Sentences with phrase «traditional figurative painting»

Schooled at the prestigious Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig under the supervision of painter Sighard Gille (who is mostly known for his Song of Life, a monumental ceiling fresco of vibrant colors in the city's Gewandhaus Orchestra), Tobias Lehner (1974, Regensburg) first mastered the craft of traditional figurative painting before turning to abstraction.

His subjects hover between traditional figurative painting and portraiture; only about five percent of his production is true commissioned portraiture.

Unlike traditional figurative paintings in which models are used as subjects, in his paintings Klein incorporated his models as an intrinsic part of the creative process.

It's hard to characterize the art produced in Bushwick: there are endless studios of artists producing forms of traditional figurative painting while countless others are experimenting with digital images — some older talents but mostly younger ones.

Painted at home in Spain before he made contact with the Parisian art movement, it is apparently a coolly observant, patiently traditional figurative painting.

Their titles may be provocative — one of his new works on show here is called The Same Old Crap — but Shaw's work is as close to traditional figurative painting as the Turner Prize gets.

«I'm really trying to figure out how I can work within traditional figurative painting but also, what's the new thing you're adding to this conversation?»

He attended Edinburgh College of Art (B.A., 1982), and in the early part of his career he produced traditional figurative paintings on canvas.

Daignault, whose work ties together traditional figurative painting with heady conceptual ideas, planned it that way.

His subjects hover between traditional figurative painting and portraiture, with subjects often seemingly caught in an interrupted moment, as if the sitter has just realized the artist's presence.

All of these elements - traditional figurative painting, cinema, Minimalism, Conceptual art, documentary photography - are consciously evoked and explored in Wall's work.

He studied at the New York Academy of Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts — both bastions of traditional figurative painting and sculpture — and he paints with his subjects arranged in frontal poses, as if for a photograph (which, since these look like paintings from photos, they probably were).

His early work reflects a traditional figurative painting style with a unique sense of color.

The young artists took inspiration from both the conceptual art trends of the West and traditional figurative painting.

The surprisingly cohesive body of work in Hahn's New York solo debut contends with the history of traditional figurative painting, in which female subjects possess sensuous beauty offset, generally, by a benzo - like tranquility.

It is a simple painting, which offers a subtle and ironic statement on contemporary art: these dandies, who seem to epitomize an art world obsessed with abstraction and minimalism, are themselves the subject of a traditional figurative painting.