Sentences with phrase «resurgence of figurative art»

Deitch sat down with Artspace's Karen Rosenberg at his Grand Street space to talk about the resurgence of figurative art, the evolving downtown art scene, and what's next for him and his gallery.

Not exact matches

Published by The Monacelli Press in April 2017, The Figurative Artist's Handbook, by Robert Zeller, seeks to address the resurgence of the figure in contemporary art.

Taking its cue from the resurgence of figurative sculpture in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and from Sigmund Freud's essay «The Uncanny» (1919), the exhibition brings together mannequin - related art works, mostly from the 1960s onwards, with objects from disparate cultural contexts that engender a similar sense of unease in the viewer: medical dolls, anatomical waxworks, religious statues, pagan figurines, ventriloquists» dummies, sex dolls, taxidermy and so on.

The strong resurgence of abstract and figurative painting is shown by the vibrant murals of Lothar Gotz, the vigorous brushstrokes of Mary Ramsden, and Caroline Walker «s intriguing views of swimming pools, while participatory art is thriving in the haunting sound performances of Sam Belifante and the MUSARC choir.

At the same time, a resurgence of interest in figurative painting in our own moment, as evidenced by attention to the work of artists such as Lynette Yiadom - Boakye and Toyin Ojih Odutola, speaks to the continuing relevance of Nochlin's perspective for contemporary art.

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.