Sentences with phrase «worked with figurative painting»

Park worked with figurative painting from about 1950 until about 1959 when he became ill with cancer.

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The exhibit will include stunning hyper - realistic work by Churchill - Johnson — stark political statement contrasted with delicate, minimalist abstraction by Uyesaka — deeply engaging abstract oils by Scorzelli — dynamic and powerful ceramic insights by Rosenberg - Dent — fanciful, abstract adventures by Lehrer — an unsettling mixed - media installation with video by auto - expressionist, Metrov — striking figurative vs abstract works by Ferris — a lively «abolish blandness» painting by Lytle contrasted with fabulous yarn work from the early 90's — and a pair of McCracken's, always delightful, miniatures.

Neal notes that «it is interesting that 8 Painters, comprised of all figurative painting, and timed to run concurrently with The Forever Now, offers an alternative to the mostly abstract works at MoMA.

Where as Avery's early figurative drawings and paintings from the 1930s attest to affinities primarily with the work of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, by the 1940s he was discernibly close to Henri Matisse.

Unlike his figurative work, these paintings are larger in scale and made using a much different technique, utilizing a broom to paint and later flooding the surfaces with chlorine and water.

Neel persisted passionately with figurative painting throughout the post-war period, gaining recognition for her work from the 1960s onwards.

With almost 40 works, this exhibition proposes a complete view of the artist's aesthetic development, starting with his figurative works, when he exhibited in Barcelona in the early 30's, until his latest abstract paintings of the 90's after going through the abstract expressionist stage that became so relevant in the United States during the 40s and With almost 40 works, this exhibition proposes a complete view of the artist's aesthetic development, starting with his figurative works, when he exhibited in Barcelona in the early 30's, until his latest abstract paintings of the 90's after going through the abstract expressionist stage that became so relevant in the United States during the 40s and with his figurative works, when he exhibited in Barcelona in the early 30's, until his latest abstract paintings of the 90's after going through the abstract expressionist stage that became so relevant in the United States during the 40s and 50s.

But when it comes to viewing David Park's body of work, this book shines with superb color plates dispersed throughout, showing Park's development as a painter from his early days, his non-figurative period, his return to figurative painting, and his final figurative work in gouache.

Over 300 pages illustrated with Zeller's own exquisite drawings and paintings as well as works by nearly 100 historical and contemporary figurative art masters, the book includes some of the finest figurative art of the past and the present day.

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 conceptuPainting» (1979), which celebrated a revival of figurative painting in an artistic climate dominated by conceptupainting in an artistic climate dominated by conceptual work.

My wife read something that said that I'm now working with the figure, and had in quotes that representational and figurative paintings will be back.

But like Elmer Bischoff and David Park, with whom he made the turn to figurative painting a few years later, Diebenkorn was asking questions that abstract expressionism couldn't always answer, even though, as the early works in the show at the Royal Academy (until 7 June) suggest, he was a loyal and talented disciple: the LA Times described him as «one of the most gifted artists in the American non-objective field».

These works marked his rejection of making figurative art with clear references to the real world, and in particular his move away from the post-WWII Kitchen Sink group of artists who were painting ordinary scenes of everyday life.

Matisse stands as the artist who most directly got under the skin of his work, and indeed there have been few artists who have engaged as deeply and as intelligently with Matisse's paintings, and yet managed to create a distinctly American panorama, both in his figurative work and, to a point, his later abstract canvases.

Whereas Bickerton's early works tackle form, function, and communication, with sometimes single words acting as the entire painting, his later figurative pieces are visually deafening, with bright color and cluttered objects mirroring the over-the-top excess featured as the work's subject.

He marked the shift with his first foray into figurative paintings, which made up half of the eight works in the exhibition.

His early work was figurative but he moved towards abstraction from the late 1960s onwards, and is renowned for his large - scale paintings saturated with colour.

FRANCIS PICABIA: OUR HEADS ARE ROUND SO OUR THOUGHTS CAN CHANGE DIRECTION Picabia was on the ground with the Dadaists in Paris, but this exhibition includes his later work, which has influenced contemporary painters — perverse figurative paintings that look like precursors to Pop Art, or pulp fiction book covers.

In figurative paintings brimming with crisp, flat forms and bold outlines (evoking sign painting as well as the works of John Wesley), Keogh portrays headless female bodies that have been bisected at the waist, an empty suit of armor, and flowery vines that weave in and out of swords.

Featuring more than 100 works spanning from the early 1980s to the present, including a number of new and never - before - seen pieces, the exhibition juxtaposes graphic patterns with abstracted, figurative paintings, creating a fully immersive environment that underscores the artist's systematic dismantling of the hierarchy between design and fine art, and between three - dimensional form and two - dimensional representation.

With Kelly's return to the States, he moved away from figurative painting into the crisp, carefully wrought geometries of his mature style.

So I was then able to put in more of my figurative work with some symbolism and mythology into my painting.

He worked in series, completing sets of abstract and figurative paintings that he often exhibited together in order to explore the assumptions connected with each mode of painting.

Working consistently with figurative painting for over four decades, Semmel is primarily associated with the establishment of the Feminist art movement in the 1970s.

The figurative works of Chantal Joffe reveal the artist's keen observation of everyday life and her active engagement with the medium of painting.

- Peter Doig1 British / Canadian artist Peter Doig stands in a position seemingly riddled with contradictions: straddling national identities; employing a medium (photography) historically thought to lead to the eventual disappearance of his own medium (painting); and working within a continuum of large scale figurative and landscape oil paintings.

While Huma Bhabha is known for her figurative sculptures, she was trained in painting and printmaking and has been working with photography.

Accompanying Dumas» first major mid-career survey in the U.S., with stops in three major American cities, (one yet to be announced) this substantial, fully - illustrated publication features a newly commissioned essay by renowned scholar Richard Shiff, placing the artist's work in relation to both American figurative painting since the 1980s and Abstract Expressionism.

Sundaram Tagore Chelsea is pleased to present Susan Weil: Now and Then, an exhibition of new sculptural paintings and drawings alongside a selection of mixed - media works from past series that combine figurative illustration and photography with explorations of movement, time and space.

MATRIX 250 features the work of Los Angeles — based artist Linda Stark (b. 1956), who has been making figurative and abstract paintings with heavily built - up surfaces of paint since the late 1980s.

His work calls forth the tradition of figurative narrative painting by subverting it with personal cultural references and depictions of pared down and theatrical urban settings.

Delacroix's dramatic, Romantic approach to painting paved the way for modern art, asserts a show at the National Gallery in February, while in Bath the Holburne Museum marks its centenary year with a display of figurative work by 19th - century radicals, the Impressionists.

One of Australia's foremost contemporary artists working today, Barton's distinctive use of line across painting, illustration, video and collage creates a vibrant figurative dream world, rich with personal references and poignant juxtapositions.

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.

Reengaging with the iconography of previous bodies of work, the new paintings on view mark Osborne's return back to figurative painting after a period of total abstraction — utilzing bookcases, her studio painting storage, and windows as a point of departure for further play with blocks of color within the paintings.

Infused with hints of Rococo and men's fashion, Mockrin offers enticing figurative paintings; dark visions of luxury, her works are populated by androgynous characters set in jewel - toned textiles and velvety black backgrounds.

The exhibition — a collaboration between Iziko South African National Gallery (ISANG), the country's premier public museum and host venue for this show, and The New Church Museum, a private collection with a contemporary focus — juxtaposes historical and contemporary works by 27 artists (20 men and seven women) to offer various critical insights about patriarchy and gendered tropes within figurative painting.

With our latest exhibition we have set out to exhibit a group of artists who work within the scope of analog painting referencing the analogical representational elements of work that could be seen as figurative or representational at times.

After several years assembling hanging installations of two - sided figurative paintings, Mastrangelo has recently returned to wall - mounted work in a series of impressive figurative collages made by adhering shapes of brightly patterned fabrics to fiberglass scrim with acrylic binders.

Today, figurative painting is experiencing an unprecedented revival, with a handful of artists who are regularly exhibiting at major institutions and galleries and whose works are counting serious dollars at auctions worldwide.

Altfest's work calls to mind the precise naturalism of early Lucian Freud, and finds affinities in others who painted from life such as Georgia O'Keeffe and Stanley Spencer, but she has developed her own distinct approach to figurative and representational painting since graduating with an MFA from Yale University School of Art in 1997.

From there, his almost flat, almost abstract works, with their contrasting planes of colour and reminiscences of doorways and cheerful bunting, provided Brazilian artists with a bridge between the bright, figurative paintings of Brazilian modernists such as Emiliano di Cavalcanti and Tarsila do Amaral and the geometric abstraction of the 1950s Neo-Concrete movement and Grupo Ruptura.

From his ceramic sculptures that eerily resist figurative formations with their oozing, amorphic shapes to his multilayered mixed media paintings, Ruby's expansive body of work complicates already - turbulent nature of human mind.

His unease at the loss of figurative imagery in the painting at that time with which he had so much success eventually led his own work down deeply conflicted avenues.

His works, made on vinyl foil and mounted on the walls, are in conversation with the architecture but also with Impressionist paintings, which can only be perceived as figurative imagery once the viewer has reached a certain distance from the work.

During 2014's «Prospect.3: Notes for Now» — the third iteration of the city - wide contemporary art triennial in New Orleans — the Contemporary Arts Center was filled with a selection of abstract paintings, figurative works, video installations, and fish tanks full of coral — all pieces created by artists from around the world.

The precision with which Ali creates her small, figurative, gouache paintings on paper is such that it takes her many months to complete a single work.

and possibly the fact that here they are not given a room to themselves but are juxtaposed, as are most of the figurative works here, with large - scale abstract paintings in this loosely chronological hang.

Early in his career Scully made figurative work to which he still feels indebted: «To this day my paintings retain a sense of the body, and the feeling of a physical relationship with the world.»

A dancing effect materializes and the works approach the near figurative, as if in conversation with paintings of an earlier era with a similar emphasis on joie - de-vivre, perhaps those of Matisse and his fauvist compatriots.