Sentences with phrase «great number of paintings»

Freud created a great number of paintings which include dogs later on, and it is always the silence that takes a different form in these artworks.

Not exact matches

As with New York, the decision to open up shop in Miami was strategic: According to Gibbon, Miami has the greatest number of e-commerce sellers per capita in the U.S.. Additionally, the launch will occur right before Miami's Art Basel festival — just in time to ship those paintings and sculptures to buyers» homes.

Nevertheless, even with this underlying bias the numbers generally tend to paint a believable portrait of American sexual attitudes, even if skewed a few points on the side of greater sexual activism.

The Head of Christ was done during the same period in which Rouault painted a great number of carnal, yet pathetic, nudes, often prostitutes; a fiercely drunken woman; sad or debauched clowns; cruel judges, and so on.

Volume XVI, Number 2 Science and the Humanities; The Great Rift in Modern Consciousness — Douglas Sloan What Stands Behind a Waldorf School — David Mitchell On Earth as It Is in Heaven: The Task of the College of Teachers — Roberto Trostli The Plight of Early Childhood Education in the U.S. — Joan Almon The Art of Knowing — Jonathan Code Painting from a Palette Entirely Different — Johannes Kiersch Authenticity in Education — Elan: Leibner Soul Breathing Exercises — Dennis Klocek

But this morning, he called Mitt Romney's selection of Ryan a «real moment of frankness and candor,» and then proceeded to tear into Ryan's budget plan as a «paint - by - numbers picture» of an America in which the middle class would be asked to shoulder an ever - greater economic burden.

Not fearless enough to nose the camera in the dramatic mire, like a soldier to the cause in a personal guerrilla war, Diego Luna «s film beckons a paint - by - numbers summary of the man's greatest achievements, the spark notes of a six - plus year period that glosses all with thin coats, rarely taking the opportunity to remain in the moment and settle in with the hard - won emotional beats of the characters.

-- «The Broadway Melody» (1929): Some people are dismayed by the early sound technology, but get over that and enjoy a lively backstage musical with youthful zest, a spunky performance by Bessie Love and a handful of great musical numbers, including the title song, «Wedding of the Painted Doll» and «Singin» in the Rain.»

Staff members at the Fender Museum of Music and the Arts in Corona, California, hope funds from an on - line auction of celebrity - painted «art guitars» will help them build a larger music center and let them provide free music lessons for a greater number of kids.

His comments echo those of a Conservative source in response to the NAO report, which said the «negative picture» painted by the unions was the «greatest threat» to recruitment and called on unions and Labour politicians to back the government's plans to increase teacher numbers.

Sudamala Suites & Villas offers elegant five - star accommodation on the namesake Jalan Sudamala in the southern area of Sanur, a half - hour transfer from the Ngurah Rai International Airport in Tuban and only 15 minutes drive east from Balis provincial capital of Denpasar.While not a beachfront hotel, Sudamala is minutes away to Mertasari Beach, one of Sanurs quieter coasts.A number of laid - back cafes and restaurants line the streets connecting Sudamala, and you can enjoy leisurely cycling trips along the quiet streets and the beach footpaths.The great traditional Balinese inspired villas and suites offer a homey feel with Balis iconic Kamasan style paintings and fine fabrics used throughout its decor.

That said, we expect the July NPD numbers to paint a more complete picture of the game's eventual success or failure as the Wii's great hardcore hope.

There are a number of great dragon paintings from ancient China, like the Nine Dragons (1244) at the Boston MFA.

These included: Mark Rothko, Philip Guston («Philip would say again and again — as if he had never said it before — that everything in a work of his had to be «felt»»), Franz Kline (he «held court at the Cedar Street Tavern almost every night after ten»), David Smith, Tony Smith, Robert Motherwell, Ad Reinhardt, Jackson Pollock, Barnett Newman, Hans Hofman («I always admired Hans» painting and believe that certain of his pictures — Lava and Agrigento come to mind — must be numbered among the greatest abstract expressionist canvases»), Willem de Kooning, and Clyfford Still («as a de Kooning man, it took me time to appreciate Still's innovation»).

Pollock had enjoyed great success with his drip paintings of 1947 - 50, some of which are included in a major show of his late work at Tate Liverpool (Summertime: Number 9A, 1948).

The most curious and unusual sculpture of the fair was found at Dublin - based Kerlin Gallery's booth: a tiny, stunningly lifelike rendering of a crab whose front claws were molded from artist Dorothy Cross's own index fingers was painted silver, mounted on a small white plinth no more than two feet high (I'm not great with numbers, but as a reference, it's roughly as tall as my friend's art - going, Instagram - celebrity French Bulldog named Miss Pickle, if she sits upright).

Significant donors include Dr. and Mrs. Harold L. Tonkin, who bequeathed a large portion of their collection of Asian ceramics and decorative arts along with numerous European paintings with Asian themes; Dr. William E. Harkins, who has donated more than 150 Japanese prints to the museum since the mid-1970s; Mary Jane Harris and her late husband, Morton, who have given several Italian Baroque paintings with a number more promised; Joseph and Janet Shein, who have donated more than two dozen contemporary paintings and sculptures since 2000; and, of course, Barbara Palmer and her late husband, James, who have not only made great contributions to the museum's collection of American art but also gave $ 2 million in 1986 to initiate the campaign to expand the museum.

What Amy Sillman and a great number of drawing masters have in common is the proneness to create works which blur the line between drawing and painting.

Now recognised as the crowning moment of Pollock's career, this exhibition contained several of his greatest large - scale masterpieces, all of which were painted that year: Number One, 1950 (Lavender Mist)(National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.); Number 27, 1950 (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York); Autumn Rhythm (Number 30)(Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York); One: Number 31, 1950 (Museum of Modern Art, New York); and Number 32, 1950 (Kunstsammlung Nordrhein - Westfalen, Düsseldorf).

He defined himself as a figurative artist who went through Abstract Expressionism, Geometric Abstraction and a number of other styles of painting, but who had always been a figurative painter because his greatest interest was in people.

Leguillon sees each of Reinhardt's artistic activities as occupying strictly separate arenas: Painting was for the museum wall; cartoons for reproduction only; writing for private correspondence or publication; and slides for screening in great number, with a slide projector, allowing an appropriate amount of darkness between images.

The plays of color intensity and vibrancy of forms and patterns in Albers» paintings have influenced a great number of artists.

A different take on Leo's art, also written in 1966, comes from the great New York School poet, Ted Berrigan: «Leo Valledor magically invokes moods of nature with painting that consists simply of a number of bands of color juxtaposed in a manner that seems intuitively correct.

In Mr Lewison's reckoning, the painting stands alongside the other great works Pollock produced that year, Summertime, Number 9A, in the Tate collection; Number 1A, 1948, in New York's Museum of Modern Art; and Number 26A, 1948, held at the Pompidou centre in Paris.

Yoichiro also has a number of «series» paintings, where he uses a single film, such as «The Shining» and «The Great Gatsby».

With this in mind, the exhibition will feature a large - scale blue pigment installation and a number of Klein's Monochrome Paintings, the dazzling colours transforming the aesthetic experience of the opulent baroque surroundings of the Great Hall and principal rooms.

I believe that it is true, however I would look at it from a different standpoint from Canaday and as a matter of fact that had been noted, the observation that 10th Street lacked a vitality had been noted several years before, you know, by a great number of people, including Clem Greenberg, I think in print he even coined the term Tenth Street Painting as a deneogatory term which would be that it was kind of old hat, because Clem Greenberg's stand of course is that abstract expressionism really lost it's pertinence after the early fifties.

While a great number of these sculptures rest on a stand, some are mounted on the wall, and thus create a direct reference to painting works.

Using the language of painting, these works make reference to some of the themes already present in The Seven Heavenly Palaces, including the great architectural constructions of the past viewed as an attempt by man to ascend to the divine, with the constellations represented by means of astronomical numbering.

William Hogarth was a great presence in the second quarter of the century, whose art was successful in achieving a particular English character, with vividly moralistic scenes of contemporary life, full of both satire and pathos, attuned to the tastes and prejudices of the Protestant middle - class, who bought the engraved versions of his paintings in huge numbers.

Number 19, 1948 is one of the great «drip» paintings that Jackson Pollock made in a legendary three - year burst of creativity between 1947 and 1950 and will be offered in the upcoming Post-War & Contemporary Evening Sale in New York on 15 May 2013.

Her work has been exhibited in a number of major museum shows, notably Oracle at The Broad (2017); the Museum of Modern Art's Ecstatic Alphabets / Heaps of Language (2012); the Walker Art Center's Lifelike (2012); The Indiscipline of Painting at Tate St. Ives (2011 - 12); the 2010 Whitney Biennial; MoMA P.S. 1's Greater New York (2010) and the New Museum's Younger Than Jesus (2009).

«During the artist's seminal years 1982 - 83 the Schorrs acquired several of his most important paintings, but in contrast to virtually every other early collector, the Schorrs also pursued and acquired a great number of works on paper both directly from the artist and from his early dealers,» explained curator Fred Hoffman.

- Richard Shiff, Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art of Europe and America, University of Texas at Austin «The great number of young artists who set out each year to become painters should long ago have put to rest conversations about the so - called death of painting.

Saatchi has made a number of very significant donations of top contemporary artworks to numerous institutions, such as the Arts Council of Great Britain Collection (which lends works to museums and galleries around the country), the National Arts Collection Fund, and the Paintings in Hospitals program.

Zeng Fanzhi (b. 1964) Number 6 in the list of the World's Top contemporary artists, Zeng Fanzhi is noted for his figurative works employing a combination of expressionism and realism, as well as his sequence of ironic Great Man paintings, which includes Lenin, Mao, and Karl Marx among others.

He achieved great public prominence in the 1980s, and among the works of that decade were a number of multi-panel paintings, such as Pas de deux (1983)

The exhibition features a large number of Craig - Martin's highly - individual paintings, ranging from Painting and Picturing, created in 1978, to Eye of the Storm, dating from 2003, which was shown to great popular and critical acclaim in an exhibition of the same name from IMMA's Collection in 2005.

In addition, Serov executed a number of beautiful examples of landscape painting, such as Pond in Abramtsevo (1886); The Overgrown Pond, Domotkanovo (1888); Village (1898); Watermill in Finland (1902); while his historical paintings include: Peter II and Princess Elizabeth Petrovna Riding to Hounds (1900), and Peter the Great (1907).

Art Institute of Chicago One of the greatest art museums in America, the AIC has a world - renowned collection of French Impressionist paintings and American art - as well as a significant number of works by European Old Masters.

His anxiety is palpable in a painting such as Number 1, 1950 (Lavender Mist), a great example of his ««demonic» gestural force.»