Sentences with phrase «much figurative work»

So much figurative work is about not being real — the person is striking a pose, having attitude or presenting the person others want to see.

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Phillips relates the humour in that work to another, much earlier figurative alphabet Alfabeto Figurato by Giovanni Battista Bracelli (1632).

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 exhibWorks 2002 - 2009 will include an extraordinarily wide range of work, much of it overtly figurative, including major new works that have never before been exhibworks that have never before been exhibited.

In their seeming lack of the kind of detail or warmth that we associate with much of Larner's work, there is still something interestingly personified about each sculpture, which allows them to at once appear stoic and and the same time oddly figurative and thus in motion.

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.

With his predominantly figurative work Tom French is a highly regarded and much collected British artist.

These works, as with so much of Gormley's oeuvre, show the artist revitalizing the practice of figurative sculpture through his investigation of the body (often his own) as the locus of memory and transformation.

For much of the twentieth century, it nurtured a strong style of figurative surrealism, as in the works of Ivan Albright and Ed Paschke.

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.»

The Firestone gallery show overlaps with a larger retrospective of Shapiro's work on view at the National Academy Museum and School that begins with some of the Abstract Expressionist work but goes much further into the figurative work of the 1990s, which took as its subject matter women artists, Jewish identity, dance and her passion for dolls.

The artist draws freely upon the history of figurative sculpture, evoking Greek and Egyptian statuary, fertility icons, Rauschenberg's combines or the playfully sinister sculptural portraits of Marisol; indeed, the synthesis of science fiction, modernism and «pop» with the distant past underlies much of Bhabha's work as evidenced in her uncanny choice of materials.

Compared with the abstract art of Rothko or de Kooning that filled New York's galleries in the middle of the last century, Neel's figurative work seemed not so much old - fashioned as beside the point.

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.

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.

Spanning the figurative to the fantastic, the «indigenous» to the «modern», Farmer's sculptures wear their influences without apology, and I very much appreciated being encouraged to recall the inspirational early work of Mike Kelley, as well as more obscure connections to aspects of the work of Wallace Berman.

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

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.

Fitzwilliam Museum, 3 December - 21 April 2014 Although an important figure in modern British art, John Craxton RA — the subject of a major survey at the University of Cambridge's Fitzwilliam Museum — spent much of his time in Crete from the 1960s to his death in 2009, taking influence from Mediterranean light, landscape and myths for his highly graphic figurative works.

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.

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.

PAFA has the letter on display in a room with a strong sampling of Lewis's figurative work, which makes clear how much his social interests were bound up with his art at that 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.

★ Philip Guston: «A Centennial Exhibition» (through April 27) On the 100th anniversary of this Abstract Expressionism best - known apostate, this large exhibition includes one of his last abstractions but concentrates on the indelible figurative work of his last decade — the 1970s — which did so much to inspire the painters of the 1980s.

While there has been much discussion about Magritte's interest in, and use of language in his work, this exhibition seeks to highlight the evolution of his word - pictures in the context of their metaphorical function; as figurative, and even abstract gestures that stand in for conceptual tropes, forcing the recipient of the message to complete an unbridgeable gap using their imagination.

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).

Glenn Waggner's clean, trenchantly amusing, and very - much SoCal figurative work offered vast landscapes and miniature figurative elements in seascapes and urban settings.

Amrhein: Well, I was doing much more figurative - based work with canvases that had sculptural elements to them.

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.

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?

While much of Marsha's art is whimsical and expressive, the artist also does portraiture and figurative work.