher Wool Chapter 8: New Figures, Pop Romantics Post-cold war, artists use paint to create a new kind of «pop art» - primarily figurative - tackling cultural, social and political issues (1990s to now) Key artists discussed: John Currin, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, Neo Rauch, Lucpainting expands beyond the canvas (late 1980s to 2000s) Key artists discussed: Tomma Abts, Mark Grotjahn, Chris Ofili, Christopher Wool Chapter 8: New Figures, Pop Romantics Post-cold war, artists use paint to create a new kind of «pop art» - primarily figurative - tackling cultural, social and political issues (1990s to now) Key artists discussed: John Currin, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, Neo Rauch, Luc Tuymans

See figure 2 in the essay on Untitled [black painting with portal form] for a view of the painting in its early state.

As a coda to this narrative, the exhibition includes Pearlstein's most recent paintings, a series of three canvases completed in early 2015: nude female figures are animated with vibrant animal masks as they lounge and recline over Navaho rugs.

Momentum was established early in the sale, when Lucy McKenzie's painting Olga Korbut sold for # 317,000 — a figure almost 11 times more than its initial estimate.

The bald - headed youth which first appeared in the artist's paintings in the early 1990s has become Fang Lijun's characteristic figure and has been widely interpreted as the symbol of disillusion, mockery and rebellion in contemporary Chinese society.

Beginning with early 20th century paintings by French artist Suzanne Valadon and ending with works by up - to - the - minute figures such as Japan's Mariko Mori, Switzerland's Pipilotti Rist and England's Rachel Whiteread, «elles» will offer an international array of paintings, sculptures, installations, drawings, photographs, prints, videos, furniture and architectural models.

He went on to paint gatherings of spooky figures and animals, their intense colour and silhouetted forms recalling both Arshile Gorky and the early renaissance.