Sentences with phrase «by old masters»

Some are about bringing big garden views inside, others blow - up versions of paintings by Old Masters... read more

Some are about bringing big garden views inside, others blow - up versions of paintings by Old Masters or focus on one striking animal.

While an exhibition in Berlin confronts his paintings with masterpieces by old masters, the American artist meets his Italian colleague to talk about art, music and rebirth.

Sotheby's has achieved numerous world record prices at its art auctions for works by Old Masters as well as the world's top contemporary artists.

Paintings by Old Masters hang in most of the best art museums, like the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, the Louvre Museum in Paris, the Pinakothek Museum in Munich, the Prado Museum in Madrid, the Tate Gallery in London, the Uffizi Gallery in Florence and the Vatican Museum in Rome, as well as top public galleries in America, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

Phillips Collection Founded in 1921 by Duncan Phillips, its highlights include paintings by Old Masters like El Greco and Goya, Impressionists Renoir, Monet, Whistler and Degas, the French Cubist Georges Braque, the German - Swiss fantasy painter Paul Klee, and the Abstract Expressionist Mark Rothko.

Inspired by the Old Masters that she diligently copied in Florence museums, she pictures her own body, nude or draped in flowing fabrics, with a soft shock of black hair, in graceful configurations, often contrapposto.

The Young Masters Art Prize is a unique not - for - profit competition, which aims to give international recognition to emerging and newly established artists who are inspired by the Old Masters.

He wandered the corridors of the Louvre, admiring works by the old masters and studying a cache of recently - excavated Iberian sculptures.

The QAG's International collection features works by Old Masters such as Giambologna (1529 - 1608), Anthony Van Dyck (1599 - 1641), Peter Paul Rubens (1577 - 1640), Tintoretto (1518 - 94), plus Dutch Baroque Art by Alexander Coosemans and Jan Breughel the Younger; plus portraitists like Joshua Reynolds (1723 - 92) and Angelica Kauffmann (1741 - 1807).

The show includes monochromatic works by old masters like Giacometti and modern masters like Frank Stella and Josef Albers.

The British artist tirelessly reinterpreted works by old masters and contemporaries to show just how good his own paintings were, according to the curators of the exhibition, Turner and the Masters.

Originating from drawing's role as the original source of inspiration for artists as well as the basis of the creative process, Between the Lines revisits works by old masters as well as by contemporary artists, celebrating the skill of both and drawing as the basis of visual art.

During the 17th century Baroque era, the tradition of figuration was kept up by Old Masters like Rubens, and the Spanish school led by Velazquez.

+ Rare sketches by old masters like Leonardo da Vinci and Rembrandt are on view at The National Portrait Gallery in a new exhibition entitled The Encounter.

Highlights include sculptures by Constantin Brancusi, paintings by Nicolae Grigorescu, Gheorghe Tattarescu, and others, as well as works by Old Masters such as Jan van Eyck, Rubens, Rembrandt, Domenico Veneziano, Antonello da Messina, El Greco, Tintoretto, Claude Monet and Alfred Sisley.

Mauritshuis Royal Picture Gallery (The Hague) Specialises in oil paintings from the Dutch Golden Age, by Old Masters including Jan Vermeer, Rembrandt van Rijn, Jan Steen, Paulus Potter and Frans Hals.

Housed in this 1930s architectural gem are paintings by Old Masters, French Impressionists and 19th - and 20th - century British artists, as well as a collection of contemporary British art that has received international recognition.

The contemporary pieces are augmented with works by old masters: the important Apocalypse series of woodcuts by Albrecht Dürer (1471 — 1528) and Les Grandes Misères de la guerre by Jacques Callot (1592 — 1635), which reveal an impressive panorama of social rejection and human abysses in dialogue with contemporary works across centuries.

Through a combination of figuration, color, and form, he transformed scenes inspired by the the Old Masters into abstracted, allegorical images of modern American life.

Paintings by the Italian artist will be shown alongside works by Old Masters in the permanent collection of the museum.

Riley began her career painting landscapes in the style of Georges Seurat following early artistic studies that were largely informed by Old Masters painting, Impressionism, and Pointillism which led to a dramatic change in her style.

Paintings by the Italian artist will be shown alongside works by Old Masters painters who have inspired Samorì, revealing how the artist shares with them an idea of creating something new out of what already exists by means of artistic transformation.

The Menil Collection is renowned primarily for its surrealist and modern art, but a cache of works by old masters of the 15th - 18th centuries caught director Joseph Helfenstein's eye.

The incredibly talented, Kehinde Wiley, a New York - based portrait painter creates incredibly naturalistic paintings of everyday black men and women in reimagined paintings by old masters — such as Tiziano Vecellio and Giovanni Battista Tiepolo.

It explores the tradition of painting in black and white by old masters such as Van Eyck, Dürer, Rembrandt, and Ingres alongside works by contemporary artists working today, including Bridget Riley

The permanent collection of the National Gallery London contains nearly 2,500 paintings, and features a large number of top masterpieces by Old Masters like Jan Van Eyck, Piero della Francesca, Paolo Uccello, Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, Titian, Diego Velazquez, Hans Holbein, Vermeer and Van Dyck.

Paintings by Old Masters such as Jan van Eyck, Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt van Rijn, and Jean - Auguste - Dominique Ingres appear alongside works by some of the most exciting contemporary artists working today including Gerhard Richter, Chuck Close, and Bridget Riley.

Impressed by Old Masters rather than modern art, Stael was an experimental artist who succeeded in evolving a style of painting that bridged the gap between figurative and abstract art.

Figgis writes that Yiadom - Boakye is «Clearly influenced by old masters like Goya and Valazquez, she hints only slightly at a narrative.

Contemporary works and still lifes by the old masters come together in a charming but increasingly disconcerting exhibition

Over these years, the collection continued to expand, with the acquisition of works by old masters such as Dürer and Rembrandt, as well as Native American art and a large number of oil portraits, including William Hogarth's Lord Grey and Lady Mary West as Children (c. 1740) and Thomas Eakins's Portrait of Professor W.D. Marks (1886).

From a massive iceberg to a shattered glass window and X-rays of paintings by Old Masters, all of the images are rendered in Longo's signature medium.

Many of the prints share similar subject matter with works in Dulwich Picture Gallery's own permanent collection, providing a modern take on themes treated by Old Masters.

While the style of Frank Auerbach's paintings appears expressionistic, one needs to understand that his images are deeply rooted in realism and inspired by the old Masters, such as Rembrandt, Peter Paul Rubens, and Titian.

Henk Bos was a Dutch painter born in 1901, known for his paintings of traditional still lifes influenced by the Old Masters.

Wilson's new paintings are based on, or inspired by, famous paintings by old masters such as Rubens and Stubbs and show bizarre events where great beasts such as lions and crocodiles have been trained to hunt other animals.

COPPER PLATE INTAGLIO PRINTMAKING Inspired by old masters and Birmingham's Richard Coe, learn a contemporary twist on an age - old printing technique with artist Greg Randall.

The fair provides an ideal context for Italian post-war art, as it is framed by Old Masters and late 20th - century art, and is occasionally even shown on the same stands.

Postmodernism deprived painting of originality and first - hand experience at the same time that Greenberg's disembodied abstraction, addressed to eyesight alone, collided with the desire on the part of some artists to retain the wholeness of the aesthetic experience made available by the old masters in their fusion of the haptic quality of sensuous painterly surfaces with the optical melding of colour and light.

These sit amongst many forms of artistic investigations of proportions by minimalist artists and ZERO artists from the 20th century, juxtaposed with explorative architectural capriccio's by Old Masters.

First off, museums in NYC are filled with paintings by modern and contemporary artists, as well as by Old Masters.

Showcasing their wealth, upon their return, the newly built houses were filled with imported decorative arts and paintings by old masters and contemporary artists.

Spanning practice and theory, Hockney's investigation of artistic techniques has also developed through art - historical research, resulting in Secret Knowledge (2001), his publication on the optical devices used by the Old Masters, as well as A History of Pictures: From the Cave to the Computer Screen (2016), written in collaboration with art critic Martin Gayford and further exploring the many ways artists have pictured the world.

Presenting rediscovered and rarely seen works by Old Masters including Luca Giordano, El Greco and Pedro de Mena, the exhibition will show classical works together with modern masterpieces by two artists strongly influenced by texture, religion and historic art: Antoni Tàpies and Miquel Barceló.

Inspired by the Old Masters and contemporary pornography, the artist's dialogue maintains the unique position of puzzling and surprising his viewers.

Whilst realistic, it has more spirit than photorealist paintings, with objects and backgrounds blurred in a style akin to that used by old masters.

The inventor of modern art caps an amazing year of drawings by old masters, vast 20th - century retrospectives and the return of the YBAs

Guided by the Old Masters, Nerdrum's paintings plumb the depths of the human soul, exploring loneliness, fear, brutality, hatred, sexuality, birth death and degradation with unparalleled virtuosity.

In fact, she is a painter by training - influenced by Old Masters such as Diego Velázquez, Agnolo Bronzino, Philipp Otto Runge, -LSB-.....]