I think most
young figurative painters spent at least some time looking at Freud, what do you think of him now?
The show opens with a row of portraits from 1980 of Hoffmann, looking radiant and determined, by Andy Warhol, and then jumps back to the beginning, when she was picking up the work of the Belgian avant - garde, whose participants are seen infrequently stateside, like Floris Jespers and Frits van den Berghe, whose punchily colored works here from the 1920s — respectively, a dandyish scene in a cafe with burning red walls and a terrifyingly gigantic floating above a rainbow — look curiously on point with what so many of today's mischievous
young figurative painters are up to today.
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.
Himself an amateur drummer, Thompson was one of the most admired
young figurative painters of his era, and he was friendly with many of these musicians.
This show was also inspired by a group of very exciting
young figurative painters I've discovered over the past few years.
ANDREW SALGADO (b. 1982, Canada) is one of the most promising
young figurative painters working today.
Of course, he made his mark as
a young figurative painter and drawer after attending the Norwegian Nerderum School as a teenager.
The next year, he had his first solo exhibition at Guggenheim?s gallery, an extremely prestigious honor for
the young figurative painter.
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.
She was awarded the American Academy of Arts and Letters John Koch award for best
young figurative painter in 2012.
Even today, if you wanted to be
a young figurative painter you may be discouraged because there's some other new movement that seems more compelling.
Exploring the themes of death and its place in different cultures has become a sort of an obsession for Ximena Rendon
a young figurative painter from Mexico.
She was awarded the American Academy of Arts and Letters coveted John Koch Award for Best
Young Figurative Painter in 2012.
In 2015, he received the John Koch Award for best
young figurative painter from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Judith Linhares luminous oil paintings and works on paper have inspired a generation of
younger figurative painters.
Not exact matches
The contemporary collectors who cut their teeth on
younger artists are going back to wonderful
figurative painters like Neel.
Stefan Szczesny September 13 — October 9, 2012 The exhibit explores the early 80s, when Szczesny emerged as one of the protagonists of a
young generation of bold
figurative painters in the German - speaking world who came to be known as «Neue Wilde.»
The dynamic group ranges from
young Los Angeles - based
figurative painter Becky Kolsrud to New York - based performance artist Justin Vivian Bond to the late Austrian
painter and sculptor Kiki Kogelnik.
With them he promptly takes his place among a group of recent talented
young painters who also make witchy
figurative work with vivid color and wobbly compositions charged with psychological spirituality.
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..
The immense influence on generations of
young artists is additionally straitened by the fact that Eric Fischl is still innovative, progressive and one of the most influential
figurative painters of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
The Obamas» choices come at a time when
figurative painting and portraiture are growing in popularity among
young painters interested in exploring race, gender and identity or in simply correcting the historic lack of nonwhites in Western painting.
The gallery is specialized in the representation of
young german
figurative painters.
Is it any wonder, then, that many
younger American
painters and sculptors have long abandoned the bygone absolutisms of Minimalism on one hand and Hyper - Realism on the other and are making works today that hover in a hard to define space that might be called Abstract Figuration or
Figurative Abstraction?»
While it's true that he was a slightly
younger contemporary of
painters like Julian Schnabel and Francesco Clemente, who were making a mark with
figurative works at the beginning of the 1980s, most of the outstanding black
painters of the generation preceding Marshall's own — Frank Bowling, Ed Clark, Sam Gilliam, Howardena Pindell, Jack Whitten — were committed abstractionists.
Another engaging show traced the stylistic turning points in the early career of Donald Baechler (Cheim & Read), while elsewhere, strikingly assured
younger painters (Jason Karolak's boldly colored abstractions at McKenzie Fine Art; William Buchina's complexly arrayed
figurative works at Garis & Hahn; Alison Hall's historically aware Minimalism at Stephen Harvey) were making their presence felt.
A third Swedish
painter, Sara - Vide Ericson,
younger than Andersson and Wahlstrand, indulges in a
figurative style partially reminiscent of the
painter Marlene Dumas.
Among those honored, Clintel Steed receives the John Koch Award, which is given to «a
young painter of
figurative work.»
A noted contemporary
figurative painter, Stevovich grew up in Washington, D.C., and as a
young chil...
Medium: Oil painting on linen Image size: 5.75 x 4 inches Frame size: 14 x 12 x 2 inches Signed at lower right: AVS A noted contemporary
figurative painter, Stevovich grew up in Washington, D.C., and as a
young child spent time roaming the halls of the National Gallery of Art, where he was particularly drawn to the Renaissance paintings that would come to inform his work.
As a
young painter coming into art in the early 1960s, Georg Baselitz (born 1938) was swift to reject the gestural abstraction that had dominated European and American painting since the end of World War Two, embracing instead a bold
figurative expressionism.
This show of early color abstractions features 30 recently discovered works on paper that reveal the influence of the AbEx
painters Arshile Gorky and Willem de Kooning on the
young Diebenkorn, who made these gestural works while living in New Mexico, Illinois and California before he went
figurative.
It was left to de Kooning to give an almost physical reassurance and an imaginative sense of a possible future to
younger painters in Europe and American in the late Fifties, when many artists were seeking out ways of sustaining the validity of
figurative painting at a time when abstract imagery of all kinds seemed to be so strongly in the ascendant.
Robin Tewes» first solo show in New York was a timely reminder of her distinctive place in the ranks of
younger American
figurative painters.
Parafin presents the British
painter Justin Mortimer, widely regarded as one of the leading
figurative painters working today, and an emblematic figure for a
younger generation of artists.
In 2004, he curated a show at Colby of
younger painters Elizabeth Peyton, Peter Doig and Merlin James, who work in the same
figurative territory staked out by Katz.
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).
With the auction prices of many once - fashionable
young abstract
painters now in decline, Mr. Wood has become the
figurative painter of the moment.
Today he's one of the most highly acclaimed
young painters in the U.K. Making his New York gallery debut with five large,
figurative canvases, the innovative Brit reveals his talent for art - historical fusions and gestural mark making, which have made him a darling of the London art press.
And what would you recommend to a
young painter who wanted to learn how to paint in the
figurative tradition?