Sentences with phrase «formally classical portrait»

Opie has posed Streb against a black drop cloth and uses theatrical lighting to create a formally classical portrait that recalls seventeenth - century painting with allegorical dimensions.

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Formally, one can put his canvases in alignment with the representatives of classical modernism - from Henri Matisse to Georges Braque - but perhaps even more so with the holographic plant portraits of the 19th century.