Sentences with phrase «for photorealist paintings»

Known for her photorealist paintings and representational sculpture, Audrey Flack has had her art shown in such renowned institutions as the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

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Tompkins was an important figure in the photorealist movement of the 1970's but largely overlooked due to the fact that she was a woman making large - scale paintings of heterosexual intercourse, imagery that until then had been reserved for male artists and viewers.

For his recent series of work entitled Easy Fun - Ethereal, Jeff Koons employs new computer technology to merge populist icons into desktop collages, which he then transforms into traditional oil paintings rendered with photorealist precision.

Artist Eric Zener (b. 1966, Astoria, Oregon) is an American photorealist artist best known for figure paintings of lone subjects, often in or about swimming pools.

In a New Yorker review, critic Peter Schjeldahl once admonished Jeff Koons for depicting a Play - Doh sculpture in a series of photorealist paintings: «Painting is a medium of concerted imagination, symbolizing consciousness.

In the video, Zhang washes a live chicken for two and a half hours, again wearing surgical gloves, which lends the video a disturbingly forensic ambience and recalls his early photorealist paintings of latex gloves.

In 2013, his 1968 photorealist painting «Domplatz, Mailand» (Cathedral Square, Milan) was sold at Sotheby's New York for $ 37.1 million, a world record for a living artist.

Though exquisitely rendered, Hickam's 1970s photorealist paintings and drawings of provocative characters in interior settings belie a penchant for the abstraction fundamental to his vocabulary.

The photorealist paintings are the more significant and historic works from Mr. Richter's oeuvre, and yet the historically «important» art found no buyer while the pretty, colorful abstractions sold for double their presale estimates.

After receiving his MFA from Yale, Close gained recognition in the 1970s for his massive - scale portraits which were painted using a photorealist style, making them nearly indistinguishable from their photographic equivalent.

A Photorealist with an aptitude for creating atmospheric urban landscapes, Gniewek has begun a new series of work based on his recent journey to Cuba; this exhibition will premiere the first two paintings from this new body of work.