Sentences with phrase «promoting figurative art»

Founded in 1982 in Paris by Pierre Dumonteil, Galerie Dumonteil (22 Sinan Mansions) has been promoting figurative art for the last 25 years.

(News) Birmingham Evening Mail (England); March 31, 2004; 423 words... stiff competition to win a place in a national «Not The Turner Prize» competition, which promotes figurative art.

Not exact matches

Although he continued to promote abstract work produced in Britain and throughout Europe, Sylvester believed at this time that figurative art «was capable of going further... that [it] could be more complex, more specific, richer in human content».18 By 1958, however, Sylvester had undergone what he later described as a «Damascene conversion'to the profound achievements of recent American abstraction.

The movement was formed by Billy Childish and Charles Thomson to celebrate and promote figurative painting in a reaction to the proliferation of conceptual art.

The exhibition's theme is closely tied to the Academy's mission of promoting and preserving the tradition of figurative art within the contemporary art world.

The exhibition also connects thematically with the NYAA's mission to promote and preserve the tradition of figurative art within the context of the contemporary art world.

A co-founder of the Stuckism art movement with Charles Thomson in 1999, Childish promotes figurative painting as opposed to conceptual art, and a quest for making art a part of personal discovery.

In 1999, Thomson was the co-founder, with Billy Childish of the Stuckism art group, which set out to promote figurative painting, in opposition to conceptual art, which they identified with the Turner Prize (whose jury chairman was Sir Nicholas Serota) and the Young British Artists, of which Tracey Emin (who had once been in a relationship with Childish) was a leading representative.

[1] Disillusioned with the strict non-representational tenets of a movement that promoted the Greenbergian notion of «purity» in art towards a perpetually evolving abstraction, Park submitted Kids on Bikes (1950), a small figurative painting, to a 1951 competitive exhibition and won.

This direct, flatly painted cartoon refers to two of the stuckists» biggest betes noires: Tate director Nicholas Serota, who stands accused of promoting «Serota Tendency» one - note art, and Tracey Emin, who famously told then boyfriend Billy Childish that his figurative work was «stuck, stuck, stuck».

Their ethos aims to promote figurative painting in opposition to conceptual art.

Its purpose was to promote figurative painting in opposition to conceptual art.

Founded in 1999 by Charles Thomson and Billy Childish, the Stuckists promote «figurative painting with ideas» and oppose conceptual art.

The Stuckists were founded in 1999 by Charles Thomson and Billy Childish to promote figurative painting and oppose conceptual art.