Sentences with phrase «great figurative painters»

He references the great figurative painters, not so much of the 20th century, but from earlier periods.

He is widely regarded as one of the greatest figurative painters of the twentieth and twenty - first centuries.

One of the greatest figurative painters of the 20th century, Francis Bacon's Surrealist work was as often a break from tradition as it was a continuation.

Tracey Emin's My Bed (1998) is a fine example of the installations that now fill up our galleries — they are the collages of the early 21st century — and Jenny Saville's Propped (1992) has powerful things to say about bodies in the age of obesity (also, she is about the greatest figurative painter we have right now).

Today his impasto portraits and nudes make many regard him as the greatest figurative painter of our time.

Sarah Glennie, Director of IMMA, said: «We are delighted to announce today that the IMMA Collection has secured an important long - term loan of 50 works by Lucian Freud (1922 - 2011); one of the greatest figurative painters of the 20th - century.

The artist appears with her family at kitchen tables or on overstuffed couches, in an easy, unruffled manner that recalls the work of her teacher at Yale, the great figurative painter Catherine Murphy.

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Alice Neel is today recognised as one of the greatest American figurative painters of the twentieth century.

British painter Lucian Freud is a great figurative artist with an immense following who was always going in and out of style in his 70 years of working.

1993 The Whitechapel Gallery showcases Lucian Freud, one of Britain's greatest living figurative painters.

Picasso was very much a European figurative painter, Jackson Pollock was a quintessential American abstract painter, and de Kooning was this great bridge between the two.

So when the easygoing, 46 - year - old painter of abstract - figurative canvases — more appreciated in the indie music and zine subcultures than by Tokyo - based curators and gallerists — was given a retrospective in August 2014, «The Great Circus,» at the prestigious Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art, an hour's train ride southeast of Tokyo, it caught Japan's art community by surprise...

He defined himself as a figurative artist who went through Abstract Expressionism, Geometric Abstraction and a number of other styles of painting, but who had always been a figurative painter because his greatest interest was in people.

Belgian painter Luc Tuymans (born 1958), one of the key figures in the 1990s revival of figurative painting, is also one of contemporary art's great history painters, tackling historical traumas and their representations in a restrained — though resolutely painterly — style and pale, muted palette.

Already quite of reputable figure with a handsome international following as an illustrator of comics and graphic novels (under the name Rebecca Guay), Leveille is now recognized as a formidable figurative painter, whose works show «a distinct influence from the great Renaissance masters revamped with a fresh dosage of contemporary cleanliness and edge».

Tuck writes: «There is a freemasonry of painting among figurative painters — and I mean the term in the metaphoric sense of a secret club as well as the sense of a guild of highly developed craftsmen, for great skill is required to observe and render the body.

The great London - based painter will not only open a major retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art this month, but also a show of landscape and figurative paintings at Paul Kasmin Gallery.

Royo (Jose Mateu San Hilario) is a Spanish Contemporary Figurative painter whose exuberant brushstroke technique achieves intense luminosity and a sense of great vitality.

«There are always good figurative painters, but tell me, when was the last time you saw a great survey of figurative painting in an American museum?»

At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art because it was abstract, not figurative.

Born in 1950, he was a student of Philip Guston, the great postwar painter who made his various shifts between figurative and abstract styles feel as consequential as the shifting of tectonic plates.

Best Modern Painters (c.1700 - present) We profile ALL the great 18th century masters of English figurative painting, like William Hogarth and Joshua Reynolds, as well as ALL the main members of the school of English landscape painting including JMW Turner, Constable and Richard Parkes Bonington.

Billy Childish is arguable the greatest living figurative painter living in Britain today.

He also purchased works by the great still - life and genre - painter Jean Chardin, the leader of the French Realists Gustave Courbet, the 19th century modernist Edouard Manet (an important link in a chain between Goya and Matisse), the Impressionist leader Claude Monet (peerless painter of light), the great figurative artist Edgar Degas, and the great colourist Henri Matisse.

These include: JMW Turner (a painter arguably 50 years ahead of his time); Claude Monet (the first revolutionary of modern painting); Ilya Repin (the first painter to capture the authentic detail of life in Russia); Picasso (for his mastery of figurative and abstract art in almost all media); Marcel Duchamp (the pioneer of Dada and Object Art, from which Conceptual Art emerged); the husband and wife team Christo and Jeanne - Claude (empaquetage, or packaging); Andy Warhol (the first and arguably greatest postmodernist); Gilbert & George (living sculptures); Damien Hirst (art's greatest self - publicist) and of course the graffiti terrorist Banksy.

I went to undergraduate school at Rhode Island College and I had great professors Sam Ames, a figurative painter, and Don Smith, an abstract painter.

I'm not in any way advocating anyone starts mimicking the spaces (or anything else) of figurative art; I am suggesting (yet again, tiresomely) that abstract painters and sculptors compare their output with the best achievements of figuration, which of course includes some great modernist art, if that's what you want to call it.