His breakthrough came with a series of enigmatic oil paintings featuring enlarged details
from historical paintings, elevating them to a motif in their own right through a play of perception and proportion.
This fascination
with historical painting and literature result in sensitive dynamic works that are at once familiar and fantastic.
The artist is known for his densely layered paintings, which transform
art historical painting into contemporary experience.
When I started there was a conception that it was a traditional discipline that was mainly about
repeating historical paintings, and that there was no margin for creativity.
As I draw from and look at a lot
of historical painting, I trust my experience to create associations within the work.
With FLOORED, she (re) shifts the narrative of luxury in
historical painting by presenting images that become more than just objects for viewing.
This body of work stems from
historical painting as a documentary means to capture vernacular moments in time and space while playing with common motifs in contemporary snapshot photography.
These new works
take historical paintings and Internet culture as their point of departure and utilize paint and digitally manipulated printed images to create hybridized portraits suffused with cultural and societal critiques.
His paintings are tinged with nihilist romanticism, born of literary intrigue and a passion
for historical painting.
The exhibition's single large - scale painting on canvas was inspired by
historical paintings such as Pieter Bruegel the Elder's «Tower of Babel,» as well as the artist's own personal experiences in residency in Boulder, Colorado.
In addition to this, «The Sum of All Evil» references Art
historical paintings including The Apocalypse by Hieronymus Bosch (1450 — 1516) and several etchings by Francisco de Goya (1746 — 1828).
You have a favourite
historical paint colour by this esteemed English company, and a favourite wallpaper pattern too (even though it's hard to have favourites with F&B).
Instead, the Museum of American Folk Art presented works with prominent narrative elements ranging from Dial «s personal mythology to
historical paintings which address the «Black Odyssey» — the path from Africa to slavery to the Civil Rights Movement and beyond.
Fragonard's beautiful paintings, a delicate blend of the Italian Baroque and Dutch Landscape painting, were well received in Paris and he was expected to «save» the French
historical painting traditions.
Swiss Institute is pleased to present an exhibition
pairing historical paintings by the late Swiss artist Adolf Dietrich (1877 — 1957, lived in Berlingen) with recent paintings by American artist Richard Phillips (1964, lives in New York).
Highlights of the installation include the diptych slide projection Dispossession (2013), which explores Attia's research on the Vatican's collection of ethnological artifacts; Artificial Nature (2014), a floor sculpture constructed of many antique prosthetic legs; and a work composed of two large - scale reproductions of
historical paintings depicting Catholic masses, Émile Jean - Horace Vernet's The First Mass in Kabylia (1854) and Victor Meirelles's The First Mass in Brazil (1861).
The models are styled in poses and tableaux that draw from the canon of western art history — paintings are titled after the models or
after historical paintings such as Watteau's La Leçon d'Amour, Balthus's The Guitar Lesson and Courbet's L'Origine du Monde, while also integrating Yoruba art and other aspects of African culture in the bold colours, African - print fabrics and head wraps of the sitters.
Examples of the artist's most recent new departure can seen in Reconstructing Seurat, 2004, and Deconstructing Piero, 2005, based on two of his
favourite historical paintings — Georges Seurat's The Bathers at Asinéres and Piero della Francesca's The Flagellation.
At the National Gallery Dean will
present historical paintings, such as Zurburan's A Cup of Water and a Rose alongside still life works either by Dean or her contemporaries including Roni Horn, Wolfgang Tillmans and Thomas Demand.
Hiroyuki Masuyama is a Japanese - born author working on international scene who investigates the passage of time by
using historical paintings as references.
Originally bred in Great Britain 400 years ago, the toy spaniels were pets of royalty and named because of a children's pet in the household of Charles I. King Charles II decreed that the spaniels could not be banned from any public place, including Parliament, and they're commonly seen in
British historical paintings.
Firstly, it presents the visual artist through a selection from two of his outstanding bodies of work: those from the late 1990s related to the character Mr DOB and the concept of «Superflat», which placed him within the legacy of Pop art but with an exceptionally original artistic language, and works from recent years in which Murakami has developed an intelligent personal dialogue with
Japanese historical paintings.
Finding parallels between the mythologizing images of Wild West artist - correspondents and the international community's influence in the Arab world, Egyptian artist - photographer Nermine Hammam
manipulates historical paintings of the American West by Frederic Remington, Charles Marion Russell and others with recent photographs of the Arab Spring.
Schooled as an abstract painter and self - taught as a representational artist, Fischl
mines historical painting and photography for source material.
She was an enthusiastic student of the history of art, frequently
quoting historical paintings by artists such as Gustave Courbet and J. M. W. Turner, as in Barometer (1992), or traditional artistic genres, especially landscape painting.
While evoking theatrical sets or
grandiose historical paintings, the Bat Opera pictures — grouped here in series of nine or six — invite an intimate viewing experience.
An educator, artist and organiser she has, in her set piece The Fashionable Marriage, reinterpreted Hogarth's 1743 - 4 Marriage à la Mode to highlight the use of people of colour
within historical painting.
This new body of work by Gray utilizes spray paint and hand - cut masking techniques in the production of still lifes, with the compositions referencing
historical painting tropes.
His
mysterious historical paintings conjure up the personality of dead pop stars - Jimi Hendrix, Ian Curtis and Kurt Cobain - or political figures like Gorbachev and Che Guevara through their furniture or their rooms.
His work
explores historical painting, cinematic tropes, psychoanalysis and post-colonial theory, and his studio program interrogates narrative cliches, alongside established European notions of representation in order to address questions of nationhood, anti-colonial sentiments and the perception of historicized events.
VIERIA»S FIRST SOLO exhibition, in 2006 at Small A Projects in Portland, Ore., featured ink drawings that reference passages from 18th -
century historical paintings by artists such as Hubert Robert, Platonic installation of geometric forms, paper tube sculptures resembling columns and striped works on paper evoking early versions of the American flag as allusions to the American revolution.
Over three different generations, Robert Colescott, Kerry James Marshall, and Mickalene Thomas have
redefined historical painting from a contemporary, black artist's perspective, bringing to the forefront of modern art voices and faces often obscured or forgotten.
«For decades, Longo has pushed the physical boundaries of drawing, creating massive, immersive charcoals that rival the
largest historical paintings.»
Morton's work reflects
upon historical painting and literature, whilst also considering notions of the everyday and alluding to the domestic through her use of found household objects.