Figurative art

Syracuse, NY: Community Folk Art Center - Founding Visionaries: Herb Williams & Jack White - The Community Folk Art Center is proud to exhibit this unique collection of sculptures, drawings and prints by two CFAC founders, Herb Williams and Jack White. Celebrating Herb Williams: His Life, His Work, and His Art will be on exhibition in the Herbert T. Williams Gallery and Jack White: An Ancestral Image will be on display in the Main Gallery. Both exhibits are free, open to the public and will be on

was a student at a military academy, similar to one Rilke had attended. Kappus felt that poetry was his true calling, therefore, he sought advice from Rilke. Rilke made it abundantly clear in his letter that criticism is what destroys art and is irrelevant since art comes from within. He remains perceptive throughout his writing, and he chooses specific words that convey a particular tone and helps establish two central ideas. Rilke establishes a brash and frank tone in the beginning of his letter

Egon Schiele, early 20th century artist and apprentice of Gustav Klimt, caused quite a controversy with his risquee nudes unapologetic eroticism. Schiele, though associated with figurative painting, was also considered an early predecessor of the Expressionist movement through his expressive and emotive lines. Schiele's paintings and drawings are far from being simply suggestive, and are rather explicit in their subject matter. His blatant display of sexuality in the majority of his works has consequently

figures in the 1930s. In 1928, Charles and Nell Vyse held their first joint exhibition at Walker’s Galleries, London. The Vyses appointed Ernest Marsh to write the catalogue notes, and record all their new figures. These were published annually in the art magazine Walker’s Monthly. In 1930, John L Naimaster took on the task of writing the exhibition notes and cataloguing the new

largely the same impact in art as the eastern European art community as Picasso’s cubist “Les Damoiselles d e Avignon did in Paris around almost the same time. The difference between the two paintings were the sizes and the media that would account for its difference in the impact of the artists at that time period. Wassily was born in 1866 Moscow well educated and had upper class parents of mixed ethnic origins. His father had encouraged his unique and precocious gift of the arts and had enrolled him

Professor Christopher Ganz’s art parallels with many of the ideas and concepts prevalent in contemporary art. His art is mostly figurative, he is increasingly interested in the human form and the many expressive gestures it provides. He is interested in reexamining historical pieces of art and reinventing the classical iconography into contemporary and often otherworldly images. Professor Ganz uses the body in his art to examine ideas of identity and internal dialogue while implementing subtle themes

Interested in fine arts from an early age, she educated herself in numerous schools and academies, just to note the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (1911-13), and later the influential Vitebsk School of Art (1919-22), where she studied under Marc Chagall and Kazimir Malevich, alongside artists such as El Lissitzky and Vera Ermolaeva. Both Chagall and Malevich would have greatly influence her further practice, on the one hand illustrations and expressionistic figurative paintings, and

As a learning artist, I always search for others who share the idea that art is more than what lies on a picture plane. One artist, in particular, has drawn my attention since I was young and he is a self-taught artist named Guy Dennings. While taking the hearts of thousands of others with his various media that range from pastel on newsprint to Conte crayon on paper; he has also captured my imagination with these emotional creations. Guy Dennings was born in England on October 1965. As a young

representational and abstract. While representational painting portrays recognizable objects, abstract painting does not look like a particular object. Instead, abstract art is made up of designs, shapes and colors. (http://www.harley.com/art/abstract-art/ ) The meaning of abstract art is, in its most simplified form, art that relies on the emotions of the artist and the elements of design rather than exact representation. This broad definition allows artists almost unlimited freedom of expression

William Christenberry Why I have a new respect for photography I am not a big fan of photography. Not to say that I don’t respect it as an art medium, but personally I would rather look at a painting. As you could probably guess, I had mixed feelings about William Christenberry when I first saw his artwork. When I first looked up his artwork, I was disappointed to find only photography. However, I finally started to see that he also sculpted and painted. His paintings are not exactly my type, but