Sentences with phrase «classical figures»

[4] VanDerBeek also uses imagery of classical figures in her work.
Ofili's «Ovid - Actaeon» (2011 − 12) shows a series of slender classical figures in repose against a purple background, with a stark division of color reminiscent of Matisse's most dramatic Fauvist experiments.
ABOUT THE JUROR: Lauren Childs began studying classical figure drawing by the age of twelve.
But, as with other classical figures Eke Luther and Calvin, Wesley reveals another side which is illustrated in his dealing with problems of chronology, his understanding of the biblical use of non-biblical sources, his judging of much of the Psalms as «unfit for Christian lips,» and so on.
Young Italian Woman Leaning on her Elbow (1900) by Cezanne Interpretation of Classical Figure Painting MAIN A-Z INDEX
These debates will no doubt continue as they do for other classical figures whom the fundamentalists wish to claim for their side of the argument.
A greater purity and therefore a greater universality of relevance can be found in the great classical figures of the religious traditions.
Pam received her degree in drawing and painting from Washington University, where classical figure study and abstract expressionism were the artistic movements in the mid 70's.
Yinka Shonibare has had 3D scans of the RA's casts of two classical figures reproduced and clothed in his distinctive batik fabrics, their heads replaced with globes.
If Raphael seems a staid classical figure today, this will change your mind.
Classical figures doing everyday modern activities, on Grecian urns.
I saw it as a timeless classical figure which held the memory of its magnificence even in its reduced size... I was painting still lifes in the late 1970s, and I would include it, the plaster cast.
Continuing her series of animated paintings, there are several wall works made from printed PVC with industry marker drawings of classical figures on them that have aluminum printed faces that gesture toward classical Roman and Greek statues.
This was true in ancient Greece, when the taste for refined, quintessentially classical figures, such as those carved out of marble for the Parthenon frieze in the 5th century BC, was eventually superseded by a new vogue for Hellenistic art — a style that prized grandeur, pathos and excess, and felt histrionic in comparison.
The images in the new solo exhibition in Paris see the street artist working in Posca markers on catalogue pages, the beautifully drawn classical figures contrasting magnificently with the consumerist advertising of the modern world.
Works like Voyage to Crete and Cupid and Nymph reflect Nakian's filtering of ancient mythology through modern aesthetics and his ability to give classical figures new life and sensuality by channeling elements of Abstract Expressionism.
Cynical Realists borrowed imagery from various traditions, including Surrealism and Symbolism, as well as classical figure painting.
She is known for photographing sculptures and three - dimensional still - life assemblages of her own making, [2] some of which she destroys after the photos have been taken, as well as for creating images of classical figures and architectural details and their relationship to space.
His paintings from the 1950s depict universal images of man and reference the classical figure found in antiquity, while his highly political series of the 1970s and «80s draws on the Vietnam War, American foreign policy and the rise of paramilitary soldiers in places such as South Africa and Latin America.
For these works, the artist works with the classical figure in the manner of a traditional sculptor yet drastically deconstructs and contorts each shape, inserting unexpected readymade objects to further the abstraction.
Jones is both a master of the classical figure and a pioneer pushing at the boundaries of his medium.
Carefully chosen to highlight the important influences and experiences which they shared, this new exhibition aims to bring a fresh perspective to Francis Bacon and Henry Moore, exploring themes in their work such as «the Biomorphic / Picassoesque form», «the human head», and «the Classical figure».
Typical scenes include Oxford and Cambridge, the Thames River, Westminster Abbey, the English village and countryside, Edinburgh, authors, ships, and classical figures... Most of the books are 19th century English fore - edges, but there are a few American scenes.»
Byron Browne: Classical Figures 1930 - 1961.
Carefully coated with testimonies, these classical figures are veneered by the stratifications of values they incite.
The new solo exhibition will feature these classical figures taken out of their original context and placed in the new surroundings of a found advert.
Nadège Dauvergne has been developing the idea in the form of street art, adding these classical figures to the advertising billboards found in every urban area, causing the passer by to stop and re-evaluate what is being offered before them.
Robert Nelson's work here is pop art writ large, intense colors that illuminate a classical figure with its heart not on its sleeve but in the air.
In their languor, these classical figures betray a decidedly Symbolist cant, and indeed references to Symbolist art run throughout the show.
To him, THE END is a classical figure that looms in our consciousness, despite our ability to see right through it.
The artist's paintings from the 1950s depict universal images of man and reference the classical figure found in antiquity, while his highly political series of the 1970s and «80s draws on the Vietnam War, American foreign policy and the rise of paramilitary soldiers in places such as South Africa and Latin America.
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