William Goodridge Roberts (1904 - 1974), well - known Canadian artist of landscape, still - life and
human figure painting, attended the École des beaux - arts in Montreal (1923 - 1925) and the Art Students» League in New York (1927 - 1929).
Her experience as a clinical psychologist practicing psychotherapy from a contemporary psychoanalytic perspective for over 25 years reflects an enduring passion and respect for personal idiosyncrasy that characterizes her early portrait work, the more recent and abstract, life - size
human figure paintings, and now, her turn to the reservoir of personal experience within.
KYLE CHAYKA: Your solo show at Hansel and Gretel gallery, as well as your studio today, is full of super brushy, expressive
human figures painted on rectangular paper.
Not exact matches
Assuming the letter you've received doesn't
paint the whole picture for you, calling this number will be well worth it as talking to a person not only helps you understand the nuances of the situation but there's comfort in knowing that a
human being with a name and a face at the IRS is there to help you
figure things out.
If the
human is the final
figure to be
painted in, and therefore in some sense special or climactic, this is very much understated (v. 23).
Her destination is Delicado Shelter, one of some 300 shallow caves in the region known for
paintings of
human figures, deer, canines, felines, birds, rabbits, snakes, and other desert animals.
There was a story, too, for an even more obscure
painting, one with symbols that looked like atomic radiation warnings (flowers, to Mellaart's eyes), little triangles floating nearby (butterflies), and four forklike
figures arranged in a cross (
humans with outstretched arms).
btw thank you for your comment on my
painting... It representing a mythological
figure (a water fairy) I was trying to make it a part of surroundings... and make the colours more watery and less warm and
human like, I don't know how to explain it ha ha...
The result truly feels like Van Gogh's
paintings come to life, in which real - life
human figures inhabit the world as Van Gogh saw it.
In the highlands of Scotland, a scientific expedition led by Elizabeth Shaw (Noomi Rapace) and her significant other Charlie Holloway (Logan Marshall - Green) discover a long - lost cave where an over -30,000-year-old
painting shows a tall
human - like
figure pointing toward a specific set of stars.
The church of San Andres Xecul has an unusual dome
painted in colorful stripes, but the highlight is the bright yellow facade, on which some 200
painted sculptures of
human figures, angels, monkeys, fruit, corn and quetzal birds.
While images of St. Sebastian were often an excuse to
paint the
human figure, not all martyred Saints were this «elegant».
Although the keyhole operates as a flat shape — rather than a portal, or hole into another space — this motif, when it becomes a surrogate for the
human figure, introduces spatial depth in Manister's
paintings for the first time.
Created over the course of three years from 2012 through 2014, in collaboration with a community of artisans in Rajasthan, India, the large 2 - pole structures (each measuring some 10» x 18» x 12» high) transform MASS MoCA's signature Building 5 gallery into a kind of tent village, inhabited by
painted human figures both supine and in motion, and emblematic symbols and signs both obvious and arcane.
Freud's adherence to realism and focus on the
human figure, when abstraction and other progressive forms of practice were more prolific, moved him in and out of the spotlight until the 1980's when renewed international interest in
painting and figuration gave his work a new significance.
Deprived of the
human figure, his aim was to remove any obstacle between the
painting and the viewer, using the shimmering color to prepossess the one's visual field.
If the
paintings conjured a massive presence, I thought at the time, the language of modeling would operate as an authority
figure attempting to bind the more wildly associative or grotesque imagery, usually referring to the
human body.
Viewers can also look forward to new names and exciting artist discoveries, including video artist, Becky James; the
painted assemblages of Annelie McKenzie; comical ceramicist John DeFazio; New York - based sculptor, Max Heiges»
human size steel forms and furniture; and cookie caricature artist Rebecca Levitan, who sculpts cult
figures» faces into edible treats.
By the late 1950s, when Kinley
painted Red, White and Black and other pared down palette - knifed abstractions of landscape with subliminal suggestions of the
human figure, the Vienna - born, St. Martin's - trained painter had already enjoyed two solo exhibitions at Gimpel Fils, London.
Biggers» Haute Mess (2014) and Cave's Soundsuit (2013) are critically necessary, for their chaotic relation between antique quilt fragments and spray
paint — traditional patterns and the
human figure — refusing the subject - object dichotomy.
De Kooning never abandoned the
human form, Pollock sought (and failed) to reappropriate it after his signature drip
paintings, and Gorky's abstractions, those lyrical elisions of biomorphic shape and washy veils of pigment, are nothing if not
figure painting by other means.
His two recent
paintings, Patches of Color, Three Hands, and a Partition Line (2015) and A Lot of Dark Blue Legs and Patch of Color (2015), are covered in multiple layers of pastel blues and purples that reveal only certain body parts of
human figures.
As his career progressed he became increasingly hermetic, focusing the subjects of his
paintings on a constellation of cultural
figures and their contributions that paralleled his own explorations of the
human condition.
In lush evocations of the female form, such as Nude — Elbow on Knee (above),
painted in 1961, he continued many of the pictorial innovations of his previous series, but set them within an intimate portrayal of the
human figure.
At the same time, her almost decorative technique of making
human and animal
figures components of formal composition, through the arrangement, or insertion, of color fields within the pictorial space, credits Kudo as an aspiring successor of the modernist formal
painting championed by Matisse»
His
paintings portray the
human figure encoded in bio-morphic forms and gestural marks, and typically use a restricted palette.
«Rob Zeller's debut book on drawing and
painting the
human figure promises to be the most definitive on the subject in decades.
In «Sublimation: Ancestral Patterns,» the
painting with the clearest presence of
human figures is Les Trois Danseuses — Homage to Berber.
John Hartley Much as David Levinthal's War Games series depicts combat through staged photographs of toy soldiers, the Fort Worth - based Hartley draws from his interest in toy collecting and the
human figure to create oil
paintings that explore militaristic, religious and social themes.
Single oil
paintings: Man with Dog, 1953, Study After Velazquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X, 1953, Two
Figures, 1953, Study for a Portrait, 1957, Study of the
Human Body, 1982.
The canvases range from a few feet tall to roughly
human height; in preliminary drawings for the
paintings Richter sketched
human figures alongside the layouts of some of the works, indicating the meticulousness with which the scale of the works was devised.
His graphic works of self - portraits, portraits of old lovers, and depictions of the
human figure produce the same grotesque and expressive natures as those seen in his
paintings.
During the 10 - year period on which this exhibition focuses — from 1971 to 1981 — Ramberg's radical, enigmatic, and accomplished
paintings moved towards increasing abstraction of the
human figure.
Diebenkorn often said how much he owed to European
painting and the debt is acknowledged here, in the second room of the show, in big works depicting
human figures framed in landscape — on a terrace, at a window — or secluded in shady interiors, in placid unanimity with their surroundings, sunken - eyed, reading, or lost in contemplation.
But not long ago, when I spent a long summer in Europe, looking at
paintings in museums and people on the streets, I realized how much I miss the
figure, how much I look for
human interactions when I look at
paintings.
This well - documented work brings to life a «collector of souls» whose passion for
painting the
human figure at a time when abstraction was the rage resulted in years of financial hardship and obscurity.
The image is surrealistic, despite the fact, that the
human - dog
figure is not visually unsettling, a frequently used theme evident in other surrealist
paintings such as Leonora Carrington's «Recital of Dreams» (c. 1930) and Max Ernst's «Attirement of the Bride» (1940).
In subsequent years his brushstrokes became larger, he
painted nature and made use of toys he described as «archetypes of the
human figure».
Much as David Levinthal's War Games series depicts combat through staged photographs of toy soldiers, the Fort Worth - based Hartley draws from his interest in toy collecting and the
human figure to create oil
paintings that explore militaristic, religious and social themes.
This exhibition explores Lichtenstein's treatment of the
human figure in works that proceed from his iconic cartoon
paintings from the»60s.
His meticulously
painted sculptures of vegetables and the
human figure are notable because they create an uncanny illusion of reality.
Mr. Faragasso is the author of the well - known and often referenced books, The Student's Guide To
Painting and Mastering Drawing the
Human Figure from Life, Memory, Imagination.
The works in the exhibition demonstrate Hockney's longstanding dedication to
painting and to depicting the
human figure.
Siskin and Fly are continuations, on a more intimate scale, of her recent large
paintings inspired by English birds, in which she gives her
human figures feathered collars but few other defining accessories.
Other highlights of the exhibition include her Neverland series from 2002, where she photographed objects, either alone or in groups, on fields of color;
Figure Drawings from 1988 - 2008, featuring an installation of 40 framed images of the human figure; Objects of Desire from 1983 - 1989, where she made collages of found photographs and rephotographed them against bright background of red, blue, green, yellow, and black; Renaissance Paintings from 1991, featuring individual figures and objects from disparate Renaissance paintings isolated and re-photographed against monochrome backgrounds; Doubleworld from 1995, where the artist transitioned from collaging and re-photographing found images to creating stylized arrangements for the camera; Stills from 1980, where the artist compiled and re-photographed over 70 clippings of press photos that capture people falling or jumping off tall buildings; Available Light from 2012, incorporating many of her techniques utilized over the course of her career; and Modern History from 1979, in which she has re-photographed the front page of the newspaper with the text red
Figure Drawings from 1988 - 2008, featuring an installation of 40 framed images of the
human figure; Objects of Desire from 1983 - 1989, where she made collages of found photographs and rephotographed them against bright background of red, blue, green, yellow, and black; Renaissance Paintings from 1991, featuring individual figures and objects from disparate Renaissance paintings isolated and re-photographed against monochrome backgrounds; Doubleworld from 1995, where the artist transitioned from collaging and re-photographing found images to creating stylized arrangements for the camera; Stills from 1980, where the artist compiled and re-photographed over 70 clippings of press photos that capture people falling or jumping off tall buildings; Available Light from 2012, incorporating many of her techniques utilized over the course of her career; and Modern History from 1979, in which she has re-photographed the front page of the newspaper with the text red
figure; Objects of Desire from 1983 - 1989, where she made collages of found photographs and rephotographed them against bright background of red, blue, green, yellow, and black; Renaissance
Paintings from 1991, featuring individual figures and objects from disparate Renaissance paintings isolated and re-photographed against monochrome backgrounds; Doubleworld from 1995, where the artist transitioned from collaging and re-photographing found images to creating stylized arrangements for the camera; Stills from 1980, where the artist compiled and re-photographed over 70 clippings of press photos that capture people falling or jumping off tall buildings; Available Light from 2012, incorporating many of her techniques utilized over the course of her career; and Modern History from 1979, in which she has re-photographed the front page of the newspaper with the text
Paintings from 1991, featuring individual
figures and objects from disparate Renaissance
paintings isolated and re-photographed against monochrome backgrounds; Doubleworld from 1995, where the artist transitioned from collaging and re-photographing found images to creating stylized arrangements for the camera; Stills from 1980, where the artist compiled and re-photographed over 70 clippings of press photos that capture people falling or jumping off tall buildings; Available Light from 2012, incorporating many of her techniques utilized over the course of her career; and Modern History from 1979, in which she has re-photographed the front page of the newspaper with the text
paintings isolated and re-photographed against monochrome backgrounds; Doubleworld from 1995, where the artist transitioned from collaging and re-photographing found images to creating stylized arrangements for the camera; Stills from 1980, where the artist compiled and re-photographed over 70 clippings of press photos that capture people falling or jumping off tall buildings; Available Light from 2012, incorporating many of her techniques utilized over the course of her career; and Modern History from 1979, in which she has re-photographed the front page of the newspaper with the text redacted.
She focused her studies on the
human figure during her education at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, through the mediums of
painting, printmaking and sculpture, always with the goal of further understanding humanity and herself.
This exhibition focuses on Lichtenstein's diverse treatment of the
human figure in works that proceed from his iconic cartoon
paintings from the»60s.
David Hockney: Some New
Painting (and Photography) at 508 West 25th Street features works that demonstrate Hockney's longstanding dedication to painting and to depicting the human
Painting (and Photography) at 508 West 25th Street features works that demonstrate Hockney's longstanding dedication to
painting and to depicting the human
painting and to depicting the
human figure.
Through sculpture,
painting, drawing or collage, the artists chosen for this show share a consistent interest in addressing the
human figure, each with a distinct style and motivation.
Since the late 1970s the inverted
human figure has predominated in Baselitz's
paintings.