Sentences with phrase «figures in paintings which»

But Marshall is best known for work that places black figures in paintings which take their cue from the European masters.

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Think of John Ashbery's «Self - Portrait in a Convex Mirror,» in which the artist Parmigianino gestures with his hand in the painted convex surface, as if welcoming us, even as the figure in the mirror pulls away.

It was indeed only in the early Renaissance, in the liturgical drama which influenced the subject matter of the newly recovered art of painting — where the resurrection did get attention — that Magdalene was returned to prominence and became for the first time an officially popular figure.

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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.

Indeed, love - sick Suzy shared shots of her wearing nothing but body paint, which adored her fine figure in the colours of Barcelona, with «Messi 10» written on her back.

Lucas is a major figure, and Revenge of the Sith may be some kind of historic achievement — the first movie in which it is fully impossible to tell where flesh ends and digital paint begins.

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.

The Cup Racer, which is based on the five - door Leon and painted in metallic matte grey with orange accents, cuts a visually stunning figure.

The story begins with the painting of the first portrait, when More was almost at the peak of his powers — in which the mysterious John Clement doesn't figure — and ends with the second portrait five years later, after the deeply Catholic More had lost his job and was being hunted down by his Protestant rivals at court.

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The church of San Andres Xecul has an unusual dome painted in colorful stripes, but the highlight is the bright yellow facade, on which some 200 painted sculptures of human figures, angels, monkeys, fruit, corn and quetzal birds.

European fans can look forward to three special editions: the Apocalypse Edition, which packs the game with the soundtrack in a metal case; the Collector's Edition, which includes a Red Knight figure, Dark Souls trilogy hardcover art book, metal case, soundtrack, iron - on patches, and cloth map, all in a box; and the Prestige Edition, which throws in everything else along with a numbered Lord of Cinder hand - painted resin statue.

In addition to making paintings and sculptures, which frequently incorporate slightly surreal figures and depictions of the natural world, he is also an author and trained physicist, having originally attended college to study applied and engineering physics at Cornell.

That tone was set at the opening night's performances: Lee Mingwei's durational performance Our Labyrinth (2015), for which a dancer swept the floors of the galleries with a mixture of grains, purifying a path for visitors; Aki Sasamoto's Delicate Cycle (2016), which included such domestic objects as washing machines and bundles of clothing; and Olivier de Sagazan's Transfiguration (2016), in which de Sagazan used clay, paint, and hair to transform himself into a shamanistic figure.

Tonight's $ 9.76 million Rivera figure also surpassed the highest price ever paid for a work by a Latin American artist at auction, which was previously held by a 1939 Frida Kahlo painting that sold for $ 8 million at Christie's in 2016.

Her latest canvases in bold, colorful patterns, which she completes at a ferocious pace, retail in the mid — six figures at New York's Gagosian Gallery and London's Victoria Miro; one of her rare early paintings sold at auction in November 2008 for $ 5.79 million, a record at the time for a living woman artist.

A central figure on the New York avant - garde scene, Kusama was famous for her delicately patterned abstract canvases, soft furniture with phalluses, and happenings in which she painted naked participants with her now signature polka dots.

More of these moments occur in the second room, the heart of the show, which brings together Krasner's «Little Image» paintings and the «Little Figure» paintings of Lewis.

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.

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.

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Barré created spare, minimal figures which left much of the canvas open; when he began using spray paint in 1963 as a reflection of his appreciation of graffiti in the Paris metro, he employed a particular matte black to create white surfaces marked by traces or stripes.

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.

He depicts a singular figure in shadows, which can only be seen when viewing the painting from a far.

Zhong discusses the pivotal exhibition Dear Painter, paint me... Painting the Figure since late Picabia, which opened at the Centre Pompidou in 2002.

«Through his ties with leading modernists on both side of the Atlantic, Hoyland is a pivotal figure in 20th - century abstraction and the stain paintings from this period, many of which have never been publicly exhibited outside of London, are ripe for rediscovery and new understanding.»

A rising figure in the contemporary art world, Wade Guyton uses accessible technology to create paintings, drawings, and sculptures that address his viewer's evolving relationship to the digital and the ways in which mechanized images become physical works.

Highlighting the spatial depth, Fish often changes the importance of the foreground and background which results with unexpected spatial effects like in the painting Dog Days (1993) where the figure of the dog seems smaller than the watermelon pieces on the table in the foreground.

Each work proudly displays the rough, chiselled and hand - painted surface upon which the artist has worked yet the proportions of the figure are precisely coordinated, frozen in unpretentious, emotionless poses.

I figured out various ways in which the score might generate paintings, collages, a film, sculpture, several sound pieces, and new scores.

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

The exhibition opens with Himid's monumental Freedom and Change, 1984, which appropriates and transforms the female figures from Picasso's Two Women Running on the Beach (The Race), 1922, into black women, powerfully and humorously subverting one of the most canonical paintings in Western art history.

The picnicking figures are swallowed up in mid-chew, vanishing into jagged grey pigment like so much painted flesh, which is, of course, all that they are.

A leading figure of the Korean Tansaekhwa, or «monochrome painting» group, Chung is recognized for the innovative painting method he developed in the early 1970s, which the critic Kwang Suh Oh describes as «taking off / removing» and «re-painting.»

The canvases range from a few feet tall to roughly human height; in preliminary drawings for the paintings Richter sketched human figures alongside the layouts of some of the works, indicating the meticulousness with which the scale of the works was devised.

Lerma uses layers of figurative as well as abstract elements, charcoal and colours, text, the blank canvas and smudges of paint to create vibrant, erratic compositions in which you recognize cartoonish figures, mysterious calligraphic signs, and vegetal varieties.

Peter Acheson: Let's start with this new large painting, «Desire For Transport,» which includes a group of figures floating in different boats.

«Bushwick Open Studios really strives to give every working artist in Bushwick, regardless of their level of experience or success in the art world, an equal opportunity to show their work to a wider public,» said Hitchings, whose works include a series of pastel colored paintings in which forms and figures seem to bleed through the canvas like haunted photographs.

This figure derives from an earlier painting, Wall Jumpers (2002), the source of which was a media image showing Palestinians scrambling over the separation barrier built by Israel in the occupied territories.

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.

In Twisted Figures, his third solo show at 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel, Hughes's latest series of acrylic paintings pushes this language into a new phase in which the shapes on the canvases continue to self - confidently assert their own presence, yet begin to move beyond an earlier, more matter - of - fact reliance on organic and visceral associationIn Twisted Figures, his third solo show at 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel, Hughes's latest series of acrylic paintings pushes this language into a new phase in which the shapes on the canvases continue to self - confidently assert their own presence, yet begin to move beyond an earlier, more matter - of - fact reliance on organic and visceral associationin which the shapes on the canvases continue to self - confidently assert their own presence, yet begin to move beyond an earlier, more matter - of - fact reliance on organic and visceral associations.

In 1948, the artist painted his breakthrough work, Onement I, which is now in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and features the first of his signature «zips»: vertical lines running down the canvasses, which divide spatial composition, infuse them with energy, and create a parallel to the spectator's own figurIn 1948, the artist painted his breakthrough work, Onement I, which is now in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and features the first of his signature «zips»: vertical lines running down the canvasses, which divide spatial composition, infuse them with energy, and create a parallel to the spectator's own figurin the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and features the first of his signature «zips»: vertical lines running down the canvasses, which divide spatial composition, infuse them with energy, and create a parallel to the spectator's own figure.

This period coincided with the blossoming of the abstract expressionist movement and the pinnacle of Still's 20 - year quest to redefine painting in which «space and figure,» the artist wrote, «had been resolved into a total psychic entity.»

This work is the first in Vicuña's series of paintings from the early 1970s, Heroes of the Revolution, in which she depicted important political figures of international and Latin American socialism: Karl Marx, Lenin, Fidel Castro, Salvador Allende, and Violeta Parra.

«Mehretu's abstract paintings, which are created with layers of acrylic on canvas followed by marks in pencil, ink and more layers of paint, were already fetching six figures in 2006.

Some of these sketches evolved into more complex paintings with multiple figures and architectural views, works that give us a bigger picture of life at Camarillo, as in the evocative scene of medicated patients in the hospital's day hall, below, which was damaged in a fire while in storage.

Rauschenberg rejected the «logical conclusion» of painting figured by the tricolor monochrome triptych as untenable, in part because the primary colors at which it arrived could not be considered any more «basic» than any other industrially produced commodity.

South's paper constructions have a faint echo of the stylistic rendering of objects and figures in Philip Guston's paintings from his «cartoon» phase, which is also brought to mind by Floor / Ceiling's illumination by bare, hanging light bulbs, with the naked bulb a frequent motif in many of Guston's works.

Siskin and Fly are continuations, on a more intimate scale, of her recent large paintings inspired by English birds, in which she gives her human figures feathered collars but few other defining accessories.