I admire how Bradford is able to balance abstract elements
with figurative images, both sharing equal time, neither losing their distinctive differences while adding a fluid interrelatedness.»
Not exact matches
Shot on a large format camera, Cawston's
images — whether landscape or cityscape, interior or
figurative — display a fascination
with shape, pattern, colour and texture and, coupled
with metaphor and association, the poetry which these qualities can often suggest.
Using a fashion sketchbook
with figurative templates as its foundation, How to Ruin an Omelet is a lively amalgam of text and
image.
Here are some of my more surreal
figurative pastels from when I lived in southern Mexico.Click on the
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Whether appropriated by some contemporary
figurative painters or aligned
with some sort of new figuration, where the painters «find everything to be a matter of
images» (to quote Barry Schwabsky from the online catalogue for «A New Subjectivity»), Abstraction clearly and demonstratively engages
with the problems of painting (and collage and sculpture) despite the surprising conservatism of Kerry James Marshall.
Not everyone associates Georgia O'Keeffe
with a floating ladder to the moon, but it fits
with the barely
figurative images nearby from Susan Rothenberg, Thomas Nozkowski, Bryan Hunt, and William Baziotes.
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 conceptual work.
Moore (1953 - 2002) is best known for large, highly detailed
figurative paintings filled
with fantastic and symbolic
images.
By interacting
with the photographed shadows in the
image, the real cast shadows of the salient frame create a coalescence of
figurative and real spaces, activating the symbolic tension between materiality and immateriality.
The paintings are
figurative and large in scale and scope,
with subjects often drawn from mythology and biblical
images.
Robyn Stone's
figurative paintings confront us
with difficult yet darkly beautiful
images of adolescent vulnerability and fragility.
Jenny Scobel makes portraits or
figurative paintings of children and women that blend a scene of innocent - like faces
with images that suggest an underlying dark or disturbing story.
His photographic works are made without the use of a camera, instead producing
images, both
figurative and abstract,
with handmade «negatives.»
Unsurprisingly, his biggest influences are painters who worked
with figurative representation but nevertheless made strange
images (Stegner calls it «weird figuration»): Balthus, Otto Dix, and Alice Neel among them.
Hinkle's largely
figurative images combine photographic imagery
with hand - drawn and painted details to create fantastical female figures of wonder.
«People
with too strong of a love for
figurative art often can tend to be very conservative and overly respectful to the traditions of realistic or academic approaches to
image making.
Nevertheless, even cognoscenti are often unable to immediately conjure mental
images that speak to the full scope and depth of Schnabel's work,
with the exception perhaps of his
figurative paintings incorporating broken crockery.
Figurative images of bodies and plants are absent, in contrast
with her earlier works foregrounding naked bodies and sex, such as the playfully erotic Pickelporno (Pimple Porno)(1992).
In his distinctive caricaturistic style, Pettibon juxtaposes
figurative images with fragmented texts throughout all mediums and subject matters.
The drawings on display are both representational and non-objective,
with images that include
figurative, landscape and abstraction.
Illustrated
with over 500
images, Vitamin D2 features practices ranging from highly accomplished
figurative drawing to abstract explorations of the medium, in materials including pencil, charcoal, crayon, pastel, ink, watercolour and digital drawing.
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.
Moore is best known for his
figurative and highly detailed large - scale paintings filled
with fantastic and symbolic
images.
Leveille: I speak in a language of pictures.In a similar way that contemporary
figurative painters such as Currin, Kerry James Marshall, and Robin Francis Williams use a sense narrative, I also use it as an artistic tool.This is very inspiring in its own right to me, the exploration of an
image, not in service TO narrative but that employs these things as tools to make an emotional connection
with the viewer.
Ralph Rugoff, Stephanie Rosenthal, «MIRRORCITY: London artists on fiction and reality», Hayward Publishing, London, November, pp. 54 - 55 Naomi Beckwith, Donatein Grau, Jennifer Higgie, Lynette Yiadom - Boake, «Lynette Yiadom - Boake», Prestel Publishing David Bindman, Henry Louis Gates Jr., «the
Image of the Black in Western Art, Part 2», Belknap Harvard, London, pp.297 - 298 «Face To Face, British Portrait Prints from the Clifford Chance art collection», Hampton Printing, Bristol, p. 13 Pinacoteca Agnelli, «Works From The Mario Testino Collection», Rizzoli «A Brush
With The Real,
Figurative Painting Today», Laurence King Publishing Ltd, London, pp.218 - 223
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
By juxtaposing the
figurative art of Robert Gober, Jeff Koons, Charles Ray and 30 other young artists
with images drawn from cutting - edge technologies and consumer culture, Deitch gives us a sobering glimpse of the post-human world to come.
He was the first to return figuration to postwar American painting, was innovative in his combination of «high art»
with images from popular culture, and is today celebrated as the pioneer of postmodern,
figurative painting.
With the
figurative paintings, McKinniss works from photographs — both found
images and pictures he has taken himself.
Fusing
figurative realism
with graphic forms, Morgan's impeccably detailed
images demonstrate an exceptional technique, while purposefully abstracting the human body — at times reducing it to its fundamental, skeletal structure.
Lacing Action painting and Color Field painting
with a postmodern twist, Zimmermann's abstract motifs seem to spring from more
figurative representations: he uses computer graphics and «dithering» (a technique that displays
images without firm edges so as to give a more colorful appearance) to deform
images, texts and signs from his own massive archive of
images, evoking the atlases of Gerhard Richter and Aby Warburg.
After studying literature and art history at Yale University and later taking classes at the Art Institute of Chicago, Oldenburg moved to New York and eventually became part of a group of artists challenging Abstract Expressionism by returning to «realism,» working
with found objects and
figurative images.
Unfortunately, geometric
images can't compare
with the beauty of
figurative cave art, as exemplified by the powerful bulls in the Lascaux cave paintings or the watching lions in the Chauvet cave paintings.
Where the nine hundreds can be considered as the avant - garde century, the age - old motif of the mutual influence and interference between word and
image on the one hand and
figurative arts and literature on the other gains a new specific setup precisely
with avant - gardist culture.
The
image's horizontal line, both in the abstract intention of the light installations and the
figurative intention of the canvases, seeks the absence of a commonplace, denying the observer the feeling of familiarity
with the physical space.
As the artist himself has said, «You can't invent a painting from scratch; you are working
with an entire tradition... The pictorial language of the 20th century, from Kurt Schwitters's collages to Jackson Pollock's drip paintings, makes up a range of possibilities that I utilise in order to create a transhistorical
figurative painting — a painting of the
image as such, of representation» (A. Ghenie, quoted in «Adrian Ghenie in Conversation
with Magda Radu,» Adrian Ghenie: Darwin's Room, exh.
Painter, illustrator, graphic designer and graffiti artist, Rems 182's imagery unites violence, eroticism, and strength in both large - scale and smaller portraits characterised by a use of multiple perspectives that create a unique softness in each
image that allows the various expressions to complement each other while revealing the complexities of human emotion Having a background as a graffiti writer his work combines both letter - based and complex
figurative images, or as the artist himself explains: «I fuse my graffiti writer language
with my modern
figurative art experience in perennial tension towards abstract disaggregation.»
They stated that
figurative art «communicates because it has the capacity to refer to experiences that the artist shares
with his audience», and that «the
image, the recognizable shape, the meaningful symbol, is the basic unit of the artists» language».
Marcel Dzama:
With a strong narrative bent, it makes perfect sense that artist Marcel Dzama would embrace the moving image along with his signature figurative drawings, which channel the surrealistic armies of Henry Darger along with rabbit holes pioneered by Marcel Duchamp (Dzama's admitted muse) and pal film director Spike Jo
With a strong narrative bent, it makes perfect sense that artist Marcel Dzama would embrace the moving
image along
with his signature figurative drawings, which channel the surrealistic armies of Henry Darger along with rabbit holes pioneered by Marcel Duchamp (Dzama's admitted muse) and pal film director Spike Jo
with his signature
figurative drawings, which channel the surrealistic armies of Henry Darger along
with rabbit holes pioneered by Marcel Duchamp (Dzama's admitted muse) and pal film director Spike Jo
with rabbit holes pioneered by Marcel Duchamp (Dzama's admitted muse) and pal film director Spike Jonze.
The photographs exhibited by Daniel Gordon (b. 1980) represent the final stage of a process that starts
with the construction of life - size
figurative sculptures made from cut paper and other
images, often culled from the internet.
A perfect blend of geometric deconstructionism
with figurative elements the artist masterfully composes intense
images.
While some paintings in the show are interspersed
with figurative elements, Chris Martin is fully committed to an abstract style of painting that enables him to access different levels of language and
image in limitless expression.
Produced entirely within his Dumbo, Brooklyn studio, the crude
figurative sculptures (often female) depict bizarre and sometimes unsettling situations; detached objects and anatomical parts mingle and merge
with one other to form grotesquely appealing
images, such as Red Headed Woman (2008).
Both men produced abstract and
figurative works — some
with flattened, muted colors; others
with vibrant, recognizable
images.
Along
with artists such as Robert Gober and Katharina Fritsch, Charles Ray has salvaged the tradition of crafted,
figurative sculpture by radically reconstituting the three - dimensional object as «
image.»
His
figurative work of the 1930s, rich
with interpenetrating forms, gave way in the 1940s to primitive and satanic
images.
Minimalist art eliminated
figurative images and illusionistic pictorial space and replaced them
with a single
image, often composed of smaller segments organized in a grid pattern.
I decided to make both paintings and sculptures, and in the paintings I worked
with large geometric lines, extensions of three - dimensional letters, or objects that played on the surreal, elongated,
figurative images in Lam's work that sometimes depict Yoruba deities like Eleguá, Yemayá or Changó.
The exhibition will explore their shared fascination
with light, landscape, the sublime and mythology as well as the painterly qualities of their work, whether as makers of
figurative or abstract
images.
As the years tumbled onward, Gerson experimented
with almost every imaginable abstract and
figurative approach to
image making, including Geometric Abstraction, Color Field Painting, and Lyrical Abstraction.