In this new body of work, Georg Baselitz continues to explore canine imagery, a theme that has run from
his earliest animal paintings to his recent work.The majority of these paintings were completed in Imperia, Italy, during the summer of 2000.
Not exact matches
Having formed an attachment to
animals at an
early age, and working primarily in acrylics and ink, Mucci creates drawings and
paintings that center on graphic expressions of the
animal as spirita entity.
Pieces ranging from
early -»60s
paintings incorporating casts of manhole covers to brand - new sculptures made of resin and horsehair variously bring to mind Sue Coe's activist art, Robert Rauschenberg's indexical work of the 1950s, Bruce Nauman's casts of
animal bodies and Jack Pierson's
early installations, as well as fiber art and African artifacts.
In them, the society dames of the
earlier paintings have left their home turf to visit the Painter, imagined as a blond — pompadoured and bearded, usually bare - chested male
animal with a brush.
As a coda to this narrative, the exhibition includes Pearlstein's most recent
paintings, a series of three canvases completed in
early 2015: nude female figures are animated with vibrant
animal masks as they lounge and recline over Navaho rugs.
It's cute, sure, but don't forget that pictures of
animals are some of the very
earliest paintings we know about, rendered in ochre on cave walls.
He went on to
paint gatherings of spooky figures and
animals, their intense colour and silhouetted forms recalling both Arshile Gorky and the
early renaissance.
This companion volume to the artist's largest exhibition to date is a feast taken from countless visual documents of Kelley's
early formation, such as his involvement with the experimental band Destroy All Monsters (DAM), which also featured Jim Shaw, Cary Loren, and Niagara (born Lynn Rovner) in 1973 while Kelly and Shaw were students at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor;
early performative sculptures and objects; drawings;
paintings; handmade dolls and stuffed
animal sculptures; photography; videos; and endless inventive installations in various forms and shapes that explore and deal with the themes of self - destruction, repression, class relations, sexuality, religion, politics, and whatever else lies between the grotesque and the sublime, the sacred and the profane.
These are accompanied by a suite of
early paintings that reflect Golub's study of antiquity, a group of unsettling portraits of the Brazilian dictator Ernesto Geisel, and works on paper that represent subjects of longstanding interest to the artist, from mercenaries, interrogators, and the victims of violence to political figures, nudes, and
animals, all of them rendered in the raw, visceral style for which he is justly celebrated.
Andy Warhol (1928 - 1987) has numerous works coming up for auction this season and this auction has three of his large
animal paintings of the
early 1980's, the best of which is Lot 67, «Orangutan,» shown below, a 60 - inch - square synthetic polymer and silkscreen ink on canvas.
Her
early paintings and sculptures reassemble disparate architectural elements from history as well as
animal and body parts to construct unified compositions.
Freud's
early paintings, which are mostly very small, are often associated with German Expressionism and Surrealism in depicting people, plants and
animals in unusual juxtapositions.
Wu has
painted various aspects of China including much of its architecture, plants,
animals, people, as well as many of its landscapes and waterscapes in a style reminiscent of the impressionist painters of the
early 1900s.
Alongside abundant illustrations, three essays trace the arc of Langlais» career, from his
early experiments in
painting and his transition to wood sculpture in the 1960s to his return to figuration and his exhaustive exploration of
animal motifs.
Realized in loud, garish hues partly informed by the artist's
early exposure to Socialist Realism, Rauch's enigmatic pictorial narratives never vanish into explanation: «My
paintings have something vital about them, like an
animal, a living thing,» he says.
Iconography in
early paintings in France and Spain showcase game
animals, which lead many researchers to believe the artists were male hunters.
Extreme distortions of the human (and
animal) figure are found throughout, as are the insouciant humor and reckless disregard for good taste that have fueled his work for decades, and that prompted
early associations between Saul's
paintings and the work of the Chicago Imagists and Bay Area Funk artists.
The exhibition will also include
early Golub
paintings that reflect his study of antiquity, his series of unsettling portraits of the Brazilian dictator Ernesto Geisel, and works on paper rendered in a raw, visceral style depicting subjects from political figures and victims of violence to nude forms and
animals.
In addition to
animal art, his
early work involved a variety of media, including illustration (in 1828 he was given the commission to illustrate the Waverley Edition of Sir Walter Scott's novels); etching and genre -
painting («An Illicit Whisky Still in the Highlands», 1829, The Wellington Collection, Apsley House).
Having
painted from an
early age, he has developed a highly personal visual language that comprises a host of recurring figures and
animals.
Yasuo Kuniyoshi's
early paintings, prints, and drawings feature odd, humorous, and even disconcerting subjects: frightened - looking babies with
animals and anthropomorphic vegetation, for example.
The
earliest known cave
paintings / drawings of
animals are at least 35,000 years old and were found in caves in the district of Maros, located in Bantimurung district, South Sulawesi, Indonesia, according to datings announced in 2014.