Opening: David Salle at Skarstedt Known for works that combine photography, painting, and collage techniques, David Salle is often considered one of the most
important figurative artists working today.
Considered one of the most
important figurative artists of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, Fischl's work has been the subject of numerous solo and major group exhibitions and is represented in many museums, as well as prestigious private and corporate collections.
Not exact matches
(New York, NY)-- VENUS is pleased to present Bernard Buffet: Paintings from 1956 to 1999, an exhibition of
important and historic works by the renowned late
figurative painter, who remains one of the most controversial French
artists of the 20th century.
Figurative painter Natalie Frank discusses the prize and says, «Establishing new names, new routes, new protections [for women
artists] feels more
important than ever.»
Featuring around seventy paintings spanning the entire length of her career, this handsome book accompanies a major retrospective of her work, and reveals her underlying interest in the history of photography, German painting of the 1920s, and other
artists, such as Van Gogh and Cézanne, all of which provided an
important precedent for the veracity and raw emotional intensity of her
figurative works.
This was the context in which Kitaj developed as an
artist, and although his art may be associated with the trends in
figurative painting and British pop art, the most
important influence on his art was a sense of not belonging, Diaspora, spawning an oeuvre in which symbols and references of visual, literary, historic and personal origin are brought together into colourful, narrative and complex compositions.
A major figure in both the Abstract Expressionist and American
Figurative Expressionist movements of the 1940s and 1950s, Elaine de Kooning was a prominent American painter who can easily be classified as one of the most
important female
artists of the 20th...
So those two are really
important, and then there are all of the
figurative artists that I love, because I think of myself as a
figurative painter.
Sullivan Goss - An American Gallery is proud to announce the first posthumous exhibition of painting and drawing from the Estates of Paul Wonner (1920 - 2008) and William Theophilus Brown (1919 - 2012), two
important artists of the original BAY AREA
FIGURATIVE MOVEMENT.
Philip Guston: A Life Lived catches Guston at an
important stage in his development as an
artist; late in his career in the 1970's, when he has returned to
figurative paintings that are packed with symbols, both political and autobiographical.
As a result, she has the shortest period of mature Bay Area
Figurative work out of all the
important artists.
Despite this, her time as a
figurative artist was intense and productive and provided some of the most
important works of the Movement.
This list of
important artists associated with England (mainly London) during the 18th and 19th centuries, features the two major fine arts traditions of English
Figurative Painting and English Landscape Painting.
Katz is one of the most renowned American contemporary
artists, and certainly, one of the most
important artists belonging to the
figurative art movement.
Among these are the
artist's most famous, landmark paintings — among them Pink Angels (1945), Excavation (1950), and the celebrated third Woman series (1950 — 53)-- plus in - depth presentations of all his most
important series, ranging from his
figurative paintings of the early 1940s to the breakthrough black - and - white compositions of 1948 — 49, and from the urban abstractions of the mid 1950s to the
artist's return to figuration in the 1960s, and the large gestural abstractions of the following decade.
Each winter, the New York Academy of Art stages an exhibition of work from
important contemporary
figurative artists, on a particular curatorial theme.
Rivers was an
important New York
artist who revived
figurative expressionism after the advent of Abstract Expressionism.
An
important member of the San Francisco Bay Area group of
figurative artists, Oliveira's oeuvre resists strict categorization.
Clearly, Joan Brown's vibe was still around when Margaret Kilgallen (1967 - 2001), a later San Francisco
artist important in her own right, was making
figurative paintings like «Pearl» and «Surfer Girl,» hanging out with
artist friends Chris Johanson, Barry McGee, Ruby Neri and Alicia McCarthy in the 90s.
For other
important Irish sculptors, read about the neo-classical John Hogan, the Anglo - Irish John Henry Foley, the Romantic Nationalist Oliver Sheppard, the nationalist realist Albert Power, the small - scale sculptress Rosamund Praeger, the traditional stone sculptor Seamus Murphy, the Polish - Irish sculptress Alexandra Wejchert, the contemporary steel sculptor Conor Fallon, the bird
artist Oisin Kelly, the public
artist Eamonn O'Doherty and the
figurative sculptor Rowan Gillespie.
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.
Often such works are revived precisely to give contemporary
artists the historical buttress that will burnish their reputations: thus late
figurative works by Picabia, previously seen as kitschy aberrations were first restored to critical favor in the 1980s at a time when it seemed to retrospectively offer an
important patrilineage for and contribute to the historical buttressing of the work of a then emerging David Salle.