Sentences with phrase «traditional figure painting»

Hard - edge painting, geometric abstraction, appropriation, hyperrealism, photorealism, expressionism, minimalism, lyrical abstraction, pop art, op art, abstract expressionism, color field painting, monochrome painting, neo-expressionism, collage, intermedia painting, assemblage painting, digital painting, postmodern painting, Neo-Dada painting, shaped canvas painting, environmental mural painting, traditional figure painting, landscape painting, portrait painting, are a few continuing and current directions in painting at the beginning of the 21st century.

Using a refined painterly technique inspired by the Hudson River School and traditional figure painting, Cotton paints utopian landscapes and portraits, often composed of sugary desserts inhabited by female figures.

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The finely detailed, hand - painted miniature patterns in gouache add an unusual visual register to the transparent watercolors, layering silhouetted bodies in sinewy vines and other organic shapes, and confusing traditional distinctions between figure and ground.

Shōhaku transformed more conventional representations of the dragon found in the traditional Japanese mythological figures of the Cloud and Dragon paintings into fantastical images where the mythological being verged between hideous monster and an abstract anamorphic form.

Biggers» Haute Mess (2014) and Cave's Soundsuit (2013) are critically necessary, for their chaotic relation between antique quilt fragments and spray paint — traditional patterns and the human figure — refusing the subject - object dichotomy.

This exhibition brings together paintings and works on paper by Jane Freilicher and Jane Wilson — two notable figures in American art who emerged from the pursuit of rigorous abstraction to develop highly individual and beautifully compelling approaches to representation, fundamentally reinventing traditional definitions of landscape and still life painting.

His haunting paint - on - linen works are a play on the traditional meaning of the Jewish word «Golem» which describes a small clay figure, brought to life by magic, capable of evil deeds and without a fixed form.

Baselitz is also known for his distinctive approach to sculpture: his roughly hewn and boldly painted wooden figures fuse traditional woodcarving techniques with primitivist and folk art impulses.

Copyright blends different styles from stencilled images to traditional painting, often juxtaposing monochrome figures with vividly coloured flowers and butterflies.

De Kooning is well known for paintings of the female figure that transcend traditional figurative and abstract categories and break up conventional aesthetic frames of reference by maximizing the expressive power of paint in line and color.

With Abstract Expressionism at the forefront of American painting, these artists, which included Richard Diebenkorn, David Park, Roland Peterson, and Wayne Thiebaud — often referred to as the Bay Area Figurative artists — explored inventive new ways to depict traditional subject matter — the figure, landscape, and still life.

Sometimes he even turned the model and painting upside down in an effort to avoid conventional results and to disregard the traditional hierarchy between figure and background.

She focusses on techniques, structure, and composition, and by playing with the scale and gaze of her figures she reformulates the visual language of traditional oil paintings.

Ignoring the traditional distinction between naturalistically depicted and abstracted figures, the sensuous color and bold, sinuous contours of these elusive and lyrical paintings play on the tension between figurative references and abstract forms.

His signature technique, used in both paintings and sculptures, is to incorporate traditional brocade fabrics into their surfaces, often becoming the skins of beasts, the bark of trees, or the garments of mythological figures.

There is a painting of a reclining nude in the show, which of course is a traditional subject for figurative painting, but we nicknamed this work «Billboard,» because the figure seems to command the presence of demanding a billboard all to herself.

Opie has exhibited his paintings and sculptures internationally and reached beyond the traditional gallery audience with his animated LED outlines of human figures walking, sometimes presented on billboards on city streets, sometimes elsewhere — as with the huge, computer - generated animations that acted as a backdrop to Wayne McGregor's 2008 ballet Infra at London's Royal Opera House.

Edmond is holding a painting class this spring, Figure and Composition: Complete Traditional Skills, Mondays through Wednesdays, 4 pm to 7 pm.

The works engage the psychological realm of attachment to the female body and how that's processed through both a traditional and a contemporary reading, as the many reclining, sitting or lounging female figures relate distantly to any number of female portraits (often reclining female nudes) painted throughout history.

At first, I juxtaposed traditional elements of miniatures into a new format, then I started painting modern figures using the miniature technique.

Utilizing found objects to create an otherworldly yet traditionally based format, the image of a large female figure and its smaller companions are done in the style of traditional Indian painting, while delicate fabrics interweave amongst images that swirl and stream within and outside the two wooden panels — thus making it engaging and contemplative to look at.

Wiley's larger - than - life figures disturb and interrupt tropes of portrait painting, often blurring the boundaries between traditional and contemporary modes of representation and the critical portrayal of masculinity and physicality as it pertains to the view of black and brown young men.

Combining traditional painting techniques with contemporary design and illustrative styles, Barton's paintings are simultaneously unnerving in their otherworldly depictions of the figure and charming in their intense ornamentation.

From the»40s on, American Abstract Expressionism dominated the Western art landscape and returned many artists» attention to the evocative formal qualities of paint on canvas and traditional sculptural materials — although the biggest figure associated with «Action Painting», Jackson Pollock, also stuck detritus including cigarette butts, coins, buttons, and keys onto the surfaces of his paintings.

His subjects evoke traditional Chinese landscape painting: figures and scenes recall tales and epics from Chinese folklore and history.

JMcK: You make references to traditional art of the subcontinent in your painting, such as the miniature figure painting; and you also use coffee washes.

In the wide range of art the gallery offers, subjects range from water and beach scenes, boats, landscape, flower arrangements, graphic paintings of musicians, fifties photographic paintings, birds, fish, traditional still life, figure painting, portraits and trees, covering every major contemporary figurative category and genre.

Exhibiting at Art Basel Hong Kong for the first time, PPOW is presenting a two - person booth that features historical paintings and drawings by the late Martin Wong, a self - taught Chinese - American painter and fabled figure of the East Village art scene that died from an AIDS - related illness in 1999, and glass - and - bronze sculptures that evoke elements of traditional Chinese landscape paintings from the Vermont - based Australian artist Timothy Horn, who's a recent addition to the gallery's stable.

A pioneering figure, Rauschenberg remained resolutely committed to the principles of experimentation and constantly challenged the notions of traditional painting.

James will help you explore traditional motifs with modern tools and mediums as he does in his own figure, still life, and landscape paintings.

Since it's an academy that has been supported by both Andy Warhol and Prince Charles, and prides itself on both traditional methods, such as anatomy and indirect painting, and on contemporary discourse, I thought it would be compelling to take the long view and explore how and why the classical academic tradition has impacted the present state of figure - based art.»

Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Charles Rettrew Sheeler Jr studied design and industrial drawing at the Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial Art, from 1900 to 1903, before attending the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (1903 - 6), where he studied traditional figure drawing and figure painting under the eminent Impressionist William Merritt Chase (1849 - 1916).

Although Saville's methods and subject matter are both traditional, the Young British Artist has somehow found a way to reinvent the art of figure painting.

The finely detailed, hand - painted miniature patterns in gouache an unusual visual register to the transparent watercolors, layering silhouetted bodies in sinewy vines and other organic shapes, and confusing traditional distinctions between figure and ground.

His signature technique, used in both paintings and sculptures, is to incorporate into their surfaces traditional brocade fabrics, which often become the skins of beasts, the bark of trees or the garments of mythological figures.

Citing a desire to revisit fifteenth - century Italian painting in which figures are situated within highly detailed architectural spaces, Larsen began to create narrative scenes that upset any sense of the illusory perspectives of traditional representation.

A central figure in the history of feminist art, Christina Ramberg explored traditional notions of beauty and their relationship to our bodies in her paintings from the 1960s and 70s exhibiting a wide range of influences including costume history, surrealism, outsider art, Pop art, and comics.

Whereas traditional portraiture represented specific characters and narratives, Yiadom - Boakye's paintings present figures drawn form the artist's own imagination and memory outside time and place.

This is the intersection of traditional and «street» sensibilities, from Mexican - born artist Carlos Donjuán's paintings of masked figures to the atmospheric drawings of Bucharest - based artist Mark Francis Williams, whose work responds to the new shopping malls around his city.

These shots are punctuated with historic photographs of African people in traditional dress and sections of the painting The Garden of Earthly Delights (ca. 1500) by Hieronymus Bosch (1450 - 1516), which includes black figures.

While meandering beneath, the bright, fluttering work reveals itself to be an illuminated, celestial landscape borrowed from traditional Japanese painting or Manga animation — each viewer becoming a figure suspended in a handcrafted paper paradise.

Liu's paintings present the ancient figures wearing traditional costumes while performing Beijing opera.

He works in the three traditional genres of landscape, still life, and the figure, yet what he is really painting is thought itself.

Selected Exhibitions 2009 Zenith Gallery, Washington, DC, For Real, group exhibit 2008 Zenith Gallery, Washington, DC, What Remains: The American Landscape Portfolio Edition, solo exhibit Zenith Gallery, Washington, DC, Trees of Life, 30th Anniversary Show, group exhibit 2007 Zenith Gallery, Washington, DC, What Remains: The American Landscape, solo exhibit 2006 Zenith Gallery, Washington, DC, 28th Anniversary Exhibition, group exhibit 2005 Zenith Gallery, Washington, DC, Into the Minds of Nine, group exhibit Zenith Gallery, Washington, DC, La vie quotidienne: Scenes from Paris to Provence, solo exhibit Francesca Anderson Fine Art, Portraits North, Lexington, MA, 22nd Annual Portrait Show 2004 Land Trust of Virginia, Middleburg, VA, Vanishing Landscapes 2004, group exhibit Parker Gallery, Washington, DC, Beyond Brittany: 1977 - 1979, group exhibit Francesca Anderson Fine Art, Portraits North, Lexington, MA, 21st Annual Portrait Show Zenith Gallery, Washington, DC, Zenith Style: Art & Craft for Home & Office, group exhibit Zenith Gallery, Washington, DC, This Land is Your Land, This Land is My Land, group exhibit 2003 Bermuda National Gallery, Hamilton, Bermuda, Inside & Out, House & Home, group exhibit Zenith Gallery, Washington, DC, Near and Far: Recent Landscape Paintings, solo exhibit Francesca Anderson Fine Art, Portraits North, Lexington, MA, 20th Annual Portrait Show 2002 Land Trust of Virginia, Middleburg, VA, Vanishing Landscapes Zenith Gallery, Washington, DC, The Dog Days of Summer Zenith Gallery, Washington, DC, New Artists... New Space, Summer Show 2002 2002 Hilligoss Galleries, Chicago, IL, Oil Painters of America, Eleventh Annual National Juried Exhibition of Traditional Oils Francesca Anderson Fine Art, Portraits North, Lexington, MA, 19th Annual Portrait Show 2001 National Park Academy of the Arts, Jackson Hole, WY, Arts for the Parks Top 100 Tour Northern Virginia Fine Arts Association, Alexandria, VA, Contemporary Realism: A Survey of Washington Area Artists Zantman Art Galleries, Palm Desert, CA, Oil Painters of America, Tenth Annual National Juried Exhibition of Traditional Oils Howard / Mandville Gallery, Kirkland, WA, Paintings of the American Landscape Francesca Anderson Fine Art, Portraits North, Lexington, MA, 18th Annual Portrait Show 2000 National Park Academy of the Arts, Jackson Hole, WY, Arts for the Parks Top 100 Tour Rock Creek Gallery, Washington, DC, Studio 310 Reunion Francesca Anderson Fine Art, Portraits North, Lexington, MA, 17th Annual Portrait Show Spectrum Gallery, Washington, DC, Spectrum Plus Howard / Mandville Gallery, Kirkland, WA, Paintings of the American Landscape Zenith Gallery, Washington, DC, Zenith Gallery at 22 1999 National Park Academy of the Arts, Jackson Hole, WY, Arts for the Parks Top 100 Tour, recipient of the Steven L. Aschenbrenner Collector's Award Zenith Gallery, Washington, DC, New Works for the Millenium Francesca Anderson Fine Art, Portraits North, Lexington, MA, 16th Annual Portrait Show Howard / Mandville Gallery, Kirkland, WA, Paintings of the American Landscape 1998 Byrne Gallery, Middleburg, VA, Lightmotifs, solo exhibit Mystic Maritime Gallery, Mystic, CT, 19th Annual International Marine Art Exhibition Francesca Anderson Fine Art, Portraits North, Lexington, MA, 15th Annual Portrait Show Howard / Mandville Gallery, Kirkland, WA, Paintings of the American Landscape Howard / Mandville Gallery, Kirkland, WA, Paintings of the American Landscape 1997 Arts Club of Washington, Washington DC, Luminous Journeys, solo exhibit Ballantyne & Douglass Fine Art Gallery, Cannon Beach, OR, featured artist The Artists» Museum, Washington, DC Francesca Anderson Fine Art, Portraits North, Lexington, MA, 14th Annual Portrait Show Morgan Peyton Fine Arts, Charleston, WVA, Journeys through the Virginias, solo exhibit Dimock Gallery, George Washington University, Washington, DC, faculty exhibit Howard / Mandville Gallery, Edmonds, WA, Paintings of the American Landscape 1996 Howard / Mandville Gallery, Kirkland, WA, Pleasures of the Garden Francesca Anderson Fine Art, Portraits North, Lexington, MA, 13th Annual Portrait Show Howard / Mandville Gallery, Edmonds, WA, 2nd Annual Paintings of the American Landscape Gallery 4, Alexandria, VA, Landscapes Cudahy Gallery, Richmond, VA, 15th Anniversary Celebration Charles County Community College, La Plata, MD, Landscapes, solo exhibit 1995 Cudahy Gallery, Richmond, VA, Landscapes 1994 Hollis Taggart Gallery, Washington, DC, Portraits Montgomery County College, Rockville, MD, George Washington Faculty Exhibit DeMatteis Gallery, Annapolis MD, The Figure Fine Arts Gallery, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, Portraiture, co-curator 1993 Dimock Gallery, George Washington University, Washington, DC, faculty exhibit 1992 Fine Arts Gallery, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, faculty exhibit Dimock Gallery, George Washington University, Washington, DC, faculty exhibit 1991 Fine Arts Gallery, Georgetown University, Washington, DC Dimock Gallery, George Washington University, Washington, DC, faculty exhibit 1989 Plum Gallery, Kensington, MD, Capital Image 1989 Cudahy Gallery, Richmond, VA, National Portrait Exhibit Dimock Gallery, George Washington University, Washington, DC, faculty exhibit 1988 Fine Arts Gallery, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, Images of Georgetown, A Bicentennial Celebration 1986 Dimock Gallery, George Washington University, Washington, DC, Alumni Juried Exhibition 1985 Gallery 4, Alexandria, VA, Washington Landscapes Plum Gallery, Kensington, MD, The Capitol Image Today 1985 The Times Journal Co., Springfield, VA, In and Around Washington 1984 St. Petersburg Historical Society, St. Petersburg, FL 1984 Dimock Gallery, George Washington University, Washington, DC, Alumni Juried Exhibition Strathmore Hall, Rockville, MD, Metro Art Fairfax County Council of the Arts, Fairfax, VA, juried exhibit curated by Michael Botwinick, director, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC World Bank Art Society, Washington, DC 1983 Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA, Areawide Painting Exhibition, juried by Frederick Brandt, curator, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA American Artists Professional League, New York, NY, Juried Grand National Exhibition Twentieth Century Gallery, Williamsburg, VA

Using experimental colours and an unmistakeable playful approach to the traditional method of painting, Paricio has always set out to solve conceptual problems, to pay homage to great artistic figures of the past and to examine and question the role of the artist through his bright and dynamic canvases, layered with meaning.

Lasker's positioning of contradictory elements (thick / thin, brushed / troweled, gestural / flat, unconscious / conscious) through his use of three elementary essentials — figure, ground and line — challenge more traditional readings of nonrepresentational painting.

In contemporary reviews of that exhibition, the curator and art historian Andrew Wilson claimed that Rae's paintings upset «the traditional figure - ground relationship» (Wilson 1996 — 7, p. 9), while the critic Andrew Graham - Dixon described Untitled (emergency room) as «a picture of something about to take shape before it has actually done so» (Andrew Graham - Dixon, «On the Surface», Independent, 19 November 2006, http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/on-the-surface-1353083.html, accessed 15 June 2015).

«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?»

WATER MILL, NY 9/11/2015 — The Parrish Art Museum has organized Jane Freilicher and Jane Wilson: Seen and Unseen, an exhibition featuring two notable figures in American art who abandoned the Abstract Expressionism of the 1950s New York art scene to fundamentally reinvent traditional landscape and still - life painting based on highly individual approaches to representation.

More significantly, Mitchell's paintings are unusual in their composition: unlike the all - over compositional format of Pollock, Hartigan, or Krasner, her paintings are often centralized, suggesting a traditional figure - ground structure.