Sentences with phrase «french academic painting»

His ability to transform fervent indignation into comical absurdity is amply evident when he takes on masterworks of French academic painting, as he does in his recent exhibition, Peter Saul: Six Classics, at Mary Boone (November 7 — December 18, 2015).

His ability to transform fervent indignation into comical absurdity is amply evident when he takes on masterworks of French academic painting, as he does in his recent exhibition, Peter Saul: Six Classics, at Mary Boone...

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FLUX focused on the reflection of the conscious and unconscious mind, with French's paintings skilfully combining academic realism and surrealism.

At Colnaghi Gallery, a delightful painting of the French academic painter William - Adolphe Bouguereau (1825 - 1905), Study of the Head of a Woman for «Offering to Eros», hangs next to a photograph of a naked torso «Maryanne» (1988) by Robert Mapplethorpe.

In fact, the terms of French painting in the 20th century were so high as to lift even academic practitioners of modernism into a place of high critical regard.

Also in the Neue Galerie are paintings and drawings by Arnold Bode, the founder of Documenta; a painting of Bode by Gerhard Richter; and a drawing of Athens by Theodor Heuss, the first president of West Germany; an 18th - century copy of Le code noir, which formalized the laws of slavery in the French Empire; academic allegorical sculptures representing Western nations by Carl Friedrich Echtermeier; and remarkable bronze sculptures from Benin, a society that British colonial conquest ravaged in 1897.

Based on this the artist opens up a deep discussion on Western painting legacy and its heritage in Brazil - especially the history of Brazilian academic art seeded by the Imperial Fine Arts Academy (Academia Imperial de Belas Artes) which was founded in 1816 in Rio, capital of the former Colony, by French masters and established under the orders of King Dom João VI of Portugal.

Despite the absence of blood, guts or gore, «Pietà,» a large painting by the 19th - century French academic artist William - Adolphe Bouguereau, is owned by the action star Mel Gibson.

Having trained in academic French painting, so to speak, you make visible references to Western art, especially in your works in the main gallery, while in the smaller gallery toward the back — a beautiful, dimly lit environment — your paintings are ghostly, palimpsest - driven images that compel one to look closely.

The artist open up a deep discussion on Western painting legacy and its heritage in Brazil — especially the history of Brazilian academic art seeded by the Imperial Fine Arts Academy (Academia Imperial de Belas Artes) founded in 1816 in Rio, capital of the former Colony, by french masters and established there under the orders of King Dom João VI of Portugal.

Dalí not only mimicked the academic realism of artists such as Gérôme and Meissonier, he also enjoyed parodying the splattered paint of Pollock and Matthieu, the once famous exemplar of art informel, the French parallel to Abstract Expressionism.

One result of Inness» time in Barbizon was the modification of his earlier, academic manner for looser, thinner applications of oil consistent with avant - garde French landscape painting.

In addition to works by the political classicist painter Jacques - Louis David, the great French academic artist Jean - Auguste - Dominique Ingres, and the leader of French Romanticism Eugene Delacroix, The Hermitage collection features excellent examples from the Barbizon School of plein landscape painting, by Theodore Rousseau, Jean - Baptiste - Camille Corot, Dupre, Daubigny and others, and seven masterpieces by Claude Monet, the founder of Impressionism, including: Lady in a Garden (1867), The Pond at Montgeron, and Waterloo Bridge (1903).