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Description: The new figurative direction in modern art for the 21st century
Last Update: 12:03:32 05/26/2006
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First Fetched: 00:18:09 01/31/2004
Last Updated: 12:03:32 05/26/2006
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Man In Cube Sculpture in the round in marble 1974 14 x 6 x 6 inches
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Couple In Acrylic painting on shaped canvas
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Portrait of a City Series: Unstable Oil painting on canvas
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Immigrants - Atlantic to Broadway 1986 oil painting on shaped canvas 42 inches x 91 inches
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Woman Sphere Charcoal and conte crayon drawing on charcoal paper 1989drawing
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Primitive Head Sculpture in hollow cast bronze 18 inches x 9 inches x 9 inches 1976
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Twin Towers - World Trade Center November 1984 Oil painting, mural on shaped canvas 96 inches x 120 inches
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From Painting Gallery 10 of Modern Paintings, Vietnam Two 1975 -76 Oil painting on masonite panel
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From Painting Gallery Five,Recession-Repression II: Girl Kneeling 1982 Oil on canvas 36" x 24"
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Study for Woman with Man February 27, 1996 Charcoal & conte crayon drawing on charcoal paper 24 inches x 19 inches This painstaking study formed the basis of the large, classical painting of the same name on shaped canvas.
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Is Pollution the Solution? 1980Oil on canvas48" x 96"
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Dept. of English, Auburn University Gender Studies and Freshman Composition - Essay Assignments Textual Analysis Essay For this assignment you will be required to analyze two paintings, one of which must be from around the turn of the twentieth century or earlier and the other within the past twenty years. Your main objective is to determine how gender roles are presented in both of the paintings you choose. Remember that because paintings are also texts, they too have messages. Make sure you include your interpretations of these paintings' central messages. Questions to consider: v What are the differences between how men and women are portrayed in the paintings? v What cultural or historical ideas of the periods in which the paintings were created contribute to the ways the artists use men and women in the paintings? v Do you believe that either of the paintings inaccurately represent relationships between men and women? If so, why? v Take the styles of the paintings into ...
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Girl with Still Life April 23, 1997 Acrylic on shaped canvas 33 1/2 inches x 117 inches
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Mother and Child Detail of original clay sculpture in progress July 2, 1998 Clay 34 inches x 25 inches x 40 1/2 inches
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Recession/Repression IV Series: Touching December 8, 1986 Oil on canvas 96 x 162
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A painstaking preparatory drawing for the large, shaped painting of the same name, studies a classically inspired female nude in a geometric, architectural niche; the composition of Girl with Long Hair posits an entirely different treatment of the figure than that of the Pop, abstract and Realist schools of art of the past centuries...Study for Girl with Long Hair, Charcoal and conte crayon drawing on charcoal paper, 1996
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The compact composition and low bas-relief of the sculpture Woman, Back View articulates the newfound expressive depth and purpose of the human figure in the first new school of art of the 21st century...Woman, Back View, Relief sculpture in plaster, 1996
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'Since 1973, I have been working full-time as a professional figurative artist. This has enabled me to produce a large body of figurative work that presents itself in serial format. From the first series on, the work has had the 'Randolphlee Look.' I did not start with a signature painting and then proceed to make variations for each series, as a post-WW II Modernist would have done. Each of my series has its own unique schematic language that reveals a visual language evolving in a time of transition. The first series began minimal, flat and colorful, related closely to Hard Edge Painting. The sequence of the series quickly evolved toward the 21st century incorporating a complex structure and developed form.' Abstract Plus Series: Logo Man, August 1977, Acrylic painting on masonite panel, 84" x 48"
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The Portrait of a City Series, Portrait of a City: Anger, expressionisticially places the abstracted human form against the cool, pale ground of the urban landscape... Portrait of a City Series: Anger, 1978, Oil painting, on canvas, 45" x 72"
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Introspect Series: Cocoon 1982 Charcoal on toned paper 18" x 12"
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The Girl with Butterfly, oil on canvas, 1979, continued Randolphlee's explorations of modern figurative compositions in the vein of other oils on canvas such as Condominium and Sleep...
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Patrick Hammie of Coker College last year presented <a href="http://www.coker.edu/art/stdnt3_gd/370_sp03/pat2_1_03/splash.html">The Human Figure in Modern Art</a>. This pictorial survey of figurative art presents a drawing and a painting by Randolphlee in the section 1990 - present, following the works of Willem de Kooning, Jean Debuffet, Philip Perlstein, designer H.R. Giger and William Kentridge.
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A drawing such as Study for Pyramid, conte crayon on paper, is one that helps reclaim the primacy and integrity of the act of drawing and its paramount importance in the creation of art, an approach completely at odds with the contemporary, academic insistence that drawing is irrelevant, the human figure is passe, and that art is by definition meaningless. A drawing such as Pyramid reveals that it is the outdated game of Conceptual art and Dadaism which is passe.
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The PhilosophyNews.it site has flatteringly listed the <a href="http://www.randolphlee.com/philosophy/">artist's statement</a> from Randolphlee.com in their Art Philosophy directory.
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Growing list of essential readings for figurative artists, on master painters, art history, figure drawing, technique, theory and criticism
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Original drawings on paper executed as finished studies for large paintings and sculpture, a new direction in figurative art
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Single Pentahedron Portrait, Oil on canvas - Geometric portrait head on triangular shaped canvas
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Gallery of modern, geometric abstract portrait paintings breaking through traditional picture frames onto shaped canvas.
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The new figurative art aesthetic grows, with an acerbic blog, art directory, recommended readings for artists, and more
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