Sentences with phrase «early portraits such»

It includes early portraits such as Head of Leon Kossoff, and landscapes such as Building Site, Earl's Court, Winter that depict the destruction of post-war London.

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Her Understanding Early Christian Art has served as a fine introductory text to the field, while other works, such as Face to Face: Portraits of the Divine in Early Christianity, tackle the complex theological problems surrounding the Christian desire to portray the divine.

Early slides were snapshots of an empty wicker basket on a table; the scenes changed as the series progressed, however, to more shocking settings, such as a tarantula on a person's shoulder and finally pictures of burn victims and other traumatic portraits.

The problem with the «Fifty Shades» franchise — if it can be called a franchise — is not so much its portrait of a controlling man manipulating his lover past her comfort zone, although earlier installments feature such scenes.

As friend and fellow critic Brian Tallerico put it early in the festival, there's no such thing as a good or bad Sundance, because that implies that any of us are able to get a full portrait of the festival — to see more than a small percentage of the 100 - plus official selections.

Bill Pohlad, a producer who has overseen such films as Brokeback Mountain, Into the Wild, Tree of Life, and 12 Years a Slave, as well as the musically inclined biopic The Runaways, makes his directorial debut (technically a sophomore effort as his original debut was canned in the early 1990s) with a biopic of The Beach Boys» Brian Wilson that, while not a perfect film, is an interesting and sometimes illuminating portrait of an artist as a young and older man.

At the Met, sixty works carefully chosen from the Lehman Collection offered a rapid, staccato trip through the history of European art, distinguished by such spectacular inclusions as a scrupulously observed walking bear by Leonardo da Vinci, from the late quattrocento, a cranky Dürer self - portrait from about the same time, an exquisite Fra Bartolomeo landscape of figures moving through mountainous terrain, from the very beginning of the cinquecento, and a startlingly intimate, casual study after Leonardo's Last Supper, drawn in red chalk by Rembrandt in the early 1630s, when he was still in his twenties.

His earliest photographic works recreated historical subjects, such as self - portraits, still lifes and mythological scenes.

The early works, such as Botticelli's Virgin Adoring the Sleeping Christ Child, which has not been exhibited outside of Scotland for more than 150 years, are religious paintings while later works from the Renaissance masters, 17th - century painters, Impressionists, Post-Impressionists, and Cubists include different genres of paintings such as portrait, still life and landscape, and represent the changing treatment of those genres over time.

While other takes on advertising verge on the conventional, such as Timur Si Qun's monument to peace with the phases of the moon as its logo, Amanda Ross - Ho returns to a classical portrait bust, based on an early photography manual, with a vengeance.

It features Spanish Colonial artworks such as religious paintings, portraits, furniture, and decorative arts, and also boasts remarkable works by early - and mid-20th century Mexican painters and printmakers.

But his portraits of the late 1940s and early 1950s, such as the one of Herbert Read, were not successful, and the big compositions, like Christmas Eve and Harbour Window With Two Figures, were only doubtfully so, though it is unlikely that Heron himself, a great protagonist for his own achievements as well as those of the other painters he admired (Matthew Smith, William Scott, Peter Lanyon and Roger Hilton foremost amongst the British) ever thought so.

The display at Tate Britain includes very early life drawings from the late 1940s when Auerbach studied at St Martin's School of Art; portraits of his wife, Julia, and others of Estella Olive West («E.O.W»), who was Auerbach's main model — and his lover — in the 1950s and 60s; and landscapes with names such as Mornington Crescent — Winter Morning 1989.

However, as Family Picture, a number of his self - portraits, and later works, such as the triptych Departure (1932 — 33) and Paris Society (1925, 1931) show, Beckmann's canvases don't just present the viewer with a feast of social malaise, they also attest to spatial dislocation, implying how the horrors of Europe's early - 20th century distort one's ability to see the world.

A wide range of photographers — from early experimenters such as Eugène Cuvelier, Charles Marville and Anna Atkins to modern giants Alfred Stieglitz, Ansel Adams and Edward Weston, as well as contemporary practitioners such as James Nachtwey, Hiroshi Sugimoto and Loretta Lux — are represented by portraits and figure studies, city scenes and still lifes, landscapes and seascapes.

The connection between recent paintings (such as the outstanding «Favela Villa Broncos» (2009 - 10), of a hillside shantytown in Rio, or «Shanghai» (2010), a comparably complex view of Chinese fishing boats, or junks, parked in a secluded residential inlet) and early paintings (such as the one on the Self Portrait album cover) can be compared to the relationship between Dylan's book, Chronicles (2004), and his earlier stream of consciousness epistle, titled Tarantula (written in 1966, and published 1971).

Frank Auerbach, Early Works 1954 — 1978, curated by independent curator and art historian Catherine Lampert, will feature eighteen works from private collections, oil paintings and charcoal drawings, some not seen for over thirty years, including portraits of some of the artist's principle sitters, such as close friend and fellow artist Leon Kossoff, the model Juliet Yardley Mills (J.Y.M.), and Estella Olivia West (E.O.W.), Auerbach's lover until 1973.

Lee's early work focused on depicting societal concerns through realism, such as his first major project in the United States in which he painted portraits of San Francisco's homeless community on found boxes.

The catalogue accompanies the first U.S. mid-career survey of this important Dutch artist's work in photography and video; it features the Beach Portraits and other early works such as the photographs of new mothers and bullfighters, together with selections from Dijkstra's later work including her most recent video installations.

The selection of works reflect Painlevé's constant explorations of new ways to engage with the audience, from his early portraits and close - ups of marine animals, his iconic film The Seahorse to later works such as the 1978 Phase Transition in Liquid Crystals.

For the former Turner prize nominee now based in Berlin, it also marks a departure from earlier films that included portraits of artists such as Mario Merz and Cy Twombly, not only because it involves a live performance, but also because she is accustomed to being invisible.

Structured around the paradigmatic Vietnam II (1973), the exposition also shows other stages not as well known, such as his early informalist phase, the sphinxes he created in the 1950s, the napalm paintings of the 1960s, the portraits of dictators and politicians — including Franco — or their mercenaries and interrogations, all of which help to convey the complexity of Leon Golub's work.

Highlighted by Tanner's iconic painting The Annunciation, the exhibition features a wide range of items such as pre-Civil War - era decorative pottery, early 20th - century paintings and photography, sculpture and portraits.

Self - portraits by other artists are also examined, including works by Sarah Lucas, Maud Sulter and Donald Rodney that challenge conventional stereotypes, contrasted with more traditional self - portraits by earlier artists such as David Bomberg and Mark Gertler.

If these elements to some extent called to mind her earlier work, other moments — such as a snapshot - size portrait of Grace Dunham, or a flock of photographs, hung high on the wall, of birds in flight — felt like departures.

The chronological circuit of around 400 works will begin with early treasures such as Hans Eworth's 1565 Portrait of an Unknown Lady, showing works through the centuries to the present day including, said Curtis, both the unexpected and those that «people want and expect to see».

While the earlier, gritty output would inspire later photographers such as Don McCullin, the new work — nudes, portraits, landscapes — made him an ingredient as essential to the establishment of British modernism as the sculptures of Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth, and the paintings of Ben Nicholson.

All the major American artists and works from the seventeenth century to today are included, such as epic history paintings by Benjamin West and John Singleton Copley; sublime landscapes by Thomas Cole, Albert Bierstadt, and Frederick Church; society portraits by John Singer Sargent; groundbreaking abstract expressionist and pop art by Jackson Pollock, Barnett Newman, and Andy Warhol; and challenging sculptural, installation, and video works from more recent years by Robert Gober, Fred Wilson, and Matthew Barney In architecture, dozens of different building types are illustrated and discussed, from the earliest colonial houses and churches to the most spectacular modernist and postmodernist houses, stations, museums, and iconic skyscrapers.

[14] Gwen John's early paintings such as Portrait of Mrs. Atkinson, Young Woman with a Violin, and Interior with Figures are intimist works painted in a traditional style characterised by subdued colour and transparent glazes.

Meadows Museum Director Mark A. Roglán stated, «Nicole has been an extremely valuable part of our team since joining the museum, making significant contributions to recent exhibitions such as Diego Velázquez: The Early Court Portraits, The Prado at the Meadows: Ribera in a New Context, and The Invention of Glory: Afonso V and the Pastrana Tapestries.

His early work from the 1930s and 1940s is characterized by its traditional, social realist style and conventional subject matter, such as portraits, still lifes, and landscapes.

A number of key works, such as the sculpture I Was Thinking of You and the two series of drawings An Icelandic Saga and The Story of Bern, are combined with less familiar works ranging from an early abstract painting, over a series of collages with Japanese paper and gold leaf, to a self - portrait in the shape of a polaroid, and a cooking diary from 1969.

Photographs make up 30 % of the collection, with many of these works made in the late 1980s and early 90s, a period in which some artists used the documentary form of photography and related mediums to develop powerful portraits of themselves and their communities, while others highlighted the violence done to such communities.