After Foundations, working from the live model is a crucial skill that
figurative artists need to master.
Not exact matches
The ambivalence of these works — the
need to both embrace and assault the mechanisms of
figurative art — brings the
artists right to the centre of their representations.
I told Eleanor that we
needed some
figurative artists but whose work had to have a strong metaphysical basis.
Just when abstraction started to match the complexity and variety of the content in the best
figurative painting abstract
artists turned away, seemingly
needing to embrace something new, leading to all sorts of varieties of minimalism («hollowing out?»).