Sentences with phrase «figurative sculptor in»

Rowan Gillespie (b. 1953) Greatest figurative sculptor in the history of Irish plastic art.

Lalor, Ayelet Cork - born, figurative sculptor in porcelain and bronze.

Not exact matches

DHC / ART is delighted to present two concurrent solo exhibitions by acclaimed Belgian sculptor Berlinde De Bruyckere and American painter John Currin — two leading international figurative artists working in a virtuosic, old masterly tradition yet testing and expanding the parameters of their respective disciplines.

DHC / ART is delighted to present a solo exhibitions by acclaimed Belgian sculptor Berlinde De Bruyckere, a leading international figurative artist working in a virtuosic, old masterly tradition yet testing and expanding the parameters of their discipline.

Modernist sculptors largely missed out on the huge boom in public art resulting from the demand for war memorials for the two World Wars, but from the 1950s the public and commissioning bodies became more comfortable with Modernist sculpture and large public commissions both abstract and figurative became common.

A sculptor who began working during the postwar period in a classical figurative style, Alina Szapocznikow radically reconceptualized sculpture as an imprint not only of memory but also of her own body.

They have added some artists not included in the original printing, both painters and sculptors, to reflect a broader spectrum of new and exciting voices in the figurative movement.

A former figurative painter turned sculptor, Bryt adopts the rough ratios and measurements of the study of the human form (often the proportions of her own body) as compositional elements in her constructions.

One of the most original sculptors, Robert Arneson (1930 — 1992) reinvented American figurative ceramics through the integration of sculpture and painting in his large - scale, often satirical, and even iconoclastic pieces.

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?»

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.

In the early 1950s, Cousins learned oxyacetylene welding from sculptor Shinkichi Tajiri, and his art developed from figurative forms in terracotta and wood, to works that incorporated more and more metal, and finally, to abstractions of welded steeIn the early 1950s, Cousins learned oxyacetylene welding from sculptor Shinkichi Tajiri, and his art developed from figurative forms in terracotta and wood, to works that incorporated more and more metal, and finally, to abstractions of welded steein terracotta and wood, to works that incorporated more and more metal, and finally, to abstractions of welded steel.

Partly responding to an upward - spiraling art market, partly from a lack of means to evoke a stressed - out world made porous by virtual reality, sculptors from Paul McCarthy and Urs Fischer to David Altmejd and Thomas Houseago have powered a new monstrosity in figurative sculpture.

InSight Gallery represents a select group of the finest painters and sculptors living and working today in landscape, figurative, impressionistic, sti...

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.

The English sculptor Henry Moore (1898 - 1986) brought about a renewed interest in direct carving and enriched the formal vocabulary of the medium by his continuous examination of figurative motifs and abstract shapes derived from natural phenomena.

The gallery, active in both primary and secondary markets, strives to cultivate the careers of exceptional painters and sculptors, both figurative and abstract, who have earned their place in the contemporary art market.

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.

It is the non-specificity of his figures and their abstract qualities that make his sculptors part of the Bay Area Figurative Movement and not just any contemporary figurative sculpture iFigurative Movement and not just any contemporary figurative sculpture ifigurative sculpture in America.

2002, Havana): In his long career as a painter, graphic artist and sculptor, Julio Girona has worked in a range of styles, from figurative to symbolic abstractioIn his long career as a painter, graphic artist and sculptor, Julio Girona has worked in a range of styles, from figurative to symbolic abstractioin a range of styles, from figurative to symbolic abstraction.

In terms of big international stars, it is the sculptors that stand out (Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth and Eduardo Paolozzi); as for the painters it is merely Frank Auerbach and Victor Pasmore, and even so, the latter's contribution is an uncharacteristic, early moody, figurative piece.

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.

Born in New York City in 1948, Eric Fischl is one of the most influential American figurative painters and sculptors working today.

It embraces all postmodernist painters and sculptors who focus on figurative imagery, in order to portray the «real» rather than the ideal.

Although realist sculpture first emerged in the form of portrait busts of Roman Emperors (compare these gritty works with romantic Greek sculpture), and was continued most memorably by sculptors like Auguste Rodin (1840 - 1917), it wasn't until the advent of Pop - Art in the 1960s that artists like Duane Hanson (1925 - 96), John De Andrea (b. 1941) and Feuerman began to produce superrealist figurative sculpture.

One of the leading sculptors in Britain, Lynn Chadwick's abstract and figurative work has brought him international renown.

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.

Boaz Vaadia, an Israeli - born sculptor who mined the streets of New York City for material and became internationally known for figurative pieces made from carefully stacked, carved stone, died on Saturday at his home in Manhattan.

In her figurative sculptures, Toronto - based sculptor Gosia expresses human intuition and introspection, crafting her painterly pieces in earthenware, resin, and polymer gypsuIn her figurative sculptures, Toronto - based sculptor Gosia expresses human intuition and introspection, crafting her painterly pieces in earthenware, resin, and polymer gypsuin earthenware, resin, and polymer gypsum.

After his first visit to the United States in 1959, when he became acquainted with the work of painter Kenneth Noland and sculptor David Smith, he moved away from figurative art entirely.

Sam will be featured at Papillion in November with figurative sculptor and painter Derek Fordjour.

It demonstrates that today, following detours into abstract sculpture and object art, there is no sculptor who is as exceptional as Thomas Schütte in picking up the extensive European tradition of figurative sculpture, from the archaic right up to Rodin and Maillol.

Sculptors such as Juan Munoz, Kiki Smith, Charles Ray, Katharina Fritsch, Bruce Nauman, Maurizio Cattelan, Stephan Balkenhol, and Georg Baselitz sometimes or exclusively work within a figurative mode, too, and there's no questioning their position in the contemporary pantheon.

As Minimal and Conceptual art began to fade in the late 1970s, a new generation of figurative painters and sculptors began to appear, who took a renewed interest in the work of the school.

Famous Irish artists born in, or associated with, Wicklow include: George Campbell, (Still Life and Landscape Artist); Lilian Lucy Davidson, (Landscape, Portrait and Genre Painter); Richard Kingston, (Landscape, Still Life and Flower Painter); Brian Maguire, (Expressionist Painter); Rasher (Mark Kavanagh)(Contemporary Figurative and Still Life Painter); Camille Souter, (Landscape Artist); Michael Cullen, (Modern Artist); Damien Flood, (Contemporary Pop Artist); Brian Henderson, (Contemporary Abstract Artist); John Jobson, (Painter and Sculptor); Cecil King, (Abstract Artist); Eoin O'Connor, (Contemporary Abstract Painter); Laurence O'Toole, (Contemporary Figurative Painter, Landscape Artist); Stanley Pettigrew, (Landscape Artist and Illustrator); Yann Renard - Goulet, (Sculptor); Liam Treacy, (Impressionist Style Still Life and Landscape Painter); Mabel Young, (Landscape Artist).

Many sculptors developed their style as the century progressed: Alberto Giacometti (1901 - 66), for instance, began in surrealist mode during the 1920s and 1930s before perfecting his unique semi-abstract figurative works.

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

All - media artists, sculptors, and photographers have created visual works interpreting a «figurative» theme in multiple ways: thorough the human form, or by exploring a broader interpretation of the theme, such as figures of speech.

All - media artists, sculptors, and photographers are invited to create visual works that interpret the theme «Figuratively Speaking» in two different ways: by depicting human forms, faces and features in representational or abstract works (portraiture, sculpture and all subject matter including people); or works which depict a broader interpretation of the theme, such as figurative language and figures of speech.

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.

I'm not in any way advocating anyone starts mimicking the spaces (or anything else) of figurative art; I am suggesting (yet again, tiresomely) that abstract painters and sculptors compare their output with the best achievements of figuration, which of course includes some great modernist art, if that's what you want to call it.