Sentences with phrase «female nudes based»

A proudly declared fan of Egon Schiele and Francis Bacon, Tracey Emin returned to creating personal figurative paintings, usually of female nudes based on her own body or on historical photographs.

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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.

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.

New York City - based Will Cotton has become world famous for his candy - infused paintings featuring a utopian paradise of lollipops, gingerbread and melting ice cream with often nude female characters either lying in candyfloss clouds or wearing sugary confections as bespoke edible garments.

There does seem to be some recalibration toward valuing the female gaze, based on the careers of those four, not to mention the high prices recently paid for nudes by artists like Mickalene Thomas, Jenny Saville, Lisa Yuskavage, and Ghada Amer.

Los Angeles - based artist Amy Bessone mines the cultural representation of female form in history, from Greco - Roman marble nudes and the odalisques of high modernism to contemporary thrift - store objects.

Amedeo Modigliani (1884 - 1920) Bohemian Paris - based Italian painter famous for his Expressionist female nudes and for some of the greatest portrait paintings of the twentieth century.

Meanwhile, Kiki's bronze female nudes (Rapture, 2001, and Born, 2002) reinforce the corporeality of Die, 1962, Tony's six - foot steel cube based on the proportions of Leonardo's Vitruvian Man.

Often based on porn images found in magazines from the 1960s, such as Playboy and Easy Riders, the eroticism of his nude female subjects is underscored by the raw, carnal energy of his brushwork.

Large Bather (1921) by Pablo Picasso Analysis of Neoclassical Female Nude Painting based on Parthenon Sculpture MAIN A-Z INDEX

In the Nudes in the Landscape show, as in Women at Work, all of the female figures are in fact based on drawings from a single nude model who posed for Ms. Dodd in the model's Maine garden, where all the props to be seen in the figure compositions - the clothesline with laundry, the wood pile, the house and garden - were already in place.

Most of Emin's works in the exhibition center on an image of a single female nude — a self - portrait loosely based on recent photos that studio assistants have taken of her.

On the occasion of her concurring performance - led exhibition at Zabludowicz Collection, London, and a profile that appears in the current issue of Kaleidoscope, New York - based American artist Donna Huanca will discuss her concern with the nude female body.