Sam will be featured at Papillion in November
with figurative sculptor and painter Derek Fordjour.
Interestingly I see abstract painters having to compete with the best of figurative painters in a way that I don't seem to see abstract sculptors having to compete
with figurative sculptors.
Not exact matches
Lewes About Blog Amelia Rowcroft is a professional
figurative and portrait
sculptor with 20 years experience sculpting fine art and commercially for films and waxwork exhibits.
Modernist
sculptors largely missed out on the huge boom in public art resulting from the demand for war memorials for the two World Wars, but from the 1950s the public and commissioning bodies became more comfortable
with Modernist sculpture and large public commissions both abstract and
figurative became common.
Thanasi is a contemporary
figurative sculptor whose work synthesizes classical forms
with the conceptual experiential movement of the present through the placement of
figurative and architectural pieces in dialogue
with one another.
Having first met
with some success as a
figurative sculptor, by the end of the 1960s he was making a new sort of utterly abstract sculpture.
ART STAGE Singapore welcomes Colombian
figurative artist and
sculptor Fernando Botero as the first Honorary Invited Artist
with a comprehensive dedicated exhibition of his works.
Ruby Neri Born in the 1970s into the collegial environment of artists in San Francisco, Ruby Neri's initial influences were the painters and ceramicists closely associated
with her father, the Bay Area
Figurative sculptor Manuel Neri.
The
sculptor's rough - hewn and loosely
figurative assemblages of plaster, wire, wood, and found materials are instantly engrossing and pulse
with inner life.
June 3 — July 2 Opening Reception: Friday, June 3 from 5 — 7:30
with an Artist Talk at 6:15 Internationally recognized as one of the top ceramic
sculptors, Mark Chatterley makes larger - than - life
figurative sculptures using his signature crater glaze.
Viewers have no such opportunity at Figureworks, where the work in Fragmenting the Form, a group show that includes a
figurative painter, a
sculptor and a photographer, bludgeons the viewer
with its themes of dramatized sexuality and emotion.
Although realist sculpture first emerged in the form of portrait busts of Roman Emperors (compare these gritty works
with romantic Greek sculpture), and was continued most memorably by
sculptors like Auguste Rodin (1840 - 1917), it wasn't until the advent of Pop - Art in the 1960s that artists like Duane Hanson (1925 - 96), John De Andrea (b. 1941) and Feuerman began to produce superrealist
figurative sculpture.
After his first visit to the United States in 1959, when he became acquainted
with the work of painter Kenneth Noland and
sculptor David Smith, he moved away from
figurative art entirely.
Famous Irish artists born in, or associated
with, Wicklow include: George Campbell, (Still Life and Landscape Artist); Lilian Lucy Davidson, (Landscape, Portrait and Genre Painter); Richard Kingston, (Landscape, Still Life and Flower Painter); Brian Maguire, (Expressionist Painter); Rasher (Mark Kavanagh)(Contemporary
Figurative and Still Life Painter); Camille Souter, (Landscape Artist); Michael Cullen, (Modern Artist); Damien Flood, (Contemporary Pop Artist); Brian Henderson, (Contemporary Abstract Artist); John Jobson, (Painter and
Sculptor); Cecil King, (Abstract Artist); Eoin O'Connor, (Contemporary Abstract Painter); Laurence O'Toole, (Contemporary
Figurative Painter, Landscape Artist); Stanley Pettigrew, (Landscape Artist and Illustrator); Yann Renard - Goulet, (
Sculptor); Liam Treacy, (Impressionist Style Still Life and Landscape Painter); Mabel Young, (Landscape Artist).
Peter Kröning, a wood
sculptor, and Daniel Wiesenfeld, a
figurative painter, create their art
with materials and techniques that have been around for centuries.
I'm not in any way advocating anyone starts mimicking the spaces (or anything else) of
figurative art; I am suggesting (yet again, tiresomely) that abstract painters and
sculptors compare their output
with the best achievements of figuration, which of course includes some great modernist art, if that's what you want to call it.
Lewes About Blog Amelia Rowcroft is a professional
figurative and portrait
sculptor with 20 years experience sculpting fine art and commercially for films and waxwork exhibits.