Sentences with phrase «figurative artists like»

Bay Area figurative artists like Richard Diebenkorn, Elmer Bischoff, and Wayne Thiebaud adopted the vibrancy of the abstract style paired with representational imagery.

I was trying to figure it out through reproductions, all the while still looking closely at Bay Area figurative artists like Diebenkorn, Park, Bischoff, Brown, and Neri.

There are hard - edge geometric paintings by Karl Benjamin, Lorser Feitelson, Frederick Hammersley and John McLaughlin called the Abstract Classicists after their 1959 show, as well as influential figurative artists like Rico Lebrun, who was, among other things, a teacher of Baldessari.

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The contemporary collectors who cut their teeth on younger artists are going back to wonderful figurative painters like Neel.

A former illustrator, Leveille has been attracted to a figurative style of drawing and painting and has influences ranging from Old Masters like Titian and Fragonard to contemporary artists like Walter Robinson and Kara Walker.

«The Figurative Artist's Handbook... is a very beautiful book to look through, so it may be challenging for those who use it as a handbook to let it get dirty and dog - eared, just like the previous generation did with their [Andrew] Loomis books.

But like Elmer Bischoff and David Park, with whom he made the turn to figurative painting a few years later, Diebenkorn was asking questions that abstract expressionism couldn't always answer, even though, as the early works in the show at the Royal Academy (until 7 June) suggest, he was a loyal and talented disciple: the LA Times described him as «one of the most gifted artists in the American non-objective field».

Gathered in laboratory - like settings of ateliers and arts academies across Europe and the Americas, such figurative models demonstrate the standards of excellence according to which generations of artists learn the classical idioms of beauty and perfection.

While conceptual artists like Damien Hirst, Tracy Emin, Cornelia Parker, and Tacita Dean engaged the public (in one way or another) with cheeky videos and installations, painters were smitten with large - scale figurative work.

But here, the manner is more like Philip Guston's late figurative allegories, which were a huge influence on younger artists beginning in the «80s.

Like many artists of that time, Ding's earliest venture into abstraction was a personal act of rebellion against the earthy tones and glib smoothness of Russian socialist realism, a figurative style that had heavily influenced the propagandistic art of the revolution.

Like many others of her generation in the Bay Area, the artist also worked in a figurative style in the 1950s and later.

Much like the Baroque period, the diverse array of artists in this exhibition speak to contemporary political, personal and formal artistic concerns using a common, figurative language in uniquely personal styles.

After experimenting with figurative art, Spanish - born artist Esteban Vicente (1903 - 2001) immigrated to the U.S. in 1936, embraced abstraction and teamed up with Abstract Expressionists like Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, whose New York studio was on the same floor as Vincente's.

As the show's title expresses, the predominance of abstract expressionism in midcentury American modernism eclipsed the work of Porter and other artists like him who chose to work in a figurative vein.

German - born and Los Angeles - based artist Florian Morlat works in a constructivist - Pop style that combines humble materials like cardboard and wood, with absurdist figurative gestures referencing pop icons like the Beatles.

It is an endearing mixture of high and low culture that leaves you puzzled for a bit, as you're not sure whether to like it or not, but when it comes to their execution, there is no doubt that the artist took figurative painting to a whole new level, and one that we certainly haven't seen in a while too — if we don't take art history books into consideration.

The book is a beauty... There is, throughout Ms. Jones's essay and the book as a whole, voluminous documentation of work by major artists who still rarely figure in most histories of American postwar art, like Betye Saar, who made intricate figurative drawings on covered glass windows; Senga Nengundi, who was conjuring unusual forms from sand and pantyhose before Ernesto Neto was even a teenager; and John Outterbridge, whose multifarious assemblages took on a gamut of styles.

Although hard edge painting became widespread in the 1960s, it was mostly present in California, where artists like John McLaughlin, Lorser Feitelson, Karl Benjamin, Frederick Hammersley and Feitelson's wife Helen Lundeberg created both figurative and non-representational artwork.

She mentioned artists like Antonia Eiríz Vázquez, a painter of powerfully dark Goya - like visions who died in 1995; Raúl Martínez, a Pop - inflected painter and graphic designer, who also died in 1995; and Alfredo Sosabravo, whose vividly colored figurative painting often combines whimsy with a social bite.

Since Mr. Niles has made a leap forward with this body of work, one can imagine that among his seeker - protectors are artists like Kerry James Marshall or Mr. Niles's mentor, Eric Fischl — and that Mr. Niles might soon join the ranks of other notable figurative painters.

While Wurm's use of a strong word like «ethics» refers to the 17th century philosopher Baruch Spinoza, whose seminal text Ethics manifested the emergence of The Enlightenment era understating of human agency and autonomy, the artist aims to question the aesthetic and figurative extents of sculpture in terms of mimicking the reality.

They allow Hepworth and other British artists like Henry Moore, Victor Pasmore, Ben Nicholson and Jacob Epstein to be seen in the context of European modernism — as pioneers of the abstraction that was sweeping away figurative art.

Like the «m - DNA» paintings, they begin with the artist's clay figurative forms, which here are cast in metal and fiberglass and mounted on concrete bases.

These artists (like Eric Fischl, David Salle, Elizabeth Murray, Kenny Scharf, Julian Schnabel) ignored critic Clement Greenberg and his prescriptive view of Modernism that had influenced the previous generation of artists, and instead crafted works that combined figurative subjects, abstract landscapes, and intuitive mark - making into volatile works of art.

Known for pushing the boundaries of the paint medium, Wheat presents two new sculptural works along with new «tapestries» — figurative works in which the artist pushes paint through wire mesh, creating rich, fiber - like surfaces.

Today is the occasion to bear in mind David Hockney (9/7/1937 --RRB-, Like other Pop artists, Hockney revived figurative painting in a style that referenced the visual language of advertising.

Today is the occasion to bear in mind David Hockney (9/7/1937 --RRB-, Like other Pop artists, Hockney revived figurative painting in a...

His figurative paintings make him a successor to artists like Edvard Munch and Henri Rousseau.

Like A Rainbow Xl 2 is an original, large one - of - a-kind figurative painting signed by artist Peter Nottrott.

I chose this Peter Doig because it reminds me of quite a lot of recent figurative painting which seems like a return to late - 19th century painting — to symbolist works by artists like Gauguin and Munch.

At the Whitney Biennial that year, the ceramics of Sterling Ruby and Shio Kusaka were featured prominently; the de Purys curated a show of leading ceramic artists at Venus Over Manhattan; and at major fairs like Frieze and Art Basel, galleries punctuated their presentations with pots by Dan McCarthy and Takuro Kuwata, and the figurative sculptures of Rachel Kneebone and Klara Kristalova.

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Emerging as through hazy, mist - like fields, Janis Avotins» (Latvia, 1981) large abstract landscapes represent a turning point from the artist's former figurative works.

It was there that Mr. Colacello, the man perhaps known best for being a sidekick to legendary artists like Andy Warhol who he worked alongside for 12 consecutive years at Interview Magazine, leapt from writer to curator with the debut of «The Age of Ambiguity: Abstract Figuration / Figurative Abstraction,» a selection of works all tied together with a theme of abstraction rooted in tangible objects and concepts.

But for this artist, an American considered part of the London School that promoted figurative painting in the 1970s, it feels like an embarrassingly skimpy offering.

Connections to Matisse, of course, are abundant and obvious in the inhabited spaces of Diebenkorn's figurative work, especially in the strong collection of drawings on view; both artists loved to draw, and Diebenkorn, like Matisse, had a great feeling for grays, even if he worried over his lack of the French artist's long cultivation of the figure.

Tatiana Garmendía (b. 1961, Havana): A figurative / conceptual artist, Tatiana Garmendía creates realistic, X-ray like images of the human body using graphite and metal leaf on paper.

His daughter Gabrielle says in a 2014 interview that while he «came out to Berkeley just as Pop and Conceptual Art were ascending on the East Coast,» Selz turned away from these popular movements and instead «identified with the irreverence of styles like Funk art,» seeking to highlight the work of «ceramic artists like Peter Voulkos [who] were barely considered fine artists then» or Nathan Oliveira, «a figurative artist who did not follow the prevailing east coast trends.»

Istanbul Contemporary Art fair made an invitation to Syria, and a friend and artist BP National Portrait prize winner in Britain, Sara Shamma was included with a very figurative Florence Nightingale painting that illustrated her asleep, in the New Horizans space, with art galleries like Ayyam included Beirut, Damascus, Syria and the Middle East.

But when we look closer, we see the artist has deliberately disrupted all the conventions of figurative painting: the beard itself is like an abstract painting, a haze of frenetic brushstrokes, drips and even incisions in the paint's surface.

His subjects ranged from abstract painters like Burgoyne Diller and Harry Holtzman, to figurative painters like Graham Nixon and Robert De Niro to artists who operated somewhere in between, like Elaine de Kooning and Steve Wheeler.

Although realist sculpture first emerged in the form of portrait busts of Roman Emperors (compare these gritty works with romantic Greek sculpture), and was continued most memorably by sculptors like Auguste Rodin (1840 - 1917), it wasn't until the advent of Pop - Art in the 1960s that artists like Duane Hanson (1925 - 96), John De Andrea (b. 1941) and Feuerman began to produce superrealist figurative sculpture.

I asked her if she saw a difference between European figurative painting and its young New York cousins, exemplified by artists like Elizabeth Peyton, with her dreamy, jewel - like portraits of rocks stars and friends.

In these pieces, the artist tackled genres like the still life, the portrait, figurative representation, landscape, interiors, historical painting, political propaganda, religious iconography, and the appropriation of elements from popular culture and art history.

• For more about figurative artists in Ireland like Stanhope Forbes, see: Irish Art Guide.

Works from the late 1950s and early 1960s, such as the present lot, may seem like an abrupt departure from the censored, figurative watercolors of the 1940s, yet their references to the corporeal reveal the artist's continued interest in the human body.

ENGLISH ART MUSEUMS Works by England's best figurative artists can be seen in museums like: the National Gallery London and the Tate Britain.

She works principally in oils, and draws inspiration from a relatively wide selection of artists, including Old Masters like Caravaggio (1571 - 1610), Rubens (1577 - 1640) and Rembrandt (1606 - 69), and as well as modern expressionist figurative painters like the Viennese - born Lucien Freud (b. 1922), the mercurial Francis Bacon (1909 - 92), and the Portugese - born fantasy - artist Paula Rego (b. 1935), to name but a few.

To work through issues of race, identity and community, Yashua Klos employs techniques like woodcutting and etching to produce innovative, large - scale collages, expansive figurative portraits of friends and fellow artists rendered in a quasi-cubist, bricolage style.