Sentences with phrase «much figurative painting»

Today, you don't see much figurative painting with younger artists.

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Even so, we are far more likely to paint for our readers a broad range of figurative meaning by keeping close to the literal field wherein that meaning takes root and flourishes, than by dispensing with the literal, and losing it and much of the figurative to boot.

Drawing from the art - historical lineage of cubism, cartoons, figurative painting and gestural abstraction, and appropriating subjects from mythology, advertising, print culture and consumerism, Comic Future is as much about the breakdown of the human condition as it is about the absurdities which define the perils of human evolution.

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.

While the first exhibition in 2008 * focused on the iconic Estate Paintings, White Abstracts and History Paintings which established Coventry's reputation in the 1990s, Works 2002 - 2009 will include an extraordinarily wide range of work, much of it overtly figurative, including major new works that have never before been exhibited.

But if you look at a lot of this abstract painting and you put it against the history of abstraction, or you look at this figurative painting and you put it against the history of straight - up, Modernist figurative painting, a lot of these artists are not really offering anything that adds much.

Elms includes much strictly formal work such as figurative drawings and symbol - based paintings by Elijah Burgher, overly nostalgic ink drawings by Paul P., and a seemingly popular, somewhat garish installation of aluminum and silver wall sculptures by Terry Adkins.

In an unexpectedly combative interview in advance of the show's installation, he spoke to Artspace deputy editor Karen Rosenberg about what critics do or don't see in his work, whether figurative painting is having a resurgence, and why the word «political» carries so much baggage.

That depictive quality is obviously there in the light, thin lines of Mountains and Sea, but it soon disappears from subsequent paintings, then comes back with a vengeance in ’56 and» 57: the paint is very much poured on and manipulated but there's a clear figurative emphasis.

Drawing from the art - historical lineage of cubism, graffiti, cartoons, figurative painting and gestural abstraction, and appropriating subjects from mythology, advertising, print culture and consumerism, Aaron Curry's eagerly awaited survey exhibition at CAPC musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux next summer is as much about the breakdown of the human condition as it is the absurdities that define the perils of human evolution.

Curator Glen Cebulash, whose own work has beautifully deconstructed the figurative into interacting planes and color forms in both painting and collage, opines that realism «is a fascinating and slippery concept and one that confounds as much as it clarifies.»

Amongst the frequent visitors of l'Equipe during 1937 was the then figurative painter Serge Poliakoff, who borrowed much from Lacasse's abstract sketches, to deliver his first abstract painting at the gallery in 1938.

Why does figurative painting seem to have «too much baggage» to a more abstract - inclined audience, or why can it often veer into being «embarrassing»?

This subject matter — painted big and painted simple, or so they claimed — was as much about the human condition as any figurative self - portrait.

I learned early on that while most people know Barkley for his figurative paintings, he considered his practice much wider - ranging in nature, including landscapes and photography.

His unease at the loss of figurative imagery in the painting at that time with which he had so much success eventually led his own work down deeply conflicted avenues.

Around one hundred paintings from museums worldwide tell the great story of portrait and figurative painting from the fifteenth to the late twentieth century in four broad thematic sections that offer much more than a merely chronological approach to works by a host of outstanding artists: from Raphael, Botticelli, Mantegna, Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, Dürer, Cranach, Pontormo, Rubens, Caravaggio, Van Dyck, Rembrandt, Velázquez, El Greco, Goya, Tiepolo up to the Impressionists, Manet, Van Gogh and great twentieth - century artists, such as Munch, Picasso, Matisse, Modigliani, Giacometti and Bacon.

A Texas native, Parker is known for his figurative paintings of disembodied, twisted heads that ooze vivid color and recede into themselves as much as they explode outwardly into the space around them.

Cezanne communicates his struggle as an artist, that we all go through, with such candour, I felt extremely moved by the paintings, all portraits, altho I am not a figurative artist.I must say I got off on the furniture, draperies and organisation of the whole, as much as the expression in the faces.An exception is the Courtauld picture with the white clay pipe, a masterpiece if there ever was one.I breathed in the Cezannes and haven't digested them yet, except to say since the Matisse at the RA, I think this show is second to none.The Cohens were very good also, working across a large room.

Although my work doesn't look on the surface much like his, I think he taught me about using iconic signifiers and figures that I could project myself into for emotion and as an avatar in paint (like Scott McCloud describes in his amazing book, Understanding Comics, that we do as comic readers), and create figurative narrative allegories that hopefully resonate deeper than most political cartoons and relate to Goya and other art historical uses of politics and allegory as much as the imagery could relate to underground comics and contemporary worlds.

In the past few years, much attention has been paid to the popularity of abstract painting by emerging artists, with figurative or representational work being seen as limited or overburdened.

But whilst I agree with that ambition of «more abstract», I am much more ambivalent about the idea that certain things that could be done in figurative painting can not now be done in abstract painting, and that by so restricting the scope of abstract painting it will inevitably come to fulfil that ambition of «more abstract».

In contrast, much of the figurative painting shown was derived from photographic imagery.

As with so much of the artist's work, I find the hints of story in these paintings unimportant and their figurative aspects often awkward and off - putting.

Often it is much more difficult to create a figurative painting using abstract means, than to paint entirely without any subject.

Transavanguardia not only reintroduced figurative painting into the predominantly Minimalist and Conceptual scene of the period, but proposed devices like allegory and mythology as valid strategies in contemporary art discourse, much to the chagrin of the art - world establishment at the time.

Known for her artist's books, figurative paper cutouts, and large - scale paintings made on ship's sailcloth, much of Boghiguian's work fits her roving lifestyle, with sojourns to India and Europe.

Drawing from the art - historical lineage of cubism, graffiti, cartoons, figurative painting and gestural abstraction, and appropriating subjects from mythology, advertising, print culture and consumerism, Comic Future is as much about the breakdown of the human condition as it is about the absurdities that define the perils of human evolution.

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).

Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun's figurative and abstract paintings, and etchings construct a modern /» primitive» encounter, that is as much a means of inscribing a new aesthetic concept of form and space, as it is an inquiry into colonial imperialism.

The viewers will be able to find out that the world of figurative painting is so much more than what a layman may think it is, and that the ideas and techniques are plentiful.

2012 — 2013 OS, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA (solo) 2009 Museum Ludwig, Cologne 2009 Galleria Gió Marconi, Milan 2008 Portikus, Frankfurt am Main 2008 Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris 2008 LAXART, Los Angeles (GuytonWalker) 2008 Carte Blanche III: «Gedichte der Fakten «-- Arbeiten aus der Sammlung Arend und Brigitte Oetker, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany 2008 Wade Guyton and Kelley Walker, MAMbo, Bologna, Italy (solo) 2007 Friedrich Petzel Gallery New York, USA (solo) 2007 Galerie Francesca Pia, Zurich, Switzerland (solo) 2007 Wade Guyton: Objects are much more familiar, Power House, Memphis, USA (solo) 2007 Degree Zero, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles, USA 2007 DUMP, Postmodern Sculpture in the dissolved field, Nasjonalmuseet for Kunst, Arktitektur og Design, Oslo 2007 For the people of Paris, Sutton Lane, Paris, France 2007 The Lath Picture Show, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, USA 2007 Very abstract and hyper figurative, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, UK 2007 Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne, Germany (solo) 2006 Paintings, Westlondonprojects, London, UK (solo) 2006 MAMBO, (Guyton / Walker collaboration), Bologna, Italy (solo) 2006 La Salle de Bains, Wade Guyton, Lyon, France (solo) 2006 U Stencil, Hard Hat Editions, Geneva, Switzerland (solo) 2006 Color, Power & Style, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, USA (solo) 2006 Haubrokshows, Berlin, Germany (solo) 2006 Carpenter Center, Harvard University, Empire Strikes Back (GuytonWalker collaboration), Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA (solo) 2006 Casey Kaplan gallery, Pose & Sculpture (cur.

Much as I loved the Ocean Park series — and tried to envision the way Diebenkorn layered his paint — I was also encouraged by his earlier figurative work.

The Elinga, by the way, is a rather good second - rate figurative painting that deals with diffusions of light in a manner that puts paid to the pretentions of much nebulous and tiresome abstract painting — notably, for example, one of your favourites, Rothko.

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

You and I have been talking lately about how much we like Katherine Bradford's term «freedom painter» because it describes an approach to painting and does away with categories like abstract and figurative.

So if people read your paintings as talking about consumerism or environmentalism based on the figurative forms in your work, are they simply reading too much into shapes and colors?

His unique style of painting was influential in the international revival of large - scale, figurative painting that characterized much of the artistic production of this decade.

While he would naturally not object if the show was a huge success and helped revive the fortunes of figurative painting, it is unlikely that Frank Auerbach really cares very much at all, as long as his routine is not disrupted: «One has to have pretensions when one is young in order to live up to them,» he says.