Sentences with phrase «known oil paintings on canvas»

This body of work, executed in 1999, bolsters and inspires his more well - known oil paintings on canvas.

Not exact matches

You will need some «tourist tat» oil canvases you know the type almost like the paint by numbers you probably worked on as a child (oh my goodness how I loved my oil paint by numbers sets when I was young!)

Using oil and acrylic on canvas, none of his fine art is titled - but you can see he simply prefers to paint haunting portraits of unknown subjects... people we might never know or understand.

I don't know what's «industry standard practice» for fine art galleries these days, regarding pricing works on paper vs. works on canvas, but my suspicion is that the reason for the * historical * difference between the two is that works on paper are perceived to be less «serious» (after all, watercolor started out as a quick way for oil painters to sketch out drafts), and less long - lasting (historically, a lot of watercolors were fugitive, and tended to fade with time, unlike varnished oil paintings).

Though, he worked in a variety of media and styles, including ink, oil, acrylic, video, and collage, Davis is best known by far for his acrylic paintings (mostly on canvas) of colorful vertical stripes, which he began to paint in 1958.

IL LEE offers the negative of his well - known ballpoint pen works — here a dark ground of oil stick and paint on canvas is rendered white by scraping lines into the surface with an ink-less pen.

Alfonso Ossorio, known primarily for his later compositions of found gewgaws and the ever - present evil eye, also has a traditional oil on canvas action painting from 1955.

Best known for his oil paintings on canvas, Baselitz's prints and drawings have also been widely praised.

Stingel is best known for his wall - to - wall installations, constructed of fabric or malleable Celotex sheets, as well as his seemingly more traditional oil - on - canvas paintings.

Despite her versatile body of work with different media, Nathlie Provosty is well known for her monochromatic paintings with oil on canvas.

The bulk of her work are oil paintings on canvas, although Tryggvadóttir is also known for her illustrated books for children, works on paper and stained glass and mosaic works, located in such places as in the National Museum of Iceland, Skálholtskirkja, the headquarters of Landsbankinn, the service desk of Loftleiðir (presently, Icelandair) at the John F. Kennedy - airport, New York, and in Hotel Loftleiðir (presently, Hotel Reykjavík Natura).

A painter from Serbia, Milan Hrnjazovic is known for his oil on canvas paintings often depicting female figures.

Evening with Hopper comprises 12 oil on canvas paintings that place the works of well - known painters such as Edward Hopper into crisp, modern, architectural settings.

Of his many portraits, perhaps the best known is the oil on velvet Portrait of Andy Warhol (1982), in which the almost translucent subject shares the canvas with a Pollock-esque splatter of paint.

This tour de force of scholarship bears paintings, drawings and five of his six known sculptures, where Pollock pushed on through, farther than even his previous drip paintings, to forge some of the most radical art of the 20th century: sublime, sexy black enamel and oil pours on pure, unprimed canvas.

My paintings in school were oil on canvas and professors would ask me what they were about and I my only answer was «I love to paint,» because at that point I didn't know what the fuck I was doing.

While these early performances represent Shiraga's most radical expression of action as painting, the artist is best known for his large oil - on - canvas paintings done with his feet.

Boris Lurie, Big No Painting, 1963, oil and paper on canvas, 65 1/2 x 85 in.

Five years ago I thought that Tim Ebner's early work from the late 1970s and 80s would no longer need to be dragged into the discussion of the paintings that he has been making since 1991, when after more than a decade's worth of minimalist «surrogate» paintings from non-traditional materials (such as linoleum, resin, and vacu - formed acrylic), he turned abruptly to making representational paintings with brushes in oil on canvas.