Sentences with phrase «celebrated figure studies»

Schiele was a pioneering force in Austrian modernism and this show traces his artistic development, from early experiments to his later celebrated figure studies.

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Curators Beckwith and Roelstraete make salient connections between celebrated contemporary artists such as Emilio Cruz, Nick Cave, and Glenn Ligon and lesser - studied figures of the early movement....

With the renewed curatorial and academic interest in the African American contribution to the history of abstraction, «Mildred Thompson: Resonance, Selected Works from the 1990s,» presented in the Walter O. Evans Center for African American Studies, is a remarkable opportunity to expand this dialogue by celebrating the work of an under - recognized historical figure.

«Celebrated for more than sixty years of masterly work at Vogue magazine, Irving Penn (1917 — 2009) was a superb photographer of style, but his attention to fashion was merely one aspect of his lifelong study of face and figure, attitude and demeanor, adornment and artifact.

These are accompanied by a suite of early paintings that reflect Golub's study of antiquity, a group of unsettling portraits of the Brazilian dictator Ernesto Geisel, and works on paper that represent subjects of longstanding interest to the artist, from mercenaries, interrogators, and the victims of violence to political figures, nudes, and animals, all of them rendered in the raw, visceral style for which he is justly celebrated.

This exhibition celebrated Bacon's great triptych paintings, beginning with one of his most famous paintings of all time, the iconic 1944 work «Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion», and culminating with this present work, which had been painted just one year earlier.

The show will examine his understanding of form and light in the composition of formal portraits, still lifes and figurative works that celebrate the sensual quality of nature and the human body.The works relate strongly to the museum's permanent collection of fine art that includes portraits from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Dutch old master still lifes and studies of the nude and human figure, a staple of western art dating back to the classical forms of Greek sculpture.