Bay area figurative movement

The San Francisco Bay Area artists were generally Abstract Expressionists until a small group of artists redefined the figure and its concept, an idea linking them together as the Bay Area Figurative artists. After World War II, artists in New York assembled in bars, restaurants, or different studios, the art dealers controlling most of their careers.

Two Bathers, David Park

A look at the dramatic shift of David Park, an abstract painter who became one of the founders of the Bay Area Figurative Art Movement.

Jock Reynolds, the Henry J. Heinz II Director of the Yale University Art Gallery (YUAG), has held his job for 16 years now but has the energy of a man who is just getting started.

Paul Wonner, Model in the Sun, 1964

This Kind of Bird Flies Backward: Paintings by Joan Brown | San Jose Museum of Art

Six Approaches to Abstracting the Figure Workshop with Melinda CootsonaFriday-Sunday, February 16-18, 2018 | 10am-3pm | Skill Level: IntermediateClass Fee: $550 All class fees are non-refundable and non-transferrable This three-day workshop will look at six different approaches to abstracting figurative work. This will include Abstraction Within the Form, Flattening, Pattern and Collage, Exaggeration • Distortion, Cropping, Fractured • Deconstructed. Slide presentations of some…

Richard Diebenkorn (American, 1922-1993), Coffee, 1956. Oil on canvas, 67 x 58 in.