By synthesizing extremes of immediacy and meditative distance, and by rendering the ephemeral movements of abstraction through techniques usually reserved
for figurative subjects, Vance depicts reality in the act of making itself seen, before it has had the chance to conform to expectations.
For figurative subjects such as animals, plants, and insects, you can just draw from real life, but you will need to invent ingenious ways to represent matters such as energy, motion, magnetism, or electricity.
Not exact matches
Drenda Duff — Drenda Duff regards
figurative art, composed and arranged in natural surroundings, as a favorite
subject for her drawings and paintings.
Figurative painter Mark Van Yetter relates how his penchant
for American style and
subject matter has persisted
for twenty years.
For if there was one
subject that united these early canvases, at once
figurative and abstract, landscape and still - life, it was the crucifixion, the martyrdom of Christ.
The experience of growing up in New York City, surrounded by an extraordinary human landscape, along with my early background as a dancer, and then as a
figurative painter, laid the foundation
for my
subject of choice.
The Firestone gallery show overlaps with a larger retrospective of Shapiro's work on view at the National Academy Museum and School that begins with some of the Abstract Expressionist work but goes much further into the
figurative work of the 1990s, which took as its
subject matter women artists, Jewish identity, dance and her passion
for dolls.
There is a painting of a reclining nude in the show, which of course is a traditional
subject for figurative painting, but we nicknamed this work «Billboard,» because the figure seems to command the presence of demanding a billboard all to herself.
Robinson, 66, is known
for his
figurative, melodramatic scenes of desire inspired by covers of 1940s pulp paperbacks, as well as his ongoing over-sized still - life
subjects of food, pharmaceutical products and stacks of cash.
He studied at the New York Academy of Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts — both bastions of traditional
figurative painting and sculpture — and he paints with his
subjects arranged in frontal poses, as if
for a photograph (which, since these look like paintings from photos, they probably were).
Howard's simple and distancing backgrounds (in his
figurative works) became the
subjects for these modernist - leaning abstractions.
A number of Stoller's
figurative works are partially masked, their eyes either hidden from view or altogether absent, hence «Lend Me Your Eyes,» which calls on us to witness these haunting works of art — each with its own contorted, marred and / or embellished form — with some degree of empathy
for the
subject.
Fitzwilliam Museum, 3 December - 21 April 2014 Although an important figure in modern British art, John Craxton RA — the
subject of a major survey at the University of Cambridge's Fitzwilliam Museum — spent much of his time in Crete from the 1960s to his death in 2009, taking influence from Mediterranean light, landscape and myths
for his highly graphic
figurative works.
Besides all the high - end artworks, the special thing about this exhibition, The Age of Ambiguity: Abstract Figuration /
Figurative Abstraction is the curator, who is responsible
for the
subject and selection of works.
ENGLISH
FIGURATIVE PAINTING For details of portraiture, genre painting & subject pictures, see: English Figurative Painting Portrait art of 18th / 19th century William Hogarth (1697 - 1764) Painter, Engraver, Satirist Joshua Reynolds (1723 - 92) Portraitist, President Royal Academy William Blake (1757 - 1827) Watercolourist, Illustrator, Engraver Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 - 82) Romantic leader of Pre-Raphaelites Alfred Stevens (1817 - 75) Sculptor, painter and
FIGURATIVE PAINTING
For details of portraiture, genre painting &
subject pictures, see: English
Figurative Painting Portrait art of 18th / 19th century William Hogarth (1697 - 1764) Painter, Engraver, Satirist Joshua Reynolds (1723 - 92) Portraitist, President Royal Academy William Blake (1757 - 1827) Watercolourist, Illustrator, Engraver Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 - 82) Romantic leader of Pre-Raphaelites Alfred Stevens (1817 - 75) Sculptor, painter and
Figurative Painting Portrait art of 18th / 19th century William Hogarth (1697 - 1764) Painter, Engraver, Satirist Joshua Reynolds (1723 - 92) Portraitist, President Royal Academy William Blake (1757 - 1827) Watercolourist, Illustrator, Engraver Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 - 82) Romantic leader of Pre-Raphaelites Alfred Stevens (1817 - 75) Sculptor, painter and muralist.
Uninterested in the
figurative subject matter or the political implications of Surrealism, whose aim was to effect revolution, he nevertheless took to its theory of «psychic automatism,» which accorded with his feeling
for Freudian psychoanalysis and the work of the French Symbolist poets.
In Mr. Katz's bathroom is a series of black - and - white photographs of New York City life by Rudy Burckhardt, the Swiss filmmaker and an ardent supporter of Mr. Katz in the 1950s, when he was scorned
for daring to pursue
figurative subject matter during the reign of Abstract Expressionism.
Gormley, well - known
for his
figurative casts, has been the
subject of exhibitions throughout the world since the early 1980s.
Yet
for all the shock of the shift in
subject, very little changed in the actual style of painting that was called «Bay Area
Figurative.»
Elected an Academician in 2013, painter Chantal Joffe is renowned
for her expressive,
figurative paintings, which often feature women and children as their
subjects.
Chicago is famous
for having cultivated a funky,
figurative kind of painting, naively expressionist in style, weird, fantastic or vulgar in
subject, and obsessive — filling the canvas completely — in presentation.
He is well known
for his
figurative work, particularly depictions of the human head, but he has also addressed architectural
subjects.
While
for this show Jacquelet continues his exploration of
figurative painting, he has expanded both the size and the
subject matter of his works.
This American artist and art professor is well known
for her
figurative style of painting incorporating
subjects of surrealism.
Bartlett is best known
for her paintings and prints in which familiar
subjects — ranging from houses and gardens to oceans and skies — are executed in a style that combines elements of both representational and abstract art; indeed, she has commented that she does not accept a distinction between
figurative and abstract art.
Rita Ackermann (b. 1968, Budapest) is a Hungarian - American painter renowned
for subject matter that challenges and liberates traditional depictions of the female body and archetypes in
figurative painting.
In About Face, an exhibition in the Creative Alliance's main gallery, Sherald and contemporaries Rozeal, Ebony G. Patterson, and Tim Okamura presented a delightful mishmash of styles acknowledging a diverse range of contemporary
figurative depiction specifically
for and about black
subjects.
Paul Resika, also a
figurative Second Generation New York School Painter, is represented by Provincetown Pier (Little Orange), and perfectly exemplifies the use of luminous color, and solitary
subjects that Resika is so well - known
for.
She has chosen her
subjects for this body of work with an eye toward representations of women not typically seen in the canon of
figurative painting.
Exploring achievements far beyond his reputation as a leading illustrator and teacher, this exhibition spans evocative landscapes firmly rooted in the Neo-Romantic tradition, exotic
subject matter inspired by international travel,
figurative work including portraits of young men, book illustrations, posters and lithographs, and ambitious late work that sought a new context
for history painting.