Sentences with phrase «figurative painter who»

Lester Johnson (1919 — 2010) was an innovative figurative painter who has never quite fit into any of the accepted narratives of postwar American art, and that alone makes his work worthy of a longer look.

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

I'd say he's a figurative painter who paints with whimsy in a magical style that reads at once very Latino, very Catholic, very metaphorical, and very personal.

A version of this article appears in print on July 22, 2011, on Page B10 of the New York edition with the headline: Lucian Freud, Figurative Painter Who Redefined Portraiture, Is Dead at 88.

(Full disclosure: When I met Dona Nelson 30 years ago, she was a figurative painter who had previously been abstract and later returned to abstraction.

It's a really interesting show, though it does start with two painters that I can't get too excited about: Tomma Abts, who won the Turner Prize in 2006 and who's rarely exhibited in the UK since, and Simon Ling, a figurative painter who paints buildings that look on the verge of collapse.

Tuymans has specifically selected these artists for the individual nature of their practice and the paradoxical way each of them uses their medium — as the artist himself is a figurative painter who constantly seeks to extend the traditional boundaries of his own practice — Tuymans has sought to recognise a similar trait in the artists he has chosen to exhibit; their works collectively investigate the potential, formal and conceptual tensions within the notion of abstraction.

Forrest Williams is a figurative painter who has shown his work in San Francisco, New York, Portland, Montreal, and for numerous summers at Provincetown's AMP gallery in the east end.

Rarely do these commissions make any kind of larger statement about American art, but last fall, when Barack Obama selected Kehinde Wiley — a figurative painter who deploys the techniques, poses and patterns of the grand tradition of Baroque European paintings to portray contemporary black and brown men he finds on the street — to paint his official portrait for the Smithsonian, it at least reflected the Obamas» well - developed connections to the world of culture.

Sue Ferguson Gussow is a figurative painter who works in a wide range of drawing and painting media.

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.

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

She is a figurative painter who works in oils.

Sean Mahan is a social realist figurative painter who works with graphite and acrylic washes on wood to depict a sense of wonder about the innate warmth of the human character and its conflict with structures of power and control.

Robert Beauchamp, Elmer Bischoff, Nathan Oliveira, and George McNeil, to name only a few examples of figurative painters who were also active at the time.

But the past few years have seen the emergence of a batch of exciting young figurative painters who, though their concerns are varied, share a number of intriguing characteristics: they are attuned to humor (slapstick looms large), fixated on the body, rapacious in their mining of both art history and the broader culture (from TV to Internet memes), and most of all, determined to impart pleasure.

The issue came to light for the first time last year after a campaign by the Stuckists, a circle of figurative painters who range themselves against conceptual art, the Turner prize and the prevailing policies of the Tate.

Now the Stuckists, the group of figurative painters who oppose conceptual art, are to use their first - ever show in a commercial West End gallery to further ridicule the Tate director.

Not exact matches

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

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.

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

Stefan Szczesny September 13 — October 9, 2012 The exhibit explores the early 80s, when Szczesny emerged as one of the protagonists of a young generation of bold figurative painters in the German - speaking world who came to be known as «Neue Wilde.»

Her influences range from Eric Fischl, who taught her at NSCAD, to the surrealists, to Phillip Guston, a painter who transitioned from an expressionist into a figurative painter during a period when successful expressionists didn't do that.

There were the Communist painters, figurative painting, traditional French painting, which was ridiculous, and the surrealists who had come back from America.

They included David Butler (1898 - 1997), who fashioned animals, angels and people from cut and painted tin and other found items; the religious painter Sister Gertrude Morgan (1900 - 1980); Steve Ashby (1904 - 1980), who made raw figurative assemblages out of scavenged materials; and Elijah Pierce (1892 - 1984), whose carved and painted wood reliefs depict biblical scenes and national figures like the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr..

I think there are people who are more figurative painters, and people who are landscape painters.

Over in Europe, I am following the figurative painter Marwan, who originally hails from Syria; though in his 80s, he is finally getting the recognition he deserves.

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 suggestion came from my husband [Verne Dawson] who is also a figurative painter, and who, by the way, also introduced me to Elizabeth Peyton and Rirkrit Tiravanija.

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.

Highlights include Tschabalala Self, a Forbes «s 30 Under 30 alum who has been lauded for re-centering black sexuality, and queer figurative painter and MacArthur «genius» Nicole Eisenman, whose works mix humor and the grotesque.

(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.

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 show brings together three figurative painters, spanning three generations, to consider who has a voice, who authors and figures prominently in history.

With them he promptly takes his place among a group of recent talented young painters who also make witchy figurative work with vivid color and wobbly compositions charged with psychological spirituality.

April 8 Joe Forkan is a figurative and landscape painter who lives and works in Southern California.

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.

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..

ESCAPE Landscape Painting exhibition running from 25 April until 30 April at Percolator Gallery is a joint exhibition with Jane Ericksen and Noeline Lee who are primarily figurative and still life painters.

Amongst the frequent visitors of l'Equipe during 1937 was the then figurative painter Serge Poliakoff, who borrowed much from Lacasse's abstract sketches, to deliver his first abstract painting at the gallery in 1938.

Artsy explores why San Antonio - based patrons Steven Alan Bennett and Dr. Elaine Melotti Schmidt founded the Bennett Prize, a biannual grant that will award funding to emerging women painters who live in the U.S. and work in a figurative realist style.

Unsurprisingly, his biggest influences are painters who worked with figurative representation but nevertheless made strange images (Stegner calls it «weird figuration»): Balthus, Otto Dix, and Alice Neel among them.

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.

The figurative painter Catherine Murphy, one of the artists who have chosen to stay with Knoedler, praises Del Deo's stewardship.

At Pratt, he studied with some of the foremost figurative painters of the day including Richard Lindner, Philip Pearlstein and Alex Katz, but it was painter Richard Bove who encouraged Williams to work from intuition and memory rather than from observation.

The fact he maintained a commitment to the figurative tradition to some degree [1] makes this painter truly stand out from the rest of his famous contemporaries who opted for the pure abstraction style.

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.

Chapter 1: Things Must be Pulverized: Abstract Expressionism Charts the move from figurative to abstract painting as the dominant style of painting (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Willem de Kooning, Barnett Newman Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko Chapter 2: Wounded Painting: Informel in Europe and Beyond Meanwhile in Europe: abstract painters immediate responses to the horrors of World War II (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Jean Dubuffet, Lucio Fontana, Viennese Aktionism, Wols Chapter 3: Post-War Figurative Painting Surveys those artists who defiantly continued to make figurative work as Abstraction was rising to dominance - including Social Realists (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Francis Bacon, Lucien Freud, Alice Neel, Pablo Picasso Chapter 4: Against Gesture - Geometric Abstraction The development of a rational, universal language of art - the opposite of the highly emotional Informel or Abstract Expressionism (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Lygia Clark, Ellsworth Kelly, Bridget Riley, Yves Klein Chapter 5: Post-Painting Part 1: After Pollock In the aftermath of Pollock's death: the early days of Pop, Minimalism and Conceptual painting in the USA (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, Cy Twombly Chapter 5: Anti Tradition - Pop Painitng How painting survives against growth of mass visual culture: photography and television - if you can't beat them, join them (1960s and 70s) Key artists discussed: Alex Katz, Roy Lichtenstein, Gerhard Richter, Andy Warhol Chapter 6: A transcendental high art: Neo Expressionism and its Discontents The continuation of figuration and expressionism in the 1970s and 80s, including many artists who have only been appreciated in later years (1970s & 80s) Key artists discussed: Georg Baselitz, Jean - Michel Basquiat, Anselm Kiefer, Julian Schnabel, Chapter 7: Post-Painting Part II: After Pop A new era in which figurative and abstract exist side by side rather than polar opposites plus painting expands beyond the canvas (late 1980s to 2000s) Key artists discussed: Tomma Abts, Mark Grotjahn, Chris Ofili, Christopher Wool Chapter 8: New Figures, Pop Romantics Post-cold war, artists use paint to create a new kind of «pop art» - primarily figurative - tackling cultural, social and political issues (1990s to now) Key artists discussed: John Currin, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, Neo Rauch, Lfigurative to abstract painting as the dominant style of painting (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Willem de Kooning, Barnett Newman Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko Chapter 2: Wounded Painting: Informel in Europe and Beyond Meanwhile in Europe: abstract painters immediate responses to the horrors of World War II (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Jean Dubuffet, Lucio Fontana, Viennese Aktionism, Wols Chapter 3: Post-War Figurative Painting Surveys those artists who defiantly continued to make figurative work as Abstraction was rising to dominance - including Social Realists (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Francis Bacon, Lucien Freud, Alice Neel, Pablo Picasso Chapter 4: Against Gesture - Geometric Abstraction The development of a rational, universal language of art - the opposite of the highly emotional Informel or Abstract Expressionism (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Lygia Clark, Ellsworth Kelly, Bridget Riley, Yves Klein Chapter 5: Post-Painting Part 1: After Pollock In the aftermath of Pollock's death: the early days of Pop, Minimalism and Conceptual painting in the USA (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, Cy Twombly Chapter 5: Anti Tradition - Pop Painitng How painting survives against growth of mass visual culture: photography and television - if you can't beat them, join them (1960s and 70s) Key artists discussed: Alex Katz, Roy Lichtenstein, Gerhard Richter, Andy Warhol Chapter 6: A transcendental high art: Neo Expressionism and its Discontents The continuation of figuration and expressionism in the 1970s and 80s, including many artists who have only been appreciated in later years (1970s & 80s) Key artists discussed: Georg Baselitz, Jean - Michel Basquiat, Anselm Kiefer, Julian Schnabel, Chapter 7: Post-Painting Part II: After Pop A new era in which figurative and abstract exist side by side rather than polar opposites plus painting expands beyond the canvas (late 1980s to 2000s) Key artists discussed: Tomma Abts, Mark Grotjahn, Chris Ofili, Christopher Wool Chapter 8: New Figures, Pop Romantics Post-cold war, artists use paint to create a new kind of «pop art» - primarily figurative - tackling cultural, social and political issues (1990s to now) Key artists discussed: John Currin, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, Neo Rauch, LFigurative Painting Surveys those artists who defiantly continued to make figurative work as Abstraction was rising to dominance - including Social Realists (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Francis Bacon, Lucien Freud, Alice Neel, Pablo Picasso Chapter 4: Against Gesture - Geometric Abstraction The development of a rational, universal language of art - the opposite of the highly emotional Informel or Abstract Expressionism (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Lygia Clark, Ellsworth Kelly, Bridget Riley, Yves Klein Chapter 5: Post-Painting Part 1: After Pollock In the aftermath of Pollock's death: the early days of Pop, Minimalism and Conceptual painting in the USA (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, Cy Twombly Chapter 5: Anti Tradition - Pop Painitng How painting survives against growth of mass visual culture: photography and television - if you can't beat them, join them (1960s and 70s) Key artists discussed: Alex Katz, Roy Lichtenstein, Gerhard Richter, Andy Warhol Chapter 6: A transcendental high art: Neo Expressionism and its Discontents The continuation of figuration and expressionism in the 1970s and 80s, including many artists who have only been appreciated in later years (1970s & 80s) Key artists discussed: Georg Baselitz, Jean - Michel Basquiat, Anselm Kiefer, Julian Schnabel, Chapter 7: Post-Painting Part II: After Pop A new era in which figurative and abstract exist side by side rather than polar opposites plus painting expands beyond the canvas (late 1980s to 2000s) Key artists discussed: Tomma Abts, Mark Grotjahn, Chris Ofili, Christopher Wool Chapter 8: New Figures, Pop Romantics Post-cold war, artists use paint to create a new kind of «pop art» - primarily figurative - tackling cultural, social and political issues (1990s to now) Key artists discussed: John Currin, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, Neo Rauch, Lfigurative work as Abstraction was rising to dominance - including Social Realists (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Francis Bacon, Lucien Freud, Alice Neel, Pablo Picasso Chapter 4: Against Gesture - Geometric Abstraction The development of a rational, universal language of art - the opposite of the highly emotional Informel or Abstract Expressionism (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Lygia Clark, Ellsworth Kelly, Bridget Riley, Yves Klein Chapter 5: Post-Painting Part 1: After Pollock In the aftermath of Pollock's death: the early days of Pop, Minimalism and Conceptual painting in the USA (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, Cy Twombly Chapter 5: Anti Tradition - Pop Painitng How painting survives against growth of mass visual culture: photography and television - if you can't beat them, join them (1960s and 70s) Key artists discussed: Alex Katz, Roy Lichtenstein, Gerhard Richter, Andy Warhol Chapter 6: A transcendental high art: Neo Expressionism and its Discontents The continuation of figuration and expressionism in the 1970s and 80s, including many artists who have only been appreciated in later years (1970s & 80s) Key artists discussed: Georg Baselitz, Jean - Michel Basquiat, Anselm Kiefer, Julian Schnabel, Chapter 7: Post-Painting Part II: After Pop A new era in which figurative and abstract exist side by side rather than polar opposites plus painting expands beyond the canvas (late 1980s to 2000s) Key artists discussed: Tomma Abts, Mark Grotjahn, Chris Ofili, Christopher Wool Chapter 8: New Figures, Pop Romantics Post-cold war, artists use paint to create a new kind of «pop art» - primarily figurative - tackling cultural, social and political issues (1990s to now) Key artists discussed: John Currin, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, Neo Rauch, Lfigurative and abstract exist side by side rather than polar opposites plus painting expands beyond the canvas (late 1980s to 2000s) Key artists discussed: Tomma Abts, Mark Grotjahn, Chris Ofili, Christopher Wool Chapter 8: New Figures, Pop Romantics Post-cold war, artists use paint to create a new kind of «pop art» - primarily figurative - tackling cultural, social and political issues (1990s to now) Key artists discussed: John Currin, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, Neo Rauch, Lfigurative - tackling cultural, social and political issues (1990s to now) Key artists discussed: John Currin, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, Neo Rauch, Luc Tuymans

The Houston - based figurative painter's solo show was inspired by Vance's current living situation, a 4 - plex apartment building shared by three other single women who can often hear each other through the thin walls.

Figurative painting is cool again, according to Doron Langberg, a Queens - based painter who combines a mythical tie - dye painting style with human subjects in sometimes quite compromising positions.