She's an accomplished
figurative painter with a sophisticated aesthetic, complex palette and confident, expressive brushwork.
Kertess nominally shares the apartment with Billy Sullivan, a 49 - year - old
figurative painter with whom he has lived for 17 years — although Sullivan maintains a separate studio in lower Manhattan and the two have a fully merged household only in East Hampton, where they spend weekends and summers.
After beginning as
a figurative painter with socio - political themes, he won an international reputation as an abstract artist.
Nicky Nodjoumi is
a figurative painter with an abstract sensibility.
The five artists in Thomas Erben are
figurative painters with Joan Brown (1938 — 1990) and the recently deceased Charles Garabedian (1923 — 2016) the presiding spirits.
Not exact matches
I don't align myself
with the present - day
figurative painters, and I don't sit on panels about
figurative art.
Neal notes that «it is interesting that 8
Painters, comprised of all
figurative painting, and timed to run concurrently
with The Forever Now, offers an alternative to the mostly abstract works at MoMA.
BB: I consider myself at the moment an abstract
painter enthralled
with observational painting, but one issue I have
with post-war and contemporary
figurative painting is how overbearing the «abstraction» can be sometimes.
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.
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.
Whether appropriated by some contemporary
figurative painters or aligned
with some sort of new figuration, where the
painters «find everything to be a matter of images» (to quote Barry Schwabsky from the online catalogue for «A New Subjectivity»), Abstraction clearly and demonstratively engages
with the problems of painting (and collage and sculpture) despite the surprising conservatism of Kerry James Marshall.
MB: I am sure that the painting from Cluj is associated
with the term
Figurative Painting, which has regained more than a fashionable status in the art world, and the «old masters» have become key reference points for many contemporary
painters.
How does his work compare
with more recent
figurative painters dealing
with psycho - sexual content?
But when it comes to viewing David Park's body of work, this book shines
with superb color plates dispersed throughout, showing Park's development as a
painter from his early days, his non-
figurative period, his return to
figurative painting, and his final
figurative work in gouache.
By merging formalist color fields
with more traditional subjects, Diebenkorn revived a legacy of
figurative depictions championed by the likes of Henri Matisse and continued by a new generation of representative
painters.
The tour for members started
with a viewing of the Maria Hupfield piece on the VOLTA video wall, followed by a stop at the Nancy Margolis Gallery to see oil on panel pieces by still life and
figurative painter Aubrey Levinthal.
Part of a group of contemporary
figurative painters in New York (including John Currin, Will Cotton, and Lisa Yuskavage), she is also associated
with Pop Surrealism.
The New York - based artist joins a recent rash of
figurative painters, but sets herself apart by fusing art - historical precedents (the supine muses of Renoir, for instance)
with a rebuke of the traditional male gaze.
It was about time for a shift in the Houston
painter's work, which for the past several years has been characterized by cartoonish
figurative elements duking it out
with a whirling array of abstract elements from hard - edged to splashy.
Picking up the baton from generations of male
figurative painters, such as Lucian Freud, to whom she is frequently compared, Jenny Saville is often credited
with a «reappropriation» of the female figure.
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.
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.
Her work relates to some of Chicago's existential
figurative painters of the 1950s, but
with a distinctively contemporary visage.
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 Robert Ernst Marx and John Greene,
painters with ties to Rochester, give the viewer an alluring thread of
figurative identity without supplying a story.
With a practice spanning the 1920s to the 1980s, Neel is widely regarded as one of the foremost American
figurative painters of the twentieth century.
And he was doing it
with the kind of deeply seductive, gutsy painterliness that, say, Philip Guston, that other abstract - turned -
figurative painter — and upstate New Yorker — wasn't.
FRANCIS PICABIA: OUR HEADS ARE ROUND SO OUR THOUGHTS CAN CHANGE DIRECTION Picabia was on the ground
with the Dadaists in Paris, but this exhibition includes his later work, which has influenced contemporary
painters — perverse
figurative paintings that look like precursors to Pop Art, or pulp fiction book covers.
Wrestling
with the simultaneous existence of abstraction and representation, «
Painter» strikes a precarious note: ambiguous, but semi-recognizable forms recall the artist's early
figurative works of the 1940s.
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 spiritual
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 spiritual
with vivid color and wobbly compositions charged
with psychological spiritual
with psychological spirituality.
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.
The experience of growing up in New York City, surrounded by an extraordinary human landscape, along
with my early background as a dancer, and then as a
figurative painter, laid the foundation for my subject of choice.
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.
By the mid-1950s, Diebenkorn had become an important
figurative painter, in a style that bridged Henri Matisse
with abstract expressionism.
A California abstract expressionist artist, Kristin studied at Humbolt State University and
with Micheal Dee Cookinham a bay area
figurative and abstract expressionist
painter.
If you are a
figurative painter and you want to put in a third leg you'd have to be Michelangelo to get away
with it.
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.
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.
One of the most important
painters of her generation, Eisenman has developed a distinct
figurative language that combines the imaginative
with the lucid, the absurd
with the banal, and the stereotypical
with the countercultural and queer.
Like Francis Bacon, though, it pleased Hodgkin to refer to himself as a
figurative painter; and, as
with Bacon's suggestion that his own smeared agonies were realist, Hodgkin's use of the term
figurative seemed to most viewers of these sumptuously coloured abstractions nothing more than a tease.
Probably benefiting from the buzz around the New Museum's current exhibition Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon (until 21 January 2018), which features some of the same artists, Engender shows how contemporary
painters are complicating identity and the body
with a range of abstract and
figurative strategies.
One of the most important
painters of her generation, Nicole Eisenman has developed a distinct
figurative language that combines the imaginative
with the lucid, the absurd
with the banal, and the stereotypical
with the countercultural and queer.
Himself an amateur drummer, Thompson was one of the most admired young
figurative painters of his era, and he was friendly
with many of these musicians.
Kitaj has been associated
with the «School of London» generation, a label that never referred to a specific group or style, but was used in connection
with a number of
painters preoccupied
with the
figurative aspect of painting at a time when abstract art had dominated the art scene for a long time.
Between 1962 and 1968 the
painter was experimenting
with a realistic,
figurative painting style that is quite different from his later abstract and photo - realist paintings.
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.
Stylistically, there's a fairly even breakdown between abstract and
figurative painters,
with 52 and 56 entries respectively.
Jordan Richardson paints from a place of incredulity and
with this approach he appears to deliberately defy easy categorisation as a
figurative painter.