Sentences with phrase «extraordinary paintings by»

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.

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).

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This fact needs to be continually reiterated to decision makers as otherwise manufacturers of breast milk substitutes will capitalise on HIV infection as a reason for promoting free samples of their formula.10 It is extraordinary that the Wall Street Journal painted the baby food manufacturers as heroes poised to save African children from certain death because of their offer to donate free formula to HIV infected mothers.11 The WHO recommends avoidance of breast feeding by HIV infected mothers only if replacement feeding is feasible, safe, sustainable, and affordable — otherwise exclusive breast feeding is recommended during the first six months of life.12 Non-infected women must be given access to credible information, quality care, and support, in order to empower them to make informed decisions regarding feeding of their infant.13

By LEIGH DAYTON and MAGGIE McDONALD About 14 000 years ago an ice - age hunter painted three extraordinary bison on the ceiling of a cave.

It's a smart movie — a quintessentially L.A. one, too, in its self - awareness (the nameless hero is a stuntman, Richard Rush fans take note), and it has an extraordinary quality of stillness that paints in confident strokes what it feels like to be completely alone by luck you call choice.

Of course, there is the light of Turner's paintings, matched and mirrored by cinematographer Dick Pope's extraordinary framing and composition.

Writer / director Jeff Nichols paints an authentic portrait of Midwest normalcy disrupted by extraordinary circumstances.

Paintings, sketches and words by Caldecott Honor artist and former professional wrestler Ted Lewin are your guide to this extraordinary place.

• Restaurant Seteais — Menu prepared by Chef Miguel Silva With a superb view of the gardens and the mountains and frescos and paintings of extraordinary beauty, your meal or event will be simply unforgettable.

Including paintings by Vincent van Gogh, Salvador Dalí, Jackson Pollock and Andy Warhol, the extraordinary collection explored the nexus of contemporary art in the 20th century.

Alice Neel: Painted Truths Originating at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston until 13 June, this extraordinary survey of Alice Neel's work will be on view at the Whitechapel Gallery in London 8 July to 19 September 2010, and will continue on to Moderna Museet, Malmö, Sweden, 9 October 2010 to 2 January 2011 Alice Neel: Painted Truths is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue of the same title published by the MFAH and distributed by Yale University Press.

«We are privileged to showcase work from the extraordinary collection assembled by Preston and Joan Haskell through this exhibition and publication, and in doing so, we are asking our audiences to consider abstract painting in a new light.»

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.

Princeton, NJ — A remarkable gathering of paintings by some of the most important artists of the postwar era will provide a window into a moment of extraordinary creative ferment, when the very nature of abstract painting was being hotly contested.

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.

Ranging from lushly painted canvases to sculptures of extraordinary technical acumen, three artworks by each artist address themes of youth, nostalgia, and intimacy.

Iva Gueorguieva is a contemporary artist whose paintings are characterized by extraordinary techniques with the goal to represent variable - dimension worlds.

For Gorky this was no easy endeavor: critic Meyer Schapiro called him a «fervent scrutinizer» of paintings, an ability corroborated by his close friend Willem de Kooning (whose own painting owes much to Gorky): «for some mysterious reason, he knew lots more about painting, and art... He had an extraordinary gift for hitting the nail on the head.»

Every single one has extraordinary color: the variety and brightness each piece carries, detail: the amount of work that is put into every aspect of each painting that make it look so realistic and abstract, lighting: the bright light shining throughout each image giving each piece an intriguing positive / enthusiastic energy, shading: the detailed shadings on each face giving them that 3 - dimensional look, definition: the quality of the defined lines that are portrayed through every painting (piece) and every small detail in the painting (like the faces and body parts) line: the complex and balanced lining that is seen in both, the abstract and realistic images in these works, texture: somewhat giving off an appealing texture to the works by the dimensions, as if you can reach out and grab the images, dimension: the realistic look that each women has (3 - dimensional), spacing: the space is used wisely in each work, very nicely spread out adding to its originality, touch: the clear and powerful finishing touch that every piece has, and the most visible that is seen in every piece here, is simply life.

-LSB-...] Some of the greatest artists through the ages have amassed extraordinary holdings, among the most brilliant being Rubens's collection — featuring a remarkable selection of Venetian paintings and drawings by Florentine and Roman masters, including Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael — and that of Degas, who left 500 paintings, and 5,000 prints and drawings, at his death, including masterpieces by Ingres, Delacroix, Gauguin and El Greco.

The initial familiarity of these scenes allows for our personal investment in them, but the literal trace of the object, created by the puncture of the needle and gauge of the thread, continues to pull us back to the surface and to the painting itself as the object of extraordinary investment and inquiry.

Sean Kelly Gallery is delighted to announce its upcoming exhibition, At One Remove, an extraordinary body of new paintings and works on paper by Callum Innes.

Tracing the extraordinary history of Haiti's popular art scene, the exhibition included over 200 paintings, sculptures and sequin flags by 35 artists made over the last 70 years.

His extraordinary breadth of work — photography, paintings, prints, artist's books, and videos — has been celebrated internationally in numerous solo exhibitions, including the 2009 — 10 retrospective John Baldessari: Pure Beauty, co-organized by LACMA.

Less an exhaustive survey of contemporary abstract painting than a bringing together of extraordinary works by exceptional artists, Inherent Structure encourages viewers to meditate on the underlying sources and influences of abstraction by providing varied and multiple manifestations of it.

While he begins each work by creating of a small clay model, his paintings are anything but «still - lifes»; rather, they are extraordinary mediations on the medium of paint and the activity of painting.

Karen Rosenberg: «Insects also figure in small paintings by Tazeen Qayyum, who renders cockroaches and other household pests with extraordinary delicacy.

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.

Displaying key works such as Robert Rauschenberg's Barge (1962 — 63) and Mark Rothko's Untitled (1952 — 53), as well as an extraordinary group of large - scale paintings by Anselm Kiefer transcendently juxtaposed with Joseph Beuys» Lightning with a Stag in its Glare (1958 — 85), Bilbao plays its most powerful trump card: scale.

By night and during the off - season he read, wrote, and painted prolifically, creating an extraordinary body of mostly small - scale canvases rich with enigmatic symbolism.

The extraordinary legacy of galleries like Sperone, Christian Stein and La Tartaruga, post-war abstract painting, Arte Povera (especially the work of Giulio Paolini and Giovanni Anselmo), hand - painted Pop by artists like Mario Schifano, the rarefied persona of Gino de Dominicis: all are fertile for rediscovery.

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.

By applying layers of incompatible paints, varnishes and other liquids, including coffee and wine, Larmon has achieved extraordinary textures - from viscous pools to patterned cracks and rills.

Fuchs has produced an extraordinary body of work that is a testament to the meaning and potency of painting, ranging from small to large - scale works, and characterized by an expansive vocabulary of soft lines, gestural brushwork, and a subdued, muted palette.

An extraordinary early work by Bridget Riley, Untitled (Diagonal Curve), painted in 1966, realised # 4,338,500 / $ 5,809,252 / $ 5,227,893, a new auction world record.

Bringing together major works from MoMA's extraordinary collection, the exhibition features breakthrough projects in painting, drawing, sculpture, prints, book and graphic design, film, photography, and architecture by leading figures such as Alexandra Exter, Natalia Goncharova, El Lissitzky, Kazimir Malevich, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Lyubov Popova, Alexandr Rodchenko, Olga Rozanova, Vladimir and Georgii Stenberg, and Dziga Vertov, among others.

He is interested not in brush strokes, the paintings are entirely without gesture, but in the impasto brought about by this layering which in turn lends the heads an extraordinary three - dimensionality.

«I am always struck by how extraordinary the surfaces of Jenny Saville's paintings are,» comments Katharine Arnold, Senior Specialist in the Post-War and Contemporary Art department at Christie's London.

Sean Kelly will exhibit a solo presentation of an extraordinary new series of paintings by Kehinde Wiley at ADAA: The Art Show (Booth D24).

Jenny Saville's figurative painting is an extraordinary one, characterized by high - caliber brush strokes and a rich use of color that accurately transmits her subject's physical, but also mental state.

«There is extraordinary consensus it is by Leonardo,» said Nicholas Hall, the former co-chairman of old master paintings at Christie's, who now runs his own Manhattan gallery.

«Our galleries of French painting introduce this movement with extraordinary works by Monet, Renoir, and Sisley.

In his foreword, Andrew Marr asks what should a painting look like in 2016, when «so much has already been done by so many extraordinary hands, fingers and brains.»

Also don't miss the extraordinary, intensely personal paintings, drawings and photographs of nonagenarian Geta Brãtescu in Romania, as well as the film by Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler in the Swiss Pavilion which tells the heart - wrenching story of Flora Mayo, long - forgotten American artist and lover of Alberto Giacometti, through the voice of her now aged son.

The show has been arranged by Micol Forti, director of the Vatican's modern and contemporary art department, a little - known sliver of the extraordinary Vatican Museums responsible for the Collection of Modern Religious Art — that little - remarked - upon stretch of donated paintings by artists from van Gogh to Fontana and Botero that most visitors to the Holy See skip over on their way to the Sistine Chapel.

Her paintings and drawings are characterized by their extraordinary expressiveness and sometimes controversial subject matter.

Filled with extraordinary color plates and personally selected archival images, this comprehensive book offers a rich overview of more than two decades of her brilliant and controversial paintings, along with interpretive essays by Bedford and leading art historians Suzanne Hudson and Catherine Lord, a text by Pulitzer Prize - winning writer and physician Siddhartha Mukherjee, and an interview with the artist by art historian and curator Katy Siegel.

I went to see Making Space a second time to really appreciate the extraordinary abstract paintings and sculpture by the Latin American superstars Carmen Herrera (Cuban, born 1915), Lygia Clark (Brazilian, 1920 - 1988) and Lygia Pape (Brazilian, 1927 - 2004).

The artist complicates this in an extraordinary way by making these crude models from aluminum foil using reflected color, the result being an illusory and refracted space that becomes solidified through the process of painting.

She is part of CANADA gallery's extraordinary and decade - defining stable (three of the artists in MoMA's aforementioned painting show are CANADA artists), so barely an art fair has gone by where I have not seen new work.