Sentences with phrase «greatest figurative artists»

Paula Rego is one of the greatest figurative artists working today.

In honor of the art world coming to its collective senses, it's time we celebrate three of the industry's greatest figurative artists working today.

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.

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.

In the 1870s she came under the influence of French Impressionism, learning a good deal about drawing from the great figurative artist Edgar Degas in the process.

Not exact matches

Following «The Great Figure,» a six - person show held in late 2014, this sequel show, mounted in the midst of a steady market demand for figurative painting, brings together a new group of canvases by 15 sought - after artists.

I had a great conversation with American figurative artist Bo Bartlett.

Leon Kossoff is one of Britain's greatest living artists, best known for his impastoed figurative and cityscape paintings and his heavy emphasis on drawing, both as a medium itself and as an intrinsic part of his painting process.

Recent exhibitions include the artist's solo exhibition After Midnight at Jack Hanley Gallery and the group exhibitions 30th Anniversary Exhibition at Jack Hanley Gallery, Drawing Island at The Journal Gallery, Brooklyn, Horror Vacui, or The Annihilation of Space at Misako and Rosen, Tokyo, A Forest on the Edge of Time at The Pit, Los Angeles, The Great Figure Two at The Journal Gallery, Brooklyn, Imagine at Brand New Gallery, Milan, Let's Get Figurative at Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York, Tiger Tiger at Salon 94, New York, Undertonk and Friends at Undertonk, New York, Please Excuse Our Appearance at 247365, New York, and Immediate Female at Judith Charles Gallery, New York.

What makes de Kooning such a great artist may be something far more subtle, far more interior to painting itself and perhaps expressed best in his earlier works, those that are, again, often described as transitional, from figurative works of the early 40s to even abstractions such as Painting, Attic, or Excavation.

«Offers a great insight into sources of [Sasnal's] inspirations and fields of interest: painting about painting, figurative painting and portraits, the history of Poland and travel shots... The book itself is a journey full of facts and intriguing perspectives on materiality and subject matter of Sasnal's paintings and his way of deconstructing the different symptoms of current times... Jam - packed with fascinating personal stories and facts from the artist's life.

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.

Around one hundred paintings from museums worldwide tell the great story of portrait and figurative painting from the fifteenth to the late twentieth century in four broad thematic sections that offer much more than a merely chronological approach to works by a host of outstanding artists: from Raphael, Botticelli, Mantegna, Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, Dürer, Cranach, Pontormo, Rubens, Caravaggio, Van Dyck, Rembrandt, Velázquez, El Greco, Goya, Tiepolo up to the Impressionists, Manet, Van Gogh and great twentieth - century artists, such as Munch, Picasso, Matisse, Modigliani, Giacometti and Bacon.

Here, that means figurative work from canonical legends such as the late, great Louise Bourgeois will be shown alongside emerging artists and living art stars including Marlene Dumas.

In honor of the Gallery's acquisition of its first painting, Great America (1994), by the artist last year, Marshall presented the 19th annual Elson Lecture, titled The Importance of Being Figurative, on March 22, 2012.

Great Regatta is an original, large one - of - a-kind figurative painting signed by artist Lyubov Kuptsova.

Initially built around artists who emphasize the human form and figurative concerns, the gallery program embraces unparalleled craft, counter trend experimentation, New Media, and deviations into abstraction, installation - forward, and object - based works to expand the greater initiative of the program.

In another set of interactions, works by the perennially influential Philip Guston appear across three generational shifts: a Social Realist drawing of Klansmen, dated 1930, hangs amid politically progressive paintings by Jacob Lawrence (the great War Series from 1946 - 47), prints by Louis Lozowick, Hugo Gellert and Mabel Dwight, and photographs by Dorothea Lange, Margaret Bourke - White and Walker Evans; his modestly scaled abstraction, «Dial» (1956), is installed between Mark Rothko's imposing «Four Darks in Red» (1958) and Louise Bourgeois» classically phallic «Quarantania» (1941) in the galleries devoted to Abstract Expressionism; and a large, brooding, late figurative canvas of heads, shoes and eyeballs, «Cabal» (1977), turns up beside paintings by artists twenty - five to thirty years his junior, along with one from Cy Twombly, who was two years older than Guston, born in 1911, and one by Alma Thomas, who lived from 1891 to 1978.

If this intriguing exhibition doesn't add a great deal to our understanding of Doig's art, it shows that the most significant figurative artist of our time is still very much in the game.

After MoMA PS1 opened its «Greater New York» quinquennial last fall with a noticeable crop of talented young figurative artists, the website Artspace exulted: «The figure is back, baby!»

Connections to Matisse, of course, are abundant and obvious in the inhabited spaces of Diebenkorn's figurative work, especially in the strong collection of drawings on view; both artists loved to draw, and Diebenkorn, like Matisse, had a great feeling for grays, even if he worried over his lack of the French artist's long cultivation of the figure.

Because otherwise, the 20th century will end leaving two great artists: Matisse and Picasso, two figurative artists.

Most have been made since 2002 and show the artist's greater emphasis on combining the figurative with the abstract that dates from that period.

An extraordinarily fluid draftsman inspired by Ingres, Picasso, and several other artists, Gorky developed a figurative style of great refinement.

Until 1988 he worked in a figurative manner, but after a stay in Amsterdam, where he was confronted by the uncompromisingly abstract work of such artists as Barnett Newman and Lucio Fontana, he abandoned the mythological themes in his art and aimed at greater honesty, clarity and directness.

Initially built around artists who place an emphasis upon figurative concerns, the gallery program continues to expand, embracing unparalleled craft, counter trend experimentation, New Media, and deviations into abstraction, installation - forward, and object - based works to expand the greater initiative of the program.

Zeng Fanzhi (b. 1964) Number 6 in the list of the World's Top contemporary artists, Zeng Fanzhi is noted for his figurative works employing a combination of expressionism and realism, as well as his sequence of ironic Great Man paintings, which includes Lenin, Mao, and Karl Marx among others.

The colorful and luminous figurative and abstract expressionist paintings of American artist Dinah Cross James are laden with meaning and infused with great hope.

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.