Sentences with phrase «classical painting captured»

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He captures the delicacy and glaze of precious ceramics or a humble bird - made nest sitting within — here the roughness of the twig or shine of an errant piece of plastic is reminiscent of classical oil paintings.

Cezanne adopted a rigorous classical approach to plein - air painting; Gauguin used rich colours but preferred indoor studio painting; Van Gogh painted outdoors but more to express his inner emotions than capture nature; while Toulouse - Lautrec specialized in indoor genre scenes.

Perhaps the waning of the modern humanist subject is best captured in Desiderio's mural - sized Un» Istoria (an ironic take on Alberti's Renaissance concept of istoria which laid the foundation for Western history painting).6 Parodying figures from a classical white marble frieze in this mid-20th-century scene, a line of mental asylum patients wearing white hospital gowns stroll through the park.