Sentences with phrase «figurative painters like»

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

In turn their heroes were also my heroes, the first generation ab - ex painters DeKooning and Hoffman but also figurative painters like Balthus, Derain, Matisse, Bonnard.

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.

His subjects ranged from abstract painters like Burgoyne Diller and Harry Holtzman, to figurative painters like Graham Nixon and Robert De Niro to artists who operated somewhere in between, like Elaine de Kooning and Steve Wheeler.

Compared to other current figurative painters like Marlene Dumas and Tracey Emin, she is clearly a superior painter.

Rockwell was working at a time when he and other figurative painters like Andrew Wyeth were criticized for their predilection for visual storytelling.

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.

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

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Moving from figurative to abstract painting, British painter Cecily Brown thinks about the qualities of paint itself:» When the body disappears it's almost like there's no» there» there,» she explains.»

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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..

While de Kooning, like the «action» painters of the time, used gestural brushstrokes, most her work was figurative and representational, and rarely pure abstraction.

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.

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.

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.

Victor Pasmore (1903 - 98)-- the name may come like a cold call to an international audience — began as a sensitive figurative painter of the Euston Road school of the late»30s.

Figurative painting, especially the intimate and human works of a painter like this, provides a textured and emotional treatment of political topics.

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.

She mentioned artists like Antonia Eiríz Vázquez, a painter of powerfully dark Goya - like visions who died in 1995; Raúl Martínez, a Pop - inflected painter and graphic designer, who also died in 1995; and Alfredo Sosabravo, whose vividly colored figurative painting often combines whimsy with a social bite.

Since Mr. Niles has made a leap forward with this body of work, one can imagine that among his seeker - protectors are artists like Kerry James Marshall or Mr. Niles's mentor, Eric Fischl — and that Mr. Niles might soon join the ranks of other notable figurative painters.

Like such diverse otherwise figurative modernists as Alex Katz and Bob Thompson, Joan Brown (1938 — 1990), a San Francisco - based painter, foregrounds her subjects — people, animals, trees — on flat monochromatic and mostly detail - free backgrounds.

The show opens with a row of portraits from 1980 of Hoffmann, looking radiant and determined, by Andy Warhol, and then jumps back to the beginning, when she was picking up the work of the Belgian avant - garde, whose participants are seen infrequently stateside, like Floris Jespers and Frits van den Berghe, whose punchily colored works here from the 1920s — respectively, a dandyish scene in a cafe with burning red walls and a terrifyingly gigantic floating above a rainbow — look curiously on point with what so many of today's mischievous young figurative painters are up to today.

While it's true that he was a slightly younger contemporary of painters like Julian Schnabel and Francesco Clemente, who were making a mark with figurative works at the beginning of the 1980s, most of the outstanding black painters of the generation preceding Marshall's own — Frank Bowling, Ed Clark, Sam Gilliam, Howardena Pindell, Jack Whitten — were committed abstractionists.

First, though, she insists on walking me around her latest exhibition, In the Company of Alice, a wonderful group show that features portraits by the late figurative painter Alice Neel, and responses to her work by the likes of Chris Ofili, Doig, Chantal Joffe, Marlene Dumas and Elizabeth Peyton.

Because I'm a figurative painter, but I think it was because, well I'd like to think it was because he felt I had something to offer.

From Leipzig, Galerie Kleindienst presents the work of Tilo Baumgärtel, a painter who pairs odd figurative activity with stage - like woodsy spaces in a series of large - scale drawings, unframed and pinned in a grid format.

Originally presented in the penthouse of Gramercy Park Hotel's International Art Fair (The Armory Show's predecessor), it served to introduce Stettheimer — a Jazz - Age figurative painter, who also ran a notorious Upper West Side salon frequented by the likes of Marcel Duchamp and Georgia O'Keeffe — to an art world that had largely forgotten her contribution.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art because it was abstract, not figurative.

Her work joins that of peers like Genieve Figgis and Vera Iliatova (as well as that of certain female figurative painters from previous generations, such as Nicole Eisenman, Marlene Dumas, and Florine Stettheimer) in combatting art historical tropes with lyrical and complex depictions of women.

So he belongs in the pool of postwar figurative painters whose works are, to one degree or another, conceptual or «abstract»: painters like Gerhard Richter and Malcolm Morley, who, like him, use photographs, or, among Americans, Alex Katz, Philip Pearlstein and even Wayne Thiebaud, specialists at a certain laconic registration.

An heiress of pathbreaking abstractionists like Lee Krasner and Joan Mitchell, the British painter Cecily Brown updates the idiom of Ab - Ex painting by reaching back farther into history, summoning such figurative touchstones as the harrowing caricatures of Goya and the classical reposes of Poussin and Ingres.

Though he likes to describe himself as an anachronism, Hannah's poignant, often elegiac and uncanny work has been, for decades, an important herald of successive waves of figurative painters.

Best Modern Painters (c.1700 - present) We profile ALL the great 18th century masters of English figurative painting, like William Hogarth and Joshua Reynolds, as well as ALL the main members of the school of English landscape painting including JMW Turner, Constable and Richard Parkes Bonington.

Like other photo - based painters, such as Gerhard Richter, Marlene Dumas and Luc Tuymans, Kahrs» methodology deals with figurative subject matter overlaid with a haze of ambiguity.

At Yale, there were exceptions, but it seemed like if you were a figurative painter, you made paintings like Vuillard, Bonnards or Fairfield Porter.

Like all state - trained artists, the Chinese painters had been drilled in impeccable Social Realist technique and Tansey was astonished at both the level of technical skill and its application to the figurative idiom.

A figurative painter when painting was declared dead and representative painting, well, Paleolithic, Fischl moved to New York in 1978 and emerged in the 1980s with other Neo-Expressionist like Elizabeth Murray, Salle, and Julian Schnabel.

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

Where are the quirky distinctive voices of painters like Rose Wylie and Chantal Joffe, the wonderful portraitists like Catherine Goodman and if you make the strange choice to include one Giacometti, why not open the doors fully to other figurative sculptors?

Like some of the most interesting new figurative painters — notably John Currin, Lisa Yuskavage, and Brenda Zlamany — Catherine Howe begins with an essentially formal conceit that soon lurches into discomfiting psychological or social territory.

He's now telling me why he no longer cares about painters like Max Beckmann, and why he thinks figurative painting is fundamentally incapable of expression.

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.

His 1953 show at the Sidney Janis Gallery has often been claimed as the impetus for a revived interest in the figure, but a lot of those claims were associated with works by «Figurative Expressionist» or «Gesture Realist» painters like Larry Rivers, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, George McNeal, Lester Johnson, even Jan Müller and Bob Thompson.