The sixth issue of the magazine focuses on connecting traditional and innovative approaches to the human body, featuring both abstract works and
classical nude studies.
Not exact matches
His primary work is in figurative art; portraiture,
classical studies of
nudes and landscape painting, although commissioned work has included large scale abstracts.
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.
Still lifes, portraits,
nude studies, and
studies of shells and plants are the best - known works of his long since considered «
classical» oeuvre.
Thomas's work stems from her
study of art history and the
classical genres of portraiture, landscape, and still life, and is inspired by a wide range of sources, from Hudson River School landscapes to Henri Matisse's
nudes and Romare Bearden's collages.
John DeAndrea's hyper - realist sculpture
Classical Allusion, 1987 (Bernarducci Meisel Gallery) is a simply astonishing, unthinkably perfect rendition of a female
nude study that is leaning on the corner of a sculpture stand displaying a male torso.