Sentences with phrase «master figurative works»

This collection of contemporary and master figurative works is pretty much as good as it gets as far as group shows are concerned.

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Over 300 pages illustrated with Zeller's own exquisite drawings and paintings as well as works by nearly 100 historical and contemporary figurative art masters, the book includes some of the finest figurative art of the past and the present day.

(1910 - 1962) American, yet imbued with visual culture of Europe, Franz Kline exemplifies the development of pictorial language from a figurative form that derives from Rembrandt and the other great masters whose work he knew well from visiting European museums, to abstraction.

Works from the 20th century masters Marcel Duchamp and Joseph Cornell give the exhibition both a literal and figurative historical context.

WHAT IT IS: $ 627,000 AIM: To foster contemporary figurative art, as in the style of the late Russia master painter Arkady Plastov ELIGIBILITY: Any contemporary artist working in the figurative style.

Already quite of reputable figure with a handsome international following as an illustrator of comics and graphic novels (under the name Rebecca Guay), Leveille is now recognized as a formidable figurative painter, whose works show «a distinct influence from the great Renaissance masters revamped with a fresh dosage of contemporary cleanliness and edge».

Strongly influenced by the work of the abstract expressionists and the romantic light of the old masters, Rayer - Smith's large oil and acrylic paintings effortlessly fuse abstraction, the figurative and the surreal.

The show will examine his understanding of form and light in the composition of formal portraits, still lifes and figurative works that celebrate the sensual quality of nature and the human body.The works relate strongly to the museum's permanent collection of fine art that includes portraits from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Dutch old master still lifes and studies of the nude and human figure, a staple of western art dating back to the classical forms of Greek sculpture.

In the 1950s he began traveling to Europe to study the old masters, returning to work with the figurative painters Paul Georges and Fairfield Porter on Long Island.

The Figurative Pollock examines the different phases in Pollock's early work: his training in his teacher Thomas Hart Benton's Regionalism as well as his study of the monuments of art history — El Greco, Michelangelo, Rembrandt, and the masters of Italian Baroque.

The coloured works of the 1980s, both figurative paintings and still lives enter into a dialogue with the history of art and master painters.

Paricio weaves art historical narratives throughout his figurative work by appropriating themes and configurations of old and modern masters.

After Foundations, working from the live model is a crucial skill that figurative artists need to master.

Taking and reinventing classicist and old masters paintings as principal elements and focal points for his work in this show, he uses angular forms inspired by and abstracted from his historical outdoor use of the alphabet to compliment the figurative work that he pays homage to and slices - up in equal measure.

«He is a master of representational and figurative painting, refined during the time when neither was popular,» she says, «and he has created a body of work that recognizes beauty and gives dignity to all of his subjects.»

Again, African - American artists are very much on the agenda: deceptively naive paintings by former slave Bill Traylor, who died in 1949, feature at Betty Cuningham ($ 50,000 - $ 140,000), while Donald Morris shows Bob Thompson, who was inspired by European Old Masters to produce boldly coloured figurative paintings (nine of 13 works sold on first day, $ 125,000 - $ 250,000).

She works principally in oils, and draws inspiration from a relatively wide selection of artists, including Old Masters like Caravaggio (1571 - 1610), Rubens (1577 - 1640) and Rembrandt (1606 - 69), and as well as modern expressionist figurative painters like the Viennese - born Lucien Freud (b. 1922), the mercurial Francis Bacon (1909 - 92), and the Portugese - born fantasy - artist Paula Rego (b. 1935), to name but a few.

Applying old master painting techniques to his works on canvas, the artist depicts hyper - realistic figurative imagery in portraits, landscapes, and still lifes.

George Condo appeared on the international art scene in the early 1980s with a series of phony old - master paintings, works that borrowed from canonized techniques to render disfigured portraits, subsuming the apparently contradictory tendencies of the moment: a resurgence of figurative painting and a predominant critical discourse on appropriation.

His works is voluptuous and charnel; he is the master of capturing form and beauty with his portrait and figurative work.

Melcarth's works resembles both those of Renaissance masters and 20th - century figurative painters like Thomas Hart Benton.

Although a master of both landscape and figurative works, Tomás O'Maoldomhnaigh is chiefly noted for his portrait art, which forms the basis of his thriving practice.

A stunning survey of an American master: Richard Diebenkorn's abstract and figurative works perfectly capture the luminous beauty of the landscapes in which he painted, along with compelling vignettes of mid-twentieth-century Californian life.