"Figurative expressionism" is a style of artwork or writing that uses symbols and metaphors to express and evoke emotions or ideas. It emphasizes the emotions and inner experiences of the artist or writer, rather than focusing on realistic or literal representation.
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The painting, which blends
figurative expressionism with Pop aesthetics reminiscent of artist Larry Rivers, is often deemed a landmark in Cannon's career — and in the course of contemporary Native art.
Curated by the National's Jeffrey Weiss, the show traces Rothko's development from his
early figurative expressionism through his mythographical explorations of the»40s and the floating zones of deep color that characterize his mature style — work that made him one of the most celebrated and influential forces in the midcentury triumph of American painting.
American Expressionism [23] and American Figurative Expressionism, particularly the
Boston figurative expressionism, [24] were an integral part of American modernism around the Second World War.
An original style (now often
labeled figurative expressionism) emerged from this fusion and translated to his canvases through explosive tones and mystical - even violent - compositional schemes.
In the late 1960s, he transitioned from Pop -
inflected figurative expressionism with the development of his Map Paintings, which feature abstract fields of colour overlaid with the stencilled outlines of continents.
A key figure in the history of
figurative expressionism whose international reputation has been steadily on the rise in recent years, Jay Milder is a living link to the epoch when New York was the capital of the art world and expressionism was at its peak.
Kupferman's unique brand of abstraction integrated with the already
burgeoning figurative expressionism in Boston, and he showed at the Boris Mirksi Gallery, arguably the most important Boston gallery at the time.
As a young painter coming into art in the early 1960s, Georg Baselitz (born 1938) was swift to reject the gestural abstraction that had dominated European and American painting since the end of World War Two, embracing instead a
bold figurative expressionism.
Bringing together works by 41 artists in a variety of media, it traces a lineage that connects
postwar figurative expressionism to the 1960s and 70s investigations of politics, gender and ethnicity in art.
Influenced by Cubism, he created a vocabulary of interlocking shapes and bold, sweeping gestures that served as a transition between his
early figurative expressionism and his later abstract constructivist concerns.
However, critics were considerably less open - minded about
his figurative expressionism.
In several pictures on view made circa 1960, Petersen appears in his stride and confidently in step with
the figurative expressionism already practiced hereabouts for several years by older contemporaries such as David Park (1911 - 1960) and Elmer Bischoff (1916 - 1990).
Established in 1989 by Michael Rosenfeld, the gallery opened its doors to promote the breadth of American art and those artists — known or unknown — that contributed to the establishment of surrealism, social realism, abstract expressionism,
figurative expressionism and geometric abstraction.
In 1959 New York's Museum of Modern Art mounted an exhibition called «New Images of Man,» focusing on
the figurative expressionism that was an important part of the postwar scene, thanks in part to the work of Francis Bacon, Jean Dubuffet and Alberto Giacometti.