Sentences with phrase «combine narrative paintings»

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This handsome, large - format volume combines archival photographs, original acrylic paintings, and a powerful first - person narrative to present the devastating story of the painful changes in life forced upon the Lakota people.

In this powerful view of African American history, award - winning author and illustrator Nelson combines 44 arresting, full - page paintings with the fictionalized, informal narrative of an African American elder.

Salient facts and intriguing details combine effectively with period portraits, narrative paintings, engravings, and maps.

Inka Essenhigh's paintings, which combine twisted narratives, liquid line work, and oneiric imagery, are at once otherworldly and rooted in specific times and places.

Curated by Fairfax Dorn, Comic Future features paintings, drawings and sculpture by artists who combine abstraction, formalism and narrative with political satire as well as cultural and biographical commentary to explore both comedic and apocalyptic visions of the future.

This autonomous film narrative combining painting and performative interventions reminds of an early student film by Roman Polanski «Two Men and a Wardrobe» (Dwaj ludzie z szafa, 1958).

For the current exhibition at Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills, Alex Israel and Bret Easton Ellis, Israel has collaborated with the celebrated author to create text paintings — fragmented narrative combined with lush stock imagery — that mine their native landscape.

Pulling from source materials imbued with personal narratives, Eric N. Mack fashions his compositions from worn or discarded textiles, Sam Moyer combines stone countertops extracted from their domestic settings with delicately painted canvases, and Kevin Beasley drenches housedresses, t - shirts, and du - rags from a discount store near his studio in Harlem in resin to shape gestural, even painterly, slabs.

Contemporary heir to the pop artists, Da Corte combines these common consumer objects with pop cultural references, personal family narratives — and even other artists» work — in vibrant sculptures, paintings, videos, and immersive installations.

More recently, his work has addressed social and political controversies through large - scale narrative paintings that combine elements of the Japanese woodblock print with inspiration from Renaissance church art.

Quinn's richly layered paintings combine striking landscapes with fragments of figurative narrative from the breadth of history, myth and ironic imagination.

Further highlights include Polly Apfelbaum's strips of textile that are combined to form a colorfully woven painting; Rashid Johnson's tropical enclave containing various unexpected elements from sculptures made with shea butter to video portraits; Katherine Bernhardt's monumental painting with tropical birds, cuddly robots and cigarette stubs, which at once editorializes and summarizes modern culture and the artist herself; an interactive multimedia installation by Nedko Solakov comprising nine sofas in the shapes of the nine Chinese characters constituting the phrase «I miss Socialism, maybe»; and Yu Hong's large - scale painting depicting a famous Chinese fable widely cited in both modern Chinese art history and Chinese Communist narratives.

Dahlia Elsayed combines text and imagery to create narrative paintings that document internal and external geographies.

With Jurassic Paint, Barsch and Hornig invite the participants to combine painting as a «creative act of the imagination» with the construction of the dinosaurs, whose likeness «emerges from fanciful and narrative processes of the human and scientific mind».

His extravagant narratives combine influences that feed into a bizarre and unfathomable alternate reality, one where everyone from Renaissance masters to Francis Bacon and Picasso act as advisors to a deeply personal deconstruction of the medium of painting itself.

Inspired by the hand scrolls and painted screens of early 17th Century Japanese artist Tawaraya Sōtatsu, who combined the traditional themes of the indigenous school of Japanese narrative scroll painting with the bold, decorative designs of the great screen painters of the Azuchi - Momoyama period.

Wang Guangyi (1957) is an internationally famed painter from Beijing, and a leader of China's New Art Movement, widely recognized for his billboard size paintings of intricate narratives that combine images of his nation's heroic past with status symbolism of luxury brands.

His paintings combine vivid narrative with dizzying spatial distortion and jarring hues to produce striking settings for characters of diverse racial backgrounds and social classes.

The show will explore the entire scope of the artist's career, including early cartoons and drawings; his macabre, emotionally - charged paintings of the early 1960s; his epic rock and postcard paintings of the late 1960s and early 1970s; his «bloody head» series of mutilated figures from the late 1970s through the present; and his social commentary paintings targeting corporate America, which include his narrative tableaux that combine painting with woodworking, found materials, and thick mounds of modeling paste, seamlessly blended into the painted surface to create a remarkable illusion of depth.

Anderson's guttural desire to paint combines with his self - aware gestures and dream - logic narratives to produce work that is color zealous, figuratively ambiguous, and politically surreal — his paintings have appropriately been described by writer David Pagel as «dystopian abstraction.»

Combining elements from traditional European painting with global socio - political consciousness, the Iranian - American artist leaves mesmerizing marks on the canvas, building narratives on displacement, tragedy, and chaos.

Sean Downey's recent paintings combine sources, images, and fictions from American history and cinema to create allegorical, open - ended narratives.

Combining images from different sources, Sikander creates densely layered paintings that transcend traditional notions of narrative to combine «overlapping commentaries on lived experiences, art history, and pop culture.»

Scott Anderson's guttural desire to paint combines with his self - aware gestures and dream - logic narratives to produce work that is color zealous, figuratively ambiguous and politically surreal — his paintings have appropriately been described by writer David Pagel as «dystopian abstraction.»

The show, titled WS SC, combines the artist's two central motifs with the language of painting as subject matter in itself, invoking the art historical canon as a framework for his narratives.

This style of acrylic painting was as always, visually bold though devoid of all meaning or narrative, and sums up his quest to combine Mondrian - geometrics and Albers - colourism in an attempt to uncover the relationship between colour and form.

The artist is known for his use of personally driven narrative combined with a physical approach to painting and a highly detailed compositional style.

Sunstrum combines geological speculations of the Earth's structure, theories of the universe and even 18th century Romantic landscape painting in her narrative, drawn landscapes which shift between straight forward and fantastical depictions of volcanic, subterranean and cosmological landscapes.

Incorporating the dynamic visual vocabulary of maps, urban planning grids, and architectural forms, alternating between historical narratives and fictional landscapes, Julie Mehretu's beautifully layered paintings and drawings combine abstract forms with the familiar, pairing the Roman Coliseum with floor plans from international airports, Le Corbusier's unbuilt megacity with blueprints from Zaha Hadid and Tadao Ando, and dashing it all together with a color field full of abstract geometry.

Combining elements of Eastern and Western art, culture, history, mythology, religion, science, and technology with personal narratives, WPA member artist Samantha Sethi, creates dynamic, highly - detailed paintings and drawings.

Gillian Pokalo combines photographic imagery with painting and printmaking techniques, in order to create implied narrative landscapes.

Here is a magisterial drawing that combines graphic power, expressive force, and narrative ambiguity on the grand scale of history painting.

Crowther attempts to combine a fascination with films and narrative paintings in the construction of single large - scale photographs.

While much of his works have been influenced by memories based in photographs and other family memorabilia combined with the gestures of 20th century painting, his latest works highlight the artist's unique process as a form of narrative in itself.

Her work combines painting and visual narrative, autobiographical writing and films.

Combining complex scientific information with an engaging narrative, the book paints an elaborate but accessible portrait of this extraordinary natural phenomenon, tracing its historical discovery and the paradigms of its exploration, outlining its causes and dynamics, and examining its profound importance for the marine ecosystems of the Atlantic Ocean.