These are conceptual and site - specific installations and kinetic pieces; there are fully
rendered figurative works and large gestural works in both temporary and permanent materials.
Not exact matches
The
works begins with his early realist,
figurative abstractions, to a «proto - synthetic cubism,» straight through the famous series of women that dominated the 1950s, ending in his increasingly «expansive,» looser
renderings of the 1960s.
Katz's brightly colored, large - scale
figurative and landscape paintings are
rendered in a flat style that oftentimes resembles the aesthetics of the everyday visual culture commonly found in advertising and cinema — a feature that regularly linked Alex to the norms of Pop art despite the fact his
work predates this movement by a relatively big margin.
It was at this point that Philip Guston returned to his roots as a
figurative artist and started to produce
work littered with cigarette butts, tin cans, and cartoon Klansmen,
rendered in a style that was key to the development of cartoon realism and Neo-expressionism.
Legs are the subject matter of choice of Cousin's oeuvre that examines the human condition and the history of painting through a mixture of
figurative and geometric elements
rendered in a distinctively painterly style using a bold colour palette and with particular attention to the symbolic meaning of the visual forms depicted in her
work.
In 1967 - 68 an important shift took place in King's
work, with the first of the Baggot Street paintings, in which
figurative elements are replaced by plain fields of colour, forms are
rendered geometrically and light is represented through the use of a single line.
Currently on view is a densely hung exhibition of
figurative work called «CON - Figuration,» a big, bawdy show of digital collage, painting, woven tapestries of porn web pages, and 3D
renderings.
To
work through issues of race, identity and community, Yashua Klos employs techniques like woodcutting and etching to produce innovative, large - scale collages, expansive
figurative portraits of friends and fellow artists
rendered in a quasi-cubist, bricolage style.
Sanctums of Decision at the Richard Taittinger Gallery (until 2 October) includes
figurative works that depict delicately -
rendered, dreamlike interiors and exteriors that take their cue from 19th - century European painting and Iranian history.
On Wed, July 6 at 7 pm, Cruz will perform How To Order A Chocolate Cake, in addition to performances by artists Jaamil Olawale Kosoko and David Thomson.To
work through issues of race, identity and community, Yashua Klos employs techniques like woodcutting and etching to produce innovative, large - scale collages, expansive
figurative portraits of friends and fellow artists
rendered in a quasi-cubist, bricolage style.
George Condo appeared on the international art scene in the early 1980s with a series of phony old - master paintings,
works that borrowed from canonized techniques to
render disfigured portraits, subsuming the apparently contradictory tendencies of the moment: a resurgence of
figurative painting and a predominant critical discourse on appropriation.
Belgian filmmaker and painter Michaël Borremans (born 1963) has made a name for himself over the past two decades, though his
figurative portraiture and pastoral scenes, indebted as they are to Manet, Degas and Velázquez, look of another time, the traditional Baroque and Rococo-esque style
rendering the
work unsettlingly familiar.
Altoon drew considerably from Abstract Expressionism, and the
works in the series often depict distorted
figurative subjects
rendered just beyond recognition.
If
figurative work has been unstylish in recent years within the micro-trending art world in favour of more lazy conceptual and minimal
works, then let this show serve to reassert the things viewers could never really get rid of liking anyway, like skill and sincerity and immediate, emotional, gutsy
work; thoughtful and intense and odd
works,
rendering and likeness and oil paint,
works that may even celebrate that very un-cool topic, beauty.
Based on photographic source images, her immersive paintings of diverse scale have more recently moved into
figurative works rendered in rich hues of oil paint.
A trio of
figurative works use unconventional materials — resin, ash, broken glass — to
render parts of the body, rounding out the exhibition.