Sentences with phrase «of traditional figurative painting»

[105] The Federation of British Artists hosts shows of traditional figurative painting.

It is a simple painting, which offers a subtle and ironic statement on contemporary art: these dandies, who seem to epitomize an art world obsessed with abstraction and minimalism, are themselves the subject of a traditional figurative painting.

The surprisingly cohesive body of work in Hahn's New York solo debut contends with the history of traditional figurative painting, in which female subjects possess sensuous beauty offset, generally, by a benzo - like tranquility.

It's hard to characterize the art produced in Bushwick: there are endless studios of artists producing forms of traditional figurative painting while countless others are experimenting with digital images — some older talents but mostly younger ones.

He studied at the New York Academy of Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts — both bastions of traditional figurative painting and sculpture — and he paints with his subjects arranged in frontal poses, as if for a photograph (which, since these look like paintings from photos, they probably were).

She creates a personal and contemporary fiction within her works, bringing to light issues of race and representation throughout the history of traditional figurative painting: «My work is a form of tribute, analysis and intervention: tribute out of sincere admiration for the figurative tradition; analysis, by making something vast,» the role of race in the history of figurative painting «comprehensible to both myself and to my viewers; and intervention, by positioning a woman - of - color as primary picture - maker, in whose hands the figurative tradition is refashioned.»

Not exact matches

While critical attention, market forces (not to mention political agendas) were concentrated on the newly emergent Abstract Expressionism, and Action Painting, a small group of figurative painters maintained their traditional approach to picture making.»

Pauline has exhibited her work annually in Boston since 1998 and has also continued to exhibit in Australia where she was the recipient of a coveted prize for oil painting in the prestigious national juried exhibition, The A.M.E. Bale Art Awards, known as Australia's premier awards for traditional realism and figurative art.

The exhibition is centered around the idea of renewing figurative painting by implementing traditional methodologies of classical painting with digital CGI software.

De Kooning is well known for paintings of the female figure that transcend traditional figurative and abstract categories and break up conventional aesthetic frames of reference by maximizing the expressive power of paint in line and color.

With Abstract Expressionism at the forefront of American painting, these artists, which included Richard Diebenkorn, David Park, Roland Peterson, and Wayne Thiebaud — often referred to as the Bay Area Figurative artists — explored inventive new ways to depict traditional subject matter — the figure, landscape, and still life.

She asks rhetorically: «Is figurative painting intrinsically traditional, politically conservative, and the enemy of the avant - garde?»

Unlike traditional figurative paintings in which models are used as subjects, in his paintings Klein incorporated his models as an intrinsic part of the creative process.

The cozy NEWD Art Show, on Johnson Avenue, featured the Lower East Side gallery Regina Rex, which displayed several of Hannah Barrett's playfully deviant folk - arty takes on the traditional portrait and still life; Greenpoint's 106 Green, an artist - run space showing gently noirish figurative paintings by Beijing - raised Xinyi Cheng; and Greenpoint Terminal, offering Eric Shaw's meticulous but sardonically wobbly hard - edge abstractions.

The paintings and drawings of Los Angeles artist Mark Grotjahn (born 1968) collide abstract and figurative elements into spider - webbed splinters that skew traditional perspective and dazzle the eye.

(Note that when more traditional examples of colorful figurative painting, like Keith Meyerson's, are displayed, they are most likely to be hung floor - to - ceiling, salon - style.)

Their subject matter includes all of the traditional categories within Western Art: figurative, landscape, portraiture, indoor and outdoor genre and still life paintings.

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.

Ignoring the traditional distinction between naturalistically depicted and abstracted figures, the sensuous color and bold, sinuous contours of these elusive and lyrical paintings play on the tension between figurative references and abstract forms.

There is a painting of a reclining nude in the show, which of course is a traditional subject for figurative painting, but we nicknamed this work «Billboard,» because the figure seems to command the presence of demanding a billboard all to herself.

Hahn, for the exhibition, continues her investigation with traditional concerns in her figurative painting practices while creating environments of psychological landscapes in the female mind and body.

Formal yet liquid, amorphous yet figurative, the sculptures explore notions of traditional architecture while encompassing elements of painting, stagecraft, and suggestive, open - ended narratives.

It includes figurative paintings, such as landscapes, still lifes and portraits, many of which are based on photographs, such as the series S. and Child, a personal and intimate variation on the traditional subject of the Madonna and Child.

Even those pieces that are not traditional paintings critically engage the legacy of postwar Abstract Expressionism, which eradicated figurative representation in favor of all - over gestural marks that were considered to be indexical references to the hands and psyches of the artists, who were becoming cultural icons in their own right.

In Germany, the Műlheimer Freiheit group, which Dokoupil briefly was part of, explored the contemporary expression of traditional figurative styles in intensely colourful paintings, whose roots could be found in Dada and Surrealism.

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.

Born in London and of Ghanaian descent, Lynette Yiadom - Boakye has achieved widespread acclaim for her open - ended figurative paintings depicting a cast of fictitious personae, and brimming with sly allusions to more traditional styles of portraiture.

There are probably several reasons why I turned to photography: first of all, because only this medium can hold completely unseen fragments of the world, and because its enormous popularization has turned it into the container of a visual heritage that is practically infinite, in comparison with the rigid traditional structures of the genres of figurative painting.

All of these elements - traditional figurative painting, cinema, Minimalism, Conceptual art, documentary photography - are consciously evoked and explored in Wall's work.

Renewing the figurative painting by implementing the traditional methodology of classic painting with digital CGI software.

Her figurative paintings use traditional art - historical genres (the still life, the formal portrait, depictions of classical statuary) to explore people and objects that no longer have the fixed representational or symbolic status that allowed those genres to operate.

After his last truly Futurist works — a series of paintings on war themes — Severini painted in a Synthetic Cubist mode, and by 1920 he was applying theories of classical balance based on the Golden Section to figurative subjects from the traditional commedia dell» arte.

In the wide range of art the gallery offers, subjects range from water and beach scenes, boats, landscape, flower arrangements, graphic paintings of musicians, fifties photographic paintings, birds, fish, traditional still life, figure painting, portraits and trees, covering every major contemporary figurative category and genre.

Using traditional methods as figurative painter, I am intrigued with painting the fragility and impermanence of everyday scenes.

His subjects hover between traditional figurative painting and portraiture; only about five percent of his production is true commissioned portraiture.

Their titles may be provocative — one of his new works on show here is called The Same Old Crap — but Shaw's work is as close to traditional figurative painting as the Turner Prize gets.

Like the 1916 Dada movement, they also rejected traditional modern art, including the theoretical conventions of both figurative and abstract painting.

An alumna of the New York Studio School in the 1970s, where she was mentored by influential artists including Mercedes Matter and Joan Mitchell, Pensato challenged the school's strict figurative life drawing practice and painted directly from cardboard cut - outs, dolls and photographs as a replacement for the traditional fruit of still lifes.

Co-curated by Betti - Sue Hertz of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Ruijun Shen of GuangDong Times Museum in Guangzhou, China, and Xiaoyu Weng of Kadist Art Foundation, which has offices in Paris and San Francisco, the group exhibition is also a site to bring together three public art spaces and curators around a shared interest — though not in the forms one might first associate with the concept: traditional Chinese landscape and Bay Area figurative painting.

He attended Edinburgh College of Art (B.A., 1982), and in the early part of his career he produced traditional figurative paintings on canvas.

His large - scale figurative paintings are equally as grand, ornate, and rich in symbolism as traditional portraiture; however, Wiley subverts the canon by depicting male protagonists of African descent, a demographic that has been virtually omitted from the Western painting tradition throughout the centuries.

She does not meet the usual public perception of the YBAs as she has dedicated her career to traditional figurative oil painting.

Rita Ackermann (b. 1968, Budapest) is a Hungarian - American painter renowned for subject matter that challenges and liberates traditional depictions of the female body and archetypes in figurative painting.