are a series of works in which Schuyff adds abstract and organic motifs to
figurative art found in junk shops.
Overpainted Paintings are a series of works in which Schuyff adds abstract and organic motifs to
figurative art found in junk shops.
Not exact matches
Spent 1939 - 47 in the Argentine, working part of the time in a
figurative style, but in 1946 helped to
found the avant - garde Altainira Academy at Buenos Aires, his ideas about the need for new
art to express the modern world as revealed by science leading to the publication of the Manifiesto Blanco.
Because of my struggles with the line between abstract and
figurative art, I'm always intrigued to
find an artist who has managed to successfully straddle the two.
Katz's brightly colored, large - scale
figurative and landscape paintings are rendered in a flat style that oftentimes resembles the aesthetics of the everyday visual culture commonly
found in advertising and cinema — a feature that regularly linked Alex to the norms of Pop
art despite the fact his work predates this movement by a relatively big margin.
For instance, in the chapter «
Art and the Body,» one might
find performance discussed alongside
figurative painting, sculpture and photography alongside video, and North American artists alongside Asian artists.
Rarely do these commissions make any kind of larger statement about American
art, but last fall, when Barack Obama selected Kehinde Wiley — a
figurative painter who deploys the techniques, poses and patterns of the grand tradition of Baroque European paintings to portray contemporary black and brown men he
finds on the street — to paint his official portrait for the Smithsonian, it at least reflected the Obamas» well - developed connections to the world of culture.
By combining the motif inherent in the Penguin book, Miller
found a way to marry aspects of Pop
Art, abstraction and
figurative painting at once, with his writer's love of text.
Dominic Eichler Looking back over the last 20 years of your
art - making, it is striking how you have circled and constantly returned to a diverse range of genres, modes of reproduction and printing techniques while exploring both
figurative and abstract images, and that all of these approaches still
find their place in your recent exhibitions and publications, such as Manual (2007).
Expect to
find exhibition receptions for
figurative art, contemporary abstraction, conceptual mixed media
art, design and more.
Photorealism can be
found in two exhibitions and portraiture and
figurative also strong right now in the Hamptons
art scene.
Altfest's work calls to mind the precise naturalism of early Lucian Freud, and
finds affinities in others who painted from life such as Georgia O'Keeffe and Stanley Spencer, but she has developed her own distinct approach to
figurative and representational painting since graduating with an MFA from Yale University School of
Art in 1997.
An accomplished
figurative painter, Felice «strives, through her portraits of women, to provide a counterpoint to the passive representations
found in
art historical tradition.
Loose and disjointed narratives involving the histories and materiality of painting are
found in several videos: Ragnheiour Gestsdottir's video «As If We Existed,» portrays the fictitious melodrama of a
figurative painter working in Venice; Tameka Norris's «Purple Painting» incorporates makeup and food in a provocative video that, with few words, touches on issues surrounding race, gender and the pressures of an
art historical canon; in Alex Hubbard's video «Hit Wave II,» a magician gives instructions for tricks, but the sounds and activities surrounding him allude to action painting with Hubbard in the background wearing a paint suit and creating gestural marks with spray paint.
In 2007 Hoffmann
founded the Museum of Modern
Art and Western Antiquities, for which he has curated two exhibitions: Section IV, Department of Light Recordings: Lens Drawings, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris (2013), and Section III, Department of Pigments on Surface: Very Abstract and Hyper
Figurative, Thomas Dane Gallery, London (2007).
Founded in 1982 in Paris by Pierre Dumonteil, Galerie Dumonteil (22 Sinan Mansions) has been promoting
figurative art for the last 25 years.
The Stuckist group of artists,
founded in 1999, proclaimed themselves «pro-contemporary
figurative painting with ideas and anti-conceptual
art, mainly because of its lack of concepts.»
Bischoff, along with Richard Diebenkorn and David Park, was part of the post-World War II generation of artists who started as abstract painters and
found their way back to
figurative art.
As Maya Jaggi writes: «unlike contemporaries who
founded British pop
art, Bowling took a singular path, from Bacon-esque
figurative painting to an abstract
art touched by personal memory and history....
Early
figurative art work
found in cave in Southern Germany, the Venus of Hohle Fels.
«People tend to visualize Chinese
art as Warhol-esque, brightly colored
figurative stuff, but we
found work that is quite conceptual,» he said.
After studying literature and
art history at Yale University and later taking classes at the Art Institute of Chicago, Oldenburg moved to New York and eventually became part of a group of artists challenging Abstract Expressionism by returning to «realism,» working with found objects and figurative imag
art history at Yale University and later taking classes at the
Art Institute of Chicago, Oldenburg moved to New York and eventually became part of a group of artists challenging Abstract Expressionism by returning to «realism,» working with found objects and figurative imag
Art Institute of Chicago, Oldenburg moved to New York and eventually became part of a group of artists challenging Abstract Expressionism by returning to «realism,» working with
found objects and
figurative images.
Using
found imagery and carefully constructed tableaux, his seductive yet challenging
figurative paintings explore complex ideas about history, memory, political extremism and
art history and are influenced by his experiences growing up in the last years of Ceausescu's dictatorship.
In 2007, the late Dr. William Innes Homer, a noted
art historian, agreed to study the collection and was stunned by what he
found: an almost bewildering array of extraordinary abstract landscape and
figurative paintings by a gifted artist who was completely unknown in his lifetime.
Given the basic humanity of geometry, it may come as a surprise to
find that many contemporary painters, both
figurative and abstract, think plain geometrical figures are chilly, «intellectual,» inhuman things best kept out of
art or buried deep beneath lots of colorful, painterly gestures, thrustings and parryings.
In the first one we
find six works where the artist focuses on the female figure and the relationship between graffiti and modern
figurative art, whilst in the second part of the show we
find a collaborative body of work with Fabiano Zanino, fusing a deconstructed animal world with graffiti.
For the exhibition, which first opens at Yorkshire Sculpture Park before touring to other venues around the UK, Gander has selected works from 30 different artists featured in the Collection, pairing
figurative sculptures with other artworks containing the colour blue, which to Gander represents the abstract ideas often
found in modern and contemporary
art.
The Lyme Academy College of Fine
Arts was founded in 1976 by Elisabeth Gordon Chandler as a figurative academy for the teaching of sculpture, figure drawing, Illustration and painting dedicated to the fine a
Arts was
founded in 1976 by Elisabeth Gordon Chandler as a
figurative academy for the teaching of sculpture, figure drawing, Illustration and painting dedicated to the fine
artsarts.
Founded in 1999 by Charles Thomson and Billy Childish, the Stuckists promote «
figurative painting with ideas» and oppose conceptual
art.
The pop artists, as they were later christened, produced
figurative and representational images, and used
found objects, to create
art that was a visual commentary on consumerism.
of
found objects and
figurative references wharton is also influential for her part in
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The Stuckists were
founded in 1999 by Charles Thomson and Billy Childish to promote
figurative painting and oppose conceptual
art.
I
find that this easy «style - spotting» happens a lot with abstraction, but less so with
figurative or representational
art.
The work can be labeled as assemblage, plastic
found objects, junk sculpture,
found objects,
figurative, assemblage,
found object construction, trash
art, recycled
art.