Sentences with phrase «of figurative art»

He was a significant representational painter and teacher and was instrumental in the revival of figurative art in the 1960s.

Two major exhibitions of figurative art will coincide with the symposium, for which a catalog will be published and available.

In this spirit the show plots a nano - tradition within the vast history of figurative art, a line of visual thinking that is still developing today.

The artist brings a combination of insight and integrity, as well as psychological and emotional force, to the genre of figurative art.

The Figure: Painting, Drawing, and Sculpture is a celebration of figurative art with a wealth of imagery displaying some of the finest examples of the genre in all mediums.

I love the colors and freedom of abstract art and the stories and associations of figurative art.

If it's meant to just be a show of 100 years of figurative art, that feels too broad.

As such, each artwork is varied within the parameters of figurative art made by painters with females as the subject.

The book attempts to address the question of how societies represent themselves through the practice of figurative art.

If you are looking to add a piece of figurative art to your collection, we have listed ten pieces that you can own right now.

Abstraction, strange as it sounds, has become a kind of figurative art.

His initial works were a combination of figurative art, classical scenes and landscapes.

The exhibition's theme is closely tied to the Academy's mission of promoting and preserving the tradition of figurative art within the contemporary art world.

28 Jul 1997 Figuration: A New Exhibition of Works from IMMA's collection An exhibition of figurative art from the Irish Museum of Modern Art's own Collection is now open to the public at IMMA.

In 2003 Adrian was offered a private painting studio and teaching position with the Los Angeles Academy of Figurative Art.

She went on to earn her M.F.A from the New York Academy of Art, Graduate School of Figurative Art in 2001.

The exhibition also connects thematically with the NYAA's mission to promote and preserve the tradition of figurative art within the context of the contemporary art world.

The drawing Unravelling by Samira Abbassy, acquired from England & Co by the British Museum, is currently included in the Museum's international touring exhibition The Human Image: Masterpieces of Figurative Art from the British Museum.

He earned his M.F.A. from the Graduate School of Figurative Art of the New York Academy of Art, and supplemented his training with several years of private study and studio apprenticeships along the east coast of the United States.

With a revival of figurative art at the end of the 20th century comes a revaluation of the cityscape.

New figuration is a blanket term referring to the revival of figurative art in Europe and America in the 1960s...

«It's perhaps the earliest example of figurative art worldwide,» says Nicholas Conard of the University of Tübingen in Germany.

Further details of figurative art identified in these last two seasons included many more corpulent clay figurines, an intriguing snail figurine, a pair of enigmatic «female torso» pendants, and a broken - up finely carved standing figure, originally almost a meter in height.

While this exhibition began somewhere between the vague boundaries of figurative art and realism, it coalesced quickly into something more personal, that is, a representation of those artists who have been foremost in my mind over the course of my own experience and personal development.

They also wanted to avoid what they saw as the traps of figurative art, which was seen as either petty - bourgeois or as Stalinist socialist realism.

Deitch sat down with Artspace's Karen Rosenberg at his Grand Street space to talk about the resurgence of figurative art, the evolving downtown art scene, and what's next for him and his gallery.

Dame Paula Rego is a legend of figurative art.

The ambivalence of these works — the need to both embrace and assault the mechanisms of figurative art — brings the artists right to the centre of their representations.

Select Group to Discover the Techniques of Figurative Art NEW YORK, NY July 21st, 2014 — Renowned figurative pain...

Amongst the many failings that would disqualify me from being an art historian is the fact that I can't see abstract painting as anything but a form of figurative art.

Prince's later paintings produced around 2007 belong to more traditional styles of figurative art.

A few years later, in 1979, David Hockney, long before he became an RA (he was elected in 1991), gave an interview to the Observer in which he lambasted the Tate Gallery, and in particular its then Director, Norman Reid, for what he saw as its culpable neglect of figurative art.

With solo exhibitions worldwide, including a retrospective at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (1994), Pettibon has become renowned as one one of the world's most significant innovators of figurative art.

He curated an exhibition for the Arts Council at the Hayward Gallery in 1976, entitled «The Human Clay» (an allusion to a line by W. H. Auden), including works by 48 London artists, such as William Roberts, Richard Carline, Colin Self and Maggi Hambling, championing the cause of figurative art at a time when abstract was dominant.

Based predominantly in Turin and Rome, they rejected the principals of figurative art and classicism, creating works from everyday materials including jute, wood, coal and even fire.

have been the subject of significant exhibitions or publications, but this is the first major volume to focus on the broader impact of figurative art to connect artists and collectives from different generations and regions of the country.»

It documents and / or restages four installations, spaces or happenings, in Chicago, San Francisco, Detroit and Providence, which were crucial to the development of figurative art in the United States.

The Figure in Contemporary Art @ Rosenfeld Porcini An impressive collection of figurative art including a totem by Huma Bhabha and the fantastic rustic detail of Nicola Samori's painting.

He does not rate his technical abilities very highly compared with the Old Masters, and perhaps his paintings are the swan song of figurative art, as video art, computer art and digital cameras revolutionize our youth, capturing their attention for hours which were once spent doodling or sketching or painting or playing ball.

Featuring renowned art critic Donald Kuspit, artist Vincent Desiderio, artists Natalie Frank and Alexi Worth, and moderated by Peter Drake, The Art of the Figure panel explores the genesis and progression of figurative art through the ages.

Melotti encapsulated a sort of «musical abstraction» in the field of the figurative arts: «Slowly music has ensnared me, disciplining me with its laws, distractions and digressions in a balanced discourse».

His sculptural installations challenge perceptions of figurative art by removing the human figure from the viewer's day - to - day experience and re-positioning it within a controlled context.

This display explores the pioneering role that painters such as Francis Bacon, Lucien Freud and David Hockney played in the reinvention of figurative art in the second half of the 20th century.

Ms. Crosby's rise has indeed dovetailed nicely with the reemergence of figurative painting in the New York art world, and the Whitney Museum, a bastion of figurative art from the Ashcan School to today, recently endorsed the artist by offering her their third Billboard Project, an enormous reproduction of the Crosby painting Before Now After (Mama, Mummy, Mamma) that currently towers over Horatio Street in the West Village.

The mingling of abstract and faintly gridded grounds with mysterious physiognomies acts as a way to line up the experiences of rigid geometric and abstract modernism with the popular symbols and narratives of figurative art history.

But trends in art, as in fashion, can be inexplicably fickle — and according to The Human Factor, a new exhibition at the Hayward Gallery in London, the pendulum swung back in the direction of figurative art during the Eighties.

The show curated by Jesper Elg with superbly tenacious efforts by Kathy Grayson (proprietor of The Hole) who coordinated the American side brought together a museum style of illustrating the remarkable versions of figurative art from both continents.