Sentences with phrase «classical painting at»

Born and raised in Harlem, New York he studied classical painting at the High School of Art & Design and the Art Students League of New York.

I studied classical painting at the angel academy of art in Florence, Italy, and have had dozens of group and solo exhibitions.

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Meanwhile at the party headquarters of the far right Laos party, sitting under paintings of classical Greek scenes, vice-president Georgios Georgiou explains why they left the current governing coalition (formed under Lucas Papademos last November when the Papandreou government collapsed): «I suggested we leave the coalition... we said not to touch pensions and wages and to get rid of the two million illegal immigrants... you can not have Germans coming in sitting in ministries ordering ministers what to do.»

wax painting The resource includes: Examples of architectural artists Examples of a student work collages of architecture Resource sheets of architectural photographs of churches to use for studies Resource sheets of different buildings ornamentations to use in collage Learning Objectives To develop a Classical Greek and Roman element in one's work of art at KS3, KS 4 - GCSE Art and A-level Art To study various examples of how artists have used these classical architectural elements in their works of Art A look at various contemporary artists and how they have used the Classical elements and architectural features To develop a collage combining photographs, painting and Classical Greek and Roman element in one's work of art at KS3, KS 4 - GCSE Art and A-level Art To study various examples of how artists have used these classical architectural elements in their works of Art A look at various contemporary artists and how they have used the Classical elements and architectural features To develop a collage combining photographs, painting and classical architectural elements in their works of Art A look at various contemporary artists and how they have used the Classical elements and architectural features To develop a collage combining photographs, painting and Classical elements and architectural features To develop a collage combining photographs, painting and pen work.

Jacob runs two classical painting schools, one of which, the Water Street Atelier, used to meet at their house but now has its own location.

He received his training at the Rhode Island School of Design where he studied classical drawing, painting, sculpture and anatomy.

It was also in New York that Thompson quickly arrived at his mature style, taking Dody Müller's advice to heart by reworking the compositions of European Masters such as Piero della Francesca, Nicolas Poussin, and Jacopo Tintoretto into simplified, abstracted forms painted in threatening and seductive tones that were hot and violent or deep and dark — seizing on the dynamism of these classical scenes and often transforming them into contemporary allegorical nightmares.

I was so suprised that she referred to me as being a faun — you don't usually think of her as doing paintings that have any classical allusions at all.

A Selection of American Art: Minimalism and After, Galerie Ronny Van de Velde, Antwerp, Belgium (catalogue) The Kitchen Art Benefit, Curt Marcus & Leo Castelli Galleries, New York Re-Framing Cartoons, Loughelton Gallery, New York Grids, Vrej Baghoonian Gallery, New York Modern Detour / Umweg Moderne: R.M. Fischer, Peter Halley, Laurie Simmons, Wiener Secession, Vienna (catalogue) The Last Decade: American Artists of the 80s, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York (curated by Collins & Milazzo, catalogue) Weitersehen 1980 — 1990, Krefelder Kunstmuseen, Museum Haus Lange and Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld, Germany (catalogue) Mel Bochner, Peter Halley, Robert Rauschenberg, Sonnabend Gallery, New York Classical Modernism: Six Generations, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York Peter Halley, Annette Lemieux, Meyer Vaisman, Galerie Antoine Candau, Paris Peter Halley, Jeff Koons, Meyer Vaisman, Galerie Carola Moesh, Berlin 1989 Nonrepresentation: The Show of the Essay, Anne Plumb Gallery, New York (catalogue); travelled to Security Pacific Corporation, Los Angeles (curated by Jeremy Gilbert - Rolfe, catalogue) Horn of Plenty, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (catalogue) Buena Vista, John Gibson Gallery, New York (curated by Collins & Milazzo, catalogue) Abstraction in Question, John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL (catalogue); travelled to Center for the Fine Arts, Miami Paula Cooper Gallery, New York A Climate of Site, Galerie Barbara Farber, Amsterdam (curated by Robert Nickas, catalogue) Science — Technology — Abstraction: Art at the End of the Decade, University Art Galleries, Wright State University, Dayton, OH (catalogue) Prospect 89, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main (catalogue) Re-Presenting the 80s, Simon Watson Gallery, New York (catalogue) Ten + Ten: Contemporary Soviet and American Painters, Fort Worth Museum of Art, Fort Worth, TX; travelled to San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; Albright - Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Artists» Union Hall of the Tretyakov, Krymskaia Embankment, Moscow, USSR; State Picture Gallery of Georgia, Tbilisi, Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic; Central Exhibition Hall, Leningrad, USSR (catalogue) The Silent Baroque, Villa Arenberg, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria (catalogue) New Editions, Pace Prints, New York Psychological Abstraction, Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens (catalogue) Exposition Inaugurale, Fondation Daniel Templon, Musée Temporaire, Fréjus, France (catalogue) Wittgenstein: The Play of the Unsayable, Wiener Secession, Vienna, Austria; travelled to Palais des Beaux - Arts, Brussels (catalogue) Abstraction — Geometry — Painting, Albright - Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; travelled to Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, FL; Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT (catalogue) New Work by Gallery Artists: John Baldessari, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Ashley Bickerton, Mel Bochner, Carroll Dunham, Fischli + Weiss, Gilbert & George, Peter Halley, Barry Le Va, Haim Steinbach, Meyer Vaisman, Terry Winters, Robert Yarber, Sonnabend Gallery, New York Gober, Halley, Kessler, Wool: Four Artists from New York, Kunstverein, Munich (catalogue) Projects and Portfolios: The 25th National Print Exhibition, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY (catalogue) Recent Acquisitions, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH Buena Vista, John Gibson Gallery, New York

Forgive Me Father, For I Have Painted (2011) is a series of paintbrushes and tubes of acrylic enclosed in clear resin, which responds to contemporary art's fascination with new media, often at the expense of classical painting techniques.

She studied classical and fauvist painting at the San Jorge University in Barcelona, with the Catalan artist Ramón Sanvicens as preceptor.

Other leading contemporary artists to have built upon the historic and the classical to create something wholly new include Jeff Koons at Almine Rech Gallery, and, more recently, Mat Collishaw at Robiland + Voenna, with four mirror works that engage with paintings by Caravaggio in the Galleria Borghesa's permanent collection in Rome.

This eerily beautiful painting is not so much about his search for a science of seeing as it is a revelation of classical calm and grace hidden at the margins of modern life.

Additionally, the complex network of lines in a Pollock or a de Kooning, however chaotic they may seem at first glance, form a perfectly enclosed system, one that is not inconsistent with the compositional history of classical European painting.

Best Use of In Situ Classical Statuary by a Contemporary Artist: Nicole Eisenman's Carnegie Prize - winning installation at this year's Carnegie International for her show within a show interspersing her own paintings and plaster sculptures among marble figures in the museum's permanent collection

The show at Fondation Beyeler presents a selection of paintings, pastels, drawings and lithographs, which concentrates on Odilon Redon's significance as a precursor of classical modernism.

While teaching at the Bauhaus school in Germany during the 1920s, Paul Klee, a trained violinist, often composed paintings with the organization of classical music in mind.

In her art, classical painting meets contemporary realism through details that may not be obvious at first glance.

At the Carnegie, there were paintings around a balcony and her sculptures were one top of a sort of balustrade where they blended in with other classical sculptures.

Upon seeing the selection of four monumental paintings by Olivier Mosset at the uptown Mary Boone Gallery — three of them dating from the 1980s — I was taken by their Classical stature, their hard - edge quality, and their openness of surface space.

She began playing cultural catch - up, devouring not only modern and contemporary art (including Joseph Beuys and Frank Stella) but also centuries» worth of classical European paintings and sculptures that she'd missed at home.

When they hang a Currin on the wall, they are given permission — more than that, they are given the right — to appreciate this oilcloth horror as a painterly painting as exquisite as a Velázquez, or to enjoy it as an incompetent high - kitsch send - up of classical painting, or to assess its value as social commentary, or to laugh at it as a piece of Dadaist stupidity - for - stupidity's - sake.

His first works were naïve paintings of remembered Greek scenes and episodes from classical myth, on display in his first show, at Contemporary Arts on 57th Street, in 1938.

Classical Chinese painting, on the other hand, has had very little influence on Marden, «although that's what I look at when I go to the Met (ropolitan Museum) now,» he said.

The painting, one of a number found in Titian's studio at the time of his death in 1576 aged 89, and which had been hidden away for centuries in a remote palace in the Czech Republic, had a blasted rawness, a disregard for classical finish that made the other Renaissance paintings around it look effete in comparison.

In recent years, Urs Fischer has been exploring the genres of classical art history (still lifes, portraits, nudes, landscapes, and interiors) at the intersection with everyday life in cast sculptures and assemblages, paintings, digital montages, spatial installations, mutating or kinetic objects, and texts.

Combining oil painting and textile collage, the colour palette is very much inspired by a 19th century approach, with Fritz Bornstück working like an impressionist in the field, while at the same time turning the works around to pull them in a decidedly more contemporary direction, inflicting contrasting architecture and items on the classical compositions.

Extending across the entirety of the museum, the exhibition allows for free association between artists and the themes they address: at once playful and dynamic, works from Ryan Gander, Institute for New Feeling, Liu Wa, and Yangzi invite audiences to explore a wealth of possibilities through combinations of meditation and wry humor; classical mediums of sculpture and painting are reinvented by Yngve Holen and Austin Lee; insidious implications of our hi - tech society are skewered by Lawrence Abu Hamdan and aaajiao; the powers of synthetic materials over human desire are brought to the fore by Sean Raspet and Pamela Rosenkranz; and products of Internet culture are given to refined study with Gillian Wearing and Amalia Ulman.

Born in 1972, Kwon Kisoo trained in classical Korean painting at Hongik University.

Foreword by James Rosenquist vii Preface by Ira Goldberg viii Acknowledgments x Introduction: Miracle on 57th Street 1 Part 1: Lessons and Demos 15 Henry Finkelstein: On Painting, with a Critique 17 Mary Beth McKenzie: Painting from Life 27 Ephraim Rubenstein: Painting from Observation 39 Thomas Torak: A Contemporary Approach to Classical Painting 59 Dan Thompson: Learning to Paint the Human Figure from Life 75 Sharon Sprung: Figure Painting from Life in Oils 91 Frederick Brosen: Classic Watercolor Realism 107 Naomi Campbell: Working Large in Watercolor 123 Ellen Eagle: Poetic Realism in Pastel 135 Costa Vavagiakis: The Evolution of a Concept 148 Part 2: Advice and Philosophies 165 William Scharf: Knowing that Miracles Happen 167 Peter Homitzky: Inventing from Observation 181 Charles Hinman: Painting in Three Dimensions 193 Deborah Winiarski: Painting and Encaustic 203 James L. McElhinney: Journal Painting and Composition 213 Part 3: Interviews 229 Frank O'Cain: Abstraction from Nature 231 Ronnie Landfield: On Learning and Teaching 251 Knox Martin: Learning from Old and Modern Masters 269 Concours: Painting and the Public at the Art Students League by Dr. Jillian Russo 282 Index 286

He is also very particular when it comes to the choice of setting and work atmosphere — for instance, he enjoys painting while listening to classical music at night.

Previously exhibited at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, they are painted by leading artists from Classical Athens.

The material recalls classical Greek sculpture, while the style, and even the titles at times, refers to classical Chinese landscape painting.

During the early 1960s, following his first showing at the New York gallery of Leo Castelli (1907 - 99), he began to include more colour in his painting, together with numerous classical references (Leda and the Swan, the Birth of Venus) and scatological imagery, a process which peaked in the «Ferragosto paintings», as well as his series entitled «Nine Discourses on Commodus» (1963), a portrait of the power - crazy Roman emperor created under the influence of works by Francis Bacon (1909 - 93).

Adding additional market power to this print is the bust on the right: its placement in this print, made in 1933, echoes the position of a cubo - classical bust that Picasso included in a painting from the year before, Nude, Green Leaves and Bust, which made history in 2010 when it sold for $ 106.5 million at Christie's, a record for the artist.

Bloomberg's Hanny Wan reports from the Classical Chinese paintings sale at Sotheby's in Hong Kong that doubled the high estimate.

Reuters makes the prediction that classical painting will remain at the center of the Chinese art market for some time:

This alludes to the physical nature of Moffett's works, but perhaps a better explanation of the emotional and intellectual impacts of his projection paintings would be describing them as a cross between people - watching at an airport and viewing a classical oil in a dimly lit cathedral.

2014 Speaking of People: Ebony, Jet, and Contemporary Art, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY Post Pop: East Meets West, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK Beyond the Classical: Imagining the Ideal Across Time, National Academy Museum, New York, NY Burn with Desire: Glamour in Photography and Film, Ryerson Image Center, Toronto, Canada Rauschenberg: Collecting & Connecting, Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, NC GIRL curated by Pharrel Williams, Galerie Perrotin, Paris, France Pop Departures, Seattle Museum of Art, Seattle, WA Bash II, Kleinert / James Gallery, Woodstock, NY Expanding the Field of Painting, ICA Boston, Boston, MA Reflect, Cut, Construct, Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY Aljira at 30, Dream and Reality, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ Aspects of the Self: Portraits of Our Times, Center for the Arts, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA Domestic Unrest, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London, England Aftershock: The Impact of Radical Art, Edelman Arts, New York, NY 30 Americans, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA The International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Cartegena de Indias, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia Shakti, Brand New Gallery, Milan, Italy

The next several hours I spent examining his art, and what I found was rather curious: the lenses that proved most helpful in understanding the paintings were those that at first glance seemed the least important, namely my own experiences as a European expat, my history as a lover of all thing classical music, and my scholarly expertise in a number of nonwestern art traditions.

Being drawn to their uneasy balance of modernity and nostalgia, these paintings reflected a complex and contradictory attitude toward urban society and fashionable resort life, keenly depicting the social changes that made the sea - bathing fad possible, while, at the same time, reaching longingly back to classical themes of the nude in an idyllic landscape.

Given my involvement as a geometric abstract painter over the years, I have indelibly respected and admired Ortman's block - like paintings, each built in a hybrid manner related to a kind of folk constructivism — a way of working that recalls some strains of classical music, such as Bartók and Dvorak, and to a lesser extent, the folk - style sculpture of H. C. Westermann and the faux - systemic paintings of Alfred Jensen recently shown at Pace.

Thomasos's training as a classical abstract painter, as an MFA student at Yale and then in her apprentice years in Philadelphia, where she taught at Tyler alongside the established abstractionists Dona Nelson and Stanley Whitney, gave her a fluid confidence with paint, an ability to make a convincing mark, generally a straight, fast line, that could convey decisiveness and sensuality all at once, like the handwriting on a novelist's love - letter.

After relocating to the United States in 1986 on a fellowship from Fulbright College at the University of Arkansas, Ji found his voice as an artist who reinvents the system of symbolic structures found in classical Chinese painting to expose the dark side of industrial development on contemporary life.

Look at the way she depicts a face in a classical manner or purposefully places globs of dried paint on the canvas, and you are likely to conclude that she can do anything she wants with paint and pretty much does.

The painting, whose reclining figure «has a sensuous, alluring posture, looks back at the classical traditions of the nude in a very different way» than in the treatment of similar subjects by other artists.

However, at the back of the exhibition, a pair of large format oil paintings done with a more classical rendering expose her skills at multifarious levels.