Sentences with phrase «figure painter»

She challenged me to think about the absence of the figure and to stop trying to be a traditional figure painter.

In any event, Saville remains one of a very small number of high quality classically trained figure painters in postmodernist art: an era dominated by ever more gimmicky types of art.

Now, however, we live in such a hybrid time of figuration and abstraction that Cecily Brown or Marilyn Minter, who are the great figure painters of today, are always borrowing techniques, looks, feelings, and scale from abstraction.

One of the foremost figure painters of the post-war period, Alice Neel was persistent in the pursuit of her chosen genre when it was widely deemed to be unfashionable.

A survey of works by the South - African born artist gives reason to why she is perhaps the world's most interesting figure painter FT

Some Contemporary American Figure Painters 7th May 1964 - 31st May 1964 Hartford, Connecticut, Wadsworth Atheneum

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Works by mid-century figure painters appear in the installation to reveal that some artists who publicly rejected the underlying premises of Abstract Expressionism managed to adopt techniques learned from its core practitioners.

Many figure painters and portraitists began using the new medium of photography in addition to models, to reduce sitting - time.

The German abstract figure painter, who became widely known in the»80s along with Jörg Immendorff - associated circle of friends Werner Büttner, Georg Herold, and Martin Kippenberger, often painted interiors, self - portraits, landscapes, language fragments, and diverse abstractions.

I will never forget Gabriel, one night at a raucous meeting of painters on the Lower East Side, speaking about a gentle little composition with a few figures in a rococo interior by the eighteenth - century Venetian figure painter Longhi.

Gustave Clarence Rodolphe Boulanger (25 April 1824 — October 1888) was a French figure painter known for his classical and Orientalist subjects.

Born in North Manchester, Indiana, Garber began his formal art training at the Art Academy of Cincinnati in 1897 where he studied for one year with landscape and figure painter Vincent Nowottny and fraternized with the followers of Frank Duveneck known as the «Duveneck Boys.»

[1] She attended Hunter College for one semester only before leaving school to marry figure painter Sherman Drexler at 19 [4] in 1946.

For two decades Bush was an ardent landscape and figure painter after the manner of the Ontario Society of Artists and the Canadian Group of Painters, which succeeded the Group of Seven in 1933.

His influences include Egon Shiele and the German Expressionists as well as Bay Area figure painters David Park and Nathan Olivera.

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In addition, Mary Cassatt (1845 - 1926) was a prolific figure painter.

The abstract artist and figure painter Mainie Jellett was born in Dublin.

One of the leading Abstract Expressionist figure painters was Willem de Kooning (1904 - 97), whose Woman series - begun by works like Seated Woman (1944, Metropolitan Museum of Art)- included Marilyn Monroe (1954).

I'm thinking especially of wet - into - wet figure painters such as Alex Katz, Luc Tuymans, and Lynette Yiadom - Boakye, with their careful preparation and constant skill - building subsumed into a concentrated daily performance of painting that registers as an autographic style.

The Irish landscape artist and figure painter Cecil Maguire was born in County Armagh and studied at Queen's University, Belfast, graduating in 1951.

Even though there are many artists who approach words the way figure painters approach a model, from Jenny Holtzer, Christopher Wool, Sally Schuh and Carl Andre to Lawrence Weiner, Mumford's work is unlike anyone else's.

The Pearlsteins moved to East 4th Street, taking over an apartment from fellow figure painter Lester Johnson, and Philip enrolled in the Masters in Art History program at New York University Institute of Fine Arts.

The Irish landscape artist, portrait and figure painter Charles Lamb was born in County Armagh.

Realism School (20th Century) Figure painters specializing in true - life genre paintings and portraits.

Lucian Freud Biography of British Realist Figure Painter, Portrait Artist.

The contemporary Irish figure painter and still life artist Mark Kavanagh - known as «Rasher» - was born in Bray, County Wicklow in 1977.

The American, credited as the chief reviver of late 20th - century realism and its leading figure painter, is perhaps the oldest artist still producing exhibition - quality work.

Her emphasis on line differentiates her from many of the towering contemporary figure painters who rely on blocks and bleeds of color to create articulated faces (Marlene Dumas, Luc Tuymans, Peter Doig, Elizabeth Peyton).

Though he is a great figure painter, he had a serious «Lolita problem,» she noted.

Marlene Dumas (b1953) has been called «the world's most interesting figure painter».

John Currin (b. 1962) American figure painter.

Chris is a figure painter.

Bailey came to international attention as a figure painter through controversy in 1982, when his breast - baring «Portrait of S» made the cover of the widely circulated Newsweek magazine.

Garber was as talented a figure painter as he was a landscapist.

At least they did, too, except for another recent invader from Chelsea, Slag, which exhibited a figure painter, Dumitru Gorzo, at Volta NY.

I am a figure painter, borrowing a lot of techniques from the Renaissance painters, and so his work really resonated with me.

I began as a figure painter and moved to landscape painting.

While Bates was primarily a figure painter, his simpler landscapes were consistently successful.

Contributed by Debbi Kenote / «I see myself as a figure painter,» Kate Liebman tells me as I sit in her Bushwick studio, where the floor is covered with dirty paint tubes and reckless spatter.

She is a plein - air painter, a figure painter, an installation artist, a performer, and a lecturer on color theory.

Originally trained as a figure painter, Oriti became fascinated and more engaged with the clothing than the subject.

• Postmodernist Painting Important contributors to postmodern styles of painting not listed above, include: the inimitable Francis Bacon (1909 - 92); the contemporary realist Lucian Freud (1922 - 2011), the subject painter Jack Vettriano (b. 1951), and the figure painter Jenny Saville (b. 1970).