Sentences with phrase «known circle paintings»

The catalogue for a 1994 exhibit at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston entitled The Circle Paintings, 1956 — 1963 mentioned 175 known circle paintings, the smallest being only 13 inches square, the largest, 117.

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His beautiful murals have positive messages and his famous Ganesh series of paintings have made CAM well - known in yoga circles.

The German abstract figure painter, who became widely known in the»80s along with Jörg Immendorff - associated circle of friends Werner Büttner, Georg Herold, and Martin Kippenberger, often painted interiors, self - portraits, landscapes, language fragments, and diverse abstractions.

Hon Chi Fun is one of Hong Kong's most respected visual artists, best known for his abstract paintings and serigraphic prints that reflect his interest in Taoism and phenomenology through the expression of circles.

So I go to the gallery and she says this to me, «you know, you can paint circles around any man that I have in this gallery, but I am not going to give you a show, because you are woman.»

Back in New York, immersed in the circle of artists known as the New York School and with Cage and Cunningham's avant - garde influence as a foil, Rauschenberg explored many of the central ideas of Abstract Expressionism, both acknowledging and transgressing the movement's emphasis on gesture, individualism, action, and direct expression through paint.

A flamboyant character and a key figure in the Ferus Gallery circle in Los Angeles, Billy Al Bengston is associated with West Coast Pop and best known for spray painting dented sheets of square aluminum with lacquer.

While Sargent normally worked to commission painting for the aristocracy, this exhibition focuses on the lesser - known pictures he created of his artistic circle of friends — including Robert Louis Stevenson and William Butler Yeats.

Kenneth Noland's colorful concentric circles, targets, chevrons, stripes, and shaped canvases were among the most recognized and admired signatures of the postwar style of abstraction known as Color Field painting.

There, for the first time, a large public was able to marvel at the fantastic paintings done her last thirty years, known before 1946 only to her circle of friends — the cream of New York's literary and artistic society.

While initially creating collages using found photographs, objects, and painting, Mapplethorpe turned to photography in the early 1970's, through which — using a Polaroid SX - 70 camera — he quickly became known for the portraits he took of his wide circle of friends, including famous artists, musicians, porn stars, and socialites.

In the house I grew up existed the 80s a huge alpha in a circle painted with a brush, I do not know when and who did it, but I can not say I have seen something more interesting since then, in the wall.

Today is the occasion to bear in mind Kenneth Noland (10/4/1924 -5 / 1/2010), whose brilliantly colored concentric circles, chevrons and stripes were among the most recognized and admired signatures of the postwar style of abstraction known as Color Field painting.

The exhibition will feature selections from the artist's best - known bodies of work: hard - edged «circle» paintings of the 1950s and 1960s and his signature red painted steel sculptures.

From the early 1950s Kossoff began painting a close circle of family and friends, producing pictures in which they acquired a solid, material presence, similar to that of the buildings and streets of London he also often returned to and knew intimately.

Kenneth Noland, whose brilliantly colored concentric circles, chevrons and stripes were among the most recognized and admired signatures of the postwar style of abstraction known as Color Field painting, died Tuesday at his home in Port Clyde, Me.

When you look at the painting, you don't know if you're seeing a scallop with an attached muscle or a circle.

Noland became known for his paintings of circles and chevrons, Louis and Davis for their colorful paintings of stripes.

JZAs soon as I made my first big sun painting, I thought about how when you're kid you draw that circle at the top of every piece of paper that you're going to draw on, you know, the «big sun,» and that makes the picture become the picture.

To my mind, Hirst's Spot Paintings are no different in their engagement with art history, as these pulsating canvases of color — ranging from dense fields of tiny dots to a few spare circles isolated against an expanse of white — call to mind Georges Seurat, Hans Hoffmann, Kenneth Noland, Frank Stella, Gerhard Richter, and many more.

Mosset is best known for his series of monochrome paintings, each featuring a black circle, of which he produced hundreds.

Known first for his circle paintings, Noland became a defining Color Field painter by rhythmically exploring a wide range of acrylic hues in a visual language of chevrons, diamonds, horizontal bands, and plaid patterns on variously shaped canvases, one as wide as 7.3 meters.