Sentences with phrase «known figurative art»

«It's no coincidence that this area is such a dynamic place,» he says, also citing the recent discovery — published in Nature last October — of the world's oldest known figurative art, on the neighboring island of Sulawesi.

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Al Johnson is better known for his figurative art works.

Pauline has exhibited her work annually in Boston since 1998 and has also continued to exhibit in Australia where she was the recipient of a coveted prize for oil painting in the prestigious national juried exhibition, The A.M.E. Bale Art Awards, known as Australia's premier awards for traditional realism and figurative aArt Awards, known as Australia's premier awards for traditional realism and figurative artart.

At the time, I imagined that our nonrepresentational, process - or - performance - based, and conceptual art would save Chicago from a group of artists whom I now love, the figurative surrealists — Jim Nutt, Roger Brown, Christina Ramberg, Gladys Nilsson, and Jeff Koons's teacher Ed Paschke — known as Chicago Imagists.

Composing a whimsical wintry mash up of abstract and figurative art to provide us all a rather philosophical light on the freedom of art, no matter what eye the perspective is derived from.

He established himself as a major artist of the movement in Italian figurative painting known as the Transavanguardia, a Neo-Expressionist movement that sought to re-emphasize color and representation in reaction to the Conceptual Art of the times.

1989 Figurative Work of the 50s and 60s, Vanderwoude - Tannanbaum Gallery, New York, NY Don't You Know By Now, Philippe Briet Gallery, New York, NY Ruth S. Schaffner Collection, University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA

September 27 - 28 Ann Agee, long known as a figurative ceramicist, explores the intersection of domestic space and art production, merging decorative and fine arts and playing with historical conventions of art as seen through contemporary eyes.

It focuses on the radical change of direction in the artist's career between 1930 — 1969, 50 key paintings and sculptural reliefs show how Pasmore reinvented himself as one of Britain's foremost exponents of British abstract art, having previously been known as one of its leading figurative artists.

The Columbus Museum of Art and Denver Art Museum present Mark Rothko: The Decisive Decade, 1940 — 50, a major exhibition tracing the evolution of Rothko's work from his Surrealist - influenced, figurative compositions of the early 40s to the abstract, color field paintings for which he is best known.

Yoshida, who encouraged the use of commercial and popular cultural imagery, led a group of artists who came to be known as the Imagists who distinguished themselves from the art scenes in New York and Europe with high color figurative paintings and drawings.

Stephen Pace is well known for two bodies of work: the dynamic abstract paintings he produced from 1949 to 1962 and the freely expressed figurative art, based in abstract principles...

Elizabeth Jaeger is known for evocative figurative sculptures that manipulate traditional social and art historical tropes about the female body.

1965 - 1975» depicts the energy of the cultural environment of this American city as a center for figurative production, as well as the heterogeneity of the contributions of some artists known as Chicago Imagists (Roger Brown, Ed Flood, Art Green, Gladys Nilsson, Jim Nutt, Ed Paschke, Christina Ramberg, Suellen Rocca and Karl Wirsum), who had identified the roots of their personal research in Surrealism and Art Brut, in a way that anticipated the new tendencies of the 80's and 90's, from Graffiti to Street Art, from wild cartoons to urban murals.

Asked about the difference between abstract and figurative art, she said: «Many people would like to know how to look at abstract painting because they may be used to looking at figurative painting.

Known internationally for a figurative style that typically features their signature yellow characters, thin dark red outlining, and intricately patterned designs, OSGEMEOS broke onto the art scene during the late 1980s as graffiti writers in their São Paulo neighborhood of Cambuci.

Her figurative paintings use traditional art - historical genres (the still life, the formal portrait, depictions of classical statuary) to explore people and objects that no longer have the fixed representational or symbolic status that allowed those genres to operate.

The best - known aspects of the Vogel Collection are minimal and conceptual art, but these donations also explore numerous directions of the post-minimalist period, including works of a figurative and expressionist nature.

In our globalised world, the discussion on the traditional and the modern, the conceptual and the physical, the abstract and the figurative, is no longer afierce battle on the grounds of art history.

It's a diverse lot that includes the Alturas Foundation, which funded «Makin» Hay,» the public art installation of monumental sculpture by Tim Otterness at Hardberger Park; the Harmon and Harriet Kelley Foundation for the Arts, known for one of the best collections of African American art in the country; and Claudia Huntington and Marshall Miller, who loaned SAMA large scale figurative sculpture for the show, including the piece by Chia and Polish artist Igor Mitoraj's «Sonno Screpolato (Cracked Sleep),» a bronze of a fragmented face.

Andrew Taylor is an Australian artist, known for his blending of figurative and abstract art, seen in his images of nature, especially flowers.

In collections including the Smithsonian / National Portrait Gallery, the City Museum of New York, Maine's Farnsworth Art Museum, and the Butler Museum of American Art in Ohio, Clark stands as a modern master figurative painter known for his command of composition, drawing and color, moving the continuum of art language with commitment and powArt Museum, and the Butler Museum of American Art in Ohio, Clark stands as a modern master figurative painter known for his command of composition, drawing and color, moving the continuum of art language with commitment and powArt in Ohio, Clark stands as a modern master figurative painter known for his command of composition, drawing and color, moving the continuum of art language with commitment and powart language with commitment and power.

Opening: Emma Amos at Ryan Lee Ryan Lee in this show surveys the art of Emma Amos, an artist and educator known for her vivid figurative works that explore issues of African American identity and narrative, often through the lens of both art history and popular culture.

Russeth reports that Baer spoke on her decision to leave the New York art world, her lesser known (in America) figurative paintings, her experience as a female artist, and her move away from minimal abstraction.

Elsie Driggs (1898 — July 12, 1992 in New York City) was an American painter known for her contributions to Precisionism, America's one indigenous modern - art movement before Abstract Expressionism, and for her later floral and figurative watercolors, pastels, and oils.

Known for their gutsy, fantastical approaches to figurative art, Jan Stussy (1921 - 1990) and sculptor Maxine Kim Stussy Frankel (b. 1923) were a powerhouse art couple of mid-century Los Angeles who often exhibited together.

The artist, known for figurative paintings employing patches of bright color, moved to L.A. after his wife's death in 1994 — the same year that a large exhibition of his work was seen at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Judith Stein is known for curating «The Figurative Fifties» and «I Tell My Heart: The Art of Horace Pippin,» at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1995.

But if this is figurative art then it is not as we know it, Jim.»

The ruling tendency in contemporary art is no longer figurative.

Enrico David: a figurative painter, «but,» according to Jones, this is figurative art, «not as we know it, Jim».

During the following eleven years spent in the Southwest, Locke was known for his figurative sculptures in bronze and for his series of articles on the contemporary art of the Southwest in Artspace magazine, for which he was Arizona correspondent.

A focus on American artist Mark Rothko, who believed that figurative art no longer connected us to human tragedy and that only a completely new visual language of strong feeling could wake humanity from its moral stupor.

The Bay Area Figurative Movement (also known as the Bay Area Figurative School, Bay Area Figurative Art, Bay Area Figuration, and similar variations) was a mid-20th Century art movement made up of a group of artists in the San Francisco Bay Area who abandoned working in the prevailing style of Abstract Expressionism in favor of a return to figuration in painting during the 1950s and onward into the 196Art, Bay Area Figuration, and similar variations) was a mid-20th Century art movement made up of a group of artists in the San Francisco Bay Area who abandoned working in the prevailing style of Abstract Expressionism in favor of a return to figuration in painting during the 1950s and onward into the 196art movement made up of a group of artists in the San Francisco Bay Area who abandoned working in the prevailing style of Abstract Expressionism in favor of a return to figuration in painting during the 1950s and onward into the 1960s.

Featuring 116 works, this Estorik Collection retrospective also includes Balla's less well - known figurative paintings and drawings, as well as applied art and fashion - related designs.

Known for his large - scale figurative paintings, the Montreal - based artist presents A Strange Feeling, his wrestling - tinged exhibition, which opens this Friday at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art.

The exhibition in Rostock shows newer as well as less - known works illustrating Scully's development from figurative to abstract art.

PaceWildenstein represents several of the hottest names in contemporary Chinese art: Zhang Huan, the conceptual artist and photographer who is part of an artists community outside Beijing known as the East Village, and Zhang Xiaogang, the figurative painter whose style is often called Cynical Realism.

William H. Bailey is an American artist, best known as a figurative painter whose work is in major collections, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.

He is a well known author and blogger on art marketing, has released a DVD series for artists on art marketing, and is also a landscape and figurative painter.

This American artist and art professor is well known for her figurative style of painting incorporating subjects of surrealism.

These recurring elements derive primarily from the artistic conventions of ancient Greece and Rome, which, while known primarily for figurative art, employed a set of repeated abstract forms as a common parlance.

He is arguably best known for his figurative art deco paintings with people forming homogeneous crowds in identifiable scenes, possessing featureless faces as if their identities had been swapped with those of flattened manikins.

Bartlett is best known for her paintings and prints in which familiar subjects — ranging from houses and gardens to oceans and skies — are executed in a style that combines elements of both representational and abstract art; indeed, she has commented that she does not accept a distinction between figurative and abstract art.

Paschke was known as a member of the late - 1960s Chicago Imagist movement, a group of artists who called themselves The Hairy Who, whose expressive style of figurative painting was rooted in outsider art, popular culture, and Surrealism.

An HBO documentary film, REMEMBERING THE ARTIST ROBERT DE NIRO, SR., is a portrait of the esteemed figurative painter which includes interviews with the art historians and critics, Robert Storr and Irving Sandler, and with the man who knew him best: his son.

He is known for being one of the pioneers of 20th century abstract art, as he changed his artistic direction from figurative painting to an increasingly abstract style, until he reached a point where his artistic vocabulary was reduced to simple geometric elements.

Known for working in a figurative style when others were beginning to experiment with abstraction, Neel has been hailed as an important figure in Twentieth Century art history.

Contrasting Kosuth's brand of Conceptual art with figurative painting by young artists, Kuspit observes: «With Kosuth, self - criticality, and its larger relationship to life, have become overintellectualized, overexposed; art here is no longer subversive, except perhaps to itself.

In her catalogue essay, Poddar provided partial explanation for suggestive pictorial elements in Gaitonde's abstractions by citing a specialist in South Asian art, critic Richard Bartholomew, who maintained that traditional Indian miniatures were not purely figurative, but were composed of literary and abstract elements.4 Gaitonde then might have been alluding to our necessity to «see» something in the picture, even when there is nothing objective or graphic there because, intuitively, we attempt to make sense out of unfamiliar patterns trying to connect them with what we already know.