Sentences with phrase «into classic paintings»

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Whether you're into classic rock guitar solos, neon body paint, or just looking to make it into a major magazine's street style roundup, there's something for you, ahead.

Saturday brings a pair of classics named after the dames that haunt our heroes: Gilda (1946), starring Rita Hayworth in her most iconic screen siren role as a sex kitten who digs her claws into the bodyguard (tough guy Glenn Ford) of her crippled sugar daddy husband (George Macready), and Laura (1944), with Gene Tierney as the beauty in a painting who obsesses homicide detective Dana Andrews.

Chilean - born Ruiz is a director whose love of storytelling and narrative play is often more engaging than the films themselves but with Mysteries of Lisbon, an epic based on a classic Portuguese novel (one yet untranslated into English), his engagement with the characters and their defining stories guides his direction, and his graceful camerawork and unerring eye for images both classical (like paintings in a cinematic frame) and fluid (his camera moves with purpose and grace) are in the service of the trajectories of the characters.

Mixing classic modern furniture with retro design, the apartment has two double bedrooms, one with a wall covered in Andy Warhol's «Campbell's Soup Can» prints, and a spacious lounge with more pop art paintings and a big sink - into sofa.

Metier begins with an actual subject, and then, using her expressive brushwork, turns it into an abstract composition; though more representational than usual for her, these paintings were still very much a part of her classic style.

A lot is packed into the space without it seeming at all crowded, with surprising early things alongside classic works by Holzer (streaming LED signs and granite benches emblazoned with her aphorisms and poetic texts), Lawler (photographs of works of art uncomfortable in their contexts), Sherman self - portraits and Trockel wool paintings.

Through the classic technique of oil painting on canvas, his idea is to introduce a humanistic and poetic dimension into the highly technological hospital environmen...

After an opening room of «classic» drip paintings, it plunges into a heartbreaking journey among the black, blotted, semi-figurative paintings that are usually seen as symptoms of his tragic decline.

His ability to transform fervent indignation into comical absurdity is amply evident when he takes on masterworks of French academic painting, as he does in his recent exhibition, Peter Saul: Six Classics, at Mary Boone...

Thaddeus Strode appropriates text and images from comic books, philosophy, and horror films, as well as the classic elements of a Southern California youth — punk rock, surf, and skateboard culture - into his paintings.

Beginning as a block of wood carved by the artist with chainsaw, the classic female form personified within Venus III bears the artist's angled marks before the sculpture was cast into bronze and finished with patina and paint.

The classic «The Son of Man» painting depicts a man in a suit transforming into a woman in an abaya and was created using Mentos and Munchies wrappers.

«This bicoastal photographer,» a San Francisco Chronicle reviewer wrote, «has taken a pictorial cliché, reflections on the surfaces of bodies of water, and turned it into a means of generating compositions that echo classics of Surrealist and abstract painting.»

Classic miniature painting and Persian calligraphy were raw materials for a number of artists who, with a mixture of reverence and irreverence, transformed traditional, elegant letters into nonsensical writing.

Into their early American galleries, full of classic paintings by artists of the Hudson River School, they inserted a 1998 sculpture by Roxy Paine called «Bad Lawn.»

Including a wide variety of pieces that have not been exhibited for more than 50 years, Jackson Pollock: Blind Spots gives museum visitors an unprecedented look into Pollock's practice, namely his classic drip paintings.

This international survey of visual art proposes methods of contemporary painting that call into question the classic two - dimensionality of the form.

And really does get into that meat and potatoes vibe of painting; just being really good at the most classic elements.

In addition to his two recent video works on display at Leila Heller Gallery, Azari also commissioned a painter to create replicas of classic orientalist paintings with specific changes or additions, such as playboy bunnies inserted into bath - house scenes, or RPG launchers and AK - 47s inserted into Jean - Léon Gérôme's iconic painting «The Snake Charmer» (1870).

Everything seems to fall into place, with classic Alÿs works such as Re-enactment (2001), When Faith Moves Mountains (2002), and Green Line (2004) all present, along with a wide selection of his paintings, drawings, and animations, and yet something doesn't quite click.

Cindy Sherman paints herself into (and out of) any number of fictional roles in her classic Untitled Film Stills — part performance, part painting with make - up — in a sustained essay on the relationship between character and appearance; while a feminist like Lynn Hershman paints her face by numbers in Revlon and Max Factor to illustrate the tyranny of make - up.

His ability to transform fervent indignation into comical absurdity is amply evident when he takes on masterworks of French academic painting, as he does in his recent exhibition, Peter Saul: Six Classics, at Mary Boone (November 7 — December 18, 2015).

Artlyst attended this impressive and mesmerising work to experience the unique fusion of great British master painter of the 20th century and contemporary sound installation of the 21st century, creating an orchestral and ambient work of art in its own right, with operatic, and theatrical leitmotifs that create a temporal aspect to Bacon's classic painting, transforming the gallery space into a Baconian space - frame in its own right.

White - painted furniture adds a classic touch, while bunting injects further colour into the room.

Many island homes feature exterior shutters that can be opened to take advantage of tropical breezes, or closed during rough winds, but this living room puts a fresh twist on the classic element by incorprating a painted shutter into the décor.