Sentences with phrase «of realist artists»

Vancouver Island with About Blog A still life and figurative paintings blog run by a pair of realist artists David Gluck and Katherine Stone.

Vancouver Island with About Blog A still life and figurative paintings blog run by a pair of realist artists David Gluck and Katherine Stone.

Each generation of realist artists brings new subjects and new media to the genre.

Vancouver Island with About Blog A still life and figurative paintings blog run by a pair of realist artists David Gluck and Katherine Stone.

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They sought inspiration in the era's art, specifically the work of the photo - realists, who painted photographs in a style that is both hyperreal and at one remove from reality — evoked by the variety of reflecting surfaces seen in the film — and the op artists, who deployed contrasting visual elements to create vibrating surface tensions on a single plane.

What may be the most unpleasant dinner party of all time brings together a perfectly presentable group of middle class English friends — a politician, artists, a banker, a professor, a realist and a healer.

Look for the work of coastal artists including Royal Nebeker's mixed media watercolors, Steve McLeod's impressionist and realist scenics and Allyn Cantor's acrylics that often combine thread, fabric and leaves.

In the essay, Nochlin traces the ways the Romanticists, the Realists, the early Impressionists, and others created a vanguard of artists who broke away from salon - style work and exhibited art that provoked, both stylistically and conceptually.

Even in this case, it must be noted that certain photographs represent a private sketch group meeting in one of the women artists» homes; in the other, the model is draped; and the large group portrait, a co-operative effort by two men and two women students of Repin's, is an imaginary gathering together of all of the Russian realist's pupils, past and present, rather than a realistic studio view.

Keeping It Real Beijing artist Liu Xiaodong's expressive realist portraits, touching on some of the most vital social problems in China, have brought him respect in his home country — and a high level of visibility internationally Barbara Pollack

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

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.

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.

He finds the artist's works — like those of other «Berlin and Hamburg Realists,» as a subheading has it — to be «not that good, even as satire.»

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.

On view October 22, 2016 — January 22, 2017, this exhibition surveys the state of representational painting at the beginning of the 21st century and features approximately 40 works by 20 contemporary realist artists from throughout the United States and Canada.

As one of the leading realist artists working in the United States, William Beckman is celebrated for the intimacy and emotional power of his figurative drawings.

Porter once wrote: «The realist thinks he knows ahead of time what reality is, and the abstract artist what art is, but it is in its formality that realist art excels, and the best abstract art communicates an overwhelming sense of reality.»

Timed to celebrate Black History Month, Grenning Gallery has assembled a group show of contemporary African - American artists working in the realist mode for an exhibition that is long on the traditional portraiture for which the gallery is renowned.

These revolutionary artists attempted to take the realist lessons of Courbet and the shocking insights of early Manet one step further by depicting everyday life as subject and content for their art.

The opportunity to develop additional programming as the result of the Tooker loan allows PAFA to pursue a symposium on a group of artists, including Peter Blume, George Tooker, Ivan Albright, and other Americans who used a realist method to invent their own worlds by transforming the symbolic language of Old Master painting into a contemporary idiom.

It traces the artist's career from his «realist» scenes of 1930s New York through his Surrealist phase and — with a side bar of the «multiform» paintings — culminates in his floating blocks of color.

1958 1958 Pittsburgh Bicentennial International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh (December 5, 1958 — February 8, 1959) A propos du baroque: Jean Degottex, Marcelle Ferron, Sam Francis, Simon Hantaï, Shirley Jaffe, Marcelle Loubchansky, Joan Mitchell, Judit Reigl, Jean - Paul Riopelle, Galerie Kléber, Paris (November — December) Some Contemporary Works of Art, Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio (November 11 - December 31) American Symbolic Realists: Fifteen American Artists, Palazzo Collicola, Festival dei Due Mondi, Spoleto, Italy (June 8 — 29) 18th Annual Exhibition of the Society for Contemporary Art, Art Institute of Chicago (May 8 — June 8) The Museum and Its Friends: Twentieth - Century American Art from Collections of the Friends of the Whitney Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (April 30 — June 15) American Artists of Younger Reputation, New York Art Foundation, Rome (opened April 14) The Evocative Eye, Signa Gallery, East Hampton, New York (July 5 - 24) The International Art of a New Era: Informel and Gutai, Osaka Festival, Osaka, Japan (September 2 — 7) Action Painting, Dallas Museum of Contemporary Arts (March 5 — April 13) Abstract Impressionism, The Art Galleries, Portland Building, University of Nottingham, England (February 19 — March 19).

Reminiscent more of still life compositions, they are an exact and deliberate translation of what the artist observes in his studio, echoing his long - held conviction that «it is the honesty of the attempt to recreate the forms and spaces visually without artistic editing that is one of the hallmarks of realist painting».

«My aunt was both a Picasso person and a Matisse person,» she said, «an artist of line and an artist of color, a Cubist and a realist.

Just as 19th century American Realists shunned romanticized views of their world, the artists included in this exhibition have abandoned conventional ideals of scenic beauty to depict, in detail, unremarkable scenes of the rural landscape as they encounter it or AS IS.

Night Vision is organized chronologically beginning with landscape artists» visions of moonlight, moving to early Modernists» experimental representations of electrified evenings, and concluding with interpretations of the night by American realists and abstract artists.

His work was not just about copying and the act of appropriation: it was also an existential gesture made by a realist artist, speaking through a figurative language of his relationship to his subject matter.

The vibration of the artist's heart and his unique skills are the most valuable and exciting part of realist painting,» says Leonid Gervits.

Using the skills they acquired at the College, each artist moved beyond a realist interpretation of the landscape to create abstract forms rooted in nature and geometry.

This early contè crayon drawing is a strong addition to WCMA's collection of American art and the first major social realist work by an African - American artist before 1950.

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

And by 1964, with Race Riot, «Andy Warhol establishes himself as the most relentless of social realist and social protest artists the country has produced.»

However, «Cowboys» can be seen not only as a cynical representation of reality, but also, in the critical tradition of Conceptual art, as a piercing inquiry into the ethos of the American vernacular, and even as the existential gesture of a figurative and realist artist.

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.

What defines conservative art — an accessible artist, an academy of fine art, or a sober realist at home in one?

Due to his multilayered imagery and sharp - witted symbolism, the artist pushes the boundaries of the realist tradition.

The artists — Htein Lin, Aung Khaing, Chan Aye, Phyu Mon, Zun Ei Phyu, Thynn Lei Nwe, Myint San Myint, and Khin Thethtar Latt (Nora)-- represent multiple generations of artists who share a common interest in working on subject matter and formats outside the realist schools of art favored by the previous military governments.

He is a magic realist whose way of seeing makes most of our feted British artists look silly.

(A pendant show here, Kerry James Marshall Selects, offers a revealing glimpse of the artist's sources and inspirations: a stern portrait from the workshop of Hans Holbein, flowing figure studies by Veronese, a social - realist lithograph by his former teacher Charles Wilbert White, and a photograph of Gerhard Richter's wife, smudged with paint.)

As an artist in residence during the R&D Season: SPECULATION, Knight completed production for Fall to Earth, which takes as its point of departure themes related to socially condemned speech and other forms of silencing or restraint and includes original scores created by different collaborating artists, inspired loosely by Salman Rushdie's magical - realist novel The Satanic Verses and other texts.

Perhaps artists, like Mr. Kreimer, by exhibiting both realist and abstract works of art, are moving the subject of painting away from presentation of an image and toward the act of perception.

The exhibition also presents works in the Ateneum collection by artists who represent the realist and classicist modernism of the 1920s and 1930s, such as Ragnar Ekelund, Greta Hällfors - Sipilä, Olli Miettinen, Yrjö Ollila, Martti Ranttila, Juho Salminen and Ilmari Vuori.

Painted between 1943 and 1978 in Neel's inimitable style — half social realist, half wonky Expressionist — the paintings and drawings of her uptown friends, neighbors, colleagues and fellow travelers form a remarkable montage of the artist's life in a vibrant, multicultural 20th - century New York.

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

Recently on view at Danese Corey Gallery in New York, artist Shelley Reed's mural - sized paintings evoke the work of realist French or Dutch paintings from a bygone era — although at a slight removal given their monochromatic palettes.

His painting has set a new standard for realist art, and through his teaching at Mount Allison (1946 - 63) he has had an important impact on the development of artists such as Christopher Pratt, Mary Pratt, Tom Forrestall, and D.P. Brown.

Chicago artist Marla Friedman's recent portrait sculpture of the legendary Apollo 13 astronaut Captain James A. Lovell, Jr. follows the historic and time - honored realist tradition.

Ellen Altfest is an American artist known for her realist paintings of still life and male figures in painstaking detail.