Sentences with phrase «figural art»

Figurative Futures aims to explore the mythology and evolution of figural art realized through a wide - ranging collection of inventive painting, sculpture, installation, jewelry, fiber arts, drawing and mixed media.

Through his distinct interest in the act of representation within the modernist discourse, Browne re-conceptualized figural art for the twentieth century.

But the acclaim faded, done in by a combination of Senator Joseph McCarthy's wave of repression, by Sharrer's adherence to figural art in the face of the dominance of abstract expressionism in the 1950s and «60s, and by the fact that the artist was a woman.

Exploring Figural Art from Africa, Allvin P. Gutman Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 25, 2009 - July 2010.

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Seen this way, discussion of Islamic art can finally move from tired questions about the lack of figural representation to more interesting conversations on, for example, the complex relationships presumed between icons and idolatry or on Byzantine and patristic influences.

«I had a show of figural painting — sort of California school, Diebenkorn — and Tom Downing asked if I was afraid of art.

Focusing on Lassnig's self - portraiture, the exhibition presents works by the artist — most of them never previously exhibited in the U.S. — from all creative periods of her career, spanning her early involvement with graphic abstraction in Paris and Art Informel, to her later shift to figural representation.

Figural Sculpture: Selections from the Permanent Collection, SArt 16, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 3 - October 23, 1994.

Bartlett has been a commercial success since the 1970s when her highly acclaimed artwork, Rhapsody (1975 - 76, collection Museum of Modern Art), a painting based on geometry and the figural motifs of house, tree, mountain, and sea on 987 gridded, enameled steel plates was shown in May 1976 at the Paula Cooper Gallery in New York.

These critiques came in multiple forms, including an approach to art that favored figural representation embedded in a politics of struggle and an assertion of identities misrepresented by or excluded from American culture.

Not so Louise Bourgeois, who transmuted a family story of paternal infidelity into a narrative of mythological dimension that she always insisted was the primary driving force of her work, and for whom that self - mythologized personal narrative served as an undying battery to produce great art works until the end of her very long life, her late stuffed cloth figural sculptures as raw, uncompromising, and young as her early objects and drawings.

Museum exhibitions include James Brooks at the Dallas Museum of Art: A Celebration, Dallas, TX (2006); James Brooks Revisited, Hillwood Art Museum, Brookville, NY (2000); Rediscovering James Brooks: WPA Murals & Other Figural Works, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY (1997); James Brooks: A Retrospective, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME (1983); and James Brooks Retrospective, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (1963), traveled to Rose Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA; Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Washington Gallery of Contemporary Art, Washington, D.C.; University of California Art Galleries, Los Angeles, CA.

Original artworks and commentary by Mark Tansey (b. 1949), whose large scale monochromatic allegories reference the art of photography, a pivotal technology in the reproduction and dissemination of popular images; John Currin (b. 1962), who has referenced the art of Norman Rockwell, and whose provocative figural paintings reflect upon domestic and social themes that were prevalent, though differently portrayed, in the mid-twentieth century; Vincent Desiderio (b. 1955), whose dark intellectual melodramas re-imagine scenes of crime and adventure from pulp fiction; Lucien Freud (1922 - 2011), the painter of deeply psychological works that examine the relationship of artist and model; and Jamie Wyeth (b. 1946), son of noted painter Andrew Wyeth and grandson of illustrator N.C. Wyeth, whose images convey stories real and imagined, among other artists, will be featured in the exhibition and its accompanying catalogue.

Figural Sculpture: Selections from the Permanent Collection, SArt 16, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, (no cat.)

This show presents work by more than a dozen artists (all of whom are also curators, and / or have run or currently run spaces of their own) in a range of media that covers several bases: conceptual and abstract art, figural painting and drawings, and political pieces.

(New York City, March 10, 2010)-- Michael Rosenfeld Gallery is pleased to present Unconscious Unbound: Surrealism in America, the gallery's first exhibition in over a decade dedicated to the influence of surrealism on American figural and abstract art.

Marginalization within a male - dominated art world was a shared experience among women artists, but Neel's dedication to figural representation in the era of abstraction compounded her invisibility.

Bucking the prevailing winds of Abstract Expressionism, he embarked on a figural body of work that captured the attention of the art world through its canniness and qualities of satire, empathy and craftsmanship.

Figuration is often marginalized — along with prewar American art in general — in mainstream accounts of the 20th century, which is typically portrayed as a progressive obliteration of figural representation.

A singular force in China's contemporary art scene, Aniwar Mamat creates abstract paintings influenced by his earlier experiments in minimalism and figural representation, as well as by the history of Abstract Expressionism.

As Browne drew attention to the transfer of three - dimensional objects to two - dimensional planes using bright shades of blocked color and the stylized treatment of his figural subjects, he explored his interest in the relationship between art and nature.

Gallagher's collection consists of artistic explorations of the abstract and the figural, landscape and portrait, and line and color in modern art.

The Abstract Expressionists were looking for a new way to create universal meaning in their art besides creating figural or symbolic paintings.

This catalogue raisonne covers four decades of this creative activity, starting with the astonishing corpus of figural works and culminating in his original invention of spatial art, which led to the creation and development of the highly individual «holes,» «environments,» and «slashes.»

When these far - flung artists came of age, in the early 1980s, the work they are known for today — pointedly figural, quotidian in reference, resolutely sculptural — was all but unrecognizable as the shape of serious art to come.

Alongside these figural works, the catalogue features original essays by writer and art historian Adrien Goetz — who examines Katz's work in light of pieces by Dominique Ingres, Edouard Manet and Edgar Degas — and fashion journalist Suzy Menkes, who considers Katz in the context of style and fashion.

A show currently running at MoMa Ps1 focuses on Lassnig's self - portraiture, the exhibition presents works by the artist — most of them never previously exhibited in the U.S. — from all creative periods of her career, spanning her early involvement with graphic abstraction in Paris and Art Informel, to her later shift to figural representation.

Davis» pictorial storytelling and artistic family tree are the subject of two new exhibitions at the Meadows Museum of Art, revealing how Davis shaped 21st - century American art, from comic books to animation and puppetry, through the figural artists he inspirArt, revealing how Davis shaped 21st - century American art, from comic books to animation and puppetry, through the figural artists he inspirart, from comic books to animation and puppetry, through the figural artists he inspired.

«Cosmic Communism» will do justice to Freundlich's involvement in movements including Expressionism, Cubism, Dada, Constructivism, and 1930s abstraction, exploring his work in diverse media — from massive figural bronzes and black - and - white prints to sumptuously luminous abstract painting, mosaic, and glass — and elucidating the relation between his art and utopian politics.

In this epically titled solo show, «The Birth of Stockholm,» an antechamber of the artist's projected handwritten meditations on art and on the Swedish capital and an array of Beninese - made figural sculptures will lead into a room - size — or rather, house - like — installation.

Presenting works in diverse media, we promote art that contributes to important art - historical movements, with particular focuses on innovations in color - field abstraction, figural realism and performance art.

While Chicago art making has historically been strongly figural and representational, the Minimalism and conceptual art movements of the 1960s had a definite impact on many Chicago - based artists who emerged in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Kim Howells Turner Prize Row: I Love Art - the Artists Who Pass the Dr Kim Howells Taste Test Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales); November 1, 2002; 545 words... a major influence on contemporary figural sculpture.

The exhibition at MoMA PS1 in New York presents works by Maria Lassnig from all periods of her career, most of them never previously exhibition in the U.S. and spanning her early involvement with graphic abstraction in Paris and Art Informel, to her later shift to figural representation.

This diverse exhibition includes many subgenres within Contemporary art including street art, figural, conceptual, geometric abstraction, sociopolitical and landscape.

Also, Laura Owens» evocative figural painting and Franz West's expressive abstract sculptures, that stir up the past with allusions to art history, to Gabriel Orozco's series of works that preserve the presence of the present with images of his own physicality.

At the time of his first solo show at Peggy Guggenheim's Art of This Century gallery in 1946, De Niro was primarily working in an abstract manner with some figural references.

George McNeil, Figural Composition # 2, 1932, oil on paper mounted on wood, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Patricia and Phillip Frost, 1986.92.68

Brand - New & Terrific: Alex Katz in the 1950s explores a formative decade of work for the painter, excavating the inspiration Katz drew from art historical predecessors, the early innovations in figural depiction, and the first portraits of his future wife Ada.