«The stuffed animals positioned
before painted backdrops looked utterly fake,» Sugimoto has said before of the Dioramas photographs.
Not exact matches
Before the 19th century, landscape was so low in the academic hierarchy that many artists
painted them only as
backdrops to a story or moral tale.
Before arriving at a final print, I construct iconic architecture creating rural scenes out of clay and wood then
paint or draw their
backdrops.
His realistic
painted figures pose
before a surreal
backdrop and playfully mock the importance we place on image and perception.
In a new
painting by Borna Sammak, Pool Party (2018), executed in heat - press vinyl and embroidery, the dignity of the nude comically evaporates: an undressed man urinates
before a
backdrop of cut - out scenery.
The
paintings are the size of theatre
backdrops, in excess of the body, becoming sets
before which to act.
There is a logical trajectory throughout her work in which transformation and journeys occur: in the»90s, Weisse Kakteen (White Cacti), a series of eventful landscapes, was followed by a set of «Mozart
paintings» involving stagelike arrangements of Rococo figures
before equally eventful
backdrops.
The
paintings (seen below), inspired by Color Field masterworks, will serve as
backdrop for never -
before - seen sculptures.