Sentences with phrase «making figurative»

Do you see yourself as an underdog of sorts by making figurative paintings in the context of so much abstraction?

Andy Fabo, a native of Calgary, who has been making figurative paintings in Toronto for the past seven years.

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.

At Cooper I was experimenting with making both figurative and abstract paintings, and both were important to me.

For the last 25 years Jan Zakrzewski (formerly Vladimir Jan Zakrzewski) has oscillated between examining the legacy of Constructivism and making figurative paintings with conceptual overtones.

He saw that making figurative painting was basically a damned state, or an ironic state, banished from modernity.

Through this expatriate, Benton came to believe - when he returned to making figurative art - that his work ought to have a sculptural basis.

Around the mid 60s, Hanson started making figurative casts using fiberglass and vinyl.

I had been making some figurative and some abstract paintings.

But that time on the couch when I stopped making figurative paintings and I didn't know what else to do, I realized that back in the studio I wasn't going to do anything that didn't give me pleasure.

I was making figurative paintings that denounced political issues: shantytowns, poverty.

Since 2005, Price has been making figurative sculptures.

Bette Cerf Hill is a Chicago - based artist mostly known for making figurative work in acrylic on canvas and charcoal on paper.

GAIL STAVITSKYThere's actually a quote of Wesselmann's where he said, «I had to find a way of making figurative work exciting, and I certainly got an assist, a morale boost, from his presence.»

One could settle for a broader umbrella, and label him a figurative painter, yet that doesn't seem a perfect designation either: «I've been grappling with making figurative paintings in the last seven years,» he confesses.

And I've been working with my mother since I began making figurative work.

She began making figurative works that were more poetic than perfect, which caught the art world's fancy.

MATRIX 250 features the work of Los Angeles — based artist Linda Stark (b. 1956), who has been making figurative and abstract paintings with heavily built - up surfaces of paint since the late 1980s.

By making a figurative element the subject of his drawings, Berthot was challenging «modernistic notions of what is or what is not acceptable.»

Upritchard has been making figurative sculptures — primarily using wire frames covered with a polymer modeling material that is then baked and painted — since 2006.

But the idea that 40,000 years of humanity making figurative images should no longer be possible because of Donald Judd's empty boxes was, and is, ridiculous.

These works marked his rejection of making figurative art with clear references to the real world, and in particular his move away from the post-WWII Kitchen Sink group of artists who were painting ordinary scenes of everyday life.

After leaving the field of clinical psychology in the mid-1940s, Truitt began making figurative sculptures, but turned toward reduced geometric forms after visiting the Guggenheim Museum with her friend Mary Pinchot Meyer to see H.H. Arnason's exhibition «American Abstract Expressionists and Imagists» in November 1961.

I was making figurative paintings and trying to learn how to make abstract paintings: she said I had to choose.

Anthony's talk about figurative sculpture — «One of the great things about not making figurative sculpture, you are not making figures...» — is also both «wrong» and «crazy.»

The visual helped to make figurative language more concrete for students.

Ready - made figurative language word lists range from elementary to high school.

Wear your tailor made figurative language on your own semantic runway, not the linguistic hand me downs of someone else.

It's hard to divide a line — except that little painting in there, «Untitled» (1962 - 3) who owns it also asked me, «Did you ever make figurative paintings?»

«It made it seem possible that you could really make figurative sculpture, that it was still alive today.»

I don't think I could make figurative paintings specifically about a certain event.

While feeling stimulated and completely committed to the goals of non-objective painting, I also remain interested in representational work and continue to make figurative painting.

Chapter 1: Things Must be Pulverized: Abstract Expressionism Charts the move from figurative to abstract painting as the dominant style of painting (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Willem de Kooning, Barnett Newman Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko Chapter 2: Wounded Painting: Informel in Europe and Beyond Meanwhile in Europe: abstract painters immediate responses to the horrors of World War II (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Jean Dubuffet, Lucio Fontana, Viennese Aktionism, Wols Chapter 3: Post-War Figurative Painting Surveys those artists who defiantly continued to make figurative work as Abstraction was rising to dominance - including Social Realists (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Francis Bacon, Lucien Freud, Alice Neel, Pablo Picasso Chapter 4: Against Gesture - Geometric Abstraction The development of a rational, universal language of art - the opposite of the highly emotional Informel or Abstract Expressionism (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Lygia Clark, Ellsworth Kelly, Bridget Riley, Yves Klein Chapter 5: Post-Painting Part 1: After Pollock In the aftermath of Pollock's death: the early days of Pop, Minimalism and Conceptual painting in the USA (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, Cy Twombly Chapter 5: Anti Tradition - Pop Painitng How painting survives against growth of mass visual culture: photography and television - if you can't beat them, join them (1960s and 70s) Key artists discussed: Alex Katz, Roy Lichtenstein, Gerhard Richter, Andy Warhol Chapter 6: A transcendental high art: Neo Expressionism and its Discontents The continuation of figuration and expressionism in the 1970s and 80s, including many artists who have only been appreciated in later years (1970s & 80s) Key artists discussed: Georg Baselitz, Jean - Michel Basquiat, Anselm Kiefer, Julian Schnabel, Chapter 7: Post-Painting Part II: After Pop A new era in which figurative and abstract exist side by side rather than polar opposites plus painting expands beyond the canvas (late 1980s to 2000s) Key artists discussed: Tomma Abts, Mark Grotjahn, Chris Ofili, Christopher Wool Chapter 8: New Figures, Pop Romantics Post-cold war, artists use paint to create a new kind of «pop art» - primarily figurative - tackling cultural, social and political issues (1990s to now) Key artists discussed: John Currin, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, Neo Rauch, Luc Tuymans

He has always been a contrary figure, emerging in the New York scene of the 1950s at the zenith of Abstract Expressionism determined to make figurative paintings, then continuing to follow his own, more painterly path while Pop Art swept all before it in the 1960s.

In the 1950s he made figurative paintings, including many self - portraits.

Early in his career Scully made figurative work to which he still feels indebted: «To this day my paintings retain a sense of the body, and the feeling of a physical relationship with the world.»

His airy yellows and blues, his luminous greens find their shapes by expanding precisely as far as they must to make their figurative point.

«The prime mission of my art, in the beginning, and continuing still, is to make figurative art as exciting as abstract art,» he once said of his work.

First, that women should make feminine art, and second, that African American artists should make figurative and «activist» art, works that confront issues of race, inequality, injustice and the long history of violence against black people.

Meleko Mokgosi (b. 1981, Botswana) makes figurative paintings that fit together to form «chapters» in large installations that suggest stories or narratives.

Chantal Joffe RA talks about the painting process, her influences, and what it's like to make figurative art on a large scale.

In the video below, Chantal Joffe talks about the painting process, her influences, and what it's like to make figurative art on a large scale.

Instead, it includes a painter who makes figurative work, an artist whose practice has recently stretched from drawing to sculpture, and another whom the judges called «a modern fresco painter».

New York artist Carroll Dunham makes figurative paintings and sculptures that frequently draw on that uniquely American dovetailing of Surrealism and cartoon idioms, of which the late Philip Guston would be an obvious instance, resounding with a libidinous zaniness.

I was intrigued when he mentioned to someone years later, «Don't forget, I made figurative art in the 1940s.»

CR I was trying to make a figurative sculpture.

Rail: Your current show at the Drawing Center, Anxious Men, is the first time that you have made figurative work in a long while.

Both artists make figurative work that has a twist of the unusual.

You know Al, sometimes he would say, If there's space, does that make it figurative?

What we are left with is a series of abstract feelings forcefully made figurative — small precious objects that are catalysts for further images that we will never be able to visualise as they do not exist but in (y) our memory.