Sentences with phrase «cubist portraits»

The Cubist Portraits, which began June 21 and runs through September 20, 2009, is prominently displayed in the Meadow's permanent collection galleries.

The Cubist Portraits is a very rare collection of works.

Last sold at auction in 1973 at Sotheby's in London, Femme assise has remained in a private collection for over forty years, during which time it has featured in some of the most important international exhibitions of Picasso's work, including key exhibitions on Cubism: Picasso and Braque: Pioneering Cubism at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1989; Picasso: Sculptor / Painter at Tate Gallery, London, in 1994; and Picasso: The Cubist Portraits of Fernande Olivier at the National Gallery of Art, Washington in 2003 - 04.

His cubist portraits where a highlight for our recent exhibition and its exciting to see Tobe build a complete exhibition around the series of work.

Inviting a gaggle of artists to design these may seem a superficial bit of outmoded British art boosting, but in reality it is a romantic restatement of the Olympic ideal, inviting artists to imagine the forces of human effort and natural capacity that have always made sport a theme for modern art (think of cubist portraits of cyclists and Picasso's beach ball scenes).

Maybe like cubist portraits where I can see them from every possible angle and still go through an entire emotional spectrum, falling and then standing up again.

Like one of Picasso's fragmented Cubist portraits, Homo fossils from 300,000 years ago give a vague, provocative impression that someone with a humanlike form is present but not in focus.

I become more convinced that the best we can hope for is a cubist portrait of the movement, even though we try for some form of expressionism.

Featuring a cubist portrait by iconic American graphic artist / illustrator Charles S. Anderson.

Imagine a cinematic equivalent of a Picasso cubist portrait, but instead of showing multiple perspectives of an object in an image, it presents experiences from different periods in a life in a single narrative.

His tendency to hit the nail on the head in his depiction of those close to him suggests a cold streak of cruelty, his relentless caricatures of biographer Jaumes Sabartés no less chilling than his derisive, Cubist portrait of Olga of 1935.

With the slightest gesture or prop, a dog might become a classical torso, a cubist portrait, an abstraction or a picture of someone you know.

Picasso's most famous Cubist portrait of Dora Maar.

Christie's is honored to present property from distinguished private collections: Impressionist masterpieces by Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne and Paul Gauguin formerly held by Hunt Henderson; a rare cubist portrait by Picasso of his wife Olga and paintings by Marc Chagall and Max Ernst from the Cleveland Clinic Collection and generously donated by Mrs. Sydell Miller; monumental sculptures by Henry Moore from The Estate of Ronald P. Stanton and an outstanding selection of works by Fernand Léger, Wassily Kandinsky, Robert Delaunay, Georges Braque, Pierre - Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas, and Auguste Rodin.

Not exact matches

She embraced the «synthetic cubist» method of painting, using small, geometric planes of strong color to create stunning, empowering portraits of women.

The early works, such as Botticelli's Virgin Adoring the Sleeping Christ Child, which has not been exhibited outside of Scotland for more than 150 years, are religious paintings while later works from the Renaissance masters, 17th - century painters, Impressionists, Post-Impressionists, and Cubists include different genres of paintings such as portrait, still life and landscape, and represent the changing treatment of those genres over time.

Across the three projections, which split our perspective in both a narrative and spatial refraction, the artist portrays her heterogeneous subjects as they go on with their lives, catching glimpses of people and scenery alike and building a choral — and a little cubist — portrait of the American town.

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You would initially associate Schwitters with Dadaism, however just looking through this major exhibition in the Tate Britain you will find scraps of the surrealists and the cubists; despite this it does feel that he didn't belong in any of these movements, always trying something new or something very bland and documentary, for example his portraits or his landscapes in which he had friends commission him for.

Memorable food paintings of yore include Giuseppe Arcimboldo's portraits (pictured above) from the 1500s, Pieter Claesz and the Dutch still life painters of the 1600s, Caravaggio's rotting fruit, the early Cubist still lifes of Picasso and Braque, Wayne Thiebaud «s desserts from the 1960s, and Andy Warhol's iconic Campbell's Soup Cans.

Among the works on display are evocative watercolors by Winslow Homer and Édouard Manet, powerful portrait drawings by Jean - Auguste - Dominique Ingres and Edgar Degas, sporting lithographs by George Bellows, a pen landscape by Vincent van Gogh, and cubist compositions by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque.

In Self - Portrait with Haircut, created in 2003, Saul portrays himself in mock - cubist fashion, with his eyes, nose and ears placed at impossible angles and his head sliced geometrically to reveal spaghetti - like hair (or brain) stubble.

Looking back to Cubist collages, Rauschenberg includes photographs of a galloping horse and a Dutch group portrait, along with part of a telegram.

In 1974, Harold Rosenberg, one of Saul Steinberg's earliest and most eloquent supporters, wrote that «Cubism... which in the canon of the American art historian is the nucleus of twentieth - century formal development in painting, sculpture and drawing, is to Steinberg merely another detail in the pattern of modern mannerisms; in a landscape, he finds no difficulty in combining Cubist and Constructivist elements with an imitation van Gogh «self - portrait.

Other galleries with distinguished vintage work include New York's Salander - O'Reilly with drawings by Stuart Davis, Ralston Crawford and Matisse, San Francisco's Hackett Freedman with a late Cubist 1943 self - portrait by Hans Hofmann and Philadelphia's Marianne Locks with a 1963 Joseph Cornell box on cosmological themes and a wonderful 1938 Matisse drawing of a seated woman.

Significant works in the exhibition include two 1917 Matisse paintings of the Italian model Lorette, Picasso's Rose Period portrait of a «Woman with a Kerchief», Dufy's 1929 «Reclining Nude», and a powerful 1914 Cubist collage by Juan Gris.

He confronts the viewer with cubist face structures, opaque masks of shapes that at first glance nothing to do with the genre with «Face — Off» have to do the portrait.

In this shifted context, the Cubist subject, be it a portrait or still life, no longer feels like an obsessive examination of form in space, but the trajectory of an image flashing past the eye too quickly to be recorded in conventional terms,» suggesting that «the real subject of art in the modern era is the anxious blur of time.»

During a sojourn in Paris in 1939, he produced a few landscape paintings and some portraits in a cubist style, but the outbreak of war meant he returned to Switzerland, where he created little more that might be called fine art until 1949.

Outstanding in the first room is his absolutely stunning picture postcard painting «Santa Margherita Ligure», 1964, and a painting of the famous cubist painter «Portrait of Juan Gris» 1963, one of the artist's early works, intriguing for its predominate figure, as he produced few figurative paintings; advancing to the fifth room where light and shadows are being used in Caulfield classic twee interior scenes to understand the depth of pictorial space.

(This is similar to the ways in which the market for Picasso in recent years has placed so much more value in the decoratively beautiful portraits of the 1930s over the revolutionary analytic Cubist paintings made between 1910 and 1912.)

Tryggvadottir painted portraits, in a partially cubist style, and engaged with a range of media such as, printmaking, watercolor, collage, book art, glass, and mosaic.

Soon after arriving he became friends with his neighbour Picasso, and was introduced to other modern artists, including the Fauvist Henri Matisse, the Cubists Fernand Leger and Georges Braque, and the Expressionist painter Amedeo Modigliani (who painted his portrait in 1915).

Artists have been intrigued for centuries, whether it be Tutankhamun's stylised and iconic death mask, portraits painted with stunning realism on Roman coffins, Vermeer's alluring Girl with a Pearl Earring or Picasso's Cubist dissections and fragmentations of the face.

During the early 1940s, he deviated from his earlier allegiance to Picasso and a synthetic cubist style and began to produce historicizing portraits, almost exclusively of women, that looked back to Raphael and Ingres.