Sentences with phrase «great figure painter»

Though he is a great figure painter, he had a serious «Lolita problem,» she noted.

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

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 century.

Every 20 years or so an exhibition devoted to Florine Stettheimer, the great New York painter, Jazz Age saloniste and cult figure, shakes up modernism's orderly hierarchies.

• 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

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SMALL - GREAT OBJECTS: ANNI AND JOSEF ALBERS IN THE AMERICAS Two beloved figures among artists, an abstract painter and weaver who met at the Bauhaus in Germany, made several trips to Latin America and the American Southwest between 1935 and 1967.

But his portraits of the late 1940s and early 1950s, such as the one of Herbert Read, were not successful, and the big compositions, like Christmas Eve and Harbour Window With Two Figures, were only doubtfully so, though it is unlikely that Heron himself, a great protagonist for his own achievements as well as those of the other painters he admired (Matthew Smith, William Scott, Peter Lanyon and Roger Hilton foremost amongst the British) ever thought so.

Arshile Gorky was one of the last great Surrealist painters and a major influence on (and early figure in) Abstract Expressionism.

You may not have heard of her, but the early 20th century Swedish mystical painter Hilma af Klint has become one of the great unlikely buzz - figures of our time.

A lone figure walking beside an indigo swimming pool; a boat passing before the entrance of a cave as a great black bird swoops by; a girl dressed in white, clambering high in the branches of a vast tree on a starlit night: these are some of the strange and poetic recent subjects of the painter Peter Doig, the subject of a major exhibition at the Scottish National Gallery this summer.

He was a great painter who produced a significant body of work over six decades, until his death in 1980, but his often vitriolic personality and self - imposed outsider status — he mostly refused to sign with a gallery — meant that he has always been seen as a secondary figure.

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.

The selection of artists is suitably eclectic, ranging from the political and canonical (Bruce Nauman; Georg Baselitz), to the modish and predictable (Oscar Murillo), while also delving back in time to singular figures such as Aboriginal landscape painter Emily Kame Kngwarreye or that other great chronicler of the modern rural, Walker Evans.

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».

Landmark surveys of major figures in the history of art will include the largest display of work by Canaletto ever to be shown in Scotland, an exploration of the extraordinary impact of Rembrandt's work in Britain, only to be seen in Edinburgh, and a retrospective of the great German Expressionist painter, Emil Nolde.

Another figure to wonder about is Mary Heilmann, the great California painter — a phenomenal colorist, whose laconic work fizzes with ideas.

Clyfford Still is considered a major figure of modern art in America and one of the great abstract painters.

But above all, Claude remained a painter of nature, which was why the great John Constable (1776 - 1837)- one of the leading figures in the English School of Landscape painting - described Claude Lorrain as «the most perfect landscape painter the world ever saw».

The Bradford - born painter has been called Britain's greatest living artist and is one of the most influential cultural figures of the last 50 years.

It explores how modern and contemporary artists respond to the human figure with world - renowned works by one of the world's greatest realist painters Lucian Freud, leading sculpture Ron Mueck and American photographer Spencer Tunick.

He is also most well known as one of the best New York School of Abstract painters, for the forms, figures, and great color creation that he delivered, in the many paintings he created.

Conceived and curated with great care and attention to pictorial and historical detail by Michael David, As Carriers of Flesh is a group exhibition of works by painters whose depictions of figures operate on personal, sociocultural and broadly political levels all at once.

But while intellectually influential in his lifetime, and accepted today as one of the great abstract painters, and one of the key figures in modern art of the early 20th century, he enjoyed little commercial success during his lifetime.

The collection of American art includes works by the great 18th century history painter John Singleton Copley; the Francophile Mary Cassatt, a leading figure in the American Impressionism movement; the portraitist Gilbert Stuart; the painter of the cowboy west Frederic Remington; the wonderful 19th century realists Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins; the post-Impressionist Whistler; the virtuoso society portrait painter John Singer Sargent; the Pop - Artists Jasper Johns, Edward Ruscha, Andy Warhol, and Roy Lichtenstein; co-inventors of «Action - Painting» Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner; and the Abstract Expressionist Mark Rothko, to name but a few.

One was a painting by Clifford Still, considered by many a secondary figure but whose champions include James Demetrion, former director of the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C. Demetrion ranks the West Coast abstract painter with greats like Pollock, de Kooning, Rothko and Barnett Newman and said that Law's example, No. 3, «is one of his best.»