Sentences with phrase «female nude figure»

In this exhibition, Women: New (Re) Presentations, McGinness expands upon his ever - growing language of symbols with a concentrated yet expansive body of work based upon the traditional academic drawing of the female nude figure.

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In the old days in China carvings of the nude female figure were used for diagnosis.

The plaza was formerly the site of the controversial «Triumph of Civic Virtue» statue, a 17 - foot - high marble statue that depicted a male nude standing on top of two female figures representing «Vice» and «Corruption».

Nude female figures called Venus figurines are found in very early prehistoric art, and in historical times, similar images represent fertility Welcome to New York City's easiest, most enjoyable way to meet other singles - speed dating with New York EasyDates.

Choose from a diverse collection of female nudes, Pre-Raphaelite figures and famous portraits.

A glance at three recent works by Kate Davis (b. 1977) from a numbered series Disgrace appear to have pencil scrawls on pages of an art catalogue featuring nude studies of the female figure.

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.

Transition from Cool to Warm takes its title from Kiefer's book Erotik im Fernen Osten oder: Transition from Cool to Warm (1976), in which atmospheric renderings of an arctic seascape lead to the emergence of a female figure and then to a series of loose, abstracted, and exquisitely stained nudes.

The Guerrilla Girls» famous poster protesting that while only 5 % of the artists in the modern section of New York's Metropolitan Museum are women, 85 % of its nudes are female is definitive in that way (the figure was still at 4 % and 76 % when they updated the work in 2011).

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.

Lucian Freud's oeuvre is comprised of expressive, realist portraits, most often of female nudes or of himself, but also of various public figures, such as Clint Eastwood, Leigh Bowery, and Queen Elizabeth II.

Art for every body on display at Color of Energy gallery By Brittany Erwin Photo: Parrish's untitled nude figure calls viewers to confront the female form Is the ideal female body tall and long - limbed?

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.

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.

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

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.

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

The figure here is nude, yet her nudity is denied through these bars of reflections.Amusingly, this disembodied, incomplete yet suggestive female figure must be seen as some kind of «portrait» of Mr. Helms, here feminized, stripped and placed on view for all to see.»

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

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.

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.

In Pin - up (1961), a mixed - media work exploring the female nude, sculpted plastic was used for the breasts of the nude figure.

The prize went to a resourceful reader who used a thick pen to outline the nude figure, positing that it was male rather than female.

In the exhibition «She», Warren constructs a bold new figure of the female nude that couldn't fail to make us smile.

Inspired by masters such as Marino Marini and Henry Moore, Caroline d'Andlau's work comprises original linear bronze female nudes, animals and figured groupings, the latter including Massai warriors.

Extending Hepworth's central concern with the female body, both the stone and lignum figures envisage the seated nude as powerful and enclosing.

Pee Body (1992), for example, depicted a nude female figure in wax crouched on the floor relieving herself, urine trailing behind in the form of yellow beads.

Known for her explicit male nudes that quote and subvert the art historical tradition of male gaze onto female body, in her portraits feature artists, musicians and writers of both genders, dressed and naked, representing a pantheon of significant cultural figures.

Known for his intimate figure paintings — especially of the female nude — and delightful portraits of Parisian socialites, Renoir has collected a cast of characters who still very much play a role in contemporary art today.

Angela Fraleigh's newest work reconsiders the classic female nude by taking figures from Baroque and Rococo paintings and reexamining their surroundings, attire and gaze.

Measuring over 12 ft. (4 m) tall, a nude female figure steers a raft, while simultaneously balancing an enormous tower of found objects — trunks, pots, pans and various household essentials — on her head.

Often he squirted the pigment at his figures without touching a brush - «my tube is like a rocket, which describes its own space» - or laid it on thickly with a palette knife: Reclining Nude of 1966 (in a private collection) is less concerned with the female body than with the «tangible sensuous experience» of painting.

Many things on display in «14 Rooms» would make for excellent clandestine iPhone photo fodder: there's Damien Hirst's Holly, Gretel, in which two identical twins were reading the same Jodi Picault novel under a Hirst spot painting; Marina Abramovic's Luminosity, from 1997, featuring a nude woman suspended on the wall and washed in the glare of a spotlight; an early Bruce Nauman performance called Wall - Floor Positions; and, as an epilogue, Jordan Wolfson's [Female Figure], the now - famous robot that was on view at David Zwirner earlier this year.

Groups: Constructing Identities: Spirit, Female Nude, Figurative, Multiple Figures, Mythology, Women

The museum scenes were invariably miniaturised and usually viewed through a peephole: turning the scale on its head, Jeff Wall places a giant - sized ageing, nude, female figure in a labyrinthine modern museum interior.

Where his early works encompassed portraits and Impressionist landscape painting, as well as genre - painting featuring groups of figures in cafes, dance - halls, boats, or riverside scenes, his later works are largely concerned with female nudes or semi-nudes.

A master of both painting as well as printmaking, Mueller is noted above all for his landscape painting, populated by female nudes, and elongated figures.

In Thomas» own photograph, «Sidra Sitting,» the artist replaces the typically demure, white figure of the reclining female nude with a fully dressed black woman confident in her posture and looking at the camera head - on.

She is noted, first and foremost for her figure painting and classical - style figure drawing of large - scale obese female nudes, characterized by their extreme physicality.

Since 1915, Schiele's female nudes had become fuller in figure, but many were deliberately illustrated with a lifeless doll - like appearance.

Semmel's treatment of the figure — the gaze directed at either her own body or her lover's — was her challenge to the dominant patriarchal portrayal of the passive female nude.

Note: X-ray analysis shows that originally a second female nude stood in place of the male figure, before Giorgione erased it.

Perhaps Botticelli wanted to distort the female figure in the same way Citarella manipulated his nude, producing and at the same time questioning the sensuality of the body.

Inspired by nutcrackers depicting female figures - and in particular one found on the internet of Hilary Clinton - these interactive sculptures embody the two polar stereotypes of female power; the idealized, sexualized nude female form and the too - powerful, nut - busting uberwoman.

The video depicts a gray - toned, three - dimensional rendering of what appears to be three nude female figures melding into a single conjoined form.

Knowing the historical context of the nude in high art and refreshing the complex artist - model relationship, her work is distinct from the «raw» figure paintings of Jenny Saville and Lucian Freud, and goes beyond John Berger's juxtaposition of female nudes from old master paintings with porno shots in Ways of Seeing (1972).

These new works highlight the generic ways in which the female nude continues to be visualised (each figure is pointedly faceless, and one has censorious anonymising black lines across her breasts and eyes).

On display were embroidered works as well as miniature clay figurines that «challenge misogynistic ideals found in fairy tales» with nude, highly sexualized figures of females and a distinct narrative that portray a profound tale.