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The Bay Area Figurative Movement (also known as the Bay Area Figurative School, Bay Area Figurative Art, Bay Area Figuration, and similar variations) was a mid-20th-century art movement made up of a group of artists in the San Francisco Bay Area who abandoned working in the prevailing style of Abstract Expressionism in favor of a return to figuration in painting during the 1950s and onward ...
Elmer Nelson Bischoff (July 9, 1916 – March 2, 1991), [1] was an American visual artist, from the San Francisco Bay Area. [2] Bischoff, along with Richard Diebenkorn and David Park, was part of the post-World War II generation of artists who started as abstract painters and found their way back to figurative art.
In 1952 Brown enrolled in the graduate studio program at the University of California, Berkeley, joining a group of artists—including Richard Diebenkorn, [3] David Park, Elmer Bischoff, James Weeks, and Nathan Oliveira — that would later be known as the Bay Area Figurative Movement.
Many Funk artists began as Bay Area Figurative Movement painters in the 1950s. The movement originated from the bohemian underground in the Bay Area. [ 5 ] During the 1960s, the Bay Area, specifically San Francisco , was a free and spiritual environment due to its beatnik art culture and the youth political activism reacting against the Vietnam ...
Joan Brown (born Joan Vivien Beatty; February 13, 1938 – October 26, 1990) was an American figurative painter who lived and worked in Northern California. She was a member of the "second generation" of the Bay Area Figurative Movement. [1]
James Darrell Northrup Weeks (December 1, 1922 – January 3, 1998) was an American artist and an early member of the Bay Area Figurative Movement. [1] Unlike many artists in the movement, Weeks was never known for painting in a non-representational style, instead using abstraction in the "ideas of painting."
Albright covers the movements in modern art in which the Bay Area were heavily involved, and their practitioners, including Clyfford Still and Abstract Expressionism, the Modernist school, Pop Art, Formalism, The Bay Area Figurative Movement, Conceptual art, Photorealism, and others. [2] The book contains numerous reproductions of the works ...
Henry Pierre Villierme (August 21, 1928 – March 13, 2013) was an American Californian painter associated with abstract expressionism and the Bay Area Figurative Movement. Villierme was considered one of the "Second Generation" members of the Bay Area Figurative Movement. Villierme first rose to prominence with a series of successful ...