Her work mostly
deals with the human figure (specifically her body) and has recently shifted to include the architectural spaces of her home.
The artworks are made in the artist's recognizable
style with a human figure places in the center and suggestive texts incorporated below.
Despite their varied approaches to media and subject, these artists are bound by their sustained
engagement with the human figure and by their use of pattern as a visual strategy to enhance, entice, or complicate our viewing experience.
In a departure from previous works in this series featuring stuffed toys and anthropomorphic animals, Davis is also showing drawings
with human figures as part of his pursuit to fully realize this...
Influenced at an early stage by art movements that celebrate gestural, informal and spontaneous practice such as art informel, tachisme and surrealism, Lassnig developed a singular body of work, making boldly expressive, brightly coloured oil paintings
with the human figure at the centre of her compositions.
Lassnig created what could be seen as a singular lifelong oeuvre of work consisting of expressive, brightly coloured oil
paintings with the human figure, using herself as subject matter: time literally passes the viewer as they wander this honest and slightly melancholic exhibition.
They illuminate the
sculptures with human figures that interact with Oursler's miniature worlds; they wriggle across sheets of glass, bounce from corner to corner, and crawl over the surfaces of crudely shaped clay, eery distortions moving across the uneven surface.
Past attempts to send messages to aliens, such as the plaques
etched with human figures sent upon the Voyager missions, have steered clear of such fuzzy and controversial topics as theology.
«Bauhaus, Dessau,» taken from a photograph taken by the artist of a stairway in the Weimar - era
school with the human figures entirely removed, serves as a chilling reminder of the effects of authoritarianism, globalism, right - wing populism and what the gallery calls «the locusts of power.»
Giacometti was concerned consistently and almost
exclusively with the human figure in his sculptures and paintings, and he developed an original human image of his own with his unmistakable style of figuration, especially during the years after 1945.
One of the earliest works in this survey of 25 artists who have
engaged with the human figure over the past quarter century is Bear and Policeman by the controversial American Jeff Koons, who is about to be the subject of a retrospective at the Whitney Museum in New York.
Centrally
occupied with the human figure, his standout piece, Raft, 2015, presents a densely packed assembly of objects that includes tenuous figural elements; it references both the Mediterranean migrant crisis and plight of Cape Town ’s
However, César's iconic Thumb (1966) and Main (1968) simultaneously tie his work to the French artist Martial Raysse and to American Pop artist Tom Wesselmann, who similarly exaggerated and
played with the human figure.
It's no surprise to me that some of the best artists
grappling with the human figure at Miami Basel were artists of African heritage, like Hank Willis Thomas, whose work often deals with portrayals of African Americans in the media and how those ideas have shifted over time.
The majority of his constructions, built from oblong rectangular blocks of wood or bronze, raise
associations with human figures: some of them stand on one leg, others on two, others lie on the floor, some seem to climb the walls.
In her challenging
engagement with the human figure and investigation of social meaning, Eisenman is developing new conventions of figuration to address enduring themes of the human condition.
Huma Bhabha (American, b. Karachi, Pakistan, 1962) is known for her engagement
with the human figure and for her use of found materials, working primarily in sculpture.
During a time when abstraction was hailed as the future of contemporary painting, the group created works rooted in the external world,
with the human figure and contemporary events informing their style and content.
«Dealing
with the human figure is new for me,» the artist said.»
Armitage's work reveals an abiding fascination
with the human figure, which he often rendered in flattened form with schematized oblong or diminutive heads and stick limbs.
Featuring some of the artist's most innovative works, Lichtenstein: Re-Figure aims not only to highlight the artist's engagement
with the human figure — a central theme throughout his career — but also to «re-figure,» in the sense of reassessing, the common yet reductive view of Lichtenstein as the painter of pop culture images.
In this way, Bacon tackled landscape painting similar to the way he dealt
with the human figure.
Tuesday, July 5 at 5:30 pm Huma Bhabha is known for her engagement
with the human figure and her use of found materials.
During the course of an extraordinarily productive career that spanned over 70 years, Knight's work reflected her commitment to depicting modern life and her fascination
with the human figure, as asserted in her iconic «Self Portrait» (1913).
Collectively, the works represented here are concerned
with the human figure.
Deepening his research, Lannes brings to São Paulo visual chronicles that extract, beyond his fascination
with human figure, a rich, historical Brazilian panorama.