Bodies of Work--Contemporary Figurative Painting: Contemporary Figurative Painting (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780764349829)

Human forms can be intensely intimate or broadly universal. Here, figurative artists use the human form as a tool to express varied content and contemporary issues. These paintings depict our feelings and sentiments, our sense of belonging to a larger community in the contemporary world, while capturing the impulses behind the range of figuration presented by today's contemporary international artists. Portraitist Marlene Dumas presents figures in a gritty, unsentimental manner, evoking the essence of the human condition, while Kerry James Marshall paints the life of African-Americans in the twentieth-century, employing recent historical review to document the social challenges. British artist Jenny Saville paints the figure in massive scale, combined with an overt, never-ending interest in the pure rendering of human flesh. Hope Gangloff paints her figures as characters, intimate friends, and acquaintances, narrating a drama from their canvases. An important resource for those interested in contemporary figurative painting.

Author: Lauren P. Della Monica
ISBN-10: 0764349821
ISBN-13: 9780764349829
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
Language: English
Published: 01/28/2016
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 3.60lbs
Size: 11.30h x 8.90w x 1.20d