Last year, I wrote an essay about Jenny Saville [known for her towering,
expressive figure paintings], and I asked her, «Whose work do you like?»
For more than 25 years, the artist, teacher and archaeologist has actively responded to the country's recent decades of civil conflict through
his expressive figure paintings, performances and installations.
Not exact matches
Throughout his
paintings, drawings, and prints a metaphoric sensibility reveals itself in the
expressive language of resonant forms and
figures.
• Tony Smith (1912 — 1980), sculptor who bridged AbEx and minimalism (dad of Kiki) Mel Kendrick (b. 1949), formalist process - based sculptor Chris Wilmarth (1943 — 1987), sculptor of steel, bronze, and etched glass Joel Shapiro (b. 1941), minimalist sculptor who flirts with figuration Christopher Wool (b. 1955), Neo-AbExer with a taste for graffiti and repetition Alex Hubbard (b. 1975), rising master of painterly materials and abstract coloration Josh Smith (b. 1976), Factory - like painter of great
expressive volume Jacob Kassay (b. 1984), mirrored -
painting - wunderkind - turned - sackcloth artist • Andy Warhol (1928 — 1987), Pop maestro and appropriationist world - changer David Robbins (b. 1957), artist and «Concrete Comedy» theorist David LaChapelle (b. 1963), lush photographer of celebrity decadence Ronnie Cutrone (1948 — 2013), Factory personality and East Village cult
figure George Condo (b. 1957), Neo-Picassian painter of the grotesque Mark Dagley (b. 1957), Op abstractionist • Richard Serra (b. 1939), grand master of process art and the post-industrial sublime Grégoire Müller (b. 1947), painter of current - event appropriations Philip Glass (b. 1937), «Einstein on the Beach» composer Lawrence Chandler (b. 1951), composer, musician, and sound artist • Sol LeWitt (1928 — 2007), father of conceptual art, multitasking artistic outsourcer Adrian Piper (b. 1948), performance art innovator Mark Williams (b. 1950), monochromatic minimalist painter
Though still
expressive, each work proudly displays the rough, chiselled and hand -
painted surface upon which the artist has worked yet the proportions of the
figure are precisely coordinated.
De Kooning is well known for
paintings of the female
figure that transcend traditional figurative and abstract categories and break up conventional aesthetic frames of reference by maximizing the
expressive power of
paint in line and color.
His graphic works of self - portraits, portraits of old lovers, and depictions of the human
figure produce the same grotesque and
expressive natures as those seen in his
paintings.
Known for employing a language of
expressive landscapes and
figures painted in hot, violent tones, Thompson experienced
painting as a liberating catharsis that allowed him to pour his soul onto canvas, weaving
figures and landscapes into a tapestry of color.
Alessandro Pessoli's (b. 1963) drawings,
paintings, and sculptures place
expressive, often melancholy
figures in indeterminate spaces and dreamlike narratives.
Their investigations into gestural,
expressive abstract
painting occurred simultaneously with similar searchings by New York artists, but by the end of the forties, the San Francisco group, led by Park, began to reintroduce the
figure.
The toothy blue head at the center of the
painting reminds me of
figures by Dana Schutz and some recent «portraits» by Nicole Eisenman, similarly recalling Dubuffet, and makes me feel that the right context for McNeil could matter to younger artists who may not be familiar with his
expressive intensity and humor.
While stark tonalities reveal Gokita's investment in graphic illustration and portrait photography, the thick and
expressive gestures that contour Gokita's
figures reveal the
expressive pleasure of
painting, tying him less to Pop and more to the Neo-Expressionist painters of the 1980s and»90s (Anselm Kiefer and Gerhard Richter come to mind).
At the beginning of the 20th century Henri Matisse and several other young artists including the pre-cubist Georges Braque, André Derain, Raoul Dufy and Maurice de Vlaminck revolutionized the Paris art world with «wild», multi-colored,
expressive landscapes and
figure paintings that the critics called Fauvism.
His work emphasized the emotionally
expressive potential of color, modulating the
figure - ground relationships in his
paintings in a method he referred to as the push and pull, a technique similar to the one that put Jackson Pollock, Hofmann's close friend, on the map of modern art.
In 2012 he was getting up at four every morning to do a cleaning job to support his work as an artist; in 2013 his
paintings — teeming with loose, scratchy,
expressive marks, patches of pure colour, and daily dust and grime from the studio, scrawled with words such as burrito, yuka and chorizo — started reaching six -
figure sums.
Masamvu's
expressive paintings almost always evoke the human
figure — and his gestural compositions were shown at the Zimbabwe Pavilion at the 54th International Venice Biennale.
Drawing +
Painting Anatomical
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Painting Continuing the Indirect Method of Oil
Painting Creating Innovative Comics Drawing +
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Painting Introduction to
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Figure Introduction to Watercolor Mixed - Media Drawing +
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Painting the Still Life +
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Figure
For his first solo show in New York since 1993, the gallery presents a selection of
paintings and works on paper by the
expressive artist, including his powerful Portrait of Odilon Redon, the disturbing Untitled (
Figures in a head) and the amusing La caresse atroce (The fiendish caress).
At the beginning of the 20th century Henri Matisse and several other young artists including the pre-cubists Georges Braque, André Derain, Raoul Dufy, Jean Metzinger and Maurice de Vlaminck revolutionized the Paris art world with «wild», multi-colored,
expressive landscapes and
figure paintings that the critics called Fauvism.
COBRA
paintings are typically semi-abstract, highly
expressive compositions, characterized by vivid colour, violent brushwork, and distorted human
figures.
A powerful vision of the human
figure is offered in these
painted constructions; the works, including both single and group, freestanding and relief sculptures, directly address the constructively
expressive sensibility of»80s art.
Joffe is recognized for her large, highly
expressive paintings and commanding interpretations of female
figures, including self - portraits.
Though he could draw accurately from a life - model, and did, the
figures in his
paintings were subject to an
expressive distortion that separates him from more journalistic painters of urban subjects such as Théodore Steinlen.
An important yet overlooked
figure of the Bay Area Abstract Expressionist movement, Gechtoff was known for producing vibrant large - scale works featuring
expressive gestural brushstrokes and thickly - applied layers of oil
paint.
Ekblad's
expressive paintings often depict winding and twisted lines, some indicate human - like
figures, others resemble landscapes.
Depicting a traditional Islamic ritual, the
painting showed six identically dressed Mawlawi dervishes performing a Sema or dance — the
expressive figures typical of Said's output.
Emerging at the height of the British Pop movement, his early practice emphasized the
figure, while experimenting with
expressive gestural applications of oil
paint.
KYLE CHAYKA: Your solo show at Hansel and Gretel gallery, as well as your studio today, is full of super brushy,
expressive human
figures painted on rectangular paper.
Lassnig created what could be seen as a singular lifelong oeuvre of work consisting of
expressive, brightly coloured oil
paintings with the human
figure, using herself as subject matter: time literally passes the viewer as they wander this honest and slightly melancholic exhibition.