Sentences with phrase «inspiring figurative paintings»

For about a decade, Clare Rojas was renowned for her folk art - inspired figurative paintings exploring gender relations punctuated by quilt - like patterning.

Not exact matches

Tim Eitel (b. 1971, Leonburg, Germany) conveys a deep command of color, technique, and form in his figurative paintings inspired by his observations of contemporary life and art history.

Often zigging when the established art world zagged, Wiley began creating large, unctuous paintings inspired by the Abstract Expressionist and Bay Area Figuration movements of the time, only to swiftly move away from them in the late»60s to develop his cartoonish figurative style, which waned in popularity as Minimalist and Conceptual art became fashionable.

What inspired you to do a show of figurative painting and sculpture?

Artist Martha Rosler presents her previously unpublished conversation with Golub at the New Museum, New York in 1984 and artist Kiki Smith pays a personal tribute to Golub's inspiring commitment to figurative painting.

The Symbolist paintings of 19th - century French artist Henri Fantin - Latour, sentiments of queer culture, and hints of Rococo, Film Noir, and the theatricality of Caravaggio have inspired the New York artist's new figurative paintings.

Turner Prize nominated artist Lynette Yiadom - Boakye (b. 1977) known for her striking figurative paintings of imagined characters, selects works inspired by nature from the V - A-C collection.

His paintings, which veer from the figurative to the abstract, often star a mythical black superhero called Captain Shit, inspired by the Marvel comics.

The sculpture is a translation of Katz's signature style of large, glamorous, figurative paintings of close ups of people's faces inspired by television, cinema and billboard images.

At Victoria Miro's Mayfair space, nine new figurative paintings by Bas are inspired by the mythos of varsity life.

One aspect of early renaissance painting that I found inspiring was the use of repeating decorative elements in the backgrounds of the large figurative paintings.

Inspired by Kelly, Clark left his earlier figurative practice, and experimented with biomorphic hard - edge painting.

Barbara Thumm, from Berlin, brings early paintings by Jo Baer: Who remembers that an artist associated with geometric abstraction, once did, and is now again doing, big, Surrealist - inspired figurative things?

He created figurative paintings that drew on a vast iconographic repertoire, often inspired by everyday life, and abstract works with a powerful symbolic value, sometimes created by chance through reactions between paint and other products.

Taking and reinventing classicist and old masters paintings as principal elements and focal points for his work in this show, he uses angular forms inspired by and abstracted from his historical outdoor use of the alphabet to compliment the figurative work that he pays homage to and slices - up in equal measure.

Again, African - American artists are very much on the agenda: deceptively naive paintings by former slave Bill Traylor, who died in 1949, feature at Betty Cuningham ($ 50,000 - $ 140,000), while Donald Morris shows Bob Thompson, who was inspired by European Old Masters to produce boldly coloured figurative paintings (nine of 13 works sold on first day, $ 125,000 - $ 250,000).

Opening: Orion Martin at Bodega For the 2016 Whitney Museum exhibition «Flatlands,» which focused on a certain strain of slick figurative painting that has been making the gallery rounds over the past five years, Orion Martin showed work that exhibited a graphic approach inspired equally by Pop art and commercial kitsch.

Judith Linhares luminous oil paintings and works on paper have inspired a generation of younger figurative painters.

Inspired by Nicolas de Staël's abstract landscape paintings, Chu abandoned figurative painting and adopted a unique style using bold strokes of colour which evoked Chinese calligraphy.

To kick off the exhibition in the right tone, a classical concert and two artist talks on the process accompany the exhibition presenting figurative abstract paintings inspired by classical and recorded jazz improvisational music selected by Moverman.

Through portraiture, landscapes and still lifes, Calderara depicted the people, scenes and objects of his native Italy — all suffused by a delicate, misty light inspired by the atmospheric glow of Lake Orta in Vacciago, where the artist moved in 1934 with his wife Carmela, and where he would work for most of his life.By the mid-1950s, Calderara began to move away from figurative painting to embrace a more geometric approach, radically reducing both the scale and the compositional elements of his paintings through use of simple forms and flat blocks of nebulous and subtle colour.

Inspired by early American figurative painting, Mequitta Ahuja's huge portraits critique and engage the tradition of painting and the greater art historical canon.

Later works include exuberantly satirical works of the 1960s, many featuring the vaguely autobiographical figure described by critic and artist Anne Doran as a «nattily dressed and deeply ridiculous Everyman in mad pursuit of liberty, poetry, and sex»; the pornography - inspired «X-Rated Paintings» of the early 1970s; the «Noun» paintings of the same period (each depicting a single everyday object against a bright, patterned background); the schematic, figurative canvases made in homage to Copley's Surrealist idol Francis Picabia; and the story cycles and morality tales from the 1980s and 90s, including a painting from the installation project The Tomb of the UnknoPaintings» of the early 1970s; the «Noun» paintings of the same period (each depicting a single everyday object against a bright, patterned background); the schematic, figurative canvases made in homage to Copley's Surrealist idol Francis Picabia; and the story cycles and morality tales from the 1980s and 90s, including a painting from the installation project The Tomb of the Unknopaintings of the same period (each depicting a single everyday object against a bright, patterned background); the schematic, figurative canvases made in homage to Copley's Surrealist idol Francis Picabia; and the story cycles and morality tales from the 1980s and 90s, including a painting from the installation project The Tomb of the Unknown Whore.

Chia incorporated Italian Mannerism, Cubism, Futurism and Fauvism in his narrative religious works; Paladino composed large mythological pictures with both geometric and figurative motifs; Cucchi produced romantic scenes of giants and mountains, inspired by Surrealism, and incorporated the use of extra items, made from metal or clay, in his painted works; Clemente was noted for his self - portraiture and intimate figurative works.

Following her marriage to a stone last summer, the honeymoon phase continues for Emin this spring in «Stone Love» (a title is inspired by the David Bowie song «Soul Love»), which spans neons, bronze sculptures, and embroidery, and a significant return to expressionist figurative paintings.

In the 1920s he began painting figurative and abstract works inspired by Post Impressionism and Cubism.

Exploring achievements far beyond his reputation as a leading illustrator and teacher, this exhibition spans evocative landscapes firmly rooted in the Neo-Romantic tradition, exotic subject matter inspired by international travel, figurative work including portraits of young men, book illustrations, posters and lithographs, and ambitious late work that sought a new context for history painting.