Sentences with phrase «painting figurative images»

Guston, in turn, went back to his origins by painting figurative images in the late 1950's, which earned him fierce criticism that led him to retire from the art world.

Not exact matches

Jack Whitten's narrative Abstract Expressionist works from the 1960s draw imagery from the Civil Rights movement, including ghosted images of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr; Joan Semmel's figurative paintings question representation of female sexuality through the lens of self - portraiture; Gay liberation and the AIDS crisis are the cultural context for narrative paintings by the late Hugh Steers (1963 — 1995).

Whether appropriated by some contemporary figurative painters or aligned with some sort of new figuration, where the painters «find everything to be a matter of images» (to quote Barry Schwabsky from the online catalogue for «A New Subjectivity»), Abstraction clearly and demonstratively engages with the problems of painting (and collage and sculpture) despite the surprising conservatism of Kerry James Marshall.

Bringing together more than 90 works from pubic and private collections, the exhibition features paintings and works on paper spanning the early 1930s through the late 70s, from his early depictions of African masks and figurative works to the abstract images for which he is most recognized.

Four years later, his father hanged himself; Guston discovered the body and subsequently sought solace by hiding in a cupboard lit by a naked bulb, the image of which would become a prevailing motif in the oddly disquieting, figurative, often autobiographical paintings he began to make in his fifties.

These works, which completely eschew paint are full of mystery, the original figurative image being progressively buried into the surface.

More generally, the chapters of «America Is Hard to See» pay homage to a number of those seminal exhibitions through which the Whitney has historically recognised and advocated for emerging American art: «Anti-Illusion: Procedure / Materials» (1969), for instance, with its defiant presentation of the post-minimalism of Richard Tuttle and others, or «New Image Painting» (1979), which celebrated a revival of figurative painting in an artistic climate dominated by conceptuPainting» (1979), which celebrated a revival of figurative painting in an artistic climate dominated by conceptupainting in an artistic climate dominated by conceptual work.

Moore (1953 - 2002) is best known for large, highly detailed figurative paintings filled with fantastic and symbolic images.

Finding himself drawn to figurative images displaying a complexity of expression, Lawson's resulting paintings each focus on a single figure from torso up, all including faces and hands.

For me, to get past gestural painting, I have to reconsider what it means to use figurative elements or still life or landscape to make an image.

The paintings are figurative and large in scale and scope, with subjects often drawn from mythology and biblical images.

Robyn Stone's figurative paintings confront us with difficult yet darkly beautiful images of adolescent vulnerability and fragility.

MG From the outset, but especially in the 1980s and 1990s, Polke would always make paintings that were abstract but contained figurative images.

Jenny Scobel makes portraits or figurative paintings of children and women that blend a scene of innocent - like faces with images that suggest an underlying dark or disturbing story.

«This exhibition proposes an alternate history of figurative painting, sculpture, and vernacular image - making from the 1960 to the present that has been largely over-looked and undervalued,» Nadel writes in the accompanying catalogue, published by D.A.P.

Hinkle's largely figurative images combine photographic imagery with hand - drawn and painted details to create fantastical female figures of wonder.

Image painting — here, a term to include a broad range of figurative and representational approaches — served as a vehicle for issues and activism: gender, First Nations culture, social injustice, and a global reckoning of environmental concerns.

In the work of David Bolduc, Harold Klunder, Paul Fournier, Alex Cameron, Paul Hutner, Howard Simkins, Eric Gamble and Christopher Broadhurst, among others in Toronto and elsewhere, figurative images are woven into the abstract concerns of the activity of painting.

In the early 1980s Dokoupil emerged as a leading champion of a new generation of international artists who, in opposition to the minimal and conceptual art of the 1970s, rediscovered painting and the use of figurative, expressionist images.

Nevertheless, even cognoscenti are often unable to immediately conjure mental images that speak to the full scope and depth of Schnabel's work, with the exception perhaps of his figurative paintings incorporating broken crockery.

Artistically promiscuous, Harvey's work has ranged from highly worked figurative paintings to vital, impastoed oils of nudes delineated by black lines known as his «Readers Wives», playful politicised sculptures as well as a powerful mosaic image of Margaret Thatcher.

The sculpture is a translation of Katz's signature style of large, glamorous, figurative paintings of close ups of people's faces inspired by television, cinema and billboard images.

The artist paints, photographs, and collages his abstract and figurative images to create fluid paintings and narratives.

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.

After several years of figurative painting, these paintings are Syed's attempt to erase the image and allow the paint itself to become the subject.

Moore is best known for his figurative and highly detailed large - scale paintings filled with fantastic and symbolic images.

From Joan Mitchell's loaded brushwork in Before, Again IV (1985) to Wayne Thiebaud's painting Candy Counter (1962), in which lush pigment seems to frost the images of cakes, a tactile application of paint energizes both abstract and figurative canvases.

Traveled to: Denver Art Museum, January 25 — March 22, 1992; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, April 9 — March 31, 1992; Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, July 5 — August 23, 1992; The Goldie Paley Gallery, Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, September 5 — October 11, 1992; Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences, Inc., Savannah, Georgia, January 5 — February 21, 1993 (Catalogue) Group exhibition, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, September 7 — 28, 1991 Portraits on Paper, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, June 25 — August 2, 1991 Portraits, Linda Cathcart Gallery, Santa Monica, May 1991 Exhibition of Work by Newly Elected Members and Recipients of Honors and Awards, Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, May 15 — June 9, 1991 In Sharp Focus: Super-Realism, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, New York, April 14 — July 7, 1991 (Catalogue) 1991 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, April 2 — June 30, 1991 (Catalogue) Selected Prints from Spring Street Workshop, Tomasulo Gallery, Union County College, Cranford, New Jersey, March 8 — 28, 1991 Academy - Institute Invitational Exhibition of Painting & Sculpture, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, March 4 — 30, 1991 Louisiana: The New Graphics Wing, Louisiana Museum, Humlebæck, March 3 — 31, 1991 (Catalogue) Large Scale Works on Paper, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, February 21 — March 16, 1991 (Catalogue) Image & Likeness: Figurative Works from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown at Federal Reserve Plaza, New York, January 23 — March 20, 1991 Artist's Choice — Chuck Close: Head — On / The Modern Portrait, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, January 10 — March 19, 1991.

Various movements, themes, and styles are represented, including Abstract Expressionism, Color Field painting, Pop art, and Minimalism, as well as aspects of New Image Painting from the 1970s and beyond, recent developments in abstraction and figurative sculpture, and contemporary movements in photography, video, and digital painting, Pop art, and Minimalism, as well as aspects of New Image Painting from the 1970s and beyond, recent developments in abstraction and figurative sculpture, and contemporary movements in photography, video, and digital Painting from the 1970s and beyond, recent developments in abstraction and figurative sculpture, and contemporary movements in photography, video, and digital imagery.

Ralph Rugoff, Stephanie Rosenthal, «MIRRORCITY: London artists on fiction and reality», Hayward Publishing, London, November, pp. 54 - 55 Naomi Beckwith, Donatein Grau, Jennifer Higgie, Lynette Yiadom - Boake, «Lynette Yiadom - Boake», Prestel Publishing David Bindman, Henry Louis Gates Jr., «the Image of the Black in Western Art, Part 2», Belknap Harvard, London, pp.297 - 298 «Face To Face, British Portrait Prints from the Clifford Chance art collection», Hampton Printing, Bristol, p. 13 Pinacoteca Agnelli, «Works From The Mario Testino Collection», Rizzoli «A Brush With The Real, Figurative Painting Today», Laurence King Publishing Ltd, London, pp.218 - 223

Media range from painting, drawing and collage to photography, video and sculpture, and content ranges from abstract to figurative, but all share a sensibility that merges concept, image and mark - making.

Drawing + Painting Anatomical Figure Drawing Beginning Water - based Media Color Theory for Painters + Designers Color Theory for the Painter Contemporary Figuration Contemporary Techniques for Figurative Painting Continuing the Indirect Method of Oil Painting Creating Innovative Comics Drawing + Painting the Figure Drawing for Comics Drawing Fundamentals Drawing in Color Drawing Outside in RVA Drawing with Ink, Charcoal + Wax Resist Exploring Water - based Media Figure Drawing Intensive Impressionism, Mark - making + Your Sketchbook Intermediate Classical Drawing Intermediate Drawing Intermediate Pastel Drawing Intermediate to Advanced Watercolor Introduction to Acrylic Painting Introduction to Children's Book Illustration Introduction to Classical Drawing Introduction to Oil Painting Introduction to Painting with Gouache Introduction to Pastel Drawing Introduction to the Figure Introduction to Watercolor Mixed - Media Drawing + Painting Mixed - Media Image Transfers Painting the Still Life + Figure in Oil Pen + Ink Drawing The Expressive Figure The Portrait in Oil The Traveling Sketchbook Value Into Color Visual Storytelling Through Illustration Watercolor + the Figure

By banning the figurative element from painting in favor of an abstract analysis of the «crisis of modern man» and also resorting to images from archaic cultures, artists such as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko or Willem de Kooning shaped the Abstract Expressionist movement in the 1940s and 1950s.

He was the first to return figuration to postwar American painting, was innovative in his combination of «high art» with images from popular culture, and is today celebrated as the pioneer of postmodern, figurative painting.

With the figurative paintings, McKinniss works from photographs — both found images and pictures he has taken himself.

McKinniss forges a symbolist vocabulary for contemporary figurative painting; he culls his source material primarily from online image searching, an intuitive process by which he reveals the relational network of his own media - saturated consciousness.

Ryan Schneider's oil paintings include impressively stylized line work that weaves behind and over a centered figurative image.

Lacing Action painting and Color Field painting with a postmodern twist, Zimmermann's abstract motifs seem to spring from more figurative representations: he uses computer graphics and «dithering» (a technique that displays images without firm edges so as to give a more colorful appearance) to deform images, texts and signs from his own massive archive of images, evoking the atlases of Gerhard Richter and Aby Warburg.

After several years assembling hanging installations of two - sided figurative paintings, Mastrangelo has recently returned to wall - mounted work in a series of impressive figurative... read more... «IMAGES: Susan Mastrangelo»

The earliest piece is «Untitled (self - portrait),» a vortex of muddy brush strokes from 1971, when Richter often painted over earlier figurative images.

Their mature post-abstract figurative paintings preserved a sophisticated dialogue between abstraction and representation — the image oscillating between a recognizable subject and a boldly colored, abstract arrangement of thick slabs on paint.»

Medium: Oil painting on linen Image size: 5.75 x 4 inches Frame size: 14 x 12 x 2 inches Signed at lower right: AVS A noted contemporary figurative painter, Stevovich grew up in Washington, D.C., and as a young child spent time roaming the halls of the National Gallery of Art, where he was particularly drawn to the Renaissance paintings that would come to inform his work.

Featuring a selection of 80 figurative works and landscapes in a wide range of materials and media including pencil, ink, oil stick and charcoal, drawings, prints and paintings, Alex Katz: Seeing, Drawing, Making demonstrates how the artist explores and elaborates the same image through diverse media.

Medium: Oil painting on linen Image size: 4.25 x 3.75 inches Frame size: 13.25 x 12.25 x 2 inches Signed at lower right: AVS A noted contemporary figurative painter, Stevovich grew...

Medium: Oil painting on linen Image size: 6.25 x 5.5 inches Frame size: 15.25 x 14.25 x 2 inches Signed at lower right: AVS A noted contemporary figurative painter, Stevovich grew u...

«Bad Painting» refers to a figurative current in art in the late 1970s where the faithful representation of a theme was abandoned in favor of a consciously poorly - crafted image that sought to provoke those who claimed to have «good taste».

Medium: Oil painting on linen Image size: 10 x 7.25 inches Frame size: 19 x 16 x 2 inches Signed at lower right: AVS A noted contemporary figurative painter, Stevovich grew up in Wa...

Unfortunately, geometric images can't compare with the beauty of figurative cave art, as exemplified by the powerful bulls in the Lascaux cave paintings or the watching lions in the Chauvet cave paintings.

As the artist himself has said, «You can't invent a painting from scratch; you are working with an entire tradition... The pictorial language of the 20th century, from Kurt Schwitters's collages to Jackson Pollock's drip paintings, makes up a range of possibilities that I utilise in order to create a transhistorical figurative painting — a painting of the image as such, of representation» (A. Ghenie, quoted in «Adrian Ghenie in Conversation with Magda Radu,» Adrian Ghenie: Darwin's Room, exh.

The Woman paintings combined the gestures and stylistic elements of his previous work, but they added primal figurative representations of what De Kooning considered to be iconic female images.