Sentences with phrase «classical portrait paintings»

Hartung's dark room installation includes two elements — a lighted fish tank sitting on top of a metal cabinet with a paper image of two classical portrait paintings, and a fifteen - minute video projection titled The Ascent of Man.

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.

Not exact matches

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 life Malevich turned back to an almost classical representative painting style focused on portraits.

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.

Opie has posed Streb against a black drop cloth and uses theatrical lighting to create a formally classical portrait that recalls seventeenth - century painting with allegorical dimensions.

The artist's portraits of young children highlight the attention to detail, composition and color that characterize much of classical painting.

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».

For the exhibition Portrait Gallery in Genova, the artist will show a new series of works; the installation situates the paintings, with their brooding and centripetal masses, in dialogue with the rooms of the villa responding to its monumentality and mimicking the classical display of a picture gallery.

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.

One of the most significant young artists today, Kehinde Wiley (American, b. 1977) is known for his vibrant, large - scale paintings of black urban men rendered in the self - confident, empowered poses typical of classical European portrait painting.

Her figurative paintings use traditional art - historical genres (the still life, the formal portrait, depictions of classical statuary) to explore people and objects that no longer have the fixed representational or symbolic status that allowed those genres to operate.

Rauschenberg's use of juxtapositioning various things out of a context, creating a whole new environment and context, always appealed to me more so than making a painting about something; about a landscape, portrait, still life, or historical or classical event and so forth; biblical thing.

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.

She uses the visual language and inherited traditions of classical academic western painting, particularly the portrait and still life.

One of the most significant young artists today, Kehinde Wiley is known for vibrant, large - scale paintings of young urban men, rendered in the self - confident, empowered poses typical of classical European portrait painting.

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Equally striking in a much different way are the monumental paintings of Kehinde Wiley, who borrows from classical baroque paintings to create eye - grabbing backgrounds and compositions for his own contemporary self - portraits.

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.

«Homer Was Swept Away» shows a classical Greek painting with heavy water damage in a bent frame, as if it had been swept away in a flood, while «George Washington Eroded» is a portrait of the first president, flaked, peeling and crumbling; it looks like the sort of thing archeologists from the year 3500 would extract from the ruins of what was the United States of America.»

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).

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

Yet throughout his prodigious and successful career, he and his bustling workshop also created imposing altarpieces and smaller religious paintings for private devotion or collectors, striking portraits, depictions of sensual episodes drawn from the classical tradition, and majestic allegories glorifying the Venetian state.

Indeed, the three sections of the exhibition, corresponding to the three floors — Painting / Abstraction; Identity / Portrait; Landscape / Still life — remind us, for all of its understanding of the modern, industrial world, representation in grey begins and carries through it, the classical genres of pPainting / Abstraction; Identity / Portrait; Landscape / Still life — remind us, for all of its understanding of the modern, industrial world, representation in grey begins and carries through it, the classical genres of paintingpainting.