Sentences with phrase «making figurative paintings»

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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?»

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.

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.

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

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.

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

The idea was to make figurative painting look new and to try and work with what you're seeing.

Not exact matches

While critical attention, market forces (not to mention political agendas) were concentrated on the newly emergent Abstract Expressionism, and Action Painting, a small group of figurative painters maintained their traditional approach to picture making.»

AR: I was taught the rudiments of figurative painting and drawing in a tightly designed course made up of classes.

Even earlier works like Fable II and Rite, both from 1957, earn their titles by the nonspecific figurative connotations of their bunched shapes; it would take only a little bit of further manipulation to turn those forms into the kind of stylized figures found in the paintings that Jan Müller was making around this time, or Bob Thompson just a little later.

Sometime in 1940 Rothko makes his last figurative painting, then experiments with Surrealism, and eventually does away entirely with any figural suggestion in his paintings, abstracting them further and paring them down to indeterminate shapes floating in fields of color - Multiforms as they were called by others - which were greatly influenced by Milton Avery's style of painting.

How to make sense of a show of painterly, figurative art in 2016 is part of the fun when taking in On Painting.

Unlike his figurative work, these paintings are larger in scale and made using a much different technique, utilizing a broom to paint and later flooding the surfaces with chlorine and water.

As figurative painting made a comeback in the late»80s and»90s, a younger generation of artists began to see Katz with new appreciation.

Kramer didn't seem interested that Guston had painted figurative murals for a couple of decades before working in abstraction, and he made no connections between the new work and the old.

The display will include works that span his long and productive career, from the figurative paintings of the 1940s to the Perspex square reliefs he made in his later years, which will be displayed across the ground floor of the gallery.

They included David Butler (1898 - 1997), who fashioned animals, angels and people from cut and painted tin and other found items; the religious painter Sister Gertrude Morgan (1900 - 1980); Steve Ashby (1904 - 1980), who made raw figurative assemblages out of scavenged materials; and Elijah Pierce (1892 - 1984), whose carved and painted wood reliefs depict biblical scenes and national figures like the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr..

Although a critical force within the group, the artist's contributions to Memphis — in the form of graphic patterns — were only a small segment of her career; as the ICA show makes clear, Du Pasquier is a multifaceted artist, and she became particularly interested in abstract and figurative painting.

From early figurative paintings, through collages and video installations, to her radical work in dance and performance, Ms. Schneemann has consistently — insistently — made the personal political, bridging divides between eras and cultures, even species.

He was making these little signs, these masks, these figurative paintings, then he started making rainbows.

Four years later, his father hanged himself; Guston discovered the body and subsequently sought solace by hiding in a cupboard lit by a naked bulb, the image of which would become a prevailing motif in the oddly disquieting, figurative, often autobiographical paintings he began to make in his fifties.

Sly and obliquely, but also unmistakably, another Hockney show currently available in London, this time at Annely Juda Fine Art, the artist's regular dealer, casts doubt on the proposition the Royal Academy exhibition of his recent portraits seems determined to put forward, which is that nothing can match a figurative painting made when directly confronting the subject, with no technology to modify -LSB-...]

But I still had this desire to do a really strong show on new figurative painting, and I just adapted it to this commercial situation — a show that's supported by making sales, which we do in this sector.

Eric Fischl made his reputation in the 1980s with large - scale figurative oil paintings depicting ambiguous, erotically charged scenarios set in the American suburbs.

«Figures had to be situated solidly in [their] environment» and a chair is an extremely effective visual anchor (J. Bishop, «Making Matisse His Own: Richard Diebenkorn's Early Abstractions and Figurative Paintings,» in J. Bishop & K. Rothkopf, Matisse / Diebenkorn, exh.

Wanting to be free, he made a radical transition to figurative work, creating cartoonish paintings that he's arguably most famous for.

Standout artists in the show include Tomashi Jackson, who uses Josef Albers's 1963 text Interaction of Color to explore the history of racial segregation in her painterly assemblages; David Shrobe, who creates surreal portraits by combining his figurative paintings and drawings with found materials; and Kennedy Yanko, who makes abstract sculptures by blending rubbery skins of poured paint and crumpled paper with bits of marble and scrap metal.

But like Elmer Bischoff and David Park, with whom he made the turn to figurative painting a few years later, Diebenkorn was asking questions that abstract expressionism couldn't always answer, even though, as the early works in the show at the Royal Academy (until 7 June) suggest, he was a loyal and talented disciple: the LA Times described him as «one of the most gifted artists in the American non-objective field».

Selected new exhibitions feature contemporary abstraction, narrative installation, figurative paintings and conceptual print making.

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.

The Nashville - born, New York - based artist plays with our ever - shifting opinions and perceptions of reality in optical, textural paintings made with flashe and gesso and undulating figurative sculptures — squashed heads, couples jogging — made in foam with such precision that Sayer's hand is almost imperceptible.

For me, to get past gestural painting, I have to reconsider what it means to use figurative elements or still life or landscape to make an image.

He marked the shift with his first foray into figurative paintings, which made up half of the eight works in the exhibition.

Marlene Dumas makes expressive figurative oil paintings and watercolor drawings that explore the multiple dimensions of love, beauty, the body, and sexuality.

Gary Hume is known for figurative and abstract paintings on aluminum panels, which often feature startling color combinations made with paints purchased premixed from a hardware store.

What makes de Kooning such a great artist may be something far more subtle, far more interior to painting itself and perhaps expressed best in his earlier works, those that are, again, often described as transitional, from figurative works of the early 40s to even abstractions such as Painting, Attic, or Excpainting itself and perhaps expressed best in his earlier works, those that are, again, often described as transitional, from figurative works of the early 40s to even abstractions such as Painting, Attic, or ExcPainting, Attic, or Excavation.

MG From the outset, but especially in the 1980s and 1990s, Polke would always make paintings that were abstract but contained figurative images.

Jenny Scobel makes portraits or figurative paintings of children and women that blend a scene of innocent - like faces with images that suggest an underlying dark or disturbing story.

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

«This exhibition proposes an alternate history of figurative painting, sculpture, and vernacular image - making from the 1960 to the present that has been largely over-looked and undervalued,» Nadel writes in the accompanying catalogue, published by D.A.P.