Sentences with phrase «easel paintings»

The scale of his work has also played a part; the reputation of Abstract Expressionism was tied to that great American value that bigger is better — in terms both of scale of works and gesture, yet until his last decade (with a group of large paintings exhibited here for the first time) Lewis primarily produced easel paintings created with small marks.

1999Abstraction, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France Drawing is Another Kind of Language, Parrish Art Museum, organized by Harvard Museums, Southampton, NY Frank Stella: Easel Paintings, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, UK (solo) Frank Stella: New Work, Sperone Westwater, New York, NY (solo)

Many of these works are as much murals as easel paintings, and they demonstrate how Kelly's art is amply suited to the demands of architectural settings.

McLaughlin's easel paintings, never more than 4 or 5 feet on a side, also dispense with the public scale of a mural, which New York School painters demanded.

During this time Kandinsky shifted from the prismatic Expressionism of Der Blaue Reiter into pure abstraction and from easel paintings into set designs and murals.

LH: I am most certainly not blind»); and lose yourself in the vertiginous, granny's - attic mise - en - scène that threatens to gobble up the jewel - like easel paintings which stud the chaos.

It is the first painting by Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 — 1564) to enter an American collection, and one of only four known easel paintings generally believed to come from his hand.

His easel paintings cost between # 48,000 and # 195,000 new.

Now surfaces are much drier and flatter, sort of like easel paintings from the 1940s.

From 1936 to 1942, Lundeberg was employed by the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project, for which she produced lithographs, easel paintings, and murals in the Los Angeles area.

JOAN MITCHELL: Although that one Grande Vallee series did have a, but they were easel paintings, you know what I mean.

Modern American art barely had a market before the 1950s, and portable easel paintings became associated with market pandering — with «selling out.»

One rap on the black paintings has been that they represent a retreat from big murals back to portable easel paintings.

Frank Stella: Easel Paintings, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, UK Frank Stella: New Work, Sperone Westwater, New York, NY

Two Coats readers familiar with my series of tower paintings will know that I've long been drawn to the easel paintings of this particular period, and I'm looking forward to seeing the show.

This was evident everywhere in his modest but toothsome solo exhibition that included medium - scale easel paintings, primarily featuring a slightly off - kilter central grid format.

This image doesn't just set the tone for this protean study, featuring 54 easel paintings, four works on paper, The Dance, and conservation reports.

A handful of smaller works, like posters or, equally, easel paintings, bring out both sides of his craft.

With the scale of easel paintings, at a time when Abstract Expressionism had made a larger canvas canonical, they even look like studies for sculpture.

The later sections of the show frame the intersection of feminism and painting in easel paintings, large - scale works and performances by feminist artists in the 1970s and early 90s.

These easel paintings create a sense of depth from small, nearly concentric squares.

Echoes of abstraction's past, like Katy Moran's creamy easel paintings recently, can easily turn into pleasant academic exercises.

Not only were he and Sandy Low, the Director, companions and fellow painters but Steve had three of his easel paintings in the permanent collection.

A dozen works range from easel paintings to his usual large scale, as if he is trying them on for size.

An analogous distinction can be made between easel paintings that function as windows and the sort of trompe l'oeil murals favored by Baroque ceiling painters.

York Art Gallery is home to an expansive collection of 1,118 easel paintings that provides a detailed insight into Western European practice.

Freed from the demands of the commercial art market, artists made murals, easel paintings, and other works for public buildings.

Soon Garber's easel paintings began to attract favorable notice.

The catalogue's authors recognize what a remarkable and curious artist he was, yet place him squarely within the Dutch art world of his time, as an artist following in the wake of Flemish landscape painting of the 16th century, and working in a vibrant artistic milieu of admiring colleagues and a burgeoning middle - class market for easel paintings and prints.

He didn't really do many easel paintings in that art deco style.

In the exhibition, the two big, blazing - fireplace images are followed by the final room, which features a very different selection of work: seven conventional - size easel paintings in oil on linen.

Where I had visions of original student easel paintings hanging on the walls, she wanted to post copied color book pages.

Mouse uses paint brushes for stilts, a seal wields one with his flipper, and apron - wearing Pig stands at the easel painting.

Figures come and go, with almost cartoon outlines, culminating in the semicircle of Attic and then his largest easel painting, Excavation.

And you're clearly painting on a big surface that doesn't have all the connotations of, you know, traditional window or easel painting, just....

By building layer upon layer of close valued, luminous colored strokes of oil paint, across areas and vast fields of highly keyed, chromatically rich, and close valued color, Monet achieved a look and feel that goes well beyond conventional easel painting.

It had changed from being subservient to the dominant class — painting pictures of leaders, dignitaries and so on — and, as those functions had ebbed away, easel painting had no use any more.

The personal meant realistic, easel painting, and smaller early works have the dark colors and heavy outlines of painters like Ben Shahn.

He paints carefully, and both the canvas and the brush stick to the scale of easel painting.

JMcK: You play with the gallery space just as Capability Brown played with the landscape, both big steps in conceptual terms away from the strictures of the picture plane, and from easel painting.

By 1969, the canvases and patches of color had grown to the point that he had to break free of easel painting.

Investigating approaches to painting, the use of medium, the way we paint, challenging easel painting by holding the structure freely in one hand and applying paint through the other — this allows a more fluid approach to painting, an almost organic process in which artist, support, media and brush work in unison without normally rigid intervention of easel or wall.

Reed Danziger mounts paper on panel, for the intimacy of drawing or easel painting.

As Pollock's work increased in scale, Krasner devised a different approach to freeing herself from easel painting.

His drawings run about five feet tall, more the scale of architecture than of easel painting, and he fills the triangles too painstakingly to allow squiggles to show.

«This is, by my estimation, the best easel painting in private hands outside of Mexico, a celebration of indigenous culture,» said August Uribe, Phillips's deputy chairman of the Americas.

Easel painting was intimate and required the viewer to slowly lean into the pictorial space; large compositions immediately confronted the onlooker from afar.

His move away from easel painting and conventionality was a liberating signal to the artists of his era and to all that came after.

She worked for the WPA in the easel painting and sculpture divisions until 1939.

Schutz and Neo Rauch have actually discovered easel painting as if for the first time.