Sentences with word «draftsmanship»

Spanning from a drawing from the workshop of Raphael, to the first - ever watercolor by Winslow Homer to enter a museum collection, to works produced in the past five years by Natalie Frank, William Kentridge, and Titus Kaphar, the exhibition highlights the role of draftsmanship in artistic practice through a diverse selection of masterworks from artists across a wide range of art history.

Most often with work that is big on creativity, innovation, or shock value, rather than through traditional skill in draftsmanship or use of color.

His multimedia installations for exhibitions and the theater combine outstanding draftsmanship with theatrical vitality.

While Degas employed a wide variety of media, in evidence at the core of his work is his exquisite draftsmanship.

Except for his characteristically brilliant draftsmanship and obsession with the figure, the pictures created in this late period of his life bear little superficial resemblance to his early paintings.

Well known for his outstanding draftsmanship as well as his meticulous studies of nature, Shishkin was also a skilled printmaker.

Richter's mother, the daughter of a concert pianist, encouraged her son's early talent for draftsmanship.

On view will be new works by Tokyo - based Tomoo Gokita, who is acclaimed for his black and white gouache canvases that incorporate exceptional draftsmanship with surreal imagery.

Martin's abstract paintings are marked by impeccable draftsmanship, a unique palate and simple shapes in complex compositions.

Let the Light Enter, Major Drawings, 1942 - 1970 will feature a dozen drawings that reveal the extraordinary draftsmanship of an artist dedicated to the heroism, tribulations, hopes, histories, and strengths of known and unknown African Americans.

'» [4] In her Healing Plants works (1994 ---RRB-, Shaffer combines «careful study, connection and fine draftsmanship» to create «portraits» of plants echoing Matisse cutouts, which convey and pay tribute to the endurance, healing powers, and necessity of plants to human survival.

On the contrary, his skillful draftsmanship helped nourish his non-objective language.»

The works are metaphysical fantasies executed with meticulous draftsmanship.

For gravitas, John Szoke Gallery from New York has brooding, tenebrous works on paper by Edvard Munch, including a devastating Death and the Maiden, as well as those web - like linear displays of virtuoso draftsmanship, the Picasso drypoint series, the best of which is Sculpture, Tete de Marie Therese of 1933.

(Think architectural draftsmanship in the spirit of Zaha Hadid.)

The untitled works vaguely imply architectural draftsmanship including abstract floor plans, measurements and landscaping akin to the preliminary drawings of Frank Gehry.

A master of traditional draftsmanship, Blanck's unique interpretations and advancements mark an emerging trajectory within contemporary art.

Joel Daniel Phillips» work focuses on the tenets of classical draftsmanship employed in monumental formats.

Noted for his deft draftsmanship, Martinez creates large - scale works that maintain the feeling of drawings.

Eric White's paintings reference 20th century film, music and pop culture backed by consummate draftsmanship and painterly finesse to subvert and recode the dominant narratives of contemporary society.

The resulting drawings range from small - scale abstractions to monumental figures and scrolls, which demonstrate Ramírez's unique draftsmanship of concentric lines, undulating patterns, and surreal topography.

It is Lee's masterful draftsmanship which conveys his understanding of his subjects and the core issue of masculinity.

Henri Matisse drew constantly, and his direct, elegant draftsmanship has become a hallmark of modern art.

Rivers's works were characterized by competent draftsmanship, a fine sense of colour, and the frequent use of complex, fragmentary, and multiple views.

In the 1930s he studied draftsmanship first at Boston University and then at Heathersley's Art School in London, before settling permanently in New York in 1939.

Howard Warshaw's first paintings are surreal featuring precise draftsmanship, a rare sense for shape, and a restricted palette.

The show was well - attended but received mixed reviews: while some critics admired the daring of the work, more were shocked by what they saw as poor draftsmanship and dreary subject matter.

The advantage is that it takes the law out of the memory - work and judgment exercise into an area where legal draftsmanship begins to resemble computer science, and the law can steal good techniques from a sister science.

Shibuya: It's because good draftsmanship is what allows you to depict shapes and forms accurately.

Or it may begin when you notice that, however the paintings are made, their effect is not derived from draftsmanship but photography.

The cartoon, as well as his self - taught draftsmanship, pushed Heston toward caricature and crudity, but these also implicitly advanced his materialism more compellingly than his familiar arguments.

This piece displays true draftsmanship, from the select hardwoods and veneers used to the dovetail construction on the drawers.

The technology, which is rapidly replacing manual draftsmanship with sophisticated three - dimensional blueprints done on computers, requires skills seldom taught in vocational schools and community colleges a decade ago.

Gone is the sluggish pacing and questionable draftsmanship, leaving behind only a taut, engrossing thriller.

My Statement: I love loose media handling mixed with tight draftsmanship.

I've got pretty eclectic taste: I love mark making I love draftsmanship like in the charcoal works by Peterson Kamwathi, but some things just respond to me.

It turns out Gauguin is admonished for a number of things: arbitrary color choices, an inconsistent navigation of pictorial space, halting draftsmanship, ungainly surfaces (Gauguin preferred working on coarsely woven canvases), and cultural naiveté — the whole «primitivist» excursion to Tahiti.

In recent years, Almquist has become known for his inspired draftsmanship and the eccentric drawings that stem from a remarkable sensitivity.

Rivers» keen draftsmanship and interest in history is ever present in his expansive nonlinear oeuvre.

Echoing the artist's early training and expert draftsmanship, the imagery in the eight prints in the ICA / Boston's collection originate from the immersive multimedia work, In Search of Vanished Blood.

If he reminds me of anyone, it's R.B. Kitaj, the late School of London fixture and American expat with whom Doig shares a penchant for primitivist draftsmanship and thinly applied color — though not, thankfully, the same pretensions to creating a form of contemporary history painting.

The sheer volume (more than 2,300) and variety of Still's works on paper attest to the significant role draftsmanship played in his art, particularly when compared to his abstract expressionist contemporaries.

America's contribution to early - twentieth - century draftsmanship was revealed in works by George Bellows, Edward Hopper, John Marin, Marsden Hartley, Charles Demuth, Charles Sheeler, and others.

Indistinct, marvelously enigmatic blobs of pooled ink and paint, blurred draftsmanship that obscures faces, and hazy horizons align with the endgame of MoMA's traditional agenda, as outlined by curator Alfred Barr in 1938 in a famous diagram tracking the progression in modern art toward abstraction.

A visit to the exhibition will offer a remarkable journey through many facets of European draftsmanship, revealing the broadly diverse ways the artists responded to their individual worlds and expressed their unique creativity,» said Margaret Morgan Grasselli, curator and head of the department of old master drawings, National Gallery of Art.

And he turned draftsmanship on its head by asking Willem de Kooning, with whom he had become friends, to give him a drawing, not to preserve and admire, but to erase.

The vast experience of life today can not be captured by draftsmanship alone.

Scheduled to be on view from May 18 to July 27, Nancy Grossman: Drawings will consist of fourteen arresting works on paper from the 1960s and 1970s, revealing the confident draftsmanship of a celebrated, international sculptor.