Sentences with phrase «like classical paintings»

It's like a classical painting.

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Gucci's Creative Director Alessandro Michele, Lana del Ray and Jared Leto looked like they stepped out of a classical painting in complementary custom Gucci outfits.

Chilean - born Ruiz is a director whose love of storytelling and narrative play is often more engaging than the films themselves but with Mysteries of Lisbon, an epic based on a classic Portuguese novel (one yet untranslated into English), his engagement with the characters and their defining stories guides his direction, and his graceful camerawork and unerring eye for images both classical (like paintings in a cinematic frame) and fluid (his camera moves with purpose and grace) are in the service of the trajectories of the characters.

Like the richest classical paintings, these 26 short stories explore the surprises and beauty of the natural world.

HH: My worst nightmare is a Will Cotton painting showing femininity in some way, but I think somehow John Currin plays with these classical female forms and I'm attracted to those paintings, so I feel like, how do I react to the representation of that?

It may seem like an unusual choice for a sculptor known for working with classical materials, but in Atchugarry's hands, the vibrant paint adds bold energy to a modern aesthetic.

Anderson's films are almost like classical [Jacques - Louis] David paintings — like The Oath of the Horatii.

With a remarkable technique, John Currin depicts women that often look like the subjects of classical paintings, yet have odd proportions, perhaps like caricatures, that take you by surprise yet make you not be able to look away.

Trained in East Germany in the classical art of realist painting, Richter's images have the quiet stillness of European masterworks, taking in genres such as the still life, landscape and portraiture, but of contemporary subjects that are often rendered like a slightly out of focus photograph.

We'd like to highlight one lot from Sotheby's sale of Fine Classical Chinese Paintings and Calligraphy.

The work is as calm and classical as his many of his early paintings were stormy and scatological: a listing of Hellenic sculptors against a deep blue background with planet - like discs.

The media of the show is diverse, ranging from classical modes like painting and sculpture, to experimental video and animation, and using the tropes of science fiction including dystopia, cosmology, and fantasy to restructure narratives and create alternate realities.

Maggi Hambling grapples with war, Jo Baer's dream - like paintings and a rethinking of classical art

Although focused on classical drawing and painting, she soon began dabbling in more abstracted works, clearly influenced by the likes of Willem de Kooning, Egon Schiele and Robert Rauschenberg whom she came to know briefly in his later years.

The exhibition includes all the media, i.e.: classical media like painting and sculpture, as well as computer - assisted media installations and sound art.»

Tiny figures wander through the detritus, like the tourists and gypsies in paintings of classical or Gothic ruins by Hubert Robert and Caspar David Friedrich.

He is most well known for his large paintings populated with scribbled marks, calligraphic or graffiti - like words, letters, numbers, and references to Classical culture.

Even more interesting, rounding out the works for The Road are a series of pieces re-appropriating classical Christian paintings like The Annunciation except the main characters are missing leaving empty structures and buildings.

His interest in the heritage of art is immense — from the Paleolithic cave paintings of Africa through the ancient Greeks and Romans to the glories of the Italian Renaissance, he calls on his classical birthright for inspiration (including his Madonna's Raphael - like blue robe).

Half Gallery has a selection of paintings by Genieve Figgis on view, all of which look like someone's taken a classical figurative painting, held a candle to it, swirled the paint around, and repainted the figures to look creepy and sad — a successful exercise in enlivening history.

Combining oil painting and textile collage, the colour palette is very much inspired by a 19th century approach, with Fritz Bornstück working like an impressionist in the field, while at the same time turning the works around to pull them in a decidedly more contemporary direction, inflicting contrasting architecture and items on the classical compositions.

Thus an almost entirely abstract painting like Stil (Style)(1977) hangs adjacent to one of Lüpertz's reworkings of a classical subject, Satyr + Nymphe II (Satyr + Nymph II)(2014); and one of his many portrayals of the human back, Nacht (Night)(2013) hangs next to a painterly treatment of building materials, Holzschindeln — dithyrambisch (Wood Shingles — Dithyrambic)(1966).

«Homer Was Swept Away» shows a classical Greek painting with heavy water damage in a bent frame, as if it had been swept away in a flood, while «George Washington Eroded» is a portrait of the first president, flaked, peeling and crumbling; it looks like the sort of thing archeologists from the year 3500 would extract from the ruins of what was the United States of America.»

He uses classical techniques, as the oil and acrylic paint, but he often incorporates some different and unusual media, like pencils, pen, paper, markers and spray paint, even gum wrappers, paper towels and baby wipes, reflecting the urban chaos of the world around.

What we call «Modern Art» lasted for an entire century and involved dozens of different art movements, embracing almost everything from pure abstraction to hyperrealism; from anti-art schools like Dada and Fluxus to classical painting and sculpture; from Art Nouveau to Bauhaus and Pop Art.

The more traditional style has been maintained by artists like the Armagh - born Cecil Maguire (b. 1930) and Martin Gale (b. 1949), while the classical style of landscape painting was exemplified by the Waterford and Florentine artist Niccolo D'Ardia Caracciolo (1941 - 1989), and later by Martin Mooney (b. 1960), as well as the Impressionists Norman Teeling (b. 1944) and John Morris (b. 1958), and the Realist / pre-Impressionist Paul Kelly (b. 1968) and Henry McGrane (b. 1969).

His idiom combined «low» art methods (graffiti - like pencil / crayon doodlings; all - over painting technique) with «high» art references to Classical Antiquity (reminiscent of Arte Povera), the Italian Renaissance and French Neoclassicism.

Paul Cezanne - a workaholic and a huge influence on Matisse and Picasso - adapted Impressionism into a means of slow acutely observant painting of familiar scenery, using grid - like structures in an attempt to pursue French Classical painting traditions from outdoors.

Writing for Art in America, artist and critic Carrie Moyer observed, «[Congdon's paintings are] neither history paintings nor landscapes, [but] more like candy - colored billboards advertising a stroll through a scenic archeological dig or a verdant classical garden.»

I like to play with elements of classical painting, but I'm just not interested in making work which is purely «good looking».

An heiress of pathbreaking abstractionists like Lee Krasner and Joan Mitchell, the British painter Cecily Brown updates the idiom of Ab - Ex painting by reaching back farther into history, summoning such figurative touchstones as the harrowing caricatures of Goya and the classical reposes of Poussin and Ingres.

I liked it, but then I started making trompe l'oeil paintings of VHS movie covers and I figured why not try to make some candles in a more classical mode.

Formally, the pieces recall classical sculpture and modernist and Pop Art painting, referencing works by the likes of Matisse, Wassily Kandinsky, Cy Twombly and Andy Warhol.

Compositional formulae using elements like the repoussoir were evolved which remain influential in modern photography and painting, notably by Poussin [18] and Claude Lorrain, both French artists living in 17th century Rome and painting largely classical subject - matter, or Biblical scenes set in the same landscapes.

Given my involvement as a geometric abstract painter over the years, I have indelibly respected and admired Ortman's block - like paintings, each built in a hybrid manner related to a kind of folk constructivism — a way of working that recalls some strains of classical music, such as Bartók and Dvorak, and to a lesser extent, the folk - style sculpture of H. C. Westermann and the faux - systemic paintings of Alfred Jensen recently shown at Pace.

My new paintings have a classical tone of voice, but I believe they feel like now, in a way that's hard to pin down.

Thomasos's training as a classical abstract painter, as an MFA student at Yale and then in her apprentice years in Philadelphia, where she taught at Tyler alongside the established abstractionists Dona Nelson and Stanley Whitney, gave her a fluid confidence with paint, an ability to make a convincing mark, generally a straight, fast line, that could convey decisiveness and sensuality all at once, like the handwriting on a novelist's love - letter.

As dance moved away from the classical forms of ballet and its codified notation system for choreography, dance, like abstract painting, came to emphasise the individual gesture and improvisation.