Sentences with phrase «european painting»

New and important additions are made to the Guggenheim Bilbao Collection, including a series of sixteen paintings by Georg Baselitz entitled Mrs Lenin and the Nightingale (2008), considered a masterpiece of European painting by the critics, and the sculpture Working Model for Government of the People (1967) by Jacques Lipchitz, thanks to a generous donation from The Jacques & Yulla Lipchitz Foundation.

He glues the fibers and materials onto the tapestry, where he depicts images inspired by Modernist European painting as well as Mexican patterns.

The exhibition explores the role of the nude in European painting in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and the collecting and display practices of the Spanish royalty.

As early as 1966, one of the pioneers of the New European Painting, Gerhard Richter during a visit to a Düsseldorf hardware store noticed an array of paint sample cards.

Actor, writer and director Steven Berkoff takes us on a whirlwind tour of European painting, culminating in a salute to Scots painter Peter Howson

Step in to the home of Steven Berkoff, the inimitable British actor, writer and director, as he takes us on a whirlwind discourse on European painting from the 15th century to the present day.

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.

Georgia O'Keeffe: Living Modern is organized by guest curator Wanda M. Corn, Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor Emerita in Art History, Stanford University, and coordinated by Lisa Small, Curator of European Painting and Sculpture, Brooklyn Museum.

And it is good to include Norway among the European nationals represented in a great collection of European painting.»

A distinctive feature of the period, compared to earlier European painting, was the small amount of religious painting.

He recently co-curated, with Colin Bailey, the exhibition Masterpieces of European Painting from Dulwich Picture Gallery at The Frick Collection in New York (March 8 — May 30, 2010).

American and European painting and sculpture from 1945 to the present.

What interests me about Bob's work is his use of color, which really came out of black American music, and his love of European painting.

Featuring seminal artists such as Paul Cézanne, Vincent Van Gogh, Pablo Picasso and more, this exhibition will trace the major developments in European painting from the 1970s.

European Painting and Sculpture III.

In each canvas, he has layered abstract images, traditional European painting, warped cartoons and the front - seated trompe l'oeil figurine creating a visual assault that begs the viewer to grapple with the hierarchies within modes of representation — high and low.

The renovated Morgan Building now showcases over 1,000 works of European painting, sculpture, and decorative arts.

Best known as a painter of monumental works in oil, Sean Scully (b. 1945) has garnered international acclaim as one of the most prominent painters in the abstract tradition, fusing the conventions of European painting with the distinct character of American abstraction.

He absorbed both the wealth of Modern European painting — from van Gogh to Klee, from Delacroix to Matisse — and oriental influences, which he observed in Morocco in the early 1970s.

Art Resource European Painting and Sculpture European Painting and Sculpture: Impressionism and Post-Impressionism European Painting and Sculpture: Painting 1800 — 1900

Permanent Collection Tour: An in - depth exploration of either the European Painting Galleries or the Modern and Contemporary Art Galleries.

Michael Werner presents works by modern masters including Hans Arp, Piero Manzoni, Francis Picabia and Kurt Schwitters in addition to contemporary American and European painting, sculpture and drawing...

The National Gallery houses the national collection of Western European painting from the 13th to the 19th centuries.

Dorment worked as assistant curator in the department of European painting at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

The famous glass and steel building housing a collection of 20th century European painting and sculpture will be closed to the public during the extensive renovations, which are scheduled to begin in early 2015.

Kehinde Wiley creates larger - than - life - size portraits that mix historical Western European painting styles such as French Romanticism, Rococo, and Baroque with images from contemporary urban streets.

The BSO's Vice President & General Manager, Tonya McBride Robles, along with the BMA's Senior Curator for European Painting & Sculpture, Katy Rothkopf, came to share ideas about Impressionism in music and art.

But I think more serious centers were: Betty Parsons, Kootz, at the time; Janis very shortly thereafter, although he in the beginning did a fantastic job to promote serious European painting rather than American painting.

Following the closure of Tooth's in the late 1970s he pursued his personal interests as a collector and deployed his great knowledge in diverse fields, including 20th - century European painting, decorative arts and especially late 19th and early 20th - century ceramics, for Christie's auction house.

• The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts The brainchild of Ivan Vladimirovich Tsvetaev, its current collection features works of European painting and sculpture by Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artists.

It relates a history of European painting that is quite different from anything taught at schools and universities.

Both Capogrossi and Damian (especially Capogrossi) seemed to be interesting and sort of acceptable here because of their (well, in the case of Capogrossi) quite original image — in the case of Damian because of a rather rough quality that made him pretty close to (or rather made him seem pretty close to) American painting, not the precious kind of European painting that we didn't like any more.

But it was Janis's role to promote really good and serious European painting commercially.

DOROTHY SECKLER: One of the recent ones I remember coming across was Larry Poons, and he said Pollock is so great because he owes nothing whatsoever to European painting — to Europe.

«Van Gogh's Bedrooms,» organized by curator Gloria Groom, the Art Institute's chair of European painting and sculpture, is the most up - to - date «great works in context» exhibition that's been mounted by an arts institution.

(Later, when pitching Delacroix's Still Life of Dahlias, Zinnias and Plums on a Table, Leah Lehmbeck, curator of European painting and sculpture, showed a photo of the artist's head on a «Mount Rushmore of Modern Art.»)

Tracking Lovell's drawings, installations, and sculptures as he studied European painting and then broke away from that paradigm, the show will include such works as Rite (1997), an oil stick and charcoal work on paper in which a man's nude body appears to be consumed by foliage.

The Chrysler's collection of European Painting and Sculpture ranges from works by Renaissance masters to bold early modernist canvases.

Seurat's Circus Sideshow is organized by Susan Alyson Stein, Engelhard Curator of Nineteenth - Century European Painting, Department of European Paintings, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and guest curator Richard Thomson, Watson Gordon Professor of Fine Art at the University of Edinburgh, with the assistance of Laura D. Corey, Research Assistant, Department of European Paintings, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

She is best known for her fictive portraits drawn from memory, imagination, and the history of European Painting.

One of the pioneers of New European Painting, he is perhaps most notable for the constant rise in prices of his paintings.

His compositions incorporating sculptural pieces and found objects are punctuated by arrangements of flowers that recall the 17th - century European painting genre.

The Brooklyn Museum's extensive collection includes ancient Egyptian masterpieces, African art, European painting, decorative arts, period rooms, and contemporary art.

The Art Institute of Chicago announce the appointment of Sylvain Bellenger as the Searle Chair and Curator of the museum's Department of Medieval through Modern European Painting and Sculpture.

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, houses an internationally renowned collection of modern European painting and sculpture, including such masterpieces as Renoir's «Dance at Bougival,» Gauguin's «Where Do We Come From?

European Painting and Sculpture after 1800: MFA Highlights features these well - known and much - loved works, organized into thematic chapters discussing the major art movements represented in the collection, with an introduction that describes the major phenomena that helped chart the course of art in the 19th and 20th centuries.

The prestigious Michael Werner Gallery recently added Piacentino to a revitalised roster that orbits Picabia, Polke, Penck and other giants of European painting.

Roberts joins recently hired Francesca Consagra, senior curator of prints and drawings, and European painting, and Ray Williams, director of education and academic affairs, as well as Annette DiMeo Carlozzi, now serving as Blanton curator at large, to further establish the museum nationally as a center for innovation and excellence in the arts.

The Department of Medieval through Modern European Painting and Sculpture is the largest of the Art Institute's 11 curatorial groups, with a collection that includes the museum's renowned holdings of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works; modern European masters such as Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, and Vasily Kandinsky; and earlier paintings by such artists as El Greco, Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, and Giovanni Battista Tiepolo.

After three years as assistant curator of European painting at the Philadelphia Museum of Art he moved to London to pursue a career as a freelance writer on art and exhibition organiser.