Not exact matches
Primary Elements Gallery also features several
sculptors including the human
figurative work
of Greg Congleton.
It features works by abstract and
figurative painters and
sculptors, as well as pioneers
of installation and performance art.
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.
She also studied lithography at the Art Students League
of New York, and received private instruction from Russian
sculptor Ossip Zadkine, [3][10][13] who urged her to add abstract elements to her
figurative work.
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.
On display are Magdalena Abakanowicz» Hurma, an epic
figurative environment by the Polish
sculptor; Isaac Julien's Western Union: Small Boats, a video installation on migration and the hope for a better life; George Osodi's Oil Rich Niger Delta, a photographic essay on the people
of Nigeria; and Photography and Sculpture: A Correlated Exhibition (new and vintage photography linked to contemporary sculpture).
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.
David Gerstein is an Israeli painter and
sculptor who began as a
figurative painter and illustrator
of children books and was recipient
of the Israel Museum Prize for illustration.
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 steel.
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.
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.
ART STAGE Singapore welcomes Colombian
figurative artist and
sculptor Fernando Botero as the first Honorary Invited Artist with a comprehensive dedicated exhibition
of his works.
ENGLISH
FIGURATIVE PAINTING For details of portraiture, genre painting & subject pictures, see: English Figurative Painting Portrait art of 18th / 19th century William Hogarth (1697 - 1764) Painter, Engraver, Satirist Joshua Reynolds (1723 - 92) Portraitist, President Royal Academy William Blake (1757 - 1827) Watercolourist, Illustrator, Engraver Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 - 82) Romantic leader of Pre-Raphaelites Alfred Stevens (1817 - 75) Sculptor, painter and
FIGURATIVE PAINTING For details
of portraiture, genre painting & subject pictures, see: English
Figurative Painting Portrait art of 18th / 19th century William Hogarth (1697 - 1764) Painter, Engraver, Satirist Joshua Reynolds (1723 - 92) Portraitist, President Royal Academy William Blake (1757 - 1827) Watercolourist, Illustrator, Engraver Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 - 82) Romantic leader of Pre-Raphaelites Alfred Stevens (1817 - 75) Sculptor, painter and
Figurative Painting Portrait art
of 18th / 19th century William Hogarth (1697 - 1764) Painter, Engraver, Satirist Joshua Reynolds (1723 - 92) Portraitist, President Royal Academy William Blake (1757 - 1827) Watercolourist, Illustrator, Engraver Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 - 82) Romantic leader
of Pre-Raphaelites Alfred Stevens (1817 - 75)
Sculptor, painter and muralist.
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.
Known for their gutsy, fantastical approaches to
figurative art, Jan Stussy (1921 - 1990) and
sculptor Maxine Kim Stussy Frankel (b. 1923) were a powerhouse art couple
of mid-century Los Angeles who often exhibited together.
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.
Elizabeth Jaeger is a New York based
sculptor who explores notions
of memento mori by embedding emotions and experiences within handmade representations
of everyday objects and
figurative sculptures.
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.
The
sculptor's rough - hewn and loosely
figurative assemblages
of plaster, wire, wood, and found materials are instantly engrossing and pulse with inner life.
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 i
Figurative Movement and not just any contemporary
figurative sculpture i
figurative sculpture in America.
June 3 — July 2 Opening Reception: Friday, June 3 from 5 — 7:30 with an Artist Talk at 6:15 Internationally recognized as one
of the top ceramic
sculptors, Mark Chatterley makes larger - than - life
figurative sculptures using his signature crater glaze.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
Despite — or, possibly, because
of — its racial connotations, it's been the noncolor
of choice for an unusual number
of recent London exhibitions, among them Indian modernist F. N. Souza's black - on - black
figurative paintings from 1965 at Grosvenor Gallery; Korean
sculptor Meekyoung Shin's «Untitled (Black Series),» 2013 — comprising exquisite vases made
of soap manipulated to mimic coal - colored ceramics — at Sumarria Lunn Gallery; and the late English filmmaker Derek Jarman's assemblaged «Black Paintings» from the 1980s and early»90s at Wilkinson.
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.
Since the early 1980s, the celebrated British - born
sculptor Tony Cragg (born 1949) has demonstrated a virtuoso handling
of a range
of materials — marble, wood, glass, bronze and fiberglass — first exploring
figurative and then abstract sculpture.
Barry Flanagan, Welsh - born
sculptor (born Jan. 11, 1941, Prestatyn, North Wales — died Aug. 31, 2009, Ibiza, Spain), was best known for his series
of monumental elongated bronze hares, which, though essentially
figurative, convey an incredible sense
of movement, energy, and irreverent whimsy.
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.
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?
Henri Laurens (1885 - 1954) French
sculptor, printmaker, designer and illustrator, noted for his voluptuous nudes and later outstanding
figurative work as well as his Cubist «constructions»,
of wood and polychrome plaster.
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.
English School
of Painters (1700 - 1900) The English schools
of figurative and landscape painting embraced a wide variety
of visual artists, including painters and
sculptors from Ireland.
Rowan Gillespie (b. 1953) Greatest
figurative sculptor in the history
of Irish plastic art.
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.