Often with figurative painting, the work can be too inviting, in the way that they allow or even require the viewer to participate, to take part in the picture.
After starting
with figurative paintings in the 1960s and»70s, she moved on to bold, color drenched, landscapes and eventually abstractions that explore color spectrums.
The argument continues
with figurative painting from the 1970s by Philip Guston, and proceeds via influential paintings of the 1980s and 1990s by Thomas Lawson, Kerry James Marshall, Luc Tuymans and others.
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.
For Art Basel Miami Beach, for instance, he has teamed up with none other than Larry Gagosian on an exhibition, «Unrealism,» that will fill the atrium of the Moore
Building with figurative painting and sculpture from the 1980s (Julian Schnabel, Francesco Clemente) to the right - this - minute (Jamian Juliano - Villani, Sascha Braunig).
He rejected art school's abstract expressionist training as academic by the late 1950s, and describes his «atomic bomb» moment as his encounter with Jasper Johns» «Target with Four Faces», which exploded the pieties around abstraction and collapsed its
gap with figurative painting.
After an initial
dalliance with figurative painting in the 1950s he became a life - long proponent of the possibilities of non-figurative imagery, which possessed for him, he once wrote, «the potential for the most advanced depth of feeling and meaning».
The landscape dominated American painting throughout the 19th century and well into the 20th, and though it continued to have practitioners thereafter (Fairfield Porter, for example), it was overshadowed,
along with figurative painting in general, by various styles of abstraction from Cubism to Minimalism.
Although they may not at first appear to have anything in common, King points out that Robinson's still lifes of consumer products share an underlying
theme with his figurative paintings.
I'm interested in finding a kind of flatnessin colour or form, so it's nothing to
do with figurative painting, even if you can see a figure there; it's primarily about erasing the focal point.
Tuymans, who had a mid-career retrospective at Tate Modern in 2004, has
stuck with figurative painting, even when it was far from fashionable, and remains a hugely influential artist.
Kitaj had a significant influence on British pop art,
with his figurative paintings featuring areas of bright colour, economic use of line and overlapping planes which made them resemble collages, but eschewing most abstraction and modernism.
In his spring exhibition, «Now and Then: Revisiting the Present,» Leslie Poole blends still
life with figurative painting and glimpses of landscape.
In the arts, this dynasty was noted for architectural structures like the al - Azhar Mosque and the al - Hakim Mosque of Cairo; ceramic art in the form of pottery
decorated with figurative painting and ivory carving as well as relief sculpture and the emergence of the «infinite pattern» of abstract ornamentation.
Contrasting Kosuth's brand of Conceptual
art with figurative painting by young artists, Kuspit observes: «With Kosuth, self - criticality, and its larger relationship to life, have become overintellectualized, overexposed; art here is no longer subversive, except perhaps to itself.
With my figurative paintings, I am trying to explore a more universal interaction between people while pushing paintings as a visual language.
Notable in Toronto and Montréal in particular, is a concern with what may be called expressive abstraction and
with figurative painting, although not to the exclusion of geometric abstraction.
Her narrative urge and her need to express
herself with figurative painting both originate from a strong communicative instinct that translates into drawings and animation, reminiscent of a certain Renaissance tradition that focuses its artistic study on drawing and the human figure.
With the figurative paintings, McKinniss works from photographs — both found images and pictures he has taken himself.