Sentences with phrase «extraordinary paintings based»

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.

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In the late nineteen - sixties, a group of artists made a name for themselves in the United States by using photography as a basis for painting everyday scenes and objects with extraordinary realism.

Their work spans an extraordinary range of styles and techniques, from abstraction to figuration, minimalism to magical realism, and straight oil - on - canvas to mixed - media and installation based painting.

These include paintings, portraits and text - based works inspired by the Palm Island Riot and the stunning 3D installation of competition surfboards, adorned with traditional combat shield designs from North Cairns on the face and excerpts from a James Baldwin's article («Unnameable Objects, Unspeakable Crimes», 1966) on the obverse, through to two extraordinary and enormous drawings «Lynching I» and «Lynching II» which, placed either side of the large picture window, eloquently emphasise the dark side of Sydney's pre-eminence as the starting point of colonisation in this country.

Two years ago, Shaw painted a loose variant of Paton's extraordinary fairy picture and this year he's also completed a version based on the Cranach painting.

The book covers Livingston's last three solo exhibitions from between the years 2006 and 2013, ones that have engaged the gallery context in a most extraordinary fashion, presenting conceptual painting - based installations where the underlying message is distinct and multi-layered.

Two weeks ago, the London - based FOLD Gallery opened a new show by the extraordinary English artist Simon Callery named «Flat Paintings».