Sentences with phrase «rembrandt than an artist»

Is there more to Rembrandt than an artist's decline and fall into greatness?

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Paintings and prints frequently carry particular meaning within Petzold's films, as examples of the ancient tradition of ekphrasis, probably none more so than in Phoenix's immediate predecessor Barbara (2012) with its conspicuous Rembrandt print, but likewise in much earlier works like Die Beischlafdiebin (The Sex Thief, 1998) with a Gerard Richter on the wall — another artist conspicuously engaged with multiple forms of peculiarly German afterness.4

Schiele, whose oeuvre spans just ten years, cut short by his death from influenza at twenty - eight, made more than 250 self - portraits in that brief period, «more than any artists since Rembrandt.»

Rembrandt painted more self - portraits than any other artist of the period, creating a kind of visual diary of his life until his death aged 63.

No different than the rest of us, venerated artists like Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Seurat, Degas and Matisse used drawing as a thinking medium, preliminary to painting.

When one of my students writes «Monet played with color» or «Rembrandt played with light,» my impulse is to correct them, insisting that artists» deployment of formal elements and manipulation of their medium are more deliberate and thought - based than...

Around one hundred paintings from museums worldwide tell the great story of portrait and figurative painting from the fifteenth to the late twentieth century in four broad thematic sections that offer much more than a merely chronological approach to works by a host of outstanding artists: from Raphael, Botticelli, Mantegna, Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, Dürer, Cranach, Pontormo, Rubens, Caravaggio, Van Dyck, Rembrandt, Velázquez, El Greco, Goya, Tiepolo up to the Impressionists, Manet, Van Gogh and great twentieth - century artists, such as Munch, Picasso, Matisse, Modigliani, Giacometti and Bacon.

It kicks off by pairing an early Rothko with a Rembrandt, positioning the artist in a context far broader than modernism.

This Alex Katz compendium provides an intimate portrait of the artist, from his competitive relationship with Abstract Expressionists, to his desire to rival film and critique historical painters such as Rembrandt («they tell you too much about the person, rather than showing you the person») to his envisioning of himself as a «social fugitive» during his illegal loft living in Manhattan.

This includes more than 800 pieces made up of sculptures, paintings, photographs, lithographs and monographs from renowned artists including Claus Moor, Salvador Dali, Ansel Adams, Rembrandt Van Rijn and Robert Motherwell.

Raphael, Rembrandt, Ruscha, Michelangelo, and Matisse were among the more than one hundred artists of the fifteenth to twentieth century represented in Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art.