Sentences with phrase «18th century work»

Joana is creating a new addition to the three - dimensional series of «Crochet Paintings», produced in response to the gallery's 18th century works.

Not exact matches

The work is notable for its depiction of the elaborately detailed clothing favoured by 18th - century French aristocrats, but look closely at the young man in the foreground and you'll see he's wearing a pair of remarkably simple black dress shoes.

Tarnoff, a former Lapham's Quarterly staffer, has plenty of colour with which to work in recounting the stories of three 18th - and 19th - century counterfeiters: Owen Sullivan, David Lewis, and Samuel Curtis Upham.

* George Frederic Handel, the influential 18th - century composer whose works inspired the likes of Beethoven and Brahms

A major part of the problem is that though Immanuel Kant wrote about dignity in the 18th century and the word was in use even earlier, strong efforts to elucidate and work with it have not been made (as have been made for, say, the notion of human rights, the subject of innumerable books, essays and court cases).

The sauce worked its way across several continents before arriving in Philadelphia in the 18th century, where it was reinvented as a rough sauce made from unripe tomato scraps (no thanks).

You can sometimes see them in Dutch 18th century art works.

I'm working on a major project to collect as many 18th and 19th century chile pepper descriptions as I can find to add to the ever - growing archive of chile pepper material posted on the SuperSite.

The goal was lessons on discipline, work ethic and equality: A working - class man whose ancestors had come to America from Germany in the 18th century as indentured servants had no intention of passing along the ways of racial segregation that marked that place in time.

Village blacksmiths be hard at work on an 18th - century - style cannon, using iron fittings to attach the cannon to a wooden carriage.

It's a work of fiction set around 18th century Scottish events.

The Hogarthian degradation of the 18th century's «gin craze» - which prompted a series of «Gin Acts» and a middle - class fear of the dissipation of the working class's energy and morals - led to the banning of absinthe in much of Europe.

- There is also a portrait «believed to be by 18th century French master Jean - Baptiste Greuze», whose work is displayed in the National Gallery.

Examples when this worked includes the USSR before 1936 (when the deputies were elected by the colleagues), and England of 18th century (where some parliament members were elected by a small group of voters).

Now brain scans show why one method of creating «implicit motion», used by an 18th - century Japanese artist, works so well.

The so - called «human challenge model» has a long and checkered past that began with 18th century experiments by smallpox vaccine developer Edward Jenner and later fell under intense scrutiny when they were conducted by Nazi doctors, military researchers, and academic scientists working with prisoners.

The cataloging of nearby galaxies, or nebulae, as they were then known, started in the 18th century with the work of Messier.

Lead investigator Juliean de Wit used an 18th - century mathematical constant called the Euler - Mascheroni constant that's used in analysis and number theory and demonstrated that the constant allows one to work out the individual effects of each parameter in the spectrum — described as sort of an «encryption key» to the atmosphere.

Working with Greenwood in the Art Department, Spencer began with a certain visual reality — aspects of 18th century France — before turning to the animated film or pure homage.

I have to make the movie work, and Kevin Bacon with a ponytail and a cravat dressed as an 18th - century fop will look ridiculous»... Shaw walks the finest line, even if he did have that look in all the comics.

Lured back to the industry by a friend, she started to work on Belle, the true story of Dido Elizabeth Belle (Gugu Mbatha - Raw), the mixed - race daughter of a Royal Navy Admiral who was raised by her aristocratic great - uncle in 18th - century England.

The story of Jean - Baptiste, from birth to death, begins in 18th century Paris, where his mother literally gives birth to him while working at a fish market in a particularly heinous and poverty - stricken part of town.

I've worked so hard in researching the 18th century that in some ways, I'd like to stay there, not necessarily to write about Fersen.

Even Brean Hammond, the Shakespearean scholar who spent 10 years studying the play and editor of the Arden Shakespeare Edition, believes that the 18th century publisher of the play, Theobald, significantly «cut and altered the work to suit his 18th century audience» though in an interview with the BBC, he says he is certain that Shakespeare «had a strong hand in» the first act, the second act, and at least part of Act III.

It had its birth in Edinburgh, Scotland in the late 18th century (a period known as the Scottish Enlightenment), Colin MacFarquhar, a printer, and Andrew Bell, an engraver, decided to create an encyclopedia for the new era and formed a «Society of Gentlemen'to publish the work.

Most people don't know that Mark Twain self - published much of his own work, that back in the 18th and 19th century it was common, and we wouldn't even know about Tarzan or any Edgar Rice Burroughs if it wasn't for his son convincing him to self - publish his own work when he couldn't sell to publishers or magazines of the time.

Her work (especially the earlier novels, including Pride and Prejudice and Northanger Abbey) was influenced by the fiction of her day, and was a bridge between the 18th century and what would come in the 19th century.

The English White terrier is the failed show ring name of a pricked - ear version of the white fox - working terriers that have existed in the U.K. since the late 18th Century.

As far back as the 18th century, they worked on canal barges village homes, and on farms as watch dogs.

As noted in American Working Terriers, the «speciation» of domestic breeds of livestock began with the work of Robert Bakewell in the 18th Century, and the control of sires.

Other collections include works from French impressionists including Paul Gauguin, Renoir, Degas and Monet, and significant pieces from 18th and 19th century American art.

Finally, we continue to the Balenbouche estate; the working plantation proudly demonstrates the life of the 18th century with remains of the old sugar mill and a visit to the 18th Century plantationcentury with remains of the old sugar mill and a visit to the 18th Century plantationCentury plantation House.

Exhibition: Thomas Gainsborough at Morgan Library & Museum Although this 18th - century British master is known best for his portraiture and landscape work, his oeuvre extended far beyond his paintings.

A brief survey of representations of life - drawing sessions reveals: an all male clientele drawing from the female nude in Rembrandt's studio; men working from male nudes in 18th - century representations of academic instruction in The Hague and Vienna; men working from the seated male nude in Bailly's charming painting of the interior of Houdon's studio at the beginning of the 19th century; Mathieu Cochereau's scrupulously veristic Interior of David's Studio, exhibited in the Salon of 1814, reveals a group of young men diligently drawing or painting from a male nude model, whose discarded shoes may be seen before the models» stand.

A brief survey of representations of like - drawing sessions reveals an all male clientele drawing from the female nude in Rembrandt's studio; men working from male nudes in 18th - century representations of academic instruction in The Hague and Vienna; men working from the seated male nude in Boily's charming painting of the interior of Houdon's studio at the beginning of the 19th century; Mathieu Cochereau's scrupulously veristic Interior of David's Studio, exhibited in the Salon of 1814, reveals a group of young men diligently drawing or painting from a male nude model, whose discarded shoes may be seen before the models» stand.

From the 18th century on, portraits became psychological studies, culminating in the works of Freud and highlighted here, the unique profile of Alfred Hitchcock.

He has previously served on the board of London's National Portrait Gallery, where his is currently working on an exhibition for the gallery that will explore the story of the abolition of slavery through 18th - and 19th - century portraits.

18th - century French Louis XIV frame, gilded hand - carved wood, molding width 4-7/8» The museum has published extensively on this painting and frame, Pissarro Paintings and Works on Paper at the Art Institute of Chicago, with painting technical report and detailed frame description, Cat.

1958 1958 Pittsburgh Bicentennial International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh (December 5, 1958 — February 8, 1959) A propos du baroque: Jean Degottex, Marcelle Ferron, Sam Francis, Simon Hantaï, Shirley Jaffe, Marcelle Loubchansky, Joan Mitchell, Judit Reigl, Jean - Paul Riopelle, Galerie Kléber, Paris (November — December) Some Contemporary Works of Art, Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio (November 11 - December 31) American Symbolic Realists: Fifteen American Artists, Palazzo Collicola, Festival dei Due Mondi, Spoleto, Italy (June 8 — 29) 18th Annual Exhibition of the Society for Contemporary Art, Art Institute of Chicago (May 8 — June 8) The Museum and Its Friends: Twentieth - Century American Art from Collections of the Friends of the Whitney Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (April 30 — June 15) American Artists of Younger Reputation, New York Art Foundation, Rome (opened April 14) The Evocative Eye, Signa Gallery, East Hampton, New York (July 5 - 24) The International Art of a New Era: Informel and Gutai, Osaka Festival, Osaka, Japan (September 2 — 7) Action Painting, Dallas Museum of Contemporary Arts (March 5 — April 13) Abstract Impressionism, The Art Galleries, Portland Building, University of Nottingham, England (February 19 — March 19).

Works in various scale create dynamic spatial relationships: a metal structure covered with accumulated bottles sits on the floor, informed by vernacular architecture as well as the cotillion, a social dance originating in France in the 18th century and further developed by African Americans in the United States; and a chandelier of oversized cowrie shells hangs dramatically within a large and site - specific yurt - like structure.

The premise of the show takes root in the changes brought into being by the invention of Romanticism at the end of the 18th century, and the idealized notion of the impoverished, misunderstood genius working in solitary and eternal glory.

Founded in 1911 from the bequest of Richard Glynn Vivian, the gallery now holds works spanning the 18th to the 20th century.

Yes, there is a certain amount of jostling and horse - trading, someone admitted to me, but the RA is «a self - governing 18th - century artists» democracy, and the system still works».

His room of double portraits, by contrast, spoke to that uniquely English 18th century genre, the «conversation piece», and more recent work of course to the landscape tradition exemplified by Turner and Constable.

While highlighting works by some of the most celebrated Japanese print artists from the 18th and 19th centuries, this exhibition also offers insight into this source of inspiration for Wright's architecture.

Richard Long The open spaces of an 18th - century estate, with deer herd, are perfect for Long's contemplative works.

James Turrell, a Californian artist whose work explores perceptions of light and space, was approached to create an installation within Yorkshire Sculpture Park's 18th - century listed buildings.

I asked Campbell about a work by Rosalba Carriera, a female pastel portraitist who lived and worked in Venice in the early 18th century, which was recently rehung.

Abbot Hall holds many fine examples of 18th - and 19th - century painting, as well as a substantial collection of work by Ruskin.

And while Mockrin's works share some of the same formal qualities as an 18th - century Rococo composition — though they're a bit too askew to actually be mistaken for one — the works in question are decidedly 21st - century.