• For details of
other figurative painters, see: Irish Artists: Paintings and Biographies.
In New York during the 1950s, resisting the dominant abstractionism of the time, Katz associated with
other figurative painters, among them Larry Rivers and Fairfield Porter.
Yuskavage rose to prominence around the same time as
other figurative painters such as Elizabeth Peyton and John Currin, who were similarly refreshing the genre with their own singular visions.
Working in New York City during the 1950s, Katz rejected abstraction, which was dominant at the time, and associated with
other figurative painters.
Rockwell was working at a time when he and
other figurative painters like Andrew Wyeth were criticized for their predilection for visual storytelling.
Müller is often grouped with
other figurative painters from the 1950s including Fairfield Porter and Bob Thompson - painters who married abstract expressionist technique and earlier influences, most notably the Nabis.
Not exact matches
Jim Morphesis, a
painter of expressionistic
figurative works, also based in Los Angeles, continues to use oils in his signature palette, including cadmium reds, although he knows chronic exposure to cadmium can lead to kidney damage and
other problems.
One of the foremost American
figurative painters of the twentieth century, Neel is known for her portraits of family, friends, and neighbors as well as the writers, poets, and
other cultural and political figures she encountered in a career spanning the 1920s to the 1980s.
They included David Butler (1898 - 1997), who fashioned animals, angels and people from cut and painted tin and
other found items; the religious
painter Sister Gertrude Morgan (1900 - 1980); Steve Ashby (1904 - 1980), who made raw
figurative assemblages out of scavenged materials; and Elijah Pierce (1892 - 1984), whose carved and painted wood reliefs depict biblical scenes and national figures like the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr..
I thought it would be interesting to put them in a context with several
other generations of contemporary
figurative painters, who are continuing to do vital work and are changing with the times.
Probably no
other twentieth - century American
figurative painter developed as singular a style as Alice Neel.
And he was doing it with the kind of deeply seductive, gutsy painterliness that, say, Philip Guston, that
other abstract - turned -
figurative painter — and upstate New Yorker — wasn't.
Sotheby's started the evening's
other 38 lots with the 2012 painting «Drown,» by the young Nigerian - born
figurative painter Njideka Akunyili Crosby, who earlier this year was the subject of a one - woman show at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Fla..
One of the foremost American
figurative painters of the twentieth century, Neel is known for her portraits of family, friends, neighbors, and locals as well as writers, poets, and
other cultural and political figures.
Even today, if you wanted to be a young
figurative painter you may be discouraged because there's some
other new movement that seems more compelling.
He defined himself as a
figurative artist who went through Abstract Expressionism, Geometric Abstraction and a number of
other styles of painting, but who had always been a
figurative painter because his greatest interest was in people.
The Houston - based
figurative painter's solo show was inspired by Vance's current living situation, a 4 - plex apartment building shared by three
other single women who can often hear each
other through the thin walls.
She was overlooked for decades, but has steadily gained a posthumous reputation as an important
figurative painter and a kind of precursor to Pop art, among
other art historical strands.
Since Mr. Niles has made a leap forward with this body of work, one can imagine that among his seeker - protectors are artists like Kerry James Marshall or Mr. Niles's mentor, Eric Fischl — and that Mr. Niles might soon join the ranks of
other notable
figurative painters.
As a founding member of Chicago's famed Hairy Who (a group of
figurative painters often subsumed under the banner of the Chicago Imagists whose ranks also include Karl Wirsum and Suellen Rocca among
others), Nilsson is hardly unknown, but these 12 «monumentally - scaled» paintings made between 1984 and ’87 represent a selection of her later work that often goes unremarked upon in favor of focusing on her output from the 1960s.
With
Figurative VS Abstract, Melody Saraniti underscores the inevitable conversation between both camps by inviting
painters whose work exists mainly on one side or the
other, and then asking those artists to invite their inspirations from across the aisle.
Is it any wonder, then, that many younger American
painters and sculptors have long abandoned the bygone absolutisms of Minimalism on one hand and Hyper - Realism on the
other and are making works today that hover in a hard to define space that might be called Abstract Figuration or
Figurative Abstraction?»
The intense color and sunlight of the west coast, along with the influence of the Society of Six, Bay Area
Figurative painters, and
other contemporary northern California artists, gives her art its singular character.
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.
«They weren't doing this as a hobby,» Garrels reflects as he sits on a bench on the fourth floor, which is divided between
figurative and abstract art by Warhol, portraitist Chuck Close, abstract expressionist
painters Joan Mitchell, Phillip Guston and
others.
Compared to
other current
figurative painters like Marlene Dumas and Tracey Emin, she is clearly a superior
painter.
Lee Plato Smith, a gifted
painter and textile artist who studied with David Park, Richard Diebenkorn and
other masters of the Bay Area
Figurative School, has died.
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other figurative landscape
painters, see: Irish Artists: Paintings and Biographies.
Painter, illustrator, graphic designer and graffiti artist, Rems 182's imagery unites violence, eroticism, and strength in both large - scale and smaller portraits characterised by a use of multiple perspectives that create a unique softness in each image that allows the various expressions to complement each
other while revealing the complexities of human emotion Having a background as a graffiti writer his work combines both letter - based and complex
figurative images, or as the artist himself explains: «I fuse my graffiti writer language with my modern
figurative art experience in perennial tension towards abstract disaggregation.»
But this
other group of Fairfield Porter and Alex Katz and Jane Freilicher: it seemed to me that they were
figurative painters or realist
painters who didn't want to set - up in opposition to non-objective art, but — they were not opposed to this direction — but they wanted a space or a room for themselves.
Like
other photo - based
painters, such as Gerhard Richter, Marlene Dumas and Luc Tuymans, Kahrs» methodology deals with
figurative subject matter overlaid with a haze of ambiguity.
A
figurative painter when painting was declared dead and representative painting, well, Paleolithic, Fischl moved to New York in 1978 and emerged in the 1980s with
other Neo-Expressionist like Elizabeth Murray, Salle, and Julian Schnabel.
The «London School» of
figurative painters including Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, Frank Auerbach, Leon Kossoff, and Michael Andrews have received widespread international recognition, [82] while
other painters such as John Minton and John Craxton are characterized as Neo-Romantics.
Where are the quirky distinctive voices of
painters like Rose Wylie and Chantal Joffe, the wonderful portraitists like Catherine Goodman and if you make the strange choice to include one Giacometti, why not open the doors fully to
other figurative sculptors?
While
others turned to abstraction after 1945, British
painters maintained their
figurative instincts.
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figurative painters working today, but you seem to be linked with the street art movement â $ «perhaps through association â $ «as the majority of the
other Lazarides artists having this sort of background.
Her abstract painterly techniques and
figurative glyphs are well married and suggest a personal dialogue with
other artists and art history; I happened to think of such different
painters as Lois Lane, Gael Stack, Charles Marburg, and Clint Jukkala.
Philip Pearlstein is an American
figurative painter whose work is in the collections of the Hirschhorn Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, and Whitney Museum, amongst
others.
figurative painters can also make abstracts, but not always the
other way around
It was a time of prejudice against
figurative painting on the part of museums and of
other painters.»
Such was the case with two fairly recent recruits: the
figurative painter Alex Katz, 86, and the multimedia artist Elaine Sturtevant, 82, who since the»60s has explored ideas about authenticity and authorship in her groundbreaking reproductions of paintings by Andy Warhol, Marcel Duchamp, Jasper Johns, and
others.