Sentences with phrase «years of figurative art»

If it's meant to just be a show of 100 years of figurative art, that feels too broad.

Not exact matches

But that may be about to change thanks to the Royal Academy of Arts (RA) which has launched the first major survey of Diebenkorn's figurative and abstract works in the UK in almost 25 years.

Five years ago, he curated a show at Colby of such young art stars as Elizabeth Peyton, Peter Doig and Merlin James, who work in the same figurative territory staked out by Katz.

The winner of the American Academy of Arts and Letters's award for best young figurative painter a few years back, she was recently curated into a show by the artist Alex Katz and now has growing market buzz.

The programme you've announced for this year has an emphasis on the twentieth century; a show covering a century of British figurative painters centred on Francis Bacon and Lucien Freud; a show on the art after the First World War, followed by a show of the Victorian pre-Raphaelite painter Edward Burne - Jones...

America 1976 traveling exhibition United States Department of the Interior Bicentennial Washington, D.C. American Prints: 1913 - 1963 travelling exhibition The Museum of Modern Art New York, NY New England Works on Paper Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA 30 Years of American Printmaking The Brooklyn Museum Brooklyn, NY The Figurative Tradition: Nine Artists and Their Prints Williams College Museum of Art Williamstown, MA

In the introduction to a 2003 essay on Tomaselli's work in Parkett magazine, curator James Rondeau writes: «Over the course of the last ten years, Fred Tomaselli has established an international reputation for his meticulously crafted, richly detailed, deliriously beautiful works of both abstract and figurative art.

2007 Existencias, Musac, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Léon Some kind of Portrait, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA Size Matters: XS, Recent Small - Scale Paintings, HVCCA, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY Joy Feasley & Clare Rojas: Pow - Wows or The Long Lost Friend, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Silly Adults, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen Very Abstract and Hyper Figurative, Thomas Dane Gallery, London Panic Room, Works from The Dakis Joannou Collection, Deste Foundation, Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens In The Fullness of Time: The Luggage Store 20 Year Anniversary Exhibition, San Francisco, CA

Sotheby's started the evening's other 38 lots with the 2012 painting «Drown,» by the young Nigerian - born figurative painter Njideka Akunyili Crosby, who earlier this year was the subject of a one - woman show at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Fla..

After a twenty year career as a figurative painter, I began painting abstractly two years ago and have been conflicted about it ever since, thanks in large measure to the state of the art world.

The problem with figurative art at the time was that it had run out of steam, but the polemic was that you couldn't do it any more, which seemed absurd after 4,000 years of people making representations of each other.

So when the easygoing, 46 - year - old painter of abstract - figurative canvases — more appreciated in the indie music and zine subcultures than by Tokyo - based curators and gallerists — was given a retrospective in August 2014, «The Great Circus,» at the prestigious Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art, an hour's train ride southeast of Tokyo, it caught Japan's art community by surpriseArt, an hour's train ride southeast of Tokyo, it caught Japan's art community by surpriseart community by surprise...

A few years later, in 1979, David Hockney, long before he became an RA (he was elected in 1991), gave an interview to the Observer in which he lambasted the Tate Gallery, and in particular its then Director, Norman Reid, for what he saw as its culpable neglect of figurative art.

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.

He earned his M.F.A. from the Graduate School of Figurative Art of the New York Academy of Art, and supplemented his training with several years of private study and studio apprenticeships along the east coast of the United States.

Primarily a figurative painter and printmaker, Anthony Panzera (born 1941) has taught for more than forty years at Hunter College in the Department of Art and Art History.

In the space of just eight years he had succeeded in creating an extensive oeuvre and introducing new figurative and expressive elements into contemporary art.

Chapter 1: Things Must be Pulverized: Abstract Expressionism Charts the move from figurative to abstract painting as the dominant style of painting (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Willem de Kooning, Barnett Newman Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko Chapter 2: Wounded Painting: Informel in Europe and Beyond Meanwhile in Europe: abstract painters immediate responses to the horrors of World War II (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Jean Dubuffet, Lucio Fontana, Viennese Aktionism, Wols Chapter 3: Post-War Figurative Painting Surveys those artists who defiantly continued to make figurative work as Abstraction was rising to dominance - including Social Realists (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Francis Bacon, Lucien Freud, Alice Neel, Pablo Picasso Chapter 4: Against Gesture - Geometric Abstraction The development of a rational, universal language of art - the opposite of the highly emotional Informel or Abstract Expressionism (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Lygia Clark, Ellsworth Kelly, Bridget Riley, Yves Klein Chapter 5: Post-Painting Part 1: After Pollock In the aftermath of Pollock's death: the early days of Pop, Minimalism and Conceptual painting in the USA (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, Cy Twombly Chapter 5: Anti Tradition - Pop Painitng How painting survives against growth of mass visual culture: photography and television - if you can't beat them, join them (1960s and 70s) Key artists discussed: Alex Katz, Roy Lichtenstein, Gerhard Richter, Andy Warhol Chapter 6: A transcendental high art: Neo Expressionism and its Discontents The continuation of figuration and expressionism in the 1970s and 80s, including many artists who have only been appreciated in later years (1970s & 80s) Key artists discussed: Georg Baselitz, Jean - Michel Basquiat, Anselm Kiefer, Julian Schnabel, Chapter 7: Post-Painting Part II: After Pop A new era in which figurative and abstract exist side by side rather than polar opposites plus painting expands beyond the canvas (late 1980s to 2000s) Key artists discussed: Tomma Abts, Mark Grotjahn, Chris Ofili, Christopher Wool Chapter 8: New Figures, Pop Romantics Post-cold war, artists use paint to create a new kind of «pop art» - primarily figurative - tackling cultural, social and political issues (1990s to now) Key artists discussed: John Currin, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, Neo Rauch, Lfigurative to abstract painting as the dominant style of painting (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Willem de Kooning, Barnett Newman Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko Chapter 2: Wounded Painting: Informel in Europe and Beyond Meanwhile in Europe: abstract painters immediate responses to the horrors of World War II (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Jean Dubuffet, Lucio Fontana, Viennese Aktionism, Wols Chapter 3: Post-War Figurative Painting Surveys those artists who defiantly continued to make figurative work as Abstraction was rising to dominance - including Social Realists (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Francis Bacon, Lucien Freud, Alice Neel, Pablo Picasso Chapter 4: Against Gesture - Geometric Abstraction The development of a rational, universal language of art - the opposite of the highly emotional Informel or Abstract Expressionism (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Lygia Clark, Ellsworth Kelly, Bridget Riley, Yves Klein Chapter 5: Post-Painting Part 1: After Pollock In the aftermath of Pollock's death: the early days of Pop, Minimalism and Conceptual painting in the USA (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, Cy Twombly Chapter 5: Anti Tradition - Pop Painitng How painting survives against growth of mass visual culture: photography and television - if you can't beat them, join them (1960s and 70s) Key artists discussed: Alex Katz, Roy Lichtenstein, Gerhard Richter, Andy Warhol Chapter 6: A transcendental high art: Neo Expressionism and its Discontents The continuation of figuration and expressionism in the 1970s and 80s, including many artists who have only been appreciated in later years (1970s & 80s) Key artists discussed: Georg Baselitz, Jean - Michel Basquiat, Anselm Kiefer, Julian Schnabel, Chapter 7: Post-Painting Part II: After Pop A new era in which figurative and abstract exist side by side rather than polar opposites plus painting expands beyond the canvas (late 1980s to 2000s) Key artists discussed: Tomma Abts, Mark Grotjahn, Chris Ofili, Christopher Wool Chapter 8: New Figures, Pop Romantics Post-cold war, artists use paint to create a new kind of «pop art» - primarily figurative - tackling cultural, social and political issues (1990s to now) Key artists discussed: John Currin, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, Neo Rauch, LFigurative Painting Surveys those artists who defiantly continued to make figurative work as Abstraction was rising to dominance - including Social Realists (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Francis Bacon, Lucien Freud, Alice Neel, Pablo Picasso Chapter 4: Against Gesture - Geometric Abstraction The development of a rational, universal language of art - the opposite of the highly emotional Informel or Abstract Expressionism (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Lygia Clark, Ellsworth Kelly, Bridget Riley, Yves Klein Chapter 5: Post-Painting Part 1: After Pollock In the aftermath of Pollock's death: the early days of Pop, Minimalism and Conceptual painting in the USA (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, Cy Twombly Chapter 5: Anti Tradition - Pop Painitng How painting survives against growth of mass visual culture: photography and television - if you can't beat them, join them (1960s and 70s) Key artists discussed: Alex Katz, Roy Lichtenstein, Gerhard Richter, Andy Warhol Chapter 6: A transcendental high art: Neo Expressionism and its Discontents The continuation of figuration and expressionism in the 1970s and 80s, including many artists who have only been appreciated in later years (1970s & 80s) Key artists discussed: Georg Baselitz, Jean - Michel Basquiat, Anselm Kiefer, Julian Schnabel, Chapter 7: Post-Painting Part II: After Pop A new era in which figurative and abstract exist side by side rather than polar opposites plus painting expands beyond the canvas (late 1980s to 2000s) Key artists discussed: Tomma Abts, Mark Grotjahn, Chris Ofili, Christopher Wool Chapter 8: New Figures, Pop Romantics Post-cold war, artists use paint to create a new kind of «pop art» - primarily figurative - tackling cultural, social and political issues (1990s to now) Key artists discussed: John Currin, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, Neo Rauch, Lfigurative work as Abstraction was rising to dominance - including Social Realists (1940s & 50s) Key artists discussed: Francis Bacon, Lucien Freud, Alice Neel, Pablo Picasso Chapter 4: Against Gesture - Geometric Abstraction The development of a rational, universal language of art - the opposite of the highly emotional Informel or Abstract Expressionism (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Lygia Clark, Ellsworth Kelly, Bridget Riley, Yves Klein Chapter 5: Post-Painting Part 1: After Pollock In the aftermath of Pollock's death: the early days of Pop, Minimalism and Conceptual painting in the USA (1950s and early 1960s) Key artists discussed: Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, Cy Twombly Chapter 5: Anti Tradition - Pop Painitng How painting survives against growth of mass visual culture: photography and television - if you can't beat them, join them (1960s and 70s) Key artists discussed: Alex Katz, Roy Lichtenstein, Gerhard Richter, Andy Warhol Chapter 6: A transcendental high art: Neo Expressionism and its Discontents The continuation of figuration and expressionism in the 1970s and 80s, including many artists who have only been appreciated in later years (1970s & 80s) Key artists discussed: Georg Baselitz, Jean - Michel Basquiat, Anselm Kiefer, Julian Schnabel, Chapter 7: Post-Painting Part II: After Pop A new era in which figurative and abstract exist side by side rather than polar opposites plus painting expands beyond the canvas (late 1980s to 2000s) Key artists discussed: Tomma Abts, Mark Grotjahn, Chris Ofili, Christopher Wool Chapter 8: New Figures, Pop Romantics Post-cold war, artists use paint to create a new kind of «pop art» - primarily figurative - tackling cultural, social and political issues (1990s to now) Key artists discussed: John Currin, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, Neo Rauch, Lfigurative and abstract exist side by side rather than polar opposites plus painting expands beyond the canvas (late 1980s to 2000s) Key artists discussed: Tomma Abts, Mark Grotjahn, Chris Ofili, Christopher Wool Chapter 8: New Figures, Pop Romantics Post-cold war, artists use paint to create a new kind of «pop art» - primarily figurative - tackling cultural, social and political issues (1990s to now) Key artists discussed: John Currin, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, Neo Rauch, Lfigurative - tackling cultural, social and political issues (1990s to now) Key artists discussed: John Currin, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, Neo Rauch, Luc Tuymans

Dominic Eichler Looking back over the last 20 years of your art - making, it is striking how you have circled and constantly returned to a diverse range of genres, modes of reproduction and printing techniques while exploring both figurative and abstract images, and that all of these approaches still find their place in your recent exhibitions and publications, such as Manual (2007).

A key figure in the history of figurative expressionism whose international reputation has been steadily on the rise in recent years, Jay Milder is a living link to the epoch when New York was the capital of the art world and expressionism was at its peak.

Schimmel has organized major one - person retrospectives for artists Chris Burden, Willem De Kooning, Takashi Murakami, Laura Owens, Sigmar Polke, Charles Ray, and Robert Rauschenberg, and significant thematic exhibitions such as The Interpretive Link: Abstract Surrealism into Abstract Expressionism, Works on Paper, 1938 - 1948 (1987), The Figurative Fifties: New York Figurative Expressionism (1988), Hand - Painted Pop: American Art in Transition 1955 — 62 (1992), Helter Skelter: LA Art in the 1990s (1992), Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object, 1949 - 1979 (1999), Ecstasy: In and About Altered States (2006), and Collection: MOCA's First 30 Years (2010).

But the past few years have seen the emergence of a batch of exciting young figurative painters who, though their concerns are varied, share a number of intriguing characteristics: they are attuned to humor (slapstick looms large), fixated on the body, rapacious in their mining of both art history and the broader culture (from TV to Internet memes), and most of all, determined to impart pleasure.

At the Whitney Biennial that year, the ceramics of Sterling Ruby and Shio Kusaka were featured prominently; the de Purys curated a show of leading ceramic artists at Venus Over Manhattan; and at major fairs like Frieze and Art Basel, galleries punctuated their presentations with pots by Dan McCarthy and Takuro Kuwata, and the figurative sculptures of Rachel Kneebone and Klara Kristalova.

The issue came to light for the first time last year after a campaign by the Stuckists, a circle of figurative painters who range themselves against conceptual art, the Turner prize and the prevailing policies of the Tate.

The artist, known for figurative paintings employing patches of bright color, moved to L.A. after his wife's death in 1994 — the same year that a large exhibition of his work was seen at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

He is not easy to place, and in some desperation the organisers of the exhibition at the centre of the centenary Venice Biennale in 1995, a celebration of the figurative art of the previous 100 years, had a stab at it by describing him in the catalogue notes both as «a kind of eccentric conceptualist» and «a sort of romantic traveller of the mind» - «kind of» and «sort of» are, of course, the giveaway.

During the following eleven years spent in the Southwest, Locke was known for his figurative sculptures in bronze and for his series of articles on the contemporary art of the Southwest in Artspace magazine, for which he was Arizona correspondent.

She was always, after her student years as a figurative artist training at St Martin's School of Art in London (1941 - 46) and the Royal Academy Schools (1946 - 47), an abstractionist.

This year, Rob Delamater and Gaetan Caron's Lost Art Salon provides 30 low - cost works next to a roomful of pricey Bay Area figurative and abstract works by famous alumni of the San Francisco Art Institute (and supplied by the San Francisco Art Dealers Association) in a kind of encyclopedia of local aArt Salon provides 30 low - cost works next to a roomful of pricey Bay Area figurative and abstract works by famous alumni of the San Francisco Art Institute (and supplied by the San Francisco Art Dealers Association) in a kind of encyclopedia of local aArt Institute (and supplied by the San Francisco Art Dealers Association) in a kind of encyclopedia of local aArt Dealers Association) in a kind of encyclopedia of local artart.

Over 9 years, the school has hosted classes and workshops taught by some of the finest faculty working in Figurative art today.

The first major 20th century British sculpture exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts for 30 years is set to take place early next year.The survey will be a chronological tour to» represent a unique view of the development of British sculpture» Works have been chosen to highlight the artists» figurative and abstract choices, comparing works such as Phillip King's Genghis Khan and Edwin Lutyens's Cenotaph.

Exhibition participant in figurative art «1946-2016 100 Years of Boxing» show beginning in Italian Boxing Federation at Palagio di Parte Guelfa, Florence and continuing throughout Italy and ending in Rio De Janeiro in 2016

Using found imagery and carefully constructed tableaux, his seductive yet challenging figurative paintings explore complex ideas about history, memory, political extremism and art history and are influenced by his experiences growing up in the last years of Ceausescu's dictatorship.

The New York - based Mayerson, in fact, has been showing his idiosyncratic brand of pop figurative painting since the 1990s, and for many of those years he acquired something of a cult following in the art world.

Despite the efforts of various abstract artists and groups, figurative art remained predominant during the inter-war years (1920 - 40).

But over the past 15 years public sculpture — that is, static, often figurative objects of varying sizes in outdoor public spaces — has become one of contemporary art's more exciting areas of endeavor and certainly its most dramatically improved one.

Opening: Orion Martin at Bodega For the 2016 Whitney Museum exhibition «Flatlands,» which focused on a certain strain of slick figurative painting that has been making the gallery rounds over the past five years, Orion Martin showed work that exhibited a graphic approach inspired equally by Pop art and commercial kitsch.

But in the years since, the Modern, along with the rest of the art world, has tilted away from abstract painting and toward broader, socially encompassing forms like figurative painting, video and particularly photography.

An eclectic mix of conceptual, abstract and figurative work, Art Market evolves tremendously each year, proving once again the Bay Area's significant role in the ever - expanding contemporary market.

Last year Artsy, the art collecting and education website, observed that «a critical mass of female painters are embracing figuration [figurative art], diversifying it, and pushing the conversation around it forward.»

1981: «Eight Figurative Artists», Yale Center for British Art, New Haven 1984: «The Hard Won Image», Tate Gallery 1986: «Forty Years of Modern Art», Tate Gallery 1987: «British Art in the 20th Century», Royal Academy of Arts. 1987: «A School of London: Six Figurative Painters», Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo; Museum of Modern Art, Louisiana; Museo d'Arte Moderna, Venice; Kunstmuseum, Dusseldorf.

In recent years his early prints have become much sought after - a reflection of the sway in the 1970s towards figurative art with a poetic, materialistic quality.

If figurative work has been unstylish in recent years within the micro-trending art world in favour of more lazy conceptual and minimal works, then let this show serve to reassert the things viewers could never really get rid of liking anyway, like skill and sincerity and immediate, emotional, gutsy work; thoughtful and intense and odd works, rendering and likeness and oil paint, works that may even celebrate that very un-cool topic, beauty.

These include: JMW Turner (a painter arguably 50 years ahead of his time); Claude Monet (the first revolutionary of modern painting); Ilya Repin (the first painter to capture the authentic detail of life in Russia); Picasso (for his mastery of figurative and abstract art in almost all media); Marcel Duchamp (the pioneer of Dada and Object Art, from which Conceptual Art emerged); the husband and wife team Christo and Jeanne - Claude (empaquetage, or packaging); Andy Warhol (the first and arguably greatest postmodernist); Gilbert & George (living sculptures); Damien Hirst (art's greatest self - publicist) and of course the graffiti terrorist Bankart in almost all media); Marcel Duchamp (the pioneer of Dada and Object Art, from which Conceptual Art emerged); the husband and wife team Christo and Jeanne - Claude (empaquetage, or packaging); Andy Warhol (the first and arguably greatest postmodernist); Gilbert & George (living sculptures); Damien Hirst (art's greatest self - publicist) and of course the graffiti terrorist BankArt, from which Conceptual Art emerged); the husband and wife team Christo and Jeanne - Claude (empaquetage, or packaging); Andy Warhol (the first and arguably greatest postmodernist); Gilbert & George (living sculptures); Damien Hirst (art's greatest self - publicist) and of course the graffiti terrorist BankArt emerged); the husband and wife team Christo and Jeanne - Claude (empaquetage, or packaging); Andy Warhol (the first and arguably greatest postmodernist); Gilbert & George (living sculptures); Damien Hirst (art's greatest self - publicist) and of course the graffiti terrorist Bankart's greatest self - publicist) and of course the graffiti terrorist Banksy.