Sentences with phrase «photorealist artists»

In sculpture famous photorealist artists include Duane Hanson (1925 - 96), John de Andrea (b. 1941) and Carole Feuerman (b. 1945).

• For more biographies of American photorealist artists, see: 20th Century Painters.

Works by photorealist artists can be seen in several of the best art museums in America, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Other European photorealist artists include: Roberto Bernardi, Franz Gertsch, Clive Head, Bertrand Meniel, and Raphaella Spence.

Photorealist artists have also been turning their attention to landscape painting with interesting and evocative results.

Works by the Swiss photorealist artist are exceedingly rare and the present work is the most important work ever to appear at auction.

A large portrait of the former Director of the NPG Sandy Nairne by the US Photorealist artist Chuck Close has been unveiled.

Artist Eric Zener (b. 1966, Astoria, Oregon) is an American photorealist artist best known for figure paintings of lone subjects, often in or about swimming pools.

Works by the Swiss photorealist artist are exceedingly rare and the present work is the most important work ever to appear at auction.Continue Reading

Plus One Gallery is delighted to present a solo show of remarkable paintings by leading photorealist artist Mike Francis.

Individual rooms feature 24 hard - edge abstract paintings, drawings and reliefs by Ellsworth Kelly; 18 figurative and abstract paintings by Gerhard Richter; 14 silkscreens on canvas by Andy Warhol (most from the crucial 1960s); 11 Photorealist artist portraits in various media by Chuck Close; seven Agnes Martin grid and stripe paintings (installed in a heptagon - shaped room, recalling the sublime space at the Harwood Museum in Taos, N.M., where the artist once lived); five geometrically ordered Minimalist sculptures by Carl Andre; and five monumental mixed - media paintings of a decaying German mythos by Anselm Kiefer (plus one large model airplane in lead, an emphatically heavier - than - air machine conjuring the cruel historical weight of the failed Luftwaffe and its celebrated pilot artist, Joseph Beuys).

In 20th - century sculpture, anatomical realism was exemplified by the polyester and bronze nudes of contemporary American photorealist artist John De Andrea (Couple, 1971), Model in Repose (1981, National Galleries of Scotland), Untitled Bronze # 1 (1984, Chazen Museum of Art) and Sphinx (1987).

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Usually when people are becoming familiar with my work, I ask them to spend some time on my Website (RobbiFirestone.com) and really get to know my work, because I'm not a photorealist or classical realism artist.

Alongside significant early works such as Me, Jesus and the Children (2001 — 2003)-- a photorealist painting of the artist's chest, overlaid with cartoon cherubs and floating speech bubbles — the exhibition features paintings from Colen's long - running «Gum» and «Trash» series.

Tompkins was an important figure in the photorealist movement of the 1970's but largely overlooked due to the fact that she was a woman making large - scale paintings of heterosexual intercourse, imagery that until then had been reserved for male artists and viewers.

The artist frequently works from gridded photographic stills, using the principles of pixilation to create large - scale monochrome and color paintings that range from photorealist to mildly psychedelic.

The collection of drawings is particularly known for Marion Mahony Griffin's renderings, but it also includes fine examples of master drawings by 16th - century Italian artists such as Parmigianino and Francesco Vanni, and a remarkable grouping of photorealist watercolors by Ralph Goings, John Salt and others.

Avoiding the brand - name flashiness embraced by 1960s Pop and the slick urban scenes introduced at that time by the Photorealists, the artists in Lifelike investigate the quieter side of the quotidian, choosing potentially overlooked items or moments as subject matter: a paper bag, an eraser, an apple core, a waiting room, an afternoon nap.

This installment of the New Work series presents recent compositions by leading photorealist painter Robert Bechtle — 32 years after the San Francisco — born artist's first exhibition at SFMOMA.

The exhibition was dominated by such American Photorealists as Ralph Goings, Chuck Close, Don Eddy, Robert Bechtle and Richard McLean; but it included such influential European artists as Domenico Gnoli, Gerhard Richter, Konrad Klapheck, and Roland Delcol (fr).

Fence (P13), a print published in 2015, is based on the artist's 2008 painting Zaun (Fence), and is a stunning example of his photorealist work.

Since then, Hyperealisme has been used by European artists and dealers to apply to painters influenced by the Photorealists.

The show features 73 artworks from 35 artists that spans from Photorealism's early adopters to second and third generation artists working in the Photorealist tradition.

Charles Thomas «Chuck» Close (born July 5, 1940) is an American painter, artist and photographer who achieved fame as a photorealist, through his massive - scale portraits.

The anti-war phalluses and photorealist porn of feminist artists were shunned by collectors and banned from galleries.

She does not used mediated or advertising images like the Pop Artists nor photographs like the Photorealists.

Alongside his celebrated abstractions, early black - and - white paintings and the photorealist depictions of candles, skulls and clouds that have become indisputable icons of modern painting, Panorama includes nearly 30 new paintings made over the past ten years, extensive comparative works, studio photographs, archival images and a substantial interview with the artist conducted by Nicholas Serota.

• 2000 - Series of One - Person Shows Featured artists include: photorealist Duane Hanson, Pop - artist Alex Katz and Boris Mikhailov.

Two - hundred and twenty artists exhibited including the photorealist painters Chuck Close, Malcolm Morley John Salt and Charles Bell.

While the work of the photorealists could be grouped together, there were artists that explored a variety of techniques and subjects.

American artist Chuck Close rose as a prominent Photorealist painter, who made his name with huge, billboard - sized paintings of himself and his friends, reproduced from photographs in painstaking detail, seen in the minutely detailed texture of the skin and hair of his subjects.

«Artists for Haiti» also includes one gallery devoted exclusively to works on paper, such as a small drawing by Elizabeth Peyton of rap - star Jay - Z and a large self - portrait print by preeminent Photorealist Chuck Close.

A pioneer in the SoHo art scene of the 1960s and one of the leaders of the Photorealist movement of the 1970s, he is best known for his gorgeous still lifes of flowers - large, arresting canvases that explore the artist's dream world.

The Aspen Institute proudly announces that renowned photorealist painter Chuck Close will be its 2009 Harman - Eisner Artist in Residence.

BONNIE MAYGARDEN [New Orleans, LA::: b. 1987] is a photorealist painter and multimedia installation artist.

TUESDAY MARCH 10 Opening: Richard Estes: Painting New York City at MAD A leading figure of the Photorealist movement, New York artist Richard Estes is having is having a career retrospective at the Museum of Arts and Design that spans works from the mid-1960s to the present.

Opening: Richard Estes: Painting New York City at MAD A leading figure of the Photorealist movement, New York artist Richard Estes is having is having a career retrospective at the Museum of Arts and Design that spans the mid-1960s to the present.

Avoiding the brand - name flashiness embraced by 1960s Pop Art and the slick urban scenes introduced at that time by the Photorealists, the artists in Lifelike investigate the quieter side of the quotidian, choosing often overlooked items or moments as subject matter: a paper bag, an eraser, an apple core, a waiting room, an afternoon nap.

As a result, many new types and forms of sculpture were pioneered by American artists, including monumental stonework (Mount Rushmore), Kinetic art (mobiles), assemblage, minimalist structures, photorealist statues, pop sculptures, environmental earthworks, and multi-media sculpture.

In 2013, his 1968 photorealist painting «Domplatz, Mailand» (Cathedral Square, Milan) was sold at Sotheby's New York for $ 37.1 million, a world record for a living artist.

Thus whereas Pop artists sought to highlight the absurdity of much of the media imagery relied upon by the Consumer Society, photorealist painters and sculptors aim to celebrate the integrity and value of an image.

In the process these artists created a completely new genre of photorealist portraits.

[11] Photorealists were much more influenced by the work of Pop artists and were reacting against Abstract Expressionism.

An Englishman, John Salt was the first foreign artist in the burgeoning Photorealist movement, which was originally considered an American genre.

Our river city's thriving emerging artist community was also on display in our Back Gallery, with a Bright Future Group Show, photorealist portraits, feminine sensuality, Tragic Instants and musings on truth and fiction in the current political landscape.

However, in Europe, artists like Gerhard Richter and Franz Gertsch have likewise been referred to as photorealists, but for a different reason: the hazy quality and unexpected angles in their candid portraits resemble casual, often blurred snapshots.

Other artists who helped to popularize the photorealist movement in America, include: the street scene painter Richard Estes (1932) and the portraitist Chuck Close (b. 1940).

Betty Tompkins, who is quite a successful artist these days — her very early work from the late»60s, which were photorealist - inspired compositions based on pornography, [is] in a show opening right now at Marianne Boesky Gallery — was really a great high school teacher.

North Adams, MA: The Artist Book Foundation (TABF) will celebrate the Photorealist artworks of Tom Blackwell at TABF's Louis and Susan Meisel Gallery in Building 13 on the campus of MASS MoCA.

In addition to Abstraktes Bild, two photorealist portraits of the artist's then wife, Isa Genzken, entitled I.G. (ests.