The protagonists of his paintings are imperfect bodies, often maimed, obtained
through a figurative painting then deconstructed.»
They wanted to explicitly draw attention to the hardships facing the British population,
through figurative painting.
Jonas Burgert aims to personify human psychology
through figurative painting.
The pair were closely bound together through their relentless pursuit of producing dynamic new works
through figurative painting, going against the major art trends which claimed the end of representational art.
Belgian artist, Michaël Borremans, creates mystery on the canvas
through figurative painting, filing inanimate objects with a sense of humanity, and obscuring the life from any human forms.
February 28 Hanneline Rogeberg recognizes the importance of human touch and explores its visual manifestations
through her figurative paintings.
Not exact matches
His
paintings are so appealing at first sight, as delightful coloured patterns with pleasing
figurative imagery, that many look no longer, or see no further, and for them the magical metamorphosis does not take place; they do not find that they are standing on a little terrace under a walnut tree looking
through an overgrown garden straight towards the afternoon sun which is sparkling on the Seine below them, and all looking not as it would to them, but more mysterious, more overpowering, fuller of space and light and colour and overwhelmingly real and harmonious.
Opening at Mana Contemporary in Jersey City on Saturday, May 10 and continuing to August 1, 2014, the exhibition will present work from Resnick's entire six - decade career, including a rare 1937 portrait; quintessential Abstract Expressionist
paintings from the 1940s and»50s; a selection of the large allover
paintings of the 1960s
through 1980s for which Resnick is best known; and a group of late
figurative works.
Next to Nothing presents a group exhibition that revisits early Modern
figurative painting and Symbolist poetry
through the recent work of 12 contemporary artists.
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).
The subject matter may not be as compelling as Katz's earlier
figurative work, but these
paintings, on view
through July 7, aren't about garden design or abstract composition.
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.
With almost 40 works, this exhibition proposes a complete view of the artist's aesthetic development, starting with his
figurative works, when he exhibited in Barcelona in the early 30's, until his latest abstract
paintings of the 90's after going
through the abstract expressionist stage that became so relevant in the United States during the 40s and 50s.
From early
figurative paintings,
through collages and video installations, to her radical work in dance and performance, Ms. Schneemann has consistently — insistently — made the personal political, bridging divides between eras and cultures, even species.
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 conceptu
Painting» (1979), which celebrated a revival of
figurative painting in an artistic climate dominated by conceptu
painting in an artistic climate dominated by conceptual work.
Through his street roots in graffiti, Basquiat helped to establish new possibilities for
figurative and expressionistic
painting, breaking the white male stranglehold of Conceptual and Minimal art, and foreshadowing, among other tendencies, Germany's Junge Wilde movement.
Currently on view at MCA Chicago
through May 20, the exhibition spans Pindell's five - decade career, «featuring early
figurative paintings, pure abstraction and conceptual works, and personal and political art that emerged in the aftermath of a life - threatening car accident in 1979.
Lonely Old Slogans traces Richter's earliest, colour - intensive abstract improvisations
through to his
figurative works, described by the artist as a new form of history
painting.
The work moves
through several recognisable phases: from the carefully constructed
figurative pictures of the late 1940s; into various degrees of object - based abstraction; to an even simpler sort of still life
painting in the 1970s and early 1980s.
A new group show looks at the ways in which 17 contemporary artists are approaching the topic of gender
through painting, picking apart the idea of the binary in ways that are
figurative, expressive and abstract.
We have collected Rogers
through the years, from his
figurative paintings to the newer abstract ones.
By the mid-1950s, Calderara began to move away from
figurative painting to embrace a more geometric approach, radically reducing both the scale and the compositional elements of his
paintings through use of simple forms and flat blocks of nebulous and subtle colour.
Dona Nelson: Stand Alone
Paintings, which opens May 12 and runs through August 12, will feature over 30 paintings drawn from the last four decades, bringing together rarely shown figurative works alongside more recent abst
Paintings, which opens May 12 and runs
through August 12, will feature over 30
paintings drawn from the last four decades, bringing together rarely shown figurative works alongside more recent abst
paintings drawn from the last four decades, bringing together rarely shown
figurative works alongside more recent abstractions.
Her edgy,
figurative canvases sizzle with bold women in various stages of undress, and black cats whose hisses resound
through her confident
paint strokes.
Both artists depict parts of stories — specific moments and grand events —
through exquisitely crafted
figurative paintings and drawings.
Benning's at times geometric, at times
figurative - leaning, work in
painting and sculpture represents a parallel to visual and auditory storytelling
through video and music.
In the early 1960s, Leslie's style evolved from pure abstraction to
figurative realism, distilling his background in film to be fully realized
through painting.
Surveying the Body: Modern and Post-Modern
Figurative Work from the Collection December 14,1997 - July 1998 Spanning a diverse range of work from the 1930s
through the present, «Surveying the Body» explores shifting conceptions of the human figure as articulated
through painting.
Apart from the impact that Northern European modernist landscape and
figurative painting had on the members of the Group of Seven, the breakthrough to modern movements came in Montréal in the 1940s
through efforts initiated by artists themselves.
Through the exhibition Energy / Experimentation: Black Artists and Abstraction, 1964 — 1980 (2006)-- which highlighted numerous black artists working in abstract
painting or sculpture — and her scholarly work on African American conceptualists, Jones has prompted a reevaluation of the view that African American art of the period was predominantly
figurative or representational.
He defined himself as a
figurative artist who went
through Abstract Expressionism, Geometric Abstraction and a number of other styles of
painting, but who had always been a
figurative painter because his greatest interest was in people.
An exhibition of
figurative paintings that examine psychologically charged spaces and subjectivity
through intimacy, tension, and cinematic pictorialism.
The exhibition assembles the artist's work in a span of media and styles: from the
figurative paintings of her early «visceral» period in the»60s, up
through experiments in photomontage, photocopying and «geopoetry».
At the heart of her narratives is mystery, wonder and a courage that is often quiet and understated but signals confidence and trust resonating
through her narrative
figurative paintings.
One of the most original sculptors, Robert Arneson (1930 — 1992) reinvented American
figurative ceramics
through the integration of sculpture and
painting in his large - scale, often satirical, and even iconoclastic pieces.
Translated
through the disciplinary of
painting, South Korean artist Hyunju Kim investigates subjects that concern the subconscious, memory, and feeling, which are
painted onto canvases that are aesthetically surreal and
figurative.
In her own words, «The
figurative painting tradition... is the unseen made visible
through a meaningful fiction.»
While on the West Coast, she created a new body of work that was shown this past summer at L.A. gallery, The Cabin; «Tropicana» continued Self's investigation of the black female body
through figurative collages composed of
paint, fabric, and dry leaf.
Also features a selection of
paintings by Klein's father, the Abstract
Figurative painter Fred Klein, as well as documentary photographs from the 1920s
through the 70s.
Known for pushing the boundaries of the
paint medium, Wheat presents two new sculptural works along with new «tapestries» —
figurative works in which the artist pushes
paint through wire mesh, creating rich, fiber - like surfaces.
This large
figurative painting by American painter Geri Eubanks in the realist style; similar to Edward Hopper, but also has some traces of Amedeo Modigliani
through the portrayal of...
The current selection from the museum's collection is relatively cohesive, dominated by European
figurative painting from the 14th to 20th centuries, with some Brazilian works, and amassed by the media mogul Assis Chateaubriand from the late 1940s to the late 1960s (using funds largely accumulated
through blackmail).
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.
Simon Carr reviews Elmer Bischoff:
Figurative Paintings continues at George Adams Gallery, New York, on view
through August 30, 2015.
Through placing these works alongside
paintings from the 15th century, Grasso provocatively alludes to literal and
figurative connections between the past and present.
Through a profound exploration of his personal relationship with
figurative painting over the years, compounded by his personal conception of abstraction, with My Wall Tweedy achieves an deep understanding of his own history as a painter, laying the foundation for a future of infinite possibilities.
Figurative Futures aims to explore the mythology and evolution of figural art realized
through a wide - ranging collection of inventive
painting, sculpture, installation, jewelry, fiber arts, drawing and mixed media.
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
Cezanne communicates his struggle as an artist, that we all go
through, with such candour, I felt extremely moved by the
paintings, all portraits, altho I am not a
figurative artist.I must say I got off on the furniture, draperies and organisation of the whole, as much as the expression in the faces.An exception is the Courtauld picture with the white clay pipe, a masterpiece if there ever was one.I breathed in the Cezannes and haven't digested them yet, except to say since the Matisse at the RA, I think this show is second to none.The Cohens were very good also, working across a large room.
Whilst Sebas Velasco's exceptional body of work includes a wide variety of different themes and techniques, which range from contemporary
figurative painting to illustration, multidisciplinary artist Xabier XTRM's work represents a more expressionistic approach to
painting, always experimenting his artworks in order to find new ways to express
through painting.