Sentences with phrase «old master painting»

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Judd: Old master painting has a reputation for being profound, universal and all that, and it isn't necessarily.

The language of Old Master painting is embedded in the portraits Opie has made throughout her career.

Wisconsin native Lesley Vance is inspired by Old Master painting, including 17th - century still lifes.

Since first bursting onto the scene in the early 1980s with his unique adaptation of the language of Old Master painting, George Condo has created one of the most adventurous, imaginative, and provocative bodies of work in contemporary art.

2 All these painters have been or can be classified as what Donald Kuspit calls the New Old Masters who, though working in Old Master techniques, are «neither traditional nor avant - garde, but a combination of the two,» carrying on the spirituality of the former and the critical consciousness of the latter.3 Both Cooper and Kuspit read in new wave history painting and New Old Master painting, respectively, a return to humanist and modern existentialist themes absent in most mainstream contemporary art.

An in - depth look at the color techniques of painters working in oil across a range of artistic movements — from old master painting to impressionism to fauvism.

Applying old master painting techniques to his works on canvas, the artist depicts hyper - realistic figurative imagery in portraits, landscapes, and still lifes.

The 17th - century gallery showcases Old Master painting and decorative arts from The Netherlands and Flanders; many come from the private collection of Kodak founder George Eastman.

Rubens's macabre Massacre of the Innocents breaks the world auction record for any old master painting, selling at Sotheby's London for # 49.5 million.

Visitors can now return to the Gallery to compare and contrast the two works until 26 July and see how the Chinese artist has interpreted an Old Master painting.

Acutely gifted in technique, Condo's style often recalls Old Master painting, while his devotion to portraiture displays an enduring fascination with archetypes, character and psychology.

Highlights include one of the artist's early works, The Destroyed Room (1978), that refers directly to an old master painting titled The Death of Sardanapalus (1827) by Eugène Delacroix.

+ Amid public discontent, an auction house in Vienna plans to display a 17th century Old Master painting stolen by the Nazis in World War II.

+ Peter Paul Rubens» Lot and His Daughters sold at Christie's this week for $ 58 million dollars, making it the most expensive Old Master painting ever sold at the auction house.

View Old Master painting through a new lens with the National Gallery's first major exhibition of photography.

It takes a provocative look at how photographers use fine art traditions, including Old Master painting, to explore and justify the possibilities of their art.

Most of the work at the Lisson Gallery is update and diversification: landscapes, portraits and nudes, genres of old master painting.

Informed by the trajectory of art history spanning from European Old Master painting to Cubism and Abstract Expressionism, the works are hybrid images emblematic of Condo's singularly inventive style.

The previous holder of the record price for an Old Master painting was Massacre of the Innocents by Peter Paul Rubens, which sold for $ 76.7 million (# 49.5 million) in 2002.

European Old Master painting is represented by Mantegna, Titian, Tintoretto, Pieter Breugel, Hals, Rembrandt and Rubens, while among the extensive collection of Danish art are works by C.W. Eckersberg, Haral Giersing, Oluf Host, Olaf Rude and Edward Weihe, and the Danish sculptor Carl Bonnesen.

This international event brings together leading galleries from twenty countries, specializing in areas as varied as Old Master Painting, antiques, design, contemporary art, and works on paper.

The same applies to his distinctive style blending street art motives with rich hyper - realist techniques reminiscent of Renaissance - era old master painting.

«It's the beginning of a really good, strong turn,» says Christie's Old Master painting expert Anthony Crichton - Stuart.

Her life - size oil paintings explore contemporary narratives coupled with Old Master painting techniques that include use of light, tonal harmony and composition.

If we adopt the screen then as the emblem of the contemporary optic, we presumably regard contemporary painting as somehow marking a return to a quasi-classical conception of its task as one of illusionistic affect... The intelligence lies in suggesting that materiality can persist as a key affective dimension of painting only if its terms are re-written... Recent paintings, like Michael Stubbs's work towards a diminished materiality, resulting in something more akin to the continuous surface associated with the varnished skin of an Old Master painting than to the opaque porosity of a Hofmann or Still.

Sotheby's to bring first Old Master painting to Middle East A display at Sotheby's Dubai gallery this week will include the first Old Master painting ever exhibited by the auction house in the Middle East.

Brian Rutenberg's work is as grounded in Old Master painting and drawing as his sense of place and color is in coastal South Carolina, where he was born and raised.

The Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, or UCCA, was hosting «Spices,» Xie Nanxing's exhibition on the history of old master painting.

The godfather of these freewheeling intramural hijinks is the late German artist Martin Kippenberger, who's the show's eminence gris, though he has only a single painting here (fittingly, it's screwed to the wall like an Old Master painting).

«This is the most important old master painting to have been sold at auction in my lifetime.»

Following its successful launch at Frieze Masters 2016, the Art Fund Curators Programme returned to the fair with a focus on European and specifically Dutch Old Master painting.

After much anticipation and a 19 - minute bidding by an anonymous buyer, Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi was sold for whopping $ 460,312,500 with buyer's premium, surpassing the previous holder of the record price for an Old Master painting — Peter Paul Rubens» Massacre of the Innocents ($ 49,5 million).

Playing host to 45 international dealers, the fair, now in its seventh edition, spans antiquity to the present day, and features everything from illuminated manuscripts, and Old Master painting, to textiles, furniture and contemporary art.

Peppering his canvases with hidden references, ranging from Old Master painting to Pop Culture, Stegner takes great expressive liberties with the human form by combining opposite signifiers of gender and strength.

Resika rejected Hofmann's pedagogy when he went to Europe in the 1950's to study perspective and anatomy from old master painting - aspects of his discipline that he felt had been omitted at Hofmann's school.

KEHINDE WILEY: A NEW REPUBLIC A popular survey of portraits that mash up old master painting with hip - hop style continues its nationwide tour.

But where Scully builds upon an architectural framework, with reference, as the title signifies, to the palette of Spanish old master painting, Wool is appropriating enlarged digitalized markings from his own earlier works on paper.

Outrage surrounds a 17th - century Dutch old master painting stolen by the Nazis, which is to be auctioned in Vienna

Can video aspire to Old Master painting?

Alexandra Dillon's love of old master painting, folk art, and myth inspire her recent body of surrealist work.

Walking through the show I thought more than once that Sherman may have grappled more brilliantly with the legacy of Old Master painting in the 1980s and»90s than did any of her brush - wielding contemporaries.

Inspired by the Caribbean Island of Trinidad and its folklore, the artist blends together multiple and eclectic references to the Garden of Eden, Old Master painting, cocktails and the Italian football star Mario Balotelli in a vibrant collaboration between artist and weavers.

The opportunity to develop additional programming as the result of the Tooker loan allows PAFA to pursue a symposium on a group of artists, including Peter Blume, George Tooker, Ivan Albright, and other Americans who used a realist method to invent their own worlds by transforming the symbolic language of Old Master painting into a contemporary idiom.

Lit and composed like an Old Master painting, Kaurismaki's film brims with humanity and humor.

Then, only two anonymous bidders were left, Prince Bader and another person represented in the room by François de Poortere, the head of old master paintings at Christie's.

One of the world's oldest galleries, the Alte Pinakothek boasts an impressive and famous collection of Old Master paintings.

In the late 20th century, Ivan Albright (1897 — 1983) labored over his gnarled, knobby, time - battered, ultra-real riffs on Old Master paintings, so much so that his subjects appear as petrified substances, witchy and indelible.

BP: As a child, you made reproductions of Old Master paintings, which your father hung in the window of his furniture store.

BP: I couldn't help but draw some parallels between your «Equilibrium» series and the new paintings, where the gazing balls operate similarly to the basketballs floating in tanks, and the Nike basketball posters are replaced by Old Master paintings.