Sentences with phrase «life paintings such»

In his landscapes, he employed a color palette similar to the one he used for still - life paintings such as frosty lemon yellows, powder blues, bright oranges — you will almost want to pick up a piece of the landscape and bite into it.

Larger - than - life paintings such as The Black Dress (1960), Blue Umbrella (1972), Red Coat (1982) and White Visor (2003) have entered the collective consciousness as the epitome of a particular, late twentieth - century feminine ideal.

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A lot of believers do that, I suspect because it's easier to paint atheists with the same brush than it is to realize that so many people from so many walks of life have found reason to reject the faith you cling to with such desperation.

Art and such intellectual life as existed was nourished in them, and the icons were painted which were means of strengthening the religious life and became prominent in Russian Christianity.

Yet, the «instinct,» if we want to use that word, is of a higher order than mere cravings, which Gopnik glosses over when he compares the impetus to read to our need for clothing and shelter: «there really are no whys to such things, anymore than there are to why we wear clothes or paint good pictures or live in more than hovels and huts or send flowers to our beloved on their birthday.»

New York - based designers Workshop / APD have brought this intriguing vibe to life with the use of natural materials such as weathered brick, oiled steel, and worn concrete, creating a unique 160 - seat dining room joined by a large shipping container set in the middle of the space adorned with hand - painted graffiti - and media - inspired designs by Brooklyn - based artist, Mr. Ewok One.

The researchers are using «big data» concepts and techniques to discover and design new nanomaterials — a priority area under the White House's Materials Genome Initiative — using a methodology that will revolutionize materials design, impacting a broad range of products that affect our daily lives, from drugs and agricultural chemicals such as pesticides or herbicides to fuel additives, paints and varnishes, and even personal care products such as shampoo.

To understand why the long - spined urchins have not returned to the reef more than 30 years later, Scripps scientists Katie Cramer and Dick Norris analyzed the amount of fossilized urchin spines that accumulated in reef sediment layers over the past 3,000 years to paint a picture of life on the reef before it was altered from the disease outbreak and human activities such as fishing and pollution.

For centuries people have painted cities as unnatural human conglomerations, blighted by pathologies such as public health crises, aggression and exorbitant costs of living.

Living in modern industrialized society, we take in toxins from the environment, such as exhaust fumes from passing traffic, pesticides from treated lawns or golf courses, and chemicalssuch as asbestos and lead paint.

such a beautiful place to be., sometimes I feel like I am living inside of a beautiful painting, wherever you look there are breath taking views, like this one!

The painting is such a cheery and fun statement piece and has officially pulled our living room together.

You may remember some of the «pops» of color I've incorporated into my living room space, such as my lamps, new pillows and painted accessories.

She does this while using eco-friendly products such as wallpaper made from 50 % recycled fibres and salvaged chairs found online which find new life with a fresh coat of paint and upholstery.

The performances from Hawkins and Ethan Hawke are interesting, although I had a hard time imagining Hawke's real life fishmongering counterpart being such an abusive sperg to an arthritic little lady who just likes to paint flowers and other rustic miscellany.

Instead, this movie paints a picture of Huck's life where he is wearing out his welcome with friends who are tired of being asked for hand - outs, enduring threats for not paying overdue debts (which include rough - handling resulting in a scraped up face) and surrounded by other uncontrollable gamblers (such as a man who takes a bet to have breast implant surgery done and live with the physical alteration to his physique for six months).

Although some of the imagery, beautifully captured by cinematographer Caroline Champetier, derives directly from the paintings of Jean - François Millet and the work of such filmmakers as Marcel Pagnol and Jean Renoir, I never felt as if he was aestheticizing the arduousness of the life put before us.

That said, as an immigrant living in the US, I don't feel that the filmmaker are painting the soldiers or even Maya as heroes though, it could've easily been done in such a manner.

«Kim Haynes, a K - 12 teacher and freelance writer, directs students to make collages that represent concepts, such as a biological life cycle,» writes Todd Finley (@finleyt); «Bates Middle School, in Annapolis, teaches velocity and acceleration in 8th grade science by having students reflect on paintings that depict battling ships being fired upon by cannons.»

The 3 megapixel camera on the back is a little slower than we'd like to focus and to adjust the white balance (indoors we saw a yellow cast until the automatic adjustments kicked in) and with such a large image to paint on - screen, live preview can show a clear lag if you move the tab around.

- Water sports including - Water polo, water aerobics, ocean kayaking, paddle boating, boogie boarding and windsurfing - Daily scheduled yoga classes (60 min)- A range of lifestyle classes such as cooking and painting (60 min)- Evening entertainment including live music and traditional dance - Games lounge with billiards, table tennis, air hockey, video games - Full access to the fitness centre - Themed buffet dinners with a cultural show - Selection of welcome drinks, fruit basket, cold towel, hotel souvenir, private check - in and welcome briefing - Wide selection of beverages included between 11:00 am — Midnight (discount on other beverages including Champagne and imported wines)- Extended check out until 2:00 pm

There are two parts to this chateau, a fortress dating from the 13th century, dominated by an octagonal living area and a Renaissance castle (the room designed by Jacquet Montbron) with richly furnished rooms such as the «golden sumptuous lounge with a beautiful painted ceiling.

Blackham paints simple still life compositions of solitary subjects, such as a blue marble or a glass of water.

Head to Pretzel Park near the bottom of the steep streets of Manayunk on October 14 for the Manayunk Harvest Festival, complete with live music like local favorite Ben Arnold, food, shopping and activities such as a fun run, community mural, pumpkin carving and peanut butter face painting.

Whether you choose to take part in activities such as whitewater rafting, painting and carving, yoga or mountain biking or just relax around the villa and wander into the padi fields and woods for a stroll, it is impossible not to slow right down to the Balinese pace of life here where tranquil bliss surrounds you.

In recent years, the company has diversified and now represents properties such as the trend apparel and accessory brands, «David & Goliath»; the publicly displayed, life - sized art sculptures «GuitarMania» and «The Trail of Painted Ponies»; the conscientious - living brand, «MUTTS»; and «SeeMore's Playhouse,» the multi-Emmy ® Award - winning children's safety and wellness series for public television.

Now on Earth, Atlas is walking through notable periods of time, meeting various historical and mythological figures, all of whom have been depicted (in real life) in paintings and other works of art, such as statues or books — from the likes of Henry VIII, to Medusa, to William Wallace and a demon that blew up Mount Vesuvius.

I will be taking hints from a range of artists, such as Gauguin and Picasso, but paying particular attention to this still life painted by Cezanne, «Still Life with Fruit Bowl&raqlife painted by Cezanne, «Still Life with Fruit Bowl&raqLife with Fruit Bowl».

Discover how to capture elements and textures common to many still life paintings, such as a bottle, wine glass, flowers and fruit, in this watercolour class with Siân Dudley.

Jenny Holzer Jenny Holzer's concise, often enigmatic, writings infiltrate public life and consciousness through everyday objects such as t - shirts, posters, LED signs, and benches, as well as her paintings and sculpture.

Looking at the painted figures offers a tour through artistic life in the 20th century; one encounters artists such as Andy Warhol and Robert Smithson, and Metropolitan Museum conservator Henry Geldzahler.

The death of painting may not be such a bad thing, especially with so many good living abstract painters.

During the 1930s, Graham continued to push abstraction with still life paintings that employed a minimum of color and linear forms with titles that affirmed his commitment to the style, such as Red Square, 1934, and Abstract Composition, 1941.

Her reading of Henri Bergson's theory of «living energy» is demonstrated in her paintings with active forms covering the entire picture plane, as she «believes in the interconnected nature of all living things...» [1] As such, she was among the early practitioners of the «all - over» painting style along with Jackson Pollock.

Still life painting had a long history of providing decorative details to a home and since a new class of bourgeois with new money had been gaining more status in society, there was a surge in the interest of interior decoration and pictures such as those provided by these artists satisfied their desire for a unified and beautiful interior decorating scheme.

It includes an essay by David Rhodes that places Lawlor's work alongside still living but older European painters such as Per Kirkeby, Howard Hodgkins, and Pierre Soulage, and more directly compares Lawlor's paintings to Willem de Kooning's works from the 1980s.

American painter Mark Bradford has moved away from paint itself and uses materials such as liquefied paper in his work, material that «has something to do with the social fabric of the times we live in, and not just to do with the history of art.»

This leads to my next question, which is, does having a deep personal connection to a place, such as in Umbria or Troy, NY is essential to the life or success of your painting?

After decades of success painting still lifes of fruit and flowers — with the support of patrons such as Samuel Clemens and Frederic Edwin Church — Porter died in poverty and obscurity.

As such, the gusto of More at Mrs. Gallery in Maspeth, Queens — a two - person show featuring paintings by Sarah Bedford and Tracy Miller — is at once daring and sweet, both a refreshing revitalization of the still life as subject matter, and a cheery antidote to the doldrums of so many other painting trends.

Composed of 25 works, which include paintings, sculpture, prints, works with paper, and installations, the exhibition explores a range of issues that have occupied Grabner since she started her creative career, such as the history of painting in relation to the present, the relationship of centre to periphery, the significance of routine in life and in art, and the integration of work into family life and vice versa.

The exhibition rewards a bit of work at the gallery, such as climbing the stairs toward the second floor for a better view in the stairwell of Blue Blush, a horizontal work that reads more as a still life than the figural suggestion of the vertical paintings.

Virtually gone were fragile materials and unstable surfaces — the coffee, chocolate, feathers, blood, ashes and living plants that have been plaguing museum curators — though brilliantly executed exceptions, such as the collaged paintings Egan Frantz builds up from toilet paper traversed by blue - painted bicycle treads at the Michael Jon Art Nova space, sold out.

Your contemporary paintings are so vibrant with such an immediate attraction, and the intensity that each painting owns, triggers so much energy and life when observing them.

Beginning with pages ripped from LOVE, The WILD, Wonderland, and other such publications, these paintings prompt us to consider the relationship between these glossy images and the degree of veneer in our own lives.

Although the 2012 retrospective at Tate Modern was rapturously received, bringing with it a renewed reminder of the power of early works such as The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living and Mother and Child, Divided, recent exhibitions have been panned — Schizophrenogenesis was condemned for coasting on past glory, while 2012's painting - focused Two Weeks, One Summer received scathing one - star reviews — and there is a nagging sense that these days his art can resemble a factory production line, with endless copies of his popular «spot» paintings churned out in the name of brand recognition.

At the National Gallery Dean will present historical paintings, such as Zurburan's A Cup of Water and a Rose alongside still life works either by Dean or her contemporaries including Roni Horn, Wolfgang Tillmans and Thomas Demand.

There, there were a few memorable highlights, such as mirror paintings by Michelangelo Pistoletto from the 1970s and 80s, shown by the Repetto Gallery; striking portraits and still - lifes by Wayne Thiebaud, shown by Allan Stone Projects; small paintings by Gerhard Richter and Alexej von Jawlensky in the Galerie Ludorff's booth; and Yayoi Kusama's glittering collages, reminiscent of precious stones, shown by Omer Tiroche Gallery.

Previous influential works by their peers and predecessors are also featured, such as examples from Yves Klein's Anthropométrie, which uses the naked female body as a living paint brush, and Andy Warhol's invocation of automatic movement and action through his series of Dance Diagrams.

Some of Lichenstein's greatest works evolved from imagery drawn from popular culture: advertising images, war - time comics, and pin - up portraits, as well as traditional painting genres such as landscapes, still lifes, and interiors.