Sentences with phrase «russian icon painting»

The Scottish artist Caroline McNairn, who has died from cervical cancer aged 55, created a bold figurative style that drew on a variety of sources, from French modernism to Russian icon painting.

The exhibition demonstrates how Russian icon painting and folk art influenced the artist's visual language, and highlights the variety of his oeuvre through the presentation of a vast number of oil paintings, gouaches, drawings, and sculptures.

His work is not sensuous nor does he offer expressive paintwork, and his work disassociates itself from almost all other painting in the history of art: except Mondrian, Suprematism and Russian icon painting.

November 1: Russian Icon Paintings Repatriated Seventy religious icons have been donated to the Russian Orthodox Church by a Russian property developer.

Not exact matches

Amy Mandelker has drawn attention to the term «reverse perspective» as used by Russian Orthodox theologians to describe the unusual dimensions of icon paintings, with the gaze of the viewer drawn to the level of earthly events and yet given a peculiar perspective, as from a heavenly seat, so that people and objects do not have their expected everyday appearance.

Besançon first earned his reputation as a historian of Soviet politics and of Russian nationalism (toward both of which he entertains understandably dim views), and he thinks that the Russian nationalists of the nineteenth century, among their other sins, killed the genre of icon «painting when they began to praise the icon's superiority over Western art.

Art and such intellectual life as existed was nourished in them, and the icons were painted which were means of strengthening the religious life and became prominent in Russian Christianity.

The Museum of Russian Icons presents the contemporary paintings of Russian - American artist and designer Alexander Gassel, May 20, 2018 — January 6, 2019.

With this gesture, Malevich claimed the space normally housing a Russian icon for his painting.

West Wall: Kati Pretti, Elisabeth Kley (wall painting), Roxy Paine, Rachel Monosov, 17th century Russian Icon, artist unknown, Will Corwin, Rachel Monosov, Just Orvis Steimer, Roxy Paine.

Chambers writes that in Holliday's painting there are «hints of Indonesian batik fabrics, medieval stained glass windows, and Russian icons... Fire Season, 2012, particularly reminded me of Sonia Delaunay, the co-founder with her husband Robert of the Orphism school of painting that is distinguished by its use of strong color and geometric shapes.

The «icons» were inspired, in part, by the small «icon paintings» associated with the Russian and Greek Orthodox Churches.

This was confirmed in November 2011 when his painting Still Life with Jug and Icon was sold at Sotheby's Russian Sale in London for a record # 2.2 million.

Tempera painting continues to be used in Eastern and Southern Europe where it is the official medium for icon paintings in the Greek and Russian Orthodox church.

From the vast body of famous canonical works, beginning with icon painting and up to the Russian avant - garde, Muniz selected his own «hot dozen» giving preference to Malevich, Rodchenko, Vereshchagin, Vrubel, and Mashkov.