Sentences with phrase «figure painting came»

The two - figure painting came from Audrey Adams and Lauren Maillian, the New York - based mother - daughter collectors who consigned the Alma Thomas painting above.

Both the still lifes and the figure paintings come from my imagination.

Not exact matches

But with provincial deficits swelling from coast to coast this year, and rising health care costs expected to ravage provincial coffers in the coming decades, federal figures are starting to paint an increasingly misleading portrait of Canada's government debt situation.

The news comes as the shadow chancellor attempted to paint the government as financially irresponsible, accusing Labour of «bankrupting Britain» after figures released by the Office of National Statistics (ONS) showed the country had narrowly avoided a recession for now.

I figured when I came across a piece of furniture that screamed to be painted as a British Flag then I wouldn't hesitate to start the project.

The doors came off (hubby wasn't too excited about that part of the project, because he didn't have a place to store the old closet doors, but we'll figure that out this spring — for now they are in the garage), and then we started to paint.

The result truly feels like Van Gogh's paintings come to life, in which real - life human figures inhabit the world as Van Gogh saw it.

It's always a lot better to have some hard figures to deal with when it comes to sales details, as nothing paints the real picture more vividly as hardcore numbers.

The most recent earnings figures from several of the major publicly traded US discount brokerages that came out this past week painted a relatively positive picture with strong results being posted across the board at TD Ameritrade, Schwab and E * TRADE.

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Figures come and go, with almost cartoon outlines, culminating in the semicircle of Attic and then his largest easel painting, Excavation.

Our conversation is prompted by my landscape show coming up, but I do paint figures and still lives as well.

«Small as her paintings are, they're emblematic of a historical moment where different places in the world come together in a single figure,» he says.

These recent works with their multiple perspectives and deceptively simple rendering of landscape and figure look much connected to the tradition of Korean ink painting from which they do indeed come.

Michelle Grabner (Professor in the Painting and Drawing Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, who also teaches at Yale, is an artist herself, and oversees two alternative art spaces in the Midwest) noted that her section of the 2014 Whitney Biennial «features artists who have come to the fore as figures of influence, both inside and outside the geographic and commercial centers of the art world.

Most of the work in this show comes from the past decade, comprising mostly three - dimensional paintings on plywood, where layered forms and colour combine to create a motley crew of cartoonish figures that are loud, grotesque and irreverent.

One of the most respected figures of Abstract Expressionism, Joan Mitchell (1925 - 1992) came to an early attention with her lyrical abstract paintings.

In the centre of the gallery, Hayley Silverman's The Debt Collector (Tomorrow Always Comes)(2017)-- a life - sized figure made from stained velvet, unspooling rope coils and tattered lace brocade — seems to have stepped from one of Gardner Gray's paintings; three branches carved with elfin faces by Birke Gorm (IOU, 2017) lie in the gallery's corners, as if waiting to be gleaned.

Come to think of it, the figures in Guston's paintings seem to always be just hanging around, waiting for someone or something.

The way I've figured to go about doing this through objects is to always try to surprise myself, decision by decision, as I build each painting with the hope that the viewing experience mimics this process, meaning that I hope that the painting unfolds, collapses, comes back together and unfolds again in a different way as the viewer navigates through it.

I guess the idea of painting that view also came from painting some of the large ruins in Rome with the inevitably small figures next to them.

Then came «Matisse: The Fabric of Dreams,» at the Met in 2005, in which some of the richly patterned fabrics that Matisse used to fill and push forward the negative space between figures and furniture were displayed next to the paintings themselves.

So, as we pass through this collection of around 40 drawings and paintings, we're supposed to look for clues and hints of the later brilliance and construct a narrative or timeline that leads to its blossoming (which, here, comes in the form of At the Edge of Town (1986 - 8), a painting showing a figure emerging onto the kind of semiabstracted landscape for which Doig is best known).

While stark tonalities reveal Gokita's investment in graphic illustration and portrait photography, the thick and expressive gestures that contour Gokita's figures reveal the expressive pleasure of painting, tying him less to Pop and more to the Neo-Expressionist painters of the 1980s and»90s (Anselm Kiefer and Gerhard Richter come to mind).

By no means are all of the figure paintings successful, but in painting them he was creating the conditions he needed to paint what came next: the fusions of landscape and architecture, light, colour space and line on which his reputation finally rests.

Recycled pieces of fabric, drapery, scraps of wood, wire, cut cardboard and paper, other photos, painted motifs, yarn, cord, ceramics, and stickers come and go, speaking not of Michelangelo but of a latter - day tween - on - a-budget twist on Giacometti's emaciated sickly figures — suburban sprawl and craft - store spree meet creeping apocalyptic bleakness on the one hand, and tenderness with a sweet attention to detail on the other.

After coming half way or even further through the landscape painting, I was startled by the emotional intensity these works all of a sudden gained with accents of these small figures.

The five watercolors and one colored pencil drawing — including Traylor's largest extant painting, «Untitled (Radio)» from about 1942 (above), and «Untitled (Yellow and Blue House with Figures and Dog)» circa 1939 - 40 (below)-- come from the collection of Judy Saslaw in Chicago.

As he enters his 80s, Hockney comes across as an ever - enthusiastic, always curious figure, forever concerned with painting and how to make his marks on the canvas.

His breakthrough came due to his famous triptych painting Three Studies for Figure at the Base of the Crucifix.

Here Bickerton's merging of figuration and abstraction comes to new levels: in m - DNA eve 3, for example, he has nearly obscured the image of the figure with impasto strokes of vibrant green, blue and yellow paint, blending the foreground and background until the model's bulging, exaggerated features seemingly emerge from the camouflage.

I thought, where's this figure coming from and what does it have to do with this painting?

In Trinidad, Doig started to paint directly from observation, but continues to insert figures that come from his archive of images.

Lawson may well have been encouraged to come to Colorado Springs by two New York artist - colleagues: Robert Reid, a fellow National Academician and member of The Ten American Painters («The Ten») who taught figure painting at the Broadmoor Academy from 1920 to 1927, and Randall Davey, who taught there from 1925 to 1930 and who preceded Lawson as a teacher at the Kansas City Art Institute.

There was a sense coming out of World War II that Abstract Expressionist painters felt that their painting had to be very serious and to emote qualities of beauty, or figure, or turmoil.

BP: The way you speak about the male figure in these paintings, it's almost like he's waking up from a blackout — as if he's coming to and not quite sure of his surroundings.

Collection, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Orlando, FL Commemorating 30 Years (1976 — 2007): Part Three (1991 — 2007), Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL The Blake Byrne Collection, The Nasher Museum of Contemporary Art, Duke University, Durham, NC 2006 Do Not Stack, Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles, CA Black Alphabet: ConTEXTS of Contemporary African - American Art, Zacheta, National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland Down By Law, Wrong Gallery at the Sondra Gilman Gallery, Whitney Museum, New York, NY Hangar — 7 Edition 4, Salzburg Airport, Salzburg, Austria Redefined: Modern and Contemporary Art from the Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Relics and Remnants, Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, Jamaica, NY 2005 Maximum Flavor, ACA Gallery, Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, GA Neo-Baroque, Tema Celeste, Verona, Italy Neovernacular, Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Kehinde Wiley / Sabeen Raja: New Paintings, Conner Contemporary Art, Washington, D.C. 2004 Eye of the Needle, Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles, CA Glory, Glamour & Gold, The Proposition, New York, NY She's Come Undone, Greenberg Van Doren, New York, NY The New York Mets and Our National Pastime, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY Beauty, Kravets + Wehby, New York, NY African American Artists in Los Angeles, A Survey Exhibition: Fade, City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department, Los Angeles, CA 2003 Peripheries Become the Center, Prague Biennale 1, Galleria Nazionale Veletrzni Palac Dukelskych Hrdinu 47, Prague, Czech Republic Superreal, Marella, Milan, Italy New Wave, Kravets Wehby Gallery, New York, NY Re: Figure, College of DuPage, The Guhlberg Gallery, Glen Ellyn, IL 2002 Painting as Paradox, Artists Space, New York, NY Mass Appeal, Gallery 101, Ottawa, Canada Ironic / Iconic, The Studio Museum of Harlem, New York, NY Black Romantic, The Studio Museum of Harlem, New York, NY 2001 It's Bigger Than Hip Hop, Rush Arts, New York, NY

Even when you make abstract paintings, you constantly come upon figures.

James Rosenquist came to prominence among New York School Pop Art figures like Roy Lichtenstein, Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg is well known for his large - scale, fragmented works that bring the visual language of commercial painting onto canvas, from 1957 - 60, Rosenquist earned his living as a billboard painter.

Italian painter Francesco Clemente came to prominence in the mid-1970s with vivid paintings rife with erotic imagery of mutilated body parts, gesturing amorphous figures often depicted in rich colors, as well as a series of contorted self - portraits.

Many of the figures she paints here come across as striking, particular where their skin tones blend into the rich colours of the backgrounds — there's something enveloping about them.

Their work is super intimate and deals with domestic scenes where the figures are integrated into their environment, and that's where the emotional or psychological charge of the paintings come from.

Exhibition Checklist Main Gallery (Clockwise from entrance) Robert Arneson Splatt, 1983 bronze with unique ceramic base 71 x 21 x 21 inches RAs 130.01 Robert Arneson Elvis II, 1978 conte, pastel on paper 41 5/8 x 29 7/8» RAd 04 Joan Brown Self - Portrait at Age 42, 1980 enamel on canvas 71 3/4» x 60» JBRp 19 Steven Campbell Men Insulting Nature and the Notion of Travel, 1986 oil on canvas 83 x 99 inches SCamp 01 Carol Cole Tar Baby, 2004 mixed media 7 x 13 inches CCs 1 Peter Saul Come and Get Me, 1968 oil on canvas 63 1/2 x42 inches PSp 118 Richard Shaw Figure on a Palette, 1980 glazed porcelain 39 x 13 x 18 inches RSs 68 Andrew Lenaghan Big Sarah, 2005 acrylic on canvas 77 1/2 x 58 inches AnLp 395 Yoan Capote Madness II, 2004 steel 70 1/2 x 40 x 23 inches YCs 19 Collier Schorr Esther's Fine Dream (Ashes to Ashes, We All Fall Down), 1991 cast paper, acrylic, pencil, and collage L 18 x W 12 x D 10 inches CoSs 1 James Barsness Untitled (Red nude on street), 2004 acrylic, ballpoint pen 12 x 9 inches JBARd 60 James Barsness Untitled (with jack o'lantern), 2004 acrylic, ballpoint pen, inkjet archival print on paper 11 7/8 x 8 5/8 inches JBARd 61 Anthony Kulig Look - Out, 2005 plaster, acrylic Two figures 17 x 4 1/2 x 3 inches each AKuls 8 Don Colley Weave 2003 7 x 6 1/2 inches scratchboard, artist's frame DCp 10 Don Colley Reel, 2003 scratchboard, hand - made hardwood frame 6 x 6 inches DCp 09 Side Gallery Diane Edison Self - Portrait Interior (striped robe), 1992 color pencil / black paper 30 x 22 inches DEd 8 Adolph Gottlieb The Watchers, c. 1941 oil on canvas 30 x 24 inches AGotp01 Lesley Dill Of, 2005 unique bronze with oil paint 67 x 58 x 28 inches LDs 207 Alfred Leslie Bread and Coffee, 1983 oil on canvas 84 x 60 inches ALp 02 Stanton Macdonald - Wright Study for American Synchromy # 1, 1919 charcoal on paper (2 - sided drawing) 25 x 18 1/2 inches SMWd 3 Stanton Macdonald - Wright Study for American Synchromy # 2, 1919 charcoal on paper (2 - sided drawing) 25 x 18 1/2 inches SMWd 4 James Valerio David, 2004 pencil on paper 30 1/2 x 25 inches JVd 52

The next record came seconds later when Baselitz's colorful, semi-abstract painting of four figures from 1981 sold for $ 7.4 million, breaking his 2011 auction record of $ 5.2 million at Sotheby's in London.

The power of his paintings comes in their ability to draw you in, taking you on a dreamlike journey with the figures he paints.

«I can remember that when I stopped abstract painting and started figure painting, it was as though a kind of constraint came in that was welcomed,» the artist said.

From his position as a major figure in both British and American painting, Benjamin West became a focal point for American artists who increasingly came to Europe to make their grand European tours.

The lubricious bodies with exposed and often enlarged genitalia, the conversational text (YES COMING TOGETHER, reads one painting, which features two figures fused in «ecstatic unity,» as she calls it), and the porous portrayal of gender are all key characteristics.

De Kooning's most perfectly beautiful paintings, perhaps, came even earlier, in the late Forties when he had been concerned with the city as an experience as well as with the human figure, with which he often had odd difficulties, and made some kind of fusion between the two themes, resulting in a sequence of miraculously «occupied» canvases, free of the human figure but alert, bristling with its presence.

Also, coming from photography and portrait photography, it probably makes sense to why I would respond to a beautiful painting that has a figure in it, you know?