Sentences with phrase «extraordinary paintings»

The house is beautifully designed with antique furniture, rare books, and extraordinary painting on the walls.

The exhibition highlights some of the artist's extraordinary paintings from 1960 − 1981.

The exhibition focuses on the most extraordinary painting of a stone ever created in China: Wu Bin's Ten Views of a Lingbi Stone (1610), a Ming dynasty handscroll comprising 10 separate views of a single stone from the famous site of Lingbi, Anhui Province.

This exhibition presents eleven extraordinary paintings by Southern California artist Daniel Douke dating from 2007 - 15.

Five cave - complex covering close to 2100m2 area with extraordinary paintings and 157 statues, is indeed an inspirational masterpiece.

Turkish - born Fahrelnissa Zeid created extraordinary paintings that mix Islamic, Byzantine, Arab, Persian and European influences

The exhibition travelled to London's Victoria Miro after opening at David Zwirner in New York, and some of the most extraordinary paintings on show were those of men of physical and political action, in moments of calm.

«It was like watching van Gogh's extraordinary paintings come to life!

This album captures a selection of a Union soldier's extraordinary paintings based on his experience in the Virginia - Maryland theater of the Civil War.

Alex Farquharson, Director, Tate Britain said: «This will be an unmissable opportunity to see some truly extraordinary paintings, many of which have not been seen for decades.

What extraordinary paintings over the summer!

Highlights include Ghika's extraordinary painting Mystras and Craxton's exuberant Still Life with Three Sailors.

Rudy Burckhardt, best known for his photography, films and beguiling autobiography, Mobile Homes, also made extraordinary paintings of everyday life.

Greenberg later wrote about this transformative moment in Louis's life and in the history of art: «His first sight of the middle - period Pollocks and of a large and extraordinary painting done in 1952 by Helen Frankenthaler, called «Mountains and Sea,» led Louis to change his direction abruptly.

The Art & Ability exhibition series feature extraordinary paintings, sculptures, drawings and more to delight audiences throughout the D / FW area and help extinguish stereotypes about the «ability» of those with a disability.

Extraordinary paintings by Jonathan Yeo, a British artist best known for his portraits of iconic figures including Nicole Kidman, Damien Hirst, Malala Yousafzai, Kevin Spacey and Tony Blair.

The collection of American art is from Jane and the late Frank Batten, Sr., who have generously placed these nine extraordinary paintings on long - term loan as promised gifts to the Chrysler.

This cave, in northern Spain, was regularly visited by our prehistoric ancestors for tens of thousands of years, and as I follow Roberto inside, I see some of the extraordinary paintings they left behind.

Beginning and ending in the Chauvet cave in southeastern France, this impressive work, rich in both art and text, explores the extraordinary paintings found on the cave walls.

The richly decorated rooms and ballrooms, with their extraordinary paintings, tapestries, and frescos, make this hotel unique.

Three honorary doctorates in fine art — from Dartmouth College (1962), UC Berkeley (1963), and the Pratt Institute (1965)-- also testify to the many artists whose work was enriched by Hofmann and his extraordinary painting.

It is the surface depth and the subtle palette existing on the very edge of order, that defines the sense of space in these extraordinary paintings and creates such a unique and compelling experience for the viewer.

Back in the day it was Van Dyck and Canova who received the family's patronage; now it's Richard Wright, winner of the 2009 Turner prize, who has created an extraordinary painting in a turret - like folly in the castle grounds known as the «monkey house».

Exhibited together for the first time, these extraordinary paintings and arrangements (or tableaux) of objects reference and echo each other, as combined reflections on landscape, heritage, religion, history, life, and death.

Bradford has been making her quirky, extraordinary paintings for years and, finally, the world has caught up.

As a DIA curator, I researched our extraordinary painting collection, enhanced our permanent galleries by displaying our artwork in new ways, curated temporary exhibitions, visited private and public art collections with our patrons, and identified new works for acquisition among many other things — the work curators perform is one of the most interesting in the museum profession because of the multiplicity of duties that it entails.

The guide will also help you discover Michel Sittow's extraordinary paintings and the stories behind them.

Hernan Bas is famous these days both for his extraordinary paintings of moody romantics suffering gorgeously and also for the extreme difficulty collectors have in obtaining one of these pricey treasures, so clogged is his waitlist.

CWI thought they were extraordinary paintings.

«Judas Returning the Thirty Pieces of Silver is an extraordinary painting that shows Rembrandt at an early age tackling one of the most powerful episodes in the Bible,» said Colin B. Bailey, director of the Morgan Library & Museum.

It brings together 100 extraordinary paintings and drawings — 40 by Matisse and 60 by Diebenkorn — that reveal the connections between the two artists in subject, style, color, and technique.

Alice Neel's life as an artist affords us an example of the soul in Faulkner's sense; and as this book amply illustrates, so too does each of her extraordinary paintings.»

The extraordinary paintings, drawings and prints Josef Herman made during this time captured the life of the community, most notably in his images of miners.

Their fellow Surrealist Salvador Dali (1904 - 89) also produced some extraordinary paintings like The Persistence of Memory (1931, MoMA, NY) and Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (1936, Philadelphia Museum of Art).

Don't miss this new series of extraordinary paintings (small and medium sized) and be the first to see his Toilet Paper Jesus Pieces and the eye catcher of the show: Still Life: The Scrolling Painting.

Washington, DC — At its January 2016 Board of Trustees meeting, the National Gallery of Art acquired a number of works including an extraordinary painting by Dutch master Frans van Mieris (1635 — 1681), an early portrait by Alex Katz (b. 1927) of his wife, Ada, a remarkable trompe l'oeil painting by an unknown 17th - century Dutch artist, and a deluxe - format artist's book with 80 woodcuts by Joan Miró (1893 — 1983).

It's been a privilege to be a part of the engaged conversations that these extraordinary paintings have sparked.»

Neglected and misunderstood in his lifetime, his extraordinary paintings, poetry, and prints now enjoy an international reputation.

A landmark exhibition, Jasper Johns: «Something Resembling Truth» features more than 120 extraordinary paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings by one of America's greatest artist.

She is widely recognized for her extraordinary paintings which fuse together natural energies of her homeland with an explosive expressionism and calligraphy filtered through conceptual installations.

features more than 120 extraordinary paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings by one of America's greatest artist.

The extraordinary paintings of Edward Burra, who died in 1976, used to be something of a minority interest.

A landmark exhibition, Jasper Johns: «Something Resembling Truth» features more than 120 extraordinary paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings by one of America's greatest artists.