Sentences with phrase «historical tableau»

«While staying clear of most set historical tableau scenes, Lawrence has managed to bring fresh drama to those he found irresistible, e.g., Washington crossing the Delaware River, which he shows as a series of crowded boats in muted greens and browns, covered and muffled against the bright blue water to capture the quality of «violence, but a quiet feeling as well.»»

Marshall reworks the canon through its most archetypal modes: the historical tableau, landscape and genre painting, and portraiture.

Europa Universalis IV arrives on August 13th, presenting us with another astonishingly deep historical tableau for us to create our own history within.

Both shows interrogate gender through hobbled performing subjects — in the case of Locke, disembodied portraits of men, and for Kelley, cleverly twisted historical tableaus, often featuring the artist herself in theatrical paint and costumes.

Not exact matches

Conceived as a series of interrelated and rotating stand - alone exhibitions, this presentation will highlight major singular works from the collection, such as a newly acquired monumental cut - paper silhouette tableau by Kara Walker, as well as the Barbara Lee Collection of Art by Women, groupings of work by artists held in depth such as Louise Bourgeois and Nan Goldin, and thematic and art - historical groupings.

Bringing together the dynamism of Picasso (particularly the captivating polemic tableau Guernica), Robert Colescott's acerbic historical reimaginings, and an incisive distillation of pop cultural and socio - political content, Abney's work presents the figure in stunning and curious detail.

With characteristic wit and critique, Yinka Shonibare MBE explores the contemporary worship of luxury goods and the behaviour of the banking industry while referencing well known iconography and art historical homage - most notably in his creation of a large tableau based on Leonardo da Vinci's «The Last Supper».

The work of Pablo Bronstein is distinguished by a series of projects and public interventions in which, assuming the role of art historian, architect and choreographer, the artist reconstructs historical moments and mimics them in tableau vivants.

Mummies, robots, photographs, crumpled muslin, and historical ephemera create psychic landscapes somewhere between cinematic tableaus and anthropological displays.

In the work 8 the film's narrative is constructed through a single shot that gently pans and flows through a French castle inhabited by all the tableau vivants from Brandenburg's past works, threading together numerous theatrical scenes and layering historical characters such as chess players, ghosts and a sleeping man.

The sequences of these objects arranged in tableaus, together with the text, offer historical analogues for modern processes of consumption, production, and communication: collecting, arranging, and recording.