During this exhibition, Doryphoros and Dyson took the place of traditional bronze and marble
figurative sculpture on either side of the grand stone staircase, set against the backdrop of casts from the Parthenon frieze given by George IV to decorate Manchester's very own temple to culture.
The figurative sculptures on display contemplate a wide selection of art encompassing different styles and methods, allowing a radical and alternative view of post-war British art to emerge.
Not exact matches
Students are encouraged to consider a number of start points such as working directly from the model,
on Figurative Sculpture or Portrait Head courses to developing individual projects
on the Free Form course.
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.
At Nahmad, whose booth right next to the entrance, a
figurative wire
sculpture by Calder, Hercules and Lion (1928), is not for sale, but its other works are priced from seven figures
on up: a Jean Arp at $ 1.5 million, a Max Ernst at $ 12 million, a Fernand Léger at $ 13 million, and a Joan Miró at $ 15 million.
The exhibition begins
on the fifth floor, entitled America Takes Command: 1950s into the 1960s, with Abstract Expressionism, Fluxus, Junk
Sculpture, Collage and Assemblage, Anti-Art, Beat Culture, Proto - Pop, and even some
figurative painting.
Domenique Lévy and Emmanuel Perrotin have collaborated
on presenting a survey of
figurative sculptures...
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.
In a queer analysis of
figurative representation, emily north / em16 presents us with two large works
on paper and one soft
sculpture.
On the occasion of «The Great Mother» and Phaidon's new book Body of Art, Artspace's Karen Rosenberg spoke to Gioni about the enduring appeal of
figurative sculpture, his influences from Catholic church statues to Mike Kelley, and why he thinks this art form is especially vital today.
Hidden amongst the items
on the wooden tables are two sculptural works — the first is Thomas» first
sculpture, a broken, lumpy, vaguely
figurative work, the other is a hand that Sandra made herself.
This exhibition focuses
on two new series:
figurative sculptures and a print edition based
on discarded images of divorcées from newspaper archives, dating from the 1930's -1970's.
Focusing
on sculpture in which artists have sought to replicate the living body, Hirst's «Virgin (exposed)» will be displayed alongside
figurative works by artists including El Greco, Auguste Rodin, Louise Bourgeois and Duane Hanson.
Other highlights from the exhibition include Michelle Ramin's
figurative, watercolor and colored - pencil
on paper works and Joo Lee Kang's animalia works of ink
on paper drawings, wallpaper installation and large - scale
sculpture.
On view are
figurative sculptures in wood, alabaster and bronze, graphite wall drawings, and several new works being shown for the first time.
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.
Their
sculptures, fusing almost readymade images and almost unforeseen forms, are thus the very concrete synthesis of a position that straddles two options: an expressionist subjectivism based
on an authentically Pop imaginary and a distanced
figurative conceptualism.»
On a material basis, the trio's work couldn't be more different — from digital prints to rough - hewn
figurative sculpture — but connective themes between the shows enrich each in turn, bridging generations, conceptual approaches and subject matter.
Paintings and some small
sculptures, predominantly black and white, ranging from pure to
figurative abstraction; photo collages
on paper and aluminum panel.
«
on the phone» features the artist's new
figurative works
on board, canvas and paper as well as painted ceramic plates and
sculptures.
2014 American Academy of Arts and Letters: 2014 Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts, NYC 2011 Carrie Haddad Gallery Hudson, NY 20th Anniversary Exhibit 2010 Brik Gallery Catskill, NY Painting, Drawing,
Sculpture Crowell's Fine At Gallery Bedford, MA Recent Work 2008 Sideshow Brooklyn, NY 2007 Verdigris Art Hudson, NY
Figurative 2006 Sideshow Brooklyn, NY War is Over 2004 The Painting Center NYC Recent Works
on Paper 2003 Morris Arlos Fine Arts Gallery, NYC 2002 Morris Arlos Fine Arts Gallery, NYC 2001 Morris Arlos Fine Arts Gallery, NYC AFA Gallery, Scranton PA Five Figure Painters Hudosn Opera House Hudson, NY Recent Works 1999 New York tudio School NYC 100 Drawings 1998 The Painting Center NYC Paulson / Eisenbeis Recent Paintings 1997 The Painting Center NYC Figure Painting and the Reasonable Lie Rising Tide Gallery Provincetown, MA Invitational 1996 Warren Street Gallery Hudson, NY Solo Show 1995 County College of Susssx Newton, NJ Solo Show 1994 Ute Stebich Gallery Lenox, MA 1993 The Bill Race Gallery NYC Three Emerging Artists Education:
In the 1980s, Smith turned the
figurative tradition in
sculpture inside out, creating objects and drawings based
on organs, cellular forms, and the human nervous system.
Through the exhibition Energy / Experimentation: Black Artists and Abstraction, 1964 — 1980 (2006)-- which highlighted numerous black artists working in abstract painting or
sculpture — and her scholarly work
on African American conceptualists, Jones has prompted a reevaluation of the view that African American art of the period was predominantly
figurative or representational.
Ikemura shows recent landscapes done in bold tempera colors
on burlap as wide as nine feet alongside
figurative ceramic
sculptures and over 30 other works in conjunction with an exhibition, «CERAMIX, de Rodin à Schütte,» across two prominent museums (Paris's La Maison Rouge and Sèvres - Cité de la céramique).
Quinn is a member of the YBA (Young British Artists) and is best know for his challenging
figurative sculptures such as Self, the artist's portrait cast in his own blood and Alison Lapper Pregnant, a massive marble
sculpture installed
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Additionally, he is an acclaimed commercial photographer focused
on product and architectural photography, and is also very passionate about his pursuits in
figurative sculpture using bronze and wood.
Dramatically offsetting the small works
on wooden panel (ranging from 10 x 7 1/2 inches to 18 x 24 inches) are two life - size
figurative sculptures by Hanson depicting opposite spectrums of life.
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
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
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
on the people of Nigeria; and Photography and
Sculpture: A Correlated Exhibition (new and vintage photography linked to contemporary sc
Sculpture: A Correlated Exhibition (new and vintage photography linked to contemporary
sculpturesculpture).
Taking its cue from the resurgence of
figurative sculpture in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and from Sigmund Freud's essay «The Uncanny» (1919), the exhibition brings together mannequin - related art works, mostly from the 1960s onwards, with objects from disparate cultural contexts that engender a similar sense of unease in the viewer: medical dolls, anatomical waxworks, religious statues, pagan figurines, ventriloquists» dummies, sex dolls, taxidermy and so
on.
On December 1st, a
figurative painting and
sculpture exhibition organized by former competitors Jeffery Deitch and Larry Gagosian will open in Miami's Moor Building.
The school focuses
on the tradition of
figurative painting, drawing, and
sculpture, and so invites the vanguard of these fields to speak in an intimate setting to current students and the general public.
Works
on display include
figurative paintings &
sculptures.
In tribute to this history, the artist's 8 foot tall bronze
sculpture Pouce (1993) will stand in front of the gallery's building, a literal and
figurative fingerprint
on the streetscape of New York City.
Performative, Poetic, Powerful Examining the various aesthetic and conceptual turns that typify César's practice, the show at Luxembourg & Dayan will present historically significant examples from his Compression, Human Imprint, and Expansion series, as well as such early
figurative works as the Venus - like welded iron
sculpture Torso (1954),
on loan from the permanent collection of The Museum of Modern Art.
Glamour Wig, 2005, for instance, takes a stepladder and a rock star wig to create a pastiche of a skinny, androgynous long - legged glam rock star with a gaping mouth, mining the theatricality of the objects
on display and contesting the histrionics behind the ideals of heroism and beauty that
figurative sculptures embody.
Here the focus is
on figurative works by Smith, Chingerey, Haynes, and Barney, as well as a startling series of photographs by Jackie Black and abstract
sculpture by Marianne Weil — both artists selected by Tony Oursler who was unavailable for an interview.
Employing a range of materials, Tallur L.N. creates
sculpture, wall pieces, site - specific installations and interactive works that delve deep into the dichotomies between the tangible and the ethereal, the
figurative and the abstract, and the decorative and the conceptual in order to reveal new meanings
on contemporary existence.
In the catalogue accompanying the exhibition, art critic Donald Kuspit writes: «Carol Ross gives us two kinds of
sculpture: large, free ‐ standing works, implicitly monumental, sometimes evocative of nature, sometimes
figurative, and smaller wall pieces,
sculptures as flat as the wall
on which they are placed as though they were paintings.
Quinn is a member of the YBA (Young British Artists) and is best know for his challenging
figurative sculptures such as Self, the artist's portrait cast in his own blood and Alison Lapper Pregnant, a massive marble
sculpture installed
on the fourth plinth at Trafalgar Square in London featuring a pregnant woman born with no arms and severely shortened legs.
Students learn from morning and afternoon demonstrations, hands -
on work, one -
on - one instruction, readings, discussions and image presentations related to contemporary
figurative sculpture.
Motivated to try his hand, Schwabe made his first
figurative sculpture in cast bronze based
on the published image of a ballet dancer.
Next
on my list are some studios in the Gowanus and Redhook area (with an upcoming Open Studios of its own this October, Gowanus is the area surrounding the canal just southeast of Red Hook), but I am most excited to see Brian Kenny's
sculptures (I love anything involving taxonomy, shadow boxes and / or miniatures); the
figurative paintings of Charles Miller; and Ethan Greenbaum's refined landscapes, to name a few
on my list.
Davies» haunting,
figurative sculptures touch
on memory, time and the fragility of the body.
Traveled to: Denver Art Museum, January 25 — March 22, 1992; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, April 9 — March 31, 1992; Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, July 5 — August 23, 1992; The Goldie Paley Gallery, Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, September 5 — October 11, 1992; Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences, Inc., Savannah, Georgia, January 5 — February 21, 1993 (Catalogue) Group exhibition, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, September 7 — 28, 1991 Portraits
on Paper, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, June 25 — August 2, 1991 Portraits, Linda Cathcart Gallery, Santa Monica, May 1991 Exhibition of Work by Newly Elected Members and Recipients of Honors and Awards, Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, May 15 — June 9, 1991 In Sharp Focus: Super-Realism, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, New York, April 14 — July 7, 1991 (Catalogue) 1991 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, April 2 — June 30, 1991 (Catalogue) Selected Prints from Spring Street Workshop, Tomasulo Gallery, Union County College, Cranford, New Jersey, March 8 — 28, 1991 Academy - Institute Invitational Exhibition of Painting & Sculpture, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, March 4 — 30, 1991 Louisiana: The New Graphics Wing, Louisiana Museum, Humlebæck, March 3 — 31, 1991 (Catalogue) Large Scale Works on Paper, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, February 21 — March 16, 1991 (Catalogue) Image & Likeness: Figurative Works from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown at Federal Reserve Plaza, New York, January 23 — March 20, 1991 Artist's Choice — Chuck Close: Head — On / The Modern Portrait, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, January 10 — March 19, 199
on Paper, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, June 25 — August 2, 1991 Portraits, Linda Cathcart Gallery, Santa Monica, May 1991 Exhibition of Work by Newly Elected Members and Recipients of Honors and Awards, Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, May 15 — June 9, 1991 In Sharp Focus: Super-Realism, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, New York, April 14 — July 7, 1991 (Catalogue) 1991 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, April 2 — June 30, 1991 (Catalogue) Selected Prints from Spring Street Workshop, Tomasulo Gallery, Union County College, Cranford, New Jersey, March 8 — 28, 1991 Academy - Institute Invitational Exhibition of Painting &
Sculpture, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, March 4 — 30, 1991 Louisiana: The New Graphics Wing, Louisiana Museum, Humlebæck, March 3 — 31, 1991 (Catalogue) Large Scale Works
on Paper, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, February 21 — March 16, 1991 (Catalogue) Image & Likeness: Figurative Works from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown at Federal Reserve Plaza, New York, January 23 — March 20, 1991 Artist's Choice — Chuck Close: Head — On / The Modern Portrait, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, January 10 — March 19, 199
on Paper, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, February 21 — March 16, 1991 (Catalogue) Image & Likeness:
Figurative Works from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown at Federal Reserve Plaza, New York, January 23 — March 20, 1991 Artist's Choice — Chuck Close: Head —
On / The Modern Portrait, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, January 10 — March 19, 199
On / The Modern Portrait, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, January 10 — March 19, 1991.
The grand special exhibition
on occasion of the inauguration of the enlarged Kunstmuseum Basel will map the medium's extraordinarily dynamic evolution: the classical idea and form of
sculpture grows more flexible and abstract as some artists integrate the trivial stuff of everyday life into their art or blur its spatial and conceptual boundaries, even as others return to the
figurative tradition in an effort to set the genre
on a new solid foundation.
A prominent figure within the pop art movement, most noted for
figurative art which included
sculpture, paintings, and print is American artist and Brooklyn native Alex Katz, born
on July 24th, 1927.
figurative to abstract
sculpture, his position
on public art and his dream of working «until I drop».
There were shared interests in Neo-Expressionist
figurative painting, but at the pier it typically wasn't happening
on salable canvases; artists painted
on the walls and windows, or made
sculptures with whatever was at hand, or intervened in the site and structure some other way.
If traditional
sculpture concentrates
on the materialisation of an intangible idea in three - dimensional space, Morrison's eccentric, amorphous surfaces seem to reverse the process, becoming
figurative the moment his readymades take their final forms.
Focusing
on the disciplines of portraiture,
figurative painting, printmaking and
sculpture, the Heatherley School of Fine Art has a proud heritage as a teaching institution