Sentences with phrase «famous black paintings»

Herrera's hard - edged canvases emerged at the same time that Ellsworth Kelly, whose time in France overlapped with Herrera's, began producing his own abstractions and around the same time that Frank Stella began producing his famous black paintings.

In the show were his famous black paintings, which according to legend he painted because he was too poor to pay for other pigments.

This is the largest assembly — numbering 31 — of the artist's famous black paintings ever to sit under one roof.

More than 30 of the works are the famous black paintings, a rarity by any measure.

De Kooning's famous black paintings are also important to the history of this loosely defined style of American painting due to their conceptual core, densely impacted forms and mixed media technique.

So, there you have it: Ten famous black paintings.

In the name of balance and harmony it's only right to do a list of ten famous black paintings today!

Lets start with the most famous of all famous black paintings: Goya's black paintings.

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Or a $ 2000 television frame (television not included) that turns your black TV screen into a famous painting or family photograph?

Combine all that with this test car's black paint job and you've got a wicked appearance befitting of the Secret Service or a famous music mogul.

Called the Ford GT ’66 Heritage Edition, the modern GT40 tribute comes painted in black with the matching silver - stripe livery of the Mark II GT40 race car that was part of the famous 1 -2-3 Ford finish in the world - famous endurance race.

Day 7 Tour of the painted churches includes Sucevita, which is the best preserved of all with imposing walls and defensive towers, Moldovita and Voronet, known as the «Sistine Chapel of the East», famous for the blue colour used by the artists as background for its frescoes and a black pottery workshop in Marginea.

Some are done from photographs, like Henry Taylor's near - life - size 2007 painting of the famous photo of Black Panther founder Huey P. Newton seated in a throne - like wicker chair holding a spear and a shotgun.

Most famous for his «black» or «ultimate» paintings, he claimed to be painting the «last paintings» that anyone can paint.

In her Let us now Praise Famous Men (2012) series of acrylic paintings, Ruyter appropriated Depression - era black and white photographs from the archive of the Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information in the Library of Congress.

This famous abstract painting is dominated by black on white, but it does not reference race.

In a 2010 photograph entitled Le déjeuner sur l'herbe: Le Trois Femme Noires (2010), Thomas re-stages Édouard Manet's famous image, substituting his painted figures for provocatively dressed black women.

His early figurative painting slowly gained attention, and his black - and - white abstractions of the late 1940s made him a leader among the New York Abstract Expressionists; but the early 1950s Woman paintings made him famous for the violence of their depiction.

It was her now - famous large - scale painting from her M.F.A. thesis show at Parsons titled Class of 2007, which depicted her fellow classmates, who were all white, as black inmates, while Nina, the only black student in her class, painted herself as a gun - toting white prison guard with flowing blonde locks.

Black cats stalk through snow in Backyards, Greenwich Village, 1914 (Whitney Museum of American Art), one of his most famous paintings.

Come see how the seductive curves and colors of her famous Jack - in - the - Pulpit flower series from 1930 evolved into hauntingly austere paintings like the Chrysler's massive 1954 work Black Door with Red.

The multicolored cliffs of the New Mexico landscape inspired her famous painting Black Mesa Landscape, along with White Palace.

Riley returns to the hallucinatory black - and - white style of her famous works from the 1960s in murals and framed paintings that have the scope of Jackson Pollock and the scientific precision of a carefully calculated experiment.

Some of the paintings were done in a predominantly subdued palette of whites, ochres, and blacks — a palette shared by another famous Abstract Expressionist Franz Kline, while others were much more vibrant reds, blues and rich browns.

Known for his vibrant, large - scale paintings of black man posing as famous figures, Kehinde Wiley's Obama presidential portrait features the US ex-leader sitting in front of a floral backdrop.

Part of the artist's «Black Paintings» series, the title of this work refers to the famous London asylum known as «Bedlam.»

She worked almost exclusively in a black, white and grey palette until 1967, when colour was allowed into her work and the first of the famous stripe paintings was produced.

Franz Kline (1910 - 1962) Famous for gestural action - painting & calligraphic black - and - white pictures.

Commissioning works of art based on these segmented portions of famous texts, Painting Between the Lines fills in the visual information that is left out of the organization of black - and - white letters on each literary page.

He has described the boys in Caravaggio's paintings, for example, as «overripe bits of rough trade, with yearning mouths and hair like black ice cream,» and evoked Francis Bacon's famous screaming pope «smearily rising from blackness like carnivorous ectoplasm.»

Curated by Hilton Als, The New Yorker's chief theater critic (and a New Yorker éminence grise), «Alice Neel, Uptown» reflects the years that the artist lived in Harlem and the Upper West Side, immersed in the black and Latino communities that she painted at least as often as her more famous white sitters.

Famous modern abstract paintings include Wassily Kandinsky's «Composition VII» (1913), Joan Miro's «The Birth of the World» (1925), Jackson Pollock's «Number 1A, 1948» (1948), and Piet Mondrian's series of mostly white, black, red, blue, and yellow grids.

Affirming the ludist explorations of the artistic process, Appel was become famous by painting and sculpting in the technique of assemblage, as well as by extensive use of primary colors white, red, yellow, blue and black.

This Smile came to mind as I entered Alex Katz's exhibition, Smile, at Peter Blum's Chelsea gallery, a suite of large, closely hung paintings all depicting frontal head - shots of various (in some cases recognizably famous) female models, all on slate - black fields that float upward in austere vertical uniformity.

During the late 1980s, the New York - trained painter and photographer Christopher Wool (b. 1955) became famous for his word paintings (now selling for multi-million dollar prices), typically consisting of bold, black stencilled letters arranged in a geometric grid, but with all punctuation removed and spacing disrupted.

Instead of taking to academic painting he fell in love with Sue Weil, a fellow American art student, and studied with her at the famous Black Mountain College in North Carolina under the ex-Bauhaus master, Josef Albers.

Lynda Benglis's famous Artforum ad from 1974 is installed on a pale pink wall next to a work by Nancy Spero; most of the works are hung or installed in front of sexy, black - painted walls.

Most impressive here are his miniature versions of Stella's famous late»50s black paintings and his obsessive homages to Brancusi's «Endless Column,» all beautifully hand - carved out of different kinds of wood.

Among these are the artist's most famous, landmark paintings — among them Pink Angels (1945), Excavation (1950), and the celebrated third Woman series (1950 — 53)-- plus in - depth presentations of all his most important series, ranging from his figurative paintings of the early 1940s to the breakthrough black - and - white compositions of 1948 — 49, and from the urban abstractions of the mid 1950s to the artist's return to figuration in the 1960s, and the large gestural abstractions of the following decade.

Drawing from works in Asawa's extensive archive as well as important loan contributions, the exhibition begins with her earliest works, drawings and paintings created in the 1940s at Black Mountain College, the famous experimental art school in North Carolina.

The American street artist Keith Haring is famous for his instantly recognizable style of urban graffiti art - executed in marker ink, acrylic and Day - Glo paint - with its thick black lines and distinctive cartoon - like figures and forms.

Borrow a famous painting - Tattoo a 250 cm line on six paid people - Build a wall on the street - Guide sheep around a flagpole - Fight for your Panda - Make people demonstrate - Put a black square on the Red square - Run against the tram - Dance in Starbucks - Play with the CCTV - Ribbon up Tiananmen Square

His «Black Paintings,» which made him famous almost overnight, are like anti-van Goghs.

His famous painting of Jack Johnson (1972, now in the Philadelphia Museum of Art) was used as the cover of Powell's Black Art and Culture in the 20th Century.

Painted in 1958 when Rothko was engaged with the creation of the series of famous murals for the Four Seasons Restaurant in the Seagram building in Manhattan (now known as the famous The Rothko Room at the Tate Modern in London)-- No. 36 (Black Stripe) exemplifies this extraordinary moment in the artist's life and career.

His most famous painting series are the Black Paintings, painted at the end of his life.

For example, the juxtaposition of flat, geometric, black - outlined shapes evidences his interest in synthetic cubism, which he saw in Pablo Picasso's paintings at Gertude and Leo Stein's famous 1912 salon in Paris, where he also met the artist.

The fact that the original paintings were based on black - and - white photographs of famous Western European men, so that the current works are photographs of paintings of photographs, is just another hint at the cerebral fun «Fact / Fiction» offers for the intellectually adventurous.

Works including Toyin Ojih Odutola's The Treatment series of black pen drawing of famous white men like President Herbert Hoover rendered black, Zoe Buckman's feminist Every Curve series of lingerie embroidered with Biggie and Tupac lyrics, and Titus Kaphar's George Washington's Chef oil on canvas painting explore the historical and present impact of blackness on the shaping of identity and popular culture.