Sentences with phrase «figure painting from»

Scanning the table of contents is like flipping through a course catalog: do you want to take Naomi Campbell's «Working Large in Watercolor,» James McElhinney's «Journal Painting and Composition,» Sharon Sprung's «Figure Painting from Life in Oil,» or Ellen Eagle's «Poetic Realism in Pastel»?

Foreword by James Rosenquist vii Preface by Ira Goldberg viii Acknowledgments x Introduction: Miracle on 57th Street 1 Part 1: Lessons and Demos 15 Henry Finkelstein: On Painting, with a Critique 17 Mary Beth McKenzie: Painting from Life 27 Ephraim Rubenstein: Painting from Observation 39 Thomas Torak: A Contemporary Approach to Classical Painting 59 Dan Thompson: Learning to Paint the Human Figure from Life 75 Sharon Sprung: Figure Painting from Life in Oils 91 Frederick Brosen: Classic Watercolor Realism 107 Naomi Campbell: Working Large in Watercolor 123 Ellen Eagle: Poetic Realism in Pastel 135 Costa Vavagiakis: The Evolution of a Concept 148 Part 2: Advice and Philosophies 165 William Scharf: Knowing that Miracles Happen 167 Peter Homitzky: Inventing from Observation 181 Charles Hinman: Painting in Three Dimensions 193 Deborah Winiarski: Painting and Encaustic 203 James L. McElhinney: Journal Painting and Composition 213 Part 3: Interviews 229 Frank O'Cain: Abstraction from Nature 231 Ronnie Landfield: On Learning and Teaching 251 Knox Martin: Learning from Old and Modern Masters 269 Concours: Painting and the Public at the Art Students League by Dr. Jillian Russo 282 Index 286

Sullivan Goss presents an exhibition of 20th century and contemporary figure painting from California.

This course will serve as a practical guide to portrait and figure painting from life, from beginning to end.

Instead of buying eight - figure paintings from the 80s and 90s, these «reticent» buyers were gobbling up fresh works from two or three decades later for prices in the low seven - figures at best.

In Plumbing Bill, Humphrey puts ears and a face on someone's buttocks, which now peer in the general direction the eponymous invoice in the foreground, all under a sordid red haze that conjures David Salle's monochromatic figure paintings from the 1980s.

InPlumbing Bill, Humphrey puts ears and a face on someone's buttocks, which now peer in the general direction the eponymous invoice in the foreground, all under a sordid red haze that conjures David Salle's monochromatic figure paintings from the 1980s.

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.

Investor lending rose in March for the first time in more than a year, official figures earlier this month showed and asking price figures from consultancy SQM Research paint the picture of a market that is still strong.

David G. Roskie's compelling study Against the Apocalypse: Responses to Catastrophe in Modem Jewish Culture discusses the cross symbol's use not only in Chagall's painting, but in the literary work of Der Nister, Lamed Shapiro, Sholem Asch, S. Y. Agnon and the poet Uri Zvi Greenberg (Harvard University Press, 1984 [pp. 258 - 310]-RRB- In literature written before World War II (and under the influence of biblical criticism that had emancipated Jesus» image from its doctrinal Christian vesture), these authors used the cross symbol variously; for Asch, the crucified figure in all his Jewishness symbolized universal suffering; for Shapiro and Agnon, on the other hand, the cross remained an emblem of violence and a reminder of Christian enmity against Jews.

Because Pomerance has chosen not to paint and pad his freak literalistically, Merrick — ever in a double figure — reminds us of that «other» dimension of beauty and wholeness that is nearly absent from the broken world this play exposes.

These private overtures were the way of escaping from the deep hatred of 2010 and 2011, when Ed Miliband appealed to disgruntled left - leaning liberals to desert to the Labour party and Clegg was painted as being a closet Tory by every opposition figure you ever met.

This kid - friendly exhibit of more than 100 artifacts from the army, including several figures, focuses on how the paints were made and how they can be preserved.

He wore a black leather coat and an orange - and - red T - shirt covered in stretched - out figures from a Stone Age cave painting.

I figured it would be easier to remove paint from the seat with sandpaper if there were drips or anything.

Turner's most content when hurling paint at his canvases, as if chasing his ever - changing state of inspiration; away from his work he's a lumbering and somewhat graceless figure.

Characters reminisce about the»90s, wear Pixies T - shirts, and maintain collections of hand - painted action figures in Young Adult, all in line with what viewers might expect from a film that reunites Juno's writer and director, Diablo Cody and Jason Reitman.

Taking advantage of extraordinary access, including years of Bout's personal videos and his words from prison, directors Tony Gerber and Maxim Pozdorovkin paint a portrait of one of the most enigmatic figures of our time.

In New Leaf, some villagers may tell the player that they have met a «red figure» in the train station, referring to Crazy Redd, then telling the player they bought a painting from him.

Not only are paintings, religious iconography and books being published online, but also letters by from important historical figures, drawings and notes by artists and scientists such as Michelangelo and Galileo, as well as treaties from all eras in history.

iPad sales remained stagnant, rising from 14 million to 14.1 million year - over-year, but that was to be expected — next quarter's iPad Air and new iPad mini sales figures will paint a clearer picture of demand there.

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.

's Facilities Manager, to figure out everything from paint colors to scheduling.

Warhammer can conjure up a lot of different images when its name is mentioned, from the masses of detailed plastic figures being controlled by fiercely intent generals across wonderfully made and painted terrain to what I see; Space Marines marching across the map with Dreadnoughts in tow, seeking to destroy the enemy forces in Warhammer 40K; Dawn of War, one of the best RTS games of all time.

The figures are from Famitsu / Enterbrain who also paint a pretty picture for the PS3 in general as SquareEnix's much - awaited AAA title has also helped shift 245,406 Playstation 3 systems in Japan last week.

When they're not dousing locations with various colours of paint (at least two coats), the kids from Splatoon — known only as «Boy», «Girl» and «Squid» here — have proven popular enough to spawn three separate versions of their own amiibo figures, alongside figures for two of the only named Splatoon characters around.

A few days ago we brought you a mashup of Master Chief action figure and painted as Samus from Metriod.

There are a lot of people from abroad who would stand on that stage with tons of confidence, so I was rather charmed by the very different figure he painted.»

Now on Earth, Atlas is walking through notable periods of time, meeting various historical and mythological figures, all of whom have been depicted (in real life) in paintings and other works of art, such as statues or books — from the likes of Henry VIII, to Medusa, to William Wallace and a demon that blew up Mount Vesuvius.

For those not familiar with Monty Python's animation, think South Park, Salad Fingers or Apollo Gauntlet, where you have flat, paper - like, cut - out 2D images — taking figures from old paintings and animating them.

March 2011 featured many wonderful painting blog posts on diverse topics ranging from hard - edged abstraction to the Danish Golden age of figure painting and by a mix of established art writers and artist bloggers.

John Currin, known for his meticulous painting technique, has used imagery that could be considered both sexist and pornographic — from women with Dolly Parton — esque figures to people engaged in polymorphous sexual activities.

You can see how he brought to his paintings of still lifes, figures, and landscapes lessons he learned during his years making nonrepresentational paintings, one of the qualities that set his finest efforts apart from those of his friends and colleagues.

They're both into high and low fashion: Maezawa is partly responsible for bringing the street style of Harajuku to high - end Japanese retailers, and Basquiat went from dressing like a gutter rat to splattering paint on his five - figure Armani and Comme des Garçons suits.

There's no doubt that painting children from life is almost impossible - they don't sit still for a start and if we're used to drawing adult figures, we can get in a real twist with our proportions.

Tuck writes that: «the paintings in this show alternate between the quiet and the chaotic: landscapes that are represented like in comics and topographical maps — on a soft colored ground lines are drawn with paint, the figures are much smaller than life size and feel like quotes from movies... [Richter] draws seamlessly from our common cultures of art, entertainment, violence, music, etc., and plants these things in his paintings.»

His paintings are usually about a particular moment — «The work of art — a stop of time», he wrote in a diary — a chance arrangement of things on the breakfast table, with a figure perhaps, or a landscape as he saw it in the light of an instant, and so they are usually painted from a single drawing, or from more than one made in quick succession on the same occasion.

Rauschenberg's early combine paintings from the 1950s and»60s can sell for eight - figure sums, but his most recent works are priced at around $ 500,000.

Created over the course of three years from 2012 through 2014, in collaboration with a community of artisans in Rajasthan, India, the large 2 - pole structures (each measuring some 10» x 18» x 12» high) transform MASS MoCA's signature Building 5 gallery into a kind of tent village, inhabited by painted human figures both supine and in motion, and emblematic symbols and signs both obvious and arcane.

PHILLIPS: Up to when you lost central vision, you painted detailed still lifes from direct observation, along with figures and portraits.

I'll make a figure painting, a little figure painting, then I'll think, «oh, well that one would look like something possible if I could put it with this other figure painting that I've also done from observation, and then some grouping and / or narrative might emerge in pairing the two».

Since the 1990s, Peyton began exhibiting her work — paintings of artists, musicians, historical figures, and friends, which she renders from photographs and from life — and more recently, also in still lifes, landscapes and scenes from the opera.

Happy Dance (Joie de Vivre), from 1961, is a flimsy decorative armature that includes a painting of a nude figure.

Even earlier works like Fable II and Rite, both from 1957, earn their titles by the nonspecific figurative connotations of their bunched shapes; it would take only a little bit of further manipulation to turn those forms into the kind of stylized figures found in the paintings that Jan Müller was making around this time, or Bob Thompson just a little later.

Amy Pleasant's paintings and drawings offer a variety of male and female figures emerging from or dissolving into clouds of thought or landscapes of emotion.

Hockney chose to paint sitters from all areas of his life, including friends, those who work in his studio, and prominent figures of the art world.

Traveled to Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris (February 12 — May 11, 2008) Be — Bomb: The Transatlantic War of Images and all that Jazz in the 1950s, Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), Spain (October 5, 2007 — January 7, 2008) Contemporary and Cutting Edge: Pleasures of Collecting, Part III, Bruce Museum, Greenwich, Connecticut (September 29, 2007 — January 6, 2008) Twentieth - Century American Women Artists from the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Gallery at the Park Avenue Bank, New York, New York (September 17 — November 2) Americans in Paris: Abstract Painting in the Fifties, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York (July 16 — September 29) French Kiss, JGM Galerie, Paris, France (May 25 — July 13) When Art Worlds Collide: The 60s, Woodward Gallery, New York (May 17 — July 14) An Architect Collects: Robert D. Kleinschmidt and a Lifetime of Fine Arts Acquisitions, Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign (April 20 — July 29) Gestes, Signes, Traces, Espaces: Figures de la peinture moderne française dans les collections publiques normandes, Musée d'art moderne André Malraux, Le Havre, France (February 17 — April 30).

Installed outside the Serpentine Gallery Ada, (wind vane) is a flat sculpture which is part of Alex Katz's «cut - outs» — a body of work that dates back to 1959 when he began to cut out figures from his paintings to emphasise the two - dimensionality of painting.

... From the early colorful efforts to the final... marvelously rough paintings accompanied by simple figures, [his works] clearly need to be organized within a revised understanding of the art of his time.»

Inselaffe, centres around Harvey's most recent paintings, ceramics and bronze sculptures which forge motifs and emblems of Britishness, such as military memorabilia and joke shop knick - knacks into collaged portraits of historical figures - from Nelson to Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair.