Sentences with phrase «older figurative painters»

He adapted the norms of the modern era to the avant - garde visual standards, all the while paying tribute to the older figurative painters.

Kertess nominally shares the apartment with Billy Sullivan, a 49 - year - old figurative painter with whom he has lived for 17 years — although Sullivan maintains a separate studio in lower Manhattan and the two have a fully merged household only in East Hampton, where they spend weekends and summers.

Not exact matches

DHC / ART is delighted to present two concurrent solo exhibitions by acclaimed Belgian sculptor Berlinde De Bruyckere and American painter John Currin — two leading international figurative artists working in a virtuosic, old masterly tradition yet testing and expanding the parameters of their respective disciplines.

MB: I am sure that the painting from Cluj is associated with the term Figurative Painting, which has regained more than a fashionable status in the art world, and the «old masters» have become key reference points for many contemporary painters.

Reminiscent of old - master painting techniques (also familiar turf to painter John Currin), the figurative...

So when the easygoing, 46 - year - old painter of abstract - figurative canvases — more appreciated in the indie music and zine subcultures than by Tokyo - based curators and gallerists — was given a retrospective in August 2014, «The Great Circus,» at the prestigious Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art, an hour's train ride southeast of Tokyo, it caught Japan's art community by surprise...

Later, he was too much a figurative painter — and too old — to find a place among the Abstract Expressionists, even though their ranks included Rothko and other admirers.

Bob Thompson was an African - American figurative painter known for his bold and colorful canvases, whose compositions were appropriated from the Old Masters

The rediscovered artists range from Milton Resnick, a 78 - year - old former abstract expressionist who has moved toward figurative painting, to Judy Linn, a 47 - year - old photographer, to Jane Freilicher, a 70 - year - old landscape painter.

In the 1950s he began traveling to Europe to study the old masters, returning to work with the figurative painters Paul Georges and Fairfield Porter on Long Island.

This is hardly the first generation of figurative painters to «discover» the old masters.

She works principally in oils, and draws inspiration from a relatively wide selection of artists, including Old Masters like Caravaggio (1571 - 1610), Rubens (1577 - 1640) and Rembrandt (1606 - 69), and as well as modern expressionist figurative painters like the Viennese - born Lucien Freud (b. 1922), the mercurial Francis Bacon (1909 - 92), and the Portugese - born fantasy - artist Paula Rego (b. 1935), to name but a few.