Sentences with phrase «figurative painters do»

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

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

SL: But meantime the Bay Area painters were doing something on their own, forming a so - called figurative, Bay Area figuration, at this point.

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.

How does his work compare with more recent figurative painters dealing with psycho - sexual content?

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.

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.

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.

Although he does some figurative work, he's primarily an abstract / non-objective painter.

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.

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.

Pure abstraction suffers from its association to «Zombie Formalism,» what the painter and critic Walter Robinson called abstraction made to feed the market, while the bulk of contemporary figurative painting does little more than illustrate the conceptual and / or political leanings of the artist.

«This is a man who for years and years worked for the state, doing figurative large sculpture to survive,» said Ms. Lévy, who also represents the Korean painter Chung Sang - Hwa.

One could settle for a broader umbrella, and label him a figurative painter, yet that doesn't seem a perfect designation either: «I've been grappling with making figurative paintings in the last seven years,» he confesses.

«I'm not sure if Barack Obama's election had anything to do with it, but upon entering «Birth of the Cool,» the Studio... read more... «Pioneering figurative painter Barkley Hendricks at the Studio Museum»

I did enjoy discovering mixed media figurative artist Lisa Alonzo exhibited by Claire Oliver Gallery -LCB- New York), AB - EX painter Cleve Gray (1918 - 2004) with Loretta Howard Gallery (New York) and the «Donut Rush» installation by Jae Yong Kim exhibited by Lyons Wier Gallery (New York).

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.

«They weren't doing this as a hobby,» Garrels reflects as he sits on a bench on the fourth floor, which is divided between figurative and abstract art by Warhol, portraitist Chuck Close, abstract expressionist painters Joan Mitchell, Phillip Guston and others.

Condo started making «drawing - paintings», where you can't distinguish e.g. paint from pastel, or a line made with a paintbrush or a line drawn in from and thus making the two mediums equal: «There's no real difference between figurative painting or abstract painting, «cause it's all painting to begin with... You don't» have to follow any rules as a painter.

★ Philip Guston: «A Centennial Exhibition» (through April 27) On the 100th anniversary of this Abstract Expressionism best - known apostate, this large exhibition includes one of his last abstractions but concentrates on the indelible figurative work of his last decade — the 1970s — which did so much to inspire the painters of the 1980s.

I think most young figurative painters spent at least some time looking at Freud, what do you think of him now?

But this other group of Fairfield Porter and Alex Katz and Jane Freilicher: it seemed to me that they were figurative painters or realist painters who didn't want to set - up in opposition to non-objective art, but — they were not opposed to this direction — but they wanted a space or a room for themselves.

Probably yes... Each of these figurative painters is struggling hard to do exactly what many contemporary artists and critics have already done: they are unfolding a dialogue with the history of art in order to retrieve the human figure in art.

Initially a figurative painter, he discovered abstraction in 2004 on a visit to Notre Dame du Haut, a Modernist chapel in Ronchamp, France, designed by Charles - Edouard Jeanneret - Gris, otherwise known as Le Corbusier.

Paying attention to not - quite - household names - abstract expressionists such as Theodoros Stamos and Grace Hartigan, Bay Area figurative painter Paul Wonner and Stephen Greene, who didn't fit into a particular movement but fused color - field painting with biomorphism to intriguing effect - is another way the McNay sheds «new light» on postwar art.

«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.

You and I have been talking lately about how much we like Katherine Bradford's term «freedom painter» because it describes an approach to painting and does away with categories like abstract and figurative.

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.