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Sotheby's to bring first Old Master painting to Middle East A display at Sotheby's Dubai gallery this week will include the first Old Master painting ever exhibited by the auction house in the Middle East.

Not exact matches

Novelists long ago recognized this truth; literature is full of characters falling in love with the people in paintings, obsessing over enigmatic figures or shapes, feeling intimidated — or intensely disappointed, in the case of Madame Bovary — by their first sighting of a tarry Old Master.

However, his first formal training was at the Art Students League in 1988, studying with the portrait painter David Leffel who taught him the technique of painting dark to light in the manner of old masters.

The first three galleries on the first floor feature the museum's collection of Old Master paintings and sculpture, which is particularly strong in canvases from the Italian Baroque.

First off, museums in NYC are filled with paintings by modern and contemporary artists, as well as by Old Masters.

Postmodernism deprived painting of originality and first - hand experience at the same time that Greenberg's disembodied abstraction, addressed to eyesight alone, collided with the desire on the part of some artists to retain the wholeness of the aesthetic experience made available by the old masters in their fusion of the haptic quality of sensuous painterly surfaces with the optical melding of colour and light.

Since first gaining attention in the early 1980s with his «fake Old Master» paintings, Condo's oeuvre has encompassed an incredible diversity of styles and media.

Most of the works will be contemporary, but there will be a first - century Roman marble and several old master paintings as well as examples of 19th - century European art and 20th - century design.

Old Masters / New World is the renowned London - based gallery's first exhibition in the city, and will feature works of art from the 15th to the 18th centuries, including important paintings by such artists as Frans Francken, Gaetano Gandolfi, and Jusepe de Ribera and sculpture by Pedro Duque y Cornejo, among others.

When it was first exhibited in the 1880s, Wheeler's pensive look captivated some viewers, while the painting's bold palette agitated others.5 Again, Chase gestured to the Old Masters, and Hals in particular, but he also nodded to his contemporary James McNeill Whistler's famous portrait of the artist's mother (1871; Musée d'Orsay).

«Structures» At first LeWitt focused his attention on painting, he hired models and drew from life and copied Old Masters.

The gallery first specialized in works of the Italian Renaissance and old master paintings, but Bill expanded the focus to include the masters of Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Cubism, and Surrealism.

ROBILANT+VOENA deal in fine art from the fifteenth century to the twenty first, encompassing Old Masters and nineteenth century painting, classic modern, Italian post-war and contemporary art.

At first glance, they look like paintings based on European old - master still lifes, but they then subtly begin to move, revealing themselves to be animated and accompanied by sound.

This comprehensive exhibition, the first major show of the Old Master's work in America in 20 years, presents a 103 portraits painted by Mr. Van Dyck and his followers between 1613 and 1658.

View Old Master painting through a new lens with the National Gallery's first major exhibition of photography.

In Sean Scully Encounters: A New Master among Old Masters, the artist's first exhibition in Oxford, eleven paintings and thirty - three prints by Scully will be on view.

Stemming in part from the Rythm Mastr comic strip project first developed for the 2000 Carnegie International exhibition, the monumental paintings in this new body of work portray figures in the urban landscape of the South Side of Chicago, inspired by the tradition of old - master paintings, especially the townscapes of Canaletto.

Again, African - American artists are very much on the agenda: deceptively naive paintings by former slave Bill Traylor, who died in 1949, feature at Betty Cuningham ($ 50,000 - $ 140,000), while Donald Morris shows Bob Thompson, who was inspired by European Old Masters to produce boldly coloured figurative paintings (nine of 13 works sold on first day, $ 125,000 - $ 250,000).

His detailed and rendered Old master paintings surrounded by geometric forms and color build a dialogue with the viewer allowing them to contemplate first the past before looking at the future.

In its gallery in Pall Mall the Institution held the world's first regular temporary exhibitions of Old Master paintings, [2] which alternated with sale exhibitions of the work of living artists; both quickly established themselves as popular parts of the London social and artistic calendar.

Since first bursting onto the scene in the early 1980s with his unique adaptation of the language of Old Master painting, George Condo has created one of the most adventurous, imaginative, and provocative bodies of work in contemporary art.

Raqib Shaw: Reinventing the Old Masters will be the very first time the work of Shaw — known for his intricate, opulent and incredibly detailed enamel paintings — has ever been exhibited in Scotland.

PARIS — Back in the mid-19th century, when photography was first being perfected, practitioners in the revolutionary new medium often mimicked the compositions of Old Master paintings.

Forty - five works by Renaissance old masters will be on view in the Midwest for the first time in the exhibition Offering of the Angels: Paintings and Tapestries from the Uffizi Gallery.

I have a BFA and when first saw the hoopla over the chalk paint, I thought back to my classes and knew all it was is an old master plan of adding a drying agent, chalk or plaster to paint.