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figurative sculptor is an artist who creates sculptures that represent or depict the human form, animals, or other objects in a realistic or lifelike way. They use different materials like clay, stone, or metal to shape and form their sculptures.
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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.
Thanasi is a contemporary
figurative sculptor whose work synthesizes classical forms with the conceptual experiential movement of the present through the placement of figurative and architectural pieces in dialogue with one another.
Elizabeth Catlett's sculpture, Ife, testifies to her skill and reputation as one of the greatest
figurative sculptors of the 20th century.
This year's honorees were landscape painter Rae Ferren, abstract expressionist painter Connie Fox and
figurative sculptor William King.
Note About Sculpture Appreciation To learn how to evaluate contemporary
figurative sculptors like John De Andrea, see: How to Appreciate Modern Sculpture.
Figurative sculptors such as Juan Muñoz, Thomas Houseago and Matthew Monahan also picture the body, subject to various deformations, both artistic and psychological.
They range from ceramic sculptor Robert Arneson to conceptualist Bruce Nauman, whose work was featured in an acclaimed retrospective Benezra co - organized in 1994; Iranian - born videomaker Shirin Neshat; American abstract painter Brice Marden; British sculptor Rachel Whiteread; photographer Cindy Sherman; and
Spanish figurative sculptor Juan Munoz (the Munoz retrospective Benezra organized in Chicago comes to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles this month).
Ruby Neri Born in the 1970s into the collegial environment of artists in San Francisco, Ruby Neri's initial influences were the painters and ceramicists closely associated with her father, the Bay
Area Figurative sculptor Manuel Neri.
Cady Noland, for example, who holds the record for the highest price ever paid for an artwork by a living woman ($ 6.6 m), is a
reclusive figurative sculptor whose work explores the sordid underbelly of the American dream.
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?
Anne Chu was dubbed «one of the
best figurative sculptors around» by Roberta Smith after her 2003 solo show at 303 Gallery, an accolade the likes of which doesn't come often or easily.
Rowan Gillespie (b. 1953) Arguably Ireland's greatest
ever figurative sculptor Echo (1981), Bronze, AIB Bank Collection The Famine (1996 - 7), Bronze, Custom House Quay, Dublin The Cashel Dancers (1991), Bronze, Rock of Cashel, Tipperary, Ireland Aspiration (1995), Bronze, Treasury Building, Dublin Anish Kapoor (b. 1954) British abstract sculptor, won the Turner Prize in 1991 Cloud Gate (2004) Stainless steel, Millennium Park, Chicago Marsyas (2002) Turbine Hall, Tate Modern Gallery
The exhibition is a timely opportunity to see the work of this influential artist, at a time when his reputation as an important 20th
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Figurative sculptors such as Juan Muñoz, Thomas Houseago, and MatthewMonahan also picture the body, subject to various deformations, both artistic and psychological.
But then again, neither is Croak,
a figurative sculptor who came of age at a time when figurative work of any kind was not a respected form of artistic expression.
Having first met with some success as
a figurative sculptor, by the end of the 1960s he was making a new sort of utterly abstract sculpture.
Beginning as an abstract painter and
figurative sculptor, his motivation grew from an interest in chroma and psychophysical effects of these stimuli acting upon his five known senses.
Julia S. Rasor is
a figurative sculptor from Fallbrooke, California and works with range of media.
Peter Agostini,
a figurative sculptor whose works were widely exhibited, died on Saturday at his home in Manhattan.
Returning to Poland in 1951, she established a reputation as
a figurative sculptor through official commissions, such as the 1953 «Monument to Russian - Polish Friendship», and in 1958 she was one of seven shortlisted artists in an international competition chaired by Henry Moore to create a memorial to Auschwitz.
For other important Irish sculptors, read about the neo-classical John Hogan, the Anglo - Irish John Henry Foley, the Romantic Nationalist Oliver Sheppard, the nationalist realist Albert Power, the small - scale sculptress Rosamund Praeger, the traditional stone sculptor Seamus Murphy, the Polish - Irish sculptress Alexandra Wejchert, the contemporary steel sculptor Conor Fallon, the bird artist Oisin Kelly, the public artist Eamonn O'Doherty and
the figurative sculptor Rowan Gillespie.