Sentences with phrase «large figure paintings»

She has written on artists from Poussin to Bruce Nauman and curated an artist's choice show at the National Gallery in London, choosing large figure paintings by Titian, Veronese, El Greco, Rubens, Poussin and Cézanne: «To give your work more than a personal validity you need the support of a more objective framework.

The mostly large figure paintings are a departure from Alix Bailey's last show of small heads and self portraits at The Painting Center.

Hilma af Klint, The Large Figure Paintings, nr 5, The Key to All Works to Date, Group III, The WU / Rosen Series, 1907 © Stiftelsen Hilma af Klints Verk.

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As in medieval painting Christ is sometimes larger than other figures because of his importance, but in general, size relates to the spatial organization of a design.

Walter and Margaret Keane rose to prominence in the 1950s and 60s for their kitsch paintings, characterized by figures of children with unusually large eyes (hence the film's title).

Today's incarnation has been in situ since 1950, features the largest hand carved figures ever made and it's entirely hand painted.

In the late 1970s, Barkley Hendricks began a series of his large figure portraits in stylish white outfits painted on white backgrounds.

Figures come and go, with almost cartoon outlines, culminating in the semicircle of Attic and then his largest easel painting, Excavation.

Created over the course of three years from 2012 through 2014, in collaboration with a community of artisans in Rajasthan, India, the large 2 - pole structures (each measuring some 10» x 18» x 12» high) transform MASS MoCA's signature Building 5 gallery into a kind of tent village, inhabited by painted human figures both supine and in motion, and emblematic symbols and signs both obvious and arcane.

It tracks Elaine de Kooning's development as a first - rate, innovative portraitist through variously sized drawings, figure studies, trial sketches and small paintings across five decades, with each room dramatically highlighting the best of her large - scale oil paintings, some never exhibited publicly until now.

This period, and these female figure paintings, set the stage for Tworkov's transition into larger - format canvases in the early 1950s, when he loosened his line and painted mostly abstract compositions, relying on the figure.»

Terre verte also figures in two single - panel monochromes whose composition — a large rectangle or square resting on a smaller rectangle — recalls Marden's early paintings and drawings, particularly their disclosure, in the lower rectangle, of the many layers used to build up the painting.

The actual paint handling is about the experience of viewing Courbet's large paintings in person, his physical handling of paint between nature and the figure, chaotic, thick vs smooth.

What kinds of reference material do you use with the beach figure paintings and can you say something about your process of making a larger figure composition?

The juxtaposition of Gendel's Matisse - like figures, Sall's abstract painting anchored by a large black oval, and Gomez's swooshes was particularly compelling, just on sheer painting skill alone.

The exhibition at RJD features five paintings with one or two figures in each, instead of a larger cast of characters.

Schapiro continued to work with dancing figures in large paintings such as Ragtime (1988) and in her monumental public sculpture, Anna and David, a 35 - foot outdoor piece in Rosslyn, Virginia.

The small, fragile ceramic vessels that reference military and funerary formations, «the family units of historical figures in Vietnam,» stand in sharp contrast to the energy and movement of the large - scale paintings.

The format of Rythm Mastr, whether as an animated feature, graphic novel, or multi-panel sequence on newsprint, may feel like a departure from Marshall's painting practice, more tethered to pop culture than the high - brow arena where the artist's large - scale works fetch seven figures.

Tompkins was an important figure in the photorealist movement of the 1970's but largely overlooked due to the fact that she was a woman making large - scale paintings of heterosexual intercourse, imagery that until then had been reserved for male artists and viewers.

The large - scale paintings in Sequences from a Volatile Now dissolve, however, explicit reference to historical figures.

In his 2012 exhibition at the Matthew Marks Gallery, Cricket Music, Tessellation Figures & Notebook, 11 large - scale, richly hued, and layered paintings create complex patterns and grids.

This is the case especially with the largest and most thinly painted canvas at Werner, «Marina in Light,» and in «Large Figure, Summer,» at Thorp.

But in the background of this stunning tableau, if you meditate closely on the painting, you will see a portrait of a powerful, other - worldly female figure, almost larger than life, with large bright eyes, wearing a turban, sharply observing everything, as if she herself were keeping all the other elements in balance, in some mystical powerful way.

Peter Acheson: Let's start with this new large painting, «Desire For Transport,» which includes a group of figures floating in different boats.

In many of your paintings the foreground and background together create an all - over atmospheric field, while in your recent paintings, large star shapes become significant points of focus constructing much more of a figure / ground relationship.

The figures who people Njideka Akunyili Crosby's large - scale works — hybrids of painting, drawing, collage, and printmaking — inhabit familiar - looking domestic interiors.

Shaw uses a focus on the over-arching themes of fallibility — fallen heroes, collapsed economies, and political figures — to center his exhibition around a series of large - scale paintings begun in 2004 on old, cut - apart theatrical backdrops.

Her large collage paintings use the figure as well as references to her African culture and heritage.

Bringing together a selection of recent cut - out paper figures, mixed media works on paper, collage paintings in beehive frames, a large - scale painted sailcloth and hand - painted texts on the gallery wall, the exhibition will showcase Anna Boghiguian's raw and expressionistic oeuvre that explores economics, philosophy, literature and myth.

This large - scale bronze playfully casts the classical female figure, reimagined in Giorgio de Chirico's surreal paintings, as if she is made of crudely carved polystyrene, further debunking the fetishized art historical form.

Next to eleven large paintings made between 1998 and 2003, provided by the Mazzoli Gallery in Modena, there will also be a group of ten amazing new paintings portraying figures of great ebullience against backgrounds of poetic landscapes.

Katz's very latest large - figure paintings and landscapes were on display at PaceWildenstein's new branch in Chelsea, and the Peter Blum Gallery in Soho mounted a complete survey of Katz's woodcuts and linocuts.

Five large paintings, a hundred foot wall drawing and a floor work describe a strange, transformative cycle as a large drowning figure oscillates through phases of birth and death, shifting between the confining solidity of the shore and the murderously infinite possibilities of the sea.

In subsequent years his brushstrokes became larger, he painted nature and made use of toys he described as «archetypes of the human figure».

The metallic surfaces of the large paintings, in part mimetically related to the play of light on the ocean at midday, join such innovations as the use of spray paint to create atmospheric layers of transparent color over color and the use of mylar and networks of tape to form geometric figures.

Siskin and Fly are continuations, on a more intimate scale, of her recent large paintings inspired by English birds, in which she gives her human figures feathered collars but few other defining accessories.

Rothko, a contemporary of Jackson Pollock and a major figure in abstract expressionism (though he personally loathed the term), produced 40 large format paintings in shades of dark red, brown and black for the Seagram commission.

Filipe Rocha da Silva is a Portuguese artist who builds large paintings depicting extremely small, almost invisible figures.

David Lewis, who oversees a large, pristine and hip gallery on the Lower East Side, is working with the Souls Grown Deep Foundation on a show of the work of Thornton Dial, a towering figure among outsiders of the South, known for his startlingly rough - hewed paintings whose surfaces can include basically anything: rugs, tree branches and wire.

Two large - scale paintings depict a figure almost completely obscured by foliage, which gives the impression of something glimpsed in a dream or recreated from a lost source.

Filipe Rocha da Silva creates very large paintings depicting extremely small, almost invisible figures.

Fox was well known for his intimist figure and landscape paintings when in 1972 he began to paint large abstract works influenced more by European and American modernism than by a Québec sensibility.

In 1958 I finally found a large enough apartment on the Lower East Side, where I reverted to figure painting.

The large paintings, a continuation of the artist's latest «Wrestler» series, feature muscular male figures in acrobatic stances against bright backdrops dotted with a curious dog here or an ominous swarm of black birds there.

In Bischoff's earliest non-representational paintings the abstract shapes are large, still deriving from figures against a background; gradually, the shapes have become smaller and more fragmented.

FILIPE ROCHA DA SILVA is a Portuguese artist who builds large paintings depicting extremely small, almost invisible figures.

Through more than 50 carefully selected works — most of which are large - format, monumental paintings — the exhibition explores the push and pull of these two remarkable figures.

I guess the idea of painting that view also came from painting some of the large ruins in Rome with the inevitably small figures next to them.

The rosy pink color that dominates the Bortolami show's eight paintings — four large seasonal scenes of defiantly numinous figures, Dionysian grapes, leafy curlicues and metallic silver daubs; three other large paintings; and one modestly sized portrait of a naked cat, facing away from the viewer into a stoically indifferent opacity, its body like a chicken's carcass, its red tail like a snake charmer's cobra, poised to strike — brings to mind the mysterious pink lasers that transmit divine messages in Philip K. Dick's novel VALIS.