Sentences with phrase «european painting genre»

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

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He exhibited European art, including 19th - century English landscapes and portraits, German genre works, and French Impressionist and Barbizon paintings.

This Turkish artist specializes in what could be described as reverse Orientalism, subverting the 19th - century category of genre paintings that captured scenes of the Middle East imagined as exotic by Europeans at the time.

Co-curated by Dr. Mitchell Merling, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts» Paul Mellon Curator and Head of European Art, and Dr. Heather MacDonald, Dallas Museum of Art's Lillian and James H. Clark Associate Curator of European Art, The Art of the Flower provides a thorough reassessment of floral still life painting, a genre that previously has been underexplored.

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.

Highlights of the European art collection include English genre painting of the nineteenth - century as well as examples of French post-Impressionistic painting from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

This exhibition supplies no definitions of genre; nor does it seem content to display the vitality of painting, a theme favored in any number of European exhibitions

Movements represented include Late Gothic, the Italian and Northern Renaissance, Baroque, Dutch Realist portraiture and genre painting, Neoclassicism, European Romanticism, plus a series of German Expressionism paintings by Max Beckmann.

The Touchstones Rochdale collection includes a range of work from 16th and 17th Century Northern European artists to a substantial collection of Victorian genre and landscape painting and Modern work by Vanessa Bell and local artists such as Benjamin C. Brierley, John Collier and Charles Donald Taylor.

In this show, three celebrated African - American artists are giving the history of European genre painting a bold shake - up.

They include some of the greatest genre paintings and portrait paintings of the European and American schools.

Meanwhile, in parallel to this «traditional» genre of Irish landscape, some Irish artists went abroad - particularly to France - where they joined other European landscape artists in schools at Barbizon, Pont - Aven and Concarneau, as well as St Ives in England, to paint in the Impressionist and Post Impressionist styles, to name but two.

Human skulls, burnt candles, decaying flowers, broken chalices, fallen crowns, jewels and mirrors were typical features of their Vanitas still - lifes, one of the earliest examples of the still life genre in European painting.

Along with the Annuals and Biennials, the Whitney Museum has organized significant exhibitions including American Genre: The Social Scene in Paintings and Prints (1935), European Artists in America (1945), Nature in Abstraction: The Relation of Abstract Painting and Sculpture to Nature in Twentieth - Century American Art (1958), Anti-Illusion (1969), Calder's Circus (1972), 200 Years of American Sculpture (1976), Jasper Johns (1977), Nam June Paik (1982), and Nan Goldin: I'll Be Your Mirror (1996).

The permanent collection of the PAMM is installed thematically within two rooms on the first floor and four rooms on the second and is organized around the historical criteria of genres within Western painting and the traditional hierarchy of genres that developed out of the Renaissance period and was promoted within European art academies up through the 19th century.

During the 17th century, the great European Academies, such as the Academy of Art in Rome, the Academy of Art in Florence, the Parisian Academie des Beaux - Arts, and the Royal Academy in London followed the rule laid down in 1669, by Professor Andre Felibien, Secretary to the French Academy, who ranked the genres as follows: (1) History Painting - with religious paintings being perhaps an independent category; (2) Portraiture; (3) Genre Painting; (4) Landscape Painting; (5) Still Life.

By the 19th - century landscape painting had become the dominant European genre, being significantly availed by the occurrence of Romanticism.