Sentences with phrase «figure painting like»

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He could do such painting without reverence, but when you think of Millet's great works, that make his name immortal, that he loved, brooded over, and put himself into, you know that he inwardly bowed himself, like the worshipping figures of his «Angelus,» before the vision of beauty that he saw.

The figures — amorphous slashes of paint and brushwork — occupy a bald, surreal, stage - like space.

The writer Delmore Schwartz, who almost certainly was one of the models for Bellow's Humboldt, liked to say that life is a wedding, by which he meant that the universe is meaningful, and one can happily take his place in it like the figures in Brueghel's painting.

What bothers me is the picture I painted of Kawhi in my head of this stoic, unwavering Tim Duncan - like figure, that picture is a little blurry.

There is no rush to figuring what clothing works best for you or what makes you feel the most comfortable feeding your baby out and about, but I don't think an entire line of nursing clothes is necessary, just like I don't think a beautiful quilt or the perfect paint color are necessary.

There was a story, too, for an even more obscure painting, one with symbols that looked like atomic radiation warnings (flowers, to Mellaart's eyes), little triangles floating nearby (butterflies), and four forklike figures arranged in a cross (humans with outstretched arms).

btw thank you for your comment on my painting... It representing a mythological figure (a water fairy) I was trying to make it a part of surroundings... and make the colours more watery and less warm and human like, I don't know how to explain it ha ha...

Condon also likes to punctuate scenes with shortcut symbolism by having characters wear t - shirts with various icons or having walls painted with various iconic figures in history (Che Guevara, Albert Einstein) as a way to draw parallels between Assange's story and the fight for information throughout history.

Like the film about his life, Turner's textured paintings combine realistic figures with hints of abstraction.

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 has to be the silhouette — a figure in black against a dramatic canvas, almost always perfectly composed like a painting.

Toby Jones (The Painted Veil, Mrs. Henderson Presents) as Karl Rove and Jeffrey Wright (The Invasion, Casino Royale) as Colin Powell also look much smaller than their real - life counterparts, and more mannered, seeming like they would be more at home in an «SNL» skit than in a serious film about these public figures.

In the highlands of Scotland, a scientific expedition led by Elizabeth Shaw (Noomi Rapace) and her significant other Charlie Holloway (Logan Marshall - Green) discover a long - lost cave where an over -30,000-year-old painting shows a tall human - like figure pointing toward a specific set of stars.

I'd like to say it was because the painted lady looked like my high - school sweetheart, but the only time I've been in the same zip code as a figure that memorable, I was a paying customer.

Especially liked for his figures of cats that he had great fondness for, as seen in many of his paintings, drawings and sculptures.

Like the previous releases in this line, the new figures will feature a metallic paint job and a case with a lenticular 3D background.

Neca's popular line of video game tribute figures takes existing sculpts and gives them a new paint job to look like their classic 8 - bit and 16 - bit incarnations.

No they do not these are just figures with added paint and parts to make the figures look cool if they were going to look like this in the game then you would have to work with Disney infinity.

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.

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.

With such a legacy, the prices of his jewel - like paintings of figures, houses and rainbows in landscapes are shockingly modest: $ 8,000 to $ 35,000.

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.»

For the past quarter century, primarily with his paintings but also, as a recent exhibition title put it, «other stuff,» like photographs, videos, sculptures, and installations, he has been getting black figures onto museum walls.

In later works like Les cosmogones, one encounters massive energies, unexpected colors, and great ancestral figures integrated into a surging blizzard of paint.

It is evident in the rococo renderings of Sam McKinniss, who paints pop culture figures — Prince, Lorde, Flipper — like hallowed aristocrats.

I especially like the paintings where it is hard to figure out what you are actually looking at (the taming of the shrew, siren); it gives the work an air of mystery and formal abstraction that keeps you circling back through.

By painting the figure and the object on equal terms, Pearlstein's paintings appear to be more like still life compositions than formal portraits, and some critics even consider his work to be a form of abstraction.

I make all types of paintings that have figures in them but the figure is behind bars or walking a pitbull or a mastiff, like in my work Walking with Vito (2008).

I remember that she used to say — since she paints landscape, still life, and figures — that she knew that she was getting somewhere with a painting, if the painting started to look like something other than what it was.

But this French - made parka is downright chic, rather like its owner, who looks at least a decade younger than his 82 years, with a smooth head (he shaves it daily) and features as sharp as those of the suave figures who populate his paintings.

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».

Highway overpasses, empty offices, cityscapes, and even public figures» faces are reduced into planes of flat color, which the artist carefully paints in taped - off portions, creating crisp images that sit somewhere between the handmade art of paintings, cartoon - like animation, and mass - produced perfection.

Joffe's celebrated figure paintings feature young women whose lithe outlines pulsate within lush, Munch - like interiors and cityscapes.

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.

In abstract painting one can't deal with a kind of entity, entity like an object or person, a concentration of psychology which a person is as opposed to what, where the figure isn't in the painting.

When you look at works such as Sobel's untitled 1944 painting shown, the temptation is not to see the vegetation like drip pattern blending with the figure as much as to see the dripped paint obscuring the figure — just as circumstances conspired to obscure the figure of Janet Sobel for more than half a century.

Present in each of his figure paintings is the thin red outline of a looming, seemingly sinister spirit - like figure called the «seeker,» which the artist includes to suggest the seeping of the outside world into the intimate, interior world.

The juxtaposition of Gendel's Matisse - like figures, Sall's abstract painting anchored by a large black oval, and Gomez's swooshes was particularly compelling, just on sheer painting skill alone.

This exhibition, his first major museum show, covers a relatively brief yet vibrant period starting in 2011, from his abstract paintings on rawhide to sculptural figures decked out in beads, jingles, and a rainbow of fibers that look like Afrofuture kachina dolls.

They included David Butler (1898 - 1997), who fashioned animals, angels and people from cut and painted tin and other found items; the religious painter Sister Gertrude Morgan (1900 - 1980); Steve Ashby (1904 - 1980), who made raw figurative assemblages out of scavenged materials; and Elijah Pierce (1892 - 1984), whose carved and painted wood reliefs depict biblical scenes and national figures like the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr..

Rail: When I look at the reproduction of the painting «Four Children,» the feeling for the simplicity of form, which suggests the potential for monumentality, and the way you invent the diagonal and horizontal lines around the figures, function like cubist structure.

The format of Rythm Mastr, whether as an animated feature, graphic novel, or multi-panel sequence on newsprint, may feel like a departure from Marshall's painting practice, more tethered to pop culture than the high - brow arena where the artist's large - scale works fetch seven figures.

These androgynous and perplexingly blank heads are the common denominator for Mr. McKimens, who boldly experiments with formal painting aspects like color, line, volume and figure - ground relationships.

Like Hélion, Tabachnick incorporates blocky, outlined figures into almost all of her paintings.

There was, for example, her superintendent's son; a Vogue design director, Ron Kajiwara, who as a child was detained in a California internment camp; many children who knocked on her door when they found out she painted «Spanish kids»; and public figures like the actor and playwright Alice Childress.

Bradford's paintings commonly depict celestial landscapes filled with nymph - like swimmers, soft figures and mysticism.

At 35 years old, Russian - born artist Sanya Kantarovsky has built a reputation for himself as a kind of beloved Eeyore of the art world, thanks to his prolific emo cartoon - like figure paintings that offer both mischievous social commentary and morose self - reflection.

Although the painting's chalky, fresco - like colors also refer to Renaissance art, the figures are lithe, athletic, and unmistakably modern.

Between 1946 and 1950 he shuttled between Paris and Le Cannet on the Côte d'Azur, and then settled in Paris for almost a decade, painting often in monochrome like Jean Dubuffet, some of the canvases worked edge to edge with figures suggestive of the then recently discovered drawings of the Lascaux cavemen.