Sentences with phrase «many photorealists»

Standing before a 40 - foot - wide photorealist painting of a cloud - studded skyscape, prime ministers Brian Mulroney of Canada and Gro Harlem Brundtland of Norway pledged that their countries will slow fossil fuel use and forgive some Third World debt, allowing developing countries to grow in a sustainable way.

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.

If Vija Celmins was Pop, wasn't she at the same time a budding photorealist?

Usually when people are becoming familiar with my work, I ask them to spend some time on my Website (RobbiFirestone.com) and really get to know my work, because I'm not a photorealist or classical realism artist.

M: It appears that, in recent years, Davis Cone has considerably advanced the genre of Photorealist painting.

Unveiled with the Odyssey Gala on Friday, November 7, this exhibition will highlight one of the finest photorealist collections in the United States, based in New Orleans, featuring over 75 works.

Alongside significant early works such as Me, Jesus and the Children (2001 — 2003)-- a photorealist painting of the artist's chest, overlaid with cartoon cherubs and floating speech bubbles — the exhibition features paintings from Colen's long - running «Gum» and «Trash» series.

But whereas the Precisionists celebrated the man - made as an expression of humanity's ability to create a perfect world, the Photorealists reacted against both Abstract Expressionism's rejection of realism and Pop Art's sendup of commercialism.

If you never imagined a mesmerized audience staring at a descendent of Malevich with the «how does he do it» look in their eyes usually reserved for photorealists, get down and see this nearly sold - out show.click here: www.huffingtonpost.com

Ms. Flack enjoys the distinction of being the first photorealist painter whose work was purchased by the Museum of Modern Art for its permanent collection.

Considering how many nineteenth - century photographers struggled to give their images the handcrafted look of paintings, Sheeler's demonstration that he could do the exact opposite speaks directly to Precisionism's technocentric view of the modern world, and prefigured the Photorealist painters of the 1960s.

Rod Penner, a Texas - based photorealist, is currently showing a selection of his painstakingly crafted paintings of small town Texas at Ameringer McEnery Yohe in New York.

The fair has become more up - to - date than it used to be, with solo shows by established contemporaries like the photorealist painter of suburban ennui Robert Bechtle, at Gladstone, whose booth happily turns out to be opposite Fraenkel's, where there is a similarly moody selection of photographs of residential development in the American West by Robert Adams.

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.

Here are Jasper Johns» Three Flags (1958), and Phil (1969), Chuck Close's blown - up photorealist portrait of the composer Philip Glass, and groundbreaking sculptures by Eva Hesse, Nam June Paik and others.

With «Richard Estes: Painting New York,» its survey of a pioneering photorealist, the Museum of Arts and Design has mounted the first painting show in its 60 - year history.

McIntire will present vibrant enamel paintings with photorealist pop art, and abstract roots.

But in the show, Estes comes across as less of a photorealist than a realist, period, in the mold of Edward Hopper, George Bellows, and Charles Sheeler; he just happens to use photographs more than drawings.

Known for her photorealist paintings and representational sculpture, Audrey Flack has had her art shown in such renowned institutions as the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

A pioneer in the male - dominated field of photorealism, in 1966 Flack was the first photorealist to have work acquired by MoMA and one of the first women to be included — along with Mary Cassatt — in the seminal art history textbook, H.W. Janson's «History of Art.»

In the early 1960s, Richter began to create large - scale photorealist copies of black - and - white photographs rendered in a range of grays, and innovated a blurred effect (sometimes deemed «photographic impressionism») in which portions of his compositions appear smeared or softened — paradoxically reproducing photographic effects and revealing his painterly hand.

The issue should be obvious: Presenting Estes (or any photorealist) as a «consummate artisan,» in Adamson's words, emphasizes the gee - whiz, how - did - he - do - that aspect of his technique, as if photorealism were merely a quest for verisimilitude.

Works by the Swiss photorealist artist are exceedingly rare and the present work is the most important work ever to appear at auction.

SEE / / Richard Hickam: Perpetual Pilgrim Richard Hickam started his career in the late 1960s, heavily influenced by the emerging photorealist painting style.

His just opened show at Mark Moore Gallery includes stunning examples of his large - scale photorealist / abstract images, as well as a new series of small - scale works made with some interesting materials.

Charles Bell was an American Photorealist and Hyperrealist painter, known for his large scale still lifes arranged in imaginary scenes and dynamic compositions.

Whilst realistic, it has more spirit than photorealist paintings, with objects and backgrounds blurred in a style akin to that used by old masters.

If a proper formalist needed a photorealist, one could always have Chuck Close, whose skill makes illusion itself the subject.

The artist frequently works from gridded photographic stills, using the principles of pixilation to create large - scale monochrome and color paintings that range from photorealist to mildly psychedelic.

More photorealist paintings of young African (African American, Brazilian, or otherwise) men set against ornately patterned, Louis Quatorze - meets - Louis Vuitton backgrounds.

Her style, all planes and angles, is certainly not photorealist.

A large portrait of the former Director of the NPG Sandy Nairne by the US Photorealist artist Chuck Close has been unveiled.

For his recent series of work entitled Easy Fun - Ethereal, Jeff Koons employs new computer technology to merge populist icons into desktop collages, which he then transforms into traditional oil paintings rendered with photorealist precision.

Fairfield Porter, Lois Dodd, Neal Welliver, Alex Katz, and others took a flat and more painterly approach to their subjects, while a decade later a wave of photorealists pushed the tradition of realism to an opposite extreme.

And, unlike past Photorealists, Head does not reveal a single moment frozen in time.

The collection of drawings is particularly known for Marion Mahony Griffin's renderings, but it also includes fine examples of master drawings by 16th - century Italian artists such as Parmigianino and Francesco Vanni, and a remarkable grouping of photorealist watercolors by Ralph Goings, John Salt and others.

Interview with Alan Michael, Phillips, Brad, Hunter And Cook, Toronto, issue 7, Fall, p.2 - 7 Roelstraete, Dieter, «Modernism, Postmodernism and Gleam: On the Photorealist Work Ethic», AFTERALL, London, issue 24, Summer, p5.

The best ones, like ones by photorealist master Richard Estes, emphasize and call into question what it means to actually «see» something.

There are deep dives into the work of pop icon Andy Warhol, photorealist Gerhard Richter, photographer Chuck Close, and sculptors Richard Serra, and Alexander Calder, to name a few.

One can not reduce the lush abstractions and loving photorealist portraiture of Gerhard Richter, the visceral lead prop pieces and rusted steel of Richard Serra, or the joyful Mickey Mouse and later brushstrokes of Roy Lichtenstein to parody.

A pioneer of the Photorealist movement in the late 1960s, along with Malcolm Morley, Audrey Flack, Chuck Close and others, Mr. Estes is among the few who remained true to the movement's tenets and maintained a consistently high level of achievement in a prolonged career.

Artist Eric Zener (b. 1966, Astoria, Oregon) is an American photorealist artist best known for figure paintings of lone subjects, often in or about swimming pools.

John Updike took up the same cause 25 years later: «In the heyday of Abstract Expressionism, the scorn was simple gallery politics; but resistance to Wyeth remains curiously stiff in an art world that has no trouble making room for Photorealists like Richard Estes and Philip Pearlstein and graduates of commercial art like Wayne Thibauld, Andy Warhol, and for that matter, Edward Hopper.»

Avoiding the brand - name flashiness embraced by 1960s Pop and the slick urban scenes introduced at that time by the Photorealists, the artists in Lifelike investigate the quieter side of the quotidian, choosing potentially overlooked items or moments as subject matter: a paper bag, an eraser, an apple core, a waiting room, an afternoon nap.

This installment of the New Work series presents recent compositions by leading photorealist painter Robert Bechtle — 32 years after the San Francisco — born artist's first exhibition at SFMOMA.

Ms. Minter, whose lush photorealist paintings comment on glamour and decadence, said, «Jay - Z speaks to the times we live in.»

The exhibition was dominated by such American Photorealists as Ralph Goings, Chuck Close, Don Eddy, Robert Bechtle and Richard McLean; but it included such influential European artists as Domenico Gnoli, Gerhard Richter, Konrad Klapheck, and Roland Delcol (fr).

Fence (P13), a print published in 2015, is based on the artist's 2008 painting Zaun (Fence), and is a stunning example of his photorealist work.

She was the first photorealist painter to have work purchased by the Museum of Modern Art.

In the early 1960s, Richter began to create large - scale photorealist copies of black - and - white photographs rendered in a range of grays, and innovated a blurred effect (sometimes deemed «photographic impressionism») in which portions of his compositions appear smeared or softened - paradoxically reproducing photographic effects and revealing his painterly hand.