Sentences with word «draughtsmanship»

Before any individual experimentation is permitted, all students must learn the rudimentary skills of draughtsmanship, and the sight - size method of figure drawing and painting from the model.

William Roper - Curzon's work is an exemplar of traditional draughtsmanship in the hands of a fresh artist.

Another reason is that the very uniqueness of his drawings has distanced them from the popular idea of fine draughtsmanship which is seen as extending from the Italian Renaissance via Ingres and Degas.

Kossoff later echoed these sentiments: «in spite of the excessive piling on of paint, the effect of these works on the mind is of images recovered and reconceived in the barest and most particular light, the same light that seems to glow through the late, great, thin Turners... an unpremeditated manifestation arising from the constant application of true draughtsmanship» (in Frank Auerbach, exhibition catalogue, Arts Council, Hayward Gallery, London 1978, p. 9).

His paintings deftly combine representation and abstraction, linear draughtsmanship and colouration, minimalism and gesturalism.

Sendor's work is characterized by a meticulous draughtsmanship that serves to illuminate his ongoing engagement with the interrelation of photorealism and the evolution of the moving image.

This particular work demonstrates how she combined skilful draughtsmanship with a radically spare use of colour and detail.

Born in Waterford, he studied drawing and painting in the Dublin Society schools, where he won a medal for draughtsmanship in 1779.

His extraordinary draughtsmanship and mastery of chiaroscuro (light and shadow), allied to his affinity for still life colour and composition undoubtedly make him one of Europe's top contemporary artists.

William Roper - Curzon is a British artist whose work is an exemplar of traditional draughtsmanship in the hands of a fresh, emerging artist.

He studied machine draughtsmanship in Munich before attending Bradford Art School and the Slade School from 1909 - 12, where contemporaries included Gertler, Allinson and Nevinson.

Taught academic draughtsmanship but given no sense of possibilities of drawing; teachers uninspired with exception of the excellent Eric Jones.

It focuses on the chronological development of Ward's work, his precise draughtsmanship and the emotional drama in his paintings, and also considers the impact of his election to the Royal Academy.

In this week's caricature of the art world, British artist Julian Opie fails to see eye - to - eye with the world of detailed draughtsmanship

A triumphant demonstration that far from brilliant colour and fine brushwork eclipsing draughtsmanship in Venetian art, you can trace a continuing tradition of drawing from Bellini to Canaletto.

The selection of still - life as a subject, the intersecting and interpenetration of forms and shadows, the shifting alternation between background and foreground derive from cubism, while the strong formal properties of negative shapes and the long, irregularly broken lines and patterned decoration of the drawings reflect the work of Matisse whose draughtsmanship had provided inspiration for Warhol's earlier work.

Caulfield's exacting draughtsmanship and bright, flat surfaces — flat, but deftly used to suggest overlapping planes, falling light or subtle changes in perspectival depth — changed infrequently and instead were refined over the decades.

Her prints are a wonderful mix of superb draughtsmanship, childish play and printmaking techniques.

Bringing together portraits from three decades, this exhibition shows the remarkable range of characters that Neel portrayed in paintings that demonstrate a rare combination of painterliness and acute draughtsmanship.

His technical draughtsmanship is superb, but ultimately, and especially in the animated spaces of the Turner Prize exhibition, the drawings appear quite lifeless.

Hockney is justly admired, not to say adored, for his pictorial ingenuity, his superlative draughtsmanship, his deft and witty inventions.

A masterpiece of psychological realism and exquisite draughtsmanship, it depicts Freud's lawyer, Lord Arnold Goodman, one of the most brilliant and influential figures of the day.

This autumn, Pallant House Gallery is giving you the rare opportunity to see Dame Paula Rego's preparatory drawings for her paintings, providing an insight into her remarkable draughtsmanship and the development of her ideas.

Delivering an acerbic political and social commentary through impeccable draughtsmanship, Victor's works act as incisive reflections on the human condition.

Apart from Roger Hiorns's crystal concoctions, this year's nominees share a passion for often ephemeral and fragmentary draughtsmanship, writes Adrian Searle

And she may have a point that Emin's draughtsmanship lacks the formal skill of former post-holders — from William Turner, and John Constable, to William Blake.

In addition to its own collection, the Limerick City Gallery of Art houses the National Collection of Contemporary Drawing, featuring a diverse assembly of works that challenge and expand our concepts of artistic draughtsmanship.

Ingres would perhaps be the most apt comparison for this, for it has the same sensitive and lucid draughtsmanship, but in colour, atmosphere, and, above all, quality of paint, arguably it surpasses anything which Ingres ever did.

«Amazing draughtsmanship and tough Expressionist subject matter»: John Bellany Exhibition opens at Fortnum & Mason

Glenn Brown pays homage masters from art history in the form of beautiful draughtsmanship and sculpture at Gagosian Gallery (C3).

Fusing Japanese visual traditions, Western modernism, and elements of American pop and subculture, this discursive panorama of drawings reveals the artist's fine and purposeful draughtsmanship.

Rita Donagh (born 1939) is a British artist, known for her realistic paintings and painstaking draughtsmanship.

Henri Matisse (31 December 1869 — 3 November 1954) was a French artist, known for his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship.

It's what I call «pure art», because it's pure draughtsmanship: there's no need for any «artist statement», because it speaks for itself.

His first works from this period consist of refined draughtsmanship, pastel colors, and subtle tonal nuances, evoking childhood and adolescent memories, particularly those pertaining to sexual initiation and fantasy.

A strong believer in solid draughtsmanship, Kelly paints in a Realist (or Pre-Impressionist) style, focusing on coastal scenes and rural views within his local area of North Dublin, although - in keeping with his conviction that a true artist should be able to turn his hand or brush to anything - he continues to experiment in all the genres, and travels regularly within Ireland and parts of Europe in search of suitable subjects.

Influenced by modern artists in France as well as Germany, Macke developed an easily recognizable style of expressionism, marked by intense, bright colours and confident draughtsmanship.

And where, between the two camps, does Still stand Some of his canvases are plainly saturated with chroma, whereas others are wrought with complex draughtsmanship, while nearly all display, with their palette knife technique, the artist's mordant, gestural mark - making (PH - 4, 1952).

«Hopper Drawing... is a revelation about the artist's incredible draughtsmanship.

It seems to me that neither Newman, Rothko nor Pollock was possessed of remarkable natural facility, yet each went on to achieve far more than, say, Adolf Gottlieb, William Baziotes or Robert Motherwell, whose adept and characterful draughtsmanship and feel for their materials made the process of invention a less urgent and precipitous task.

Choose from striped, floral, geometric, arts & crafts and draughtsmanship designs, in the range of yellows from earth tones to daffodil, all with Little Greene quality and our unique eye for beauty.

They show a most sympathetic understanding of his sitters, which fine draughtsmanship, reserved colour, and refined handling of paint enabled him to express to perfection.

In the catalogue for his 1978 Arts Council, Hayward Gallery exhibition, an art critic wrote: «in spite of the excessive piling on of paint, the effect of these works on the mind is of images recovered and reconceived in the barest and most particular light, the same light that seems to glow through the late, great, thin Turners... an unpremeditated manifestation arising from the constant application of true draughtsmanship.»

In the words of the gallery Victoria Miro, «his paintings deftly combine representation and abstraction, linear draughtsmanship and colouration, minimalism and gesturalism».

In their scale and meticulous draughtsmanship they appear to reach even further back into the past, to suggest the fanciful and monumental architectural drawings of the Renaissance.

[3] Despite having left school with no formal qualifications, he managed to gain employment as an apprentice working at an electrical components firm, where he discovered an ability for draughtsmanship and began to do painting at evening classes [4] at Saint Martin's School of Art and at the Westminster School of Art.

They exemplify her expressive brushwork, flamboyant palette, and extraordinary draughtsmanship, while the sitters «intense eye contact bears witness the intense rapport she built.