Sharon Hudson, colorful paintings of women My figurative painting and drawing always begins with real objects and live models. I try to express not something about myself, but something I see in my subject. My inspiration comes from masters of sensuality like Gauguin, Klimt, Matisse, Degas, and Van Gogh, as well as decorative arts like […]
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Constance McBride, figurative clay, powdered graphite burnish Statement My practice is inspired by the human form. The way time marks our bodies and my evolving emotions concerning this are what drive the direction of it. I’ve been meditating for some time now on change and loss. Pieces consist of fragmented parts, a metaphor for lack
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Sabin Howard, masterful figure sculpture, nude torso Sabin Howard is the foremost practitioner of, and authority on, Modern Classicism. He grew up in New York City and in Torino, Italy. He studied art at the Philadelphia College of Art and then earned his MFA from the New York Academy of Art. For twenty years, he
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Bob Clyatt Figurative sculpture – The Great Nude Beyond Rodin: New Directions in Contemporary Figurative Sculpture Check out thegreatnude.tv for more articles and videos similar to this one. In summer 2012, right outside the boundaries of “The City” with all it’s contemporary galleries, at the Rye Arts Center in Rye, New York, a collection of
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Anne Lebreton-Launes, figurative sculpture France Born in 1982, Anne Lebreton-Launes spent her school years drawing in the margins of her notebooks; she joined the faculty of Arts of Bordeaux III and graduated in 2005. Then she explored manual trades, which deal directly with materials: leather work, traditional masonry, carpentry joinery … She completed her first
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JJ Foley, dynamic life drawing Biography J.J. Foley was born in 1957, in Baton Rouge, LA. From there she moved with her family all over the country until they settled in Pass Christian, Mississippi in 1972. In 1977, she married Rick Foley and received her BFA from the University of Southern Mississippi in 1980. They
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Mike Southern, portraits & landscapes The evolution of my work has gone from black and white landscape etchings to its current iteration of figurative painting. The introduction of the figures is a new development but it is part of the same investigation into finding our place within the world. The old mythology and religious paintings
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Eve Shepherd, figurative sculpture, portrait sculpture This year Eve celebrates her 22nd year as a professional figurative sculptor. Eve started her career as a sculptor aged just 17, working as an apprentice to established animal sculptor Anthony Bennett. Bennett quickly recognized Eve’s natural ability with clay and the human form and after only 4 short
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