Sentences with phrase «figure painters of»

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.

Not exact matches

This compendium brings together reviews and essays written over many years on a comprehensive range of writers (many of them Catholic), politicians, actors, painters, historical figures, and so on.

According to owners and licensors Darrel and Chris Painter, Don Cherry's Sports Grill has been successful not only because of its connection to one of Canada's most popular public figures, but also because the company gives its individual locations a winning game plan and the autonomy to take advantage of their own opportunities.

And information about what kinds of paints were used, which is now being compiled with the new data, will tell him about the painter's palette and whether it was a daytime or nighttime scene — information that «will be key to [help] figure out who painted it and when,» he says.

There are glimpses of important figures, such as photographer William Eggleston and painter Ed Ruscha, but they're on screen too briefly to register in a meaningful way.

Oscar - winning Redgrave will play the role of Elizabeth opposite Spall as Lowry, the 20th century painter best known for his matchstick human figures within scenes of life in the industrial North.

An extraordinarily beautiful Amish woman, a dangerous femme fatale, is the central figure in a story that reveals a dark side of Painters Mill and its seemingly perfect Amish world.

Of course, Hodgkin is widely regarded as one of the world's greatest painters and has been a central figure in contemporary art for over half a centurOf course, Hodgkin is widely regarded as one of the world's greatest painters and has been a central figure in contemporary art for over half a centurof the world's greatest painters and has been a central figure in contemporary art for over half a century.

Ramos writes: «Half - way between the vibrant exuberance of Rebecca Campbell's images and Luc Tuyman's clinical stroke - by - stroke reproductions lay the gliding, neutral toned figures of LA based French painter Claire Tabouret... The figures in the larger works and monoprints are characters from history, of various levels of obscurity and notoriety, and knowing a little bit of their stories imbue each scene with a poetic fascination.

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.

Boucher introduces Lotto as «an outlier in Italian Renaissance art, a portrait painter capable of capturing the soul on canvas, a man whose religious art struck a note of sincerity in an age bound by ritual and dogma, a figure overshadowed in life by Titian and Raphael and condemned to poverty and relative failure in his own day.»

I think that the contemporary painter, trying to figure out how to proceed in the impossibly complex art scene of the early twenty - first century, could learn a lot from this approach.»

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.

«In the course of his long life as a painter, Jack Tworkov became an important figure in the maturation of abstract art in America.»

Brooklyn - born painter Walter Price stands out as particularly impressive in this context, with a selection of small skewed and abstracted figure - in - landscape paintings.

One of the foremost American figurative painters of the twentieth century, Neel is known for her portraits of family, friends, and neighbors as well as the writers, poets, and other cultural and political figures she encountered in a career spanning the 1920s to the 1980s.

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.

One of the most famous post-war American painters, a prominent figure among the New York School artists, Mark Rothko attempted to make space visible through color, and without reference to external reality.

At once traditional in her approach to form, line, and color, and decidedly contemporary in her self - reflexivity about her medium, the British - Ghanaian writer, poet, and painter represents a bold and beautiful cast of black figures culled from the haze of memory, projection, and fiction.

Her works command six figure prices at auctions and she is celebrated as one of the most influential painters of our time, heralded as a role model by art academy students the world over.

William Scott: Divided Figure celebrates the centenary of the birth of Scott, one of the leading and most influential British painters of the 20th century and a central figure in European and AmericaFigure celebrates the centenary of the birth of Scott, one of the leading and most influential British painters of the 20th century and a central figure in European and Americafigure in European and American art.

Paul Jackson Pollock born 1912 in Cody, Wyoming was an influential American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement well known for his unique style of drip painting.

This has made many compare her to painters such as Francis Bacon and Francisco Goya, and she is furthermore credited as a central figure in the resurgence of painting at the turn of the millennium.

Barnett Newman is considered one of the major figures in abstract expressionism and one of the foremost of the color field painters.

Certainly not a forgotten figure, Italian - American painter Joseph Stella is best known for his Futurist renderings of the Brooklyn Bridge.

Works by painters Sam Gilliam, Ron Gorchov, and Frank Stella clarify or confuse elements of figure and ground by redefining the possibilities of the shaped canvas and how it can contain color and gesture.

Such is the case at the Pilar Corrias booth, where one can spot the bright, patchy figures of Tschabalala Self, a young painter, whose works starred in the New Museum's «Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon» show this fall.

«Lorser Feitelson: Figure to Form» at Louis Stern Fine Arts is a small but insightful survey of the noted painter's transition from Post-Surrealism to Hard - Edge...

It is the one «American» Piero that gives a clear taste of an aspect of his art that made him a particularly exciting figure for painters and writers in the early twentieth century — when he crowds together a number of figures in a tight space, making them feel full - bodied yet flat, like overlapping cards you hold in your hand in a game.

One such figure is the painter Angel Otero, a creator whose second Manhattan show of frayed canvases and crumbled sculptures is currently on view at Leh - mann Maupin's Chelsea space.

Already established as a painter, over the course of the 1990s Marrinon began to make diminutive terracotta sculptures of landmark buildings, figures and squat busts incised with cartoon - like simplifications.

A VISIONARY AND IMAGINATIVE PAINTER, Marshall is recognized for his thought - provoking explorations of American history and representations of the African American experience, using black paint for his black figures.

Willem de Kooning was a Dutch - American Abstract Expressionist painter and a leading figure within the so - called New York group of American modernists, which included Jackson Pollock, Barnett Newman and Mark Rothko.

The Painter of Modern Life: Kerry James Marshall Aims to Get More Images of Black Figures Into Museums

By the late 1950s, when Kinley painted Red, White and Black and other pared down palette - knifed abstractions of landscape with subliminal suggestions of the human figure, the Vienna - born, St. Martin's - trained painter had already enjoyed two solo exhibitions at Gimpel Fils, London.

Do you know of any painters who do — I mean good painters — who do abstract painting one week and figure - painting the next?

They included David Butler (1898 - 1997), who fashioned animals, angels and people from cut and painted tin and other found items; the religious painter Sister Gertrude Morgan (1900 - 1980); Steve Ashby (1904 - 1980), who made raw figurative assemblages out of scavenged materials; and Elijah Pierce (1892 - 1984), whose carved and painted wood reliefs depict biblical scenes and national figures like the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr..

By painting figures that symbolized cattle in snow - filled backgrounds, the painter walks the line of abstraction and realism.

«I'm an academic realist painter, but I'm living in the 21st century, so I'm not going to be painting Roman soldiers invading, or some gothic baroque composition... The highest aspiration of an academic realist painter are these big group figure paintings, and I'm using the hardcore scene as my subject.»

Matisse's new understanding of the figure and drawing with line, color and space, and the rediscovery of Vincent Van Gogh's emotional expressionism influenced generations of painters to come.

With its dour farm figures portrayed with the flat but meticulous detail of a Northern Renaissance masterwork, the painting seemed a natural extension of the painter himself, who cultivated a homespun, folksy persona.

It took her from being a painter and leading figure in the Brazilian neo-concretist movement, an offshoot of European constructivism, to becoming a maker of abstract sculptures that were as much propositions as fixed objects.

• Tony Smith (1912 — 1980), sculptor who bridged AbEx and minimalism (dad of Kiki) Mel Kendrick (b. 1949), formalist process - based sculptor Chris Wilmarth (1943 — 1987), sculptor of steel, bronze, and etched glass Joel Shapiro (b. 1941), minimalist sculptor who flirts with figuration Christopher Wool (b. 1955), Neo-AbExer with a taste for graffiti and repetition Alex Hubbard (b. 1975), rising master of painterly materials and abstract coloration Josh Smith (b. 1976), Factory - like painter of great expressive volume Jacob Kassay (b. 1984), mirrored - painting - wunderkind - turned - sackcloth artist • Andy Warhol (1928 — 1987), Pop maestro and appropriationist world - changer David Robbins (b. 1957), artist and «Concrete Comedy» theorist David LaChapelle (b. 1963), lush photographer of celebrity decadence Ronnie Cutrone (1948 — 2013), Factory personality and East Village cult figure George Condo (b. 1957), Neo-Picassian painter of the grotesque Mark Dagley (b. 1957), Op abstractionist • Richard Serra (b. 1939), grand master of process art and the post-industrial sublime Grégoire Müller (b. 1947), painter of current - event appropriations Philip Glass (b. 1937), «Einstein on the Beach» composer Lawrence Chandler (b. 1951), composer, musician, and sound artist • Sol LeWitt (1928 — 2007), father of conceptual art, multitasking artistic outsourcer Adrian Piper (b. 1948), performance art innovator Mark Williams (b. 1950), monochromatic minimalist painter

With his iconic paintings serving as a trademark of American contemporary art, Wayne Thiebaud is a Pop art painter best known for his colorful works depicting commonplace objects like pies, lipsticks, paint cans, ice cream cones, pastries and hot dogs, although he has painted many landscapes and figures in his time as well.

The second painter on the shortlist, Glen Brown, is best known for his flattened versions of the expressionist, painted - from - life figure paintings of Frank Auerbach.

First up is the reveal of those two paintings by Cobain in Seattle, both showing distorted, Expressionistic figures that owe something to the Norwegian painter Edvard Munch.

One of the most iconic figures that emerged from the post-World War II American art, Frank Stella is a painter and a printmaker whose influential work is considered to be crucial to the generations of artists that moved beyond Abstract Expressionism.

Painter Deborah Brown's latest work both embraces and critiques the concept of the Chimera as she reimagines narratives taken from mythology, religion, and literature by placing a powerful female figure at the center of these stories in which women are typically symbols of moral virtue or seductive evil, often held hostage by male desire to possess.

Painters such as Noel Mahaffey, John Moore, Elizabeth Osborne and Warren Rohrer tackled traditional subjects such as the landscape, the figure or interiors with new expressive energy - stirred by Pop, and influences from an older generation of artists such as George Segal, Agnes Martin, Alice Neel and Alex Katz.

Picking up the baton from generations of male figurative painters, such as Lucian Freud, to whom she is frequently compared, Jenny Saville is often credited with a «reappropriation» of the female figure.