Not exact matches
But many artists are
making a kind of
figurative sculpture that feels new and transgressive, even though they're using forms and techniques associated with academic
realism.
I knew that painting in oil with
figurative realism was going to be really hard, but I
made up my mind to go for it and to give it everything I've got.
Is it any wonder, then, that many younger American painters and sculptors have long abandoned the bygone absolutisms of Minimalism on one hand and Hyper -
Realism on the other and are
making works today that hover in a hard to define space that might be called Abstract Figuration or
Figurative Abstraction?»
The show is
made up of
figurative contemporary
realism paintings.
In so doing, he demonstrated that
figurative realism could once again be
made into a vital art form.