Sentences with phrase «history paintings series»

The Art History Paintings series presents playful quips on iconic artworks and pop culture.

But he is best known, for his naive - style history painting series on the bushranger Ned Kelly, whose instantly recognizable square helmet has become an icon of modern art in Australia.

Not exact matches

The history of a Vermeer painting unfolds through a series of events that trace the ownership of the painting back to the moment of the work's inspiration.

Speaking about her recent work Tharsing comments: «The paintings in my most recent series are based on archived images from the American Museum of Natural History.

Talk: Huey Copeland and Michelle Kuo at Artists Space Part of the Artists Space «Dialogues» series, this event brings together Huey Copeland, associate professor of art history at Northwestern University, and Michelle Kuo, a curator of painting and sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the former editor of Artforum.

A new series of portrait paintings by Kehinde Wiley is a departure from his practice which usually captures ordinary people from around the world recast in scenes from European history paintings.

Upstairs, a new body of the artist's most iconic artworks, The Penguin Books Series paintings, are bought together including; High on Hope, I'll Never Forget What I Can't Remember and the titular Tonight We Make History (P.S. I Can't Be There).

Known for his visual narratives documenting the African American experience, Jacob Lawrence conceived a series of paintings about the history of the United States that would encompass all of the nations's people.

Echoes of Albany (2004 - 2008), is a series of more than 40 paintings which address the history of the mysterious Albany apartments, located next to Burlington Gardens, and are painted in the style of Walter Sickert's controversial Echoes.

«End of an Era», Gagosian Gallery's eighth solo Damien Hirst show, featured a new selection of works contributing to the «Natural History», diamond cabinet, and «Fact» painting series.

The series has a relationship with history painting, although Quaife's chosen medium of watercolour is unusual for such a potentially charged subject: it suggests the evanescence of the historical moment rather than its memorialising.

Taking Pierre Nora's idea of the historian as «vehicle of transmission,» Fernández attempts to weave together a dynamic account of history through a series of paintings, objects and texts that re-present the sites and the persons that passed through them.

Examples from his major series over the years (including body prints, found object assemblages, basketball chandeliers, basketball drawings, Kool - Aid drawings, and tarp paintings) will be featured and a fully illustrated catalog authored by Kellie Jones, a professor of art history and archeology at Columbia University, will accompany the exhibition.

We tend to think of the history of art as a series of exceptionally unique ideas, but in fact, the figurative painting tradition is deeply conventional, and artists have mined narrow spaces for invention.

«Jennifer Bartlett: History of the Universe» includes works from all of Barlett's major series including the «House Paintings», «In the Garden» series, the «Air: 24 Hours» series, the autobiographical «Earth Paintings», the «Word Paintings» and recent works that depict houses, trees and plants surrounding her homes in Amagansett and Brooklyn, NY.

At the Turner Prize exhibition, he showed a spot painting and a work from his «Natural History» series, «Mother and Child Divided» (1993), previously exhibited at the 1993 Venice Biennale.

A series of paintings four years in the making, they mix Shaw's personal history with a cornucopia of extravagant cross-cultural references, offset with a spattering of Swarovski crystals.

The appearance of Albert Bierstadt's landscape Mountain Scene (1880 - 90) in both The Age of Innocence (1993) and The Hunger Games (2012) serves as the basis for Mathis Gasser's Grasshopper (Mountain Scene)(2015 - 16), in which he reproduces the original painting twice and hangs the pair beside a screen playing footage from the 2015 - 16 TV adaptation of Philip K. Dick's Man in the High Castle, a series that deals with the role of cultural artefacts in imagining counterfactual histories.

«A new series of outdoor paintings by Julian Schnabel that will transform the Legion of Honor's courtyard into a temporary gallery, a major film production by DIS commissioned for the de Young's atrium and a new media installation by Lynn Hershman Leeson that reflects the particular history of the museums, put us at the center of artistic production and institutional reflection.»

2011 Video Exhibition Highlights Wadsworth Atheneum's History Wadsworth Atheneum Receives $ 21,000 From NEA to Support MATRIX Exhibition Series Wadsworth Atheneum Commemorates Civil War's 150th Anniversary in New Collection Installation Claire Beckett / MATRIX 163 Opens Nov. 3 Robin Jaffee Frank Named Chief Curator and Krieble Curator of American Painting and Sculpture Wadsworth Atheneum to Receive Significant NEH Funding Wadsworth Atheneum Presents Photography by Patti Smith Shaun Gladwell / MATRIX 162 Opens June 2 Wadsworth Atheneum's Morgan Great Hall Opens to the Public

In his new series «Eclipse,» Paolo Ventura continues his exploration of memory, history and narrative using the tools of photography, painting and the stage.

These instantly recognizable works and series — which succeed in reinvigorating and complicating traditional categories like portraiture, history painting, figurations, and abstraction — have never before been brought together in a single exhibition.

The paintings were well received by the public at large, and it was the artist Wassily Kandinsky, after seeing the paintings in an exhibition in Moscow in 1895, that suggested this series as the first abstract painting in history.

Art history is littered with troubling instances of male artists objectifying women — from Andrew Wyeth only painting women he was «enamored» with and «smitten» by to Yves Klein using women's bodies as «living paintbrushes» for his Anthropometry series.

Many of Rauschenberg's friends and studio assistants, including Cy Twombly (1928 — 2011), Brice Marden (b. 1938), David Prentice (b. 1943), Hisachika Takahashi (b. 1940), and Darryl Pottorf (b. 1952), either repainted or fully refabricated various White Paintings at different points in the series» history.

PLACE IN ART HISTORY: Though known for his abstract and minimalist paintings and sculptures, Frank Stella created a series of combine paintings in his own geometric style.

Other highlights of the exhibition include Robot Bodies, Piper's 1988 seminal interactive digital work — updated and re-programmed for this exhibition — in which the robot, android and cyborg are examined as metaphorical carriers of contemporary anxieties around racial difference; and a series of mixed media works on un-stretched canvas, «future projected history paintings of the present», that reference 19th century history painting and have been commissioned by Bluecoat and Iniva.

In her series, De Luca was invoking the tenants of modernist art history and employing her own abstract techniques to the paintings.

Other highlights of the exhibition include her Neverland series from 2002, where she photographed objects, either alone or in groups, on fields of color; Figure Drawings from 1988 - 2008, featuring an installation of 40 framed images of the human figure; Objects of Desire from 1983 - 1989, where she made collages of found photographs and rephotographed them against bright background of red, blue, green, yellow, and black; Renaissance Paintings from 1991, featuring individual figures and objects from disparate Renaissance paintings isolated and re-photographed against monochrome backgrounds; Doubleworld from 1995, where the artist transitioned from collaging and re-photographing found images to creating stylized arrangements for the camera; Stills from 1980, where the artist compiled and re-photographed over 70 clippings of press photos that capture people falling or jumping off tall buildings; Available Light from 2012, incorporating many of her techniques utilized over the course of her career; and Modern History from 1979, in which she has re-photographed the front page of the newspaper with the text Paintings from 1991, featuring individual figures and objects from disparate Renaissance paintings isolated and re-photographed against monochrome backgrounds; Doubleworld from 1995, where the artist transitioned from collaging and re-photographing found images to creating stylized arrangements for the camera; Stills from 1980, where the artist compiled and re-photographed over 70 clippings of press photos that capture people falling or jumping off tall buildings; Available Light from 2012, incorporating many of her techniques utilized over the course of her career; and Modern History from 1979, in which she has re-photographed the front page of the newspaper with the text paintings isolated and re-photographed against monochrome backgrounds; Doubleworld from 1995, where the artist transitioned from collaging and re-photographing found images to creating stylized arrangements for the camera; Stills from 1980, where the artist compiled and re-photographed over 70 clippings of press photos that capture people falling or jumping off tall buildings; Available Light from 2012, incorporating many of her techniques utilized over the course of her career; and Modern History from 1979, in which she has re-photographed the front page of the newspaper with the text redacted.

This essay, therefore, will address both the specific physical history of this three - panel painting and the history of repainting and refabrication shared by all five works in the series, with the aim of situating the White Paintings as a groundbreaking precursor to Conceptualism.

Made in Western Germany, from 1987, is part of the artist's celebrated series of machine - spun wool paintings, which have played a major role in any dialogue surrounding her contribution to recent art history.

Current projects include paintings that explore artifacts of Manifest Destiny, a drawing and installation project based on fire history and a current forest thinning models in the Sagehen Experimental Forest, and a series of paintings and site - specific works that address the concept of wilderness today.

re.collections and its implications with regard to history and memory, both personal and political, are explored by Gavronsky, in a collapsing and enfolding of history, in which she presents Dante's hell, side by side with the Beslan massacre of the innocents, in a series of large oil paintings.

Painted on the eve of the American bicentennial, George Washington Carver Crossing the Delaware: Page from an American History Textbook shares with Benny Andrews's Bicentennial Series an urgent desire to explore and critique the representations of black people that were embedded in US national hHistory Textbook shares with Benny Andrews's Bicentennial Series an urgent desire to explore and critique the representations of black people that were embedded in US national historyhistory.

Time, fortune, history and change — Locke's exploration of these concepts continues also in the ongoing series of painted share certificates.

Exploring the inextricable links between poetry, politics, writing and painting revealed in the history of the series, this volume includes Harold Rosenberg's «A Bird for Every Bird,» Federico García Lorca's «Llanto por Ignacio Sánchez Mejías,» notes and writings by Motherwell on the Spanish Civil War, scholarly essays and rare archival material.

Number three in the series is currently hanging in Victoria Miro's Mayfair gallery, as part of a deep dive into the women artists in contemporary abstract painting who art history has ignored — in the form of an exhibition titled Surface Work.

Enoc Perez built his reputation on a series of paintings that depicted iconic modernist buildings, ranging from Philip Johnson's Lipstick Building to Gordon Bunshaft's Lever House, in which he rendered an alternate history of power and ambition in the United States and abroad.

In 1960 Stella presented his first series of aluminium paintings at Leo Castelli, causing the first upset in a long history of experiments that saw him tackling minimalism, post-painterly abstraction, and public art.

Remarkably, considering Toren's lack of exhibition history in our hemisphere, Silverman quickly sold several large paintings from Toren's series from the 1980s and»90s, «Of the Times.»

Alongside «Natural History» works such as a bisected calf entitled «The Prodigal Son» (1994), two new series were unveiled: the «Kaleidoscope» paintings («Rapture» (2003) and «Devotion» (2003)-RRB-; and the fly paintings.

Visit his website at www.georgeschmidt.com to witness history and narrative painting come alive as he walks us through his May 2012 solo exhibition at the University of Louisiana in a series of YouTube videos.

Continuing P.S. 1's long standing tradition of commissioning in - situ projects such as the «Vertical Painting» series (1997), the first incarnation of this new program will focus on wall paintings, an art form that has a long history in New York City.

One has to broaden the conversation... This series of works attempts to reconcile the presence of black female stereotypes that surrounds their presence and / or absence in art history, and the notions of beauty, spectacle, and the «grand» in painting.»

Through the influence of pop - culture, books, art history, but most importantly nature, Smith's abstract paintings are often created by minimalistic tools, such as loose brushstrokes in his Rain Paintings, or form camouflage - style patterns, resembling Andy Warhol's production, in his Tigrepaintings are often created by minimalistic tools, such as loose brushstrokes in his Rain Paintings, or form camouflage - style patterns, resembling Andy Warhol's production, in his TigrePaintings, or form camouflage - style patterns, resembling Andy Warhol's production, in his Tigres series.

One in a series of «map paintings» that attempt to redraw the world — evoking the history of slavery, family memories and the colors of Bowling's native Guyana — the work also shows Bowling moving strongly towards the work of the Color Field school.

Capitalism and its promise of a better life is explored through paintings on luxury fabrics whose patterns acquire a neo-classical painterly quality; Orientialism and a subtle critique of European values are explored in the films of his roadtrip to Pakistan and Afghanistan with shocking neutrality; and conceptual art is mocked in Potato House (1967) and paintings of absurd mathematical equations, while the series of self - portraits — Polke as astronaut, Polke as drug — confront the contemporary individual in the mire of history.

The exhibition features Schmidt's series of hand - painted silhouette cutouts that explore depictions of the female in various cultures and in moments throughout history.

White's history of Untitled [small black painting] refers to a «series of black paintings» that Rauschenberg was working on, and it is to this group that Untitled [glossy black painting] belongs.

And at the height of the Abstract Expressionist movement in the late 1940s he could be found painting a monumental series whose subject was Women, albeit women painted on a scale and with an intensity unlike anything else in the history of art.