Sentences with phrase «allegorical scenes»

Robert Jessup, until now a figurative painter of allegorical scenes, presents a new body of gestural abstractions that he describes as an attempt «to become aggressively visionary... to reconfigure my invented world, to subvert the known and destroy the comfortable.»

Williams interweaves references to true incidences of violence with allegorical scenes in which black resistors taunt and tame their abusers.

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

We are given a chain of hypotheses, models, and allegorical scenes concerning what the political in art ought to be conscious of and worried about.

The European side begins with works by two artists not widely appreciated today: Puvis de Chavannes, the eccentric classicist then much admired by avant - gardists, and a big, strange, multifigured allegorical scene by the British painter Augustus John.

It will also include a diagram of Ciudad Juárez's internal problems, as well as a painting related to Alÿs's ongoing Linchados series, that represents allegorical scenes with the artist as a key witness to violent acts.

As Hieronymus Bosch used allegorical scenes and elaborate fantasy imagery in his paintings as a commentary on the social and religious climate of the 15th and 16th centuries, Wright reacts to today's social networking with Baroque - like compositions of intricacy, interconnectivity and complication.

In 1950, the organization removed his Big City from an exhibition at the de Young Museum because of eight, small, allegorical scenes depicting prostitution.

The genre includes depictions of moments in religious narratives, above all the Life of Christ, as well as narrative scenes from mythology, and also allegorical scenes.

While the artist's third solo exhibition retains the diaristic backbone of her anxieties, indulgences and dreams, Morgan enriches her palette of archetypal characters with allegorical scenes.

Reminiscent of the fantasy - world created by outsider artist Henry Darger, Wilson's work engages the musings and expeditions of childhood as a means of intimate psychological expression — her allegorical scenes are both candid and darkly mythological.

In the introduction to the catalog, Pegg notes that the works were created between 1870 (Lot 40: «Landscape,» an oil on canvas by Charles Ethan Porter, 1845 - 1943) and 2005 and that prices range from $ 300 to the highest estimate of $ 80,000 (Lot 550: Bob Thompson's «Allegorical Scene,» a circa 1959 oil on canvas).

Art historically speaking, vanitas still - lifes, popular during the 17th century, were allegorical scenes that symbolically depicted the vulnerability of life.

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.

The silkscreen and acrylic works in the show combine Andy Warhol's factory aesthetic with reproductions of Böcklin's painting and BHQF's own adaptation of the allegorical scene — a veiled figure floats toward a huge garbage dump that obscures the Manhattan skyline.

At least a dozen bidders pursued the allegorical scene of earthly pleasures, which smashed the previous auction record of $ 314,897 for the artist.

During the Italian Renaissance, the circle was considered to be a divinely inspired shape and throughout the fourteenth century the tondo (Italian for round) was reserved for religious icons or allegorical scenes.