Sentences with phrase «figurative painting as»

Abstract and figurative painting as well as participatory and conceptual art have emerged as strong threads running through the exhibition.

Vincent Desiderio: I really can not speak to the idea of figurative painting as something apart from abstract painting or conceptual painting.

I always come back to landscape and figurative painting as the the most relevant art form.

Figurative painting as a genre is celebrated here as well, whether or not this style of work is «on trend», and celebrated in its myriad forms.

That was a real argument about a certain legacy of figurative painting as an antagonistic force.

In the West, we are generally in the habit of seeing figurative painting as a window on the world and in a linear perspective, while artists in the East still see themselves as an integral part of this landscape.

In After Tin Man, Redwood considers the hierarchy of figurative painting as a subject.

Painter's Painters at the Saatchi Gallery picks up the theme of figurative painting as a still essential and central form of art making and tries to give it a new spin.

Born in Shiraz, Iran, and raised from age 8 in Cincinnati, Ohio, he trained in figurative painting as an undergraduate at the Maryland Institute College of Art before studying with the children of Abstract Expressionism at Columbia.

Their titles may be provocative — one of his new works on show here is called The Same Old Crap — but Shaw's work is as close to traditional figurative painting as the Turner Prize gets.

I did figurative painting as an undergraduate and in graduate school.

A co-founder of the Stuckism art movement with Charles Thomson in 1999, Childish promotes figurative painting as opposed to conceptual art, and a quest for making art a part of personal discovery.

Baltimore - based artist Mequitta Ahula's work Performing Painting: A Real Allegory of Her Studio (2015) used herself as a means to depict and deconstruct the history of figurative painting as it relates to the body along time and space.

To attempt to bring this all back to where I began, I think that light, as splendid as it is, might indeed be a bit of a red herring, but perhaps for figurative painting as well.

Benglis described Chingery's figurative paintings as «clean and decided in the way he approached his work.»

In fact, she concentrated more on «whimsical watercolors and figurative paintings as well as murals for the PWPA.»

Doig, indeed, paints figurative paintings as though they were abstract.

Brooklyn - based artist Kehinde Wiley creates large - scale figurative paintings as firmly rooted in contemporary design, music, literature, and sociopolitical issues as they are in the history of portraiture.

If this commenting in any way on the conception so figurative paintings as windows into other lands?

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European cave paintings were seen as evidence of a «creative explosion» sometimes attributed to a brain mutation, a theory reinforced by the apparent age discrepancy between figurative art in Europe and other, more recent art elsewhere.

Drenda Duff — Drenda Duff regards figurative art, composed and arranged in natural surroundings, as a favorite subject for her drawings and paintings.

We offer a strong figurative tradition in the Drawing, Painting and Sculpture Studios that can be used as a foundation for students to move on into other artistic avenues, or that can be developed as an end in itself to produce work within a figurative genre.

His paintings are so appealing at first sight, as delightful coloured patterns with pleasing figurative imagery, that many look no longer, or see no further, and for them the magical metamorphosis does not take place; they do not find that they are standing on a little terrace under a walnut tree looking through an overgrown garden straight towards the afternoon sun which is sparkling on the Seine below them, and all looking not as it would to them, but more mysterious, more overpowering, fuller of space and light and colour and overwhelmingly real and harmonious.

Drawing from the art - historical lineage of cubism, cartoons, figurative painting and gestural abstraction, and appropriating subjects from mythology, advertising, print culture and consumerism, Comic Future is as much about the breakdown of the human condition as it is about the absurdities which define the perils of human evolution.

When he returned to painting in the Bay Area in mid-1965 his resulting works summed up all that he had learned from his more than a decade as a leading figurative painter.

His early work was figurative and often described as expressionist, but from the mid 1960s his paintings became more geometric.

That show, acknowledging the strain photography and mass media had placed on painting, posited artifice and irony as the only acceptable strategies for figurative painting to avoid being outmoded.

Eventually any figurative painting was suspect as potentially colonialist or oppressive in some way.

Sometime in 1940 Rothko makes his last figurative painting, then experiments with Surrealism, and eventually does away entirely with any figural suggestion in his paintings, abstracting them further and paring them down to indeterminate shapes floating in fields of color - Multiforms as they were called by others - which were greatly influenced by Milton Avery's style of painting.

Where as Avery's early figurative drawings and paintings from the 1930s attest to affinities primarily with the work of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, by the 1940s he was discernibly close to Henri Matisse.

The subject matter may not be as compelling as Katz's earlier figurative work, but these paintings, on view through July 7, aren't about garden design or abstract composition.

Pauline has exhibited her work annually in Boston since 1998 and has also continued to exhibit in Australia where she was the recipient of a coveted prize for oil painting in the prestigious national juried exhibition, The A.M.E. Bale Art Awards, known as Australia's premier awards for traditional realism and figurative art.

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.

As figurative painting made a comeback in the late»80s and»90s, a younger generation of artists began to see Katz with new appreciation.

The book, edited by Trevor Schoonmaker, Curator of Contemporary Art at the Nasher, brilliantly presents a masterful look at the figurative painting, a selection of which can be seen in the next iteration of Soul of a Nation, which opened earlier this month at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, as well as in the exhibition catalogue, available from the Tate, which features Hendricks» painting «What's Going On» (1974) on the cover.

He established himself as a major artist of the movement in Italian figurative painting known as the Transavanguardia, a Neo-Expressionist movement that sought to re-emphasize color and representation in reaction to the Conceptual Art of the times.

Although a critical force within the group, the artist's contributions to Memphis — in the form of graphic patterns — were only a small segment of her career; as the ICA show makes clear, Du Pasquier is a multifaceted artist, and she became particularly interested in abstract and figurative painting.

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.

Often zigging when the established art world zagged, Wiley began creating large, unctuous paintings inspired by the Abstract Expressionist and Bay Area Figuration movements of the time, only to swiftly move away from them in the late»60s to develop his cartoonish figurative style, which waned in popularity as Minimalist and Conceptual art became fashionable.

But at a time when the art world was tilting toward abstraction and internationalism, Mr. Colville was also something of an outsider, dedicated to figurative painting and to his native Canada, where he was revered by many as «painter laureate.»

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Over 300 pages illustrated with Zeller's own exquisite drawings and paintings as well as works by nearly 100 historical and contemporary figurative art masters, the book includes some of the finest figurative art of the past and the present day.

We have included both the abstract planer painting and the figurative - expressive - painterly expression as key exponents for our era's pictorial art.

We tend to think of the history of art as a series of exceptionally unique ideas, but in fact, the figurative painting tradition is deeply conventional, and artists have mined narrow spaces for invention.

Well known and admired for her internet - era busts of figures seeming to emerge from abstract matrices, Sascha Braunig has recently evolved to paint full portraits as well as these kinds of truncated figurative studies, which create an alluring and elegant sense of mystery.

Elms includes much strictly formal work such as figurative drawings and symbol - based paintings by Elijah Burgher, overly nostalgic ink drawings by Paul P., and a seemingly popular, somewhat garish installation of aluminum and silver wall sculptures by Terry Adkins.

I was very happy indeed, as the group fulfilled exactly what I wanted, namely a diverse and non-stylistically defined contemporary figurative painting group that could only be unified by an ethos of honesty and communication.

As Burri kept the distance from figurative painting by adding from time to time a new shape to his investigation into the world of conceptualism, Quaranta takes it all in one time.

Wylie's bold, large - scale figurative paintings draw on ancient and folk art, such as Mexican street art and contemporary Egyptian Hajj painting, as well as art history and film.

Throughout this process a distinct distillation of choices developed for each artist that is wide - ranging but particular: both figurative and abstract, sculptures and some works on paper have been selected in addition to paintings, and historical as well as contemporary works, are juxtaposed.