Other artists included in the exhibition include Paula Rego, Turner Prize nominee Lynette Yiadom - Boakye, Richard Hamilton, Maggi Hambling and many other
leading figurative artists of the last half - century.
Bacon and Moore were Britain's
leading figurative artists in the second half of the 20th century.
Friends who rose to prominence in London in the 1950s, Bacon and Freud are widely regarded as
the leading figurative artists of the 20th century.
The exhibition includes over thirty drawings of different sizes and subject matter by a selection of some of the world's
leading figurative artists.
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.
Considered one of
the leading figurative artists today, Rego draws inspiration from many sources including literature and fairy tales to create mysterious and narrative works.
An exclusive group of students will have the rare opportunity to learn from
the leading figurative artist working today.
Not exact matches
DHC / ART is delighted to present two concurrent solo exhibitions by acclaimed Belgian sculptor Berlinde De Bruyckere and American painter John Currin — two
leading international
figurative artists working in a virtuosic, old masterly tradition yet testing and expanding the parameters of their respective disciplines.
DHC / ART is delighted to present a solo exhibitions by acclaimed Belgian sculptor Berlinde De Bruyckere, a
leading international
figurative artist working in a virtuosic, old masterly tradition yet testing and expanding the parameters of their discipline.
As one of the
leading realist
artists working in the United States, William Beckman is celebrated for the intimacy and emotional power of his
figurative drawings.
The roster is chalk - full of up - and - coming
artists who seem to be
leading the pack of emerging
artists who fall under the trending category of surreal,
figurative painting and drawing.
Assael is recognized nationally as one of the
leading representational
figurative artists of his generation.
Diebenkorn, however, preferred California to the competitive New York art scene, and became a
leading artist among the Bay Area
Figurative painters.
The Waterhouse Gallery specializing in Plein - air landscape,
figurative and still life paintings by
leading California
artists.
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.
- Peter Doig1 British / Canadian
artist Peter Doig stands in a position seemingly riddled with contradictions: straddling national identities; employing a medium (photography) historically thought to
lead to the eventual disappearance of his own medium (painting); and working within a continuum of large scale
figurative and landscape oil paintings.
In the early 1980s Dokoupil emerged as a
leading champion of a new generation of international
artists who, in opposition to the minimal and conceptual art of the 1970s, rediscovered painting and the use of
figurative, expressionist images.
One of America's
leading artists, Fischl is known for his groundbreaking
figurative paintings depicting freeze - frame moments that expose the depth and complexity of human relationships and capture the universal conditions of our lives.
Led by award - winning painter and
figurative artist Andy Pankhurst, this weekend - long practical course focuses on the relationship between colours, using the Renaissance masters Titian, Dürer and Holbein as inspiration.
At the Whitney Biennial that year, the ceramics of Sterling Ruby and Shio Kusaka were featured prominently; the de Purys curated a show of
leading ceramic
artists at Venus Over Manhattan; and at major fairs like Frieze and Art Basel, galleries punctuated their presentations with pots by Dan McCarthy and Takuro Kuwata, and the
figurative sculptures of Rachel Kneebone and Klara Kristalova.
In 1999, Thomson was the co-founder, with Billy Childish of the Stuckism art group, which set out to promote
figurative painting, in opposition to conceptual art, which they identified with the Turner Prize (whose jury chairman was Sir Nicholas Serota) and the Young British
Artists, of which Tracey Emin (who had once been in a relationship with Childish) was a
leading representative.
For me, these powerful paintings also reference Gustav Klimt's decorative patterning and, among contemporary
artists, the densely layered
figurative collages of Njideka Akunyili Crosby, a Nigerian - born
artist who came to the United States at the turn of the century and received a Post-Baccalaureate certificate in 2006 from The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where William now
leads the MFA Program.
Trained originally in Abstract Expressionism, Erlebacher (along with her husband Walter) broke from this style in the late 60's and quickly became recognized as one of the
leading representational
figurative and still - life
artists in America.
Both
artists have a deep emotional connection with people which
led Jerome to pursue
figurative painting - even when it fell out of vogue - and Joel - Peter to pursue erotically charged compositions with physically deformed models - even when it was misunderstood and caused controversy.
Individual rooms feature 24 hard - edge abstract paintings, drawings and reliefs by Ellsworth Kelly; 18
figurative and abstract paintings by Gerhard Richter; 14 silkscreens on canvas by Andy Warhol (most from the crucial 1960s); 11 Photorealist
artist portraits in various media by Chuck Close; seven Agnes Martin grid and stripe paintings (installed in a heptagon - shaped room, recalling the sublime space at the Harwood Museum in Taos, N.M., where the
artist once lived); five geometrically ordered Minimalist sculptures by Carl Andre; and five monumental mixed - media paintings of a decaying German mythos by Anselm Kiefer (plus one large model airplane in
lead, an emphatically heavier - than - air machine conjuring the cruel historical weight of the failed Luftwaffe and its celebrated pilot
artist, Joseph Beuys).
Tate London's collection provides a number of the works on display from six
leading artists who revolutionised and reinvigorated
figurative painting in the later 20th century: Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, Leon Kossoff, Michael Andrews, Frank Auerbach, and R.B. Kitaj.
Artistic Director Simon Martine curates a unique exhibition of artworks by some of the
leading British
figurative artists of the 20th century from Frank Auerbach to Lucian Freud.
The Osborne Studio Gallery specialises in sporting paintings and bronzes by
leading contemporary
artists, with an emphasis on horse racing, and has additionally branched out over the years to handle the works of many respected landscape and
figurative painters.
Parafin presents the British painter Justin Mortimer, widely regarded as one of the
leading figurative painters working today, and an emblematic figure for a younger generation of
artists.
The selection traces the
artist's development as a
leading American Cubist through to his late interest in classically composed
figurative paintings.
American
artist Alex Katz (* New York 1927) is one of the
leading figurative painters of our time.
Solomon Fine Art, established in 1981, is recognised as one of Ireland's
leading contemporary art galleries and has built its outstanding reputation representing both Irish and international
artists working in both
figurative and abstract styles.
Sotheby's
led the way with a fine group of paintings by School of London
artists —
figurative painters associated with Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud during the post-war years, who combined a gritty realism with a love of thick paint.
He married his college sweetheart, raised three children and took graphic design jobs and teaching jobs to support his growing family, but he never stopped painting and today he's one of America's most admired and respected
artists, a
leading figure in the renaissance of
figurative art.
Just when abstraction started to match the complexity and variety of the content in the best
figurative painting abstract
artists turned away, seemingly needing to embrace something new,
leading to all sorts of varieties of minimalism («hollowing out?»).