Sentences with phrase «female figure paintings»

This period, and these female figure paintings, set the stage for Tworkov's transition into larger - format canvases in the early 1950s, when he loosened his line and painted mostly abstract compositions, relying on the figure.»

Seated Woman (1920) by Pablo Picasso Interpretation of Neoclassical - style Female Figure Painting MAIN A-Z INDEX

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Concentrating on figure and form, her fine art paintings convey the power and beauty of the female form.

Their flickering, rhythmic arrangement suggests harmony, yet a single female figure (perhaps Faust's Gretchen) looks on, equally at home in the painting, supported by a kneeling red figure.

Amy Pleasant's paintings and drawings offer a variety of male and female figures emerging from or dissolving into clouds of thought or landscapes of emotion.

In lush evocations of the female form, such as Nude — Elbow on Knee (above), painted in 1961, he continued many of the pictorial innovations of his previous series, but set them within an intimate portrayal of the human figure.

Using a refined painterly technique inspired by the Hudson River School and traditional figure painting, Cotton paints utopian landscapes and portraits, often composed of sugary desserts inhabited by female figures.

At this space, the figure of a female nude tied to what looks like a torture device is the disturbing central image of a nine - panel 1975 painting called «Moving Through» by the American artist Juanita McNeely.

In turn, they would give rise to his fetishistic furniture sculptures of female figures, paintings of women in rubber and exaggeratedly high heels, and their subject matter would lead him on to explore novel techniques of relief printmaking in the later 60's.

But in the background of this stunning tableau, if you meditate closely on the painting, you will see a portrait of a powerful, other - worldly female figure, almost larger than life, with large bright eyes, wearing a turban, sharply observing everything, as if she herself were keeping all the other elements in balance, in some mystical powerful way.

The exhibition opens with Himid's monumental Freedom and Change, 1984, which appropriates and transforms the female figures from Picasso's Two Women Running on the Beach (The Race), 1922, into black women, powerfully and humorously subverting one of the most canonical paintings in Western art history.

(As seen above) Woman V is one of a series of six paintings made by de Kooning between 1950 and 1953 that depict a three - quarter - length female figure.

De Kooning is well known for paintings of the female figure that transcend traditional figurative and abstract categories and break up conventional aesthetic frames of reference by maximizing the expressive power of paint in line and color.

This large - scale bronze playfully casts the classical female figure, reimagined in Giorgio de Chirico's surreal paintings, as if she is made of crudely carved polystyrene, further debunking the fetishized art historical form.

For over two decades, the Swiss artist Hans Schärer focused on painting the female figure, transforming conventional depictions of women into highly unexpected forms.

Coupled with Joffe's direct and unorthodox sense of characterization, her particular style of painting in turn gives an uncompromising sense of strength, complexity and momentum to the female figures she portrays.

«In the first years this decade, Judy Glantzman's paintings were of the single figure, painted and repainted: female, with multiple personalities and isolated in space.

His strategically cropped paintings are sometimes confrontational and often feature the female figure as protagonist, giving the viewer a subtle glimpse into the characters» lives.

Romantic, nightmarish, and mythic, the Black Paintings» emphasis on the female figure as protagonist and the overriding emotions of pain and dissonance prefigure Spero's preoccupations for the next 40 years.

I paint the female figure as others before me, and continue to push boundaries by exploring current political constructs of feminism through erotic imagery.

The subject of Christopher Brown's new multipanel paintings is a wooded landscape, crossed by a river, and sometimes including a nude female figure.

A small, flat silhouette in the shape of a vessel is painted on one side with a nude female Venus figure, and on the other side with abstract patterns in washy colors — a careful method with a quick look inherited from Modern painting masters.

Hinkle's largely figurative images combine photographic imagery with hand - drawn and painted details to create fantastical female figures of wonder.

Further reflecting his interest in the notion of trilogy, each painting relies on three key elements; the silk screened texts by Blanchot, the female figures and hand - drawn phrases such as I Love You Too Much and You Take My Breath Away, which are also the titles of the works.

Menacing, bare, red and blue branches thickly painted with energetic brushwork traverse the panels while a crouching female figure is nearly obliterated under layers of overpainting.

The Cleveland Museum of Art's latest acquisitions include a Virgin and Child, a rare 13th - century wooden sculpture from the Mosan region of Europe; a Standing Female Figure, a clay figure representative of the Classic Veracruz period on Mexico's Gulf Coast; and Just the two of us, one of contemporary artist Julia Wachtel's first paintings to employ carFigure, a clay figure representative of the Classic Veracruz period on Mexico's Gulf Coast; and Just the two of us, one of contemporary artist Julia Wachtel's first paintings to employ carfigure representative of the Classic Veracruz period on Mexico's Gulf Coast; and Just the two of us, one of contemporary artist Julia Wachtel's first paintings to employ cartoons.

For Heidi, the unflinching ordinariness of her female figures makes them more worthy of painting, not less.

The works engage the psychological realm of attachment to the female body and how that's processed through both a traditional and a contemporary reading, as the many reclining, sitting or lounging female figures relate distantly to any number of female portraits (often reclining female nudes) painted throughout history.

Lisa Yuskavage is renowned for her sexually explicit paintings of female figures with sometimes childlike, manga style faces striking provocative poses.

Faerie on the Chair and The Plump Nude show the rare female figure in portrait paintings.

In the 1972 painting «Express,» a barefoot female figure with blown - out cheeks and a sex - doll mouth is an incandescent vision of anger and control.

Utilizing found objects to create an otherworldly yet traditionally based format, the image of a large female figure and its smaller companions are done in the style of traditional Indian painting, while delicate fabrics interweave amongst images that swirl and stream within and outside the two wooden panels — thus making it engaging and contemplative to look at.

The centerpiece of Parma - Smith's new show is Last Judgment (2016), a 25 - foot - wide, multi-panel painting with whole sections peeling tidily to reveal a solitary female figure or lush sacred geometries beneath a seascape at sunset; also on view is a series of smaller ink - on - paper works.

To See Beyond Its Walls (and access the places that lie beyond) combines a large - scale painting of a female figure with a reimagined interior of Sans - Souci Palace (1813) in northern Haiti, tracing conflicted histories and current political contexts of Hispaniola (the shared island of the Dominican Republic and Haiti) and America.

As a coda to this narrative, the exhibition includes Pearlstein's most recent paintings, a series of three canvases completed in early 2015: nude female figures are animated with vibrant animal masks as they lounge and recline over Navaho rugs.

Often playing with images and materials associated with beauty and desire, Hamilton repeatedly uses sculptural cut - outs of film stills or women's legs made from transparent plastic and wooden shapes based on Modernist depictions of female nudes such as the curvy abstracted figure found in her 2007 piece The Piano Lesson, based on Fernand Léger's 1921 painting Le Grand Déjeuner.

The female figure has become a mere apparition or spectre: a silhouette that is barely outlined, or a smile without a face; it's even withdrawn entirely from a few paintings, where only an empty frame or a black monochrome rectangle remain.

The new paintings are characterized by wraith - like figures — mostly female, many children — amidst sensorial landscapes.

A modern abstract painting by American female New York City artist Irene Zevon titled Reclining Figure created in 1954.

For nearly two decades Werner has focused primarily on the female figure, painting a range of altered and exaggerated portraits, through the amalgamation of found images drawn from magazines and illustrated books.

On top of that, Ofili used cut - out images of female genitalia from pornographic magazines to make butterfly - like figures that float in the painting's background, like unholy cherubim.

A painter from Serbia, Milan Hrnjazovic is known for his oil on canvas paintings often depicting female figures.

Adding to the tension and sense of voyeurism in these paintings, there is often a seemingly aristocratic small child or older gentleman lurking in a corner or shadow, the female figure entirely unaware of or indifferent to their presence.

Derived from a painting of the same title, The Brite Spot involves the viewer in a vague yet intriguing narrative: two female figures are pictured in a bar setting, and while one appears to be dancing, a melancholic mood nevertheless permeates the work.

The figure in this painting is more androgynous than those that feature in two similar standing female nudes, Nude, 1961, and Figure Turning,figure in this painting is more androgynous than those that feature in two similar standing female nudes, Nude, 1961, and Figure Turning,Figure Turning, 1692.

The new paintings no longer focus on line as representation of female form, but utilize monochrome silhouettes to represent the figures.

Kilimnik's paintings are bright, brushy and colorful, and range in subject matter from Romantically inspired landscapes to kitschy gilded interiors and from proud, resplendent felines to enigmatic, smiling female figures.

In lush evocations of the female form, such as Nude — Elbow on Knee, painted in 1961 ($ 800,000 - 1,200,000)-- he continued many of the pictorial innovations of the prior series but nestled them within an intimate portrayal of the human figure.

Named for African - American abolitionist and women's rights activist Sojourner Truth, Parsons paints strong female characters, like the scintillating, silhouetted figure smoking in the darkness in her large - scale work Anthony at Night with the butterflies (2016).

As a leading member of the Abstract Expressionists, de Kooning startled much of the art world with the introduction in 1953 of his Women paintings, that «bore clearly recognizable images of females figures, and thus rejected the commitment to non-objectivity that previously characterized his own work and Abstract Expressionism more generally.