Sentences with phrase «female figures»

But despite this consistent imbalance, there have been a number of female figures who have pursued, achieved and exceeded their goals, and whilst we think that all women are wonderful and should be lauded for their successes both individually and collectively, in light of International Women's Day, 8 March, we have selected 10 inspiring women who have contributed to the wider creative industries as well as achieving outstanding things in their respective fields.

Combining iconography from comic books, art history, and popular culture, Art & Beauty portrays a broad selection of images of female figures in diverse settings.

From her most famous Untitled Film Stills (1977 - 1980), which portray female figures from the 1950s and 1960s to Women and Society Pictures series from 2004 and 2008 respectively, she has addressed important issues by involving herself in her own projects, wearing costumes and make - up within directed scenarios of fictitious foreign and films noir.

Launching alongside Allahyari's one year research residency at Eyebeam, the show explores «forgotten, misrepresented, and suppressed histories and narratives» in «dark goddesses, monstrous, and djinn female figures of Middle - Eastern origin».

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.

At the same time they lead your thoughts to Matisse's dancers — Roberts» recognisable female figures are rendered with soft curves in bright colours on a pattern or monochrome background.

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.

In the recent work of Sappers and Miners, Vance suspends her depictions of female figures in tantalizing situations, in favor of subdued rituals.

He is best known for his careerspanning series, «Great American Nude,» which featured female figures in intensely saturated interiors.

Using quotes from famous female figures such as Anne frank and Rosa Parks, the young people re-enacted the narratives behind the quotes and created fictional ones of their own.

Repurposing the formal elements of advertising, such as shaped posters and cutouts, Wesselmann complicates the relationship between his female figures and their environments, their long, tanned legs often appearing to extend beyond the two - dimensional surface.

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

The female figures arranged in challenging poses throughout her work gives new agency to the female form, long placed as passive in European art history.

The exhibition brings together two large works on leaded panels of glass — two naked female figures seated in profile, impassive, emitting shooting stars — a series of delicate aquatint etchings, large bronze wall reliefs and a suspended sculpture, the shadows of which transform the gallery into a barely perceptible dabbled glade, along with a stunning jacquard tapestry depicting two eagles in descent against a chalky sky.

Rendered in a sketchy, expressive manner on a bubblegum pink background, nude female figures center the chaotic composition and command the viewer's attention.

When she managed to establish a name of an avant - garde and progressive artist, Yayoi Kusama became one of the prominent female figures of the New York scene.

Will Cotton is best known for his depictions of landscapes composed of sweets, often inhabited by languidly posed female figures.

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.

Here his female figures are from a book on erotic massage from the» 70's, whereas his flowers are from the book Rose for English Gardens published in 1902.

Wangechi Mutu (b. 1972, Nairobi) blends watercolor with collaged photo clippings and gold leaf to build biomorphic forms that sometimes merge into female figures.

The exhibition title references female figures from mythology, literature and biblical sources, and creates connections across works from several of Bracha's past and current bodies of work.

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

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.

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

Way back in 1969 he made a a body of work that upset a great may people; three sculptures of scantily - clad female figures arranged in positions that enabled them to be -LSB-...]

Selected Works from the Goss - Michael Collection Goss - Michael Foundation, Design District April 13 — May 31 Presenting strong, accomplished female figures in the international arts community, alongside highlighted works from the 2018 MTV RE: DEFINE Honoree, Tracey Emin, CBE, this show is in support of, and reaction to, the courageous voices uplifting the message of widespread female disparity across all industries.

It sheds light on key topics in these artists» works, but also the specific history of the gallery and its connection to these important female figures of an art that subtly addresses women's roles in very different ways...

Among Mutu's best - known works are her magazine - based collages, begun in 2002 and continuing today, depicting grotesquely beautiful hybrids of female figures and animal parts with distorted lips, eyes, and heads.

Her first solo exhibition in London took place in September last year at the French Riviera Gallery, and a continuation of a new series which features a cast of female figures / protagonists, engaged in acts of looking and being looked at, will be exhibited at the Goodman Gallery Johannesburg in April 2015.

These layered quasi-narratives emphasize bright, acidy colors in which male and female figures happily dance and frolic, coming together in inventive ways while simultaneously remaining separate.

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.

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

And Mary Frank who creates a vision that hovers between the natural world and the world of the imagination with her watercolor female figures, evoking states of feeling and emotion.

In all of his depictions of female figures, Sarmento avoids his work becoming portraiture by omitting the face.

The landscape is populated by female figures of various, often ambiguous ethnicities and different body types frolicking and making art, seemingly free of male gazes or racial tension.

Female figures made frequent appearances.

Two female figures form the base, which supports a male and female figure on a circular seat.

Initially dedicated to social - realist themes of the Depression Era in America, he turned to the depiction of female figures, especially ballet dancers.

To look over Paula Rego's body of work is to look over the landscape of women's experience: desire, abortion, rape, female circumcision, childbirth, family relationships, dominating and being dominated by men; her masculine female figures are sometimes lonely, but usually fierce and often bent on revenge.

His female figures seek a peculiar balance between beautiful and grotesque, situated in dense scenes of sexual gluttony or humorously taunting the viewer with awkward nudity.

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.

Informed by traditional crafts and the histories of female figures within art and architectural history, Leonor Antunes discusses her work alongside art historian Briony Fer.

Now she uses other black female figures as her stand - ins, but back in her school days she posed in all of her own pictures — playing a series of different characters, all invented.

As a student of art and history, Saint Phalle would have been familiar with these and many other mythic representations of powerful female figures.

This work made good visual sense on the same wall that segued into the Alex Katz gallery, with its enormous February 5:30 P.M. (1972) in which the three central female figures wear fuzzy red and pink sweaters.

The male and female figures that come out of this vigor emerge stronger than before, and stronger than Gray's earlier introspective sculptures.

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.

This meticulously printed piece, Anchor, features several reoccurring motifs from the artist's work including embracing female figures, hair - like patterns and a wheel of female legs.

According to RCEWA member Richard Calvocoressi: «This is one of Giacometti's most simplified female figures — flat, almost abstract, its pure white forms pared down to bare essentials.

Simon Fujiwara, Rebekkah (2012), five figures, from an edition of 3 (+ 2AP), terra - cotta dyed, life sized, cast plaster female figures with accompanying video (7 mins 33 secs).