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The exhibition also features classical paintings by the great 19th - century artists Frederic Leighton and Lawrence Alma - Tadema, revealing the Victorian fascination with re-imagining life in Greece and Rome, from lovers» flirtations to dramatic martyrdom.

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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.

The collection of classical and contemporary paintings, on loan from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, has been featured in Architectural Digest, and is perfectly accented by the French lace curtains and Viennese velvet draperies.

After 1940, artists began using plastic - based material that was a far cry from the oil - based paints used by classical painters.

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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.

Later in his artistic life De Chirico changed into a more «classical» painting style, inspired by the painters of early Renaissance, Giottto and Ucello.

Who amongst them realizes that between the Differential Calculus and the dynastic principle of politics in the age of Louis XIV, between the Classical city - state and the Euclidean geometry, between the space perspective of Western oil painting and the conquest of space by railroad, telephone and long range weapon, between contrapuntal music and credit economics, there are deep uniformities?

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64m ², 700sqf, enjoy the royal life offered by the hand - carved classical furnishing, spacious design, high ceiling & walls elegantly painted.

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.

Inside, this classical villa is decorated with the magnificent tapestries, paintings and antiques collected by its erstwhile aristocratic owners.

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Influenced by an unusual combination of abstract expressionist painting and classical music, he fuses the two mediums together into a unique body of artwork.

They are a synthesis of Indian miniatures painted with precision and delicacy and Western classical architecture inspired by Carlo Crivelli's The Annunciation in the National Gallery, London.

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).

Unlimited, curated by Gianni Jetzer, is Art Basel's exhibition platform for projects that transcend the classical art - show stand, including massive sculpture and paintings, video projections, large - scale installations, and live performances.

Working in Paris, Feitelson no doubt was aware that Picasso had already moved in this classical direction, creating beautifully outlined figures inspired by classical sculpture and Renaissance painting.

The Hall of Sculpture Balcony bears a hefty selection of Nicole Eisenman's paintings and plaster sculptures amongst the museum's figurative marble statues, though the artist's brand of classical and art historical absurdities seem tame in comparison to the strangeness of satirical and metaphorical works by Iranian artist Rokni Haerizadeh installed in an adjacent space.

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.

The exhibition is centered around the idea of renewing figurative painting by implementing traditional methodologies of classical painting with digital CGI software.

Rashid Rana from Pakistan, represented by Leila Heller Gallery, showed large C - prints of classical paintings with oriental subject matter and opulent still - lives that have been rephotographed, overlaid by a digitally produced grid and partially obscured.

Curated by New York - based curator Gianni Jetzer, Unlimited is Art Basel's pioneering exhibition platform for projects that transcend the classical art - show stand, including massive sculpture and paintings, video projections, large - scale installations, and live performances.

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.

Paolini's belief that a work of art is not just reflective of the «here and now» but is also resonant of earlier traditions, has led him to investigate art's relation to the past, creating intriguing installations deeply rooted in art history from the Renaissance to today - from plaster casts of classical sculptures shattered on the ground, to photographs of iconic paintings by Northern Italian Renaissance painter, Lorenzo Lotto, or inquiries into the construction of the image.

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

The send up of the café furniture will be juxtaposed by the classical tropes in the loosely painted compositions.

Drawing on the classical tradition of bourgeois European painting, Yiadom - Boayke inverts this staid style by placing dark - skinned subjects on her canvases, though her loose, blurred brushstrokes negate any traces of racial distinction.

From the same period, Abstraction (1949 — 50) revealed the potent religious symbolism that permeated the artist's iconography, which spans from lust and perdition to salvation, making it a modern take on the reflections on the human condition rendered by the masters of classical painting.

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.

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.

The exhibition, global tour, and auction generated huge international interest driven by Shang and Zhou dynasty ritual bronzes and classical Chinese paintings with exceptional provenance.

Where there's little modeling in work by Leon Golub and George Cohen, Lerner's paintings and drawings have always had a sense of volume, and his work since the 1970s has continued to tap similar mythic and metaphorical material (mummies, hanged or tortured figures) but in a more classical figurative style.

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.»

Brought together for the first time, a series of paintings by the classical Venetian artist celebrate the achievements of British architecture and engineering (from March).

No longer setting a stage for a dystopian lifestyle borne by the delusions and failures of the Soviet system, the paintings on view are referencing Soviet visual representation and its history by juxtaposing, in fragments, hypothetical subjects from Soviet life and classical or baroque mythology.

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.

Consider Lynette Yiadom Boakye's classical oil paintings of fictional black figures («suggestions of people,» she's called them), or Toyin Ojih Odutola's intricate, narrative drawings of an imaginary clan of West African aristocrats, unburdened by the legacy of slavery.

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.

(Deemed the gold standard for vetting classical and modern art, deep knowledge of the artist's process — brushstroke, paint application, layering, rubbing, washing and so forth — were further supported by the new tools of x-ray fluorescence, infrared spectroscopy and x-radiography to more precisely date paints, paper and canvas and assess structural integrity.

With a remarkable technique, John Currin depicts women that often look like the subjects of classical paintings, yet have odd proportions, perhaps like caricatures, that take you by surprise yet make you not be able to look away.

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

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.)

Judith Raphael who is known for her paintings of girls in the poses of classical mythology is here presenting the iconic image «Pandora / Caught Red - handed», of a young girl wielding an open red box surrounded by war planes.

During this period Piet Mondrian's painting Composition No. 10, 1939 — 1942, characterized by primary colors, white ground and black grid lines clearly defined his radical but classical approach to the rectangle and abstract art in general.

Sculpture, Painting, and Video Influenced by Classical Korean Artistic Traditions Explores the Spatial Rhythm Between Object and Viewer

After his last truly Futurist works — a series of paintings on war themes — Severini painted in a Synthetic Cubist mode, and by 1920 he was applying theories of classical balance based on the Golden Section to figurative subjects from the traditional commedia dell» arte.

Greatly influenced by classical culture and literature, his flowing use of paint was reminiscent of the Abstract Expressionists but without the heroic pretentions.

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.