Sentences with phrase «classical themes»

A second classical theme that needs to be given a new dimension is the doctrine of election.

Katz often works with classical themes of portraiture, landscape, beach scenes and flowers.

Basquiat drew his subjects from his own Caribbean heritage — his father was Haitian and his mother of Puerto Rican descent — and a convergence of African - American, African, and Aztec cultural histories with Classical themes and contemporary heroes like athletes and musicians.

These sculptures, often focusing on Classical themes, were largely assembled from found objects and painted white.

Mallary's works are take their inspiration from classical themes.

A painter, sculptor, draughtsman, and sometime printmaker, his work renewed classical themes for our times and explored the expressiveness of line in both written and abstracted form.

Having orchestral audio tracks would revive classical themes for a newer generation, providing a grander experience for a once lost game in the series.

Matisse appropriated classical themes — the nude, the still life, the pastorale — but he reinvented and often subverted them with the musical energies of his audacious color.

The combination — with both invoking classical themes, a new turn in the work — will prove a mouth - watering preview for Koons's career retrospective that is opening at the Whitney next year.

In 1977, an exhibition entitled Romare Bearden, Odysseus at Cordier and Ekstrom Gallery in New York, included paintings inspired by classical themes.

Its characteristics include classical themes, combined with Egyptian, Chinese and French Rococo elements.

Edmonia Lewis, American sculptor whose Neoclassical works exploring religious and classical themes won contemporary praise and received renewed interest in the late 20th century.

Works by the Recycle Group are distinguished by their irony and unusual approach to the theme of modernity, combining classical themes and non-traditional materials — polyurethane, silicon, plastic, and so on.

His early classical themes were exhibited at the Royal Academy and the Society of British Artists.

«Rome Garden (1971)»: In a moment of professional crisis, Philip Guston retreated to Italy and reworked classical themes.

Advertisers have known this for ages, of course, surrounding engaging images of powerful pickup trucks or polished luxury cars with familiar rock anthems and soaring classical themes.

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.

What this leads to can be found in almost any Hollywood film on a classical theme: think of all those Hercules movies; think of Clash of the Titans.

His elegant paintings present a modern, quintessentially American take on the classical themes of portraiture, landscape, figure studies, marine scenes and flowers.

Words, in Twombly's inimitably awful handwriting, may spell out a classical theme or a time and place of observation and creation.

ILLUMInations points to light, a classical theme in art that closely relates to Venice.

Indeed, the titles of his works, such as Ecce Homo, Gethsemane, and Marsyras point to biblical or classical themes, which bring with them a seriousness now not easily found.

Transplanted from Dumbo to Chelsea for the summer, 247365 presents a show that abandons abstraction and, counterintuitively, explores the reemergence of classical themes — landscape, still life, and portraiture — in painting.

Consistent with the classical themes, Bath concentrates upon a bather - famously the subject of Renoir, Degas, Matisse and Cézanne - drying herself with a towel.

Why do you look at ancient and classical themes?

In his depiction of this, Bas makes a gentle nod to Théodore Gericault's The Raft of the Medusa, 1818 - 19, though allusions to classical themes and genres are always viewed through the prism of his interpretations as an observer and an outsider — whether trying to follow in the footsteps of Lord Byron, or portraying punters or freshers, terms unknown to the artist before his Cambridge sojourn.

The exhibition revolves around three large - scale paintings that, each in their own way, meld traditional narrative painting, classical themes and modern pop - culture.

In his depiction of this, Bas makes a gentle nod to Théodore Gericault's The Raft of the Medusa, 1818 - 19, although allusions to classical themes and genres are always viewed through the prism of his interpretations as an observer and an outsider — whether trying to follow in the footsteps of Lord Byron, or portraying punters or freshers, terms unknown to the artist before his Cambridge sojourn.

West Gallery: Su Schnee An exhibition of recent large - scale, mixed - media works on paper by Montreal artist Su Schnee will open at Mercer Union on Tuesday, January 6 at 8:00 p.m. Su Schnee's striking and evocative imagery falls within the parameters of two classical themes: landscape and portrait.

Su Schnee's striking and evocative imagery falls within the parameters of two classical themes: landscape and portrait.

Pure landscape became less and less interesting for him, and he increasingly turned his attention to classical themes and allegorical portraits, such as the alluring Poetry (Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford).

The exhibition title is a cheeky six - word paraphrase of The Iliad introducing us both to the classical theme and the conceptual artist's distinctive sense of humor.

Marilyn Minter, renowned for her contemporary painting, photography, and videos takes on the classical theme of the bather in a new series of large scale paintings, her fourth exhibition at Salon 94.

West's subjects ranged across a wide field, Biblical, Shakespearean, historical and Classical themes, and he actively encouraged American painters to extend their range.

Odedina's stylistic vernacular is figurative, whilst his bringing together of classical themes from ancient Greek to Yoruban mythologies speaks of magic realism.

In this exhibition, Marilyn Minter takes on the classical theme of the bather and the period of drastic art historical change characterized by the new role of the female nude and «the gaze» represented in works such as Édouard Manet's Olympia (1863) and Gustave Courbet» s L'Origine du Monde (1866).

«Tom Wesselmann Still Life, Nude, Landscape: The Late Prints» spans the second half of the artist's 40 - year career, with a focus on his abstract interpretations of classical themes.

«He takes this classical theme — except the bather is in motion.

Blood Horse may be seen to be a remaking of this classical theme in a modern sensibility.

Consistent with the classical themes, Bath concentrates upon a bather — famously the subject of Renoir, Degas, Matisse and Cézanne — drying herself with a towel.