Abend Gallery Fine art is presenting a group exhibition featuring the works of various artists operating in
the genre of figurative art.
The artist possesses a humorous eye for everyday awkwardness and an enlivening facility with paint, Joffe brings a combination of intuition and honesty to
the genre of figurative art.
Not exact matches
Carroll's photographs call to mind multiple
art historical influences — Greco - Roman
figurative sculpture and its distinctive treatment
of draping done in marble, the opulent cascades
of textile pattern in Northern Renaissance painting, and the still life
genre — in related series in Still / Life exhibited together for the first time.
Their subject matter includes all
of the traditional categories within Western
Art:
figurative, landscape, portraiture, indoor and outdoor
genre and still life paintings.
Dominic Eichler Looking back over the last 20 years
of your
art - making, it is striking how you have circled and constantly returned to a diverse range
of genres, modes
of reproduction and printing techniques while exploring both
figurative and abstract images, and that all
of these approaches still find their place in your recent exhibitions and publications, such as Manual (2007).
CHG represents a diverse collection
of international artists, primarily influenced by today's pop culture and collectively encompassing style
genres such as New
Figurative Art, Pop Surrealism, Neo Pop, Graffiti and Street
Art, and Post-Graffiti.
Her
figurative paintings use traditional
art - historical
genres (the still life, the formal portrait, depictions
of classical statuary) to explore people and objects that no longer have the fixed representational or symbolic status that allowed those
genres to operate.
In the wide range
of art the gallery offers, subjects range from water and beach scenes, boats, landscape, flower arrangements, graphic paintings
of musicians, fifties photographic paintings, birds, fish, traditional still life, figure painting, portraits and trees, covering every major contemporary
figurative category and
genre.
Currin's accomplished and alluring paintings
of distorted and disfigured women and men, including portraits,
genre scenes, and still - lifes, bring back the
figurative in contemporary painting with an informed nod to
art history.
The Figure: Painting, Drawing, and Sculpture is a celebration
of figurative art with a wealth
of imagery displaying some
of the finest examples
of the
genre in all mediums.
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.
From large scale gestural abstraction to tiny
figurative and interior meditations, reaching across styles and
genres from modernist
art to mashups
of contemporary culture will be presented side by side.
The grand special exhibition on occasion
of the inauguration
of the enlarged Kunstmuseum Basel will map the medium's extraordinarily dynamic evolution: the classical idea and form
of sculpture grows more flexible and abstract as some artists integrate the trivial stuff
of everyday life into their
art or blur its spatial and conceptual boundaries, even as others return to the
figurative tradition in an effort to set the
genre on a new solid foundation.
The phrase «figure painting» is an imprecise alternative to the equally vague umbrella term «
figurative painting» which itself commonly refers to a type
of representational
art, based on figure drawing, in which the focus is on the realism
of the human form without encroaching on the more «artificial»
genre of portraiture.
In these pieces, the artist tackled
genres like the still life, the portrait,
figurative representation, landscape, interiors, historical painting, political propaganda, religious iconography, and the appropriation
of elements from popular culture and
art history.
Corey Helford Gallery represents a diverse collection
of Contemporary artists influenced by today's pop culture, encompassing the
genres of New
Figurative, Pop Surreal, Graffiti and Street
Art.
CHG represents a diverse collection
of Contemporary artists influenced by today's pop culture, encompassing the
genres of New
Figurative, Pop Surreal, Graffiti and Street
Art.
Using completely stereotyped
genres (
figurative painting, travel photography, landscape painting, and so on), Miller has been engaged since the end
of the 1970s in a global critique
of the function
of the auteur and the resulting loss
of the work
of art's «aura».
Superrealism Emerging out
of Pop
Art and Photorealism, this is an American - based
figurative genre in which certain stereotypical individuals are re-created down to the last true - to - life detail, using polyester / fibreglass and other materials including human hair.
The gallery represents work in every
genre of fine
art photography including landscape,
figurative studies, documentary photography, still life, conceptual, abstract, and alternative processes.