Sentences with phrase «coloured classical paintings»

Lord Frederic Leighton (1830 - 1896) combined opulently coloured classical paintings with highly influential sculptures.

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Fantasy Villa Time, 2015, printed image, plywood, wood, paint, felt tips, Chinese piano, radio alarm clock set to UK time and playing classical music, paper copies, pink wardrobe, rainbow stickers, coloured cardboard, cushions, plastic cup, fixture and 60W standard bulb in red or green, polycarbonate sheeting, sweat shirt, plant, fixings, 214 x 200 x 87 cm, 84 1/4 x 78 3/4 x 34 1/4 ins

The 18 large multimedia «Pour Paintings» in this exhibition were made between 1985 and 2004, and their hallucinatory colour effects, deconstructed supports and embrace of the ephemeral demonstrate what Richter meant — though there is classical rigour here too.

The bright painted colours of classical statues and temples has worn away over history.

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.

His loose painting style is often described as reminiscent of the classical murals from ancient Rome, large in scale, soft yet strong in colour and rich in detail.

Heron's more geometrical paintings from 1957 - 9, made of a succession of irregular stripes with a tonal progression, would register the influence of the so - called «classical» Rothkos from the 1950s, without forgetting the «horizontal colours - layers» he had admired in de Staël's sea and sky paintings of 1952 - 3.

Home - works 1 and Home - works 2 consist of reproductions of classical sculptures placed on brightly coloured painted brick plinths.

Combining oil painting and textile collage, the colour palette is very much inspired by a 19th century approach, with Fritz Bornstück working like an impressionist in the field, while at the same time turning the works around to pull them in a decidedly more contemporary direction, inflicting contrasting architecture and items on the classical compositions.

Influenced by moody, classical painting aesthetics; the subtleties of tonal colours and composition, «De'Souza - Hartley's imagery is often an intoxicating paradox within a silent world; dark, but resolutely beautiful».

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).

It is thus that Glenn Brown's art reveals the subjective force of his translations of reproductions of works by earlier masters, his atomization of painting, and the inexhaustible inventiveness of his practice, which appropriates the styles and colours of drawings and classical paintings.

He was also especially drawn to the decorative paintings of Theodore Chasseriau, whose style combined the classical linear composition of J.A.D.Ingres and the colour of Delacroix, and who would be the model for several of his later works.