Sentences with phrase «creating iconic paintings»

He carried this interest into his artwork, creating iconic paintings of megastars, such as Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe, and Elizabeth Taylor.

How Edward Hopper Storyboarded Nighthawks: Drawings at the Whitney reveal the step - by - step process the artist used to create his iconic painting of a New York diner at night Robin Cembalest

Drawings at the Whitney reveal the step - by - step process the artist used to create his iconic painting of a New York diner at night Read More

Here, they created the iconic paintings that helped launch a distinctly American style of Abstract Expressionism.

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They are easy to paint and can be used to create awesome iconic designs, such as this popsicle stick Christmas tree.

New In Scandinavia / Denmark: DEAR MR. WATTERSON «Calvin and Hobbs» creator Bill Watterson created one of the most iconic comic strips ever made, ended the run at it's peak of success after only a decade (which is relatively short for the medium) and walked away from the business to paint.

Famed street artist Shepard Fairey, who created the iconic Hope 2008 poster for Barack Obama, will paint a mural for a wetlands project at Jupiter High School.

The commemorative Bell Star Carbon helmet created for World Superbike showcases an original custom design by air - brush artist Chris Wood of Santa Barbara - based paint shop Airtrix, which features the iconic California state flag graphics.

Referencing the «old masters» of art history and tradition, she creates her own versions, much like Picasso did with Manet's iconic painting, Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe.

The composition is dominated by a large expanse of wood painted with the artist's iconic cadmium red, resulting in an area that resonates and reverberates with an intensity of color that is unrivalled in twentieth century art, except perhaps by the forces of color created by Mark Rothko on his large - scale canvases.

In a related work, McElheny's Window Painting I — which echoes an iconic painting by Ellsworth Kelly from 1949 — mirror and tinted grey glass create a mysterious space «beyondPainting I — which echoes an iconic painting by Ellsworth Kelly from 1949 — mirror and tinted grey glass create a mysterious space «beyondpainting by Ellsworth Kelly from 1949 — mirror and tinted grey glass create a mysterious space «beyond».

Paolini's belief that a work of art is not just reflective of the «here and now» but is also resonant of earlier traditions, has led him to investigate art's relation to the past, creating intriguing installations deeply rooted in art history from the Renaissance to today - from plaster casts of classical sculptures shattered on the ground, to photographs of iconic paintings by Northern Italian Renaissance painter, Lorenzo Lotto, or inquiries into the construction of the image.

Obvious now, perhaps, but not in 1959, when Stella created his iconic «Black Paintings.»

Before arriving at a final print, I construct iconic architecture creating rural scenes out of clay and wood then paint or draw their backdrops.

Chitra Ganesh creates wall installations, paintings, drawings, photographs, and animations that make use of an expansive visual vocabulary that ranges from Bollywood films, comics and graphic novels, to iconic feminist imagery.

The dazzling mixed - media works of Mickalene Thomas (b. 1971) combine rhinestones with acrylic and oil paints to create compositions that often reference iconic works of art from nineteenth - century Europe.

His paintings and distilled style went on to influence Bauhaus artists, the Minimalists of the 1960s, Color Field Painting and even iconic fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent, who created the «Mondrian» dress — made with fabric matching the artist's Neo-Plastic color blocking.

From iconic silkscreen graphics to black light paintings, McGinness creates a hybrid of experience that move beyond the traditional canvas.

The Beacon, NY based artist creates geometric 8 - Bit inspired watercolor paintings based on iconic images from art history and pop culture.

Often employing fanciful landscapes or staged interiors and intense color palettes to portray her iconic distorted figures, she creates provocative paintings that elicit visceral reactions.

One lovely summer day, an iconic vision comes to mind: you see yourself seated at your easel in a field of flowers, working peacefully on a plein - air landscape painting as clouds float above and bees pass by, humming in a friendly manner while searching for nectar or creating honey or whatever.

Other Warhol source images a photograph of an electric chair that inspired «Triple Silver Disaster,» which he created in 1963, when he was transitioning from hand - painted to mechanically reproduced pop, and a publicity still from the 1953 Marilyn Monroe film noir «Niagara,» cropped tightly and used to create his iconic «Marilyn» prints.

In the 1950s, Saul introduced the iconic comic and cartoon characters, Superman and Donald Duck, to his expressionist paintings; in the mid-1960s, he devoted a series of anti-military works to the Vietnam War; and, in the 1970s, he created his own variations of Rembrant's «The Night Watch» and Picasso's «Guernica», always returning to subjects drawn from mass media and art history.

The color of each painting derives from the nudes by Impressionist artist Auguste Renoir, and revisits a technique Levine first employed in 1989 with her Meltdown series of woodcut prints, where an averaging algorithm was used to create a checkerboard composition based on modernist artists» iconic paintings.

Including new works created specifically for the Los Angeles exhibition, «Dark Light» will also include the painting of the same name that made waves at Secession, which riffs on Emanuel Leutze's nationally iconic 1851 composition, Washington Crossing the Delaware, but instead depicts a figure in place of the president in a red baseball hat and camouflage tee shirt.

As in his paintings, Walsh works in response to his marks as they develop on the copperplate, following or diverging from their prescribed paths, in order to create these colorful and iconic geometries.

The exhibition focuses on recent sculptures by the Japanese contemporary artist Bidou Yamaguchi (b. 1970) who employs the forms, techniques and transformative spirit of traditional Noh masks to create contemporary sculptures whose subjects are drawn from such iconic European paintings as Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa and Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring.

Neo-futuristic abstract expressionism best describes the genre of Johnathan's work; colorful and evocative, his paintings create powerful visual discourses about the relationships we form with pop culture and its most iconic characters.

Peter adds: «I hope to create a new context to evaluate his iconic paintings, and start a discussion on the continuing power and relevance of urban painting to a contemporary audience.»

In the past he has created enigmatic light boxes that reduced iconic images from the history of photography to basic shapes and forms, visually akin to the paintings of Alex Katz.

And Mark Rothko used acrylic paints along with oils to create his iconic, contemplative canvases.

«Kinetic Painting» will bring together all six decades of the artist's work, from the rarely - seen assemblages and nude paintings created early in her career, some iconic performances and films from the»60s and»70s and a look at her later experiments in installation.

Multidisciplinary artist and designer Alper Dostal created this fun series entitled «Hot Art Exhibition» where he visualizes some of the world's most iconic paintings melting in the heat of summer.

Although my work doesn't look on the surface much like his, I think he taught me about using iconic signifiers and figures that I could project myself into for emotion and as an avatar in paint (like Scott McCloud describes in his amazing book, Understanding Comics, that we do as comic readers), and create figurative narrative allegories that hopefully resonate deeper than most political cartoons and relate to Goya and other art historical uses of politics and allegory as much as the imagery could relate to underground comics and contemporary worlds.

Having spent 10 years studying traditional ink painting under a Chinese master in Chongqing, China, Verdier has since created an iconic pictorial language that merges these traditional painting techniques with influences from Western art history.

Trained under iconic German artists Gerhard Richter and Bernd and Hilla Becher at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Thomas Struth creates careful compositions that blur the line between painting and photography, addressing notions of institution, space and group dynamics.

[15] Initially, lithography suited Johns and enabled him to create print versions of iconic depictions of flags, maps, and targets that filled his paintings.

«His trajectory might well be compared with that of another one - hit wonder, Archibald MacNeil Willard, who created one of the most iconic American paintings, Spirit of» 76, for the 1876 Centennial Celebration.»

In his third solo exhibition at the gallery, the Los Angeles artist, known for creating works that insert the often invisible laborers who makes luxury possible, is turning his sights to Melrose Avenue — creating a series of paintings that take on iconic sites such as the Paramount Studios and Fred Segal.

Gaia November 18, 2012 — May 5, 2013 Site - specific installation Baltimore - based street artist Gaia has created two mural - sized artworks inspired by the museum's iconic Vahine no te Vi (Woman of the Mango) painting by Paul Gauguin and individuals living in the Museum's neighboring Remington community.

He presents us with whimsical interpretations of iconic artists at work and play; Kahlo sitting regally on a chair; Dali jumping athletically across a triptych created by vintage Thai calendars; Bacon casually checking the time on his wrist watch; Pollock dripping paint; Duchamp fixing the viewer with a cold gaze; Picasso drawing freestyle across a vintage sign; and multiple Warhol figures crouching on a studio floor creating screen prints.

Angel Otero: Everything and Nothing chronicles the evolution of Otero's practice to date and features four distinct bodies of work created between 2006 and 2015, including his iconic skin and transfer paintings, early work created using silicon and collage, as well as sculpture.

Bringing together more than sixty oil paintings and watercolors from a host of international lenders, J. M. W. Turner: Painting Set Free is the first major exhibition devoted to Turner's achievements during his final period of productivity, when some of his most iconic works were created.

«The exhibition reunites Les Demoiselles with a group of preparatory studies for the overall composition and for the individual figures, and also includes selected works created immediately before and after the iconic painting that highlight its generative role in the artist's oeuvre.

In addition to his two recent video works on display at Leila Heller Gallery, Azari also commissioned a painter to create replicas of classic orientalist paintings with specific changes or additions, such as playboy bunnies inserted into bath - house scenes, or RPG launchers and AK - 47s inserted into Jean - Léon Gérôme's iconic painting «The Snake Charmer» (1870).

Created in celebration of Singapore's Golden Jubilee, 50 editions of Chinese artist Nan Qi's iconic ink painting Nan Qi's Dot, 2011 have been individually signed by the artist, and are now availabel for acquisition from the gallery.

Coney Island Is Still Dreamland (To a Seagull), a site - specific installation by artist Stephen Powers, will transform the Brooklyn Museum's Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Gallery into a dynamic environment filled with paintings and signs that are created in the visual vernacular of the iconic seaside community.

Already an established artist when he began his iconic photography experiments in 1969, Greek - born Lucas Samaras created drawings, design objects, paintings, photographs, sculpture and installations using a variety of materials.

Taking on the iconic site of the Pleasure Garden Fountains in the heart of Battersea Park, Samara Scott created a «liquid painting».

Over at the National Gallery the once in a lifetime Rembrandt exhibition, in collaboration with Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum, brings us 100 late works from the iconic Dutch artist who created a new expressive and coarse style of painting as he faced person tragedy and financial difficulties.