Sentences with phrase «making figurative work»

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.»

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

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

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

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.»

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».

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.

Not exact matches

Showing work made over this expansive time period will offer an insight into Hodgkin's relationship to India while also revealing the evolution of his pictorial language — from the figurative work of the 1960s through to the dynamic, gestural style of recent years.

Each figurative work is made from different materials including resin, ash and broken glass.

The figurative artist Mark Greenwold asks why he made so many works.

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.

Known formerly for her figurative works in oil on canvas, as well as using everyday materials including biro and bleach, Saville has — since 2014 — been producing large - scale abstracts, made up of flawlessly gradating shades.

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.

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.

Referred to as «abstract figurative drawings,» by Mr. Owens, the new works are produced in ways that are «similar to the process of making photographic prints in a darkroom» but using everybody's favorite petroleum jelly, Vaseline, and everybody's favorite drug, coffee.

In an attempt to avoid the trappings of abstract and figurative art, the artists made extensive use of collage and assemblage, appropriating images and incorporating real objects into the work.

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.

His work was not just about copying and the act of appropriation: it was also an existential gesture made by a realist artist, speaking through a figurative language of his relationship to his subject matter.

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

Hidden amongst the items on the wooden tables are two sculptural works — the first is Thomas» first sculpture, a broken, lumpy, vaguely figurative work, the other is a hand that Sandra made herself.

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».

In these figurative works, Channer questions established hierarchies within the history of art, objects and clothing, and offers a unique perspective on manufacturing, the hand - made and consumer culture.

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.

German Witch joins the ICA's important collection of art made by women, enriching the museum's strength in figurative works and expanding the holdings with a major work on paper.

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

With them he promptly takes his place among a group of recent talented young painters who also make witchy figurative work with vivid color and wobbly compositions charged with psychological spirituality.

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 Excavation.

Willem de Kooning caused controversy with his monstrous «Woman» series, for despite his active mark - making, figurative work had been taboo since the ascendency of pure abstraction.

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.

Somber, figurative works made at a time when Pop Art and Minimalism were the main focuses of the art world, the Black Paintings preface Spero's radical career.

His photographic works are made without the use of a camera, instead producing images, both figurative and abstract, with handmade «negatives.»

Unsurprisingly, his biggest influences are painters who worked with figurative representation but nevertheless made strange images (Stegner calls it «weird figuration»): Balthus, Otto Dix, and Alice Neel among them.

Cornelia Parker RA has installed a beautifully elegant room of work made in black and white; there are moving displays of work by Alan Davie RA and John Bellany RA who died this year, and there is a kind of humanist room curated by Eileen Cooper RA, which displays lots of deeply - felt figurative work.

Evidently, his works with collaged canvas — like his experiments in the mid -»50s with abstract paper collage — would feed into his turn to figurative collage - making in 1963.

Kusama has continually made abstract, minimalist, and suggestively figurative work that is deeply rooted in a profound emotional and psychic condition.

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.

Yossifor's 2010 show at Galerie Anita Beckers in Frankfurt, Germany, featuring figurative work made during her residency at Frankfurter Kunstverein and in large part as an exploration of her deeply felt connection to German Expressionist painting, was her last body of identifiably figurative work.

Olitski began making etchings in 1956, working in both abstract and figurative modes.

For the first time Hauser & Wirth presents 2D work of Thomas Houseago, the British born artist who is renowned for his raw, massive, figurative sculptures made of so called lo - fi materials such as plaster and plywood.

His assemblages were made of steel and metal, which was a U-turn in comparison to previous figurative clay work.

Throughout my career I have made work that has tended toward the whimsical... I am drawn to figurative work, enjoying the spirit expressing outward through human, cat and bird bodies, and even through the spirited vessel.

Maybe it's a strange quirk of mine, but too many narrative signifiers in figurative work tend to make me uncomfortable, so I like to strip mine down as much as possible.

After several years assembling hanging installations of two - sided figurative paintings, Mastrangelo has recently returned to wall - mounted work in a series of impressive figurative collages made by adhering shapes of brightly patterned fabrics to fiberglass scrim with acrylic binders.

Opening Sunday, March 2 at PARTICIPANT INC, New York is «The Years Made Flies,» a culmination of Luther Price's larger than life figurative work made between 1982 - 1Made Flies,» a culmination of Luther Price's larger than life figurative work made between 1982 - 1made between 1982 - 1985.

The book is a beauty... There is, throughout Ms. Jones's essay and the book as a whole, voluminous documentation of work by major artists who still rarely figure in most histories of American postwar art, like Betye Saar, who made intricate figurative drawings on covered glass windows; Senga Nengundi, who was conjuring unusual forms from sand and pantyhose before Ernesto Neto was even a teenager; and John Outterbridge, whose multifarious assemblages took on a gamut of styles.

My work has become compositionally relational in terms of color, mark making, and the overall placement, and my figurative work has become proportional and compelling.

I'm a fan of his later works, when he retreated upstate and made fun, painterly - figurative canvasses throughout the 1970s.