As part of this special event, Rebecca Hossack Gallery is excited to announce that Emma Hack will showcase
a live painted subject in the gallery.
Not exact matches
Over the years, he built one of the most beautiful gardens in the World, which became the main
subject for his
paintings in the latter part of his
life.
Portugal About Blog Lena Rivo uses color, value and composition to explore mood and emotion in her
paintings and enjoys
painting a variety of
subjects including landscape, still
life and figures, both in the studio and outdoor on location.
Disco and Atomic War (In Russian, English, Estonian and Finnish with subtitles) Cold War Era mockumentary
painting a humorous picture of what
life was like behind the Iron Curtain for citizens of Estonia being constantly
subjected to Communist propaganda.
What did work and showed the potential the film had if it could get away from the conventional treatment of its
subject, was the extraneous artistic shots of Frida's
paintings brought to
life in a surreal manner ala MTV filming techniques.
Positioned as a kind of educational thriller, Loving Vincent follows Armand Roulin (one of van Gogh's many
subjects) as he unravels the circumstances that led to the young artist's suicide, spotlighting details of his
life, and meeting many of the people who would inspire his
paintings, along the away.
As directors Rybicky and Wickendon unravel Peter Anton's past, they allow themselves to become vulnerable to the audience as well, thus
painting a complex portrait of the relationship between filmmaker and
subject, art and
life, and the joy of coming up from being down.»
A new animated feature chronicling the
life and career of Vincent Van Gogh seeks to emulate its
subject's style by being comprised solely of oil
paintings on canvas, making it the world's first fully
painted production.
Among the
subjects reported on are a blindfolded performance artist who head - butts a stone aqueduct in the nude, a pre-teen girl who per her parent's demands throws a tantrum with
paint cans on canvas to much admiration and attention, and a man who has had his picture taken every day of his
life.
Taking on the considerable task of directing, writing and starring in his film, Everett lavishes great care on a
subject he clearly holds in high esteem, and to his credit, does not shy away from
painting a less - than - glamorous portrait of an aging Wilde, syphilitic and lecherous as he
lives out his exile in Europe following his scandalous imprisonment for gross indecency.
Walker talks about how weird it felt to be criticized by a college professor for
painting a still
life instead of a
subject reflecting the black experience.
In his quotes Munch described how these early
life experiences from his youth has influenced his
painting and print art very strongly; the became an enduring
subject of his art.
A Piece of The World tells the back story of the
subject of artist Andrew Wyeth's most famous
painting, Christina's World - Christina Olson of rural Cushing, Maine, a severely crippled woman who still leads a brave, productive
life.
I know the film industry takes flak for being romantically inclined to
paint everyday
life in nearly every
subject they choose to characterize in motion picture,... but personally, one of the reasons I appreciate films so very much, is the brief escape of the woes that might greet you in
life to parlay for a few moments into someone else's shoes and to learn about someone else's
life if only for that brief period of time.
But a visit from a dangerous stranger, who looks uncannily like a
subject in one of Derek's older
paintings, leads the young artist to a place where the line between
life and art seems not to exist at all.
Suffolk, England About Blog Roy work exclusively in oils,
painting from
life by the direct observation of my
subject.
Blackham
paints simple still
life compositions of solitary
subjects, such as a blue marble or a glass of water.
After all, if ghosts (and people) can be trapped in pictures, and if a magic ghost artist can bring his work to
life... it seems logical enough a magical being can bring the
subjects of every single
painting they see to
life!
These deeply personal emotions I have toward these objects... breathe
life into them as the
subjects of my
paintings.»
I am an Irish artist
living near the north Antrim coast which gives me most of my imagery for painting.Big skies, dark seas and seabirds are my fovourite
subjects, although I do occasionally break away to
paint in Connemara and France.
Taipei - based artist Shih Yung - Chun
paints scenes from everyday
life, taking inspiration from hundreds of photographs, but there's an element of the bizarre in all his crafted narratives — his
subjects always seem to occupy themselves with strange activities.
This principle applies whether it is a landscape, a still
life, figure
painting, portrait or indeed any
subject.
How does the history of still
life painting affect your choice of
subject matter?
Portraiture was Neel's preferred
subject, but she also created still
life and landscape
paintings.
The visually exciting
paintings reflect the emotional and dramatic
life of the painter, and therefore the
subject, at various points in time.
Leading up to his two exhibitions later this autumn at David Zwirner's gallery spaces in London (October 5 — November 17) and New York (November 1 — December 19), I discussed with Tuymans a number of
subjects that come out of his two new bodies of work, including the questions they raise around the romanticized
life of artists, the recurring issue of otherness in his work, and how a talking parrot in a charmingly ramshackle tapas bar close to his studio inspired the title for a series of new
paintings.
Terry believes that Bourton - on - the - Water in the Cotswolds is a fabulous place to
live, as he is surrounded by beautiful
subjects to
paint and that as he and his wife Fiona are both Artists, they are very happy to be there.
Whether you
paint the archival photo, crop marks and background and all, in a meta - Richterian gesture, or just try your darnedest to bring their destroyed,
painted subjects back to
life, I'll have to figure out.
The
subject would turn out to be Monet's last confrontation with modernity, before he abandoned the
painting of modern
life, and started to pursue pure landscape
painting.
From pot plants to sail boats, the artist
paints ordinary still
life subjects and sun - soaked landscapes but in a way that makes them current, gliding the brush across the canvas, one line at a time.
Domestic, national, and monothematic
subjects also characterize his
paintings and prints, including surreal images of bicycles, kites, stones, volcanoes, and skyscrapers, as well as multitudes of people playing the «games of
life.»
«Barkley's groundbreaking oeuvre represents everyday people, shining a light on
subjects who weren't typically depicted in
life - sized oil
paintings.
The sculpture is a functioning wind vane and a freestanding portrait of the artist's wife and
life - long muse, Ada, who is the
subject of many of his works, including a
painting in the exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery.
Kerry James Marshall (b. 1955) is known for his large - scale
paintings, sculptures, and other objects that take African - American
life and history as their
subject matter.
Furthermore, she often tackled
subjects that were perceived as «risky» during her lifetime: Neel is known for
painting gay people long before homosexuality was legalised, transvestites, members of the poor, immigrant communities in Spanish Harlem (where she
lived), candid portraits of nursing and pregnant women as well as unflinching male and female nudes.
Neel had a wonderful ability to capture her
subject in a way that gives them
life beyond the
painting.
This selection of
paintings Francis Bacon made in the last fifteen years of his
life (1977 — 1992) shows how, by employing a seemingly narrow range of
subjects, he created an impressive variety of pictures.
During the last four years of his
life Martin was engaged in a trilogy of large
paintings of biblical
subjects: The Last Judgment, The Great Day of His Wrath, and The Plains of Heaven, of which two were bequeathed to Tate Britain in 1974, the other having been acquired for the Tate some years earlier.
There were two important consequences of this shift: the first was that drawing, became crucial to his
painting practice, the second is that geometry itself became, for the rest of his
life, his art's predominant
subject matter.
She has
lived and worked in Brooklyn, New York for more than 25 years, creating spellbinding and psychologically charged
paintings and pastels that explore contentious
subject - matter while affirming the resilience and fierceness of humanity.
Paintings from his most recent series, «Shock and Awe» (2011 - 2012), will be the
subject of a solo show opening in April 2014 at
Life on Mars Gallery, Bushwick.
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.
«I'm an academic realist painter, but I'm
living in the 21st century, so I'm not going to be
painting Roman soldiers invading, or some gothic baroque composition... The highest aspiration of an academic realist painter are these big group figure
paintings, and I'm using the hardcore scene as my
subject.»
The artist does not
paint portraits of real people, rather she depicts people she has conjured up — fully formed
subjects who appear to have complicated, interesting
lives and deep backstories.
The
Subject and Me tells the story of the turbulent events that shaped Alice Neel's
life, through a retrospective of drawings and selection of late
paintings.
Auerbach
paints in the same studio he has occupied since 1954, reputedly working all day, seven days a week, revisiting the inventory of
subject matter he has accumulated from his regular models and his quotidian local
life.
The highly refined execution of still
life paintings, their
subjects and symbolism were clearly addressed to a cultivated audience.
Rashid Rana from Pakistan, represented by Leila Heller Gallery, showed large C - prints of classical
paintings with oriental
subject matter and opulent still -
lives that have been rephotographed, overlaid by a digitally produced grid and partially obscured.
All of Cooke's
subjects stem from real
life — his autobiography,
live models or photographic and literary sources — but metamorphose away from these everyday referents as they become realized in
paint and enmeshed in the landscape of the work.
Neel always worked from
life, completing a
painting over multiple sittings with the
subject.