Sentences with phrase «allegorical portrait»

Pieter van Slingeland (attributed), Dutch, Allegorical Portrait of a Lady (after Casper Netscher), c. 1675.

Because it is a powerful and poignant allegorical portrait of 21st Century America, which warrants a place among the canonical depictions of the USA from Grant Wood's American Gothic to Edward Hopper's Nighthawks, from Emanuel Leutze's Washington Crossing the Delaware to America the Beautiful by Norman Lewis.

Each profile is presented in chronological order and is accompanied by a stunning allegorical portrait by artist Stephen Alcorn.

This allegorical portrait of the Algerian resistance was inspired by the real - life story of the Papin sisters, two maids who brutally murdered their employers in 1930s France — also the basis for Jean Genet's influential 1947 play The Maids and Claude Chabrol's 1995 psychological thriller La Cérémonie.

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Among the paintings are portraits, still lifes, landscapes, and allegorical paintings, while the objects include sculptures, commercial signs, furniture, and household objects.

Opie has posed Streb against a black drop cloth and uses theatrical lighting to create a formally classical portrait that recalls seventeenth - century painting with allegorical dimensions.

EUROPEAN and AMERICAN paintings framed by Gill & Lagodich include (in alphabetical order): Milton Avery, Conversation in Studio, 1943; Jules Adolphe Breton, The Song of the Lark, 1884; Elbridge Ayer Burbank, six Native American portraits, Kah - Kap - Tee / Moqui, Wick - Ah - Te - Wah / Moqui, Ko - Pe - Ley / Moqui, Pah - Puh / Moqui, Shu - Pe - La / Moqui, Ho - Mo - Vi / Moqui, 1898; Gustave Caillebotte, Paris Street; Rainy Day, 1877; William Merritt Chase, North River Shad, c. 1910; Thomas Cole, New England Scenery, 1839; Jasper Cropsey, Blasted Tree, c. 1850; Gustave Courbet, Reverie (Portrait of Gabrielle Borreau), 1862; Thomas Doughty, Coming Squall (Nahant Beach with a Summer Shower), 1835; Thomas Eakins, Study for «William Rush Carving His Allegorical Statue of the Schuylkill River», c. 1876 - 77; DeScott Evans, The Irish Question, 1880s, Marsden Hartley, The Last of New England — The Beginning of New Mexico, 1918/19; George Hitchcock, Flower Girl in Holland, c. 1887; Winslow Homer, Peach Blossoms, c. 1878; Edward Hopper, Nighthawks, 1942; George Inness, Crossing The Ford, 1848; George Inness, Summer in the Catskills, 1867, George Inness, The Mill Pond, 1889, George Inness, Early Morning, Tarpon Springs, 1892; George Inness, The Home of the Heron, 1893; George Inness, After A Summer Shower, 1894, Joshua Johnson, Mrs. Andrew Bedford Bankson and Son, Gunning Bedford Bankson, 1803/05; Otis Kaye, Heart of the Matter, 1963; Fernand Leger, Reclining Woman, 1922; Fernand Leger, Still Life, 1926; Edouard Manet, Still - Life with Carp, 1864; Edouard Manet, Bullfight, 1865/66; Julius Gari Melchers, Mother and Child, c. 1906; Jean - Francois Millet, In the Auvergne, 1866/69; Jean - Francois Millet, Bringing Home the Calf; Jean - Francois Millet, The Shepherdess; William Sidney Mount, Bar - Room Scene, 1835; Camille Pissarro, The Place du Havre, Paris, 1893; Severin Roesen, An Abundance of Fruit, 1860; Albert Pinkham Ryder, The Essex Canal, 1896; John Singer Sargent, Venetian Glass Workers, 1880/82; John Singer Sargent, Thistles, 1883/89; John Singer Sargent, The Fountain, Villa Torlonia, Frascati, Italy, 1907; Elihu Vedder, The Fates Gathering in the Stars, 1887; Charles Wilbert White, This, My Brother, 1942; Hale Woodruff, Twilight, 1926; and more...

While Edouard's work in watercolor and oils of landscapes, cityscapes, nudes, still lifes, portraits, and allegorical subjects ranged from Impressionism and Post Impressionism to semi-abstraction, Luvena's portraits and still lifes in oils hewed closer to Realism.

Dennis Rudolph is a German artist who creates landscapes, portraits and allegorical scenes in oil paint and graphics.

A highlight of this section includes an astonishing allegorical painting of David which has been traditionally considered to be a self - portrait (Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria).

Showing alongside greats such as Eleanor Antin, Nick Cave and Kara Walker, Julie Heffernan will have her allegorical self - portraits included.

This exhibit features portraits, still lifes, allegorical scenes and landscapes, trade signs, and figure and animal sculptures.

In his still lifes, portraits, allegorical scenes, and abstract works, Verne Dawson investigates the continuities that persist in human nature and culture, exploring how they are chronicled through narrative and visual representation.

From the press release: The show focuses on six groupings of the artist's work: Family and Academy; Fellow Artists; Sitters and Patrons; Lovers; Eros; and Self - Portraits and Allegorical Self - Portraits.

He invented new types of painting: allegorical pictures, distinguished by a haunting and melancholy poetry; fanciful portraits of romantic and enigmatic figures; macabre and horrific subjects; philosophical subjects, which bring into painting some of the major philosophical and scientific concerns of his age.

Influenced by classical tradition of still - life, allegorical narratives and portraits, especially by De Kooning's art, his expression is processed with simplified and rough brushstrokes, bold contours and semi-abstraction.

Pop Surrealist artist Laurie Hogin creates beautiful yet bizarre apocalyptic landscapes and allegorical animal portraits saturated in brilliant color and imbued with elaborate narratives reflecting pop culture and the human experience.

In my most recent solo show there were paintings that could fall into a range of visual conventions - from portraits, to still lives, to studio interiors, and allegorical narratives and of all sizes.

In such canvases as «Selbstporträt als Tier» (Self - portrait as animal)(1963) and «Balancing Myself» (1965), Lassnig trains her eye upon herself, offering up works that are caricatured, allegorical, and psychologically penetrating.

Emphasizing the newly global and necessarily multicultural community, Bonami is gathering works by twenty - seven artists from twenty countries and six continents, ranging from installations by the Romanian artists duo Subreal and allegorical boat pieces by Cuban artist Kcho to the low - key portraits of American Elizabeth Peyton and the recent Texas images by Finnish photographer Esko Mannikkö.

PART 2: LIGHT AND SHADOW The ESSAY «Light and Shadow» discusses... flicker films, Plato's allegory of the cave, H.P. Robinson's allegorical images, working with the absence of light, Tony Conrad's slow emulsions, photography as fairy magic and sun drawings, Adam Fuss's photograms, Hiroshi Sugimoto's feature - length exposures, Cai Guo - Qiang's explosions, light as cancerous radiation, light and shadow in city planning, contrast and lighting in works by Rineke Dijkstra, Jacob Riis, Weegee, Adrienne Salinger, and others, O. Winston Link's environmental light, darkness and light as metaphors for knowledge, morality, and power, pools of light in Expressionism, film noir, and works by Hans Bellmer, Esther Bubley, and Anna Gaskell, Group f / 64, available light in the work of Roy DeCarava, Yinka Shonibare's interpretation of Dorian Gray, public projected images, Indonesian shadow play, Gregory Barsamian's kinetic sculptures, flickering portraits by Christian Boltanski, Kara Walker's silhouettes, and more...

He continued painting landscapes and portraits, but his main focus was allegorical and mythological painting, as exemplified by his Prometheus ceiling (1950) which he completed for Count Seilern in London, and the Thermopylae Triptych (1954) for Hamburg University.