Sentences with phrase «created extraordinary paintings»

Turkish - born Fahrelnissa Zeid created extraordinary paintings that mix Islamic, Byzantine, Arab, Persian and European influences

Back in the day it was Van Dyck and Canova who received the family's patronage; now it's Richard Wright, winner of the 2009 Turner prize, who has created an extraordinary painting in a turret - like folly in the castle grounds known as the «monkey house».

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Meet the Maker: Menagerie Artist Emma Gray from Menagerie lives and works in Brighton, where she creates extraordinary portraits of animals painted on wood — some...

Meet «thread painter» Emily Tull, who uses a needle as her paintbrush and threads as her paint to create extraordinary works of art.

The initial familiarity of these scenes allows for our personal investment in them, but the literal trace of the object, created by the puncture of the needle and gauge of the thread, continues to pull us back to the surface and to the painting itself as the object of extraordinary investment and inquiry.

Taylor was in residence at the museum for months preceding the show, creating the paintings that appeared in the exhibitions, portraits of ordinary and extraordinary people.

The exhibition focuses on the most extraordinary painting of a stone ever created in China: Wu Bin's Ten Views of a Lingbi Stone (1610), a Ming dynasty handscroll comprising 10 separate views of a single stone from the famous site of Lingbi, Anhui Province.

While he begins each work by creating of a small clay model, his paintings are anything but «still - lifes»; rather, they are extraordinary mediations on the medium of paint and the activity of painting.

In his early 20s in the late 1950s, Frank Stella created an extraordinary series of monochrome paintings, now on view at L&M Arts.

By night and during the off - season he read, wrote, and painted prolifically, creating an extraordinary body of mostly small - scale canvases rich with enigmatic symbolism.

Wåhlstrand creates extraordinary large - scale ink wash paintings featuring monumental landscapes, compelling portraits and serene interiors with intriguing compositions.

Like Beuys, Polke created extraordinary assemblies of the most ordinary materials, which also appeared in his collages and paintings: at one point he developed a particular penchant for liverwurst and potato that culminated in 1967 with Potato House, a remarkable flat - pack installation.

The Chrysler's own Thomas Cole painting, The Angel Appearing to the Shepherds, the largest single canvas he ever created, joins this extraordinary tribute to one of the founding fathers of American art.

Art gallery SC will host an interesting group exhibition of paintings created by extraordinary artists Ana Barriga, Mikel del Río, Paco Pomet, and Sebas Velasco.

Dion Johnson's extraordinary use of acrylic paint creates almost digital landscapes, enhanced by his ability to camouflage both brush and stroke.

In some paintings the brushstrokes generate an extraordinary sense of movement, whereas in others they create a sculptural effect, as if the painting had been generated through 3D printing.

The exotic and wildly imaginative design for the Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney Studio, created between 1917 and 1923 by artist Robert Chanler, features painted plaster reliefs of fantastical sea creatures on the ceiling and an extraordinary fireplace engulfed in three - dimensional plaster and bronze flames stretching twenty feet high.

During his long career, Roy Newell (1914 - 2006) created an extraordinary series of abstract paintings characterized by obsessive reworking, according to the Pollock - Krasner House.

Late Turner: Painting Set Free will reassess the artist's extraordinary output from 1835, when many of his most celebrated paintings were created including Rain, Steam, and Speed — The Great Western Railway 1844 (National Gallery) and The Blue Rigi, Sunrise 1842 (Tate).

Taylor was in residence at the museum for months preceding the show, creating the paintings that appeared in the exhibition, portraits of ordinary and extraordinary people.

«Mark's innovative, multi-layered abstract paintings with paper, seen most recently in Pickett's Charge at the Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, and Stephen's extraordinary textile works on view at the BMA are evidence that these new modes of contemporary painting can produce artworks as compelling as those created using more traditional methods.»

These paintings display extraordinary effort at creating the illusion of folded cloth incorporating a subtle range of color values.

These range from the emotionally charged constructions of the early 1960s and his impeccably painted landscapes of the American West, to his deeply disturbing portraits from the late 1970s and his remarkable recent narrative tableaux, which seamlessly blend painting with found materials to create an extraordinary illusion of depth.