Sentences with phrase «historical tableaux»

These paintings were followed by the Group Series, a collection of faux historical tableaux depicting commemorative gatherings from astronauts to Sandinista rebels which were included in Newspeak: British Art Now at the Saatchi Gallery in 2010; and Another Place, a series of seven monumental paintings pertaining to a fictional disaster movie that explored the artist's filmic memory of the city of Los Angeles, was exhibited at the Palazzo Grassi, Venice in 2011.

Priscilla Frank, «Mary Reid Kelley's 3D Historical Tableaux come to ICA Boston».

Forrest Gump also inserts a simpleton (or simpletons) into various historical tableaux without any demonstrable evidence of knowledge of or empathy for said tableaux.

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His commanding portraits and tableaux of recent years combine familiar representational forms, such as the portrait of the artist or the academic life - drawing class, with political references that frame deeply probing historical narratives.

A lead essay by Katherine Brinson probes the artist's roving, research - based process in which historical study, fortuitous encounters and personal relationships are woven into psychologically potent tableaux.

Over the past decade, she has gained international recognition for her room - sized tableaux, which depict historical narratives haunted by sexuality, violence and subjugation and are made using the paradoxically genteel eighteenth - century art of cut - paper silhouettes.

William Daniels» small - scale canvases are derived from torn paper tableaux of famous historical paintings.

Ghanian artist El Anatsui combines themes both historical and contemporary in his large - scale tapestries made of metal detritus from discarded liquor bottles, and his photographs of tableaux made from the same.

There, together with all the phases of the graphic creation — objects, furniture, audiovisuals, actions and tableaux vivant — there are visions and obsessions filled with philosophical, historical and artistic instances mixed with events, circumstances and coincidences by which the artificer likes to be surprised.

Bloom's other notable works include As it were... So to speak (2013), at the Jewish Museum, New York, in which she created tableaux that proposed dialogues among imagined historical guests and drew upon Talmudic discourse; and Framing Wall (2015), at The Museum of Modern Art, a twelve - part installation of images that framed other photographic images.

The models are styled in poses and tableaux that draw from the canon of western art history — paintings are titled after the models or after historical paintings such as Watteau's La Leçon d'Amour, Balthus's The Guitar Lesson and Courbet's L'Origine du Monde, while also integrating Yoruba art and other aspects of African culture in the bold colours, African - print fabrics and head wraps of the sitters.