#multifigural

[supersonicart]

John Moyers & Terri Kelly Moyers' "Echoes of the Past."

Currently on view at Maxwell Alexander Gallery in Los Angeles, California is John Moyers & Terri Kelly Moyers' exhibition, "Echoes of the Past."

A chance meeting at a Robert Lougheed workshop in British Columbia brought this couple together, but their love for art, travel, and painting outdoors has kept not only their love story alive, but their artist visions ever changing.  It's worth noting that just in the last month, Terri Kelly Moyers was awarded the Artist Choice Award at the Autry's Masters of the American West and John Moyers was given the Artist Excellence Award at the 2023 Booth Western Art Museum's annual Gala.  Between the two, they've won every possible award there is - from the Prix de West Purchase Award to the Autry Masters purchase award, and everything in between.  

It is always a pleasure when you come across artists in their prime.  In collecting contemporary artists it can sometimes be difficult to pinpoint those periods, but when looking at the new body of work created by the Moyers' it is no question that that time is now. 

John's fully formed vision of mixing abstract elements within hard painted edges jumps off the canvas in images like "Appeal to the Spirts," the artist's largest painting in the show.  The painting features a multifigure scene of Northern New Mexican Natives during a ceremony.  At first glance it feels like a warm representational painting of the past -- but at further inspection it is a total master class in abstraction and composition that very few can achieve so well.  Get close to this painting and you will experience thick application of paint mixed with highlights in just the right areas, masterful application of value and reflective light.  It is without a doubt a museum quality painting.  

Terri Kelly's painting "Song and Prayer" shows a colder climate scene with masterfully painted hills and landscape that allows the viewer to feel the warmth hitting the central figure.  Historical elements are always paid close attention to in Moyers' paintings.  The knowledge and interest in the people she paints comes through her masterful paint strokes, leaving detail out where it is not needed, and rendering other elements to lead the viewer's eye.  The composition is laid out like a perfect road map leading you into the scene and allowing the viewer to feel the vastness of nature.  You are left imagining the sounds of the song and prayer on this crisp fall day.  

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[thora-sniper]

This is not shipping this only friendship... oh common whom I lying because I'm on my way to create polyBatch smut for Tho'ra. But I use them not in the main storyline so this is only friendship and I hope that I remake Wrecker because I tired from fighting with his huge.

I'm very misfit in my work with proposition between different people.

Want to make something multifigure composition in beachwear for all characters.

[metmuseum]

Earflare with Multifigure Scene. 1350–1470 CE. Credit line: Jan Mitchell and Sons Collection, Gift of Jan Mitchell, 1991 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/316437

[lostfunzones]

John Piper Eye and Camera: Multifigure, 1972  Screenprint 57 x 77 cm                                                   

[sylviamaier]

#wip #artistsoninstagram #judithbeheadingholofernes #oil #art #blackart #multifigural #grisaille #africanamericanpainter https://www.instagram.com/sylviamaiernyc/p/Bvc4KupFy7m/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=11bj07ayedgaj

[lucasdurham]

This piece had a long journey, and I'm glad to finally share it with you. It started as a napkin sketch while I was listening to Ashley Eckstein moderate the Sisters of the Force panel at Star Wars Celebration Chicago in 2019. I've always wanted to do a Star Wars homage to Delacroix, and during Ashley's introduction to the panel I kept thinking how Ahsoka would be a perfect fit for the idea, because she could represent the new era in the fan community moving to a more hopeful and inclusive future. It sat dormant for a few months because I knew a multifigure piece like this would take a lot of effort to compose, but in the fall, I started sketching it as an art show proposal for SW Celebration 2020. Unfortunately, it was rejected, but in many ways that ended up being a blessing in disguise. Without a deadline, I was free to take as long as I needed to really flesh out the details, and it was the perfect distraction through the long quiet weekends of 2020. Anyway, like Ahsoka in this painting, hope you can find the inspiration to press forward in whatever life is throwing your way right now, big or small. May the Force be with you!

[artmialma]

Pierre-Auguste Renoir - The Great Bathers, 1884-1887,

  Philadelphia Museum of Art Although this painting depicts a fleeting moment when one bather playfully threatens to splash a companion, it has a timeless, monumental quality. The sculptural rendering of the figures against a shimmering landscape and the careful application of dry paint reflect the tradition of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French painting. Renoir--in an attempt to reconcile this tradition with modern painting--labored over this work for three years, making numerous preparatory drawings for individual figures and at least two full-scale, multifigure drawings. Faced with criticism of his new style after completing The Large Bathers, an exhausted Renoir never again devoted such painstaking effort to a single work. #stomouseio #Renoir See less

[seakclauswinkler]

‚ So Ich muss jetzt los ‚ ( Detail, paper, 2013, oil, ) #SEAK #ClausWinkler #unna #Umma #yggdrasil #artoftheday #stadtlandfluss #throwup #wildstyle #canvaspainting #paperpainting #newpaintings #artdiscover #drawings #pintura #multifigure #pinturacontemporanea #drawings #multifigurepainting #allesgut #artecontemporanea #artecontemporaneo #arteeview #pienture #artistofinstagram #pleinair #allaprimapainting #newartdealers #throwup #SEAKClausWinkler https://www.instagram.com/p/B8KXt4_oiCm/?igshid=6pbrw44eo553

[met-africa-oceania]

Earflare with Multifigure Scene, A.D. 1350–1470, Metropolitan Museum of Art: Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas

Jan Mitchell and Sons Collection, Gift of Jan Mitchell, 1991 Size: H. 5 3/8 × W. 5 3/8 × D. 5 in. (13.7 × 13.7 × 12.7 cm) Medium: Gold

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/316436

[kristinagehrmann]

"The Captive" - new personal work

Basically just experimenting with light, color and multifigure compositions in my art :)

Print available

[revolutionoftenderness]

“It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.”       ~ Vincent Van Gogh [Cypresses with Two Women, 1889 - Vincent van Gogh]

• Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890)decided to become an artist at the age of 27. That decision would change his life and art history forever. More: https://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/.../vincents-life-1853-1890 

• Van Gogh’s admiration for the Barbizon artists, in particular Jean-François Millet, influenced his decision to paint rural life. In the winter of 1884–85, while living with his parents in Nuenen, he painted more than forty studies of peasant heads, which culminated in his first multifigured, large-scale composition (The Potato Eaters, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam); in this gritty portrayal of a peasant family at mealtime, Van Gogh wrote that he sought to express that they “have tilled the earth themselves with the same hands they are putting in the dish.” Its dark palette and coarse application of paint typify works from the artist’s Nuenen period... More: https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/gogh/hd_gogh.htm 

• "The cypresses still preoccupy me, I’d like to do something with them like the canvases of the sunflowers because it astonishes me that no one has yet done them as I see them. It’s beautiful as regards lines and proportions, like an Egyptian obelisk. And the green has such a distinguished quality." ... "It’s the dark patch in a sun-drenched landscape, but it’s one of the most interesting dark notes, the most difficult to hit off exactly that I can imagine. Now they must be seen here against the blue, in the blue, rather.” ... More: https://www.vangoghstudio.com/why-did-van-gogh-like-cypresses-so-much/

[alf-art]

summer 2015 self portrait for a brown drawing foundations class- acrylic, paint pen, neocolor, & charcoal, 3′x5′ on foam board 

[aic-american]

The Mexican Major, Frederic Remington, 1889, Art Institute of Chicago: American Art

Frederic Remington was greatly impressed by the Mexican army, which he observed during a six-week visit to Mexico in 1889 in preparation for an article in Harper’s Weekly magazine. The Mexican Major is an elaborate, multifigural composition, designed to convey the professionalism, discipline, and “immensely picturesque” appearance of the officer and his regiment. Remington enjoyed the soldiers' ornate costumes, and he emphasized these through the use of rhythmic, flashing colors and the depiction of brilliant light. The line of horsemen stretches off into the far distance—a sign of honor, strength, and dignity. George F. Harding Collection Size: 87 × 124.8 cm (34 1/4 × 49 1/8 in.) Medium: Oil on canvas

https://www.artic.edu/artworks/97912/

[metmuseum]

Earflare with Multifigure Scene. 1350–1470 CE. Credit line: Jan Mitchell and Sons Collection, Gift of Jan Mitchell, 1991 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/316437

[dementedgnomicwizard]

hi long time no post art its finals rn so have a dump of a bunch of my preliminary background sketches + some multifigure composition sketches from my drawing for animation class final

[yosoyloqueveo]

aureaetmanus

Chimù gold earflare with multifigure scene: the principle figure, likely a depiction of political leader known as a cacique or lord in sixteenth-century Spanish texts, wears a large crescent headdress and stands on a litter (a type of conveyance used to carry an individual, or individuals), born aloft by two smaller-scale figures with similar, but smaller headdresses.

Date: 1350-1470 AD.

Credits: Metropolitan Museum.