Sentences with phrase «figurative artists such»

Formal spacial constructs and his clear, bright use of color hark back to the early 20th century as well as to mid-century Pop art, while his approach to collage and breakdown of the figure acknowlege earlier figurative artists such as Romare Bearden.

Not exact matches

A unique amalgamation of artist, Spiritualist and medium, the fascinating and unexpected story of Houghton has generated international interest from curators and writers who see her work as representing an abandonment of figurative form that anticipates the development of modern abstraction by artists such as Kandinsky or Malevich by several decades.

Influenced by representational artists such as Fairfield Porter and Alex Katz, during her studies Fish was not always encouraged in her realistic approach, considering the fact that prestigious university's art programs advocated the idea of inferiority of the figurative painting in relation to abstraction or conceptual work.

It has been difficult for art history to assimilate the figurative work of an avowedly conceptual artist such as Adrian Piper, who has painted since the mid-1960s.

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.

Artists from Istanbul represented in Double Crescent are Hale Tenger, whose edgy assemblage works, addressing issues of gender and identity, have been exhibited at the biennials in Saõ Paolo, Johannesburg and Istanbul; Ali Kazma, whose powerful videos of people at their occupations have been shown at the Istanbul Biennial; Ayşe Erkmen, whose witty architectural interventions have been featured at Art Basel, the Hamburger Bahnhof and the Sharjah Biennial; Gülsün Karamustafa, a multimedia artist whose research - based installations on subjects such as nomads and refugees have been shown at Documenta, the Salzburger Kunstverein and the Walker Art Center and Nazım Ünal Yılmaz whose large - scale figurative paintings have been exhibited at the Kunsthaus Stade in Germany and Contemporary Istanbul.

The Nashville - born, New York - based artist plays with our ever - shifting opinions and perceptions of reality in optical, textural paintings made with flashe and gesso and undulating figurative sculptures — squashed heads, couples jogging — made in foam with such precision that Sayer's hand is almost imperceptible.

Although all of the artists have donated works to help to support the magazine and the development of the art school, this exhibition has been carefully considered to reflect that which is current, significant and critical in contemporary painting, including abstract works by Thomas Nozkowski, Mali Morris and Phil Allen, and painters who have championed a figurative approach such as Chantal Joffe, Neal Tait and Dinos Chapman.

With a raw, gestural aesthetic, and containing both abstract patterns and figurative forms, Dial's work is considered comparable to that of iconic artists such as Anselm Kiefer, Willem de Kooning, and Robert Rauschenberg.

What makes de Kooning such a great artist may be something far more subtle, far more interior to painting itself and perhaps expressed best in his earlier works, those that are, again, often described as transitional, from figurative works of the early 40s to even abstractions such as Painting, Attic, or Excavation.

This work expands the museum's collection of paintings, joining figurative works by artists such as Alice Neel, Lisa Yuskavage, and Dana Schutz.

At the palazzo Pisani a Santa Marina, the work of 12 emerging artists is shown alongside that of their mentors, such as Yinka Shonibare RA, whose mentee is the figurative painter Kimathi Donkor.

If Warren's figurative works recall Umberto Boccioni and Alberto Giacometti, then these steel works look back to artists such as Richard Serra and John McCracken, among others.

Mr. Hendricks was an uncontested champion in a battle for figurative painters and (perhaps more importantly) Black artists long before many of my generation ever knew such battles existed.

Featuring around seventy paintings spanning the entire length of her career, this handsome book accompanies a major retrospective of her work, and reveals her underlying interest in the history of photography, German painting of the 1920s, and other artists, such as Van Gogh and Cézanne, all of which provided an important precedent for the veracity and raw emotional intensity of her figurative works.

In Chicago, such artists as Leon Golub (MATRIX 59) and Peter Saul created viable figurative styles.

Quinn is a member of the YBA (Young British Artists) and is best know for his challenging figurative sculptures such as Self, the artist's portrait cast in his own blood and Alison Lapper Pregnant, a massive marble sculpture installed on the -LSB-.....]

For the first time Hauser & Wirth presents 2D work of Thomas Houseago, the British born artist who is renowned for his raw, massive, figurative sculptures made of so called lo - fi materials such as plaster and plywood.

In America artists such as Julian Schnabel, David Salle and Jean Michel Basquiat championed figurative painting and in Italy the Transavanguardia, which held emotion and human imagination above rational principles, emerged to challenge Arte Povera.

He curated an exhibition for the Arts Council at the Hayward Gallery in 1976, entitled «The Human Clay» (an allusion to a line by W. H. Auden), including works by 48 London artists, such as William Roberts, Richard Carline, Colin Self and Maggi Hambling, championing the cause of figurative art at a time when abstract was dominant.

CHG represents a diverse collection of international artists, primarily influenced by today's pop culture and collectively encompassing style genres such as New Figurative Art, Pop Surrealism, Neo Pop, Graffiti and Street Art, and Post-Graffiti.

From there, his almost flat, almost abstract works, with their contrasting planes of colour and reminiscences of doorways and cheerful bunting, provided Brazilian artists with a bridge between the bright, figurative paintings of Brazilian modernists such as Emiliano di Cavalcanti and Tarsila do Amaral and the geometric abstraction of the 1950s Neo-Concrete movement and Grupo Ruptura.

The artist cites Southern European figurative masters such as Caravaggio, Velasquez, and Manet, and Northern European still - life masters, such as Bosschaert, Davidsz de Heem, and Rachel Ruysch as influences.

The artists, such as Francesco Clemente, Enzo Cucchi, Sandro Chia and Mimmo Paladino, revived symbolism and figurative painting, as well as mythic imagery, rediscovered during the height of the movement.

British artists Tim Noble and Sue Webster have received widespread acclaim for their shadow sculptures, which transform seemingly abstract assemblages of objects, such as household rubbish, into figurative shadow portraits.

Around one hundred paintings from museums worldwide tell the great story of portrait and figurative painting from the fifteenth to the late twentieth century in four broad thematic sections that offer much more than a merely chronological approach to works by a host of outstanding artists: from Raphael, Botticelli, Mantegna, Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, Dürer, Cranach, Pontormo, Rubens, Caravaggio, Van Dyck, Rembrandt, Velázquez, El Greco, Goya, Tiepolo up to the Impressionists, Manet, Van Gogh and great twentieth - century artists, such as Munch, Picasso, Matisse, Modigliani, Giacometti and Bacon.

Quinn is a member of the YBA (Young British Artists) and is best know for his challenging figurative sculptures such as Self, the artist's portrait cast in his own blood and Alison Lapper Pregnant, a massive marble sculpture installed on the fourth plinth at Trafalgar Square in London featuring a pregnant woman born with no arms and severely shortened legs.

David Choong Lee is a Korean artist who combines versatile genres such as graffiti, collage, portraiture and graphic design to create an array of vibrant figurative and abstract artworks.

Here, that means figurative work from canonical legends such as the late, great Louise Bourgeois will be shown alongside emerging artists and living art stars including Marlene Dumas.

Schimmel has organized major one - person retrospectives for artists Chris Burden, Willem De Kooning, Takashi Murakami, Laura Owens, Sigmar Polke, Charles Ray, and Robert Rauschenberg, and significant thematic exhibitions such as The Interpretive Link: Abstract Surrealism into Abstract Expressionism, Works on Paper, 1938 - 1948 (1987), The Figurative Fifties: New York Figurative Expressionism (1988), Hand - Painted Pop: American Art in Transition 1955 — 62 (1992), Helter Skelter: LA Art in the 1990s (1992), Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object, 1949 - 1979 (1999), Ecstasy: In and About Altered States (2006), and Collection: MOCA's First 30 Years (2010).

Using figurative representation and playful geometric abstraction, Brooklyn - based artist Ted Lawson is someone who loves to combine digital technology — such as 3D printing — with traditional art methods to create organic fine art as well as large - scale sculptures that explore humanity.

Cezanne communicates his struggle as an artist, that we all go through, with such candour, I felt extremely moved by the paintings, all portraits, altho I am not a figurative artist.I must say I got off on the furniture, draperies and organisation of the whole, as much as the expression in the faces.An exception is the Courtauld picture with the white clay pipe, a masterpiece if there ever was one.I breathed in the Cezannes and haven't digested them yet, except to say since the Matisse at the RA, I think this show is second to none.The Cohens were very good also, working across a large room.

By banning the figurative element from painting in favor of an abstract analysis of the «crisis of modern man» and also resorting to images from archaic cultures, artists such as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko or Willem de Kooning shaped the Abstract Expressionist movement in the 1940s and 1950s.

Early influences include the West Coast Figurative Movement painters such as Richard Diebenkorn, Nathan Oliveira, and Wayne Thiebaud, as well as mid-century European artists, most importantly Max Beckmann, Oskar Kokoschka, and Emil Nolde.

Outside the museum last week, a group of figurative artists — whose work never features on the Turner shortlist — held their annual protest, wearing black top hats and holding posters bearing such slogans as THE TURNER PRIZE IS CRAP.

The first major 20th century British sculpture exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts for 30 years is set to take place early next year.The survey will be a chronological tour to» represent a unique view of the development of British sculpture» Works have been chosen to highlight the artists» figurative and abstract choices, comparing works such as Phillip King's Genghis Khan and Edwin Lutyens's Cenotaph.

Consequently, he is often grouped with other artists of his time who used figurative elements, such as Italians Sandro Chia, Mimmo Paladino, and Enzo Cucchi; Germans Anselm Kiefer, Georg Baselitz, and Marcus Lüpertz; and Americans Julian Schnabel, David Salle, and Eric Fischl.

The artist's first works from the 1920s and 1930s reflect the influence of early modernists such as Cézanne, and predominantly feature still - lifes and figurative scenes.

As the artist himself has said, «You can't invent a painting from scratch; you are working with an entire tradition... The pictorial language of the 20th century, from Kurt Schwitters's collages to Jackson Pollock's drip paintings, makes up a range of possibilities that I utilise in order to create a transhistorical figurative painting — a painting of the image as such, of representation» (A. Ghenie, quoted in «Adrian Ghenie in Conversation with Magda Radu,» Adrian Ghenie: Darwin's Room, exh.

In Paris, which since the 19th century had been the epi - centre of the global art scene, aside from the surrealists and a few notable exceptions, such as Balthus and André Derain, the work of figurative artists disappeared almost entirely from view.

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.

Returning to Poland in 1951, she established a reputation as a figurative sculptor through official commissions, such as the 1953 «Monument to Russian - Polish Friendship», and in 1958 she was one of seven shortlisted artists in an international competition chaired by Henry Moore to create a memorial to Auschwitz.

That the use of such a methodology was passed from the advocates of a figurative manner to a group made up of the most extreme abstract artists is an indication of the importance of geometry in art at that time.

Quickly abandoning his figurative approach, he began to explore abstraction in vibrant yet delicate works inspired by artists such as Paul Klee.

Along with artists such as Robert Gober and Katharina Fritsch, Charles Ray has salvaged the tradition of crafted, figurative sculpture by radically reconstituting the three - dimensional object as «image.»

While it was around this time that Frankenthaler's canvases began to achieve a lightness — a kind of openness that allowed the composition to breathe — it was in the 1970s that the artist had moved away from the literal and figurative landscapes seen in her early work, such as the celebrated Mountains and Sea from 1952, and towards a more emotional and expressive representation of Color Field paintings where she developed a new sumptuousness and sensuality characterized in the present work.

It includes works by painters such as George Abend and Felix Ruvolo — key figures in the The San Francisco Bay Area abstract expressionism movement, as well as works by Bay Area Figurative School artists, including Nathan Oliveira, David Park, Roland Petersen and Joan Savo.

At the same time, a resurgence of interest in figurative painting in our own moment, as evidenced by attention to the work of artists such as Lynette Yiadom - Boakye and Toyin Ojih Odutola, speaks to the continuing relevance of Nochlin's perspective for contemporary art.

We hope the exhibition will encourage more dialogue around Wróblewski and reaffirm his importance and contribution to contemporary European figurative painting; not only in relation to artists from Poland and the former Soviet Union, such as Wilhelm Sasnal, but also with regard to figures such as Luc Tuymans and Marlene Dumas.

But as this exhibition makes clear, there are many figurative and expressionist works by artists such as Claudia de Monte, Michael Goldberg and Moshe Kupferman to name just a few.