Sentences with phrase «figurative painter»

His extraordinary achievements throughout his career have made him one of the most influential figurative painters of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

Interestingly I see abstract painters having to compete with the best of figurative painters in a way that I don't seem to see abstract sculptors having to compete with figurative sculptors.

Today, he has worked his way to prominence as an authentic leading voice among contemporary American figurative painters.

There are tons of figurative painters working today, and I would love to have included them, but I had 5,000 square feet.

I thought it would be interesting to put them in a context with several other generations of contemporary figurative painters, who are continuing to do vital work and are changing with the times.

This show was also inspired by a group of very exciting young figurative painters I've discovered over the past few years.

He is widely regarded as one of the greatest figurative painters of the twentieth and twenty - first centuries.

An abstract figurative painter, her work is full of color and movement.

He adapted the norms of the modern era to the avant - garde visual standards, all the while paying tribute to the older figurative painters.

Since then you've become one of the world's most respected figurative painters.

I don't know whether figurative painters do it or not, but I do.

I don't align myself with the present - day figurative painters, and I don't sit on panels about figurative art.

Over the years, his work has inspired generations of artists - abstract and figurative painters alike.

He did encourage figurative painters to work from memory as a way to get to something clearer and more interesting.

Those are the two main aspects that a lot of figurative painters ignore.

American figurative painters by default end up with an exaggerated... It's an American symptom to look like popular illustration.

Even today, if you wanted to be a young figurative painter you may be discouraged because there's some other new movement that seems more compelling.

They are as three - dimensional as any previous great figurative painters.

Both Morgan Russell and Stanton MacDonald - Wright began as figurative painters, but while living in Paris they became drawn to concrete art.

Bruce Adams is best known as a conceptually based figurative painter who references various (often historical) painting styles.

George Clair Tooker, Jr. was an American figurative painter whose works are associated with the Magic realism and Social realism movements.

Regardless of your feelings on the subject, Terry Powers is actively adapting what it means to be a Bay Area figurative painter with each day.

Los Angeles based artist Kent Williams has built up an impressive reputation as a contemporary figurative painter with his «bold realism with combined attributes of abstraction and neo-expressionistic sensibilities.

Müller is often grouped with other figurative painters from the 1950s including Fairfield Porter and Bob Thompson - painters who married abstract expressionist technique and earlier influences, most notably the Nabis.

The British painter Justin Mortimer, widely regarded as one of the leading figurative painters working today and an emblematic figure for a younger generation of artists.

Ann Gale is a Seattle - based figurative painter engaged in an intense observation of her subjects.

Billy Childish is arguable the greatest living figurative painter living in Britain today.

She works principally in oils, and draws inspiration from a relatively wide selection of artists, including Old Masters like Caravaggio (1571 - 1610), Rubens (1577 - 1640) and Rembrandt (1606 - 69), and as well as modern expressionist figurative painters like the Viennese - born Lucien Freud (b. 1922), the mercurial Francis Bacon (1909 - 92), and the Portugese - born fantasy - artist Paula Rego (b. 1935), to name but a few.

Leon Kossoff is one of the most important figurative painters at work today and is commonly assoictaed with a circle of School of London painters that includes Michael Andrews, Frank Auerbach, Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud and R.B. Kitaj.

Lynette Yiadom - Boakye is a British figurative painter who began working in etching for the first time this past year.

Yuskavage rose to prominence around the same time as other figurative painters such as Elizabeth Peyton and John Currin, who were similarly refreshing the genre with their own singular visions.

Jason Shawn Alexander is an expressionist figurative painter from Tennessee who pulls from the vulnerability, fear, and underlying strength of his rural upbringing, just outside of the haunting home of the Delta Blues.

Porter also helped pave the way for now - well - known figurative painters such as Rackstraw Downes, Philip Pearlstein and Alex Katz.

It refers both to an actual organisation and, in art chatter, to the belief that British art is dominated by conceptual values to the point that it puts figurative painters at a serious disadvantage.

Sotheby's started the evening's other 38 lots with the 2012 painting «Drown,» by the young Nigerian - born figurative painter Njideka Akunyili Crosby, who earlier this year was the subject of a one - woman show at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Fla..

Art historian Judith Wilson characterized that Provincetown summer as exemplifying an «ecstasy of influence»: the influences of contemporary figurative painters on Thompson's work.

Melcarth's works resembles both those of Renaissance masters and 20th - century figurative painters like Thomas Hart Benton.

The celebrated young figurative painter John Currin has here selected some 30 works of portraiture, ancient to modern, from the MFA's permanent collection, evaluating them as one might a friend, enemy, or lover — subjectively, passionately, at times irrationally, but always with a visceral sense of connection and personal insight.

Artsy profiles 20 early or mid-career female figurative painters who are «creating inspiring figurative paintings that speak to the present, and offer glimpses into the future.»

Eric Fischl, one of the great masters of American art and the most influential figurative painters in our time, discusses the multiple challenges of figuration.

• For more about figurative painters like Aloysius O'Kelly, see: Irish Art Guide.

Milton Avery Little Fox River, 1942 - 43 Oil on canvas 36 x 48 inches Permanent Collection of the Neuberger Museum of Art Purchase College, State University of New York; Gift of Roy R. Neuberger This exhibition examines the contributions of Milton Avery as a significant figurative painter from the late 1920s through the early 1960s.

These lectures enthusiastically commend less visually appealing works almost as if they will be good for us, cod - liver oil for the eyes — but twentieth - century figurative painters Alice Neel, Sylvia Sleigh, and Philip Pearlstein simply do not paint as beautifully as Courbet or Renoir.

Francine Prose, author of the novel Hunters and Gatherers, delves into realism and the real act of painting time with figurative painter Catherine Murphy.

She's an accomplished figurative painter with a sophisticated aesthetic, complex palette and confident, expressive brushwork.

Barneys New York has collaborated with American figurative painter Alex Katz and the Art Production Fund, a nonprofit organization dedicated to commissioning and producing ambitious public...

The group was founded at the San Francisco Art Institute in the late 1940s by two members of the Bay Area figurative painters David Park and Elmer Bischoff.