Sentences with phrase «large photorealist»

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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.

In the early 1960s, Richter began to create large - scale photorealist copies of black - and - white photographs rendered in a range of grays, and innovated a blurred effect (sometimes deemed «photographic impressionism») in which portions of his compositions appear smeared or softened — paradoxically reproducing photographic effects and revealing his painterly hand.

His just opened show at Mark Moore Gallery includes stunning examples of his large - scale photorealist / abstract images, as well as a new series of small - scale works made with some interesting materials.

Charles Bell was an American Photorealist and Hyperrealist painter, known for his large scale still lifes arranged in imaginary scenes and dynamic compositions.

The artist frequently works from gridded photographic stills, using the principles of pixilation to create large - scale monochrome and color paintings that range from photorealist to mildly psychedelic.

A large portrait of the former Director of the NPG Sandy Nairne by the US Photorealist artist Chuck Close has been unveiled.

In the early 1960s, Richter began to create large - scale photorealist copies of black - and - white photographs rendered in a range of grays, and innovated a blurred effect (sometimes deemed «photographic impressionism») in which portions of his compositions appear smeared or softened - paradoxically reproducing photographic effects and revealing his painterly hand.

Providing contrast to the large - scale paintings are small watercolor or acrylic on paper works that reveal a new viewpoint on the Photorealist creative approach.

«Artists for Haiti» also includes one gallery devoted exclusively to works on paper, such as a small drawing by Elizabeth Peyton of rap - star Jay - Z and a large self - portrait print by preeminent Photorealist Chuck Close.

A pioneer in the SoHo art scene of the 1960s and one of the leaders of the Photorealist movement of the 1970s, he is best known for his gorgeous still lifes of flowers - large, arresting canvases that explore the artist's dream world.

Individual rooms feature 24 hard - edge abstract paintings, drawings and reliefs by Ellsworth Kelly; 18 figurative and abstract paintings by Gerhard Richter; 14 silkscreens on canvas by Andy Warhol (most from the crucial 1960s); 11 Photorealist artist portraits in various media by Chuck Close; seven Agnes Martin grid and stripe paintings (installed in a heptagon - shaped room, recalling the sublime space at the Harwood Museum in Taos, N.M., where the artist once lived); five geometrically ordered Minimalist sculptures by Carl Andre; and five monumental mixed - media paintings of a decaying German mythos by Anselm Kiefer (plus one large model airplane in lead, an emphatically heavier - than - air machine conjuring the cruel historical weight of the failed Luftwaffe and its celebrated pilot artist, Joseph Beuys).

Louis K. Meisel, [15] two years later, developed a five - point definition at the request of Stuart M. Speiser, who had commissioned a large collection of works by the Photorealists, which later developed into a traveling show known as «Photo - Realism 1973: The Stuart M. Speiser Collection», which was donated to the Smithsonian in 1978 and is shown in several of its museums as well as traveling under the auspices of SITE.

Relying on the found object, Richter started to create large - scale photorealist copies of black and white photography which he rendered in a range of grays with a characteristic blurred effect.

Partygoers included everyday art lovers, deep - pocket patrons and VIPs, including photorealist Chuck Close, who called the 460,000 - square - foot space, now America's largest contemporary art museum, wonderful; Peter Boris, executive vice president of Pace Gallery in New York, who deemed it not only staggering but also a treasure that «elevates the museum to an entirely new level of importance»; and financial mogul Charles Schwab, chairman of the museum's board of trustees, who said simply, «It's a wow — a major wow.»