Sentences with phrase «earliest animal paintings»

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.

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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.