Sentences with phrase «figurative painters david»

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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..

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.

Particularly significant are the collection of Bay Area figurative painters, including Richard Diebenkorn, David Park, and Elmer Bischoff, and works by American Realist painters Philip Pearlstein, Jack Levine, and Jerome Witkin.

David Uessem is a German painter and illustrator known for his large - scale photorealistic portraits and figurative paintings.

David Park (March 17, 1911 — September 20, 1960)[1] was an American painter and a pioneer of the Bay Area Figurative Movement in painting during the 1950s.

A few years before the memorable crit at MassArt, his work had been included in the Corcoran Gallery's 40th Biennial of Contemporary American Painting, which critics saw as an antidote to the «camp and kitsch» of figurative painters like David Salle and Eric Fischl.

We thought it would be interesting to take another look at the work of the post-war figurative painters whose style collectively became known as the School of London — Michael Andrews, Frank Auerbach, Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, David Hockney, Howard Hodgkin, Leon Kossoff and R.B. Kitaj — but open up the narrative both in time and in terms of the artists included.

David Salle is one of the most important figurative painters of the past forty years.

There are outstanding works by at least some of these artists in the Permanent Collection, including Albert Irvin's glorious «Caledonia,» David Nash's «Branch Cube» and «Family Tree,» James Turrell's suite of aquatints, and a watercolour by the brilliant figurative painter John Bellany.

(David Park; born March 17, 1911 in Boston; died September 20, 1960 in Berkeley, Calif.; painter and a pioneer of the Bay Area Figurative School of painting during the 1950s.)

David Gerstein is an Israeli painter and sculptor who began as a figurative painter and illustrator of children books and was recipient of the Israel Museum Prize for illustration.

This display explores the pioneering role that painters such as Francis Bacon, Lucien Freud and David Hockney played in the reinvention of figurative art in the second half of the 20th century.

Bischoff, along with Richard Diebenkorn and David Park, was part of the post-World War II generation of artists who started as abstract painters and found their way back to figurative art.

The painter David Remfry RA initially assumed that this gallery would contain mainly figurative works, but abstract paintings have found a place here too

Enrico David: a figurative painter, «but,» according to Jones, this is figurative art, «not as we know it, Jim».

David Park (1911 - 1960) was arguably the most important painter of the Bay Area Figurative Movement.

Lee Plato Smith, a gifted painter and textile artist who studied with David Park, Richard Diebenkorn and other masters of the Bay Area Figurative School, has died.

His followers also admire his absolute independence: When all the art world was abuzz about Abstract Expressionism in the»50s, Bischoff instead turned to painting recognizable (albeit loose and bold) figures, thereby — along with painters Richard Diebenkorn and David Park — launching the Bay Area's Figurative Movement.

Smith first gained notice as a representational painter in the 1940s: his works from that period have an energy and graphic insistence that predicts some of the qualities of the Bay Area Figurative style that his friend David Park would pioneer a few years later.

Our exhibition brings together, for the first time, two of the twentieth - century's most influential figurative painters: Milton Avery and David Park.

After his first visit to the United States in 1959, when he became acquainted with the work of painter Kenneth Noland and sculptor David Smith, he moved away from figurative art entirely.

Francis studied under David Park (1911 - 1960), pioneer of the Bay Area Figurative School of painting, completed a Masters in Fine Art at the University of California (1950), then moved to Paris where he studied under the legendary Cubist painter Fernand Leger (1881 — 1955).

It includes works by painters such as George Abend and Felix Ruvolo — key figures in the The San Francisco Bay Area abstract expressionism movement, as well as works by Bay Area Figurative School artists, including Nathan Oliveira, David Park, Roland Petersen and Joan Savo.

In 1957, Mr. Mills put together a now - historic exhibition featuring the works of the expressionist painters who would gain fame as leaders of the Bay Area Figurative movement, among them David Park, Elmer Bischoff and Richard Diebenkorn.

«If the adviser knows what they're doing, the answer is yes,» said David Zwirner, whose Chelsea gallery represents a number of highly sought - after artists, including the figurative painters Neo Rauch, Luc Tuymans and Lisa Yuskavage.