Sentences with phrase «historical nude paintings»

Not exact matches

Precisely a century later, I am standing before the very same painting — it is, properly, Nude Descending A Staircase (No. 2) by Marcel Duchamp — with Kimberly Orcutt, Curator of American Art of the New - York Historical Society on Central Park West, which has brought the big blowup of 1913 back to life in a delicious, irreverent retrospective featuring 100 of the original works.

Benefits Supervisor Resting is regarded as Freud's ultimate tour de force, a life - size masterwork in the grand historical tradition of the female nude, painted obsessively with intense scrutiny and abiding truth.

Mira Dancy's paintings of languid, muscular nudes mine the pop - cultural and historical depictions of women.

In this presentation Brice expands her recent use of a near single colour palette to include dynamic reds and deep greens to create large - scale paintings which address the art - historical tradition of the female nude.

A proudly declared fan of Egon Schiele and Francis Bacon, Tracey Emin returned to creating personal figurative paintings, usually of female nudes based on her own body or on historical photographs.

Reinvesting traditional art historical genres (still life, portraits, nudes, landscapes, and interiors) with an abundance of rich and surprising forms — such as cast sculptures and assemblages, paintings, digital montages, spatial installations, kinetic objects, and texts — he ceaselessly explores the intersection of art and everyday life.

The Prado's collection of Old Master paintings, widely recognized as one of the most important in the world, is characterized by a significant concentration of mythological, allegorical, historical, and religious paintings depicting nudes.

Knowing the historical context of the nude in high art and refreshing the complex artist - model relationship, her work is distinct from the «raw» figure paintings of Jenny Saville and Lucian Freud, and goes beyond John Berger's juxtaposition of female nudes from old master paintings with porno shots in Ways of Seeing (1972).

[28] Lisa Yuskavage's nude figures painted in a nearly academic manner constitute a «parody of art historical nudity and the male obsession with the female form as object».

Featuring paintings, bronze sculptures, neon, embroidery and works on paper, «Stone Love,» which takes its title from David Bowie's love song Soul Love, explores the artist's intimate side via expressive depictions of female nudes modeled after both her own body and historical photographs.