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Organized by Robert Cozzolino, Ph.D., Senior Curator of Modern Art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the exhibition revealed Blume's central role in the development of American modernism and examined the artist's impact on late 20th - century narrative painting.

Structures are often inspired by the paintings of El Lissitsky, Japanese 12th century narrative painting, Chinese landscape painting, and the palace paintings in Udaipur, India.

Not exact matches

In a gracefully detailed interpretative narrative that stretches from ancient Greek and Roman mosaics to twentieth - century paintings, art historian Ebert - Schifferer presents the long and fascinating history of the still life, a highly symbolic genre.

Selected Group Exhibitions 2016 — «Faculty Exhibition», Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL 2015 — «Wish List», Gallery Project, curated by Gloria Pritschet and Rocco DePietro, Toledo, Ohio and Ann Arbor, Michigan 2015 — «Roots», Linda Warren Projects, Chicago, IL 2015 — Noyes Cultural Arts Center, Evanston, IL 2015 — «Faculty Exhibition», Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL 2014 — «National Contemporary Painting», Weatherhead Gallery, University of Saint Francis, Fort Wayne, Indiana 2013 — «31st Juried Art Show», Wilmette Public Library, Wimette, IL 2012 — «30th Juried Art Show», Wilmette Public Library, Wimette, IL 2012 — «Narrative Fragments», Quidley & Company, Boston, MA 2011 — «Juxtaposed», juried by Alyssa Monks, Six Summit Gallery, Ivoryton, CT 2011 — «Paintworks», Gowanus Ballroom, curated by Kristin Kunc, Courtney Jordan & Hyeseung Marriage - Song, Brooklyn, NY 2011 — «Space Invaders», co-curated by Virginia Rose and John Nickle, Rose Contemporary, Portland, ME 2011 — «Cinematic Bodies», curated by Jamie Adams, Zolla Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL 2010 — «Snow», XL Projects, Syracuse University Gallery, Syracuse, NY 2010 — «Women Painting Women», Robert Lange Studios Gallery, Charleston, SC 2010 — «Remnants», Fuse Gallery, New York, NY 2010 — «Highlights» Island Weiss Gallery, New York, NY 2010 — «Conceptually Sound», Medialia Rack and Hamper Gallery, New York, NY 2010 — «Chicago Art Fair», shown by Linda Warren Gallery in Chicago, Illinois 2010 — «Looks good on Paper», DFN Gallery, New York, NY 2009 — «Water / Bodies», Eden Rock Gallery, St. Barths, F.W.I. 2009 — «Summer Exhibition 2009», curated by Eric Fischl, Matthew Flowers, Anne Strauss, New York Academy of Art, NY, NY 2009 — «Old School», Jack the Pelican, Brooklyn, NY 2009 — Caldwell Snyder, San Francisco, CA 2008 — «Small Works», Sarah Bain Gallery, Anaheim, CA 2008 — «City Lights», George Billis Gallery, New York, NY 2008 — «Chicago Art Fair», shown by Linda Warren Gallery in Chicago, Illinois 2008 — «Take Home a Nude» Art Auction at Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, NY 2007 — «Summer Exhibition 2007», curated by Eric Fischl, Jenny Saville, Vincent Desiderio, New York Academy of Art, NY, NY 2007 — «Four Handed Lift: Advocacy, Art, Spirit and Community», Moti Hasson Gallery, New York, NY 2007 — «Small Works», Sarah Bain Gallery, Anaheim, CA 2008 — «Chicago Art Fair», shown by Linda Warren Gallery in Chicago, Illinois 2006 — «Contemporary Imaginings, The Howard A. and Judith Tullman Collection», Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, Alabama 2006 — «Night of a Thousand Drawings», Group Show, Artist's Space, New York, NY 2006 — «AAF», shown by DFN Gallery, New York, NY 2006 — «Salon 2006», New York Academy of Art, New York, NY 2006 — «LA Art Fair», shown by Linda Warren Gallery in Chicago, Los Angeles, CA 2005 — «New Works», curated by Eric Fischl, Jane Gallery, St. Barthelemy, F.W.I. 2005 — «A Terrible Beauty: Figurative painting in the 21st Century», Grey McGear Modern, Santa Monica, CA 2005 — «Small Works», Sarah Bain Gallery, Brea, CA 2005 — «Cityscapes», Sarah Bain Gallery, Brea, CA 2005 — «Take Home a Nude» Art Auction at Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, NY 2005 — «Go Figure», George Billis Gallery, New York, NY 2004 — «Postcards from the Edge, Visual Aids Benefit», Brent Sikemma Gallery, New York, NY 2004 — «Night of a Thousand Drawings», Group Show, Artist's Space, New York, NY 2004 — «Points of Muse», Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago, IL 2004 — «Separate Visions», Sarah Bain Gallery, Brea, CA 2004 — «Still Life», Sarah Bain Gallery, Brea, CA 2004 — «27th Small Works Exhibition», New York, NY 2003 — «Space Invaders», curated by Peter Drake, Fish Tank Gallery, New York, NY 2003 — «26th Small Works Exhibition», New York, NY 2002 — «National Arts Club 26th Annual Student Show», National Arts Club, New Painting», Weatherhead Gallery, University of Saint Francis, Fort Wayne, Indiana 2013 — «31st Juried Art Show», Wilmette Public Library, Wimette, IL 2012 — «30th Juried Art Show», Wilmette Public Library, Wimette, IL 2012 — «Narrative Fragments», Quidley & Company, Boston, MA 2011 — «Juxtaposed», juried by Alyssa Monks, Six Summit Gallery, Ivoryton, CT 2011 — «Paintworks», Gowanus Ballroom, curated by Kristin Kunc, Courtney Jordan & Hyeseung Marriage - Song, Brooklyn, NY 2011 — «Space Invaders», co-curated by Virginia Rose and John Nickle, Rose Contemporary, Portland, ME 2011 — «Cinematic Bodies», curated by Jamie Adams, Zolla Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL 2010 — «Snow», XL Projects, Syracuse University Gallery, Syracuse, NY 2010 — «Women Painting Women», Robert Lange Studios Gallery, Charleston, SC 2010 — «Remnants», Fuse Gallery, New York, NY 2010 — «Highlights» Island Weiss Gallery, New York, NY 2010 — «Conceptually Sound», Medialia Rack and Hamper Gallery, New York, NY 2010 — «Chicago Art Fair», shown by Linda Warren Gallery in Chicago, Illinois 2010 — «Looks good on Paper», DFN Gallery, New York, NY 2009 — «Water / Bodies», Eden Rock Gallery, St. Barths, F.W.I. 2009 — «Summer Exhibition 2009», curated by Eric Fischl, Matthew Flowers, Anne Strauss, New York Academy of Art, NY, NY 2009 — «Old School», Jack the Pelican, Brooklyn, NY 2009 — Caldwell Snyder, San Francisco, CA 2008 — «Small Works», Sarah Bain Gallery, Anaheim, CA 2008 — «City Lights», George Billis Gallery, New York, NY 2008 — «Chicago Art Fair», shown by Linda Warren Gallery in Chicago, Illinois 2008 — «Take Home a Nude» Art Auction at Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, NY 2007 — «Summer Exhibition 2007», curated by Eric Fischl, Jenny Saville, Vincent Desiderio, New York Academy of Art, NY, NY 2007 — «Four Handed Lift: Advocacy, Art, Spirit and Community», Moti Hasson Gallery, New York, NY 2007 — «Small Works», Sarah Bain Gallery, Anaheim, CA 2008 — «Chicago Art Fair», shown by Linda Warren Gallery in Chicago, Illinois 2006 — «Contemporary Imaginings, The Howard A. and Judith Tullman Collection», Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, Alabama 2006 — «Night of a Thousand Drawings», Group Show, Artist's Space, New York, NY 2006 — «AAF», shown by DFN Gallery, New York, NY 2006 — «Salon 2006», New York Academy of Art, New York, NY 2006 — «LA Art Fair», shown by Linda Warren Gallery in Chicago, Los Angeles, CA 2005 — «New Works», curated by Eric Fischl, Jane Gallery, St. Barthelemy, F.W.I. 2005 — «A Terrible Beauty: Figurative painting in the 21st Century», Grey McGear Modern, Santa Monica, CA 2005 — «Small Works», Sarah Bain Gallery, Brea, CA 2005 — «Cityscapes», Sarah Bain Gallery, Brea, CA 2005 — «Take Home a Nude» Art Auction at Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, NY 2005 — «Go Figure», George Billis Gallery, New York, NY 2004 — «Postcards from the Edge, Visual Aids Benefit», Brent Sikemma Gallery, New York, NY 2004 — «Night of a Thousand Drawings», Group Show, Artist's Space, New York, NY 2004 — «Points of Muse», Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago, IL 2004 — «Separate Visions», Sarah Bain Gallery, Brea, CA 2004 — «Still Life», Sarah Bain Gallery, Brea, CA 2004 — «27th Small Works Exhibition», New York, NY 2003 — «Space Invaders», curated by Peter Drake, Fish Tank Gallery, New York, NY 2003 — «26th Small Works Exhibition», New York, NY 2002 — «National Arts Club 26th Annual Student Show», National Arts Club, New Painting Women», Robert Lange Studios Gallery, Charleston, SC 2010 — «Remnants», Fuse Gallery, New York, NY 2010 — «Highlights» Island Weiss Gallery, New York, NY 2010 — «Conceptually Sound», Medialia Rack and Hamper Gallery, New York, NY 2010 — «Chicago Art Fair», shown by Linda Warren Gallery in Chicago, Illinois 2010 — «Looks good on Paper», DFN Gallery, New York, NY 2009 — «Water / Bodies», Eden Rock Gallery, St. Barths, F.W.I. 2009 — «Summer Exhibition 2009», curated by Eric Fischl, Matthew Flowers, Anne Strauss, New York Academy of Art, NY, NY 2009 — «Old School», Jack the Pelican, Brooklyn, NY 2009 — Caldwell Snyder, San Francisco, CA 2008 — «Small Works», Sarah Bain Gallery, Anaheim, CA 2008 — «City Lights», George Billis Gallery, New York, NY 2008 — «Chicago Art Fair», shown by Linda Warren Gallery in Chicago, Illinois 2008 — «Take Home a Nude» Art Auction at Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, NY 2007 — «Summer Exhibition 2007», curated by Eric Fischl, Jenny Saville, Vincent Desiderio, New York Academy of Art, NY, NY 2007 — «Four Handed Lift: Advocacy, Art, Spirit and Community», Moti Hasson Gallery, New York, NY 2007 — «Small Works», Sarah Bain Gallery, Anaheim, CA 2008 — «Chicago Art Fair», shown by Linda Warren Gallery in Chicago, Illinois 2006 — «Contemporary Imaginings, The Howard A. and Judith Tullman Collection», Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, Alabama 2006 — «Night of a Thousand Drawings», Group Show, Artist's Space, New York, NY 2006 — «AAF», shown by DFN Gallery, New York, NY 2006 — «Salon 2006», New York Academy of Art, New York, NY 2006 — «LA Art Fair», shown by Linda Warren Gallery in Chicago, Los Angeles, CA 2005 — «New Works», curated by Eric Fischl, Jane Gallery, St. Barthelemy, F.W.I. 2005 — «A Terrible Beauty: Figurative painting in the 21st Century», Grey McGear Modern, Santa Monica, CA 2005 — «Small Works», Sarah Bain Gallery, Brea, CA 2005 — «Cityscapes», Sarah Bain Gallery, Brea, CA 2005 — «Take Home a Nude» Art Auction at Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, NY 2005 — «Go Figure», George Billis Gallery, New York, NY 2004 — «Postcards from the Edge, Visual Aids Benefit», Brent Sikemma Gallery, New York, NY 2004 — «Night of a Thousand Drawings», Group Show, Artist's Space, New York, NY 2004 — «Points of Muse», Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago, IL 2004 — «Separate Visions», Sarah Bain Gallery, Brea, CA 2004 — «Still Life», Sarah Bain Gallery, Brea, CA 2004 — «27th Small Works Exhibition», New York, NY 2003 — «Space Invaders», curated by Peter Drake, Fish Tank Gallery, New York, NY 2003 — «26th Small Works Exhibition», New York, NY 2002 — «National Arts Club 26th Annual Student Show», National Arts Club, New painting in the 21st Century», Grey McGear Modern, Santa Monica, CA 2005 — «Small Works», Sarah Bain Gallery, Brea, CA 2005 — «Cityscapes», Sarah Bain Gallery, Brea, CA 2005 — «Take Home a Nude» Art Auction at Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, NY 2005 — «Go Figure», George Billis Gallery, New York, NY 2004 — «Postcards from the Edge, Visual Aids Benefit», Brent Sikemma Gallery, New York, NY 2004 — «Night of a Thousand Drawings», Group Show, Artist's Space, New York, NY 2004 — «Points of Muse», Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago, IL 2004 — «Separate Visions», Sarah Bain Gallery, Brea, CA 2004 — «Still Life», Sarah Bain Gallery, Brea, CA 2004 — «27th Small Works Exhibition», New York, NY 2003 — «Space Invaders», curated by Peter Drake, Fish Tank Gallery, New York, NY 2003 — «26th Small Works Exhibition», New York, NY 2002 — «National Arts Club 26th Annual Student Show», National Arts Club, New York, NY

The connection between abstract painting and painting's self - definition is always seen as central part of Greenbergian doctrine, an extension of the grand narrative's account of the arts «coming into their own» in the 18th and 19th centuries which Wolterstorff describes.

There is a well - worn narrative of twentieth century painting that goes like this: From Cezanne to Picasso to Pollock, the illusionistic space of painting flattened more and more until the picture plane and the surface created by the paint itself became the primary subject matter, eliminating images altogether in favor of abstraction.

The Pyes» artistic output spans photography, film, performance, video, and installation while acknowledging the profound influences of surrealism in film, narrative conventions in painting, 19th and early 20th century portraiture, and conceptual approaches to subject matter.

Referencing 17th century Dutch still life painting and Asian animation genres, the artist creates video images that are caught between action and non-action, where narrative is both imminent and suspended.

In his intricate paintings, Umar Rashid (Frohawk Two Feathers) re-imagines 18th century colonial history, conjuring a fictional cast of subjects within his own original on - going narrative that includes a rebel fighting force of freed slaves, militiamen, dikes, lords, and tribesmen.

Another pair, Katy Rothkopf, Senior Curator of the BMA's Department of European Painting and Sculpture, and Janet Bishop, Curator of Painting and Sculpture from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, have gathered more than ninety of the artists» major paintings and drawings to create what Jay Fisher, the BMA's Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs, describes as «an unprecedented visual narrative that reaches across the twentieth century.»

The supernatural compositions of Bas's past are here expanded into grand mythologizing narratives, taking on the weight and scale of 19th - century history painting.

DAVID DRISKELL Creative Spirit: Five Decades by Bridget Goodbody DAINA HIGGINS New Paintings by Charles Schultz LOIS DODD New Panel Paintings by Sharon Butler Unlikely Friends: JAMES BROOKS & DAN FLAVIN by Greg Lindquist DAMIEN HIRST The Complete Spot Paintings 1986 — 2011 by Corina Larkin LORI ELLISON by Corina Larkin GEORGES HUGNET The Love Life of the Spumifers by Valery Oisteanu Dark Christmas by Bradley Rubenstein ELLSWORTH KELLY Schwarz & Weiss by David Rhodes MALCOLM MORLEY Another Way to Make an Image, Monotypes by Robert Storr Five Works from the Collection of Albert Murray: ROMARE BEARDEN and NORMAN LEWIS by Charles Schultz THE RONALD S. LAUDER COLLECTION: Selections from the 3rd Century BC to the 20th Century / Germany, Austria, and France by Charles Schultz Anonymous Tantra Paintings by Noah Dillon SANGRAM MAJUMDAR New Work by Kara L. Rooney GUDMUNDUR THORODDSEN Father's Father by Paolo Javier SOTO Paris and Beyond, 1950 — 1970 by Cora Fisher JESS Paintings by Phong Bui GEORGE MCNEIL by Robert Berlind VICTOR MATTHEWS by Vincent Katz LOLA MONTES SCHNABEL Love Before Intimacy by David Markus THOMAS WOODRUFF The Four Temperament Variations by Kara L. Rooney MARTHA CLIPPINGER Hopscotch by Robert Berlind PETER GALLO by Jonathan Goodman Connected by Noah Dillon KANDINSKY's «Painting with White Border» by Susan Bee BARBARA SANDLER Straight On Till Morning by Robert Berlind December (Organized by Howie Chen) by Nathan Kernan EDWIN DICKINSON In Retrospect by Robert Berlind JOSÉ RIVERA by Nathan Kernan REMBRANDT»S WORLD: Dutch Drawings from the Clement C. Moore Collection by Sara Christoph JOSEPH MONTGOMERY Velveteen by Linnea Kniaz The Renaissance Portrait from Donatello to Bellini by Mira Schor BOSCO SODI Ubi Sunt by Jonathan Goodman DOUG WADA Americana by Lilly Wei Mind the Gap by Anne Sherwood Pundyk BILL JENSEN by Ben La Rocco WITHIN / WITHOUT: A Studio Visit With SHOSHANA DENTZ by Zachary Wollard SUSANNA HELLER's Studio by Robert Berlind STUDIO VISIT: JOYCE PENSATO by William Corwin Making American Taste: Narrative Art for a New Democracy by Shane McAdams Letter from BERLIN by David Rhodes JOSEPH MARIONI Eye to Eye by Robert C. Morgan GORDON MOORE by Joan Waltemath Master Bill at MoMA by Irving Sandler

Making Painting explores the concept that, though working on different continents in different centuries, JMW Turner and Helen Frankenthaler share fundamental qualities in their use of paint and colour, form and narrative, and in their understanding of landscape.

Eric White's paintings reference 20th century film, music and pop culture backed by consummate draftsmanship and painterly finesse to subvert and recode the dominant narratives of contemporary society.

The Art of the Flower positions floral paintings within a broader art historical and cultural narrative and reveals how the traditional genre was reinvented through artistic experimentation in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

The works tell the story through various fragments and landscapes, including a magnificent sea vista from a lighthouse beacon that produce what the artist refers to as a «missing narrative» reminiscent of an atmospheric nineteenth - century seascape painting.

Reflecting on the embedded and latent meanings around light, nature, the frontier, borders, race, gender and power in influential American landscape paintings of the 19th century, she uses materials collected from her everyday life, including holiday - themed tablecloths, discarded medical records, nature calendars, plastic bags and paint, to craft imaginary landscapes that are grounded in accumulation, personal narrative and historical critique.

Inspired by the hand scrolls and painted screens of early 17th Century Japanese artist Tawaraya Sōtatsu, who combined the traditional themes of the indigenous school of Japanese narrative scroll painting with the bold, decorative designs of the great screen painters of the Azuchi - Momoyama period.

His most well - known body of work, The Vesper Project, an installation of sculpture and painting, displayed within the reconstructed walls of an actual 19th century historic houseexemplifies Kaphar's interest in historical memory and reconstructed narratives.

One of the leading painters of 17th - century Holland and a contemporary of Johannes Vermeer, Gabriel Metsu was a gifted visual storyteller who infused his narrative paintings with suspense, drama, and emotion.

New original abstract painting by Lesley Grainger titled «Narrative» Juxtaposition of complex forms, bold ornamentation and the of contrasting elements, inspired by the 17th century.

The remaining acquisitions were a prototype of a pine desk designed by minimalist artist Donald Judd in 1978 for $ 350,000; a 1969 painted plastic wall - sculpture by Craig Kauffman for $ 170,000; a Japanese Buddha head sculpted from cypress wood around AD 1000 - 1050 for $ 422,000; a set of three Spanish colonial «casta» (or mixed - race narrative) paintings from 1760 by Juan Patricio Morlete Ruiz for $ 598,000; a 16th - century checkerboard - patterned Peruvian textile for $ 250,000; and a circa 13th - century Mexican painted ceramic featuring serpent - human forms for $ 60,000.

A specialist in Japanese Buddhist painting and narrative art, her dissertation focused on the Life and Acts of Honen (Honen shonin gyojo ezu), a 14th century set of 48 scrolls illustrating the life of the founder of Japan's Pure Land School of Buddhism belonging to the temple Chion» in in Kyoto.

Richardson is fascinated by the ways we connect with landscape; within her deeply layered practice, she draws on narrative devices used in science fiction and B - movie horror films, as well as nineteenth - century landscape painting, with particular interest in the apocalyptic conjurings of John Martin (British, 1789 - 1854).

Citing a desire to revisit fifteenth - century Italian painting in which figures are situated within highly detailed architectural spaces, Larsen began to create narrative scenes that upset any sense of the illusory perspectives of traditional representation.

His taut - surfaced, luridly colored works are among the most perfect unions of complex narrative and visual form in 20th - century American painting.

Her narrative - based, psychologically ambiguous work incorporates elements from 20th - century abstract painting and cinematic history.

The eleven artists juxtapose divergent approaches in conversation with each other, reflecting on primal questions consuming artists over the millennia: Elliot Arkin's conceptual use of web - based commerce spins an absurdist view on the commodification of artists; Babette Bloch's stainless steel reassessments of nature and artistic precedent limn positives and negatives through light; Christopher Carroll Calkins's street photography captures moments of under - the - radar narratives; Valentina DuBasky's acrylic and marble dust works on paper and plaster are a contemporary comment on the prehistory of art; Gabriel Ferrer's performance - like in - the - moment sumi - ink drawings on handmade paper reflect on memory and personal narrative; Christopher Gallego's realist, pure light - filled oil painting elevates the ordinariness of an artist's space to visual poetry; Ana Golici, in pergamano and collage, takes inspiration from 17th Century female naturalist, entomologist and botanical illustrator Maria Sibylla Merian to explore questions of science, nature and objective truth; Emilie Lemakis's monumental amplification of an ancient Greek krater employs scale to upend perceptions for the viewer's reconsideration; Mark Mellon's bronzes address the oppositions of movement and stillness; the alchemy of Michael Townsend's uncontrolled poured acrylic paintings equate the properties of materials with the turbulence of the universe; Jessica Daryl Winer's engagement with luminous color and choreographic line reflects in visual resonance the sonic history of a musical instrument.

Altogether, the show offers an alternative to the narrative of the macho man postwar painting scene that has so dominated the story of 20th century art.

The investigation of the 20th - century abstract artists has shown us that the qualities of line and shape, proportion, and color convey a meaning without the use of words, and without the the narrative quality of the traditional painting.

Many Western abstract artists in the mid-20th century vociferously maintained that their works were devoid of allusion or referent, practicing a «medium specificity» that meant they needed to focus only on the paint and the canvas and elide all figuration or narrative.

The works presented at the exhibition shy away from narratives and meanings, bringing into the fold of structuralist reflection existing images of gardens presented in one of the best - known paintings and a puzzle of early 20th century Polish symbolism, as well as photographs taken by Natalia in an overgrown park in Mallorca during a 2014 residency at CCA Andratx.

Sunstrum combines geological speculations of the Earth's structure, theories of the universe and even 18th century Romantic landscape painting in her narrative, drawn landscapes which shift between straight forward and fantastical depictions of volcanic, subterranean and cosmological landscapes.

Since the early 21st century, Trenton Doyle Hancock has been merging comic book narratives and abstraction in his vibrant, dizzyingly detailed prints, drawings, and mixed - media paintings, in which he explores the struggles within himself and in our world.

Working in a large scale, Mehretu draws on the 21st - century city for inspiration, transferring its energy into her gestural sweeps of paint and built - up marks in ink and pencil — often transposed from projections — and condensing seemingly infinite urban narratives, architectural views, and street plans into single unified compositions.

However, in the West, history painting came to require an extensive landscape background where appropriate, so the theory did not entirely work against the development of landscape painting — for several centuries landscapes were regularly promoted to the status of history painting by the addition of small figures to make a narrative scene, typically religious or mythological.

Valenciennes, Daubigny, and the Origins of French Landscape Painting traces the history of artists» engagement with nature from the late Renaissance, when landscape painting first emerged from the background of narrative representation, up to the eve of Impressionism in the 19th Painting traces the history of artists» engagement with nature from the late Renaissance, when landscape painting first emerged from the background of narrative representation, up to the eve of Impressionism in the 19th painting first emerged from the background of narrative representation, up to the eve of Impressionism in the 19th century.

Further references — to 19th - century utopian social projects, Hollywood films and romantic landscape painting — are also intertwined in the narrative.

Rauch's paintings suggest a narrative intent but, as art historian Charlotte Mullins explains, closer scrutiny immediately presents the viewer with enigmas: «Architectural elements peter out; men in uniform from throughout history intimidate men and women from other centuries; great struggles occur but their reason is never apparent; styles change at a whim.»

While much of his works have been influenced by memories based in photographs and other family memorabilia combined with the gestures of 20th century painting, his latest works highlight the artist's unique process as a form of narrative in itself.

New original abstract painting by Lesley Grainger titled «Narrative» Juxtaposition of complex forms, bold ornamentation and the of contrasting elements... more New original abstract painting by Lesley Grainger titled «Narrative» Juxtaposition of complex forms, bold ornamentation and the of contrasting elements, inspired by the 17th century.