Sentences with phrase «in draftsmanship»

The second half of the exhibition focusses on Minton's figurative paintings which demonstrate a remarkable skill in draftsmanship.

Best known for her carved wooden heads wrapped in black leather affixed with zippers, glass eyes, enamel noses, spikes and straps, Nancy Grossman (b. 1940) is accomplished in draftsmanship, assemblage, and relief sculpture as well as carvings.

Most often with work that is big on creativity, innovation, or shock value, rather than through traditional skill in draftsmanship or use of color.

Not exact matches

I've got pretty eclectic taste: I love mark making I love draftsmanship like in the charcoal works by Peterson Kamwathi, but some things just respond to me.

In recent years, Almquist has become known for his inspired draftsmanship and the eccentric drawings that stem from a remarkable sensitivity.

Echoing the artist's early training and expert draftsmanship, the imagery in the eight prints in the ICA / Boston's collection originate from the immersive multimedia work, In Search of Vanished Blooin the eight prints in the ICA / Boston's collection originate from the immersive multimedia work, In Search of Vanished Blooin the ICA / Boston's collection originate from the immersive multimedia work, In Search of Vanished BlooIn Search of Vanished Blood.

Spanning from a drawing from the workshop of Raphael, to the first - ever watercolor by Winslow Homer to enter a museum collection, to works produced in the past five years by Natalie Frank, William Kentridge, and Titus Kaphar, the exhibition highlights the role of draftsmanship in artistic practice through a diverse selection of masterworks from artists across a wide range of art history.

This rare example of Monet's draftsmanship was produced early in the artist's career when he was tackling a large canvas depicting a luncheon party of elegantly dressed figures picnicking in a garden.

Joel Daniel Phillips» work focuses on the tenets of classical draftsmanship employed in monumental formats.

Indistinct, marvelously enigmatic blobs of pooled ink and paint, blurred draftsmanship that obscures faces, and hazy horizons align with the endgame of MoMA's traditional agenda, as outlined by curator Alfred Barr in 1938 in a famous diagram tracking the progression in modern art toward abstraction.

Jones's draftsmanship is flawless, something akin to poetry in the way that confident sweeping lines seem effortlessly yet precisely placed.

And Matthias Küper Galleries Beijing presents «Draftsmanship» with Cai Dongdong, curated by Kang Xueru, a show on photography and installation, questioning the traditional art display in a gallery space.

But he was a late - blooming prodigy who almost right from the moment he enrolled in John Sloan's class at the Art Students League in New York in 1923 distinguished himself by the boldness of both his ambition and his draftsmanship.

Often repeating certain generic themes and motifs — such as hearts, skulls, and tools (as well as the Disney version of Pinocchio)-- in multiple forms and mediums, his interest in seriality and the everyday are emblematic of the Pop style, yet Dine's work is simultaneously distinguished by his masterful draftsmanship.

Trawling libraries for de-accessioned publications — «those that are no longer morally in line with modern times,» she explains — Báez tears out the pages and adorns them with miniature drawings, paint, and cutouts, revealing her astounding technical skill and draftsmanship.

Hot Mess, however, with its jagged contours, abrasive yellow background and hot - pink markings, may also be seen as a sincere homage to formalist abstraction, in its ad hoc approach, emphatic design, crisp draftsmanship, and coherent expression.

Loose enough to be atmospheric, yet containing just enough detail to be both accurate and satisfying on closer more detailed inspection, his intuitive use of colour in bold flowing washes, is underpinned by his firm grasp of perspective and draftsmanship, complemented by a strong sense of place.

Other telling elements of the show, and of this moment, are a certain preference for densely layered, intricate draftsmanship and a shift to what Sussman terms «nonchromophobia,» the artists» embrace of color and scale in the service of a loose but detectable visual narrative, of the sort found in Lari Pittman's work.

«I discovered that I had both the instinctive eye and inventiveness for costume craft but, as an architect, was compelled to use my skills in architectural design and draftsmanship, turning to folding printed card as a medium instead of fabric.»

From the epics of Peter Paul Rubens to the sublime graphics of Mondrian, Donato Giancola's oil paintings mine classical draftsmanship, narration, and aesthetics of composition to lay a foundation rich in historical associations.

As O'Hara said, «There has never been enough said about Pollock's draftsmanship, that amazing ability to quicken a line by thinning it, to slow it up by flooding, to elaborate that simplest of elements, the line — to change, reinvigorate, to extend, to build up an embarrassment of riches in the mass by drawing alone.»

While Jacobsen's meticulous draftsmanship is evident in his remarkably faithful reproduction of the original, he emphasizes the subtle shifts, distortions, and softened details.

(Think architectural draftsmanship in the spirit of Zaha Hadid.)

A room in the Virginia Steele Scott Galleries of American Art has been transformed by the installation of six oversized books, illustrated with 65 new paintings that display Pittman's brilliant draftsmanship and acidic color.

The ongoing series «White Snow», first exhibited York in 2009 and now encompassing hundreds of works, reveals the artist's deft draftsmanship and layered, gestural approach to drawing.

In his formative stages as an artist, Alexander quickly gained notoriety for his draftsmanship but had an understanding that serious gallery work was generally reserved for loftier mediums.

The deceptively rough appearance of the marks is countered by Baldridge's use of rennaisance cartoon transfer techniques which include the laborious process of working and reworking each image through thousands of tiny pinpricks, as well as flawless technical abilities in serigraphy and draftsmanship.

Diana W. Thompson, in her Huntington blog post, writes, «Combined with Pittman's brilliant draftsmanship and acidic color, the images advance an astute and acerbic social commentary embedded in narratives rich with real and invented mythologies.»

Either way, he was certainly some kind of crackpot genius, and his cartoonish, sexually charged, mystically suggestive colored - pencil drawings from the 1950s, on view in «From Barefoot Prophet to Avant - Garde Artist «at Michael Werner Gallery, are as compelling for their beautiful draftsmanship as they are for their bizarre metaphysics and gleefully fierce satire.

Right from the beginning of Krasner's career, dating from the 1930s until she met both Pollock and painter John Graham in the early 1940s, Krasner displayed a precocious and competent draftsmanship.

All courses and classes are guided by the commitment to helping artists acquire «the tools necessary to invest their work with sound draftsmanship, convincing technique and visual authority,» as stated in a summary of the Academy's «Aims» in its listing on the «art colleges» section of the Saatchi Gallery website.

Except for his characteristically brilliant draftsmanship and obsession with the figure, the pictures created in this late period of his life bear little superficial resemblance to his early paintings.

Ken Johnson reports in the NY Times that Rivers's facile draftsmanship, loose brushwork and clever collage would look increasingly thin, formulaic and derivative, but the early work was daring and original.

Trained under master professors such as Arno Rink and his disciple Neo Rauch at the Hochschule für Gaphik und Buchkunst in Leipzig the painters share an art education with heavy emphasis on basic draftsmanship, figure drawing, composition and perspective yet whose subject and execution is acutely distinct.

From the iridescent, soft - edged pastels of Edgar Degas to the black - and - white precision of Charles Sheeler, from the shock of Otto Dix to the Zenlike subtlety of Agnes Martin, draftsmanship in the 20th century continued to matter.

The eclectic yet singularly focused selection demonstrates the multifaceted ways in which artists have played with this technique, using it to expand the traditional boundaries of draftsmanship.

Known for his use of appropriation and meticulous draftsmanship, Karl Haendel works in «issues of artistic and cultural heritage and power.»

Combined with Pittman's brilliant draftsmanship and acidic color, the images advance an astute and acerbic social commentary embedded in narratives rich with real and invented mythologies.

Seeking the relief of a more classical dryness, Pollock in 1951 and 1952 reduced his palette to black and white and returned to the firmer unities of his first style, emphasizing draftsmanship and making his blacks bite vehemently into the unsized canvas like an engraver's line.

While a more recent touring exhibition of his work was entitled Kerry James Marshall: Mastry, this catalogue of works — created for his first exhibition at David Zwirner Gallery in London in 2014 — reveals Marshall's mastery of draftsmanship and painting and his exciting experimentation as he addresses these canonical limitations.

For Basquiat, the draftsmanship of drawing was never a means of studying or preparation but an artistic practice in its own right.

Marcus studied at the Art Students League with Edwin Dickinson, a teacher she adored and whose influence can be felt in the refinement of Marcus» draftsmanship and tonal subtlety.

In the 1970s, draftsmanship became central to his practice, and in the 1980s he began a sustained series of drawings based on ancient sculpturIn the 1970s, draftsmanship became central to his practice, and in the 1980s he began a sustained series of drawings based on ancient sculpturin the 1980s he began a sustained series of drawings based on ancient sculpture.

These graphite drawings, gouaches, and inked storyboards — the majority of which have never been shown before — broadly trace the evolution of Tom's exquisite draftsmanship and compositions from his earliest extant erotic works, executed just after serving in the Finnish Army during WWII, through to a complete comic produced in 1972, the year before Tom both earned his first solo exhibition, and retired from his advertising career to devote himself fulltime to his art.

To walk the fine line between sketchiness and assurance, between pseudo-gauche and rigour, Kruglyanskaya grounds her practice in relentless draftsmanship.

Perverse as it may be in November to contemplate Spring, today's postings on the law of time and Bills prompt me to dredge out the wonderfully quirky piece of parliamentary draftsmanship, A.P. Herbert's Spring Arrangements Bill.

«He's bilingual in Russian and English which helps, and on top of that his draftsmanship is first class.»

Nabarro, Eversheds and Dundas & Wilson are working in partnership to produce a suite of ancillary documents including an agreement for lease and construction contracts, with a view to delivering a comprehensive change to draftsmanship across all aspects of the industry.