Sentences with phrase «figure painting practice»

The actual landscape of this painting is actually a part of figure painting practice and considered to be the inception of the art form we are talking about.

Not exact matches

Whether it's the Louvre or the Rubin Museum of Art, students are often encouraged to spend time sketching the paintings and sculptures that intrigue them — not to practice their art skills, but to get them to look closer at the details: the complex color of a sky, the figure off in the distance... After taking the time to draw a sketch yourself, you're bound to remember the details of a work and have a greater appreciation for its creation.

Freud's adherence to realism and focus on the human figure, when abstraction and other progressive forms of practice were more prolific, moved him in and out of the spotlight until the 1980's when renewed international interest in painting and figuration gave his work a new significance.

However, discussing Dalwood's more recent work illuminated his practice as a whole, helping me to figure «Burroughs in Tangier» into a much broader understanding of the artist's paintings.

The format of Rythm Mastr, whether as an animated feature, graphic novel, or multi-panel sequence on newsprint, may feel like a departure from Marshall's painting practice, more tethered to pop culture than the high - brow arena where the artist's large - scale works fetch seven figures.

Mira Schendel (1919 - 1988), a seminal figure in the Latin American modern art scene who formed her own approach to abstraction with influences from quantum physics to Zen Buddhism, attempted to reconcile the practices of painting and sculpture with these series.

Stocked with more than 100 of Johns's seminal paintings, sculptures, prints, and drawings, this retrospective sheds light on the innovative materials and techniques, pop images, and themes that frame the six - decade practice of this towering figure in American art.

Based in Los Angeles since the early 1970s, Jackson has expanded the definition and practice of painting more than any other contemporary figure.

On the other hand, both parts of Black in the Abstract make it perfectly clear that, on the whole, the quality of the work being produced by black artists whose practices include abstraction — as the inclusion of Hammons, McMillian and Donnett indicate, not everyone here is an «abstract painter» — does not suffer in comparison with that of their colleagues of other backgrounds, including major figures like Amy Sillman and Charline von Heyl, both of whom have work in Arning's Painting: A Love Story.

While one of the most important artists of the postwar period and a pioneering figure within the field of abstract painting, Ryman's drawings, and their profound significance within his practice, have never been examined before in a focused exhibition.

In a fugue of abstraction and representation, depth and surface, micro and macro, the remarkable slippage between gestural waves of paint and fantastically rendered figures, creatures and objects, these epically scaled paintings evolve Cooke's fundamental interest in the theory and practice of painting to a compelling hybrid state of generation and destruction.

Featuring work from the 1980s to today, including wooden figures, pottery and newspapers that she has painted on, Himid's section of the Turner Prize exhibition at Hull's Ferens Gallery serves as an intimate window on to her intensely thoughtful practice.

Toru Kuwakubo started his artistic practice with a theatrical approach, finding the figure of an imaginary painter within himself as a means to explore contemporary art through the medium of painting.

Donnelly writes: «In Das Negativ, Baselitz paints from photographic negatives, resulting in a necessarily dark palette, with subjects obscured in their reversed portrayals — a step beyond the artist's usual practice of painting his figures upside down.

Dorothy Iannone started her practice in the 1960s making vivid and energetic paintings, drawings, prints, videos, and objects portraying female and male figures in situations of physical union and ecstasy.

Despite this turbid content, it remains fashionable to talk about Baselitz's paintings as abstractions, as though the perverse act of reversing the figure — the works at Michael Werner, from the»70s, include some of the first examples of this practice — were merely a technical matter, and as though his painterly explorations were mere attempts to stretch

Ghostly figures, a theatric use of light, teasingly oblique narratives and the type of paint handling ability that can only be won over years of practice all add up to one potent image after another.

-- Trickland, 2002, is a landscape painting in which the distorted scale of a large figure hovering over a miniature pastoral scene enforces the illogical relationships and shifting levels of reality that typify Borremans» practice.

In her first year, Ms. Crosby's studio practice saw a lot of experimentation, mostly grounded in drawing and painting the figure, along with a heavy dose of information about the sprawling world of Contemporary art, courtesy of her renowned teachers Catherine Murphy and Peter Halley.

Eisenman is also opening up the remote practice of painting the public by hosting a public figure - drawing class of live models in the Museum's galleries.

A significant figure in the discourse around abstract painting, conceptual art, and identity politics, Howardena Pindell has explored the potential for abstract painting and process - based practices to address social issues throughout her career.

Located in the imposing Palazzo Falier on the Grand Canal, Land Sea will feature a broad selection of new works, many monumental in scale and conceived specifically for this exhibition, offering compelling insight into Sean Scully's recent practice and reaffirming his position as one of the leading figures of abstract painting.

Lisa by Teodora Axente, who hails from the much acclaimed Cluj School in Romania, illustrates the artist's practice which combines references of 17th century Dutch figure painting with a strong sense of religious spiritualism.

Oscillating between high formal contrasts — figure and ground, image and object, surface and depth — Vanessa Maltese's practice takes its point of derivation from discussions on painting - as - object or painting - as - architecture.

Figure drawing is still an integral part of Cotton's work, evidenced through his paintings filled with deftly rendered women, but also through his studio practice.

In his painting practice, Hubbard portrays human figures not as still bodies but as shapes in constant movement described formally with shadows, blurring, or overlapped images, and, as such, bodies appear ungraspable and unstable.

The most substantial monograph ever devoted to Albert Oehlen.Albert Oehlen has established himself as one of the leading figures in contemporary painting thanks to a continually evolving practice that focuses more...

Albert Oehlen has established himself as one of the leading figures in contemporary painting thanks to a continually evolving practice that focuses more on overcoming formal limitations and on experimentation than on the subject of the work.

Her experience as a clinical psychologist practicing psychotherapy from a contemporary psychoanalytic perspective for over 25 years reflects an enduring passion and respect for personal idiosyncrasy that characterizes her early portrait work, the more recent and abstract, life - size human figure paintings, and now, her turn to the reservoir of personal experience within.

In a practice that hovers between the disparate formal languages of abstraction, minimalism and figuration, Weiser's paintings are at once figures in space and flat abstractions.

Finally, fin de siècle and early 20th century brought us to beginnings of modern painting within the practice of Georges Braque, who is assigned as one of the key figures of Fauvism and Cubism.

In her writings on paintings in essays such as «Figure / Ground,» 2001, Schor is seen as making a case for the relevance of painting in a post-medium visual culture and for arguing for the compatibility and mutuality of painterly and theoretical practices.

Taking cues from modern dance, and simultaneously playing on the repetitiveness in her painting practice, Otto - Knapp presents a series of large canvases that show overlaying scenes of animation: uniform figures at times suspended on austere backgrounds; at times floating in a moon - like landscape of indeterminate place or time.

Described by the gallery as a «significant figure in the discourse around abstract painting, conceptual art, and identity politics, Pindell has explored the potential for abstract painting and process - based practices to address social issues throughout her career.»

Emerging at the height of the British Pop movement, his early practice emphasized the figure, while experimenting with expressive gestural applications of oil paint.

Artists Vanessa Jackson RA and Clare Price, along with curator Gwen Chanzit from the Denver Art Museum, discuss the important female figures of Abstract Expressionism, and explore the relationship between artists and the gendered practice of abstract painting.