Freud's
early painting reflects his love of drawing in its meticulously observed, claustrophobic detail and unswerving realism, often overlain with an uncanny atmosphere.
Early paintings reflect his interest in Cubism, biomorphic Surrealism, Jungian and Freudian theories of the unconscious, and African and Native American art.
His early painting reflected the influence of Tachisme and Abstract Expressionism.
AB:
Your earlier paintings reflected a clarity and sparseness.
Not exact matches
The childhood of American astronomer Maria Mitchell gets a fictionalized treatment here, with naive - style
paintings that
reflect the
early 1800s.
The exhibition brings together a selection of nine
paintings on monochrome stone (slate and white marble) by Italian painters such as Sebastiano del Piombo, Titian, Daniele da Volterra and Leandro Bassano, which
reflect the consolidation of a new approach to artistic techniques that emerged in the
early decades of the 16th century.
Donegan's interest in the lived experience of commercial culture continues in this series, which
reflects her
earlier videos, as well as her
paintings and her recent clothing line.
Color is a core concern for Brennan and his
paintings reflect his deep interest in abstraction, monochrome
painting, historical photography, and
early film.
An
earlier volume, «Kerry James Marshall: Momentos» examines the artist's series of
paintings reflecting on the Civil Rights Movement, meditations on the lost legends of the era.
• El Hombre by Rufino Tamayo, a portable mural of a man reaching toward a shooting star that was commissioned by the DMA in 1953
reflects the Museum's
early interest in and dedication to expanding its collection of Latin American
paintings; and
Of particular interest in the exhibition is Childe Hassam's Adam and Eve Walking Out on Montauk in
Early Spring (oil on wood panel, 1924), which succinctly
reflects the artist's desire to replicate the Greek Classicist ideal translated to
painting, and historically is considered one of Hassam's most ambitious landscape works.
Warren Rohrer's white
paintings, which span from the 1970s and
early 1990s,
reflect a facet of his work focused on fusing light and matter through
paint.
Like the Théâtres de mémoire, these
paintings are brightly coloured assemblages that
reflect many of the feelings of Dubuffet's
earlier periods.
Her
paintings continue to
reflect these
early impressions as she records her observations of the natural world.
If Bolduc's
earlier work tended toward the decorative, the
paintings he began making in the 1980s and continued through the 1990s took on a deeper symbolic significance,
reflecting both the influence of his travels and his voracious reading (his close friend Michael Ondaatje once remarked that Bolduc was the best - read person he had ever met).
Earlier series have
reflected her interest in popular culture (models
painted from fashion magazines and Swatch watches) and textiles (Moroccan rugs).
Therefore, it includes Andy Warhol's silkscreens from the
early 1960s associated with violence and death, the new form of
painting that
reflects the reality of the consumer society demonstrated in the works by Roy Lichtenstein, James Rosenquist or Tom Wesselmann, and Robert Longo's recasting of media images as subjective events.
This
early work could
reflect the sympathy Picasso felt for those who shared the transient lifestyle he had experienced in Paris before settling in a ramshackle apartment in Montemarte in 1904, a year before this was
painted.
The opulent interiors, which have remained virtually unchanged for three centuries,
reflect the aristocratic grandeur of the
early Georgian era and feature Scottish carving, plasterwork, gilding and ceiling
painting.
Although it is possible that Rauschenberg was working with clippings scavenged from old newspapers, these dates may indicate that he began the
painting in fall 1951, some months
earlier than
reflected in the current date of the artwork.
Known for producing finely wrought, luminous black and white oil
paintings, White's masterfully rendered moments of everyday life bear comparison to the quietude of
paintings by the Flemish masters and Lucian Freud's
early interiors, whilst the distilled forms that inhabit them
reflect a more contemporary, ritualized, minimalist sensibility.
This
early mirror
painting stages the artist's wife, Marzia, and their daughter, Cristina, with their backs to the viewer, demonstrating Pistoletto's theatrical impulse, and creating a tension between the static
painted figures, who the viewer can never fully see, and the circumstantial, frenetic movements
reflected in the polished steel surface.
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.
White's masterfully rendered moments of everyday life bear comparison to the quietude of
paintings by the Flemish masters and Lucian Freud's
early interiors, whilst the distilled forms that inhabit them
reflect a more contemporary, ritualized, minimalist sensibility.
Indeed, Matta was heavily influenced by Dalí and Yves Tanguy, and became an important figure in the evolution of Surrealism,
painting dreamlike, internal «inscapes»
early on and, later, intense compositions
reflecting the psychic damage caused by Europe's ongoing wars.
Using this understanding of space as an inspiration, she creates
paintings by layering translucent washes of
paint on paper and canvas, in a process that
reflects her
early sculptural training.
Reflecting on her
early optical abstract
paintings, Howardena Pindell once remarked that she gave up the rectangle in favor of unstretched canvases with idiosyncratic, non-symmetrical shapes that conjured, as she once put it, «some internal intuition of nature.»
It links the mannerist and Renaissance styles, which clearly
reflects that fact that mannerism is a form of
early Renaissance
painting.
This in - between quality of Benning's current work
reflects decades of enquiry into the operation and influence of cultural material, beginning with Benning's
earliest video works made in 1989 and subsequent explorations in drawing,
painting and music production.
Since the
early 80's, Peter Halley's geometric
paintings have been engaged in a play of relationships between what he calls «prisons» and «cells», icons that
reflect the increasing geometricization of social space in the world in which we live.
In a 2015 Artforum review of his second solo exhibition at Berry Campbell, Phyllis Tuchman discusses these
early paintings: «The bands, circles, and rectangles tend to be shiny and
reflect light, while the other parts of these canvases are covered with matte
paint.
Kathy Halbreich, director of Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, writes about the range of influences he absorbed: «From his
early drawings rooted in a European Surrealist tradition to his monumental abstract canvases, Motherwell's visual language synthesizes a veritable history of modern
painting,
reflecting ties to Picasso's
early collages, Matisse's color - rich
paintings, and the development of American Abstract Expressionism in which he played such a pivotal role».
Particularly intriguing is the possibility that Mr. Katz's use of expanses of saturated color
reflects not only the influence of Abstract Expressionism, the prevailing style when he was coming of age as an artist in New York City in the
early 1950's, but also the impact of his parents, bohemian Russian emigres who tended to
paint the rooms of their Sheepshead Bay home in Brooklyn in strange, intense colors and unusual patterns.
Thus while his
early landscapes, mostly completed in the 1820s,
reflected his genuine appreciation for the beauty and naturalism of the American wilderness, his later
paintings, completed during the 1830s and
early 1840s (and strongly influenced by JMW Turner),
reflected his fear that American materialism would destroy the scenery he loved, and so became more allegorical and unnecessarily melodramatic.
During the 1960s, she started
painting a series of abstract landscapes
reflecting her
earlier experiences in the west of Ireland, at the Burren, Co..
Her
early Abstract Expressionist
paintings reflect time spent at the Club and the Cedar Bar.
Concentrating on mass media imagery
early on in her career, Vija Celmins
painted scenes of war and disaster that
reflected on her
early childhood experiences.
Rail: I'm just
reflecting on those
early paintings that you were doing which seemed to be more in the tradition of Cubism.
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.
Beside emphasizing some of his
earlier works like the rarely seen curtain and window
paintings, the show will also feature Richter's new pieces that
reflect the painter's current creative preoccupations.
In addition to his well - known
paintings of Tahiti, in which the artist constructed his perfect vision of man's communion with the natural world, the book also includes powerful works that
reflect the artist's contact with other seminal
early modern masters such as Van Gogh and Cézanne.
They also represent the
early workings of Zeigler where his
paintings were directly inspired by specific imagery which is
reflected in the artworks, said Zeigler.
Since the
early 1980's he sought to create
paintings informed — on a meta - narrative level — by his personal experience, while also
reflecting the fundamental rules of his pictorial vocabulary.
Sometimes incorporating parts of chairs and other found objects, they
reflected his
early admiration for the all - white
paintings and reliefs of Robert Ryman and Piero Manzoni.
Her experience as a clinical psychologist practicing psychotherapy from a contemporary psychoanalytic perspective for over 25 years
reflects an enduring passion and respect for personal idiosyncrasy that characterizes her
early portrait work, the more recent and abstract, life - size human figure
paintings, and now, her turn to the reservoir of personal experience within.
Familiar from Shepherd's
earlier bodies of work, the industrial enamel dries with a glossy, mirror - like finish that registers and
reflects the space around the
painting, fragmenting the shapes on account of the subtle ridges made by her brush.
The silence and opulent visual substance of each
painting is
reflected, as was often the case in
early and post-war modernism, in Opper's titles.
The exhibition The Optimism of Colour: William Perehudoff, a retrospective, guest - curated for the Mendel Art Gallery by Karen Wilkin, and this accompanying catalogue celebrate Perehudoff's achievements and trace the evolution of his distinctive approach, from his
early figurative works, which
reflect his desire to enlarge upon the special character of his surroundings, to the radiant, abstract
paintings that established his reputation —
paintings that seem to aspire to the condition of music.
This is
reflected - though not illustrated - by the basic syntax of his
earliest fully abstract
paintings, starting with White
Painting (1950).