Sentences with phrase «european old master paintings»

On a recent visit to Tate Britain, Catherine Opie spoke with TateShots about portraiture and how European old master paintings have been a strong influence on her 2017 body of work, Portraits and Landscapes.

Ms. Barry has contributed essays on technical studies of European old master paintings to multiple publications.

His zany mixmaster skill for hybridizing European Old Master paintings with funky, American pop culture imagery is so powerful that he became instrumental in the international revival of painting - along with Jean - Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring - from the 1980s onward, influencing artists of his own generation and later generations.

NORFOLK, Va. --(April 10, 2014)-- The Irene Leache Memorial Foundation has donated its entire collection of European Old Master paintings, sculpture, tapestries, and decorative arts to the Chrysler Museum of Art.

A $ 20.8 - million renovation and expansion in 2007 provided a stunning setting for objects as diverse as monumental Assyrian reliefs from Nimrud, Iraq; European Old Master paintings; and works by American modernists.

A $ 20.8 - million renovation and expansion in 2007 provided a stunning setting for objects as diverse as monumental Assyrian reliefs from Nimrud, Iraq; European old master paintings; and works by American modernists.

European Old Master painting is represented by Mantegna, Titian, Tintoretto, Pieter Breugel, Hals, Rembrandt and Rubens, while among the extensive collection of Danish art are works by C.W. Eckersberg, Haral Giersing, Oluf Host, Olaf Rude and Edward Weihe, and the Danish sculptor Carl Bonnesen.

Informed by the trajectory of art history spanning from European Old Master painting to Cubism and Abstract Expressionism, the works are hybrid images emblematic of Condo's singularly inventive style.

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European, American, British, and Old Master paintings in intimate galleries surrounded by 140 acres of woodland & trails.

Wiley's signature portraits of everyday men and women riff on specific paintings by Old Masters, replacing the European aristocrats depicted in those paintings with contemporary black subjects, drawing attention to the absence of African Americans from historical and cultural narratives.

European Sculpture, Old Master Paintings and Antiquities Bardon Hall, Weetwood Lane, Leeds, LS16 8HJ Tel: [phone] [email protected] www.tomassobrothers.co.uk

At Sotheby's # 22.6 m evening sale of Old Master and British Paintings on 9 December, it sold on the phone to a European collector, the sole bidder, on the lower estimate of # 8 — 12m — # 9.1 m with premium.

Internationally recognized as a premier museum and research center, the Frick is known for its distinguished Old Master paintings and outstanding examples of European sculpture and decorative arts.

Hofmann's life is terrific to read about — a European arriving in America in the 1930s, the schools he set up in New York and Provincetown (many of the artists in the RA show were his students), his theory of painting, evolved from observing the world and analysing the Old Masters, and his sheer, galvanising, gutsy energy.

During that trip, a slew of Old Master and early Modern paintings in European museums made a strong impression on the young artist.

An exhibition of works of art gathered from private collections in our region, ranging from Old Master European paintings to cutting - edge contemporary glass art.

The collection includes European Old Masters and British paintings, with works by Gainsborough, Zoffany, Sickert and Sir Peter Blake.

Notable holdings include the Warburg Collection of Old Master prints, an important group of Hudson River School paintings given by Matthew Vassar at the college's inception, and a wide range of works by major European and American 20th - century painters.

Manja is Head of the Old Masters & 19th Century European Art sale in Amsterdam and is specialised in Dutch landscape painting in Rome around 1700.

Presented in the BMA galleries adjacent to the European Old Masters, the artist's paintings ask us to consider images of black men and women as embodiments of love, intimacy, and strength in a post-colonial world.

Following its successful launch at Frieze Masters 2016, the Art Fund Curators Programme returned to the fair with a focus on European and specifically Dutch Old Master painting.

In 1962, Raphael published a book titled, «A Painter's Pilgrimage,» which is illustrated with his drawings of details from Old Master paintings and sympathetic pencil sketches of European artists.

Most of the works will be contemporary, but there will be a first - century Roman marble and several old master paintings as well as examples of 19th - century European art and 20th - century design.

From old masters to contemporary art, fine paintings at Skinner include some of the best examples of European and American painting from the last five centuries.

The Americans had broken away from the European and especially French tradition of modern painting, or, in the period language, «the tasteful cookery of oil pigment, the direct backing of the Old Masters and all precedence of rules», as Hess wrote in his obituary of Kline.50 As is recorded in one of the news reports of the acrimonious exchange between Fautrier and Kline at the Venice Biennale of 1960, when Fautrier pronounced an insult to the effect of «U.S. Go Home!»

Still Life with Cockatoo was painted ten years later and reflects Chase's study at Munich's Royal Academy and exposure to the virtuoso brushwork of European Old Masters.

At first glance, they look like paintings based on European old - master still lifes, but they then subtly begin to move, revealing themselves to be animated and accompanied by sound.

The National Gallery is a wonderful museum — if Old Master European, 19th century American or classic Modern painting and sculpture of the early 20th century are what you want.

Again, African - American artists are very much on the agenda: deceptively naive paintings by former slave Bill Traylor, who died in 1949, feature at Betty Cuningham ($ 50,000 - $ 140,000), while Donald Morris shows Bob Thompson, who was inspired by European Old Masters to produce boldly coloured figurative paintings (nine of 13 works sold on first day, $ 125,000 - $ 250,000).

A connoisseur of an astonishing range of subjects, Joseph Cornell was captivated with bygone imagery of celestial maps, fading European hotels, the Romantic ballet and Old Master paintings.

The National Gallery of Scotland's collection features works by many of the finest European Old Masters, as well as Scottish artists like the Glasgow School of Painting (1880 - 1900).

Known for recasting young black men (and now, on occasion, black women) in scenes from old European master paintings, Wiley's popular work has recently been featured in the Chris Rock film «Top Five» and on the Fox television series «Empire.»

Rafael Coronel, whose father - in - law was Diego Rivera, created many somber, representational paintings — including his c. 1975 oil - on - canvas portrait, Untitled, that drew on his immediate surroundings in Mexico, both topographically and culturally, in combination with a sustained interest in the work of European Old Masters.

Founded by Pittsburgh industrialist Henry Clay Frick (1849 — 1919), the Frick Collection presents and preserves painting of Old Masters and examples of European sculpture and decorative arts.

After having spent years examining European painting in books, the artist was finally able to see the old masters» works in person.

The overall collection of the National Gallery of Art is divided as follows: in the West Building there is a wide collection of paintings and sculptures by European Old Masters, such as Woman Holding a Balance (1662 - 63) and Girl in a Red Hat (1666) by Jan Vermeer.

The Collection of Robert Hatfield Ellsworth Part V - European Decorative Arts, Carpets, Old Master Paintings and Asian Works of Art (53)

Art Institute of Chicago One of the greatest art museums in America, the AIC has a world - renowned collection of French Impressionist paintings and American art - as well as a significant number of works by European Old Masters.