Sentences with phrase «example of figurative art»

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It is a product of the Nok culture that flourished from about 1000 BC to AD 500, when it mysteriously died out, and provides examples of the earliest figurative art in sub-Saharan Africa.

Simultaneously classical and contemporary in scope, it contains roughly 300 images, how - to diagrams, and information about figurative art movements of the past as well as profiles of some of the greatest practitioners working today... featuring examples of Zeller's own work and also some of his best contemporary peers, who collectively bring the figurative tradition forward into a new era.»

An example of modern art paintings with a figurative subject is The Fear of Life, oil paint on canvas by Zhana Viel.

Performative, Poetic, Powerful Examining the various aesthetic and conceptual turns that typify César's practice, the show at Luxembourg & Dayan will present historically significant examples from his Compression, Human Imprint, and Expansion series, as well as such early figurative works as the Venus - like welded iron sculpture Torso (1954), on loan from the permanent collection of The Museum of Modern Art.

Kehinde Wiley's canvases, which repopulate Old Master portraits with young black men in contemporary streetwear, have been hailed inside and outside art - world circles as triumphant examples of contemporary figurative painting.

The Figure: Painting, Drawing, and Sculpture is a celebration of figurative art with a wealth of imagery displaying some of the finest examples of the genre in all mediums.

His successors, Diego Rivera (1886 - 1957), Jose Clemente Orozco (1883 - 1949) and David Alfaro Siqueiros (1896 - 1974), who all executed a range of mural painting in the USA, provided an example of a popular figurative art with social content.

A whole floor of «Pop, Minimal and Figurative Art» includes superb examples of Pop aArt» includes superb examples of Pop artart.

This volume spans Balla's entire career, including both figurative and abstract paintings and drawings, as well as examples of his fashion and applied art designs.

Szymczyk's Documenta has been constructed according to the same idea that motivated, for example, Massimiliano Gioni, the artistic director of the 2013 Venice Biennale: to create an exhibition, one with numerous sites for viewing the art, that «blurs the line between professional artists and amateurs, insiders and outsiders, reuniting artworks with other forms of figurative expression — both to release art from the prison of its supposed autonomy, and to remind us of its capacity to express a vision of the world.»

This biennial group exhibition features extraordinary figurative art and will encompass the examples of the human form in a variety of mediums.

Yes, early in the 20th century a bunch of people — maybe the Russian constructivists are the best example — made very pure (abstract art that tried to break decisively with figurative art) abstract art: they believed a new world was about to dawn.