| 单词 | figurative |
| 例句 | Now lined with a row of small shops, the tradition continues, though in a figurative rather than literal sense. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z So crowded is our stock of figurative language that every profession—legal, corporate, fashion, artistic, literary, and so on—seems to have a collection all its own. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Good food, good money and so far no sign of these figurative wolves - Reyna’s dogs sprang to their feet. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z St. John’s eyes, though clear enough in a literal sense, in a figurative one were difficult to fathom. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Paintings of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries are still entirely figurative; Kandinsky’s first abstract painting did not emerge until 1910. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z This, he explains, is the figurative and literal lower region. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z You will stay in Evora forever, because, sadly for you, my figurative wolves are literally wolves.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z I always thought “jaw dropping” was figurative—but my jaw actually does drop. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Violet, Klaus, and Sunny read their books and, in the back of their minds, hoped that soon their figurative escape would eventually turn into a literal one. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z Apart from the still lifes, what I’m showing is mostly figurative, although there are a couple of constructions made from drinking straws and uncooked macaroni, and one called Silver Paper. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Lind-Ramos is known for his assemblages, but he trained as a painter and long made figurative work, including portraits of women that took on the differences between Western and African canons of beauty. This Puerto Rican Sculptor Meets Disaster With Spirit 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z The tension between the abstract and figurative in Close’s work is a constant. Face value: Chuck Close, who revolutionized portraiture, has major retrospective in Everett 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z They are also both using figurative art to construct allegories, Beckmann’s ambiguous and disturbing, Ziegler’s clear and reassuring. Artworks labeled degenerate in Nazi Germany are N.Y. hit From the start, he pushed figurative art in an abstract direction without ever quite abandoning the human form — especially the female form. At the Frye: an amazing sculptor you didn’t know about, and a treasured cartoonist 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z So much of my work is figurative, the whole show at the Lever House is figurative, and I’ve just always loved it and I can’t explain how it makes me feel. ArtsBeat: Talking Dance and Art with David LaChapelle and John Byrne 2011-06-29T20:44:05Z Recent work by Noah Davis and Mickalene Thomas show how different artists approach figurative work today. ‘What does it mean to be an American’? Black artists explore question in new exhibit at TAM 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z Most of the works are paintings and most are figurative. 'And There Is an End' -- but no end to its goofy appeal 2015-03-21T04:00:00Z “There are people who, no matter what artist you show, decree they are against contemporary art, whether the artist is abstract, figurative, conceptual, French, American, Chinese or Finnish,” Mr. Aillagon said. Flinging Open Those Stately Salon Doors 2010-07-06T11:30:00Z In several instances Mr. Nelson put together figurative, totemlike constructions with heads made from gallon-size plastic bottles attached to various sorts of poles. Mike Nelson: ‘Gang of Seven’ 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z The more you look, the more figurative they become. Drinking In the Beauty of Picasso’s Sculptures at MoMA 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z I loathe figurative contemporary art except when I don’t; ditto on abstraction. How to view art: Be dead serious about it, but don’t expect too much A convicted sex offender tries to hang on to a life at the literal and figurative margins of society. 32 of the year's best books 2011-12-07T23:43:04Z The large quantity of painting and drawing gives lie to complaints about the underdog status of these forms, while the predominance of figurative work is a welcome departure from the current craze for abstraction. Smack Mellon and Grey Art Display Art Sparked by Politics 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z Inspiration, a place of solitude and humility — the titles of Miller’s deeply contemplative canvases identify the profound abstract qualities his work shares with Fouquet’s figurative imagery. John M. Miller, artist behind painstakingly painted geometric abstractions, dies at 77 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z Each of the earlier shows was built around a broad art genre: figurative painting in one case, abstraction in the other. Art Review: ‘Radical Terrain’ at the Rubin Museum of Art 2012-12-27T20:03:54Z The viewer gets the reluctant fundamentalist’s life story in flashbacks, as the figurative time bomb attached to the kidnap victim tick-tick-ticks. The Reluctant Fundamentalist: How a Nice Islamic Guy Got Mixed Up in Terrorism 2013-04-26T03:30:28Z He makes convincingly volumetric still lifes and figurative tableaus, working mostly from mental pictures. Art in Review 2010-02-25T20:58:00Z Moran’s book contains many such metaphors for the sentence, and at least one for figurative language itself: “Metaphor is how we nail the jelly of reality to the wall.” Want to Learn How to ‘Nail the Jelly of Reality to the Wall’? 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z Nonetheless, it possesses all the vivid fervor of Delacroix's famous figurative painting of "Liberty Leading the People," the flag-waving ode to populist emancipation in 19th century France. William Pope.L sets the U.S. flag waving at the MOCA/Geffen 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z “He’s making figurative sculpture relevant in the present tense, but connecting it to a long continuum of art history.” Charles Ray, Walking a Fine Line With a Hungry Lion 2018-05-13T04:00:00Z But they have also been used more pragmatically, for warding off negative elements, figurative and otherwise. Revisiting the Posy in Our Current Moment 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z Some things feel too overwhelming—in their beauty or their malice—for figurative language. Throwing Weight Into Sound: Kaveh Akbar on Poetry and Power 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z Though Ms. Proske could have cut some of the more obscure lines, the figurative language catches the ear like a barbed hook. Review: In ‘The White Devil,’ Pick Your Poison 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z But the recent work is in a different style, and most of it is not figurative. Not all right angles in ‘Geometrix: Line, Form, Subversion’ 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z “In Istanbul, we have more space, and it ranges from sculpture to video, painting and photography. But it’s more figurative. The human figure runs through the collection strongly.” ‘Art Fairs Bring Me the Whole World’ 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z Beyond the very real storm that was bogging down production, a figurative cloud loomed over “Running Wilde” even before it made its debut two weeks ago. ?Running Wilde? Races for an Audience 2010-10-04T15:01:00Z In this century’s resurgence of figurative painting, Ms. Staver is a significant precedent. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z Artforum magazine “extols his cult status among those returning to figurative art.” Review | The art of rebellion: The son of a famous painter tries to reframe his life 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z This rash of figurative weaponizing goes back at least a few years. One nation, “weaponized”: What this in-vogue verb tells us about our divided culture 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z Mr. Davis’s paintings were mostly figurative works depicting blacks in surreal landscapes, sometimes with their features distorted or smeared in a manner reminiscent of Francis Bacon. Noah Davis, California Figurative Artist and Founder of the Underground Museum, Dies at 32 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z From the late 1960s on, he devoted his final years to a dark, goofy figurative style that earned him a new, younger audience, producing one of the greatest finales in modern painting. Philip Guston’s About-Face, in a Bracing Show at Hauser & Wirth 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z Among the figurative painters, Joseph Park with "La Rêve," commemorating a friend who used to lend the artist his Bridgeport milling machine, makes the biggest impression. Review: From micro-detail to grand overview, from figurative to abstract, group show discloses local arts talent 2010-06-25T21:32:00Z Over all, street art is expanding to figurative, three-dimensional, and representational art on a much larger scale. Kadir Nelson’s “Art Connoisseurs” 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z “Guitar” brought the thin planes of Cubist collage into three dimensions, opening sculpture to abstract space, but after this breakthrough, Picasso returned to figurative sculpture, never to be distracted again. Drinking In the Beauty of Picasso’s Sculptures at MoMA 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z This clarity comes through in the many representational, figurative works — the show is heavily laced with photographs that offer frank, lucid views of different pairs. Review: 'Couplings' at Gallery 110 reminds us we are not alone 2011-02-03T20:39:04Z The portrait signaled a high, urbane point in the artist’s career, after which his figurative work tended to soften up, and his interests changed. Art Review: Celebrating a Painter’s 150th Anniversary 2012-05-24T18:41:19Z But — without the transparency, attenuation and Muybridge-like staccato that enliven the vitrines — the results read as strained and ludicrously corny, a horror-movie rendition of angst-ridden “New Images of Man” figurative sculpture. Art in Review: David Altmejd 2011-04-07T22:33:49Z For visitors passionate about Oriental art, the collection includes figurative paintings and sculptures that serve as reminders of France’s colonial history in North and sub-Saharan Africa. | Paris All Deco'd Out 2011-12-16T14:00:29Z "His early paintings redefined British art and his later works stand comparison with the great figurative painters of any period." Painter Lucian Freud dies aged 88 2011-07-22T09:09:42Z Prints run the gamut from abstract to figurative, minimalist to maximalist. Increasing Exposure for Native Artists 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z In the meantime, this exhibition is, flaws and all, an indispensable first look at Russian modernism’s figurative beginnings. Review: ‘Russian Modernism’ at Neue Galerie, Figurative Focus With Amorphous Results 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z Paintings that combine elements of the abstract and the figurative, the natural and the man-made. Datebook: Hammer Biennial, Santa Ana sound art and lots of color field 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z Most appreciated in his own time for his lyrical landscapes of the Russian countryside and his Orientalist scenes, Polenov is now increasingly valued for his figurative work. Special Report: Art in Perspective: Artist's Family Home Sustains Legacy 2010-05-28T12:00:00Z This figurative weight, though head-shaped and solid black, is the opposite of a silhouette. New York Galleries: What to See Right Now 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z He said he sat with Franci Krizaj, the production’s director, for at least two hours, equivocating over whether to print the poster, or whether to go with a safer, more figurative design. At the embassy of the Republic of Slovenia, an exhibit of theater posters as high art The results are intensely figurative but also abstract, finely detailed but implicitly violent. Nancy Grossman: ‘The Edge of Always, Constructions from the 1960s’ 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z Thursday's highly creative display, which teetered from the figurative to the outright abstract was a good example of this, and will no doubt provoke myriad interpretations among fashion insiders. Kim Kardashian stuns at Balmain show at Paris Fashion Week 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z There was not one gallery that would show figurative art. James Rosenquist and Erró Discuss a Long Friendship Forged in Pop Art 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z Bay Area figurative painting is anchored with exceptional examples by David Park and Richard Diebenkorn, whose loaded brushwork registers primitive human forms rather than abstract gestures. Pollock's stellar 'Lucifer' and impressive Anderson Collection 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z His palette echoes that of other African-American artists, in particular the figurative artists Bob Thompson and Jacob Lawrence, both advocates of bright, opaque color, who rarely use white. Review: Stanley Whitney’s Paintings Reinvent the Grid 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z The work is confident, adventurous and bold, rejecting the classical hallmarks of so-called painterly "quality" and demonstrations of artistic "talent" for an idiosyncratic journey though the theme of identity and figurative painting. What makes us connect with an artist? 2013-07-23T02:05:03Z The only modes of transportation lower than THE BUS on the figurative totem pole are pedicabs, bikes and shank's mare! After a Fire, Megabus Passengers Stranded on Compensation 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z Death is central to the best of what Pixar can do — actual death but also some of its figurative counterparts: moving to a new city, monsters, maturation. My Favorite Summer Blockbuster 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z Down the hallway was a room dedicated to the giant of American figurative painting Benny Andrews. Showcasing the Diversity of the South 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z And rather like the exhibition itself, it suggests a dichotomy of aesthetics — figurative and classical vs. cubist and abstract — that is confused and misleading. It’s easy to overthink Picasso 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z His best-known work, made during an extended stay in Los Angeles in the 1960s, is figurative and wry, with a pop-art sheen to it. Review | The new David Hockney exhibition shows why he was such an art-world rebel 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z For several years, Morris and others have worked to erect a figurative sculpture called “Sisters in Freedom” in the same spot in Downtown Brooklyn. The Art Design for Abolitionist Place in Brooklyn Moves Forward 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z Farzankia’s paintings are instantly appealing: Simple, figurative compositions of androgynous bodies, birds, plant life and obscure symbols, rendered in bright pop palettes, they are well suited to the age of Instagram. The Artist Who Is Selling Out Shows Just Two Years After He Started Painting 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z They are the muffled starting pistol of an oeuvre where the figurative and the abstract always haunt each other, and where meaninglessness speaks volumes. 2 Art Gallery Shows to Explore From Home 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z By the late 1970s, the human figure was sneaking its way into her work — this, despite her never having studied figurative art. BAM hosts a dazzling Patti Warashina retrospective 2013-07-11T21:05:52Z The holdings are nearly all paintings and overwhelmingly figurative and include well-known names like José María Velasco, Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros and José Clemente Orozco. In Mexico City, a Private Art Collection Evolves into a Public Museum 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z Upcoming shows include solo exhibitions of figurative painting by King Saladeen and work by Ron English as well as a sound installation curated by Mr. Bey. In the Cradle of Hip-Hop, a South Bronx Gallery Bridges a Gap 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z For the collection has an interesting lesson about "bigness" — to have a life, the weight must be more figurative than literal, as what is more enormous than our eventual forever, the infinite postmortem. Ghosts soar in William Vollmann's hefty 'Last Stories' 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z “I have been looking at paintings and sculptures and figurative works and gold plating and collage my whole life.” Words and Actions: Queens Museum Shows About Seeking Racial Justice 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z In the first section, “Architecture Embodied,” two of the totemic wood sculptures that Bourgeois began making in 1947, “Pillar” and “Figure,” are surrounded by engravings populated by similar forms enacting clearly figurative dramas. Louise Bourgeois: Imagination Unfolds in All Dimensions 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z Baltimore artist Emily Campbell fills a room with white-on-black wall figurative drawings that flank spindly white totems, abstract yet with a sense of ceremonial power. Review | In the galleries: Many works in ‘Spring Solos’ form a chorus of concern for the environment 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z We too are in nostalgia mode at present, evident in countless variations on modernist painting in all kinds of flavors: figurative, abstract, expressionist, geometric. Art Review: When Repression Was a Muse 2011-07-21T22:30:28Z Does figurative and representational art have a better future? 10 years of Tate Modern 2010-04-24T23:07:00Z There was a debate about whether black art should be abstract or figurative. The Sculptor Melvin Edwards Prepares for ‘Now Dig This!’ 2012-10-21T04:02:38Z Some are almost figurative, the rubber cut, flexed and positioned in layers or strands to evoke the human body or more cryptic forms. For Chakaia Booker, Whose Medium Is Tires, the Art Is in the Journey 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z Tall, thin and on substantial pedestals, the bronzes suggest both masks and figurative sculptures. Review: Mark Grotjahn’s ‘Painted Sculpture’ Offers the Gorgeously Preposterous 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z “We’re going to see more public art, whether it’s sculpture, figurative, abstract, commemorating people or events, that relate specifically to the Black community,” said Goodwin, of Art U.K. In the U.K., Public Art Shifts Toward Black Experiences 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z In Skilling’s two “Desert Moth” paintings, the abstract and the figurative fuse into one. Jeffrey Simmons’ fastidious geometries in watercolor 2013-01-16T20:29:07Z These freer and less figurative classroom paintings were not shown publicly. Mushrooms, Magma and Love in a Time of Science 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z Q: With your leading man’s advanced age, were you aware of a figurative ticking clock while making “Lucky”? ‘Lucky’ director John Carroll Lynch on life, death — and Harry Dean Stanton 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z Researchers there found that people prefer works with straightforward titles like “Curved Lines” or “Dots of Color” to those with figurative titles like “Ice Dancing” or “Sabotage.” Do You Like ‘Dogs Playing Poker’? Science Would Like to Know Why 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z In recent years she's become one of a new generation of artists exploring figurative sculpture, with a couple of knockout solo shows in New York and inclusion in the Whitney Biennial. Lost treasures 2010-12-30T11:59:23Z The decorative bravado of New Orleans Mardi Gras and the figurative tradition of Classical Greek sculpture are two points on the aesthetic compass worth keeping in mind when encountering her works. Art Review: Artful Commentary, Oozing From the Walls 2011-02-17T21:27:55Z We decided to tear down the literal and figurative walls between print and digital, and reorganize the staff into teams based on subject matter, regardless of the platform. Wired Unveils Its State-of-the-Art Offices Designed by Gensler 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z Mr. Smith’s nine canvases insouciantly sum up the show’s no-holds-barred attitude, tripping the light fantastic with works variously monochrome, gestural and figurative, as well as a kitschy sunset and the artist’s signature, writ goofily large. ‘The Forever Now,’ a Survey of Contemporary Painting at MoMA 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z Among the selections from the 1980s are figurative pieces including a lithograph by Chuck Close, a Jacob Lawrence gouache and an acrylic by Fay Jones. Review: 'Seattle as Collector' full of amazing works that belong to you 2011-05-26T20:27:35Z After twenty-five years of making music in a figurative vacuum, the call from Mcgowan would lead to Emmanuel finding, for the first time in his life, an audience. The Case for New Age Music as American Folk Art 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z All this exerts an emotional pull that is rare, even in a time of outstanding figurative painting in which style and substance, motivated by issues of identity, regularly go hand in hand. Salman Toor, a Painter at Home in Two Worlds 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z The more raucous figurative watercolors of Charles Demuth in the collection are passed over for two of his generic renderings of vegetables. Art Review: ‘American Modern: Hopper to O’Keeffe’ Opens at MoMA 2013-08-22T22:04:13Z It is among the masterpieces that secured Homer's reputation as the greatest American figurative painter of the 19th century. A Northern Odyssey 2010-04-29T20:30:00Z But covering a long wall up to the ceiling, with no two images alike, they add up to a tour de force of stylistic multitasking and figurative variety. Art Review: A Mind Where Picasso Meets Looney Tunes 2011-01-27T22:41:49Z Instead of Gagosian, the blue-chip gallery empire that might have been Wood’s champion, her new show of unsettling figurative paintings, “Time Sensitive,” opened Friday at Michael Werner, the more traditional Upper East Side gallery. Issy Wood Met Power Players in Art and Music. She Went Her Own Way. 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of Le Corbusier’s death, “The Measure of Man,” which runs from April 29 through August 3, brings together 300 examples of his work, from vibrant figurative paintings to architectural models. Le Corbusier Is Having A Moment In Paris 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z On the less impressive side are enamels that seem to aspire to the condition of Modern easel paintings, encompassing subject matter both abstract and figurative. Craft & Folk Art Museum weaves 'Little Dreams in Glass and Metal' 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z The shifting lines and layered brushwork of these works most completely integrated the classical figurative tradition he absorbed during his earliest art studies and the instinctive painting processes of Abstract Expressionism. Nicolas Carone, Abstract Expressionist, Dies at 93 2010-07-29T06:19:00Z The figurative and the symbolic, the real and the surreal creep across Thomas Wood's intaglio prints. 14 top arts picks for the week of Jan. 22 2012-01-18T23:48:05Z The fourth season proves this, with its writers drawing both material and figurative inspiration from the last two years' largest destabilizing forces, starting with how easily the human mind can be infected with self-destructive ideas. Assimilate us, "Westworld": With humanity this horrible – onscreen and off – just let the robots win 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z By this time he had also married his first wife, the accomplished figurative painter June Miles. Paul Feiler obituary 2013-07-22T11:06:28Z The show, he writes, “proposes an alternate history of figurative painting, sculpture and vernacular image-making that has been largely overlooked and undervalued relative to the canon of Modernist abstraction and Conceptual art.” ‘What Nerve!’ at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z Using drone footage, the film illustrates both the literal proximity and the figurative distance of France’s haves and have-nots. ‘Les Misérables’ is a film about France and race. Its creators hope it can resonate in America. 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z With its inclusion of abstraction along with figurative work, it struck some viewers as not explicitly gay enough, as dodging the political issues its title raised. When to Comes to Gender, Let Confusion Reign 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z It is arranged in largely contrapuntal exchanges between extremes: spare and labor-intensive; little or no color and lots of it; improvisation and deliberation; and riffs on Minimalism and reconsiderations of Expressionism, both abstract and figurative. ‘The Forever Now,’ a Survey of Contemporary Painting at MoMA 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z In fact, despite the celebrated “Ocean Park” series, Diebenkorn is at his most exciting while trying to find his way in the middle ground between abstraction and figurative work. Diebenkorn/Matisse exhibition documents a one-way love affair 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z The four artists in the new group show at Davidson Galleries all do figurative work. Martyrdoms, border violence, a tree-eating android are all a part of 'What I See' 2010-07-15T20:59:00Z The 27 canvases in this exhilarating show — the largest yet for this ambitious figurative painter who died in 2015 at the age of 32 — showcase a more than promising talent. 20 Art Exhibitions to View in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z Richter fans wanting to observe how he creates his exquisitely controlled manipulations of figurative imagery will be disappointed. 'Gerhard Richter Painting': A glimpse of the German artist in action 2012-03-22T20:04:04Z One requirement of this most challenging way to write is that any figurative language that does appear must be immaculate. Unmastered by Katherine Angel – review 2012-08-10T21:55:05Z The line between figurative and abstract is often difficult to decipher. Landscapes redefined in 2 new Seattle gallery shows 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z Interwoven with all his menacing, but possibly figurative language, are all the classic signs of someone who is a high suicide risk, in particular Sunil's deep feelings of helplessness and his stubborn tunnel vision. "In Treatment" recap: Frances reads her test results 2010-11-23T13:30:00Z In New York, Nachume shifted his focus from figurative work to sublime landscapes, teaching sculpture, painting and drawing for 20 years at the S.V.A. and throwing himself into fatherhood. A Flood, a Boxcutter and a Son’s Pursuit to Keep His Father’s Legacy 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z The basic secret to singing that is most applicable in a figurative sense is the need to distance yourself from your feelings if you want to bring them across effectively. How to survive the next four years on social media? Opera can help. 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z Lucian Freud did, and his figurative art is not exactly defeated by the modern world. My stuckist portrait: I'm flattered | Jonathan Jones 2010-03-18T11:03:00Z Instead, “Lineup” has a deflating coda of contemporary figurative paintings that incidentally include stripes, such as a waxy portrait by the drainingly cynical Chloe Wise. New York Galleries: What to See Right Now 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z The two are entwined in a figurative headlock of dependence and twisted affection. Pattinson Packs a Punch In Good Time 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z I feel honored to be given the opportunity to put another book on that figurative book shelf. Saeed Jones on "How We Fight For Our Lives" and writing with "skin in the game" 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z So the building, a mighty, physical construct, memorializes a figurative one. Visiting the African-American Museum: Waiting, Reading, Thinking, Connecting, Feeling 2016-12-25T05:00:00Z Venter’s sculptures, mostly of young females, are more than simply figurative. Brilliant Dan Webb, Kathy Venter shows at BAM 2014-03-26T19:58:20Z After spending time with an archaeological team in Copán, Honduras, restoring Mayan ruins, he was inspired to use dry key construction, which requires no mortar or cement, to build pedestals for his figurative sculptures. The Hudson Valley’s outdoor art parks make for an alluring pandemic destination 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z The theatrical spirit runs so strong in Yogyakarta that it has energized the figurative arts as well. On Java, a Creative Explosion in an Ancient City 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z The least figurative pictures, such as 1990’s “The Armchair,” recall Cubism and Futurism’s attempts to see every aspect simultaneously and to convey motion by exploding objects in multiple directions. In the galleries: An artist’s past, present and future 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z An online museum displaying more than 300 pieces of Bruce Springsteen memorabilia is to officially open its figurative doors on Monday. Online Museum for Springsteen 2014-06-29T04:00:00Z Rocca's seamless transitions between colors and her knack for barely hinting at something figurative in a wash of hues testify to her exacting technique and control. Painter, photographer shroud their Northwest landscapes in mists of memory, mood 2010-06-17T21:27:00Z And why paint figurative images at all if you want to reduce your work to formal qualities of line, shape and color? Review | Georg Baselitz is an overrated hack. Art collectors fell for him — but you don’t have to. 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z And while the queasy colours and ghoulish forms suggest that, if figurative art isn't quite dead, it is certainly unwell, Van Lankveld's spontaneity and black humour are disarming. Artist of the week 91: Rezi van Lankveld 2010-06-10T09:53:00Z They share the same basic concept of shapes revealing other shapes, image within image; the negative spaces are always suggestive of new figurative elements. Black Swan raises the bar with striking and beautiful set of posters 2010-12-20T10:11:00Z But with Mitchell’s latest book, a 600-page epic titled “The Bone Clocks,” the weight is more literal than figurative. How David Mitchell gets fantasy wrong 2014-08-31T04:00:00Z The sale, he added, "really helps to establish Spencer as one of the central figures of figurative art in Britain in the 20th Century". Spencer painting sets new record 2010-12-16T11:18:40Z “Most figurative sculpture offers a body that is impermeable, strong, powerful,” she said. Rose B. Simpson Thinks in Clay 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z Sometimes evoking the blocky figures of the Russian Constructivists, the exceptional “Platform” presents two panels side by side, with contrasting figurative styles, types of material and degrees of abstraction on four surfaces. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z Ms. Demosthene’s flat figurative works are mysterious in their construction, which is part of their allure. At the Armory Show, Solo Exhibitions and Colossal Displays 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z Nearby, the Marble Faun shapes limestone and alabaster into intricately frilled but only tenuously figurative shapes. 3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z The artist, who abandoned abstract art for figurative work in the 1960s, was well-known for portraits of subjects including Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, actress Catherine Deneuve and his close friend, writer Samuel Beckett. Israeli artist Avigdor Arikha dies at 81 2010-05-01T19:16:00Z Released in 1970, “Let It Be” seemed to be shrouded in literal and figurative darkness — apart from the truncated scenes of the rousing London rooftop concert. How Peter Jackson shifted the dour context of ‘Let It Be’ into a fuller, more human ‘Get Back’ 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z Their work is typically figurative and often narrative, in a populist, accessible vein. Street Art That?s Finding a New Address 2010-03-03T23:13:00Z Gallego’s opponents are certain to try to portray him as a figurative bomb thrower if not a literal one. Ruben Gallego made mental health part of his campaign. Specifically, his own. 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z The later stories in “Prodigals,” on the figurative B-side, are more experimental and a bit less persuasive. Review: ‘Prodigals’ by Greg Jackson Skewers the Elite 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z By the late 1950s, figurative painting was giving way to Abstract Expressionism. Bernard Perlin, Painter of Varied Styles, Dies at 95 2014-01-29T04:49:47Z This isn’t the first time durian has caused a literal and figurative stink. Indonesian airline delays flight after passengers argue with staff over smell of durian fruit in cargo 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z The figurative windows, however, are fatally infected by Victorian sentimentality. Art Review: Louis C. Tiffany Works at Museum of Biblical Art 2012-12-31T23:14:26Z The acute precision with which the metal is cut and the fine-grained sand is brushed resonates against the easy casualness of the figurative activity. At Shoshana Wayne Gallery, a cast of thousands roams an indoor desert 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z In all, it would seem that “the mystery trend” here is a kind of inspirited, sometimes vaguely figurative formalism in which the personal, the eccentric and the historical mingle in refreshing, quietly exuberant ways. Art In Review: ‘THE MYSTERY TREND’ 2012-07-26T20:01:19Z And an escalating arms race — literal and figurative — in shocking audiences with startlingly graphic and intensely subjective violence. Perspective | The ‘Rust’ scene that Alec Baldwin was rehearsing strikes a familiar and played-out chord 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z We also highlight the two forms of sculpture, abstraction and figurative, and document as far as possible why certain artists choose one or the other, or moved back and forth. In Transit: In London, a Century of British Sculpture 2011-01-30T11:00:53Z While producing new cut-paper works last month for her Berlin show, Yang realized that she was making “figurative motifs, faces, hand, sea animals,” the stuff of “very old-fashioned fairy tale books.” Haegue Yang’s Radical Art of Obscure Delights 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z He turned away from the abstract and figurative painting he had long struggled with and began to create dense grids populated with numbers and colors. How the dense grids of artist Charles Gaines took the ego out of art 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z Such reductive form is characteristic of the work here, whether figurative or functional. Humble ceramics in a stunning installation at Blum & Poe 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z After that I kept the news in the figurative bottle for the next four years until my problems with the literal bottle forced me into rehab and a step farther out of the HIV closet. “No one will ever have sex with me again”: Why I stayed in the closet about my HIV 2015-06-20T04:00:00Z My biological father bridged these two selves in a figurative sense, or at least that was the origin story I had come to tell myself. I told my biological dad goodbye — and it made all the difference 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z “A friend of mine thinks that wearing an N.B.A. jersey is a way of showcasing your masculinity after years of figurative castration brought on by skinny jeans and the like,” he said. Noticed: N.B.A. Chic for the Slim Fit 2010-09-18T01:14:00Z Beresin’s current mode of figurative painting follows from discovering the diary her mother wrote after her liberation from Auschwitz. Art We Saw This Winter 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z During the civil rights movement, many artists of color were creating figurative works that dealt with the Black experience. Frank Bowling’s New Paintings Are Family Affairs 2021-04-30T04:00:00Z “These people get a weirdly wonderful Shreveport-Bossier hug when they get here. It’s a figurative and literal embrace.” Festivals thrive and grow by remaining unique 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z Part of an international return to sensuous figurative painting in the late 1970s and ’80s, the canvases were born of a specific Chicano history merged with personal narrative. Two explorations of the power and prominence of Latino art: 'Anna Maria Maiolino' and 'Carlos Almaraz' 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z "More, Romulus," Daddy coos, flickering on the figurative gaslight and cranking up their favorite singalong track. "Succession": The Roy family wails through a loveless karaoke night 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z Suddenly, he moved away from figurative works to a series of hard-edged pieces that could have come out of a Morris Louis catalogue. The not-so-simple comeback story of pioneering artist Sam Gilliam 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z The apocalypse had come, but youths in all hues of literal and figurative rainbows were bravely persisting, in magical four-part harmony: After the Election, a ‘Whole Foods Democrat’ Returns to Church 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z More than a dozen other artists — including future “Northwest Mystics” Guy Anderson and Kenneth Callahan, working in figurative mode — are included in the show. Edmonds museum exhibit shows how artists responded to hard times 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z There he became a significant avant-garde figure, before turning from abstract to figurative painting in the mid-1960s, partly as a result of seeing an exhibition of Caravaggio at the Louvre. Avigdor Arikha obituary 2010-05-11T18:08:00Z Mr. Bailey’s still lifes have a touch of Morandi’s austerity; his figurative works, meanwhile, evoke the perfect proportions in Ingres and the awkward sensuality of Balthus. Art in Review 2010-02-25T20:58:00Z Francis Bacon impressed him early on, and Mr. Pistoletto started as a figurative painter by making self-portraits, as he continues to do. Michelangelo Pistoletto Endures. Even Covid Couldn’t Stop Him. 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z Those figurative baying hounds send Jonathan into one of his familiarly globe-trotting itineraries. Books of The Times: Doctor?s Doings in Christopher Reich?s ?Rules of Betrayal? 2010-08-01T21:45:00Z As a student, he joined a movement that railed against the staid mainstream tradition of figurative painting. John Olsen, Who Helped Revolutionize Australian Art, Dies at 95 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z But “Sexting” is really a light, witty, intermittently philosophical look at a genre of amateur photography that can’t help infiltrating other figurative art. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z It refers both to an actual organisation and, in art chatter, to the belief that British art is dominated by conceptual values to the point that it puts figurative painters at a serious disadvantage. Painted into a corner: are the stuckists right about modern British art? 2011-03-31T14:17:40Z Such are the dissonances that attend settling into one’s figurative seat at Orchestra Hall to experience the DSO through virtual reality. How a mannequin head could revolutionize how orchestras and audiences come together 2021-02-27T05:00:00Z Some of Spring/Break’s most over-the-top booths star painting, especially the figurative kind that’s currently in fashion. The Thrill of Unpredictability at Two Art Fairs 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z But given art’s recent turn toward the figurative, the literal, and the narrative, I too often find myself hankering for art that doesn’t try to tell me things. Against the Grain: Rebecca Morris and Peter Bradley’s Art ‘About Nothing’ 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z Thus are the figurative planes set for the book's final third, in which Barnes confronts his own grief with a directness the more brutal for its contrast with the first two thirds. Julian Barnes 2013-03-30T07:00:25Z Bowling-pin-shaped birds, gargantuan flowers, trees as confidently cursive as Charles Schultz drawings, and other postmodern figurative ideograms crowd around them, filling the canvas from edge to edge. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z But like many figurative painters of the era, especially women, Lee fell into relative obscurity when Abstract Expressionism took over 20th-century taste. Doris Lee, Unjustly Forgotten, Gets a Belated but Full Blown Tribute 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z Though their individual poetic style and tone are completely different, together they build a perfect and true sonnet with both literal and figurative levels of meaning. Elizabeth Wein's top 10 dynamic duos in fiction 2013-06-20T12:33:58Z And the figurative answer to, “So, what are we doing today” is often, “Something we may end up regretting.” Review: David Gates Delivers More Havoc in ‘A Hand Reached Down to Guide Me’ 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z Those figurative demands collide with the conspicuously Modern urge for abstraction. Thrilling new exhibition shows modern Mexican art is bigger than murals 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z But when I watch “Silicon Valley” I often find myself putting on a figurative executive’s suit and asking, “But what is Pied Piper?” It’s all in the algorithm: In new season, “Silicon Valley” puts laughs in all the right places 2017-04-22T04:00:00Z Over the course of the episodes leading up to the Season 2 finale, we came to understand the literal and figurative ways in which we were right to be concerned. "Yellowjackets" destroys both the tiger and the cage in its shocking Season 2 finale 2023-05-26T04:00:00Z “He’s known as a figurative painter, but in these he has left the human figure out,” said Ms. Molesworth, who has seen photographs of the new paintings. Kerry James Marshall’s Black Birds Take Flight in a New Series 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z Thankfully for him and fans of figurative and queer art, the show eventually did go up at the Whitney, where it will appear through April. The Breakout Stars of 2020 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z “They should be a revelation to younger generations,” she added, “including painters using figurative styles to tell their own stories.” David Hockney Painting Sells for $90 Million, Smashing Record for Living Artist 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z They all deal with space; being an architectural one or a figurative one like your personal space,” he said. A Korean Artist's Origins, by Parachute 2010-03-29T10:55:00Z Certain arrangements of paint suggest figures or objects, she said, through tacitly agreed conventions – but in the end, all painting is about relationships of colour, shape and line, whether abstract or figurative. Bridget Riley presented with Sikkens prize for her work in colour 2012-10-29T21:28:17Z Her contribution is a set of eerie, heavily veiled figurative sculptures like mannequins modeling outfits for a Tim Burton movie. Art Review: ‘Bound Unbound: Lin Tianmiao’ at Asia Society 2012-09-06T21:36:59Z This exhibition confirms that in many ways De Kooning was at heart a figurative painter, one in pursuit of an elusive, semiabstract reality that taunted him from the space between his canvas and the model. Art in Review: WILLEM DE KOONING: ?The Figure: Movement and Gesture? 2011-06-16T22:00:28Z He is well known for producing tension-filled, figurative scenes that often seem to slip into unreality. An unassuming storefront. A major museum. A collaboration that takes museum art to the people of L.A. 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z But as the novel goes on, the characters begin to encounter one another in literal and figurative ways. Books of The Times: To Wagner, With Love and Morbidity 2010-12-27T23:09:40Z But with three solo shows scheduled this year, it now appears that Teguh is finally getting the mainstream recognition that his highly sensual, mostly figurative work deserves. Swinging Sixty: Teguh Ostenrik 2010-07-21T10:15:00Z The two main floors of the show, five and six, each begin with a large figurative painting. Why the Whitney’s Humanist, Pro-Diversity Biennial Is a Revelation 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z She is known for a somewhat refined Surrealistic figurative style, especially in large drawings. The Lower East Side as Petri Dish 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z Take “Myth of Miracles,” a blocky monolith with figurative undertones that’s nearly 7 feet tall. Douglas Tausik Ryder's curious wood sculptures at Jason Vass Gallery 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z So one might experience figurative if not literal “Dancing in the Street” when Reeves takes the stage. Don Was leads Detroit revue celebrating Motown milestone 2019-07-06T04:00:00Z This includes freestanding assemblages and wall sculptures, both figurative and abstract, that combine natural and discarded elements to riff on classical architecture, the nature of portraiture and colonization. Datebook: Jimmie Durham's long-awaited U.S. retrospective, masculine and feminine and the nature of translation 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z What resulted was a new geometry that helps Wenner break down figurative walls between the art and the public. Artist brings 3-D pavement art to Grand Canyon 2012-07-16T17:49:12Z Working in figurative sculpture — or some version of it — she provides a cross-cultural approach that is needed particularly at this moment, making connections among histories, languages and civilizations, and our shared present and future. A Sci-Fi Showdown at the Met Museum’s Rooftop Garden 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z The earliest paintings indicate Mr. Hockney’s attention to Abstract Expressionism and Bacon’s figurative scrums and his penchant for scatterings of numbers, texts and product labels that presage Pop Art. David Hockney’s Life in Painting: Spare, Exuberant, Full 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z The visuals, he says, are not a slide show, movie or video, but a sometimes figurative, sometimes abstract combination of the three. 'Caminos del Inka' brings 'hidden' music of South America to Seattle Symphony 2010-10-21T20:20:00Z To kick things off, the gallery has a new show of Krifka’s exuberant figurative paintings, all full of sex and death, balanced by the precise and cerebral abstract installations of the L.A.-based Goeritz. Datebook: Vintage car design, objects of desire, flight of the bumblebee 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z It was still a Dumpster fire, but the figurative bin might as well have been behind a sparkler factory. Why is the third season of "Love Is Blind" so disappointing? Because we seen its type before 2022-11-26T05:00:00Z Mr. Duwenhögger, now 60, is a sly, seductive storyteller adept in several mediums, especially figurative painting. Museum & Gallery Listings for June 3-9 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z He asks one neuroscientist how electrical impulses amount to information, and she insists that this is just figurative language, understood as such by everyone in the field. Do We Have Minds of Our Own? 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z The school’s rise has coincided with and benefited from another upswing, over the last decade, in the perennial up-and-down fortunes of figurative painting. New York Academy of Art Recovers From a Bad Reputation 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z I suddenly cared very little about aesthetics and the nuances of figurative language. What the Church Meant for James Baldwin 2020-12-04T05:00:00Z “They hurtle through life aging unimaginably fast,” Ms. Groff writes about the figurative parachute that keeps them together, “but each grasps a silken edge of memory that billows between them and softens the long fall.” Books of The Times: ?Arcadia,? a Novel by Lauren Groff 2012-03-18T20:59:20Z Her gallery — dominated by figurative art — was obscured by the advent of Abstract Expressionism and its dealers in the ’50s. A Forgotten Pioneer’s Art World Is Resurrected at the Jewish Museum 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z For those of a sensitive disposition, it's safe to look up now, as we move from the literal to the figurative hunting song. Readers recommend songs about hunting: The results 2010-08-05T21:45:00Z He’s won 16 large outdoor public art commissions since then - some abstract, others figurative - including works at Reser Stadium at Oregon State University, the Capitol Mall in Salem and Portland State University. Tacoma ‘Sun King’ sculpture comes out of storage 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z “He wanted to show perception in figurative painting and perception in abstract painting.” Bridget Riley, Through Her Own Eyes 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z The aptly titled "Feels Like Home" serves as a figurative mile marker in her personal life as well. Sheryl Crow undergoes a country conversion 2013-05-28T15:50:12Z As Mr. Bois points out, American artists have had a tendency to seize on the conceptual side of Malevich — ignoring his earlier Cubo-Futurist canvases and the late figurative work he produced under government pressure. Art Review: It All Started With a Simple Square 2011-03-11T00:05:42Z In several notable pieces, her trademark faces had a protruding cone for an eye, a figurative telescope scanning the stars. Elizabeth de Cuevas, Sculptor With a Flair for the Monumental, Dies at 94 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z The 11 big figurative paintings in Armin Boehm’s first solo show in the United States fall into two groups: still lifes of flowers and urbanites engaged in leisure activities. Last chance to see painter Armin Boehm's fractured point of view 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z Not all of that destruction he's talking about is figurative. Shepard Smith about his life after Fox News and the war on truth: "All of that noise is destructive" 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z From an aesthetic point of view, the works that tease an abstract verve out of something figurative are among the most captivating in the show. Conservation-photo award winners at the Burke: beautiful, brutal, complex 2012-07-13T19:37:03Z “It is very important, because it means that the iconography introduced by Dante was immediately received in Florence in the figurative arts,’’ Bargello National Museum Director Paola D’Agostino. Daily readings at tomb honor Dante 700 years after his death 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z A few figurative sculptures in bronze are likewise mostly clever, but the works in marble are breathtaking in their evocation of micro and macro realities, the continuity between inner substance and external surface. Giuseppe Penone's sculptures at Gagosian evoke natural world 2014-09-21T04:00:00Z Both Klein and Moriyama explore urban streets in black-and-white, experimenting with the medium and pushing it to its figurative limits. Klein and Moriyama at London's Tate Modern – reviews roundup 2012-11-19T11:37:06Z Her art ranges, with almost unfailing success, from text-based paintings to figurative sculptures, staged photographs, videos and video installations and interactive, socially oriented pieces. New Shows That Widen the Beaten Path 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z “These artists very much took figurative art to the next step.” MoMA Galleries to Change Their Focus 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z The thing is, the figurative speech is funny and deeply felt and sort of beautiful and spot on — and if you’re being honest with yourself, what did you expect from Josh? Holy Joker: Father John Misty releases “Pure Comedy” 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z His paintings evolved from figurative to curvilinear abstract forms, and his work is often compared to that of Joan Miro and Jean Arp. This Brazilian artist and landscape architect was bound only by the limits of his imagination 2019-07-07T04:00:00Z But that bubble is also figurative: Residents nearby wouldn’t talk about their illustrious neighbors. How the Obamas managed to become invisible in Washington 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z It’s a series of conceptual projects designed to highlight the spaces between people, both literal and figurative. 12 Galleries to Visit Now in Brooklyn and Queens 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z He is slowly creating his own idiom, though, somewhere between abstract and figurative painting, sculpture and installation. New York Galleries: What to See Right Now 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z Reading these two books side-by-side is a reminder of the extent to which modern life has become a virtual, figurative experience. Frank Bascombe’s Seafaring Foil 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z The “resistance” of the novel’s title, then, is not just literal, but also figurative — the resistance of truth, nostalgia, silence and, ultimately, narratives. Contemporary Brazil, Captured in Two Novels and a Journalist’s Collection 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z Ted's singular means of seduction, like the show, resembles the figurative photograph mainstream America carries around in its psychological wallet. "Ted Lasso" creators Jason Sudeikis and Brendan Hunt want you to know it's OK not to be OK 2021-08-07T04:00:00Z By the end of the 1950s he was in New York, making figurative paintings that were also collages and sculptural reliefs built up from scraps of recycled clothing. Art in Review: Benny Andrews: The Pop Object ‘The Still Life Tradition in Pop Art’ 2013-05-09T19:47:17Z Maybe it’s the way he sticks to approachable, figurative images that are playful, but never off-puttingly abstract. 50 works by beloved Seattle artist Jacob Lawrence on view in expansive exhibit at Greg Kucera Gallery 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z In fact, if there's a common thread running among the authors in "LAtitudes" it's how each wants to scrutinize the influence of human intervention on the physical and figurative landscapes of Los Angeles. 'LAtitudes' navigates the histories and cultures of L.A. 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z In any case, hats, literal or figurative, are most meaningful in context. Lionel Shriver Puts On a Sombrero 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z How did “rabbit hole,” which started its figurative life as a conduit to a fantastical land, evolve into a metaphor for extreme distraction? The Rabbit-Hole Rabbit Hole 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z Moreover, the painting is not immediately recognizable as a Picasso, given its figurative style. Pulled From Rockefeller Walls, Picasso, Matisse and Monet Fetch Big Prices 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z Even so, the other works do have a similarity to Ms. Thomas’s — lots of color, a balance of the figurative and the abstract and a tilt toward collagelike compositions. Mickalene Thomas Shares Everything. Even a New Show. 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z It’s figurative but highly stylized, sculptural but brimming with surface detail, decorative but functional, and luxurious without seeming too removed from popular tradition. Some Favorite Things Not Hanging on a Wall 2011-12-30T00:11:48Z It reintroduces one of the most consistently interesting figurative painters of the period, one actively involved with the New York art world for more than 30 years. Yasuo Kuniyoshi, a Modernist Often Overlooked, Gets a Smithsonian Retrospective 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z For couples whose normal included virtual visits, constant time difference calculations and puzzle-like calendar sessions, the pandemic has brought the clocks to a figurative standstill. Long-distance couples are used to being apart — but not like this 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z Mr. Kelly, best known for his Abstract paintings and sculptures, has also made figurative drawings throughout his career. The Week Ahead: June 3 — 8 2012-06-01T14:30:40Z There was such vociferous opposition to Lin’s memorial that an alternative one was built nearby, figurative with life-size statues of soldiers and fluttering flags. The art of the war memorial: What should a monument to a past conflict do? 2017-08-27T04:00:00Z But my mother was a figurative painter, actually. The Surprising Tale of One of Frank Stella’s Black Paintings 2019-02-17T05:00:00Z Then came his translation of blues for a white audience that speaks to the enduring wound of racism – Presley garnered huge riches from the crossover yet made no effort to repay the figurative debt. Shake, rattle and Rolls: across America in the shadow of Elvis 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z In the figurative room where in my imagination my father, Steve and I sat, influence was neither transparent nor transactional — it hung in the air around us. In health care access, doctor privilege is real. This is how it works 2020-04-11T04:00:00Z “I’m doing art like therapy,” he said from inside his three-room studio hung with both abstract and figurative paintings, mostly in dark colors. In Rwanda, Looking to Art to Soothe 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z In his new home, Delaney pivoted to colorful abstractionism in his work, a clear departure from the figurative expressionism he was known for. Beauford Delaney Returns to the Scene 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z Ms. Ledgerwood’s blooms consist of four large circles whose vaguely figurative cruciform arrangement seems squeezed onto a field of contrasting color. Art in Review: JUDY LEDGERWOOD: ?April Showers? 2011-06-23T21:20:40Z A mountain of cash in the church's figurative collection plate says differently. The power of "Evil" compels us to celebrate the monstrous reasons it speaks to us right now 2021-07-25T04:00:00Z Explosions, figurative and literal, are obviously in the offing. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Change in the Air 2013-07-12T16:58:10Z It believes in violence, but that’s about all it believes in: slashing and stabbing and shooting and — with Mr. Reynolds splashing figurative vinegar in the title role — sarcasm. ‘Deadpool’ Isn’t the Only Solution. But ‘Batman v Superman’ Is the Problem 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z As a figurative painter, Emma Gray of Five Car Garage said she realizes “how long it can take for an artist’s vision to come in — I hold the torch for them.” Artist-Run Galleries Defy the Mega-Dealer Trend in Los Angeles 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z "Redux" covers the same narrative ground as the first cut, but the characters are more psychologically plausible and Vietnam feels like a geographic rather than figurative space. When should a director stop messing with a movie? 2010-08-17T00:20:00Z What you are witnessing is the origin of the modern human soul and the beginning of figurative representation.” Prehistoric Cave With a Hornet on the Wall 2011-04-23T23:31:38Z The collection includes figurative scenes from Brazilian slums, farms and beaches. Bob Dylan's 'Brazil Series' on display in Denmark 2010-09-02T13:30:00Z Hadestown allowed her to explore a modern America that was "dark and getting darker all the time" in subtle, figurative ways. Anais Mitchell: Greece is the word 2011-01-13T22:22:01Z And there’s a lot of nakedness, both literal and figurative. Naked and Afraid 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z He trained in Hamburg with Arthur Bock, a Vienna Secession-style figurative sculptor, and in Paris with Auguste Rodin. Critic?s Notebook: Forward-Looking Sculptures by a Man Straddling Two Worlds 2011-04-14T22:25:54Z But it’s the electroplated etchings, sometimes daintily figurative and sometimes scarred into abstraction, that most fully express the aims of “Redoubt,” reflecting an artist seeking newer, freer shores. A Lighter Matthew Barney Goes Back to School, and Back Home 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z Excluding the final abstract display, the exhibition is an amorphous batch of figurative works that show some artists leading, others following and still others who seem almost oblivious to the Modernist quest. Review: ‘Russian Modernism’ at Neue Galerie, Figurative Focus With Amorphous Results 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z Producing medical sketches for histology and anatomy classes schooled him in the structure of the human body, he says, and laid a foundation for the figurative art to come. Swinging Sixty: Teguh Ostenrik 2010-07-21T10:15:00Z Jerome is a figurative painter living in New York and a professor of art at Syracuse University. Brothers Jerome and Joel-Peter Witkin and their 'Twin Visions' 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z “As I researched the subject, I realized I wanted to take this figurative idea that slavery is still with us, and make it literal.” In His New Novel, Ben Winters Dares to Mix Slavery and Sci-Fi 2016-07-04T04:00:00Z Stephen Pace, Painter and Abstract Expressionist, Is Dead at 91 Stephen Pace, whose exuberant style applied Abstract Expressionist scale and directness to figurative painting, died on Sept. Stephen Pace, Painter and Abstract Expressionist, Is Dead at 91 2010-10-07T06:21:00Z I left the figurative style and began to do mental maps — like mental, intellectual terrain or poetry. Two Pioneering Artists Discuss Motherhood and Machismo 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z Can the endless figurative fall of the silhouetted man in the opening credits be broken? 'Mad Men' achieved high drama without all the dead bodies 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z The photographs were partly intended as studies for his figurative paintings, which they tend to overshadow. Art In Review: GEORGE DUREAU: ‘Black 1973-1986’ 2012-06-21T22:06:16Z They turned back to Pop Art, the unfinished figurative styles of early Modernism, or non-Western art, among other sources. ‘Chris Ofili: Night and Day,’ a Survey at the New Museum 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z Kayce has a talent for whispering to mustangs, a skill which, despite its lavishness of figurative import, has not proved terribly lucrative. “Yellowstone,” Reviewed: Kevin Costner Rasps an Ode to Cowboy Toughness 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z Heffernan, who worships at the figurative altar of the Old Masters, continues to strike me as a little mawkish, but her chops are undeniable. Five Female Painters to See in New York Art Galleries 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z Also unlike Mr. Wiley or Ms. Sherald, both figurative artists with conceptual aims, Ms. Sprung is closer to a realist of the old school. Painting Michelle Obama Took 9 Months. Keeping it Secret Took 6 Years. 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z Gabriel Laderman, a painter and critic who played a leading role in the revival of figurative art in the 1960s and 1970s, died on Thursday in Manhattan. Gabriel Laderman, Painter of Figurative Art, Dies at 81 2011-03-16T05:07:24Z The Rev. Jamison, a literal and figurative punching bag of the show’s writers, gets a medical reprieve minutes before a car accident sends his devoted wife into a coma. 'The Leftovers' Recap: Looking Back 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z Rather than inspiring awe or reverence or even a sense of playfulness like other figurative art around Seattle, these solitary forms evoke a feeling of disconnectedness. Brooding sculptures invite interaction, pushing of 'Borders' 2012-08-09T20:29:11Z The work, in a variety of mediums, is all figurative, or at least evokes figuration. 3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z He was known for figurative work of a decidedly dour postwar cast that culminated in a series of drawings of truncated bodies and body parts floating in tilted, tile-lined bathrooms. On Kawara, Conceptual Artist Who Found Elegance in Every Day, Dies at 81 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z Opera and the Theater Have a Back and Forth “No Hotel,” the new opera by the multidisciplinary cabal Object Collection, lays its figurative cards on the table in relatively short order. Music Review: In ‘No Hotel,’ the Screen Is a Star Onstage 2013-09-08T21:49:16Z Whiting was a discipline of the most famous English potter, Bernard Leach, who worked in the arts and crafts tradition, making functional – never figurative or merely decorative – vessels from earthenware. Edmund de Waal 2011-02-12T11:38:27Z On the figurative front, Shinique Smith pushes her stuffed and bound fabric sculptures toward more explicit body forms, a good move, but one that also brings her into Louise Bourgeois territory. ‘This is what sculpture looks like,’ at the Postmasters Gallery 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z New York City is pushing forward with an artwork to celebrate the abolitionist movement that some detractors have said is too abstract in a city where so few monuments honor Black people with figurative sculptures. The Art Design for Abolitionist Place in Brooklyn Moves Forward 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z On the other hand, in a series of large charcoal drawings from 2011, in a murky figurative style redolent of bad ’70s art, she is decidedly out of her element. MASS MoCA: It’s a Site for All Eyes 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z Minter, meanwhile, celebrates the figurative tensions between craving and base indifference. Marilyn Minter's 'Pretty/Dirty' show allures and repulses all at the same time 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z “A Wrinkle in Time” took place outside of time, in both a literal and a figurative sense. Motherlode Blog: 'A Wrinkle in Time' Turns 50 2012-02-01T00:05:36Z “If one thinks back to that period, figurative art was seen to be old hat,” Mr. Brooks said. MoMA Galleries to Change Their Focus 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z “No Hotel” may lay its figurative cards on the table in relatively short order — but they’re all jokers. Music Review: In ‘No Hotel,’ the Screen Is a Star Onstage 2013-09-08T21:49:16Z The American figurative painter Henry Taylor, for example, is currently the subject of a sold-out exhibition at the Los Angeles gallery Blum & Poe. At Frieze Art Week, All Eyes on the Pound 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z Inside the lofty space, the walls were generously hung with figurative and semi-abstract work. Cultured Traveler: Burmese Artists Look to New Horizons 2011-10-21T18:50:00Z “The focus on the body and the scale. We were looking at non-Western narrative, at figurative art. All that went against the male minimalist ethics of the time.” 'The Vermeer of Los Angeles'? Slow-art champion Tom Knechtel lets us in the studio 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z It was in figurative art, then coming back into favor, that the references were direct, and the Met has a potent display of such paintings. Art Review: Metropolitan Museum of Art?s New American Wing Galleries - Review 2012-01-16T04:58:27Z How to honor what felt like an epochal achievement but seems, at the moment, like a historical cul de sac, an act of heroism in a literal and figurative vacuum? Goodnight Moon Landing 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z “I’m so used to this kudzu sprawl of figurative language,” she said, “and simple can feel like ‘see spot run,’ but there are simple words like prime integers that carry so much meaning when sung.” A Song and Dance Collaboration, Straight Outta Swamplandia 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z At a time when many Black artists are being recognized for figurative art, Halsey has been making large-scale sculptures and reliefs. Lauren Halsey Brings Her Vision of South Central Los Angeles to New York 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z "Love Is Blind" is still a Dumpster fire, but the figurative bin might as well be behind a sparkler factory. Why is the third season of "Love Is Blind" so disappointing? Because we seen its type before 2022-11-26T05:00:00Z The edited images they formed were at once figurative and fractured, expressively illusive but inconclusive; painterly while being mostly paint free. Art Review: Romare Bearden at Studio Museum, Schomburg and the Met 2011-12-08T23:44:36Z This show is displaying her lesser-known drawings on paper — exuberant pieces that straddle the line between figurative and abstract. Datebook: Intimate paintings of queer men, African blacksmiths' ironworks and an indispensable assistant's exhibit 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z The work it shows may be loose or precise, abstract or figurative, but it’s always handsome and unapologetically decorative. In the galleries: Few hard edges in sight 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z She started out as a figurative painter, working from photographs. Distinct Prisms in an Ever-Shifting Kaleidoscope 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z We live and work within figurative structures that were designed to be racist, perhaps consciously, perhaps unconsciously—the intentions of the designers don't change the reality that the design is racist. How to have more productive conversations about racism: Stop focusing on individual intent 2021-02-15T05:00:00Z Of course, there were triumphs, both literal and figurative. How does a 45-year-old rapper stay relevant in a genre that feeds off youth? 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z Veda loves sticking figurative knives in her mother's gut or back and then twisting them. A grand finale for "Mildred Pierce" 2011-04-11T13:01:00Z Lennart Anderson, one of the most prominent and admired painters to translate figurative art into a modern idiom, died on Thursday at his home in Brooklyn. Lennart Anderson, Painter Who Put Modern Twist on the Masters, Dies at 87 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z We can examine every ingredient we use in an ice cream under the same figurative microscope. The science behind the scoop: Four key factors to consider when making ice cream 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z He became the only figurative artist voted into the Eighth Street Club, the famous weekly gathering of the Abstract Expressionists. Lester Johnson, Expressionist Painter, Dies at 91 2010-06-09T00:46:00Z We watch the old defeatist regain a figurative spring in his step, though in reality he limps. The Defense Rests? Scott Turow’s Favorite Lawyer Is 85 and Still Arguing 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z The decade was defined by explosions of various kinds — both the literal bombings both at war and at home, and the figurative blowing up of family life and social norms. Don Draper?s reckoning nears 2012-05-21T12:45:00Z Nor was I related to free figurative style, pop and so on. Special Report: Contemporary Art: A French Artist's Solitary Path 2011-10-13T11:00:14Z Beckmann’s politically and morally charged figurative art and its idiosyncratic mix of Modernist and Medieval styles, fell on blind eyes. Review: ‘Max Beckmann in New York,’ a Belated but Full-Blown Homage to a German Modernist 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z I always think of this as a figurative composition – a cross-like figure at one end, a sort of red blackboard or mirror at the other, with various complications occurring inbetween. Modern British Sculpture: empire of the oddballs 2011-01-18T21:31:01Z His work includes both abstract and figurative paintings as well as photographs. Gerhard Richter painting fetches record price for living artist at auction 2012-10-13T12:04:30Z It also echoes the Islamic tradition of avoiding figurative art, or any painting, in favor of the written word. Mourning Iraq’s Destruction, a Native Son Creates 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z She included work that was abstract, figurative, minimal, maximal, site-specific, conceptual and performative, concluding that nothing definitive could be stated about a feminine sensibility. Revisiting a Groundbreaking Show of Feminist Art 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z It identifies the show as “the first major museum exhibition in the United States devoted primarily to modern figurative art by artists from Russian and Germany during the early years of the 20th century.” Review: ‘Russian Modernism’ at Neue Galerie, Figurative Focus With Amorphous Results 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z His new paintings mark a return to the figurative, with a series of charcoal self-portraits: He is nude, standing or crouching, his body barred by black blotches of paint as if pressed by a burden. An Artist’s New Migration Song 2020-04-26T04:00:00Z They prefer their sculpture traditional and figurative – stuff that Queen Victoria might recognise as art. Why St Pancras's Clouds sculptures are on the right track 2013-04-18T16:01:53Z So we get tasty figurative gumdrops that subtly illuminate the inner thoughts of the characters, like the glamorous Evelyn’s description of the setting sun, which, she says, looks “like a starlet whose solo is over.” ‘On Sugarland’ Review: A Nameless War, and Too Many Wounds to Count 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z And like other forms of figurative art, they added beauty, offered powerful storytelling and provided moral lessons. ‘Grand Design’ Showcases Pieter Coecke Tapestries at the Met 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z The exhibition looks at portraits through the prism of social media even as it draws on the Whitney’s figurative tradition. For Scott Rothkopf, a Swift Ascendance in the Whitney Hierarchy 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z When Society Stumbles, Demons Pounce A young widower battles demons both actual and figurative in “Citadel,” a suburban nightmare with socioeconomic underpinnings. Movie Review: ‘Citadel,’ Set in Glasgow, Directed by Ciaran Foy 2012-11-09T01:00:17Z Her new book, “How Art Works,” is ambitious, covering everything from figurative paintings to abstract expressionism, tonal music, novels, and theatre. What We Know About Art and the Mind 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z He was so successful in these gambits that curators who championed minimalist abstraction, and who thought figurative art inherently passe, were willing to set aside the fact that Close was still painting faces. Perspective | Chuck Close’s reputation as an artist is hard to separate from the impediments he faced — and overcame 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z The only figurative pieces in the show are sculptures of standing women, each about two feet tall, by Ada Pilar Cruz, the studio manager and an instructor at the studios. Crafts Are Celebrated at Peekskill Clay Studios 2011-10-23T00:48:55Z More or less simultaneously, she shifted from figurative to Minimalist-style abstract painting and sculpture. Adrian Piper: The Thinking Canvas 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z Mr. Rothkopf said the Kienholz piece felt right “since this is a time when younger artists are making these kinds of Surreal figurative sculptures.” Inside Art: The Cat Is Stuffed, but the Bird Is Real 2011-01-06T22:44:44Z It helped establish a figurative dream-language that you see in series like “Legion.” Was ‘Twin Peaks’ Ahead of Its Time? Let’s Look Back and See 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z When he does reach for figurative language, he is surpassingly vivid. ‘With the Old Breed,’ an Intimate Look at Terror in World War II 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z The boundary between the figurative and the abstract is erased in curious ways in two new terrific photography exhibits at Seattle’s Frye Art Museum. Photographers transcend in 2 new Frye shows 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z Much of the book’s strength lies is how Cashmore accentuates other aspects of Taylor’s complex stardom, including her large appetites — both real and figurative. Review: ‘Elizabeth Taylor’: the first modern celebrity 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z These are extrapolated into figurative scenarios that include toys, mermaids and Pinocchio. Review | In the galleries: An artist conjures images from oceans to a micro view of nature 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z Ray’s first figurative sculptures, which appeared in 1990, were mannequins — arguably the most visible examples of contemporary figurative sculpture on America’s vast consumerist landscape. Charles Ray: Radical Conservative 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z In this series of audio pieces, which are from three to 15 minutes long, she acts as a figurative conductor on a train that carries the work of 17 artists she has commissioned. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z It seems to promise an awkward marriage between Hollywood memorabilia and easy-to-swallow figurative art by Norman Rockwell and others. In making room for the Lucas Museum, Exposition Park reprises a familiar L.A. role 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z Foreign collectors of African contemporary art are currently obsessed with the current trend of figurative painting and Black portraiture, notably from Ghana, but for many here the work fails to impress. In Dakar, African Art Speaks in All Its Voices 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z And though it is nominally a box, it is hardly square in the figurative sense, which cannot be said of this affable show as a whole. Review: Thinking Outside (and Inside) B.F. Skinner’s Box 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z From Henry Moore to Antony Gormley, even our "modern" artists seem stuck in the fussy world of the figurative, while American painters such as Rothko transport me to a heightened reality. Are we a nation of abstract art snobs? 2011-07-07T16:37:59Z Attending Mills College outside San Francisco for graduate school, she admired the bold figurative work of Joan Brown and became cognizant of the curvaceous shapes of Arshile Gorky, precedents for her own. Elizabeth Murray: A Singular Style, Steeped in Many 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z While he’s known as a figurative artist, large swathes of his paintings teeter toward abstraction. Review: Seattle Art Museum’s Wyeth exhibit confounds expectations 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z What might surprise some visitors is how brilliant a figurative painter he also was, with the show exhibiting several portraits and landscapes from his later output. Kurt Schwitters: Tate retrospective aims to explode myths about Dadaist 2013-01-28T17:48:53Z Also on view will be some of the artist’s new figurative sculptures. Inside Art: Meals as Art at MoMA; David Altmejd at Peter Brant?s Gallery 2011-10-27T22:47:46Z Karma’s reintroduction of Bradley’s abstract works comes at a time when figurative works by Black artists have surged in urgency — and demand. Is Peter Bradley Ready for Round 2 in the Limelight? 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z Then, over the next decade, Guston began to switch gears, a new recruit from figurative work to full-blown abstraction. Why Philip Guston Can Still Provoke Such Furor, and Passion 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z Coming of age in the late 1940s, Mr. De Niro was committed to a kind of figurative painting indebted mainly to Matisse. Robert De Niro Sr.: ‘Paintings and Drawings, 1948-1989’ 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z Executed in a lively if serene palette of warm browns and pale, cool greens, the painting is closer in tone and subject to Gorky's heartfelt figurative paintings of "The Artist and His Mother." LACMA exhibit on John Altoon shows his jazzy, seductive touch 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z On "Thrones," it's all about survival -- literal and figurative. How "Game of Thrones" slew all comers 2011-06-17T18:01:00Z For the vast majority of performers, stage death is figurative. Can a live "30 Rock" succeed? 2010-10-14T16:40:00Z From 1949, when his early figurative pictures finally liquefied into stains of translucent color, Rothko painted with no allusions, no particulars. Mark Rothko at Full Scale, and in Half Light 2023-10-25T04:00:00Z "He'd often drop by – but that didn't last much past the time I stopped doing figurative painting." Frank Bowling and the politics of abstract painting 2012-07-02T18:59:01Z But he’s concerned too with another, figurative, desert: life in America. Books of The Times: Poetry by Luljeta Lleshanaku, Lightsey Darst and Others 2010-07-22T22:18:00Z With the worldwide shutdown of concerts to stem the coronavirus pandemic, those singalongs are only figurative now. Pearl Jam and Green Day Are Still Going Strong. But Can They Evolve? 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z And while this year’s three artists might be seen as at least tangentially connected to a current, heavily marketed trend in Black portraiture, they expand on and complicate the figurative tradition in refreshing ways. Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z The Ortas' cloud people are a compromise – a bit surreal, but nevertheless firmly rooted in a figurative tradition of sculpture that might have pleased the station's original creators. Why St Pancras's Clouds sculptures are on the right track 2013-04-18T16:01:53Z It meant one looked for strands of modernism that didn’t go in the direction of avoiding the figurative, the narrative, the political. William Kentridge Brings ‘Wozzeck’ Into the Trenches 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z Almost from the beginning, Mr. Aronson’s religious imagery and figurative Expressionism provoked controversy. David Aronson, Expressionist Artist, Dies at 91 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z Those fearless canvases ignited her career in the 1990s and established her place as a trailblazer of figurative painting’s renewed relevance. Jenny Saville’s Nudes Bring Renaissance Masters Down to Earth 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z As is the case with Megan Thee Stallion and Lizzo, this leaves her open to figurative and actual assaults and suggestions of violation that would merit punitive consequences had they been made against white women. From Lizzo to Megan Thee Stallion, 2022 was the year of survival for Black women in the public eye 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z It surveys decades of art making, from the exuberant jewelry for which she is best known to the figurative sculpture to which she is now most committed. Inspired by Harriet Tubman, an Artist Takes Glass to Extremes 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z Ample space is especially important to the ever-stronger figurative sculptures Ray has made since 1990, works in which distortions of size, scale or proportion often have a visceral, even disturbing effect on viewers. Charles Ray: Radical Conservative 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z She’s combined the two of them for this show, with aspects of Persian miniatures and figurative work in painting. 'Art Brief: Iranian Contemporary Los Angeles': Bridging communities, one pop-up at a time 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z Many of its famous names were revealed to be victims, and Weinstein was pushed down the figurative stairs. “Big Little Lies” Season 2 Was a Metaphor for Power in Hollywood After #MeToo 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z “He wanted to imbue his art with an ‘object quality,’ neither abstract not figurative, the thing in itself.” Ellsworth Kelly, abstract artist of enduring influence, dies at 92 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z “Doing exhibitions like this one helps to expand beyond an overemphasis on figurative painting,” though he noted that figurative work is valid. Beyond Beyoncé Fame, Awol Erizku Expands What Black Art Can Be 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z The work is figurative, but the color schemes and compositions are fanciful, as Humber delightfully heightens the scenes’ reality. ‘Drama and Design’ brings together works by regional artists Yvonne Twining Humber and Blanche Morgan Losey 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z He graduated in 1975 from Parsons School of Design in New York, steeped in the figurative traditions of his heroes Edward Hopper and Winslow Homer and excited to follow their career footsteps. Duncan Hannah: A Painter Unmoored From Time and Trends 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z The ones here are of three types: landscapes, semiabstract cruciform compositions and figurative illustrations of biblical scenes. Art Review: Louis C. Tiffany Works at Museum of Biblical Art 2012-12-31T23:14:26Z But for me, the eye-catching figurative pieces are the highlight of the show. ‘Sea Change’ and allusions to climate change among artworks at local galleries in January 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z You can even draw parallels as far back as "Titanic," a movie about literally and figurative "letting go" of past loves. Everything you wanted to know about "Inception" 2010-07-19T13:01:00Z Wassily Kandinsky, who transformed Expressionism from a figurative genre into an abstract one, was born in Moscow and grew up in Ukraine, in the Black Sea port of Odessa. LACMA's 'Expressionism in Germany and France' an edifying mix 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z And then, of course, there is the photography itself, which ranges from street photography to figurative portraits to abstraction and minimalism. Impressive exhibition tells the story of Latin America in pictures 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z There is research into figurative art, usually paintings, much of it exploring how we make the leap from a two-dimensional array of colors and shapes to a three-dimensional world. What We Know About Art and the Mind 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z It was stubbornly vanguard, but geometry didn’t carry the narrative risks that frankly figurative art did. Two explorations of the power and prominence of Latino art: 'Anna Maria Maiolino' and 'Carlos Almaraz' 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z The artist gleaned from the 47 paintings and almost as many prints in this exhibition is not just the godfather of figurative Expressionism — despite the show’s rather hammy title. A Less Anxious Edvard Munch 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z A few years later, though, a girl inadvertently paid him back with a figurative knife to his shaky heart. Television Review: ?The Mortified Sessions,? on the Sundance Channel - Review 2011-12-04T23:02:07Z Neel’s achievement is being celebrated at a moment when figurative painting is ascendant, arguably more prominent than it has been in over 70 years. It’s Time to Put Alice Neel in Her Rightful Place in the Pantheon 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z Postwar art saw abstraction definitively push figurative painting to the margins, where it mostly languished for a generation. 'London Calling' at the Getty and the tension between abstract and figurative painting 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z “People tend to visualize Chinese art as Warhol-esque, brightly colored figurative stuff, but we found work that is quite conceptual,” he said. Art Collectors Show Their Chinese Prizes 2013-12-10T22:23:02Z Among Children, in the first gallery, features a room of figurative sculptures of children. How Childhood Inspires Artists and Their Art 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z Rather than industrial motifs, the materials are transformed into a homespun dollhouse, a child’s chair and vaguely figurative forms suggesting giant rag dolls and gargantuan puppets. Marisa Merz retrospective at the Hammer gives an overlooked female artist her due 2017-07-15T04:00:00Z An aspiring figurative painter of a conservative bent, he found Picasso’s increased fracturing of forms enraging. Modern Is Modern Is ... 2011-06-03T20:27:28Z But to paraphrase something another show's figurative vampire is fond of telling his minions, if you're good with this coven, you're good. The harder coming out stories on "What We Do in the Shadows" aren't what you think they'd be 2023-09-01T04:00:00Z And then, with a sudden, shattering lurch, the figurative is made real. Julian Barnes 2013-03-30T07:00:25Z He would later greet with enthusiasm, at least initially, the work of the highly eccentric Norwegian figurative painter Odd Nerdrum. Hilton Kramer, Critic Who Championed Modernism, Dies at 84 2012-03-27T16:08:52Z Hartmann’s art was ornate, figurative and deeply Russian: characteristics seemingly at odds with Kandinsky’s vibrant geometric abstractions and cosmopolitan air. Music Review: Mikhail Rudy in ‘Pictures at an Exhibition,’ at the Guggenheim 2012-09-29T01:39:38Z Raised as a Mennonite and trained at the New York Academy of Art, which favors traditional figurative representation, he brings to his art a painstaking work ethic and an earnest humanism. Art in Review: Matthew Miller: ?the magic black of an open barn door on a really sunny summer day, when you just cannot see into it? 2011-05-06T06:15:06Z The upheaval of a catastrophic war and its tumultuous aftermath was reshaping the way art looked and felt, and in these works flat, loosely figurative shadows seem to flit through spiky and organic shapes. Luchita Hurtado abstract artworks mix cultures like colors, to rousing effect 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z Out on the dance floor, nattily garbed dancers cut a figurative rug. Music Review: ‘Blue Monday,’ at the Cotton Club 2013-06-19T20:48:52Z “Jaws” became the first film to gross more than $100 million domestically and won a figurative Academy Award for Most Induced Nightmares. Discovery Channel looks to regain its bite with its favorite franchise 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z Since the 1950s the figurative banner was held high by marvelous painters such as David Park in San Francisco, Jane Freilicher in New York and many others, but abstraction, nonetheless, ruled. Three art shows in San Diego recall abstraction's prominence 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z There are no female artists in the show; are we to assume that they have been inconsequential contributors to post-World War II figurative painting? Art Review: ‘See It Loud,’ at the National Academy Museum 2013-12-26T22:02:57Z You’d never know from looking at museums that figurative painting, running the gamut from realist to quasi-expressionist, is on the rise. 2010-02-14T03:58:00Z One is an established figurative painter, the other is relatively unknown and possible rising art-world star. For Their Portraits, Obamas Shine Light on African-American Art 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z They should be a revelation to younger generations, including painters using figurative styles to tell their own stories, just as his work encourages the conviction, also current in some quarters, that painting has no limits. David Hockney’s Life in Painting: Spare, Exuberant, Full 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z After a global wave of figurative painting that poked, prodded and examined the human body from every perspective, the art world is now overrun with critters. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z The Stones brought literal and figurative fireworks to the festival's opening night Friday. Rolling Stones bring fireworks to Desert Trip festival 2016-10-08T04:00:00Z I like stories that keep this dialogue—between myth and substrate, figurative and literal—open and follow the two as they interact. Greg Jackson on the Dialogue Between Myth and Reality 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z Speleers, who naturally wields both of these figurative disarming devices, easily persuades the viewer of Jack's inherent heroism or the notion Rhys Montrose could sell the London Bridge to voters by sneering a little. From "You" to "Barry," we're fascinated by audacious grifters: The man who deceives us and himself 2023-03-11T05:00:00Z I never got to see Jonathan on a set, but I was fortunate enough to see him furiously searching for the figurative meat. Jonathan Demme: The mentor, the maestro, the model 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z His paintings show a masterly technique, blending figurative elements and depictions of the natural world with abstraction, layers of symbolism and fantastical imagery that defy easy categories. Louis Delsarte, a Muralist of the Black Experience, Dies at 75 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z Early in her career, she settled on drawing as a primary medium and abstraction as a mode, unusual choices when the most visible avant-garde Indian art was figurative painting with a political bent. A Question Still Hanging at the Met Breuer: Why? 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z Mini-paintings range from rough to smooth in texture and figurative to abstract in content. Seattle artists Linda Davidson and April Surgent: mosaic mavericks 2010-12-09T20:44:00Z In 1953, Mr. Delaney moved to Paris, where his style of painting became less figurative and more aligned with the Abstract Expressionists. Weldon Collection of Paintings to Be Sold at Sotheby’s 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z This is when he switched from abstraction to a style of figurative art engaged both with brute politics and the existential comedy and influenced by underground comics. Perspective | Museums are still mounting major exhibitions this fall, with no shortage of big-name artists 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z In the mid-1990s, she did the first in her series of big, figurative ballpoint-and-pencil drawings on paper, each superbly executed, with a tabloid back story. Art in Review: MARLENE MCCARTY: ?i?m into you now: some work from 1980-2010? 2010-11-19T07:00:00Z He set “The Pale King” in Peoria, the figurative perfect middle of the country since vaudeville days. David Foster Wallace’s Peaceful Prairie 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z His work blends the abstract with the figurative with the downright surreal. 5 artists to watch from 'The Best American Comics of 2014' 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z Berry dons a figurative detective’s cap and literal mutton chops in this Victorian spoof, in which he plays a foul-mouthed inspector in 19th-century London. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘The Chef Show’ and ‘Year of the Rabbit’ 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z The human wastage in The Charnel House, for instance, is so distorted it barely looks like a figurative image at all. Exhibitions picks of the week 2010-05-21T23:06:00Z The link connecting these two women goes beyond being the figurative yin to the other’s yang, and beyond the kooky Corsican-sister explanation for why Aubrey and Dakota have matching wounds. Hear me out: why I Know Who Killed Me isn't a bad movie 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z These details are both important and relevant to the figurative subtweet Bravo is sending through "Zola." "Zola" is a cautionary tale about Black women befriending white women 2021-07-05T04:00:00Z She’s viewed as both the source of the literal, as well as, in the more figurative sense, the source of the continuity of the community. The war on female sexuality: Is globalization to blame? 2013-01-05T23:00:00Z Rather than oppose dominant abstraction, these artists probe the tension between the figurative and the abstract. 'London Calling' at the Getty and the tension between abstract and figurative painting 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z He is a figurative artist at a time when, outside the School of London, and the School of Glasgow of the 1980s, to be figurative is to be unfashionable. John Byrne: in from the margins 2011-08-17T15:00:01Z In this regard, she was a lot like Philip Guston, who abandoned Abstract Expressionism for a lush yet acerbic figurative style during the last 13 years of his life. Joan Mitchell: A Painter at Her Peak 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z What he most remembers is the hunger, both literal and figurative, that these rudimentary state-run schools induced in him. In ‘The End of Loneliness,’ a German-Swiss Novelist Confronts Death and Loss 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z If you were blindsided by Roman's nihilistic sellout in "America Decides," you derived the wrong warnings about Roman from his figurative kennel clubbing. "Succession" fans should be shocked by Roman Roy. He was always a terrible person with a quick wit 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z Heightened white-collar quotidian nests side-by-side with the figurative and the crazy. Rewatching the X-Files: my 50-episode binge 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z Now 51, and a recent recipient of a MacArthur “genius grant,” Ms. Eisenman is one of the leading figurative painters of her generation. A Conversation With Nicole Eisenman and Grace Dunham 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z How would you characterize your approach to figurative language in general? Throwing Weight Into Sound: Kaveh Akbar on Poetry and Power 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z In the 1950s he became a leading Abstract Expressionist before later shifting back to figurative art — the cartoonish bricks, shoes, limbs and self-portraits that became his signature. Delayed Philip Guston Show Opens, With a Note From a Trauma Specialist 2022-05-01T04:00:00Z I invoked dictators' artistic fantasies to suggest the level of badness and self-delusion in Hirst's figurative paintings, but the bronze woman of Ilfracombe invites a more direct comparison with the art of totalitarian regimes. Damien Hirst's new statue is a dangerous monstrosity 2012-10-11T14:23:22Z Across the 1970s, the figurative children of their 1960s achievements battled it out on the Western record charts, vying for attention and acclaim among a sea of talent. Paul McCartney singles box set tells riveting story of a brilliant musician with something to prove 2022-12-03T05:00:00Z Every character in the book is in a prison, literal or figurative. Review: ‘Time of the Locust,’ by Morowa Yejidé√ The goal here is to treat TV as your day’s only figurative getaway destination — that “third place” status we usually grant to cafes, bars, gyms, theaters, museums, parks, sports arenas and retail stores. Perspective | What to watch when you’ve seen everything else? Oh, now you want to hear from the TV critic. 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z He also paints piercing images of himself and his family, though he calls all of these figurative pieces self-portraits. Crossing Borders 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z He is also a talented two-dimensional artist, who utilizes several different media to create figurative work. Father, son work on Mississippi monument 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z This happens in a large gallery that starts with a superb cluster of painted vases, where each subsequent display introduces a different figurative style. Art Review: ?The Dawn of Egyptian Art? at the Metropolitan Museum 2012-04-12T22:17:19Z The figurative painter Jonas Wood, also based in Los Angeles, is at a different stage of his market cycle. Christie’s and Sotheby’s Auctions in London Keep the Bubble Afloat 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z They are a tribute to a gifted abstract artist who was overshadowed by figurative giants like Bacon, Lucian Freud and David Hockney. Damien Hirst: From Artist to Curator 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z The painting was unusual for its time — representing identifiable objects awash in a flat monochrome surface of Venetian red, combining the figurative with the abstract and dismantling the illusion of depth. A Deep Dive Into Matisse’s ‘The Red Studio’ 2021-09-12T04:00:00Z It doesn’t have to be so literal, it’s much more figurative. ArtsBeat: Q. and A. With Lady Gaga on Her 'Freedom Ride' 2011-05-20T12:00:49Z But no matter whether Mason was working in figurative, abstract or primitivist mode, the exuberance of his work is consistent and irrepressible. A museum-worthy Alden Mason retrospective at Wright Space 2013-05-13T17:40:24Z A large Henry Taylor figurative painting hangs over the purple plush horseshoe-shaped couch. Art Was There, Through Courtship, Love and Labor 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z And I climbed right on that figurative bus, which took me to scores of shows across the country over the next four years. Communing with the Dead: I followed the Grateful Dead to escape and ended up finding home 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z When they multiply you have to stand back to distinguish the figurative shapes among the mass of abstract signs. Keith Haring, the Political Line – review 2013-05-14T13:01:35Z The new series, which sees the contestants throwing figurative – and literal – punches at one another and their chaperones while being instructed in "refainment" is essentially My Fair Lady meets Bad Girls. Ladette To Lady needs to forget some of its reality TV etiquette 2010-07-21T12:28:00Z This exhibition, “Gerhard Richter: Panorama,” includes roughly 130 paintings and five sculptures, featuring both his abstract and figurative works and will be open to the public from Sunday, Feb. 12, to May 13. ArtsBeat: Gerhard Richter Mobbed by Paparazzi as Retrospective Opens in Berlin 2012-02-10T17:12:43Z The bulbs will be digitally programmed to flicker light that will create figurative images. Inside Art: ?New Photography 2010? Coming to MoMA 2010-07-29T20:43:00Z “People go through the literal and figurative inventory of their pasts and emotions in a healthy way, to build for the future they envision for themselves.” Marie Kondo would like to tidy up your relationships — and your office, too 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z Mr. Duwenhögger is a sly, seductive stylist and storyteller, adept at figurative painting as well as film, sculpture and suavely domestic installations — all guided by a decorative sensibility that is both between-the-wars and among cultures. Your Last Chance to See One of New York’s Great Gallery Spaces 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z She was alert to arguments among Black artists over the relative identitarian merits of figurative versus abstract art: the former could be “Black,” some said, but the latter, never. JAM, a Gate-Crashing Gallery, Expanded the Idea of Blackness 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z Swenson has a predilection for figurative language that occasionally hits the lyrical mark but more often distracts. Exonerated for a Murder They Didn’t Commit 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z Commemorating, admiring, holding our figurative hands, Gregerson’s new poems make up a kind of grief counseling, turning our attention from the forever lost to the not-yet-gone. A Poet Looks at the End of the World, and Reaches for Hope 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z This opening shot turns a real space into a figurative one. 'Ne Change Rien': shadowy, musical, dreamy 2011-10-27T20:17:06Z Nearly everyone else is so glued to figuring out what really happened to Epstein that they barely notice the figurative guillotine being constructed in their midst, let alone dream their own heads might roll. In a fitting finale, "The Good Fight" makes the case for nipping Jeffrey Epstein whodunit in the bud 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z The figurative elements are spectral, there and not there, like subconscious phantoms lurking within the stuff of art. 'Jackson Pollock: Blind Spots,' in Dallas, is exciting and enlightening 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z His figurative sculptures trigger even more conflicted emotions. Paul McCarthy at Hauser & Wirth: A horror show on a grand, exquisite scale 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z And their responses were central to the development of figurative art in the Western world. A Greco-Roman Tour of Myth and Nature 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z He would eventually renounce much of the abstract art he had championed earlier, returning to a figurative mode informed by Ingres and Poussin. Art Review: ?American Vanguards? at the Neuberger Museum 2012-02-02T23:48:47Z The Obamas’ recent selection of artists to paint their official portraits drew attention to the rich tradition of African-American figurative painting. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z This figurative "water" can really change the recipe of mindfulness. Mindfulness meditation can make some Americans more selfish and less generous 2021-08-02T04:00:00Z Ms. Santos Silva’s work, whether stylized figurative portraiture or abstracted lightscapes, is imbued with that same sense of dynamic suspense. In Transit: Showcasing a Portuguese Artist Working in Paris 2011-04-08T10:00:04Z But Apple’s new emoji feature seems more likely to impede a different kind of skill: creating surprising, figurative and subversive forms of individual expression out of the digital ephemera that populate our devices. Hands Off My Smiley Face: Emoji Become Corporate Tools 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z “Voila,” she said with a smirk of mock munificence, as if she were the owner—which, in a figurative sense, she is. Helen Mirren Visits “Adele Bloch-Bauer I” 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z Sís draws young Nicky as a fencer suited up like the figurative and literal knight he would become, and sets him inside an oval ring — a familiar Síssian motif. A Captivating New Picture Book Celebrates the ‘British Schindler’ 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z Ms. Mein’s figurative sculpture “Le Songe,” or “The Dream,” represents a distorted squatting female form that appears to be metamorphosing into another organic mass, something of a modern-day Daphne. Special Report: Contemporary Art: Belgian Artists Making an Impact, at Home and Beyond 2011-10-13T11:00:13Z He wanted to make sculpture that was figurative without being pictorial, that drew on tradition but didn’t come into the gallery on “a Freudian surfboard,” to use Ray’s high-L.A. term. Charles Ray Is Pushing Sculpture to Its Limit 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z Sort of figurative, sort of abstract, her work is like European Modernism that’s been tickled, taffy-pulled and generally messed around with, as is true of a lot of other work here. ‘Under the Same Sun,’ Art From Latin America, at Guggenheim 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z “Farnsworth’s Classical English Metaphor ” collects hundreds of short passages from English prose to demonstrate how figurative analogies bring excitement, richness and increased clarity to a writer’s thought. What does this remind you of? A compendium of metaphors can help. 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z This major career survey of the American artist who bucked every “-ism” of the late 20th century to follow his own distinctive path in figurative art looks like a stunner. Art exhibitions to check out in Seattle this fall 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z Just like the pawn she converts in her final game, Beth becomes a figurative queen only with the help of others. In "The Queen’s Gambit" and beyond, chess holds up a mirror to life 2020-12-26T05:00:00Z She took inspiration from figurative paintings representing the four Christian evangelists as a lion, an eagle, a bull and an angel in the apse of St. Michael’s church in Ferrara. Missioni turns creative page; Liberatore mixes real, virtual 2021-09-26T04:00:00Z By the end, at least one character has faced his demons, literal and figurative. ‘Demons’ Review: Grief Is the Thing With Red Fur 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z Some are portraits, whose figurative subject matter — including various saints and the late artist Franz West, Stingel’s friend — are a compelling counterpoint to the sea of textures.. | A Magic Carpet Ride in a Venetian Palazzo 2013-06-05T17:47:17Z Most notably, they regularly incorporate plumage, literal or figurative. Noticed: The Perched, the Frothy, the Fascinator 2011-05-06T17:34:29Z Portal began selling “quirky, figurative work” just off Bond Street in 1959, Ms. Wilder said. For Galleries, a Central London Presence Is a Dying Tradition 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z Ellsworth-Jones evidently enjoys the fact that they want to communicate some palpable point, some pleasure in figurative form, in a subculture that prefers deliberate illegibility. Banksy: The Man Behind the Wall by Will Ellsworth-Jones - review 2012-06-01T07:00:02Z Then, in the second gallery, you see the shock of the Ballets Russes rippling through the display of drawings, collages and three small figurative sculptures from 1912. A Case for the Greatness of Florine Stettheimer 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z But what are we to do with ghosts both literal and figurative? Some Advice About Ghosts and Ghosting, From a Paranormal Investigator 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z It seemed completely appropriate that a play so bound up with surveillance should be channelled through cameras, thereby making the audience even more watchful and providing them different perspectives, literal and figurative. Can a filmed stage show be as good as the real thing? 2011-03-06T00:11:35Z So he stopped painting abstractions, and turned to figurative images. Perspective | In postponing Guston exhibition, the National Gallery and three other museums have made a terrible mistake 2020-09-27T04:00:00Z There’s a cloud — both figurative and literal — hanging over the tents of “The Great British Bake Off” as we head into week five. "Bake Off" shocks viewers with a dramatic double-elimination 2023-10-28T04:00:00Z It’s time for some big museum to summon its nerve, take off its blinkers and account for the rash of representational and specifically figurative painting going on right now. New York Art Galleries: What to See Right Now 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z The room is lined with figurative paintings stitched together with expressive black thread, as well as rough-cut wooden forms used to support three-dimensional works in progress. An Artist on Paying Homage to Harlem, and Using Found Fabrics in Paintings 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z Mr. Richter stepped in, lending a print on aluminum of “Annunciation After Titian” that he made in 2015, and a dozen other works — some with figurative imagery, many abstract and never before exhibited. Titian and Gerhard Richter: Keeping Faith With Painting, 5 Centuries Apart 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z The centerpiece is a display of numerous monumental figurative sculptures in Pioneer Work’s yawning main space — a vibrant carnivalesque antidote to the classical sculpture courts of western museums. Four Knockout Group Shows to See Now 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z He staunchly adhered to figurative painting at a time when Abstraction, Minimalism and Conceptual art were seen as avant-garde. Buffet: A Life of Success, Rejection and Now a Celebration 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z In a time when figurative painting proliferates, Hirshfield’s synthesis of form and narrative inspires. Best Art of 2022 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z He gathered his family and friends around him and refused to commit to a single figurative style or to use photographic images in a formulaic way. Noah Davis Is Gone; His Paintings Continue to Hypnotize 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z One side, which tells the life of David in panels like those of the Crusader Bible, is a marvel of elegant figurative action, bold abstraction and eye-gripping colors and patterns. Exhibitions of Medieval Biblical Masterworks 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z The BP awards are considered a top showcase for young figurative artists, and winners' works often become popular among collectors. Cornish alum wins one of art's most coveted prizes 2012-06-21T23:52:07Z Other suggestions have taken a more figurative approach: a version of Edvard Munch’s painting “The Scream”; an array of enormous, menacing stone spikes. The Apocalyptic Visions of Ariana Reines 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z The statement goes on to say, “This is not a difference of opinions; this is legitimizing bigotry. . . . Mike Pence has literal and figurative blood on his hands.” Perspective | The Philip Roth biography is canceled, Mike Pence’s book could be next — and publishing may never be the same 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z Reportedly writing the script in less than a week, Hughes shot the film using downtown Chicago as the students’ figurative playground. 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' Then and Now 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z For a more complex approach to figurative sculpture, you might venture downtown to City Hall Park, where works by six artists are distributed about the grounds in a exhibition called “Statuesque.” Art Review: Pondering Sculpture Under the Trees 2010-08-26T20:00:00Z Until fairly recently, the world of contemporary art went through a period of turning up its nose on figurative art — works that have a strong resemblance to the real world, especially the human figure. Two Artists, Two Views of the Human Figure 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z “Colorful Life” is considered an important moment in Kandinsky’s journey from figurative painting to abstraction. German Panel Says Kandinsky Painting Should Go Back to Jewish Heirs 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z For Hoyland, it was necessary for paintings to be self-sufficient machines, constructed to convey a powerful charge of visual, mental and emotional energy without recourse to any historically established figurative imagery. John Hoyland obituary 2011-08-01T19:14:31Z Yet there’s also a comic book texture to the literal and figurative overkill. In Hindsight, an ‘American Psycho’ Looks a Lot Like Us 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z The tiny figurative piece by Modigliani - the first her father ever bought. The art world's Bernie Madoff, and his deceptions 2010-10-23T16:16:00Z It was made after Delaney, a gay black man, moved to Paris, where he changed from making figurative work to mostly abstract compositions. Review | African American artists embraced modernism. But the art world didn’t embrace them. 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z Mr. Dinnerstein is survived by his wife; a daughter, Rachel Dinnerstein; a son, Michael; and a brother, Simon, a figurative artist. Harvey Dinnerstein, Proudly Realistic Painter, Is Dead at 94 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z The Capitol, itself, is a symbol of permanence, and its “desecration,” as most termed it, was a reminder of its construction upon a bedrock of the figurative. Perspective | I thought classical music could stand up to anything. Now it feels more vulnerable than ever. 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z These tones are evident in his Blue and Rose periods as well as his investigations into Cubism, neoclassical figurative paintings and Surrealism. The Week Ahead: Oct. 7 — 13 2012-10-07T07:30:05Z In the 1930s, the painter Arshile Gorky wielded that phrase like a weapon, disparaging what he saw as propagandist figurative art, art that often depicted and ennobled the American worker. Where Blue-Collar Art Is Having Its Moment 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z What is literal in Slocum’s book—thousands of miles between ports—becomes figurative in Bascombe’s—the inability of people to understand each other. Frank Bascombe’s Seafaring Foil 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z Her work is figurative, often photorealistic yet hermetic, knowing but mysterious, authentic while embracing the pleasures of artifice. Art Gallery Shows to See in February 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z With nary a pause, he rolls through the details of characters’ yearslong arcs, including every stolen identity, forbidden romance and vicious backstabbing — literal and figurative. Michael R. Jackson on the Soap Opera Origins of ‘White Girl in Danger’ 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z This is a story with a lot of meat on its figurative grill. 'The Fireman' may be the best apocalyptic read of the year, if you can stand the heat 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z Mr. Condo, 61, is best known for his bold figurative paintings that blend old master techniques and cartoonish characters, capturing a range of emotions from many perspectives in a method he calls “psychological Cubism.” A Sun God? A Cyborg? No, It’s a George Condo Creation 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z “But of course, it took time to find the right size. And I really wanted it to be figurative, of a woman.” When Contemporary Art Speaks to This Collector, She Listens 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z Her figurative images portray saints and scenes from the Bible. A Stained-Glass Gift, From God and Gerhard Richter 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z On land, a good gust can knock a person off balance which, in a figurative sense, explains Burton's struggle in his astronomically anticipated debut on Monday. LeVar Burton has a shaky "Jeopardy!" debut, but he's still very much in this game 2021-07-27T04:00:00Z The album is a slab of songs like hieroglyphs: figurative but cryptic, revolving around situations or archetypes that are never fully explained. Music Review: St. Vincent Sings at Metropolitan Museum of Art - Review 2011-08-26T23:18:13Z Martin tried to find and destroy all her early figurative work, but this picture — a self-portrait? — escaped the purge. Art Review: Sexuality in Modernism: The (Partial) History 2010-12-10T23:38:00Z When an artist toggles between figurative sculpture and television art, where do you land? Slashing His Way to the Sublime 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z Kirstein was also part of a circle of figurative artists, mostly gay, who he considered the greatest of his time but, who, like him, have since been marginalized. Lincoln Kirstein: A Modern Tastemaker With Some Iffy Taste 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z A National Academy Museum news release acknowledges that the works are “drawn from the collection of” the figurative drawing center and credits both it and Mr. Justin among the funders for the show. Art Review: ‘See It Loud,’ at the National Academy Museum 2013-12-26T22:02:57Z It was in 1911 that her painting went from figurative to abstract. Judy Chicago on Rescuing Women From Art History’s Sidelines 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z I was so excited about the prospect of alternating story lines–two parallel journeys to hell, figurative and literal–and I described this Watson-and-Crick vision of a helical structure to you, in great detail. Karen Russell interviews Kent Russell: “I was firmly in the throes of male adolescence’s hurtful apathy” 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z Other works teetering between image and abstraction are by Marley Freeman, Ouattara Watts and Maja Ruznic, whose more clearly figurative new effort makes her look less Rothkoesque, which is a good thing. At the Shed, Frieze II Takes Off 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z From early figurative paintings, through collages and video installations, to her radical work in dance and performance, Ms. Schneemann has consistently — insistently — made the personal political, bridging divides between eras and cultures, even species. The Best Art Books of 2017 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z Book burning is so, um, inflammatory that it sometimes seems to have given that adjective its figurative meaning. Click here or we’ll burn this book 2012-06-28T00:00:00Z In fact, Blum is a figurative painter who’s concerned with how women are represented in art. Review | In the galleries: Art, interrupted, in ‘Carte Blanche,’ curated by Adah Rose Bitterbaum 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z His property, Falcon Ridge Farm, lies between Westminster and the Mason-Dixon Line and is not just a figurative but literal reinvention of northern Maryland agriculture. Perspective | The key to a family farming renaissance? Niche crops. 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z The gallery show, which enfolds visitors in Mughal-style canvas tents with vibrant painted interiors, plays to his strengths: a fluid hand and a rich, knowing synthesis of Eastern and Western figurative art. Francesco Clemente Offers Contrasting Shows 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z The other verges on the figurative as he conjures up dissolving visages and ghosts recollected, perhaps, from dreams or nightmares. Range of works by Seattle artist Juan Alonso explores the depths 2010-08-23T23:53:00Z Q: After turning to figurative painting, you then focused on beading and embellishing, craft methods that might be considered "feminine." Women on art: What does 'woman artist' mean? 2012-10-07T06:37:54Z But the presence of these made me pay attention to the color in his cardboard, mostly figurative constructions, which his family referred to as his “friends.” Soot, Spit and Paper: James Castle’s Transfixing Worlds 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z For many Modernists, decoration is criminal, but Mr. Perrault respected the decorative arts tradition of Versailles and translated figurative forms into abstractions that highlight shape, material and light itself. How Do You Add to Versailles? Bravely 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z “Pure Painting” spans half a century, beginning with figurative abstractions of the 1940s and extending into representative works of his last years. A Vienna Museum Mounts a Monumental Look at Robert Motherwell 2023-10-03T04:00:00Z It’s just an uncommon way of highlighting what is, after all, the heart of most figurative painting — the strange and magical problem of fixing a moment in time. Ablaze With Art: Thriving Galleries in Lower Manhattan 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z The play spans six months, one actual death and a second figurative one, during which time David is encouraged to go on the wagon and to shift his affections in the process. Review: A British and an American Revival Intoxicate, for Different Reasons 2010-06-15T14:53:00Z You paint in a figurative style that matches the straightforward title of the play. Mom’s a Corpse. Dad Looks Mad. At Least the Light Is Nice. 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z There’s a relatively figurative side and there’s a totally abstract side. The Surprising Tale of One of Frank Stella’s Black Paintings 2019-02-17T05:00:00Z Now as then he vehemently opposes figuration, including “stupid figurative Black art. A bunch of slaves on boats,” he said. Is Peter Bradley Ready for Round 2 in the Limelight? 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z In the East Village in the early 1980s, this British-American artist showed some of the strongest political art of the day, and in the most traditional of media: figurative painting, drawing and printmaking. 27 Art Exhibitions to View in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z “There’s a big demand now for figurative work telling underrepresented stories,” she said. Painting Black Warriors, With Michael K. Williams as His Model 2022-02-02T05:00:00Z Her curator Ian Alteveer, for one, is focused on the art of Kerry James Marshall, a prominent figurative painter from Birmingham, Ala., whose work redresses the absence of black subjects in Western art. Becoming Modern: The Met’s Mission at the Breuer Building 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z Both lean toward the figurative while keeping their toes in abstract territory. You don’t need rules to look at Amir Zaki’s photography — just imagination 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z It was interesting—some figurative people on a porch. When Walter Hopps Met Andy Warhol and Frank Stella 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z And the range is impressive, with figurative and abstract pieces, obvious and subtle ones, those that are introspective and those that shout. A Show of Artists Galvanized by the Abortion Debate 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z This small show of 13 works by a New York-based painter and sculptor may have a big impact for fans of figurative art. Museum Shows With Stories to Tell 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z Cave likes the play that’s happening here: The form is sometimes figurative, sometimes abstract. Nick Cave Digs Deep, With a Symphony in Glass 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z Millett lends "Big Cake" and "Silver Girl" figurative qualities to otherwise abstract pieces with the titles he gives them. Changing perceptions: Peter Millett's sculptures need to be circled to be seen 2010-07-22T21:51:00Z What transforms mere commitment to "fact" is Herzog's sense that the real truth often lies in the figurative quality of events. Werner Herzog: 50 years of potent, inspiring, disturbing films 2013-06-01T08:01:00Z From the start, in her own sculpture and painting, she bucked the trend that equated political art with figurative work, and invented her own modes of queer abstraction. Harmony Hammond’s Art Is Bold and Prickly as Ever 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z Think here of Kerry James Marshall, Njideka Akunyili Crosby, and other black figurative painters for whom European painting is one vital source among many that they assume as part of a global inheritance. Two Napoleons in Brooklyn, One in Timberlands 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z Breathtaking in both the literal and figurative sense, these works require the lung capacity of an Olympian marathoner with the elocutionary finesse of Shaw’s Professor Henry Higgins. Shakespeare's 'Hamlet' and Shaw's 'Saint Joan': A marathon for four actors, and the audience 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z "People see him as this black figurative painter and black abstract painter. But it's like he's so much more than that." An unassuming storefront. A major museum. A collaboration that takes museum art to the people of L.A. 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z And figurative elements help to make sense of arcane financial transactions, like three prowling, red-eyed velociraptors that represent structures for hiding debt. Drama! Music! Financial Shenanigans! 2010-02-20T05:21:00Z But his work was also steeped in various figurative and avant-garde traditions of postwar European art. Franz West, Influential Sculptor, Dies at 65 2012-07-27T02:56:48Z One is 50-feet long - a mesmerizing black-and-white all over geometric abstraction tightly integrated with his figurative imagery. NY exhibit focuses on early career of Keith Haring 2012-03-25T00:46:05Z Miller moved to Santa Fe in the early 1980s, when he began working more on figurative paintings. Meet the artist who invented the Grateful Dead’s skull and roses logo 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z Like the figurative works, these too assert themselves with fearless, boisterous zest. Roger Herman ceramics: bold, bawdy and ... is that a little bondage sketched on there? 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z Or was it her way of making sense of Simpson’s peculiar fusion of the figurative and the abstract? The Mysterious Darknesses of Lorna Simpson’s Paintings 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z I have a feeling that the reason these two appeal to me so much is because they're cut from the same figurative cloth as Frodo and Sam… the suffering hero and his faithful retainer. Elizabeth Wein's top 10 dynamic duos in fiction 2013-06-20T12:33:58Z These patterns nest within a complex overall design that appears figurative or abstract but always expresses ceremonial ritual based in ancient tradition. Introducing the greatest aboriginal artist unknown in America 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z Because the worker who asks you for your I.D. is black or Hispanic, and male, too, and he needs to make a living, even if it’s at someone’s literal and figurative expense. Revealing and Obscuring Myself on the Streets of New York 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z “California Dreams” also includes images of the figurative oil paintings that Miller has worked on in recent years. Meet the artist who invented the Grateful Dead’s skull and roses logo 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z Rama returned to figurative works in her later years, when she made even more literal the overlapping of bodies and contraptions. The Psychosexual World of Carol Rama Still Shocks 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z It would be a bit misleading to call Mr. Gavin a figurative painter. Review: Cy Gavin Employs Unusual Canvas Ingredients in ‘Overture’ 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z Ski bums, showbiz types and figurative artists recur in this collection. An Intrepid Chronicler of Sundry Experiences 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z After a school security breach, Bri moves from the page to the recording booth where her figurative language sounds more thug life than her secondhand shoe game would imply. Review | Angie Thomas follows up ‘The Hate U Give’ with the story of an aspiring hip-hop star 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z But, according to Paul Moorhouse, 20th-century curator at the National Portrait Gallery, the figurative works contain the seeds of her later abstract work. Early Bridget Riley works to go on show at National Portrait Gallery 2010-04-26T17:47:00Z “This is a man who for years and years worked for the state, doing figurative large sculpture to survive,” said Ms. Lévy, who also represents the Korean painter Chung Sang-Hwa. Pop Artist Tom Wesselmann’s Estate Will Be Represented by 2 Dealers 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z Only loosely figurative, they stimulate the imagination like passing clouds. 4 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z “As an artist you go to these national parks to see the great turn of 20th Century figurative sculptures,” he said. Father, son work on Mississippi monument 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z With 66 exhibitors from seven countries, it’s an expansive display of mostly smallish, textured, densely detailed things — modest-size figurative paintings and drawings dominate — but with a good share of stop-and-stare surprises. Outsider Art of the Moment: 66 Exhibitors, 7 Countries, 1 Fair 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z It is happening beyond New York as well: this month San Francisco rescinded a commission for a large bronze portrait of the author Maya Angelou after public calls for a more traditional, figurative statue. New York’s Race to Build Monuments Runs Into Friction on the Ground 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z After a traumatizing auto accident in 1979, the work turned figurative, intensely focused on autobiography and African-American politics. A West Coast Spotlight on Latino Artists Leads the Fall Art Season 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z But, as is the case with so many Black female artists, the white mainstream ignored her dazzling, hard-to-categorize assemblage quilts as well as her bright, figurative paintings and prints — until now. The World Catches Up With Dindga McCannon 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z A distinctly spiritual dimension marks the union of material naturalism and figurative allusion. The 'Maverick Modernist' you don't know but should: Peter Krasnow at the Laguna Art Museum 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z Burning it all down wasn’t enough; Arnold tossing himself onto the pyre as well – a figurative self-immolation to send a message. The American experience, as "Westworld" 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z In the first, called “Fever,” the meaning is both literal and figurative. ‘Breathe’ Review: A Pandemic Musical That Strains to Surprise 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z Here performance, movement, light, sound – and the odd collaboration with folks such as performance artist Philip Li – are brought into play to provide a more inspiring context for figurative drawing. Drawing conclusions: the fine line between theatre and art 2011-02-16T17:28:53Z There are figurative renderings of hands and a woman’s face, and two clearly modeled people who seem to be slow-dancing on a beach. It’s easy to overthink Picasso 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z Not exactly a compendium of old-fashioned figurative art, the works are in some way related to living beings. 'Creature' is a smart exhibition at the Broad museum 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z Her large-scale mixed-media works on paper blend figurative painting, drawing, printmaking, photography and collage. Njideka Akunyili Crosby: The painter in her MacArthur moment 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z This beautifully curated group show presents work by six young figurative painters. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z Among the works that Mr. Mohassess discusses is a life-size figurative sculpture of the shah and his family that may be lost. ‘Fifi Howls From Happiness,’ From Mitra Farahani 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z Those who lost an appetite—or at least a tolerance—for the prospect of future military service likely could trace their figurative about-face to the events of September 11, 2001. 9/11 and West Point football’s epic losing streak of 2003 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z “I’m really trying to figure out how I can work within traditional figurative painting but also, what’s the new thing you’re adding to this conversation?” she says. Njideka Akunyili Crosby: The painter in her MacArthur moment 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z Alfred Leslie, a second-generation Abstract Expressionist and filmmaker who turned his back on nonrepresentational art in the early 1960s to lead a revival of figurative painting, died on Friday in Brooklyn. Alfred Leslie, Artist Who Turned Away From Abstraction, Dies at 95 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z Like her figurative paintings, which have been described as “a dysmorphic take on objects we think we know the shape of,” her electronic pop sounds nearly familiar, but can crunch or undulate in unexpected ways. Issy Wood Met Power Players in Art and Music. She Went Her Own Way. 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z Mr. Condo, whose paintings, drawings, sculptures and prints were the subject of a survey show at the New Museum last year, is known for his outlandish figurative images. ArtsBeat: George Condo, On View In and Outside the Metropolitan Opera House 2013-01-25T21:44:41Z Mancoba was born in Johannesburg in 1902 and studied art at an Anglican school; his early figurative sculptures, not in this show, are arguably the first “modern” artworks by a Black South African. 3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z Abstract work, figurative work, experimental sorties in unusual media, exquisite craft ... they’re all here. Bainbridge’s new art museum: eclectic selection for every taste 2013-08-01T21:44:49Z The church stipulated more traditional figurative representations of the Transfiguration, in the Byzantine style. Hildreth Meière, the Forgotten Art Deco Artist 2014-05-02T18:06:08Z He majored in fine art and later befriended the figurative painter Francis Bacon. Roaringly Adventurous, in the Wild and in the Bedroom 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z Jerrell Gibbs is an emerging figurative artist who grew up in Baltimore. A Baltimore house once owned by Frederick Douglass has become a history lesson 2020-08-14T04:00:00Z But the movie, though beautifully filmed, comes dangerously close to the more figurative definition; it's a story so familiar it seems as if we've already seen it, told in a way that brings no surprises. 'War Horse' is beautiful but a bit of a warhorse 2011-12-22T21:37:04Z Quilts, masks and figurative sculptures are central to the art of the African diaspora. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z “Forging III,” involves a lot more pounding: The edges bulge and curve, and the results are less figurative. Art Review: ‘David Smith: The Forgings’ at Gagosian Gallery 2014-01-02T21:55:28Z Being nominated for this year’s Turner Prize certainly galvanized the auction market for works by the British figurative painter Hurvin Anderson. London Auctions Are on the Rise, but a Big Failure Casts a Shadow 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z She has a background in Persian miniatures and she’s now come full circle with the figurative nude work that she did in her past series. 'Art Brief: Iranian Contemporary Los Angeles': Bridging communities, one pop-up at a time 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z Perhaps most significantly, Colescott contributed to the resurgence of figurative painting that began in the 1970s and continues to this day, especially among Black artists. Robert Colescott Throws Down the Gauntlet 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z “The pre-Raphaelite works were biblical, and they were figurative, but they just didn’t resonate with me,” he said. Perspective | Barnett Newman’s ‘Stations of the Cross’ draws pilgrims to the National Gallery 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z That figurative tug of war wends through the season, mainly focusing on Joel's emotional evolution regarding Ellie. "The Last of Us" makes an unholy meal of starving childhood innocence, served bloody 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z Bourgeois seems not to have paid much heed, yet by 1947 odd, spindly, possibly figurative sculptures were appearing in her paintings. Louise Bourgeois, Celebrated Sculptor, Unsung Painter 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z “I’d always done figurative work with palette knives and big brush strokes,” he said. Hong Kong's Conceptual Circus 2010-05-10T11:00:00Z And when they didn’t show up at the luggage carousel in Kauai, Collins felt like he’d jumped on a figurative merry-go-round of his own. Perspective | Don’t lose it over lost luggage 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z “I’m certainly engaging in figurative representation and I’m also pushing against it,” the artist said. An Artist’s Portraits, Stitched Together on the Subway 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z How much bandwidth — literal and figurative — would the video streaming consume? @Work Advice: Telecommuters not happy about video streaming plan With a figurative click of her fingers, the film was saved. Megan Ellison, the most powerful new force in Hollywood 2013-02-18T19:56:34Z A few exploratory figurative images are all the early Gaitonde we get before this survey-that-isn’t-really-a-survey leaps ahead to the full-fledged abstract painter he became. V. S. Gaitonde Retrospective at the Guggenheim 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z The author’s use of extended dream sequences and rich, figurative language inspired what would become known many years later as magical realism. Stories of Then That Still Hold Up Now 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z Brown was part of the figurative movement that art historians recognize as a period during the mid-20th century when artists moved away from extreme abstractionism and included some realism in their portraits, landscapes and still-lifes. Painter William Theophilus Brown dies at age 92 2012-02-10T09:01:04Z That’s where theatre artists in particular can get at figurative truths, catching the conscience of kings by harnessing the unconscious freedoms of the stage. Theatre’s Superpower 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z They perform a precarious balancing act between symbolic figurative associations and abstraction derived from the inherent qualities of materials in space. The 'Maverick Modernist' you don't know but should: Peter Krasnow at the Laguna Art Museum 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z But gentlemen, if you are reading this, I would like to give you all figurative kudos. Blind dates without algorithms 2013-02-14T15:35:00Z There’s a lot of leaping in “We Are Who We Are,” figurative and literal. Review: ‘We Are Who We Are’ Captures Not-So-Innocents Abroad 2020-09-13T04:00:00Z "Murder Most Foul" begins at the literal and figurative scene of the crime. "Murder Most Foul": Unpacking Bob Dylan's new epic, from Dallas 1963 to the pandemic of 2020 2020-04-04T04:00:00Z The show includes sculpture, photography and paintings both figurative and abstract. Review: From micro-detail to grand overview, from figurative to abstract, group show discloses local arts talent 2010-06-25T21:32:00Z The fluid medium of paint, with its literal and figurative depth, with its capacity for atmospherics, is something else. Zaha Hadid Was Just Getting Started 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z He's likably befuddled throughout, and he earns belly laughs whenever Aaron stops stifling his outrage and treats his relatives the way they treat Aaron -- as a figurative or literal punching bag. "Death at a Funeral": Crude, dumb -- and hilarious 2010-04-16T13:01:00Z An homage to a Viennese tradition, the “Salute to Vienna” series has been popping figurative champagne corks across North America for two decades. ‘Interpretation of Trees’ on exhibit at the Embassy of Argentina 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z And where do you think the next Lucian Freud – surely the greatest figurative painter of his generation – is going to come from, given that most "celebrity" artists working today are doing mainly conceptual art? Yoko Ono answers your questions 2012-06-20T16:45:26Z But the white American Girls' fights for freedom were figurative; Addy's fight was literal. We were American Girls: What Addy taught me about Black hair, freedom and myself 2021-05-15T04:00:00Z To defy Satan, we don’t need God, real or figurative. If Donald Trump’s America is Hell, who is Satan? 2018-06-30T04:00:00Z “The Chaperone” is about a woman who abandons her literal and figurative corsets and discovers her bliss. ‘The Chaperone’ Review: A Matron and a Movie Star Take a Jazz-Age Journey 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z To me, all dance is a discourse on freedom, but in black dance, for obvious reasons, this discourse has been as much literal as figurative. How Alvin Ailey Opened the Eyes of a 12-Year-Old Zadie Smith 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z It’s a figurative slap in the face to bring the person back to the realm of reality. Cruel can be kind: Scientific study explains why we dish out tough love 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z Surrealism and Cubism are touchstones here and figurative painting dominates. The Armory Show, in a Back-to-School Edition 2023-09-07T04:00:00Z He is into portraiture and figurative painting, but what draws me closer to his work is his use of authentic materials and his defined style, which set him apart from many other figurative artists. Artists on Artists to Watch, and Maybe Even Collect 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z In Diebenkorn’s Ocean Park Series the abstract is in constant conversation with the figurative. Paper Gallery: Art Books: ?Spider-Man,? ?Supercell? and More 2012-03-08T22:24:41Z Once this premise is established, the movie throws up its figurative hands and crawls to a halt, as if the screenwriters had decided to go on vacation halfway through. Netflix’s 2019 Holiday Movies, Reviewed and Ranked 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z He typically hires models for his large-scale figurative portraits, informed by comic book graphics and symbolic objects, which explore Black experiences and mythologies. Behind 3 Champions’ Smithsonian Portraits 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z During the first half of his long and productive career he was a figurative painter; then around midpoint, when many artists are set in their ways, he turned to abstraction. Art in Review: John Heliker: ‘A Tribute’ 2012-06-07T22:50:50Z Calling American abstract art “a lie” and “a sham,” he pivoted to making paintings in a dark, figurative style, including satirical drawings of Richard Nixon. Delay of Philip Guston Retrospective Divides the Art World 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z Has he merely reduced the figurative particulars of Matisse to a set of abstract shapes that no longer function as representative elements? Diebenkorn/Matisse exhibition documents a one-way love affair 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z The play becomes a figurative dance of death between nun and priest. 1st Stage puts on taut drama ‘Doubt’ 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z Unsurprisingly, the place is not known for surveys of American figurative painters. Alex Katz: Six Ramps of a Painter’s Progress 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z Gerstein brought power and fascinatingly idiosyncratic phrasing to the fistful of figurative piano writing. Cristian Macelaru gets a big sound from the L.A. Phil as it plays Rachmaninoff 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z A robust figurative painting tradition emerged in the 1980s in West Germany in reaction, some say, to the brooding, abstract work of postwar German artists like Joseph Beuys. What's on This Week Around the World 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z The title of “Intimisms,” an excellent group show of figurative painting, pluralizes Intimism, the early modernist style best exemplified by the small, sometimes fraught domestic interiors of Édouard Vuillard and Pierre Bonnard. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z Those drawings are among the best-known works in Mr. Dinnerstein’s long career, in which he remained devoted to figurative realism and resisted the Abstract Expressionism that was starting to flourish in the early 1950s. Harvey Dinnerstein, Proudly Realistic Painter, Is Dead at 94 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z Takamori, another USA Ford Fellow, is professor of art and ceramics at the University of Washington, and his hand-painted figurative works are in the collections of the Carnegie Museum of Art and other institutions. Seattle artists Byrd, Longley, Takamori win $50,000 awards 2011-12-05T17:42:04Z The pressures, both literal and figurative, are enormous. Can the Chicago River be saved? 2013-02-24T15:00:00Z Guests included Mr. Schnabel himself, who arrived early, moved one of her large figurative paintings an inch, and declared her work good. Lola Montes Schnabel?s Art Exhibition Opens 2011-12-19T21:22:20Z In a career that's spanned the globe and nearly 40 years, few perceived social injustices, including reproductive rights and the marginalization of people with AIDS, have escaped Finley's figurative scalpel. For Karen Finley, Jackie O. is for outrage in 'The Jackie Look' 2015-11-21T05:00:00Z From the Memphis-born Frederick Weston come two life-size figurative collages, one made from “found images of white men,” the other from “found images of black men,” to quote the exhibition checklist. Art of the AIDS Years: What Took Museums So Long? 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z The single gallery of figurative works, upstairs, holds further surprises. Art Review: Wayne Thiebaud Retrospective at Acquavella Galleries 2012-11-08T23:37:53Z Usually it’s figurative: our major characters are mostly nobles, their houses represented by wolves, lions, kraken, stags, and whatnot. Game of Thrones Watch: Dragons and Eagles and Bears, Oh, My! 2013-05-13T09:45:54Z If audiences dashing to Radio City Music Hall tilted their heads back, they would suddenly be struck by brightly colored figurative roundels on the 50th Street facade. Hildreth Meière, the Forgotten Art Deco Artist 2014-05-02T18:06:08Z That sort of clash is more fittingly applied to an art movement like the one known in Britain as Stuckism, which elevates often untutored figurative expression above the dominance of academic Conceptual art. 'London Calling' at the Getty and the tension between abstract and figurative painting 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z “The Body Unbound,” which closed in April, focused on the years right after India’s independence, in 1947, and included mainly figurative art. Art Review: ‘Modernist Art From India: Approaching Abstraction’ at Rubin 2012-06-21T21:10:16Z These artists were all highly competent professionals well trained in the basics of figurative painting, but pulp illustration was hack work. Art Review: Illustrating Damsels in Distress and Emissaries From Our Deep, Dark Ids 2011-07-14T21:53:57Z Mathy digs in her heels, flipping a figurative finger at the establishment that snubs her. ‘Call My Agent!’ Puts a Human Spin on Show Business 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z At the time, Moore was already hailed for his figurative and abstract wood, bronze and stone sculptures, modern carvings that were influenced by archaic and pre-Columbian figures. Lauren Bacall's idol? Letter reveals it was British sculptor Henry Moore 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z “Many of the artists work in the contemporary figurative,” she said of the moon-bound collection. A Time Capsule of Human Creativity, Stored in the Sky 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z Back outside the temple are two larger-than-life, figurative sculptures that were machine-carved from marble, both from this year. Review: Faile Mines the Dark Depths of Modern Youth With Two Exhibitions 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z But few of these artists or works are well known, so there’s been a tremendous response from the art world, where there is renewed interest in expanding figurative art styles and subjects. Lincoln Kirstein: A Modern Tastemaker With Some Iffy Taste 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z It’s a classically Duchampian irony that, even as all artists now work in the shadow of his bicycle wheel and upturned urinal, he inspired so much of the figurative painting he knocked as “retinal” art. What to See Right Now in New York Art Galleries 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z The work is as figurative a piece as Leigh has made — as if reaching through the souvenir to engage the person whom it both depicted and diminished. Simone Leigh, in the World 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z After all this the floor devoted to modern and contemporary portraits and figurative works can’t help but disappoint. Art Review: Portraits From 16th Century and Sculpture at Sperone Westwater 2012-01-26T23:39:20Z Kerouac’s time on the mountain was a literal and figurative apex for him, his last truth-seeking adventure before he was transformed by the hostile media into first a caricature of himself, and later a shadow. Footsteps: Climbing a Peak That Stirred Kerouac 2012-11-16T16:27:46Z Although figurative, these works still show the influence of abstract painting in their rigorous compositions and limited pictorial space. Avigdor Arikha obituary 2010-05-11T18:08:00Z She describes it as “the literal and figurative foot on women’s necks.” Anita Hill Has Some Perspective to Offer 2021-09-25T04:00:00Z Then television started coming through a cable as well, bringing dozens upon dozens of new channels to what was now just a figurative dial. How should television be defined nowadays? 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z There’s a lane on the figurative major movie expressway that the cinema-covering media is dying to see opened for summer traffic. “Baby Driver” is great, but it won’t change the studio franchise system 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z As time goes on, the images become more figurative and illustrational. Art Review: ‘Subliming Vessel,’ Drawings of Matthew Barney, at Morgan 2013-05-09T21:05:25Z Both make figurative paintings with a dreamy, surreal edge. At Antwerp Art Weekend, Collectors Buy With Their Gut 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z “Flesh + Bone III,” the latest of the venue’s periodic surveys of figurative art, includes a lot of female nudes and near-nudes, painted in styles that are contemporary but hardly confrontational. Review | In the galleries: Some art is sultry, while other pieces are smoky 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z He added: "They are some of the most outstanding examples of decorative and figurative painting that survive in Britain from between the 8th and 16th centuries." British Library digs out decorative paintings to brighten up dark ages 2011-08-24T23:05:02Z The season finale brings an end to the messiness, intergenerational drama and figurative tea-spilling as the cast tries to piece together motivations behind a possible murder. What’s on TV This Week: ‘The Undoing’ and the Presidential Debate 2020-10-19T04:00:00Z Few figurative painters are doing what Nicole Eisenman is, jumping back and forth among starkly different styles while inviting us to consider an equally broad range of urgent themes. Nicole Eisenman, Fluidly Merging Past, Present and Future 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z The earliest of his works in the show is the large-scale “Blue Nude with Sword” from 1979, the first figurative, as opposed to abstract, plate painting that Mr. Schnabel made. Julian Schnabel and the Great Painters, Side by Side 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z Essentially, though, the crown claims a figurative mantle of royalty for the artist himself, for the figure he’s depicting, or both — Basquiat’s faces and bodies often read at least partially as self-portraits. How to Look at a Basquiat 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z “Things are going back to figurative art after everyone was doing abstract work,” DeWoody said. Painting Black Warriors, With Michael K. Williams as His Model 2022-02-02T05:00:00Z “Bodies + Beings: an invitational exhibition of figurative sculpture” Strange critters: In July, Seattle art galleries contain menageries 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z When “Showing Up” opens, Lizzy is putting the finishing touches on the textured, small-scaled figurative sculptures that she molds from clay and then paints before having them fired in a kiln at the school. ‘Showing Up’ Review: Making Art in All Its Everyday Glory 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z “There still exists a massive lack in images of self-affirmation and representation for people of color in traditional figurative portraiture,” the curators wrote in their prepared material for the show. A Gallery Featuring Only Artists of Color Feels Like Change 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z |
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