Sentences with phrase «great paintings of»

The fascination of certain great paintings of the past is that they don't care about the sympathy you have for them.

Every... William Turner Postcard from Tate Britain transforms these great paintings of light and air into a brooding soup with an amoeba - mushroom curdling in the swampy twilight.

Johns already, of course, does more than half the work, with one of the great paintings of its time.

When American Abstract Expressionism triumphed in the late forties and early fifties, the great paintings of 1914 - 26 by Monet took on new and prophetic significance.

In this process the first substantial intellectual move occurred for him on a visit to Beaune in France and specifically a viewing there of the great painting of the Last Judgment by Rogier van der Weyden.

5 Kandinsky's claim seems to be false if we look at the greatest paintings of the past.

Think of the great, French artist Toulouse - Lautrec whose colorful renditions of Parisian nightlight were once considered sleazy and raunchy but are now celebrated as some of the greatest paintings of the Post-Impressionist period.

Picasso's The Three Dancersis a great painting of these three figures in front of a window, and that painting has never stopped being this extraordinary totem for me.

Nothing demonstrates what he meant by reality more eloquently than this great painting of a dish of fruit, at the National Gallery.

More to the point, does anyone believe that any of the Turner prizewinning painters has the artistic skill to produce one of the greatest paintings of the 20th century?

The work has all the guts and squall found in all great painting of the period, with a surface that's patched and rehashed by a balance of conscious choice and accident.

The artists of the Ashcan School were responsible for one or two of the greatest paintings of the 20th century, within the idiom of urban genre scenes.

In Burroughs in Tangiers, for example, Dalwood paints collage - style quotations of famous twentieth - century paintings within the imagined bedroom of William Burroughs, but the paintings he chooses to pinch (the greatest painting of the twentieth century and the second greatest painting of the twentieth century) just make you miss good, honest, non-cynical painting.

Not exact matches

In fact, Farage went to great paints to distance himself from an American style of gun ownership.

The stats I'm seeing paint an interesting picture of how marketers are focusing on top - level funnel content, with a great deal of emphasis on social and blogs.

His paint jobs — applied in about an hour and a half using a spray nozzle attached to a jug of «100 percent nontoxic flower - based» liquid dye — cost about $ 175 each for an average Greater Long Beach area front yard (which around 500 square feet, on average).

In Beijing, where the official commercial vacancy rate is 30 % but approaches 50 % in many pockets, developers go to great lengths to make empty buildings look occupied, going so far as to paint silhouettes of office workers in stairwells.

In his 2010 manifesto Renting the Dream: Housing in America after the Great Reset, University of Toronto professor Richard Florida goes so far as to paint home ownership as a relic of a different time.

Hehir paints a moving picture of Andre coming up the wrestling ranks in France during the 1960s as the character of a lumberjack called the «Great Fairy.»

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.

Here are the maps, paintings, and old - time photographs that show the journeys of our greatest cities.

Instead of interviewing me, he pitched me on the opportunity: Running a College Pro franchise was a great way for college kids to learn to run their own business over the summer, painting houses and earning tons of money.

Leadership matters, and as a leader, you have the opportunity (and the obligation) to paint and communicate an inspiring vision of what your business can truly be, and the role of each member of your team in creating that great business.

Look at the paintings that adorn this room — scenes of the Great War.

Both measures, from 1962 through the end of this August, painted similar pictures of the market — it rises and falls more now in greater size.

These global trends paint a picture of great opportunity for Canadian business and political leaders: New prospects for clean - energy technology developers and service providers are opening up on every continent.

The greater Los Angeles D.M.A. has painted a picture of newspaper dysfunction, with multiple bankruptcies, slow bleeding of staff resources and the soap opera that Aaron Kushner's attempted turnaround of the Orange County Register all figuring in the tragicomedy.

I think this is so because (painting with a broad brush here) they are more emotional than men and have greater instincts to take care of people.

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.

Thinking of Michal Williams, sitting alone in the apartment, and reading these poems, I suddenly thought of another twentieth - century disaster - marriage, that of the great painter Stanley Spencer, whose visions of Christianity led him to paint the general resurrection in the small - town churchyard of Cookham, and whose Christ was a working - class Englishman of 1930s vintage.

Although the Church has preserved a tradition as a patron of the arts for more than a millennium, and the great mediaeval cathedrals in particular have portrayed Christianity through their paintings, sculptures, and perhaps especially their windows, Catholic teachers are now refocusing on literary, cultural and artistic beauty as a conscious resource for the transmission of the faith.

According to this story, the great discoveries since the time of Copernicus and Galileo have disclosed a world that looks ever less like the picture religion painted of it, and have forced religious believers to fight a centuries «long rearguard action against the truth.

He went on to say: «The other arts — architecture, painting, vestments, and the arts of movement — each contribute to and support the beauty of the liturgy, but still the art of music is greater even than that of any other art, because it forms a necessary or integral part of the solemn liturgy, because it is so intimately bound to the sacred action, defining and differentiating the various parts in character, motion and importance.»

He could do such painting without reverence, but when you think of Millet's great works, that make his name immortal, that he loved, brooded over, and put himself into, you know that he inwardly bowed himself, like the worshipping figures of his «Angelus,» before the vision of beauty that he saw.

With his careful choice of very beautiful line drawings and colour plates of icons, Hart demonstrates that the spiritual life of the person who paints icons is of great significance.

The loss of great music, painting, architecture, poetry, sculpture, fiction, and theater has limited the ways in which the Church speaks to people both within and beyond the faith.

Yes those extremists try to paint the US as the Great Satan who's on a holy war against Islam, but that's not a pill swallowed by the majority of the muslim world.

As in Marc Chagall's beautiful painting, the poor Jews, without understanding it, are swept along in the great tempest of the Crucifixion, around Christ who is stretched

The days of its greatest building, sculpture, and painting, and its most vital creative thought, were past.

What is greater, a neatly painted, well constructed five - or eight - room house or the ruins of the Forum or the Parthenon?

A painting, he thought, is of greater interest if it contains diversity of content.

Or think of the visual impact, on the Sunday when the story of adolescent Jesus in the temple is read, of projecting slides of the great masters» paintings of young Jesus alongside contemporary photos of city and suburban kids of every color.

Like a great deal of modern art, Bacon's painting does not possess conceptual or discursive meaning.

In the realm of aesthetics it contributed to some of the greatest sculpture, painting, and architecture and was the inspiration of some of the most marvelous music ever composed.

i have a painting at home which i did 5 or 6 years ago of a figure standing behind golden bars of light the painting depicts i mysef as christ bringing to surface the ideas of cosmic conciousness to to the world around us there is great symmetry in the simplicity of both paintings if christ was alive today he might well be looking at the world though caged iron bars

It is deeply ironic that the Reformation should have been accompanied by the virtually prophetic painting of the North, and yet the iconoclastic tendency implicit in the very motto Sola Scriptura would close out the era of great Protestant painting before the middle of the 16th century.

It was the great subject of his art: «My only ambition is to be able some day to paint a Christ so moving that those who see him will be converted.»

What is exciting about religion in art as expressed in painting is the endless evocation of profound human feelings and the interaction of those feelings with great religious symbols and themes.

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.

In great periods of painting, such as the Renaissance in Europe, the wealthy who could afford to hire artists often subsidized major religious works as appropriate to the scale of their own palaces and as gifts to religious institutions.