Sentences with phrase «century painting captures»

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This is glass tinting, not painting, so the jars capture the light just like the original early 20th century Blue Ball jars.

In doing so, it describes an enduring legacy, and posits painting's mission to capture the «mystery of appearance» as the medium's saving grace well into the 21st century.

The selection celebrates California Style artists whose paintings capture the unique character of this region from the mid-20th century.

Influenced by the hunting scenes of Courbet and early nineteenth - century Nordic landscape painting, James's work captures the beauty and power of nature as well as the rudimentary self - reliance that grows with living off the land.

* Cropped closely to exclude the horizontal plane, they focus on the all - over abstract patterns formed by the arrested motion of the cascading water, capturing a kinetic energy reminiscent of twentieth century American Abstract Expressionist painting.

This Turkish artist specializes in what could be described as reverse Orientalism, subverting the 19th - century category of genre paintings that captured scenes of the Middle East imagined as exotic by Europeans at the time.

How Dutch meal still life paintings captured the great intellectual preoccupations of the 17th century

A second influence is the exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of panel paintings from 2nd century Roman Egypt, which capture the viewer with simply painted open - eyed expressions.

For the last 17 years Kerstens has been photographing his daughter Paula, capturing her changing features in a series of compositions reminiscent of the Italian Renaissance and the Northern Baroque paintings of the 15 — 17th centuries but with a contemporary twist.

Capturing humanity in paint is the subject of «All Too Human: Bacon, Freud, and a Century of Painting Life,» an exhibition that opens at the Tate Britain on February 28 (through August 27).

Capturing everyday life along the inland waterways, the 22 paintings on view, with many drawings, portray 19th - century frontier life and the centrality of rivers to a growing United States.

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.

In searching for imagery of Native American face painting, Varejão was lead to the work of 19th century portraiture artists such as George Catlin, Charles Bird King, and Henry Inman, as well as the photographer and ethnologist Edwards Curtis, who captured their subjects in full ceremonial dress.

Earlier artistic movements such as the 19th century's impressionism and expressionism were experimenting with the idea that painting can capture emotion and subjectivity.

Inspired by the bountiful Vanitas still - life paintings of 16th century Northern Europe and the excessive ornamentation of the Baroque period, Staschke captures the beauty and opulence of a moment in time — creamy and syrupy stacks of sweets — yet, decay and collapse is looming right around the corner.

The paintings were not literal renderings of the mountainous and rugged terrain, but instead captured the spartan forms and sculpted surfaces like those shaped by centuries of erosion and movement of wind and water as well as upheavals from tectonic shifts deep within the earth.

One of Australia's best landscape artists of the late 19th century and the most successful painter of the Heidelberg School (c.1886 - 1900) of Australian Impressionism, Arthur Streeton is celebrated for his evocative and iconic landscape painting, which perfectly captures the unique light and colour of the Australian countryside and outback.

Neel lived between Spanish Harlem and the Upper West Side for half a century, during which time she frequently captured her neighborhood and its residents in paint.

Focusing on modern figurative painting from the second half of the 20th century, with Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon at its heart, Tate Britain will also examine how artists in Britain captured the intense experience of life in paint.

Claudio Simonetti continues to be the Italian «Maestro» of the 21st Century with his masterful paintings capturing the Light and Reflections of the Italian landscape and seascape.

To capture the mood of 19th - century Paris, this catalog features paintings, drawings, and prints by the impressionist artists who made Parisian life a central theme of their work and, to complete the picture, those of their immediate predecessors and followers.

During periods in the twentieth century when figurative painting seemed passé, Ms. Freilicher painted flowers in her window, landscapes, and figures that captured her own view of the world....