Sentences with phrase «female subjects of the paintings»

As Romaine's work evolved, the female subjects of her paintings became sharply modern, in possession of a kind of feminine strength that couldn't be captured by other male artists working at that time.

The female subjects of the paintings, all in profile as if in a hieroglyphic stance, are ambiguous and almost without history, often in transit, walking or waiting and on the brink of something new.

Not exact matches

Shown alongside sketches, drawings and studies, her paintings recast female subjects from art historical paintings, photographs and the media into new environments, imbuing them with a newfound sense of self - possession.

Furthermore, she often tackled subjects that were perceived as «risky» during her lifetime: Neel is known for painting gay people long before homosexuality was legalised, transvestites, members of the poor, immigrant communities in Spanish Harlem (where she lived), candid portraits of nursing and pregnant women as well as unflinching male and female nudes.

Known for her monumental, rhinestone - encrusted paintings of domestic interiors and female subjects, Thomas identifies photography as playing a central role within her practice.

Just the current show of Florine Stettheimer's extraordinarily gorgeous, inventive, kaleidoscopic paintings at the Jewish Museum suggests that there are a thousand aesthetic aromas, ideas of color, composition, surface, subject matter, metaphysical attitudes, body postures, and optical domains that have been cut out of the canon (probably because certain «qualities» have forever been considered too female, or «girly»).

Highlights from Michelle Grabner's crowd - pleasing selection include Dawoud Bey's presidential portrait photography (Barack Obama, 2008), Karl Haendel's Theme Time Drawings, pencil drawings of various subjects arranged in shaped frames across a massive section of wall, and works by Donelle Woolford, the fictional young black female artist «created» by Joe Scanlan and played by various actors whose Joke Painting (detumescence)(2013) investigates the notion of authenticity.

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.

Today, she is recognised as being among the first female artists to paint a nude self - portrait and, later, a series of self - portraits while she was pregnant — subjects which are taken up in the Joffe paintings on show.

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

Comprising five glittering, large - scale paintings, Mickalene Thomas's latest exhibition flaunts both the presence and the absence of her African - American female subjects in boldly patterned domestic interiors.

Brooklyn - based artist Heidi Hahn paints women but eschews explicit or erotic representation of her female subjects in favor of a nuanced perspective that allows viewers to understand what it means to be a woman in 2017.

However, in the late 1960s and early 1970s Lostutter produced a number of small watercolors and drawings of female subjects where he began to explore many of the elements seen in his later paintings.

Orchard's own common surroundings and narratives as a female artist become subject and setting of her new paintings: artists studios, painting scenes, studio visits, or the display of institutional rejection letters.

This new body of work comprises some 15 studies of exclusively female subjects, a departure from the small paintings of children and large landscapes for which she is known.

She was particularly well known for her explicit paintings of male nudes, which challenged the tradition of male artists painting female subjects as objects of desire.

Painted in 1995 and exemplary of Lichtenstein's late, great genius, the work revisits one of his signature subject matters: the female form.

«In traditional painting, across the centuries of the nude, there's a particular kind of gaze that's implied between a male viewer and a to - some - degree objectified female nude subject.

Dégas» dancers [1] have been of particular interest to the artist, which is demonstrated in a trio of paintings in the exhibition — Harp - Strum, Militant Pressures, and Tell The Air (2016)-- a sequence of vivid studies of female subjects mid-performance.

Surrounded by his drying canvases, he would ask a young nude female model to remain with him in the studio, not necessarily to paint her in a particular pose as Matisse or Bonnard might have done (he was wary of the anecdotal side of a pose and tried to avoid it as much as he could), but for a sheer physical presence next to him while he was painting, and for its influence on his perception of his subject.

When you look at these fine illustrations and paintings by Tel Aviv based artist Julie Filipenko, you're immediately blown away by the subjects of pretty female characters that seem to delightfully leap out of each page or canvas.

In other works, the mélange of media images bleed into the painted subjects, giving Crosby's seated females — sometimes her sister, sometimes herself, sometimes an abstracted blend of the two (or more)-- subtle full - sleeve tattoos, which upon closer inspection are images of Nigerian front - cover models.

Among the works on view are Carrie Mae Weems's Untitled (Man Smoking / Malcolm X), 1990, which explores human experience from the vantage point of an African American female subject; a «femmage» painting by Miriam Schapiro titled Agony in the Garden that pays homage to Frida Kahlo; a haunting print by Kara Walker of a self - empowered heroine from the American antebellum South; and a «bunny» sculpture by Nayland Blake that challenges constructions of masculinity.

Perhaps to come across as the anti-Currin or the un-Balthus, Mr. Bryan concentrates on two of painting's oldest subjects, the female nude and the still life, the latter using only vases and jugs.

In her fourth solo exhibition with the gallery, Thomas explores the intricacies of female beauty through painting and collage, focusing on how artifice serves both to mask and reveal the individual essence of her subjects.

The New York artist is known for elegant paintings of female subjects like Katy Perry and Elle Fanning lounging in candyland - scapes or donning cupcake crowns.

The surprisingly cohesive body of work in Hahn's New York solo debut contends with the history of traditional figurative painting, in which female subjects possess sensuous beauty offset, generally, by a benzo - like tranquility.

e are told by Jennifer R. Gross, in the catalogue accompanying this focused exhibition of Jim Nutt's work (even with 70 paintings and drawings it is not a retrospective or a survey), that the artist «has expressed surprise that his unidentified women have been seen as male rather than as the clearly female subjects he intended.

These pioneers included the Impressionist Mary Cassatt, who painted a mural on the subject of Modern Woman (1893) for the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago; the photomontage artist Hannah Hoch, the Mexican Frida Kahlo, and the sculptor Kathe Kollwitz, all of whom raised issues about power and representation in gender; the German - born painter Eva Hesse, the Russian - born assemblage artist Louise Nevelson, and the French sculptor Louise Bourgeois, who all produced imagery dealing with the theme of domesticity and the female body.

On view are «Large Dark Figure» (1962 — 63), a shadowy, abstract painting, and «Two Sisters» (1976), a highly realistic work of two female nudes, both of which reveal the range of her exploration into how best to capture her subjects.

Quietly enigmatic, James» paintings of youthful female subjects are not portraits in the usual sense of the word.

Through painting, photography, installation art and performance, the artist uses her own body as the subject matter to examine and problematise notions of the idealised erotic female subject.

«The subject of my recent paintings is the female figure and its accouterments.

· Key paintings of the female nude by Marguerite Zorach, illustrating both her early Fauvist adoption of the subject to express the joys and energies of nature and later use of it to suggest women's ambiguous position in American society of the 1920s.

Turning the perspective of her compositions to her own body as subject, she began painting the nude female figure, shifting the point of view from outside of the canvas as the viewer, to a simultaneous observer and subject.

Rita Ackermann (b. 1968, Budapest) is a Hungarian - American painter renowned for subject matter that challenges and liberates traditional depictions of the female body and archetypes in figurative painting.

Sylvia Sleigh (1910 - 2010) was a figure in the feminist art movement of the 1970s who is best known for turning portraiture and art history on its head as she reversed traditional sex roles in her paintings, casting her husband and their friends and associates as male nudes that recalled the female subjects often found in paintings by Titian or Ingres.

During the forties, her work was acclaimed for its honest exploration of domestic subject matter and its frank, unapologetically female viewpoint, but in the late fifties and sixties, her paintings lost much of their currency to Abstract Expressionism and later to Minimalism.

Her work, which has been the subject of many solo exhibitions, was recently featured in the 2014 Whitney Biennial, alongside that of Jacqueline Humphries, Dona Nelson, Laura Owens, and Amy Sillman, in a section artist - curator Michelle Grabner dedicated to female painters «who take on the authority of abstract painting — its history, its ambition, and its relationship to power and gender.»

Since Carnegie's subjects range from the relatively benign, isolated nature painting — along with the brooding architectural structures that often occupy the landscape, such as a gateway into a cemetery — to intimate little studies of excellently formed female asses, this is not an unreasonable question.