A Timeless Vision.(artist Malcolm Liepke)(Brief Article)

Art Business News;  February 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......is a very timeless quality to figurative painting that I really enjoy. If I look...Liepke's commitment to traditional figurative painting coincided with the resurgence of figurative painting in general. I came at a pretty...

Painted Histories: Early Maori Figurative Painting.

Oceania;  March 1, 1995 ;     700+ words ...Neich describes a rebellious era of figurative painting in Maori meeting houses which had...of Maori naturalistic carving and figurative painting as amateur and 'garish' in favour...respectively with early phases of figurative painting, the many combinations of its three...

Art dealer Pilkington dies at 88 ; News in brief

Evening Standard - London;  July 11, 2007 ;     78 words ......dealer whose Piccadilly Gallery championed figurative painting for half a century has died. Godfrey Pilkington...abstract art, Mr Pilkington stayed loyal to figurative painting,with Eric Gill and Stanley Spencer among the...

(book reviews)

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute;  June 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ......Maori artists elaborated the art of figurative painting to an extent which had hitherto...thought-provoking in numerous respects. Maori figurative painting seems to have stemmed from the conjunction...the pre-European practice of non-figurative painting known as kowhaiwhai (applied ...

Brilliance or Bust: John Currin is one of the hottest, and most divisive,...

Newsweek;  December 22, 2003 ;     700+ words ......one in the end. I grew up with figurative painting vs. abstract painting. Now it's figurative painting vs. everything else--abstraction...oppressing them. I've always felt that figurative painting is doing just fine, thank you...

Visual arts: Rearguard action

The Independent - London;  August 26, 1997 ;     700+ words ...Figurative painting is the name of a problem. Can...that have become available. Figurative painting means painting the human figure...could be got hold of. British figurative painting is not being shown here, collectively...

PAINTER BRIAN BURKE'S MACABRE CARICATURES NOW AT LEAD...

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  September 23, 1998 ;     544 words ......considered one of the rising stars of eastern Canadian figurative painting, his work is better than his resume. Looking at his macabre...Design, before Fischl moved from non-representational to figurative painting. What Fischl developed in the 1980s took Burke a little...

A mannequin on a toilet and dry porridge - it's the Turner Prize

The Independent - London;  September 30, 2008 ;     395 words ......announced. There was sculpture, installations and film - but no figurative painting. Wilkes, 42, from Glasgow, has created a sprawling installation...Crap", in their continuing protest at the Tate's sidelining of figurative painting.

R.B. Kitaj.(R.B. Kitaj, painter of the human condition)(Ronald Brooks...

The Economist (US);  November 3, 2007 ;     700+ words ......life that was to go on resurfacing, in bold, tortured figurative painting, for the rest of his career. He was restless always. Teaching...he was a secure and unapologetic part of a tradition of figurative painting, of interpreting sweating people in their inbalance...

The Technical Term is... Figurative

The Independent - London;  March 17, 2000 ;     394 words ......figurative paintings" or hear speculation about "a revival of figurative painting". You can never be quite sure what's intended, but there...heirs. Sometimes "figuration" is used as shorthand for "figurative painting", in either of these senses. So, in the Eighties, there...

When the figures don't quite add up

The Independent - London;  September 7, 1997 ;     700+ words ......East is showing more than 50 leading lights of `British Figurative Painting'. Odd, then, that the best work on view is more like abstraction...exhibitions. One would expect the new Flowers show, "British Figurative Painting", to be wide-ranging - which it is, for it includes the...

Glasgow Boy returns to canvas; Wiszniewski declares painting no longer...

The Sunday Herald;  March 31, 2002 ;     480 words ......Howson, Ken Currie and Steven Campbell, his work brought figurative painting back into the fashionable mainstream ... but since declaring...members of the art establishment for the lack of interest in figurative painting. He accused Charles Saatchi, Tate director Nicholas Serota...

Painting the figure

Southwest Art;  November 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......paints still lifes and landscapes, and he pours most of his figurative painting energies into formal commissioned portraits. Clients...captivated by another form of natural beauty-the human figure. "Figurative painting has captured my heart the most, because it holds more...

Abstract painter is Turner winner

The Northern Echo;  December 5, 2006 ;     79 words ......contemporary art award.The judges said: "She gives a kind of depth and illusion to abstraction which you normally find in figurative painting." Her win marks a departure from the outlandish works that have taken the prize in recent years, when painters have lost...

We are rather amused ; With a light installation here and an abstract...

The Independent on Sunday;  June 17, 2007 ;     561 words ......they were all by the same Venice resident, Ken Howard RA. Figurative painting has been ghettoised into Room IV, where it lurks like...making enemies of Friends. By contrast, quietly sidelining figurative painting in favour of blue-chip modern work chosen by copper-bottomed...