Sentences with phrase «classical paintings as»

Multilingual, well traveled, and sharp - witted, Cameron was curious about not only the scientific process of photography but also the artistic composition of portraits, using classical paintings as her model.

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I have long remembered the remark of a notable art critic — though I have forgotten which one — that many modernist paintings could be understood as fragments of classical painting blown up for their own sake, displaying the formal and technical elements by which painting is accomplished but eschewing the narrative depiction within which such patches of paint on canvas would earlier have had their place.

Ne Change Rien (Unrated) Musical bio-pic painting an intimate portrait of Jeanne Balibar, following the French chanteuse from rehearsals to recording sessions, and from classes to concerts, as she exhibits an enviable versatility by performing everything from hard rock to classical opera.

She enjoys traveling, playing classical piano, and painting, as well as spending time with her family and friends, especially with her four nephews and two dogs, James and Chloe.

In addition, the Il Salotto new lobby lounge by Thierry Despont is furnished with exquisite pieces, classical paintings and serves as a meeting point for the guests and the Milanese as well.

The cutscenes are fully rendered in 3D as is the gameplay itself, but then cutscenes during campaigns are done in 2D hand - drawn art, while city screens are also in 2D and feature a completely different style of artwork that paints each town in a classical, bright fantasy style which doesn't match the rest of the game.

Defy history as you try to become part of real classical paintings in Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag.

Painted under strongly directed artificial light using everyday synthetic objects — such as plastic fruit, paint brushes, and jugs — these observational works explore the qualities of balance, stillness, and structure that we associate with the classical composition.

As Richter explained, «landscapes... show my yearning... But though these pictures are motivated by the dream of classical Order and a pristine world — by nostalgia, in other words — the anachronism in them takes on a subversive and contemporary quality» (Gerhard Richter, «Notes 1981», The Daily Practice of Painting, London, 1995, p. 98).

In these stills from the scene that appears in Belz's original trailer, Richter very thoughtfully creates classical gestural abstractions: Which remind me of nothing so much as the great, underappreciated - until - just - now, large - scale paintings of Willem de Kooning from the mid-1970s.

While Borremans's technical command of his medium recalls classical painting — the rich tactility and special glow of his painted surfaces evoke the Old Master tradition and artists such as Francisco Goya — his compositions elude traditional interpretative strategies.

While classical painting tends to be more associated with the atelier movement, observational painting has a strong foothold in various «studio schools» as well larger and older art institutions such as the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the Maryland Institute College of Art.

These works take the classical mediums of painting and dance and present them with the inner emotion and knowledge of a dancer as well as a fresh contemporary eye of an artist.

Sikander's pioneering practice takes classical Indo - Persian miniature painting as its point of departure and challenges the strict formal tropes of the genre by experimenting with scale and various forms of new media.

Included are portraits of personalities such as Vincent Minnelli, Jane Fonda, the Marx Brothers, Louis Brandeis, and Sitting Bull, important German and Swiss figures Mildred Scheel, Max Bill and Joseph Beuys, commemorative images, such as Truck and The New York Post and a reinterpretation of the classical painting «The Annunciation».

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 classical Chinese landscape painting is not meant to reproduce an actual view, as would a Western figurative painting.

This large - scale bronze playfully casts the classical female figure, reimagined in Giorgio de Chirico's surreal paintings, as if she is made of crudely carved polystyrene, further debunking the fetishized art historical form.

This trick, in which an image is only legible from a single perspective, can be seen in classical paintings, such as William Scrots» 1546 portrait of King Edward VI.

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

Ged Quinn specializes in allegorical paintings that include contemporary images in idyllic scenes based on classical paintings such as the pastoral works of Claude Lorrain and Caspar David Friedrich.

He admires the classical style of painting as exemplified by Raphael, Jacques - Louis David, and William - Adolphe Bouguereau where the viewer can see the direct influence of these masters in his work.

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.

Rather than being drawn to a specific style of the past (he has utilized reproductions of paintings by Lorenzo Lotto, Nicolas Poussin as well as Classical sculpture), Paolini is «attracted to the myth of the why, why one makes art.»

In classical paintings, the female body has often been depicted as part of a landscape, or perhaps more flatteringly, as the muse for a man to create art.

As a self - professed «classical modernist,» Quaytman's paintings are characterized by his combined interest in shape, color, line, geometric pattern, and surface texture.

While the bodies of the warriors recall classical portrayals of war as heroic, Norman's painting critiques precisely that valorization by focusing on the gruesome and far - reaching devastation of such violence.

Each of these installations is loosely based on a classical landscape painting by the 17th - century artist Nicolas Poussin (1594 — 1665) created as three - dimensional interpretations using sets of pedestals and standing walls in varying dimensions to display objects in meticulous arrangements.

Although her work results from deep observations of the history of painting — from Velasquez, Rembrandt, Caravaggio and Cezanne among others — her personal vision transcends classical notions of genre and narrative as she invites viewers into a delicious domain of confident brush strokes with a new aesthetic.

Zavaglia has developed a technique which has been described as «Modern Pointillism,» that allows her to blend colors and establish tonalities that truly resemble the techniques used in classical oil painting.

As in classical Chinese painting, the perspective of the café is suspended, and the viewer can no longer determine where the floor ends and the wall begins.

The exhibition will spotlight nearly 80 classical paintings and drawings spanning her career of over three decades, from her early days as an art student in New York City to her present - day life in Taos, NM.

In series such as «Wire» (2003 ---RRB-, «Still Life» (2009 ----RRB- and «Landscape in the Mist» (2012), Wu uses contemporary formats, including projection and video, to emphasize and reinterpret the poetic aethetics of classical Chinese paintings.

Malani originally studied classical painting, but abandoned this tradition in the 1990s as a reaction to a growing religious fundamentalism in Indian politics.

Those images combine the commercial and classical as icons of art history are juxtaposed with contemporary painting, commercial illustration, photojournalism, and three - dimensional household items.

I felt elements of familiarity and sincerity in the work; they struck me as compelling and unique compositions, yet tied to the canon of Classical painting.

Writing on Owens» navigation between genres as diverse as folk, conceptual, and classical painting, Paul Schimmel said, «Owens has found a language that questions the nature of painting while embracing its multifarious manifestations.»

Presented across eight sectors, the ocean - front located event allows visitors to explore some of the world's best sculpture, film, art publications, paintings and classical photography, as well as site - specific works which take advantage of the iconic Miami Beach setting.

Trained in East Germany in the classical art of realist painting, Richter's images have the quiet stillness of European masterworks, taking in genres such as the still life, landscape and portraiture, but of contemporary subjects that are often rendered like a slightly out of focus photograph.

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.

Drawing inspiration from classical portrait painting of the 17th - century Dutch Golden Age to explore the relationship between her subjects and their environment, Dumas often presents her subjects as heroic, engaged in a struggle of sorts against their marginalization or confinement, and against the spatial and psychological encroachment of people.

As the artist explained, «if my Abstract paintings show my reality, then the landscapes and still - lives show my yearning... though these pictures are motivated by the dream of classical order and a pristine world - by nostalgia in other words — the anachronism in them takes on a subversive and contemporary quality» (G. Richter, quoted in A. Zweite (ed.)

Posed before a violent tableaux (a picture within the picture that pays homage to the sweeping compositions of classical history painting), the scene appears as a suspended moment in a mysterious narrative.

The Taos paintings, both meditative and classical, are among Martin's most powerful invocations of the sublime, as well as persuasive expression of pure joy.

The work is as calm and classical as his many of his early paintings were stormy and scatological: a listing of Hellenic sculptors against a deep blue background with planet - like discs.

Peter Holm is a Danish artist working with painting in the extended field, extracting qualities from multiple disciplines such as architecture, design and classical painting.

Exploring the very nature of painting, both as a form of a visual language and a vehicle of mere expression, Howard Hodgkin rejected any classical and modern art canons.

Xie Molin combines two traditions in his machine - generated abstract paintings: his classical training in fine arts and his use of a tri-axial linkage painting machine, continuing his father's legacy as an engineer.

Several of Zefeldt's paintings incorporate «portraits» of classical sculpture heads repeated one by one on the canvas, aligning them in a circle as well as placing more of them within the circle where eyes, a nose and a mouth would be — ultimately forming a face.