Sentences with phrase «display iconic paintings»

This exclusive exhibition will display iconic paintings from Tate alongside related works from Birmingham's own collection.

Not exact matches

Some have objected to its cover, which makes compelling use of the iconic Grant Wood painting, American Gothic, to highlight the spread of the social reality that concerned Moynihan by displaying an African American mother and child with a ghosted, absent father.

It will be on display with the museum throughout the autumn and Herd plans to regularly mow it in concentric circles similar to the Dutch artist's iconic painting style.

The Tate Modern audioguide talks you through a selection of the most iconic works in the collection displays, including international paintings and sculptures spanning a century.

The displays include a room of late works by American painter Agnes Martin, an iconic work by Martin Creed, Half the Air in a Given Space, which sees the spectacular sea - facing galleries filled with hundreds of balloons; a selected display of the late Margaret Mellis» paintings and constructions, as well as works by Naum Gabo, Roman Ondak, Fischli & Weiss, Lucio Fontana and Anri Sala.

Malevich painted four versions of this iconic work, one of which is on display in Revolution: Russian Art 1917 — 1932.

Among the works on display are his iconic Combines (hybrids between painting and sculpture), his transfer drawings and silkscreens, and the Cardboard and Glut works.

The exhibition's central themes continue in a display of paintings, sketches and watercolours of erotic subjects by Tracey Emin as well as JMW Turner and Auguste Rodin, whose iconic sculpture The Kiss is on show at Turner Contemporary until 2 September 2012.

Major loans from private collections — including works never displayed in public before — will be united with iconic paintings from museums around the world.

The Tate press office insists that a third of the art on display is still pre-1900, but most of such older works as are visible will be crammed into one big room of «iconic» paintings or shoved into the Clore gallery, which is supposed to be dedicated to Turner.

These iconic appliances appear in the work of James Valerio - a self - portrait standing next to an open fridge displaying such items as a half - eaten chicken and a bottle of Gatorade - and Amer Kobaslija whose miniature painting of a fridge contains numerous caffeinated beverages in the likes of Red Bull and Coke.

Iconic works including The Menin Road (1919) are displayed alongside his later experiments in photography, collage and painting, which involved juxtapositions of found objects and landscapes.

On display will be an example of Yayoi Kusama's iconic Infinity Net paintings — seriality as a form of self - obliteration and self - definition — and a painting by the late US artist Mildred Thompson, who often found inspiration in scientific theories and universal systems, and whose buzzing palette of yellows and reds and calligraphic brushstrokes evoke the invisible forces of magnetic energy.

The works on display feature a diversity of approaches, from the abstract geometrical paintings of Jack Whitten and William T. Williams, to the photographic depictions by Roy DeCarava and Herbert Randall of both ordinary Black Americans and iconic figures such as Malcolm X and John Coltrane.

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).

During The Fifth Floor a studio was built in the gallery and the artist documented school children interpreting Picasso's iconic painting Weeping Woman (1937), currently on display as part of the free exhibition DLA Piper Series: This is Sculpture.

Four pieces from Crichton's collection valued at $ 32 million - including an iconic Johns Stars and Stripes «Flag» painting that once hung in the writer's Beverly Hills bedroom - went on display Friday before being auctioned by Christie's in New York in May.

Thiebaud, known for his iconic paintings of cakes, pies and counter displays, is one of the last living painters of the Pop era.