Sentences with phrase «figurative artists who»

Along with Stettheimer, who is an obvious reference point, I was reminded of Peter Dean, who was a member of the Rhino Horn group, as well as Bob Thompson — figurative artists who packed a composition with stuff and loved to jam color next to color.

Kalm notes: «This presentation focuses on a select group of figurative artists who formed connections both personally and aesthetically between post war Paris and New York.

At the same time I have a real love of figurative artists who construct their pictures with a sense of rigor: Piero, or more recently Euan Uglow or Balthus.

is personally deeply meaningful to me as a figurative artist who happens to be a woman.

A figurative artist who still attracts comparisons with Rothko, Anthony Fry painted landscapes and figures in rich, dreamlike colours.

He defined himself as a figurative artist who went through Abstract Expressionism, Geometric Abstraction and a number of other styles of painting, but who had always been a figurative painter because his greatest interest was in people.

Behind all that conceptualism she's is, let us not forget, a trained figurative artist who studied painting at the Royal College of Art: she hated it but learned a lot about painting, as she later claimed.

Hobbie, a purely figurative artist who has been exploring the female figure for about twenty years, presents devastatingly sophisticated artsy heroines set against exotic backdrops in her latest series of nearly a dozen works.

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.»

Christoforou was a powerfully gestural abstract and figurative artist who used a brilliant palette, «a savage expressionist», born in London to parents of Greek origin.

A feminist, figurative artist who often painted men in a woman's role, she never received recognition until the end of her life when she was included in groundbreaking exhibitions at PS1 in New York and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles.

It's unusual to see a figurative artist who so obviously enjoys luscious colour for its own sake.

Antonio Berni was an Argentine figurative artist who is often associated with the movement known as Nuevo Realismo, a Latin American extension of social realism.

Not exact matches

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

You see, the artists I'm interest in who are figurative artists are Giacometti, Balthus, Kitaj and Lucian Freud.

As a figurative artist I operate as someone who has hunches about the importance of an image to me.

Another artist who explores relational complexity is Beijing - based figurative painter Tang Yongxiang.

An admired artist in India, Arpita Singh, who is best known for her figurative paintings of woman, often floating in an elusive space, rarely shows in America and that is our loss.

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.

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.

School of London was a term invented by artist R.B. Kitaj to describe a group of London - based artists who were pursuing forms of figurative painting in the face of avant - garde approaches in the 1970s

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.

In line with the recent trend of figurative painting, this show, curated by Katrina Neumann, brings together a multigenerational group of artists who create paintings that consider the human form within real and imagined environments.

«Artists were looking at their predecessors, but there were not a lot of them who'd continued in that figurative zone consistently, with his level of detachment,» says Weinberg.

«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.

The roster is chalk - full of up - and - coming artists who seem to be leading the pack of emerging artists who fall under the trending category of surreal, figurative painting and drawing.

Known for his playful integration of abstract elements into figurative scenes, Philip Guston was a Canadian - born American artist who achieved recognition and fame by working in two seemingly different (yet connected) styles — Abstract Expressionism and Representational Painting.

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.

Standout artists in the show include Tomashi Jackson, who uses Josef Albers's 1963 text Interaction of Color to explore the history of racial segregation in her painterly assemblages; David Shrobe, who creates surreal portraits by combining his figurative paintings and drawings with found materials; and Kennedy Yanko, who makes abstract sculptures by blending rubbery skins of poured paint and crumpled paper with bits of marble and scrap metal.

British painter Lucian Freud is a great figurative artist with an immense following who was always going in and out of style in his 70 years of working.

These works marked his rejection of making figurative art with clear references to the real world, and in particular his move away from the post-WWII Kitchen Sink group of artists who were painting ordinary scenes of everyday life.

(New York, NY)-- VENUS is pleased to present Bernard Buffet: Paintings from 1956 to 1999, an exhibition of important and historic works by the renowned late figurative painter, who remains one of the most controversial French artists of the 20th century.

Matisse stands as the artist who most directly got under the skin of his work, and indeed there have been few artists who have engaged as deeply and as intelligently with Matisse's paintings, and yet managed to create a distinctly American panorama, both in his figurative work and, to a point, his later abstract canvases.

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.

The figures and grounds are given equal weight by the artist, who installed gestural figurative paintings influenced by art history and kitsch alongside more minimal works that borrow basic television patterns and computer graphics.

1988 Works by Artists Who Are Black, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AK The Figurative Fifties, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA; Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA

It's difficult to think of major female artists since the 1970s who work with figurative sculpture in the way of a Charles Ray or a Paul McCarthy, although I can think of many celebrated female artists who have used the body in installation and performance art.

NW: We are going to show a new artist from the Netherlands, Merijn Hos, who cuts figurative shapes out of wood and embellishes the shapes.

Starting with the figurative artists of the «Hairy Who» in Chicago and West Coast Funk artists and their assorted allies, it recontextualizes painters as various as William N. Copley, Elizabeth Murray and Gary Panter; encompasses the rogue artist / musicians of Destroy All Monsters; and concludes with the erstwhile Providence collective Forcefield.

Friends who rose to prominence in London in the 1950s, Bacon and Freud are widely regarded as the leading figurative artists of the 20th century.

Currently, the Evans Center features an exhibition called Pose / Re-Pose: Figurative Works Then and Now, which showcases works by acclaimed African American artists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries in dialogue with contemporary artists who utilize the body as a primary focus.

Character Traits brings together nine young artists who reinvigorate the rich intersection of figurative abstraction via distinctive compositions, materials and processes.

Francesco Clemente is one of a group of Italian artists who returned to a figurative style of painting in the 1970s.

Also, we had Leon Golub, who did his large, partially untreated canvases, and then we went from Arnulf Rainer to [Gérard] Gasiorowski, to Raoul De Keyser, who was then still alive and making these amazing abstract paintings, to Robert Ryman, to Malcolm Morley — from conceptual to abstract to figurative — to On Kawara, to Gerhard Richter, who reunites all these dimensions, to Dick Bengtsson, a tricky forgotten Swedish artist who died young, to Ed Ruscha, to Niele Toroni.

When the German dealer Susanne Vielmetter first moved out to L.A. around the turn of the century, one of the most interesting artists she encountered there was Kim Dingle, a figurative painter who specialized in portraits of «little girls doing unspeakable things,» the gallerist recalls.

Clare Bonnet, whose painting «Scarlet Peace» is shown here courtesy of the artist and Sarah Wiseman Gallery, is a Cornwall based artist who mixes figurative painting with abstract mark - making.

Frank Rampolla (1931 - 1971) was a Florida - based figurative expressionist artist and professor, who lived in Sarasota and Tampa during the 1960s.

Alexandra Limpert is an artist who creates outstanding figurative metal sculptures as well as eye - catching animatronics.

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.

BRUCE SILVERSTEIN GALLERY In the «Spotlight» section, showcasing a single artist in each booth, Bruce Silverstein is exhibiting three spectacular canvases from the 1970s by Alfred Leslie, a painter who started off as an Abstract Expressionist and later turned to figurative realism.