Sentences with phrase «made photorealist paintings»

Edging toward banality themselves, John Baldessari and Ed Ruscha immortalized their local gas stations in the mid -»60s and Vija Celmins made photorealist paintings of catastrophic imagery pulled from the news, shortly after Warhol debuted his own «death and disaster» series.

Not exact matches

Tompkins was an important figure in the photorealist movement of the 1970's but largely overlooked due to the fact that she was a woman making large - scale paintings of heterosexual intercourse, imagery that until then had been reserved for male artists and viewers.

Alongside his celebrated abstractions, early black - and - white paintings and the photorealist depictions of candles, skulls and clouds that have become indisputable icons of modern painting, Panorama includes nearly 30 new paintings made over the past ten years, extensive comparative works, studio photographs, archival images and a substantial interview with the artist conducted by Nicholas Serota.

American artist Chuck Close rose as a prominent Photorealist painter, who made his name with huge, billboard - sized paintings of himself and his friends, reproduced from photographs in painstaking detail, seen in the minutely detailed texture of the skin and hair of his subjects.

Photorealists, Exhibit A Gallery, Savannah College of Art and Design, Georgia, October 2 — November 25, 1997 Allegory to the Portrait: Changing Faces, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, New York, September 21, 1997 — January 4, 1998 Project Painting, Basilico Fine Arts and Lehmann Maupin, New York, September 11 — October 11, 1997 (Catalogue) Views from Abroad: European Perspectives on American Art 3: American Realities, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, July 10 — October 5, 1997 (Catalogue) Thirty - Five Years at Crown Point Press: Making Prints, Doing Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., June 8 — September 1, 1997.

He made his name as a photorealist, then as a pioneer of «New Expressionism», a movement which the great American critic Clement Greenberg described as «a tendency to make art, especially in painting, that's ugly.

After receiving his MFA from Yale, Close gained recognition in the 1970s for his massive - scale portraits which were painted using a photorealist style, making them nearly indistinguishable from their photographic equivalent.

Why is observation important to your painting, and why not just use a photograph like the photorealist or make still lifes from memory like along the lines of William Bailey?