Sentences with phrase «depictions of everyday»

The paintings on view display honest depictions of the everyday objects and the living spaces that sustain the artist and her family; husband Andrew Schoultz and son Apollo.

Johns's exhibition at the Leo Castelli Gallery in 1958 was a major turning point in his career; his depictions of everyday subjects — «things the mind already knows» — pulled away from the grandeur of Abstract Expressionism and paved the way for Pop Art and Minimalism.

Claes Oldenburg's audacious, witty, and profound depictions of everyday objects have earned him a reputation as one of the most important artists of the 20th century.

She combined careful depictions of everyday objects with loosely painted, sketchy areas — imbuing the works with a sense of movement contrary to the static feeling of more traditional still - life paintings.

Jacob Lawrence was one of the most important artists of the 20th century, widely renowned for his modernist depictions of everyday life as well as epic narratives of African American history and historical figures.

He is best known for seemingly realistic depictions of everyday objects.

Much of American Scene Painting conveys a sense of nationalism and romanticism in depictions of everyday American life.

Though Thiebaud is famous for his calm depictions of everyday objects, he also painted Californian land and cityscapes.

Public spaces throughout the United States, Europe and Asia contain more than 40 projects of their large - scale depictions of everyday objects.

From Ramsay's commissioned portrait of King George III in sumptuous gold robes (below) to Wilkie's depictions of the everyday, which received high praise at the Royal Academy, the works on display trace a history of royal benefaction and the development of Scottish art between the years 1750 and 1990.

There are a variety of depictions of everyday American life, including a cleaning lady with her trolley and men on a break at a construction site.

The beginnings of street photography in the United States can also be linked to those of jazz, both emerging as outspoken depictions of everyday life.

LaToya Ruby Frazier's straight documentary photography has reignited this sleeping form and made it into a raging beast; Louis Fratino's personal, painterly depictions of everyday gay life raise the bar of figurative - visionary painting, as do the stitched, painted, and sewn works of Tschabalala Self; ditto Katherine Bernhardt.

His energetic, intense and colourful works range from still life elements, dead animal carcasses, to abstract depictions of the everyday life.

A notable African - American painter, Jacob Lawrence was known for his modernist depictions of everyday life and the African American experience.

Working in a style that links mystery, irony, and realism, Derrick Guild channels the Dutch Rococo and seventeenth century Spanish painting in contemporary depictions of everyday objects isolated on dark backgrounds.

Particularly moving are her depictions of everyday folk hearing the «Word of the Lord» in their own language for the first time and the powerful feelings that this engenders.

Ideally, depictions of BF in the media and in art, were just that, depictions of an everyday activity.

In its «Live well for less» campaign Sainsbury's has certainly shown that it's possible to warm the cockles of our hearts with depictions of everyday, involved fatherhood.

If salvation remains, it's in the sensitive depiction of everyday life, which persists throughout.

The use and depiction of everyday items allowed Pop artists to challenge the nature of marketing, explore identity representation and counter the heavy - handed emotional intensity of previous generations, such as the Abstract Expressionists.

One mainstream is represented in the works of Matisse, Picasso, and Monet: expressing beauty, sensuality, primitive power, painterliness, opticality, art as the conveyor of emotion primarily thru color, the spiritual archetypes of Jung, art as the an uplifting sensibility, art as a depiction of idealized life, art as a depiction of everyday (existential) life, and the act of painting itself.

As its European father, the American Impressionism saw different artists gathering and following in its footsteps regarding the depiction of the everyday modern life and the tradition of the en plain air, started with Monet's landscape paintings.

Polke's early work has often been characterised as European Pop art for its depiction of everyday subject matter — sausages, bread and potatoes — combined with images from the mass media.

Bernhardt's depiction of everyday items are drawn from memory, created using acrylic and spray paint such objects include Doritos, socks, watermelon, and basketballs, among others.

Not exact matches

In Paterson, there are no explosions, betrayals, tragedies, or graphic depictions of violence or sex — just enchanting scenes that celebrate the beauties of everyday life.

Critic Consensus: In its depiction of one family, Yi Yi accurately and expertly captures the themes and details, as well as the beauty, of everyday life.

And yet, as near - perfect as the climax is, Fruitvale Station is considerably less successful in its depiction of Oscar's everyday activities.

, with early scenes of easygoing camaraderie gradually turning into something darker; and it has the same everyday, naturalistic depiction of violence which Meadows utilised in

The performances are faultless, top to bottom; the depiction of inland China in the»20s seems right in both the broad strokes of setting and décor, and the everyday bustle of a pastoral village; and the premise of an arrogant Westerner undone by his hubristic adventures overseas adds a dash of contemporary relevance.

The chaos of a fictional English - language newspaper provides a stage for characters unified by a common thread of circumstance, but Rachman's depiction of a paper deemed a «daily report on the idiocy and the brilliance of the species» becomes more about the disillusion in everyday life than the dissolution of an industry.

This series by Yota Yoshida, entitled From Somewhere, To Elsewhere, provides a raw depiction of Tokyo city - dwellers carrying out their everyday «comings and goings».

Surfacing from beyond our everyday reality, the works presented here question an instant and truthful depiction of the world as proposed by the «decisive moment» of street photography.

The outlandish presentation of ideas using simplified or crude depictions, everyday materials, or riffs on cultural conventions helps infuse contemporary art with provocative, sometimes challenging, content.

As his primary dealer, friend and collector for over forty years, Allan Stone celebrated Thiebaud's range of style and subject matter, embracing his mastery of figuration, his inventive depictions of landscapes and cityscapes, and his nostalgic renderings of food and everyday objects.

This French follower of Caravaggio, who inherited the Italian master's emphatic realism, was adept in a range of subjects, from everyday scenes of musicians and cardsharps to contemplative depictions of saints and martyrs.

«[Njideka Akunyili Crosby's] intimate depictions of domestic spaces and everyday life provide an important counter-narrative to the often troubled representations of Africa's complex political and social conditions.»

Through depictions of troll dens, computer geeks and technological detritus, Rafman monumentalizes the everyday through large format paintings and photographs.

Favorite subjects were mundane activities of everyday life but also looked to traditional genres such as portraiture, the female nude and the landscape as a way to subvert expectations through outrageous depictions.

«Her intimate depictions of domestic spaces and everyday life provide an important counter-narrative to the often troubled representations of Africa's complex political and social conditions in the media and in the public imagination.

Her intimate depictions of domestic spaces and everyday life also provide an important counternarrative to the often troubled representation of Africa's complex political and social conditions in the media and in the public imagination.

While many of the figures are portraits depicted in recognizable, everyday settings, such as bedrooms, kitchens, and sidewalks, his sensitive portrayal adds significant complexity to the figures, creating often dark, mysterious, and enigmatic depictions.

Passing paintings of slave ships, boy scouts and girl scouts, Nat Turner, Harriet Tubman, and anonymous African American artists, he discussed his approach to representation, the ways in which he elevates scenes of everyday life, and how in charting American history, he avoids sensational images by pursuing more thoughtful depictions of his subjects.

While each Pop artist developed a distinct style, there were commonalities in their approaches to image - making that helped define the Pop art movement in the early 1960s: the use of commercial art techniques, and the depiction of popular imagery and everyday objects.

The installation of This Land first evokes the humor of Roy Lichtenstein's Stretcher Frame with Crossbars series (1968) through its depiction of the support mechanism the painting as the picture itself, but also nods to 1960's conceptualism in its insertion of the radically strange into everyday experience.

His multilayered depictions of images and signs — ranging from human figures and body parts to animals, plants, furniture, text and even credit cards — meditate on the overwhelming richness and sadness of everyday life.

His favorite subjects were mundane activities of everyday life — taking the subway, bicycling in the countryside — but he also tackled traditional genres such as the portrait, the female nude, and the landscape, in which he could better subvert expectations with his outrageous depictions.

Typically devoid of overt depictions of figures, human presence is instead referenced obliquely through the portrayal of the familiar spaces of everyday life.

FROM THE 1940s ONWARD, as contemporary art came to be increasingly dominated by abstraction, conceptualism, and minimalism, a group of painters in London doggedly pursued the depiction of the human figure and everyday landscape, forging startling new approaches and styles.

His depictions of Cyclops - like heads, Ku Klux Klan members, and such everyday objects as shoes, bottles, and clocks are painted with deliberate crudity in harshly discordant colours.