Sentences with phrase «of a realist painter»

For example, in 1960 a group of realist painters wrote a letter complaining that the museum was incorporating too much abstraction into its painting annual; other groups advocated for the museum to establish a day of free admission, or called out the lack of representation for female artists and artists of color.

«FRÉDÉRIC BAZILLE AND THE BIRTH OF IMPRESSIONISM» In a strong year for the National Gallery of Art, the standout show was this nearly complete summation of the life of a realist painter who shared a studio with Monet and was on his way to greatness when he died, at 28, in the Franco - Prussian War.

The ARC Salon is an international exhibition of the work of realist painters including award winners Ben Bauer, Rachel Bess, Daniel Bilmes, Candice Bohannon, Alex Callaway, Leslie Fornalik, Zoey Frank, David Gluck, Amanda Grieve, and Steven J. Levin.

It's not in Tate's interests to garland a standout candidate in a traditional medium — remember last year's defeat of realist painter George Shaw by installationist Martin Boyce?

Henry Tanner, the son of a Methodist bishop and student of realist painter Thomas Eakins, was included in its debut exhibition.

Rendering the depths, textures, shadows and highlights of draped fabric is a test of a realist painter's skill.

Many of the realist painters were formalists.

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The contemporary realist oil painter has traveled a broad portion of the world, from his childhood home of Tanzania to the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, where he received his bachelor's degree in fine arts.

The first monograph on this highly talented American realist painter, an heir to the Brandywine school of artists.

The epiphany of this retrospective is that it debunks the myth of Richter as two artists — the abstract painter and the photo - realist.

Although these sound like the fighting words of a hardcore abstract artist, Matthiasdottir was a realist painter who, like all significant artists working in this mode, reinvented it.

Sean Mahan is a social realist figurative painter who works with graphite and acrylic washes on wood to depict a sense of wonder about the innate warmth of the human character and its conflict with structures of power and control.

Each canvas is a faithful replica of a well - known 19th - century New York area landscape painting, recreated by Simeon Lagodich, a contemporary American realist painter who resides in New York City and the Hudson Valley.

In the April 1999 issue of American Artist magazine the contemporary realist painter Jack Beal is quoted as saying about his commissioned portraits, «I tell my clients that when my portrait of them is finished, they will hate it — and their spouse will hate it even more.

Works by David Siqueiros, a political, radical - minded Mexican social realist painter, and an adversary of Rivera, who was best known for his large fresco murals, are also included in the collection.

Being from Dallas myself, I was never exposed to a lot of these great contemporary realist painters in high school or even at my first university.

The first comprehensive survey of the beloved figurative realist painter Fairfield Porter to be published in more than two decades.

«I'm an academic realist painter, but I'm living in the 21st century, so I'm not going to be painting Roman soldiers invading, or some gothic baroque composition... The highest aspiration of an academic realist painter are these big group figure paintings, and I'm using the hardcore scene as my subject.»

Cartoonist Peter Duggan records the moment John Constable helped French realist painter Gustave Courbet name one of his most famous works

One of the truly great «realist» painters, of the twentieth - century Gregory Gillespie, will be on view at Forum Gallery in New York City.

An American social realist painter, Moses Soyer expressed loyalty to the shapes of nature and aversion to the abstractions of art to the very end of his life.

Catherine Murphy is an established American realist painter who has been creating depictions of objects, people and spaces for over 40 years.

Three formidable realist painters — two of them well - known modern artists and a third who's currently active in the East End art...

These include his award - winning documentary on American realist painter Edward Hopper, Hopper's Silence (1981) and videos of his early performance works, The Structural Plays (1967 — 70).

The exhibition begins with the artist's earliest drawings, made in Los Angeles while studying at Otis College of Art and Design under the legendary social realist painter Charles White.

Yost has said,» Seeing and literally touching the paintings of the greatest realist painters, I have been able to closely study the various techniques of paint application.

As a perceptual, realist painter, I am committed to the tradition and rigorous practice of working only from observation.

Other strengths of the twentieth - century collection include: sixty works by members of the Ash Can School; significant representation by early modernists such as Alfred Maurer, Marsden Hartley, John Marin, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Max Weber; important examples by the Precisionists Charles Demuth, Charles Sheeler, Preston Dickinson and Ralston Crawford; a good showing by the American Scene painters Charles Burchfield and Edward Hopper; a broad spectrum of work by the Social Realists Ben Shahn, Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence and Jack Levine; and ambitious examples of Regionalist painting by Grant Wood, John Steuart Curry and Thomas Hart Benton, notably the latter's celebrated five - panel mural, The Arts of Life in America (1932).

Think of Ed Paschke, the great American painter who died in 2004, was a formalist in wolf's clothing, or the most abstract of Photo Realists.

Clive Head is widely considered one of the leading realist painters of his generation.

William Bailey September 15 - October 29, 2000 On view at the Ulrich are four prints by internationally respected realist painter and educator William Bailey, Kingman Brewster Professor of Art Emeritus at Yale University School of Art.

The artist, who died in 2011, was possibly the greatest realist painter of his time.

He also hoped, at the age of thirty - one, to establish his own reputation as a realist painter.

Join Jessica May, Chief Curator, for a talk about the work of Philip Pearlstein, the realist painter famous for his casual yet powerful figures.

Yingzhao Liu is one of China's best known realist painters.

Trained as a social realist painter and muralist, she came to the United States in 1984 to attend the University of California, San Diego, where she received her MFA.

Acknowledged as the most important realist painters of 20th - century, Edward Hopper's visions of reality was a selective one.

Like Francis Bacon, though, it pleased Hodgkin to refer to himself as a figurative painter; and, as with Bacon's suggestion that his own smeared agonies were realist, Hodgkin's use of the term figurative seemed to most viewers of these sumptuously coloured abstractions nothing more than a tease.

One train of thought defines the British painter Edward Burra as a satirist and connects him to the production of the German artist Otto Dix, while the other views him as a social realist due to his sharp and distorting eye of the human nature, and landscape.

Three formidable realist painters — two of them well - known modern artists and a third who's currently active in the East End art community — bring the great outdoors into the inviting llle Arts gallery space in a summer show that prompts a happy response.

21 Oct 2016 07 Jan 2018 IMMA Collection Freud Project, 2016 — 2021 IMMA has secured a significant five - year loan of 50 works by one of the greatest realist painters of the 20th century, Lucian Freud (1922 - 2011).

It won't be until late August that we begin to see the first of Etherington's curated shows in Santa Fe; right now the gallery is honoring prior commitments including to Santa Fe painter Christopher Benson having his first solo show of realist canvases, reminiscent of Fairfield Porter.

Next he studied at the Art Students League, where he studied with a number of painters, including the stylish realist Guy Pène du Bois.

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

The gift also includes an important set of drawings, photographs and ephemera pertaining to the local 19th - century realist painter, Thomas Eakins, whom Dietrich greatly admired.

Moffett is the author of several books, including; volumes on Jules Olitski, [5] Fairfield Porter «A Realist Painter in the Age of Abstraction» (co-authored John Ashberryamong others to accompany the 1983 retrospective exhibition of Porter's work Moffett organized at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts of the American realist's work)[6][7] and Morris Louis.

73 x 36 x 1 inches oil on canvas photo realist painter Joe Richards painted functional objects, such as locomotives, cranes and anchors, in which he found beauty because of their...

Although often overlooked in contemporary art, Welsh - born realist painter Sylvia Sleigh (1916 — 2010) became an important part of New York's feminist art scene in the 1960s and beyond.

Designers like Donald Deskey, Gilbert Rohde and Russel Wright experimented with new materials, including aluminum, bakelite, cork and linoleum while painters such as Burgoyne Diller, Charles Biederman and Werner Drewes redefined an American aesthetic that challenged the predominant representational imagery of the social realists like Ben Shahn, Thomas Hart Benton and Raphael Soyer.

The reference of all the images is the 1885 portrait of Saint Fabiola by the French realist painter Jean - Jacques Henner.