Sentences with phrase «civil war painting»

FAMOUS AMERICAN PAINTERS For biographies of some of the best American artists from the 18th and 19th centuries, see: Winslow Homer (1836 - 1910) Seascapes, Civil War painting.

Known for confronting history and addressing political and social issues in his abstract collage paintings, Bradford plans to incorporate figuration in his work for the first time and is «taking as a point of departure» a major Civil War painting.

Winslow Homer (1836 - 1910) Seascapes, Civil War painting.

Winslow Homer (1836 - 1910) American painter, Civil War paintings, noted for naturalistic seascapes.

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New York governor Andrew Cuomo has responded by painting the GOP as the state's enemy in an «economic civil war.»

Some abolitionist works like «Uncle Tom's Cabin» could paint slavery as a form of captivity, but the canonical captives of antebellum American literature were white women kidnapped by Indians, who after the Civil War were often replaced by freed slaves as objects of superstitious terror.

If the collision of Madeleine with George's kin or the tragedy that re-ties the ties that bind seem contrived, consider that the film is possibly best read as a drama writ large on a Southern canvas, one splashed, like the Ann Wood paintings produced especially for the film, with the ghosts of slavery and the Civil War.

Painting a picture of post Civil War America in the south, from the point of view of the women left alone is a wonderful concept.

«The Beguiled» is based on Thomas P. Cullinan's novel «A Painted Devil» and centers on a Virginia girls boarding school that takes in a wounded Union soldier during the Civil War.

No art without external relations», he explained his famous series paintings «Spanish Elegies», These paintings referred to the Civil War in Spain in the 1930's and were meant as a lamentation for something one cares about - to reveal a terrible death of many Spanish civilians which should not be forgotten.

Steely and implacable, Jerene presides over her family's legacy of paintings at the Mint Museum; Duke, the one - time college golden boy and descendant of a Confederate general, whose promising political career was mysteriously short - circuited, has settled into a comfortable semi-senescence as a Civil War re-enactor.

In a powerful picture book illustrated with unusual, expressive paintings, readers meet a boy, who, along with many other young people, survives the civil war that ravaged Sudan in the 1980's.

This album captures a selection of a Union soldier's extraordinary paintings based on his experience in the Virginia - Maryland theater of the Civil War.

Some of the paintings have heavier themes as they were created around the civil war and the tumultuous periods prior.

A leading Abstract Expressionist and the author of over one hundred paintings that he titled Elegy to the Spanish Republic (completed between 1948 and 1967), Motherwell created his mostly monochrome canvases as a «lamentation or funeral song» on the subject of the Spanish Civil War.

Philip Maysles presents a large - scale wall painting and sound installation inspired by Robert Motherwell's Elegy series that the abstract expressionist produced as a belated response to the Spanish Civil War.

Check out our new selection of sale books, including Civil War Stories which features paintings by Chester Arnold.

In 1938, Talladega Collage commissioned Hale Woodruff to paint a series of six murals depicting the Amistad uprising and its aftermath and the founding of the Alabama college after the civil war.

Porter chose to paint what had been an earlier symbol of American abundance — and during the Civil War period one particularly associated with free blacks — when it was increasingly defined by virulent stereotyping.

2011 Video Exhibition Highlights Wadsworth Atheneum's History Wadsworth Atheneum Receives $ 21,000 From NEA to Support MATRIX Exhibition Series Wadsworth Atheneum Commemorates Civil War's 150th Anniversary in New Collection Installation Claire Beckett / MATRIX 163 Opens Nov. 3 Robin Jaffee Frank Named Chief Curator and Krieble Curator of American Painting and Sculpture Wadsworth Atheneum to Receive Significant NEH Funding Wadsworth Atheneum Presents Photography by Patti Smith Shaun Gladwell / MATRIX 162 Opens June 2 Wadsworth Atheneum's Morgan Great Hall Opens to the Public

American Art Students learn to look at visual imagery through an exploration of American paintings, sculpture, and decorative arts representing the colonial period, the Revolutionary and the Civil Wars, westward expansion, the early twentieth century, and the contemporary moment.

The majority of works in the exhibition will be on loan from private collections, and will comprise important, large - scale paintings from his most memorable themes, including French Money, Vocabulary Lessons, Civil War Veterans, Camel cigarette packs, as well as portraits of his mother - in - law Berdie, his then wife Augusta, and the poet Frank O'Hara.

Gaza; Mowing the Lawn, takes a cue from Picasso's Guernica or Goya's moving paintings of the Spanish Civil War.

In the aftermath of the Civil War, watercolor painting became more popular.

He started painting more structured works, usually politically motivated, mostly as a reaction to the Spanish Civil War (1936 - 1939).

His paintings of the»30s and»40s were expressionistically rendered, often Biblical parables, filled with what he called «the grief of the intolerable» and reflecting an acute awareness of the agony of the time, from the Holocaust to the Spanish Civil War.

He was also able to paint in a romantic style, which had become more fashionable after the Civil War.

Exploring the inextricable links between poetry, politics, writing and painting revealed in the history of the series, this volume includes Harold Rosenberg's «A Bird for Every Bird,» Federico García Lorca's «Llanto por Ignacio Sánchez Mejías,» notes and writings by Motherwell on the Spanish Civil War, scholarly essays and rare archival material.

The artist draws her content from many sources, including American slave narratives, genre paintings, Civil War battle reenactments, and «bodice ripper» romance novels.

Finding his place in the Abstract Expressionism hall of fame alongside Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko, Robert Motherwell is best known for his Elegy to the Spanish Republic series which he worked on throughout his life — over 140 paintings memorializing the injustices of the Spanish Civil War featuring bold black shapes on a white background.

Sabsabi's work, miniature paintings made of the hundreds of photos of the Lebanese civil war he has collected, is reminiscent of Richter's photo - paintings, though neither the technique nor the purpose are the same.

Later, from 1981 - 83, as painting became a greater pre-occupation in his work, he produced a trilogy about the civil war in Northern Ireland.

A complex piece in Zaatari's overall oeuvre, Time Capsule not only serves as a sort of sequel to the artist's earlier video In This House (2005), for which he unearthed a letter buried by leftist militants in 1991 (right after the Lebanese Civil War ended), it also links the experience of the Arab Image Foundation, which Zaatari co-founded in 1997 (he recently resigned from the organization's board, which inspired the time capsule project), to that of Beirut's National Museum, where dOCUMENTA (13)'s team found the wrecked objects that are now on view with Adnan's painting tool in the rotunda of the Fridericianum.

The active moment versus painting's innate stillness has been a central tenet of paintings whose subjects include the Creation myth, Civil War - era battles and high - octane stadium rock gigs.

Dane Carder's show «War Wounds» contains primarily large - scale paintings of American Civil War soldiers wounded, often grotesquely, in battle.

Her animated series, Aloof Hills, addresses contemporary American «taboos» such as interracial relationships and drug and alcohol use, and does so in a historic setting; Crombie's characters are Civil War - era paper dolls, and her landscapes include paintings and YouTube video clips.

Like Young, Bradford represented his nation at last year's Venice Biennale and, in what was something of a monumental year for the American, unveiled Pickett's Charge, a suitably monumental suite of paintings (collectively measuring more than 100 linear metres) that reinterpreted one of the defining moments of the American Civil War (the subject of an 1883 cyclorama by French painter Paul Philippoteaux, itself reinterpreted in Bradford's work) in a work of cut, torn and scraped layers that reflects on the complexities of history, its interpretation and its impact upon the present sociopolitical climate in the US.

Taking inspiration from the character of Topsy in Harriet Beecher Stowe's classic Civil War - era novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, Saar re-contextualizes the sprightly uncouth slave girl as a symbol of defiance, through paintings on dyed vintage...

Although Norman did not expect to survive the Spanish Civil War, he did, and in 1939, he returned to California, settling on Catalina Island, where he began to express through drawing and painting the atrocities he had just witnessed.

He explained that the «Elegy» paintings, originally a tribute to the republic that died in the Spanish Civil War, were not meant to be political, but rather «general metaphors of the contrast between life and death and their interrelation.»

Smithsonian Curator Eleanor Jones Harvey revealed how the Civil War can be seen in seemingly unrelated works such as landscape paintings,... read more

The Civil War and American Art Smithsonian Curator Eleanor Jones Harvey revealed how the Civil War can be seen in seemingly unrelated works such as landscape paintings, and also examines the work of several soldier artists.

His paintings have taken on subjects ranging from embarrassing personal foibles to important events in American history such at the Vietnam War, the civil rights movement, and the atrocities at Abu Ghraib.

Motherwell speaks of his relationship with his parents; attending prep school; studying philosophy at Stanford University and Harvard University; his theory of automatism; European and American painters in post-war New York; teaching at Black Mountain College; teaching at Hunter College; his retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art and other exhibitions; his collages with Gauloise cigarette packages; the photograph The Irascibles; his membership in American Abstract Artists; his marriage to Helen Frankenthaler; his use of color and light in his paintings; spending summers in Provincetown, MA; beginning printmaking; playing poker; working with the art dealers Kootz, Janis, and Frank Lloyd of Marlborough; his series Elegy for the Spanish Civil War, Je t «aime, Beside the Sea, Open, and Lyric Suite.

English painting was heavily reliant on Dutch painters, with Sir Peter Lely followed by Sir Godfrey Kneller, developing the English portrait style established by the Flemish Anthony van Dyck before the English Civil War.

Though very interested in the American Civil War and Mathew Brady's battlefield photographs, Hopper made only two historical paintings.

The original painting, which Picasso created in 1937 within weeks of the bombing and the death of hundreds of civilians in Guernica, toured the world raising awareness of the horrors of the Spanish civil war.

During this period he experimented with ideas from Greek mythology, Spanish literature and the Spanish Civil War, in which images of massacres prevailed - see, for instance, the painting Massacre (1933, Private Collection), and the illustrations Mithra, Osiris and Minotaur (1936).

Twelve days after the onset of the American Civil War in April of 1861, Frederic Edwin Church, the most successful American landscape painter of his day, debuted his latest «Great Picture» — a painting titled The North.

The Hudson River School began to lose its allure from about the end of the Civil War, not least because of the impact of the French Barbizon School of Landscape Painting, whose softer, more intimate style proved increasingly attractive.