Sentences with phrase «on figurative»

Both shows focus on figurative characters, creating a narrative and diaglogue between Van Arno's narrative and pop - referential figures, and Gruninger's metallic, hyperrealistic portraits.

RISD Museum's latest exhibition runs through January 4, 2015, and features artists from four distinct American regions that had a significant impact on figurative art in several mediums.

Though he did make his name in Germany with an innovative take on figurative painting in the 2000s, a time when the resurgence of this genre became über - publicized, he was never a protagonist in Neo Rauch's Leipzig school.

Two trends: a fresh new emphasis on figurative painting, and strong shows all over town, way beyond the borders of Chelsea.

So if people read your paintings as talking about consumerism or environmentalism based on the figurative forms in your work, are they simply reading too much into shapes and colors?

In 1959 New York's Museum of Modern Art mounted an exhibition called «New Images of Man,» focusing on the figurative expressionism that was an important part of the postwar scene, thanks in part to the work of Francis Bacon, Jean Dubuffet and Alberto Giacometti.

Basil Beattie's career spans the emergence in Britain, in the late 1950s, of abstract expressionism, through to his more recent emphasis on figurative signs that meld gritty northern muscularity with a voluptuous sensuality towards the painted surface.

I asked various knowledgeable people (who have in some way been involved in the school, teaching or visiting) to write on figurative topics.

Leipke's emphasis has been on figurative artworks.

The show, entitled «Human Clay», focused exclusively on figurative works of drawing and painting, and in the brochure RB Kitaj coined the phrase «School of London» to refer to the individual artists whose works were being shown.

Malcolm Leipke's work focuses on figurative paintings and drawings of intimate moments of sensual pleasure and introspection.

His idiosyncratic gradated stripes are then overlaid on the figurative image or used to create standalone abstract paintings.

Well, they remained very British despite the war, despite the victory and despite even the Swinging Sixties, continuing a concentration on the figurative, a carefulness with colour and a fascination with form which was there before the war and still continues today.

Be sure to check out booths by Galerie Flox from Dresden, focusing on realism painting and graphics; Galerie Klose contemporary tomorrow from Essen, focusing on figurative painting, sculpture and sculpture; La Galeria / Unique from Torino, exhibiting art with an interesting contemporary proactive quality; Square Rock Ltd. from London; and PontArte from Maastricht; a tailored «on - demand art gallery»; among others.

On a figurative level the body is not only fragile in a physical or anatomical perspective, but also in a political, social and personal way.

, for example, Greenbaum's multicolored shapes are layered as they take on figurative or mechanical qualities.

Ninety paintings by twenty - seven artists made up the Städel Museum's comprehensive exhibition on the figurative painting that emerged in West Germany around 1980 in the Berlin «Galerie am Moritzplatz», the studio community «Mülheimer Freiheit» in Cologne, in Düsseldorf and in Hamburg and rapidly attained international recognition.

I tried to make these really just straight - on figurative paintings — I was dimly beginning to perceive a split between trajectories of avant - garde art - making and painting, and of course I wanted to be an avant - garde artist.

His artwork centers on figurative explorations of life's survivors, the marginalized, referencing history and circumstance in the rites, rituals and expressions of our human condition.

Employing funny, sad or even personal subjects and characters, rather than a generic body of work based on digitally - influenced techniques, Dispirito's imagery concentrates on the figurative.

It embraces all postmodernist painters and sculptors who focus on figurative imagery, in order to portray the «real» rather than the ideal.

PAINTING IS NOT DEADDear Babs, I've been noticing more and more galleries focusing on figurative paintings.

A workshop in portraiture with Daniel Greene (another renowned portrait artist) furthered the emphasis on figurative work.

Hero, not on view at MINUS SPACE, but exhibited at Shafrazi, took on a figurative life of its own as a jack - o - lantern - like face with square eyes, nose and mouth.

A group show curated by Robert Zeller and Casey Gleghorn, based on The Figurative Artist's Handbook Opening reception Saturday November 18th, 7 - 10 pm Booth Gallery November 18th - January 14th 325 W. 38th St. New York, NY 10018

Abstraction is especially difficult for Chinese painters since the whole art education in China is focused on figurative representation.

Zeller was the co-curator of The New Baroque, an exhibition at Booth Gallery in NYC from November 2017 - January 2018, based on The Figurative Artist's Handbook and featured 21 of the artists included in the book and a couple of others, encompassing contemporary figure painting as well as sculpture.

Focusing on figurative works throughout the early - part of his career, Richter nonetheless held a clear interest in the abstract, producing a number of non-figurative paintings during these formative years.

He's one of the artists participating in the Nasher Sculpture Center's «Statuesque» exhibition, which focuses on figurative sculpture.

After that he focused on figurative art but it was not until 1956 that he attempted complex figurative paintings.

In the last ten years my collection has evolved from its early focus on figurative, sexually charged painting to include a conglomeration of Minimalist and Conceptual works spanning all media.

The exhibition «Family Portraits», Condo is continuing the discourse on the figurative element in painting, which is one of the fundamental aspects in the artist's oeuvre.

Grlic belongs to a new stream of Croatian painting, which focuses on the figurative in art and on the narrative potential of the painting.

The next project is about American popular culture which will focus is more on figurative painting... that will be a very fun project... especially since figurative painting is not a medium that I often work with.

Reframing our perspective on the artist's creative output, the grand special exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Basel focuses on the figurative aspect of his work in order to pioneer a new perspective on his oeuvre, which spans almost three decades.

Patrizio Di Massimo's Inside Me (2013) departs from the eponymous show's primary focus on figurative painting; but it summarises, fairly directly, the Italian painter's focus on interiority, his understanding of the self as being inside the body.

In this exhibition, explorations into abstraction sat alongside a renewed focus on the figurative - a focus that is increasingly informed by recent colour - saturated works and experiments with process.

Some would argue that as African Americans, their belief in the modernist project came at the expense of being on the wrong side of the cultural politics of the time, and an emphasis on figurative representation.

«She is a leader among a group of artists that are inspiring other artists and collectors to once again focus on figurative work in a new way.

At the National Portrait Gallery private view earlier in the evening we were welcomed by the director, who praised our stance on figurative painting, and we again handed out leaflets which were extremely well received on the whole.

A self - described «people's painter,» Andrews focused on figurative social commentary depicting the struggles, atrocities, and everyday occurrences in the world, but he was not satisfied to use art as a substitute for action.

Working in a bright palette and always with one eye on figurative forms and the other on architecture, Stokoe creates his scenes from a combination of memory, photographs and the everyday imagery.

I just Googled «figurative news» and the second result — after a Huffington Post filtered search on figurative art — was an article headlined «Jackson Pollock Explores His Figurative Side.»

The group proposed a new revolutionary aesthetic that stood apart from the mainstream which at that moment focused on the figurative.

Tillmans» abstractions, that have pushed the boundaries and definitions of the photographic form, are placed alongside his once again sharp focus on the figurative.

Here the focus is on figurative works by Smith, Chingerey, Haynes, and Barney, as well as a startling series of photographs by Jackie Black and abstract sculpture by Marianne Weil — both artists selected by Tony Oursler who was unavailable for an interview.

Vanessa Garwood, working and residing in London, creates paintings which are focused on landscapes and on the figurative.

When you work on your figurative works, do you have concrete ideas in your mind about the subjects they're supposedly based on?

The second installment of the two - part exhibition, Hammer Contemporary Collection: Part II focuses on figurative and imagistic works.

Part II, which will be on view from mid-April to August 2007, will present works in a range of media, focusing on the figurative and the imagistic.