Sentences with phrase «century paintings found»

Now filming its third season, the show pits Leroy against three fellow antique dealers, who jet off to locales like Normandy, Glasgow and cities across the United States, bidding for everything from Chinese space helmets to 18th century paintings found at airport lost - luggage auctions.

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The findings paint a bleak picture for the persistence of native flowering plants in the face of climate change and could serve as a herald for future species losses in mountain ecosystems over the next century.

In the early 20th century, 11,000 - year - old cave paintings of woolly mammoths were found in France, suggesting, along with other discoveries of that time, that the creatures once lived side by side with humans.

When King Tutankhamun's tomb, dating to the 14th century B.C.E., was opened in 1922, archaeologists found the boy - king's body covered with the flowers of blue water lily, a common motif in many Egyptian tomb paintings.

The findings document an unprecedented shift versus the previous three centuries, not only painting a bleak picture for the future of the of the lake and its catchment, but also challenge scientists» expectations of how such a large system could respond so rapidly to a one - degree rise.

Just past the town of Almere, as you round a right - hand bend, you will find a sight unseen in Europe for centuries, if not millennia: hundreds of red deer, plodding groups of long - horned wild cattle, and skittish herds of low - slung brown horses, all moving through the open landscape like something out of a cave painting.

By comparing findings of the current period of minimum activity with those of previous cycles, scientists can paint a picture of the changes in the sun over a span of decades, and sometimes centuries.

The painted covers will find their inspiration from all over the Marvel universe, and are aimed at showcasing the many iconic characters the company has spawned over the last three - quarters of a century.

Its founding director, William Secord, is a world authority of 19th century dog painting and author of many esteemed books on the topic.

Its likeness can be found in centuries - old paintings and sculptures, but the first known documentation was produced in 1836.

This hunting dog is thought to be named after the Brittany province in France and can be found featured in paintings as far back as the 17th century.

In Sidon was found a sarcophagus, from the end of the fourth century BCE, on which is painted Alexander the Great and the King of Sidon hunting a lion with the help of a hunting dog, similar in build to the dogs in Ashkelon and similar in appearance to the Canaan Dog.

His humorous lecture painted a very real picture of just how difficult it was for the city folk of Portland to even find their way to the Cannon Beach area in the early twentieth century.

Stephen the Great was a religious and cultural man, and it was his influence that gave rise to a school of native painters who have bequeathed some true masterpieces of the fresco technique found on the 16th and 17th - century painted monasteries of Bucovina.

The Landscape Atelier is a 21st century atelier dedicated to landscape painting founded by painter Deborah Paris.

In addition to the founding stories of the RA and PAFA, this exhibition recognizes the other artist - founders of PAFA, West's role as the teacher of eighteenth - and early - nineteenth - century American artists, and the development of monumental history paintings such as Christ Rejected and Death on the Pale Horse.

Likening her to twentieth - century predecessors, such as Henri Rousseau and Florine Stettheimer, who found renewal «in the bright colours and crude shapes of an art that seems artless,» Jones sees in Wylie's work «a way forward for painting in this century.»

Employing his standard materials — paint and the flyers and advertisements he finds displayed around his South Central Los Angeles neighborhood — his latest body of work is inspired by 16th and 17th century sea maps and the foreboding mysteries that lie beneath the waters.

I think the thought depends on being at a greater distance from the early 20th century, that while Reinhardt and everyone else could not imagine abstraction (whatever he may have said to the contrary) other than as a struggle to find what an abstract as opposed to a representational painting really might be and do, is no longer the case.

These minimal compositions may look familiar today, but it helps to recall that the dawn of the 20th century was still the time when Monet obsessively rendered his water lilies and Seurat fastidiously labored over the Grand Jatte one paint dot at a time... This was a time of the industrial revolution, broad social and political changes that found their reflections in the changing pictorial and musical themes of the first decades of the 20th century.

While continuing this dialogue with the history of aesthetics, Paintings represents a shift in McElheny's work towards a focus on the history of painting, and proposes that there is ongoing potential to be found in the utopian and revolutionary desires that gave rise to abstract painting at the beginning of the twentieth century.

David Webb's new and recent work is the continuation of major themes relating to a family story of migration, along with the ongoing influence of 13 - 15th Century Italian painting (particularly that of Siena) and Byzantine painted churches found in Cyprus.

This ideal, of finding the essential unit upon which the entire structure of painting was built, was inspired by discoveries made in science in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Superb furniture and paintings from Vermont, decorative arts, and folk art from the 18th century to present are found throughout the museum.

Present - day manipulation of found material that seems to date back as far as the 18th century is incorporated into the work of Marine Hugonnier and Markus Schwinwald in the medium of collage and painting.

Athol Whitmore's playful paintings incorporate numerous found objects, enamel paint and assorted other materials such as gaffer tape, and imagery inspired by children's books of the mid-twentieth century.

Newman appears again in Twice Hammered (2011), where one finds the reproduction of Diao's earlier Barnett Newman: The Paintings (1990; for which Diao presents all of Newman's paintings at small scale and reduced to the shapes of their canvases) next to that work's accompanying catalogue entry from a May 2005 Christie's Hong Kong 20th Century Chinese and Asian Contemporary Paintings (1990; for which Diao presents all of Newman's paintings at small scale and reduced to the shapes of their canvases) next to that work's accompanying catalogue entry from a May 2005 Christie's Hong Kong 20th Century Chinese and Asian Contemporary paintings at small scale and reduced to the shapes of their canvases) next to that work's accompanying catalogue entry from a May 2005 Christie's Hong Kong 20th Century Chinese and Asian Contemporary Art sale.

Unlike commercially - made animated films of the 20th century, which were also hand - drawn and painted, artists in this exhibition have more in common with American aesthetic development as a whole: artistic trends and styles found in all media in the larger art world are found simultaneously in animation.

By 1958, Bruce Conner had begun to create some of the most original, varied and important artwork of the second half of the 20th Century: collaged films, collage on paper, found - object assemblage, paintings, and drawings.

Founded in 1887 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, what has come to be called the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University evolved, over its first century and more, from a conservative provincial art college focused on traditional landscape painting to one of the premier institutions in North America, well known for its promotion of conceptual art and the avant - garde.

Parisian cafe settings found in late nineteenth - century paintings by Manet and Degas become open - air beer gardens one might find in present - day Berlin or Brooklyn, with the smartphones on the tables locating the scene in time.

A founding member of the New York School, Jack Tworkov (1900 — 1982) is regarded as one of the great American artists of the 20th century, along with Willem de Kooning, Philip Guston, Jackson Pollock and Franz Kline, whose gestural painting of the 1950s formed the basis for the Abstract Expressionist movement in America.

We can also find traces of Western medieval painting, pointillism and 20th century art.

«What I find so remarkable about confronting Jane Wilson's paintings in the 21st century is how elegiac they look and how they simultaneously recall the poetic sensibilities of mid-century, when the syntax was kept simple, when everyday renditions of land and sky or ordinary life could be once benevolent and metaphysical — simple situations redolent of the vagaries and complexities of the day - to - day.

Performance: Keil Borrman, «Airing the Facilitation Banner Paintings,» at Osmos As part of a program called «Beer on Sundays,» inspired by anarchist saloonkeeper Justus Schwab's effort in the late 19th century to operate his drinking establishment on that day, which was once housed at Osmos's address, Keil Borrman will stage a performance, curated by Jovana Stokic, which involves the audience taking banners with political messages from the gallery, recently founded by curator Cay Sophie Rabinowitz, to the nearby First Street Green, at 33 East 1st Street.

Gallery owner Louis M. Salerno finds that Yost's most recent creations complement Questroyal's extensive inventory of nineteenth and twentieth century American paintings.

Vevers... jewel - like paintings are laced with references to Illuminated manuscripts, the 12th Century practice of painting shells, Kai - awase, Mexican Ex-Votos, Pre-Renaissance Italian paintings, Irish Folklore, Scrimshaw, and Miniatures, and are executed on a wide array of materials including ivorine, vellum, tin, and found clam, oyster or scallop shells.

Sandra Amann is the coprincipal of Amann + Estabrook Conservation Associates, founded in New York in 1994 with a specialization in the conservation of modern and contemporary paintings and objects of the twentieth and twenty - first centuries.

The most informative string of comments were found on ArtFagCity where Corinna Kirsch explains how to clean urine off a painting from Cray Thomsen, a conservator of 19th century Russian paintings.

With photography now going through the same identity crisis that painting went through a century and a half ago at the advent of photography — the question then was «what's special about painting the world realistically when you can take a photo,» now it's «what's special about taking a photo when everyone takes a photo of everything all the time» — artists have been searching the edges of the medium to find a compelling way forward.

His purchases reveal a preference for the portraiture, landscape, and seventeenth - century Dutch and Flemish paintings that could typically be found in English aristocratic collections.

While I'll readily agree that Manet's depictions of urban life in 19th - century Paris are some of the most exciting works ever painted, I find this once - shocking style neutralised by association.

From its founding the Norton has been famous for its masterpieces of 19th century and 20th century painting and sculpture by European artists such as Brancusi, Gauguin, Matisse, Miró, Monet, Picasso and by Americans such as Davis, Hassam, Hopper, Manship, O'Keeffe, Pollock and Sheeler.

Unwittingly these muses have shaped the history of British painting from the beginnings of great English portraiture in the 18th century when Christie's was founded.»

They finally found them in a gallery of 18th - century art with two English landscape paintings, French armchairs and a Sèvres porcelain sculpture.

Under the guidance of the Baltic German Eugène Dücker who was a teacher of landscape painting at the Düsseldorf Academy from 1872, the Düsseldorf School found its way towards Modernism at the end of the 19th Century.

Baconian Empericism originating in 16th Century Dutch Landscape painting and finding its way into the grid of minimalist painting is manifest as a series of intersecting metal framings that hold the mirrors in place and distribute the urban scene along a flat grid.

This includes his poetry, painting, sound work and performance; his recording projects, and his founding of Giorno Poetry Systems; his AIDS activism; his Tibetan Buddhism and his vast personal archive that comprises a history of radical art and poetry in New York during the second half of the twentieth century.

From as early as the 1980s, photography and video art have found their place in the German Pavilion, side by side with painting, sculpture and installation: the works of Bernd and Hilla Becher, Thomas Ruff, Candida Höfer, Katharina Sieverding and Rosemarie Trockel — all of them protagonists in the vibrant art scene at the Düsseldorfer Akademie in the late 20th century — were followed by the actions and films of Christoph Schlingensief and Romuald Karmakar, along with the documentary approaches of the Indian artist Dayanita Singh and the South African photographer Santu Mofokeng.

One of the greatest practitioners of genre painting in Britain, and, along with J. M. W. Turner and John Constable, one of the most influential British artists of the 19th century, the Scottish - born Wilkie made his career in London, where his list of patrons included the top members of British society, such as the Duke of Wellington, and John Julius Angerstein, whose collection founded the National Gallery, London.