Sentences with phrase «figurative painters such»

Porter also helped pave the way for now - well - known figurative painters such as Rackstraw Downes, Philip Pearlstein and Alex Katz.

Akin to figurative painters such as Dana Schutz or George Condo, in a decidedly contemporary attitude about method and risk, Hickam reconciles a sense of detachment with a sense of imperative.

Yuskavage rose to prominence around the same time as other figurative painters such as Elizabeth Peyton and John Currin, who were similarly refreshing the genre with their own singular visions.

You can also feel in Ms. Hahn's work the impact of recent figurative painters such as Sue Williams, Lisa Yuskavage, Judith Linhares and Dana Schutz.

Leveille: I speak in a language of pictures.In a similar way that contemporary figurative painters such as Currin, Kerry James Marshall, and Robin Francis Williams use a sense narrative, I also use it as an artistic tool.This is very inspiring in its own right to me, the exploration of an image, not in service TO narrative but that employs these things as tools to make an emotional connection with the viewer.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

At the palazzo Pisani a Santa Marina, the work of 12 emerging artists is shown alongside that of their mentors, such as Yinka Shonibare RA, whose mentee is the figurative painter Kimathi Donkor.

Mr. Hendricks was an uncontested champion in a battle for figurative painters and (perhaps more importantly) Black artists long before many of my generation ever knew such battles existed.

By the end of the 1980s, Caulfield's style would seem the antithesis to oh - so - earnest British painters of drab figurative existentialism such as Stephen Conroy, Leon Kossoff, Frank Auerbach and Lucian Freud, or the macho neo-expressionism of Julian Schnabel and Francesco Clemente in the US.

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.

He was strongly influenced by the singular structures and figurative canvases of cubist painters such as Picasso and Cezanne.

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.

Early influences include the West Coast Figurative Movement painters such as Richard Diebenkorn, Nathan Oliveira, and Wayne Thiebaud, as well as mid-century European artists, most importantly Max Beckmann, Oskar Kokoschka, and Emil Nolde.

The five painters featured in (Un) Real, curated by Mary Dinaburg and Howard Rutkowski, draw upon such diverse figurative currents.

Viewers have no such opportunity at Figureworks, where the work in Fragmenting the Form, a group show that includes a figurative painter, a sculptor and a photographer, bludgeons the viewer with its themes of dramatized sexuality and emotion.

Figurative painter Dexter Dalwood creates artworks that imagine scenes from popular culture, such as Kurt Cobain's greenhouse and Lord Lucan's hideout.

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.

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.

French neo-expressionism also had its roots in the more figurative variants of Art Informel, such as the style practised by Dutch painter Karel Appel (1921 - 2006) of the Cobra group.

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.

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.

The «London School» of figurative painters including Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, Frank Auerbach, Leon Kossoff, and Michael Andrews have received widespread international recognition, [82] while other painters such as John Minton and John Craxton are characterized as Neo-Romantics.

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.

Her abstract painterly techniques and figurative glyphs are well married and suggest a personal dialogue with other artists and art history; I happened to think of such different painters as Lois Lane, Gael Stack, Charles Marburg, and Clint Jukkala.

Such moments make me think that perhaps figurative painting (and the painting of the figure, particularly) had sometimes for Cézanne frustrations the equal of any abstract painter's.

Such was the case with two fairly recent recruits: the figurative painter Alex Katz, 86, and the multimedia artist Elaine Sturtevant, 82, who since the»60s has explored ideas about authenticity and authorship in her groundbreaking reproductions of paintings by Andy Warhol, Marcel Duchamp, Jasper Johns, and others.

Starting in 1994, after he became more figurative, these same critics consigned him to the group that includes maverick painters such as Philip Guston, Peter Saul, and Jim Nutt.