Sentences with phrase «figures in landscapes painted»

They are not original in that grandiose, attention - grabbing way — they are figures in landscapes painted in oils.

Two canvases by the great romantic French artist Camille Corot (1796 - 1875), who was a pivotal figure in landscape painting, were on sale: Archway / Auteuil, which tripled it's $ 70,000 estimate to sell for $ 232,536 while Souvenir of Normandy (Sunset) sold for $ 163,954.

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Portugal About Blog Lena Rivo uses color, value and composition to explore mood and emotion in her paintings and enjoys painting a variety of subjects including landscape, still life and figures, both in the studio and outdoor on location.

Many of the landscapes are painted backdrops with moving figures, as in a»30s film, and some of the outdoor action, especially a chase down a ski hill, looks accomplished with models.

In addition to portraiture, Augusta paints beach scenes, landscapes, figure studies, and still lifes.

She paints landscapes, seascapes, and figures and exhibits at Studio 7 Gallery in Laguna Beach.

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.»

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.

The German abstract figure painter, who became widely known in the»80s along with Jörg Immendorff - associated circle of friends Werner Büttner, Georg Herold, and Martin Kippenberger, often painted interiors, self - portraits, landscapes, language fragments, and diverse abstractions.

Brooklyn - born painter Walter Price stands out as particularly impressive in this context, with a selection of small skewed and abstracted figure - in - landscape paintings.

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.

Based on the theme of John Milton's Paradise Lost, they are a fusion of Indian mythological figures, hybrids of man and beast, warring in landscapes inspired by quattrocento and Renaissance painting.

It was a moment when de Kooning turned to what he called the tableaux: «forcefully composed paintings with ideas of less frontal or variously posed figures in a well defined landscape space» (J. Cowart, «De Kooning Today,» de Kooning 1969 — 78, Gallery of Art, University of Northern Iowa, 1978, p. 15).

These playful fantasy realms are upon closer inspection macabre theaters of politics and war: watercolor paint bloodies the canvas, and sinister global machinations play out in abstracted landscapes populated by faceless figures and dominated by oil refineries and labyrinthine pipelines.

LG: In your paintings of Bathers there are many wonderful groupings of figures in the landscapIn your paintings of Bathers there are many wonderful groupings of figures in the landscapin the landscape.

This exhibition brings together paintings and works on paper by Jane Freilicher and Jane Wilson — two notable figures in American art who emerged from the pursuit of rigorous abstraction to develop highly individual and beautifully compelling approaches to representation, fundamentally reinventing traditional definitions of landscape and still life painting.

In the following eight years, O'Keeffe studied art and art education, taught art, traveled, and worked on developing her unique style — a blend of symbolism, abstraction, and photography with subjects including cityscapes, landscapes, figure studies, and flower paintings.

With his iconic paintings serving as a trademark of American contemporary art, Wayne Thiebaud is a Pop art painter best known for his colorful works depicting commonplace objects like pies, lipsticks, paint cans, ice cream cones, pastries and hot dogs, although he has painted many landscapes and figures in his time as well.

Those familiar with Robert Greene's early paintings of figures, architecture, and landscape combined in fairy - taleish scenarios would recognize a shift in the artist's most recent abstract works.

His recent works include small «visionary» landscapes, in addition to the figure paintings for which he is well - known in the Southeast.

John Singer Sargent: Figures and Landscapes 1908 — 1913: The Complete Paintings, Volume VIII (The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art)

Diebenkorn often said how much he owed to European painting and the debt is acknowledged here, in the second room of the show, in big works depicting human figures framed in landscape — on a terrace, at a window — or secluded in shady interiors, in placid unanimity with their surroundings, sunken - eyed, reading, or lost in contemplation.

Known for employing a language of expressive landscapes and figures painted in hot, violent tones, Thompson experienced painting as a liberating catharsis that allowed him to pour his soul onto canvas, weaving figures and landscapes into a tapestry of color.

Similar in spirit to Tomaselli's earlier work which referenced the relationship between the sub-culture of psychedelia and utopianism, these new paintings expand the dialogue into a fictive landscape where figures populate a frenzied, cosmic and other worldly universe.

Lu said, «in my opinion, from the ancient time to the present day, every painter uses paint to depict the world other than the paint — no matter figure, still life, landscape, and other things.

She enrolled in the Hans Hofmann School shortly after moving to New York in 1942, but the famous teacher's influence seems to have been limited; she had already gravitated towards the simplified, intensely hued landscapes, still lifes, and figure paintings that typify her lifework.

Next to eleven large paintings made between 1998 and 2003, provided by the Mazzoli Gallery in Modena, there will also be a group of ten amazing new paintings portraying figures of great ebullience against backgrounds of poetic landscapes.

Katz's very latest large - figure paintings and landscapes were on display at PaceWildenstein's new branch in Chelsea, and the Peter Blum Gallery in Soho mounted a complete survey of Katz's woodcuts and linocuts.

A figurative artist who still attracts comparisons with Rothko, Anthony Fry painted landscapes and figures in rich, dreamlike colours.

Throughout his career, Marshall has consistently sought to correct the under - representation of people of colour in Western culture by creating his own depictions of black figures (both historical and fictional) using the art - historical genres of history painting, portraiture and landscape.

We wondered, not just about the choice to paint the figure and landscape in the face of the abstract expressionist juggernaut, but, considering this crew, the essence of masculinity at this time in history.

Known for their expansive interiors, urban landscapes, portraits, and figures, Mr. Clark's paintings were celebrated in March 2014 in a solo exhibition, Masterworks in Watercolor, at the Lois Wagner Fine Arts gallery in New York City.

Fox was well known for his intimist figure and landscape paintings when in 1972 he began to paint large abstract works influenced more by European and American modernism than by a Québec sensibility.

The works build through a stream of images and ideas with a dreamlike, surreal feeling, to which Heffernan contributes by titling each one «Self Portrait...» In her recent paintings, the figure set in a tortured landscape functions as a metaphor for contemporary experiencIn her recent paintings, the figure set in a tortured landscape functions as a metaphor for contemporary experiencin a tortured landscape functions as a metaphor for contemporary experience.

Although Bischoff went on to paint colorful, thickly pigmented scenes of figures in interior or landscape settings for nearly two decades, by the early seventies he was, by his own admission, losing interest in the figure as subject matter.

Thompson's explosive paintings weave figures and landscapes into a tapestry of color and are deeply rooted in tradition.

He has made his name in the past few years creating, with ostensible effortlessness, messy yet sophisticated paintings that feature bug - eyed figures in craggy landscapes.

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).

William Goodridge Roberts (1904 - 1974), well - known Canadian artist of landscape, still - life and human figure painting, attended the École des beaux - arts in Montreal (1923 - 1925) and the Art Students» League in New York (1927 - 1929).

When you described your figures as being embedded in the landscape or the paint I could really feel that in my skin.

The main gallery showcases paintings by the designer and street artist duo Graphic Airlines, populated with their signature ghostly, bloated - faced figures, alongside Mok Yat San's and Kevin Fun's fanciful sculptures and Lam Tung Pang's mixed - media landscapes, in which plastic models of floating islands hover above the Hong Kong cityscape.

Through drawings and paintings of the figure, still lifes, and landscapes, the 20 artists in the exhibition draw inspiration from the art historical canon — Renaissance painting, the Hudson River School, American Modernism — and advance realism as a critical mode of painting in the 21st century.

This catalogue for a traveling exhibition considers the working drawings and spontaneous studies of Josef Albers, beginning with the landscapes and figure studies he created before enrolling at the Bauhaus, to abstractions inspired by archeological sites in Mexico, to color studies for his famous Homage to the Square paintings.

In this way, Bacon tackled landscape painting similar to the way he dealt with the human figure.

Hard - edge painting, geometric abstraction, appropriation, hyperrealism, photorealism, expressionism, minimalism, lyrical abstraction, pop art, op art, abstract expressionism, color field painting, monochrome painting, neo-expressionism, collage, intermedia painting, assemblage painting, digital painting, postmodern painting, Neo-Dada painting, shaped canvas painting, environmental mural painting, traditional figure painting, landscape painting, portrait painting, are a few continuing and current directions in painting at the beginning of the 21st century.

There are also some rarely seen landscapes, figure paintings and still lifes, shown in the company of Diebenkorn's best - known representational paintings.

Doig's studio, in a renovated rum distillery in Trinidad's capital city, Port of Spain, is full of large canvases depicting junglelike landscapes, paint - smeared rivers and ambiguous figures.

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.

The exhibition brings together recent work, medium scale paintings where a figure or figures are situated in psychedelic and symbolic landscapes, alluding to spiritual or heightened emotional interiors.