Sentences with phrase «less history paintings»

For Motherwell, they are less history paintings and more memorials.

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She paints a vivid of picture of women both more privileged and less happy than at any time in history and of men absolved of all responsibility by the sexual revolution but also stunted, trapped in a perpetual adolescence.

Laid out according to subject rather than chronology, the effect is that of a forensic case study, tracing a path from the everyday objects she called her «models» to her «portraits» — incisive studies she made across media — to her paintings, where the original subject is less abstracted than obscured by the history of her experimentation and transformations.»

Varejão reveals the inspirations behind the works as she leafs through paintings by Llyn Foulkes, famous portraits of Native Americans by George Catlin, lesser - known paintings of McKenney and Hall's History of the Indian Tribes of North America, and images of iconic abstract paintings.

With their human scale, de Kooning's paintings fit in, more or less, anywhere into the history of art.

History painting and portraits by the celebrated artists of the day sat just above eye level, with smaller pieces below and others by lesser - known artists «skied» above.

If Marshall's work considers the erasures of history, Casteel's is very much set in the present tense (though her paintings are less a literal transcription of real life than they may seem: «I like to think of them as being able to wobble in and out of these flat and hyperrealistic spaces»).

It's tiny, just a single room with less than a dozen paintings in it, but it tells us more about Riley and her place in art history than any interview ever could.

Also on display are Lichtenstein's artistic explorations depicting landscapes, mirrors and so - called «perfect» and «imperfect» paintings, as well as works which highlight Lichtenstein's engagement with art history, revealing his lesser - known responses to Futurism, Surrealism and German Expressionism.

In countries where institutional support of history painting was less dominant, the transition from existing traditions of genre painting to Realism presented no such schism.

This is to say that Poons has become less intent in his ongoing desire to harness the look of a surface or to take on the toil of the ages insofar as the history of recent painting exists.

While Jansen's large, epic, contemporary history paintings are dazzling tours de force, his smaller canvases are more personal and less rhetorical, and frequently reminiscent of Francis Bacon and Llyn Foulkes.

We have selected not only significant portraits but lesser known «fancy pictures» and a rare history painting, all of which will be shown side by side.

But in Quest (Higgs Boson) 1, Glean 1, and the series A Brief History of Demise, the jittery progressions of vertically parallel lines — strips of paper and cellophane painted shades of blue and white — seem less representative of hard - core quantum mechanics than they do of simple bliss.

«Still life painting has traditionally been regarded as a «lesser art» when compared to the loftier subjects of religious and history painting, landscape, and portraiture,» according to Alicia Longwell.

When Johann Wilhelm Schirmer was appointed director of the arts academy and the history painter Carl Friedrich Lessing appointed director of the Kunsthalle as successor to Frommel, history and landscape paintings tended to dominate among the new acquisitions in the years after 1858.

Their resemblance to some of Gerhard Richter's early paintings, and to the more current efforts of John Zinsser and Stephen Ellis, is startling, and a reminder that history is less single and linear than multiple and circular.

Marc Selwyn Fine Art is pleased to present an exhibition of reliefs, paperfolds and paintings by Eleanore Mikus (1927 — 2017), a seminal but until now lesser known figure in the history of minimalist and monochromatic painting.

Furthermore, in Leong's paintings the landscape can be understood less as a definitive backdrop than a fluctuating environment in relation to subjects that are imbued with their own histories.

It thus allows us to gain a perspective on the important reception of painting in the 1980s, and on a no less important chapter in the history of the Neue Galerie Graz, too.

Buchanan's background in the history and techniques of painting and drawing is a strong influence on her visual form, making her video pieces less cinematic and more spatially related to painting.

Unfortunately, the inspirational power of an abstract painting is typically far less than that of a figurative hero caught up in a dramatic moment of history.

Perhaps because the cataclysmic events of the early and mid-twentieth century destroyed so many value systems, and blurred the difference between good and evil, this period paid less attention to the difference between the painting genres, and stopped giving special status to history painting.

This exhibition presents a vital yet lesser - known history of abstract painting in New England by showcasing the work of women painters with strong connections to the region.

History Painting Much less popular than landscape painting and portraiture, the tradition of history painting in America was carried on by the German - American painter Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze (1816 - 68) who is best remembered for his masterpiece Washington Crossing the DeHistory Painting Much less popular than landscape painting and portraiture, the tradition of history painting in America was carried on by the German - American painter Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze (1816 - 68) who is best remembered for his masterpiece Washington Crossing the DPainting Much less popular than landscape painting and portraiture, the tradition of history painting in America was carried on by the German - American painter Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze (1816 - 68) who is best remembered for his masterpiece Washington Crossing the Dpainting and portraiture, the tradition of history painting in America was carried on by the German - American painter Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze (1816 - 68) who is best remembered for his masterpiece Washington Crossing the Dehistory painting in America was carried on by the German - American painter Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze (1816 - 68) who is best remembered for his masterpiece Washington Crossing the Dpainting in America was carried on by the German - American painter Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze (1816 - 68) who is best remembered for his masterpiece Washington Crossing the Delaware.

Mosset's work looks much less zany than Lasker's, but again this is painting which is suspicious of itself: art which is not unbound but bound up with the history of art, and which seems both more disillusioned and worldly than its sources.

The exhibition's final room presents for the first time all eight of his less well known, late industrial panoramas, where a leap up to «history painting» size indicates the measure of his final ambition.

It includes her 1984 work Freedom And Change, which reimagines Picasso's Two Women Running On The Beach, as well as lesser - seen paintings that range across history with a great sense of wit and provocation.