Sentences with phrase «figure compositions»

CC: I had a crisis in graduate school because I was trying to make figure compositions from my imagination and I got really confused.

What kinds of reference material do you use with the beach figure paintings and can you say something about your process of making a larger figure composition?

His color choices and figure composition seems to hold nothing back hitting the viewers right between the eyes with pure emotions.

She is known for her vibrant figure compositions and portraits.

I've made figure compositions that were very ambitious and difficult, trying to invent everything from scratch and then I have also always made these little collages.

Edvard Munch was a Norwegian Expressionist painter, lithographer, etcher and wood - engraver of figure compositions, portraits and landscapes.

Norman Lewis, Untitled (Processional Figure Composition), oil, pen and ink on paper, 1956.

What I have flashing at the back of my mind is somebody like Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, for example, who painted very large figure compositions in frieze formats with muted colors and flat areas.

After returning to Europe he commenced work on a series of monumental figure compositions for called the Six Projects (Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.), that reflect the influence of the English artist Albert Moore.

• Students will then work in a group and each student to draw a geometric shape which can be put together into the fantasy figure composition based on the Surrealism Picasso figures.

large, figure compositions from my imagination and also small collages.

Draw out the surrealism fantasy stick figure composition made up of geometric shapes and then each child will begin to start shading their form.

Larry Groff: I loved your Danaë painting, a fairly recent figure composition, I think.

Clement Greenberg wrote that de Kooning's abstractions were «haunted» by the «disembodied contours of Michelangelo's and Rubens's nude figure compositions.»

In his series Figure Compositions, American artist Daniel Catalano's beautiful paintings consist of single and multi-figure compositions which reject any kind of narrative and instead experiment with multiple states of being, across many timeframes.

I discovered during my stay that painting rocky stream beds served as metaphors for Renaissance and Mannerist figure compositions that I had studied as a student in Italy and moved my work closer to abstract rhythms.

The recently opened New Art Circle gallery of J. B. Neumann introduced Rothko to a good variety of German expressionist works and he began his career painting uninspired figure compositions of an expressionistic character.

And the cool, pellucid geometry of Piero's figures and figure compositions certainly casts a spell.

My cityscapes and multiple figure compositions are about moving through space, the figures are locations to get to, colors and shapes, some with more importance than others, but, ultimately, parts of a scene.

Lewis's Untitled, oil on board, 1947 (the cover lot of the catalogue), brought $ 149,000; while Untitled (Processional Figure Composition), oil, pen and ink on paper, 1956, realized $ 87,500, setting an auction record for a work on paper by the artist.

La Farge produced landscapes and figure compositions in the 1860s and was among the earliest American painters to adopt the stylistic elements derived from progressive French landscape painting of the mid-19th century as well as from Japanese prints, which he collected.

De Jong writes: «Painted in chunky brick like shapes with incandescent color, Nickson's work sits unashamed in the history of natural representation... Partly as a rebellion against the current ideology disfavoring Romanticism and the sublime and partly as a daily practice of looking and preparing the task of working on his monumental figure compositions, Nickson continued the project of making paintings at the beginning and end of the day.»

My paintings at this time were both perceptual and conceptual: smallish images of architecture, mostly Victorian houses, with their interesting balance of details upon large planes, which were painted on site during summers away from the city; small still life paintings; larger figure compositions ---- studio works ---- looking toward Italian High Renaissance painting, with one or two or three figures in an architectural setting.

There is a common misconception about abstraction that surfaced in a recent statement by a prominent practitioner of figure compositions:

«The egg's interchangeable role in both abstract and figurative works suggests... just how much de Kooning, [John] Graham and Gorky valued their figure compositions.»

The collages gradually grew larger and more ambitious and eventually I found that they were exploring the same ideas from my figure compositions.

LOT 85: Charles Alston, «Untitled (Figure Composition),» oil on canvas, circa 1974.

He predominantly paints landscapes, portraits and figure compositions.

Image: Lot 32 Norman Lewis, Untitled (Processional Figure Composition), oil, pen and ink on paper, 1956.

Gilbert Spencer RA (4 August 1892 — 14 January 1979) was a British painter of landscapes, portraits, figure compositions and mural decorations.

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.