Sentences with phrase «dramatic landscape painting»

Salvator Rosa (1615 - 1673) Noted for flamboyant, dramatic landscape painting.

Joseph Birren's dramatic landscape painting presents the varied terrain of California in a nearly square composition marked by plunging diagonals and deep spatial recession.

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In what is certain to be one of the most talked - about fiction debuts of the year, Yasmin Crowther paints a magnificent portrait of betrayal and retribution set against a backdrop of Iran's tumultuous history, dramatic landscapes, and cultural beauty.

Steeped in Middle Eastern mystique, our landmark hotel in Doha's West Bay, near the Diplomatic District, borders the azure Arabian Gulf, where dramatic sand dunes, ancient architecture, and the scenic Pearl Island paint a magnificent landscape.

You can take a day trip to see the diverse wildlife, dramatic landscapes and fascinating cave paintings of the Parque Nacional del Este, or visit Isla Saona where beautiful beaches, palm trees and the occasional dolphin or manatee make for an unforgettable experience.

A visit to the Drakensberg Mountains excites with ancient rock paintings and the chance to cycle through the dramatic landscape.

Janis Ellison Drawn to the dramatic landscape of New Mexico, Janis painted alongside her friends and mentors in the budding days of the early pastel painters of this century.

In this watercolour lesson Rob shows you in importance of lights and darks and how, just the addition of shadows, can have a dramatic effect on your landscape paintings.

My fascination with landscapes and history has led me to create oil paintings of scenes that have affected us in dramatic ways.

Established in 1960 as a way to showcase the majestic paintings from the Hudson River School movement, Storm King Art Center has evolved into one of today's leading sculpture parks, with more than 100 contemporary works dotting a dramatic landscape of pastoral hills, breathtaking vistas, and tranquil ponds.

As an artist, he did large oil paintings of men's heads surrounded by symbolic dramatic landscapes, and smaller paintings of birds and flowers.

With more than 30 major paintings, the exhibition follows Aho on his artistic journey from dramatic images of the New England landscape to energetic, freely brushed abstract compositions inspired by his responses to nature.

His lurid fantasy landscapes painted on stock - market listings draw contemporary analogies between the state of the planet and industrial capitalism, but their dramatic geography originates in the New World vistas of the Hudson River School, just as their apocalyptic storm clouds derive from John Martin.

At first glance, this painting appears to reflect the style of 17th - century Dutch landscape painting, except that the dramatic cloud formations (a trademark signature of that style) are replaced by a flat azure blue sky.

A master of the allegorical landscape, Friedrich painted dramatic scenes accentuating both the beauty and the intimidating magnitude of nature.

In this watercolour lesson, entitled «Dappled Lane», Rob shows you the importance of lights and darks and how, just the addition of shadows can have a dramatic effect on your landscape paintings.

Whether painting dramatic landscapes, or impressionistic figures, Kececi masks the known with the unknown and explores the transcendental.

Although he maintained that his work remained landscaped - based, however tenuously, for the rest of his career it was dominated by dramatic colour fields painting.

Riley began her career painting landscapes in the style of Georges Seurat following early artistic studies that were largely informed by Old Masters painting, Impressionism, and Pointillism which led to a dramatic change in her style.

Situated between the 19th and 20th century's respective representational paradigms, the skyscape borrowed both the dramatic special effects of film and the visual affects of the sublime within landscape painting.

For example, his 1844 painting Rain, Steam, and Speed - The Great Western Railway offers little detail of the landscape, its dramatic viewpoint manages to both create an atmosphere and give an impression of rapid movement.

«Baker explores American landscape painting's myths of expansion and freedom, and its conjuring of sentiment and the sublime... His new paintings exhibit a dramatic high gloss sheen that is at once seductive and distancing: they act as both screens and mirrors.»

Featuring 37 landscape paintings, this exhibition demonstrates how Courbet was a radical innovator both in the motifs he chose to paint and in the dramatic brushwork of his paintings.

For the first exhibition program in the new space, the museum's curators understandably chose to showcase the mansion itself, and its exquisite details, such as delicately rendered wall - paintings of Arcadian landscapes, designer chandeliers and dramatic juxtapositions of wood, metal and stone textures.

Here, Hofmann used primary colors and dramatic dashes of paint to express the «spirit» of the coastal landscape at sunset.

Paintings of land and sea by Sean Fingleton present a dramatic reading of nature and its elemental forces, while works by Sean Scully and Patrick Scott look to the essence of the landscape in their more abstract depictions.

A specialist in landscape, he traveled to remote places to sketch majestic scenes unfamiliar to his American audience that he could turn into dramatic, large - scale paintings.

Some of his most famous landscape painting features the dramatic scenery of the island.

Likewise, the huge painting Transporter, here at Nottingham Castle, affects me, taking me somewhere, similar to the way that a dramatic natural landscape might act upon my gaze, as if I were a passive observer, transported even to some «spiritual» place, when in fact I am the one who is actively constructing the world I see.