Sentences with phrase «european classical paintings»

These works will be juxtaposed by important European classical paintings, prints and sculptures dating from the 15th through the early 19th centuries, including works by Il Cerano, Lucas Cranach, the Elder, Jacques Louis David, Cornelis Dusart, Jean Frederic Schall, Hieronymus Bosch, and Pieter Brueghel, the Elder.

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It was also used in many classical European oil paintings.

The Mete of the Muse (2006) juxtaposes differing representations of race in two bronzes: one a black patinated Egyptian figure and the other a white painted classical European nude.

It was also in New York that Thompson quickly arrived at his mature style, taking Dody Müller's advice to heart by reworking the compositions of European Masters such as Piero della Francesca, Nicolas Poussin, and Jacopo Tintoretto into simplified, abstracted forms painted in threatening and seductive tones that were hot and violent or deep and dark — seizing on the dynamism of these classical scenes and often transforming them into contemporary allegorical nightmares.

Other strengths in the collection include European medieval art, European and American paintings, Outsider art, classical antiquities, African art and ancient American art.

Drawing on the classical tradition of bourgeois European painting, Yiadom - Boayke inverts this staid style by placing dark - skinned subjects on her canvases, though her loose, blurred brushstrokes negate any traces of racial distinction.

One of the most significant young artists today, Kehinde Wiley (American, b. 1977) is known for his vibrant, large - scale paintings of black urban men rendered in the self - confident, empowered poses typical of classical European portrait painting.

Additionally, the complex network of lines in a Pollock or a de Kooning, however chaotic they may seem at first glance, form a perfectly enclosed system, one that is not inconsistent with the compositional history of classical European painting.

That painting will hang in the Great Hall along with 94 other European and American classical works from the late 16th to the early 19th century.

Trained in East Germany in the classical art of realist painting, Richter's images have the quiet stillness of European masterworks, taking in genres such as the still life, landscape and portraiture, but of contemporary subjects that are often rendered like a slightly out of focus photograph.

She began playing cultural catch - up, devouring not only modern and contemporary art (including Joseph Beuys and Frank Stella) but also centuries» worth of classical European paintings and sculptures that she'd missed at home.

Museum of Western and Oriental Art, Kiev Also known as the Bogdan and Varvara Khanenko Museum of Art, and formerly ranked the third most important museum in the Soviet Union after the Hermitage in St Petersburg and the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow, the museum's permanent collection (begun 1919) includes Egyptian and Classical antiquities, Byzantine art and icons, Italian Maiolica pottery, Meissen porcelain, Persian Ceramics and Bronze sculpture, Chinese paintings and Chinese pottery, as well as European paintings, sculptures, and etchings.

One of the most significant young artists today, Kehinde Wiley is known for vibrant, large - scale paintings of young urban men, rendered in the self - confident, empowered poses typical of classical European portrait painting.

These works represent a tour of painting from ancient Egypt and classical antiquity and Byzantine and medieval altarpieces, to paintings from Asia, India, Africa, and the Americas and the greatest European and North American masters.

The artist is aware that many of the references contained in the paintings will be unknown to audiences, unlike classical mythology which has been extensively used in European painting.

The next several hours I spent examining his art, and what I found was rather curious: the lenses that proved most helpful in understanding the paintings were those that at first glance seemed the least important, namely my own experiences as a European expat, my history as a lover of all thing classical music, and my scholarly expertise in a number of nonwestern art traditions.

The unheroic nature of modern dress was seen as a major obstacle in the depiction of contemporary scenes, and the Scottish gentleman - artist and art dealer Gavin Hamilton preferred classical scenes as well as painting some based on his Eastern travels, where his European figures by - passed the problem by wearing Arab dress.