Sentences with phrase «of figurative painting»

Exploring the revival of figurative painting in the digital age, the book presents a survey of key contemporary artists who have all embraced painting and work within a realist tradition.

But revival of figurative painting did not open the way for religious art.

The exhibition presents a solo show of figurative paintings with beach as backdrop.

At the same time, in both artist's work, the tension is maintained through their particular handling of figurative painting as their medium of choice.

Some of you will know that I have often expressed doubts about the potential of abstract painting and its ability to ever compete with the very best of figurative painting from the past.

The period between the two world wars is notable for a resurgence of figurative painting and sculpture in a wide variety of styles.

The product of this self imposed isolation is a group of figurative paintings that really affected me in a significant way.

There's a lot of figurative painting that I don't like at all.

In these works the artist combines the language of figurative painting with the formal approach of abstract painting.

I love this new trend of figurative painting now.

After college, the artist explored many aspects of figurative painting and focused mainly on portraits.

Despite the current taste for abstraction and installations, the exhibition makes a strong case for the continued relevance and variety of figurative painting.

The works explore the possibilities of figurative painting through the filters of history, legend and myth.

The main objective of figurative painting is the creation of an impression with an emphasis on the object.

And more recently, there seems to be an explosion of figurative painting shows and articles focusing on portraiture and intimacy in particular.

Did the advent of photography contribute to the disappearance of figurative painting from the history of arts?

A celebration of figurative painting from the last 100 years and the artists driven to capture human life on canvas.

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

With all these choices of figurative paintings in one gallery, it is a dream indeed.

If only he had lived another twenty years to see the revival of figurative painting, he would have fit right in.

It's too early to tell if today's resurgence of figurative painting has any longevity or merely fills a gap in the guise of a constant.

What inspired you to do a show of figurative painting and sculpture?

Sullivan Goss celebrates the opening of a landmark exhibition highlighting the grand tradition of figurative painting in American Art.

In this exhibition of figurative paintings by such notables as Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, Oliveira, at 31, was the youngest painter included.

In 1948, the young artist first visited Italy after having received the Prix de Rome; he returned in 1960 when his work was featured at the Biennale di Venezia, and again in 1970 as an artist in residence in Rome, following the harsh criticism surrounding his first exhibition of figurative paintings in New York.

During these years Griffiths» distinctive style of figurative painting in oils began to emerge.

«There are always good figurative painters, but tell me, when was the last time you saw a great survey of figurative painting in an American museum?»

A new wave of figurative paintings in recent New York exhibitions prompts critical questions about which bodies we depict, for whom and to what end.

The artist's Bent Idle series identifies most closely within the traditional practice of figurative painting.

, but Le Brun is also a much - needed chink in the chain of male painters who have built the all - too - Western canon of figurative painting.

School of London was a term invented by artist R.B. Kitaj to describe a group of London - based artists who were pursuing forms of figurative painting in the face of avant - garde approaches in the 1970s

It includes «Entr» acte,» the avant - garde film he made in 1924 with René Clair, and his contentious series of figurative paintings from the»20s,»30s and»40s.

Tim Eitel is an exceptionally gifted master of figurative painting.

[11] Since 2000, the Stuckists art group have protested against the prize; [12] in 2008, they gave out leaflets with the message «The Turner Prize is Crap», to protest at the lack of figurative paintings amongst the nominees» exhibitions.

The potential of figurative painting for intimacy and narrative emphasis, as well as thematic exploration is brought to bear in the paintings of Jaqueline Cedar.

Lucian Freud is one of the greatest exponents of figurative painting in the 20th century and the 50 works on loan to IMMA include a selection of Freud's finest paintings, as well as numerous etchings.

The complex, internecine role of community in defining artistic practice speaks to larger issues around the critical viability of figurative painting today.

Neal notes that «it is interesting that 8 Painters, comprised of all figurative painting, and timed to run concurrently with The Forever Now, offers an alternative to the mostly abstract works at MoMA.

In what seems to be a preposterous achievement of high level photorealism, the artist Yigal Ozeri has developed a unique style of figurative painting since espousing realism in early 2000.

«They add an entirely new dimension to our understanding of figurative painting in the 1960s and 1970s.»

On the occasion of his new show of figurative paintings at Jack Shainman, which alludes to the Black Lives Matter movement and the current political climate, the artist shares some frustrations about the reception of his work.

As I wandered though the various art fairs that make up Miami's art week in early December I was overwhelmed by the amount of figurative painting on view... much of if it at galleries that have rarely, if ever, exhibited such work.

For this presentation, Hahn continues to investigate the traditional concerns of figurative painting while creating environments of psychological landscapes of the female mind and body.

Heidi Hahn's paintings, which present women's interior lives, investigate the traditional concerns of figurative painting while creating environments of psychological landscapes of the female mind and body.

Anyone can see that the early Russian paintings in this show are a breathtaking escape from the old conventions of figurative painting, or that geometric art in the hands of great Latin American pioneers such as Oiticica and Lygia Pape is an escape from the ancien regime of the west, that their ecstatic floating forms are a vision of freedom.

The momentum continues as All too Human ends on an emphatically female note with the work of four contemporary artists — Celia Paul, Lynette Yiadom - Boakye, Jenny Saville and Cecily Brown — each of whom have the human form as their main focus, and who bring their explorations of figurative painting into the here and now.

Still, the show does promise to help assert the continued relevance of figurative painting in today's anything - goes, hodgepodge art world.

Absinthe at SADE LA (DTLA) September 18 — October 23 Drenching the gallery walls in a wash of «phthalo green and optical trickery,» San Francisco - based artist Chris Lux staged an environment for presenting a highly referential suite of figurative paintings.