Though styles ranged wildly, the group dismissed the detatched cool of Minimalism and Conceptual art in favor of
figurative work with raw potency.
The unlikely combination of Linhares's large, playful, feminist
figurative work with Monk's colorful, schema - like maps of different aspects of the NY art world is a curious but successful pairing.
It is straight
figurative work with a strong abstract aspect by exact composition and reduction in form and colour.
It's only his second week at Villa Lena and yet the only painter of the group is rapidly filling his studio walls with what could be described as classical
figurative work with a modern cultural inflection.
So I was then able to put in more of
my figurative work with some symbolism and mythology into my painting.
With them he promptly takes his place among a group of recent talented young painters who also make witchy
figurative work with vivid color and wobbly compositions charged with psychological spirituality.
Other paintings in Snyder's solo show include landscapes of the East End,
figurative works with Lorca as inspiration, balled trees wrapped in twine as if prisoners, bathing suit clad women near water, narrative paintings featuring dogs and bulls popping up aplenty.
Not exact matches
Argo is a valentine to the cinema in the very convincing drag of a political thriller; a closing title reveals that Chambers was literally declared a national hero for his
work with Mendez, and it's the movie's sly mission to get us thinking of him as a
figurative one as well, for all those great ape makeups.
The exhibit will include stunning hyper - realistic
work by Churchill - Johnson — stark political statement contrasted
with delicate, minimalist abstraction by Uyesaka — deeply engaging abstract oils by Scorzelli — dynamic and powerful ceramic insights by Rosenberg - Dent — fanciful, abstract adventures by Lehrer — an unsettling mixed - media installation
with video by auto - expressionist, Metrov — striking
figurative vs abstract
works by Ferris — a lively «abolish blandness» painting by Lytle contrasted
with fabulous yarn
work from the early 90's — and a pair of McCracken's, always delightful, miniatures.
Enjoy the combined living and
working spaces
with an abundance of natural light, fresh air and stylish designer furnishings and large
figurative Blackman prints throughout, or step out to the fabulous spacious balconies to take in many of Melbourne and St Kilda Road's distinguished sites.
In her latest series of
work, Michelle creates
figurative narratives
with her usual needle and thread.
Neal notes that «it is interesting that 8 Painters, comprised of all
figurative painting, and timed to run concurrently
with The Forever Now, offers an alternative to the mostly abstract
works at MoMA.
Although the artist's
figurative abstractions may appear crude at first glance, closer examination reveals
works vibrating
with energy and pulse, creating an all - out assault on the viewer's concept of reality.
Sean Mahan is a social realist
figurative painter who
works with graphite and acrylic washes on wood to depict a sense of wonder about the innate warmth of the human character and its conflict
with structures of power and control.
Never experimenting
with figurative elements in his mature
work, the strict geometry of broad dark brushstrokes determined this composition, maybe referring his admiration of iconic squares by Kazimir Malevich.
Her early
work was
figurative with a semi-impressionist style.
Like the poet's descent into hell, Orpheus Selection: In Search of Darkness is an exploration into the unearthly and unknown, where both abstract and
figurative works are charged
with unsettling energy.
Where as Avery's early
figurative drawings and paintings from the 1930s attest to affinities primarily
with the
work of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, by the 1940s he was discernibly close to Henri Matisse.
Here, in the artist's first retrospective exhibition in the United States, we see the emergence and the evolution of this dramatic process, beginning
with his earliest, and initially
figurative,
works.
This Fall, the gallery will present its first solo exhibition of her
work, (October 31st — December 5th)
with a meticulously chosen group of major
figurative sculptures from the 1960s and 1970s, contextualized
with drawings and
works from the «Souvenir» series.
Unlike his
figurative work, these paintings are larger in scale and made using a much different technique, utilizing a broom to paint and later flooding the surfaces
with chlorine and water.
How does his
work compare
with more recent
figurative painters dealing
with psycho - sexual content?
Neel persisted passionately
with figurative painting throughout the post-war period, gaining recognition for her
work from the 1960s onwards.
The
works begins
with his early realist,
figurative abstractions, to a «proto - synthetic cubism,» straight through the famous series of women that dominated the 1950s, ending in his increasingly «expansive,» looser renderings of the 1960s.
It reveals, Lohin notes further, that «combined
with an interest in exploring the unconscious Carone broke new ground
with both his
figurative and abstract
work.»
Linked by the
works» engagement
with figurative representation, the show displayed a diverse range of mediums from monoprint and watercolor to photography and sculpture, most of which explore notions relating to identity, society and isolation.
With almost 40 works, this exhibition proposes a complete view of the artist's aesthetic development, starting with his figurative works, when he exhibited in Barcelona in the early 30's, until his latest abstract paintings of the 90's after going through the abstract expressionist stage that became so relevant in the United States during the 40s and
With almost 40
works, this exhibition proposes a complete view of the artist's aesthetic development, starting
with his figurative works, when he exhibited in Barcelona in the early 30's, until his latest abstract paintings of the 90's after going through the abstract expressionist stage that became so relevant in the United States during the 40s and
with his
figurative works, when he exhibited in Barcelona in the early 30's, until his latest abstract paintings of the 90's after going through the abstract expressionist stage that became so relevant in the United States during the 40s and 50s.
But when it comes to viewing David Park's body of
work, this book shines
with superb color plates dispersed throughout, showing Park's development as a painter from his early days, his non-
figurative period, his return to
figurative painting, and his final
figurative work in gouache.
In her previous
work, she dealt
with a more
figurative style.
Balkenhol, when shrinking the scale of his
works, playfully disrupts the history of
figurative sculpture by subverting the monumentality so often associated
with it.
Of course, Nochlin was writing in parallel
with Jeff Donaldson and Romare Bearden, titans of
figurative work who elaborated a form of augmented reality called «the super real».
Over 300 pages illustrated
with Zeller's own exquisite drawings and paintings as well as
works by nearly 100 historical and contemporary
figurative art masters, the book includes some of the finest
figurative art of the past and the present day.
With its inclusion of abstraction along with figurative work, it struck some viewers as not explicitly gay enough, as dodging the political issues its title rai
With its inclusion of abstraction along
with figurative work, it struck some viewers as not explicitly gay enough, as dodging the political issues its title rai
with figurative work, it struck some viewers as not explicitly gay enough, as dodging the political issues its title raised.
«There are
works in the
figurative tradition, abstraction,
works with a pop art look to it.
The artists
work in a variety of unique and innovative ways; some incorporating a more traditional
figurative approach, while others are combining metalpoint
with other media to produce striking and unexpected results.
More generally, the chapters of «America Is Hard to See» pay homage to a number of those seminal exhibitions through which the Whitney has historically recognised and advocated for emerging American art: «Anti-Illusion: Procedure / Materials» (1969), for instance,
with its defiant presentation of the post-minimalism of Richard Tuttle and others, or «New Image Painting» (1979), which celebrated a revival of
figurative painting in an artistic climate dominated by conceptual
work.
In their seeming lack of the kind of detail or warmth that we associate
with much of Larner's
work, there is still something interestingly personified about each sculpture, which allows them to at once appear stoic and and the same time oddly
figurative and thus in motion.
Peter Doig, whose practice over the past twenty years has drawn heavily on the language of cinema, layers the personal and public,
figurative and abstract, visual and conceptual in
works that resonate
with narrative potential.
It was about time for a shift in the Houston painter's
work, which for the past several years has been characterized by cartoonish
figurative elements duking it out
with a whirling array of abstract elements from hard - edged to splashy.
Her early
work explored floral motifs often combined
with a grid or color field, blurring the dichotomy between abstract and
figurative work.
With David Park and Elmer Bischoff, Diebenkorn became associated with the Bay Area Figurative Movement, and would continue to work in a representational mode for the next dec
With David Park and Elmer Bischoff, Diebenkorn became associated
with the Bay Area Figurative Movement, and would continue to work in a representational mode for the next dec
with the Bay Area
Figurative Movement, and would continue to
work in a representational mode for the next decade.
In a queer analysis of
figurative representation, emily north / em16 presents us
with two large
works on paper and one soft sculpture.
I thought it would be interesting to put them in a context
with several other generations of contemporary
figurative painters, who are continuing to do vital
work and are changing
with the times.
For her newly commissioned
work Foreign Exchange (2015 - 17), artist Phillipa Horan
worked with a commercial biotech laboratory in Upstate New York to produce what is possibly the first large - scale
figurative sculpture grown from mycelium, the single cell root system of which a mushroom is the fruiting body.
My wife read something that said that I'm now
working with the figure, and had in quotes that representational and
figurative paintings will be back.
But like Elmer Bischoff and David Park,
with whom he made the turn to
figurative painting a few years later, Diebenkorn was asking questions that abstract expressionism couldn't always answer, even though, as the early
works in the show at the Royal Academy (until 7 June) suggest, he was a loyal and talented disciple: the LA Times described him as «one of the most gifted artists in the American non-objective field».
Working with figurative and portrait styled imagery, Lewis creates sculpted paper photo
works that highlight bodies and the unseen tensions of the past, present and future.
(3) Thiebaud's early 1960s
figurative work coincided
with the interests of many of his contemporaries at the time, including Philip Pearlstein, Alex Katz, and Alfred Leslie.
(1910 - 1962) American, yet imbued
with visual culture of Europe, Franz Kline exemplifies the development of pictorial language from a
figurative form that derives from Rembrandt and the other great masters whose
work he knew well from visiting European museums, to abstraction.
Featuring over 36
works, Arneson's enormous ceramic ode to his»50s - era Davis tract home, will anchor the show, together
with three Thiebaud masterworks, and three of Neri's most admired
figurative sculptures.