Sentences with phrase «figurative artists while»

This workshop allows participants to gain a deeper understanding of the art world as they consider the techniques and styles of a range of figurative artists while developing their own skills and styles.

This workshop allowed participants to gain a deeper understanding of the art world as they consider the techniques and styles of a range of figurative artists while developing their own skills and styles.

Not exact matches

While this exhibition began somewhere between the vague boundaries of figurative art and realism, it coalesced quickly into something more personal, that is, a representation of those artists who have been foremost in my mind over the course of my own experience and personal development.

Early figurative drawings and woodcuts, some done when the artist served in the Peace Corps, in Africa, bore witness to the acute sense of observation and refinement of means that still characterize his art, while pointing to the resonant economy of his mature works.

The artists work in a variety of unique and innovative ways; some incorporating a more traditional figurative approach, while others are combining metalpoint with other media to produce striking and unexpected results.

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.

Both artists evolved out of the Dutch figurative tradition into complete abstraction at exactly the same time, but while Mondrian remained with his bleak, geometric painting throughout his life, Van Doesburg had other ideas, dozens of them.

Pure abstraction suffers from its association to «Zombie Formalism,» what the painter and critic Walter Robinson called abstraction made to feed the market, while the bulk of contemporary figurative painting does little more than illustrate the conceptual and / or political leanings of the artist.

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.

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.

While all the work in the exhibition is figurative, each artist presents a unique interpretation.

It's hard to characterize the art produced in Bushwick: there are endless studios of artists producing forms of traditional figurative painting while countless others are experimenting with digital images — some older talents but mostly younger ones.

While the artist never suggests a grand narrative, the titles of her canvases allows for discernment and guidance through figurative observation.

Haynie is a performance artist with literal and figurative interest in the ways music can move a person, while Woodruff's sound installation brings the viewer back to the exhibition's origin: music and it's oh - so - colorful culture.

Each of these artists confronts issues of violence and power, shifting between personal, political and historical events while maintaining a dialogue with the tradition of figurative painting.

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.»

Painter, illustrator, graphic designer and graffiti artist, Rems 182's imagery unites violence, eroticism, and strength in both large - scale and smaller portraits characterised by a use of multiple perspectives that create a unique softness in each image that allows the various expressions to complement each other while revealing the complexities of human emotion Having a background as a graffiti writer his work combines both letter - based and complex figurative images, or as the artist himself explains: «I fuse my graffiti writer language with my modern figurative art experience in perennial tension towards abstract disaggregation.»

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.

Again, African - American artists are very much on the agenda: deceptively naive paintings by former slave Bill Traylor, who died in 1949, feature at Betty Cuningham ($ 50,000 - $ 140,000), while Donald Morris shows Bob Thompson, who was inspired by European Old Masters to produce boldly coloured figurative paintings (nine of 13 works sold on first day, $ 125,000 - $ 250,000).

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.

In the West, we are generally in the habit of seeing figurative painting as a window on the world and in a linear perspective, while artists in the East still see themselves as an integral part of this landscape.

While other exhibitions have presented Russian underground art or Chinese post-Cultural Revolution art, Figurative Diaspora will be the first exhibition to trace the direct artistic influences of the USSR on the artists of the People's Republic of China.

Duchamp is not the only artist that Richter engages with: some of his more figurative works reference canvases by Titian, Caspar David Friedrich and Vermeer, while his two large abstract paintings in Room 10, «Forest 3» and «Forest 4», draw strong comparisons in terms of colour, scale and delicacy, with Monet's «Waterlilies».

Swann: This figurative painting was acquired from one of the artist's first gallery exhibitions while Kaphar was a BFA student at San Diego State.

The vast majority of the works selected by curator Lizzie Zucker - Saltz & Assistant Curator Ashley Westpheling are figurative with many reference pop icons such as Elvis, Marilyn & Donald Trump, while others portray local artists, performers, models and writers, such as performer Deonna Mann, artist Katie Walker, fellow resident studio denizen photographer Peter Frey.

Artist: Michael Ross Exhibition title: Selected Works 1991 — 2015 Venue: Ellis King, Dublin, Ireland Date: January 29 — March 5, 2016 Photography: images copyright and courtesy the artist and Ellis King, Dublin The story is often told of Alberto Giacometti's exile from occupied Paris in the early 1940's, as he whiled away the time in his native Switzerland working on a series of figurative sculptures of literally diminishing reArtist: Michael Ross Exhibition title: Selected Works 1991 — 2015 Venue: Ellis King, Dublin, Ireland Date: January 29 — March 5, 2016 Photography: images copyright and courtesy the artist and Ellis King, Dublin The story is often told of Alberto Giacometti's exile from occupied Paris in the early 1940's, as he whiled away the time in his native Switzerland working on a series of figurative sculptures of literally diminishing reartist and Ellis King, Dublin The story is often told of Alberto Giacometti's exile from occupied Paris in the early 1940's, as he whiled away the time in his native Switzerland working on a series of figurative sculptures of literally diminishing returns.

The figurative subject matter is reminiscent of the rich artistic traditions of Persian miniature painting and calligraphy, while the abstract use of vibrant colours reveals the artist's spiritual inspiration grounded in the millenary tradition of Persian poetry.

Wall kept up on other emerging artists, and while it was reassuring to him that they were also interested in returning to figurative work, his head wasn't turned.

While some of the landscape and abstract works share some common denominators with Canadian artists including Marion Nicol or Jean Paul Riopelle, the figurative work struck me as the most compelling.

While Davis's legacy remains that of a classic Early American Modernist, Graham and Gorky can be seen as precursors of two branches of Postmodernism: the figurative (Graham), which opened the door to the mythic and the literary in artists as different as Anselm Kiefer, Enzo Cucchi, and Jörg Immendorff, and the formal (Gorky), in which orthodox precepts are bent and subverted, as in the work of David Reed, Philip Taaffe, and Jonathan Lasker.

The show begins with the artist's first mature phase while under the spell of Abstract Expressionism, follows him through his figurative period, and flowers fully in a generous sampling of the Ocean Park paintings.

The crucial dilemma for artists is how to convey complex figurative works that depict grand story arcs, while compressing a multitude of thoughts, nuance, ideas and emotions into a static singular image.

While much of Marsha's art is whimsical and expressive, the artist also does portraiture and figurative work.

«While the content of his epic figurative paintings is unmistakably of his own time and cultural context», the gallery said in a statement, the «formal virtuosity and complex layering of narrative» in the work of the Beijing - based artist «reveal a deep and astute working knowledge of the inventions and traditions of painting from the Renaissance to the present day.»

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.