Sentences with phrase «figurative traditions»

In Wicht, 2006, Thomas Schütte reassesses the figurative traditions of sculpture, presenting emotionally charged observations of the human condition in the form of a roughhewn bronze bust.

Melike KARA's work explores a highly unique and personal approach to figuration that's informed by diverse interests ranging from 20th century German figurative traditions and a deep interest in social hierarchies, as well as both her familial history of migration and the realities of straddling two cultures.

The exhibition presents how these pioneering artists turned away from figurative traditions and explored a new visual vocabulary based on geometric forms, sharp planes and a primary palette

Above all, they turned away from figurative traditions and explored a new visual vocabulary based overwhelmingly on geometric forms, sharp planes and a primary palette.

The Smart Museum's contemporary collection reflects the rich diversity of these approaches while emphasizing several central threads in recent art: the persistence of figurative traditions, the emergence of conceptual art, and artwork that explores the pressing social issues of our time.

His approach to the human figure is rooted in esteemed figurative traditions, yet given a distinctly radical 21st - century twist of content.

Insistently contemporary, they nevertheless recall classical figurative traditions across a range of cultures and historical periods, typifying a strand of neo-primitivism that has arisen in the past decade.

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.

In these excerpts from the 2004 documentary, Nicolas Carone: Pushing Tradition, Nicolas Carone discusses «the new painting» of New York City and the artists» inquisition of space, the figurative tradition, and pure artistic perception.

Simultaneously classical and contemporary in scope, it contains roughly 300 images, how - to diagrams, and information about figurative art movements of the past as well as profiles of some of the greatest practitioners working today... featuring examples of Zeller's own work and also some of his best contemporary peers, who collectively bring the figurative tradition forward into a new era.»

«There are works in the figurative tradition, abstraction, works with a pop art look to it.

America 1976 traveling exhibition United States Department of the Interior Bicentennial Washington, D.C. American Prints: 1913 - 1963 travelling exhibition The Museum of Modern Art New York, NY New England Works on Paper Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA 30 Years of American Printmaking The Brooklyn Museum Brooklyn, NY The Figurative Tradition: Nine Artists and Their Prints Williams College Museum of Art Williamstown, MA

The exhibition will give a rounded view of Neel's career, showing her to be a radical painter in the figurative tradition — which was unjustly eclipsed in a period of high abstraction.

In many ways, Abstract Expressionism had done away with the figurative tradition, coming from Degas through the early 20th century.

He has taught generations of students dedicated to the figurative tradition.

His sculptural style clashed with the predominant classical figurative tradition, choosing rather to depict people in a socio - realist style, extending their representative physiques into social functionality (cyclist, postman, farmer etc).

Adding and obscuring in rotation, she builds a surface of thickly textured impasto from alternating layers of black and white, creating a body of work that engages both with the figurative tradition of Pop illustration and the action and materiality of Abstract Expressionist gesture.

The Figurative Tradition and the Whitney Museum of American Art: Paintings and Sculpture from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of Art, New York, NY

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.

The fact he maintained a commitment to the figurative tradition to some degree [1] makes this painter truly stand out from the rest of his famous contemporaries who opted for the pure abstraction style.

Bechtle began painting directly from the photograph in the early 60s as an alternative to the personal expressionism of the Bay Area Figurative tradition.

Portraits are one of the richest veins of the Whitney's collection, thanks to the Museum's longstanding commitment to the figurative tradition, championed by its founder Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney.

In the Bay Area, artists Joan Brown (MATRIX 24) and William Wiley among many others carry on a figurative tradition established in the fifties by David Park, Richard Diebenkorn (MATRIX 40) and Elmer Bischoff (MATRIX 55).

His art developed in the London art scene beginning in the 1960s, when a dynamic generation of young artists took painting into a new direction by exploring impulses from both the figurative tradition and popular culture.

Both artists evolved out of the Dutch figurative tradition into complete abstraction at exactly the same time, but while Mondrian remained with his bleak, geometric painting throughout his life, Van Doesburg had other ideas, dozens of them.

The MacArthur Foundation, which gave Eisenman a «genius» grant in 2015, credits her with «expanding the critical and expressive capacity of the Western figurative tradition.»

She creates a personal and contemporary fiction within her works, bringing to light issues of race and representation throughout the history of traditional figurative painting: «My work is a form of tribute, analysis and intervention: tribute out of sincere admiration for the figurative tradition; analysis, by making something vast,» the role of race in the history of figurative painting «comprehensible to both myself and to my viewers; and intervention, by positioning a woman - of - color as primary picture - maker, in whose hands the figurative tradition is refashioned.»

Selectively and imaginatively revisiting old master techniques and concepts, artists today are again exploring the figurative tradition as a viable way of approaching contemporary life.

In earlier times one might have been able to locate his importance in some formal innovation, some avant - garde breakthrough, but those years are gone and one is left with the conclusion that Doig's achievement is to have found a new rhetoric to revitalise the figurative tradition in painting.

Wolk - Simon says that this new awareness helps to work through certain biases: «For a long time, abstraction was modern art's preeminent triumph, and artists working in the figurative tradition were not seen as modern, but now with a renewed interest in Italian modern art comes a renewed interest in figurative art.»

Ms. Hartigan, a friend and disciple of Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, subscribed to the Abstract Expressionist notion of the painterly brushstroke as existential act and cri de coeur but, like de Kooning, she never broke entirely with the figurative tradition.

The shifting lines and layered brushwork of these works most completely integrated the classical figurative tradition he absorbed during his earliest art studies and the instinctive painting processes of Abstract Expressionism.

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.

«The Figurative Tradition and the Whitney Museum of American Art,» Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, 1980.

It was at once fun and awe - inspiring to see how Audrey Flack deploys nearly every trick in the sculpture book to claim (mainly) bronze figurative tradition for women.

Administered entirely by its artist members, the mission of the gallery has evolved from an advocacy of the figurative tradition to a broader and more eclectic interpretation of contemporary painting, printmaking and sculpture.

«Narrative Imagism and the Figurative Tradition in Northern California Painting».

He became friends and colleagues with Terry St John, Denis Hare, Christopher Brown, Anthony Dubovsky and other exponents of the Bay Area figurative tradition.

A solo exhibition of recent work titled «Altered Images» The work in this exhibition fits into the figurative tradition but is influenced by contemporary ideas related to Post Modernism.

By positioning a woman - of - color as primary picture - maker in whose hands the figurative tradition is refashioned, I knit my contemporary concerns, personal and painterly, into the centuries old conversation of representation.

Unlike Ireland, where there seems to be a sympathy towards both the painterly and the abstract, Britain has long maintained a figurative tradition and held abstraction at arm's length.

With her classically formal clay and bronze sculptures, London - based Rebecca Warren positions herself within the predominantly male figurative tradition, which includes Degas and Rodin, while maintaining the contemporary stance of questioning her predecessors» authority.

Nicole Eisenman is an artist who is expanding the critical and expressive capacity of the Western figurative tradition through works that engage contemporary social issues and phenomena.

Fish, along with the painter William Bailey, are both important figures to come out of Yale School of Art having invigorated a long figurative tradition.

Other than a 1991 Diebenkorn exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery, is it fair to say that the British public has had very little opportunity prior to your show to see works from the Bay Area Figurative tradition?

Adam Welch, director of Greenwich House Pottery, has said, «Though these works fit within a continuation of the ceramic figurative tradition, she defies convention, converting her clay canvases into three - dimensional form.

Elina Merenmies follows in the figurative tradition, with formats ranging from small drawings to large scale paintings.

Group exhibitions include Objects Like Us, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT, curated by Amy Smith - Stewart and David Adamo (2018); Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland (2018); and Rodin and the Contemporary Figurative Tradition, Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, MI (2017), among others.

Eric Fischl, (born March 9, 1948, New York, New York, U.S.), American painter and sculptor whose work belongs to the figurative tradition.

If, on the other hand, the artist is aligned with the more conservative European figurative tradition rooted in perceptual study, the painting will be signed.