Sentences with phrase «lush landscape paintings»

Matthew Connors captures historic uprisings that speak to the interests of an artist rather than a reporter, as Lisa Sanditz's lush landscape paintings reveal environmental crisis created by endless consumption and misuse.

This led him to make exquisite portraits, lush landscape paintings, everyday domestic interiors, and paintings that depict historical events, all featuring black subjects as if their activities were completely and utterly normal.

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She painted a detailed landscape so lush and dense making me feel I was thrust alive inside this horrific world.

Hurvin Anderson is «best known for evocative paintings of lush landscapes and urban barbershops that explore themes of memory, place, and the indelible connection between the two.»

Mickalene Thomas's rhinestone - embellished, mixed - media paintings depict powerful black women against culturally rich backgrounds and also capture textured, enviable interiors and lush landscapes.

For the current exhibition at Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills, Alex Israel and Bret Easton Ellis, Israel has collaborated with the celebrated author to create text paintings — fragmented narrative combined with lush stock imagery — that mine their native landscape.

The lush mélanges of color, pattern, and texture within the paintings of Shara Hughes (b. 1981, Atlanta, GA) come together to form fictional yet evocative landscapes.

April Gornik, known for her large and colorful landscape painting (an example of which can be seen in Gallery 6, American Views), deftly uses the medium of charcoal to attain lush impressions of water and trees.

Exceptional examples include a late eighteenth - century portrait by the New England artist John Brewster, Jr.; a lush, highly detailed nineteenth - century still life by Severin Roesen, a German - born artist based in Williamsport in the 1860s; exquisite nineteenth - century landscapes by William Sonntag, John Kensett, and William Trost Richards; and an impressive range of twentieth - century paintings and sculptures by artists, including Marsden Hartley, Richard Diebenkorn, Red Grooms, and Marisol.

Exploring the artist's immersion in the Hawaiian Islands in 1939, this fine art exhibition will feature a lush flower show evoking the Hawaiian gardens and landscapes that inspired O'Keeffe, and more than 15 of her paintings not seen together in New York since their 1940 debut.

October 15 Julie Heffernan is known for her lush and sensuous large - scale figurative (and still life) paintings that at first glance seem to have stepped out of either the Italian or Spanish Renaissance or 17th century Dutch genre still - life or grand manner landscape painting.

In her late work, she painted lush, rainbow - colored landscapes of yearning, in which people — complying with the ideals of the hippie era — are depicted indulging in acts of free love.

Charterhouse This painting captures a glimpse of the the lush landscapes in Mauritius inspired by a visit there a couple of years ago.

Inspired by the lush landscape of her surroundings, these paintings — composed of layers of dye, applied in washes, and intended to be used in set designs for a friend's band — permit the Brooklyn - based artist to transfer her sculptural dexterity to two dimensions while escaping the pressures of producing work for display in galleries.

There are paintings of patiently palette - knifed landscapes with fantastic, Solomonic temples in walled cities, a seascape or two, some imaginative female nudes that are both lush and fluid (cousins to Niki de Saint Phalle's Nanas, Picasso's extrapolations of Marie - Thérèse, and Chagall's airborne brides), several cursive abstractions of curves and circles moving in a similar fluid velocity to the nudes.

Opening Ceremony March 16, 2012 Hernan Bas at Lehmann Maupin By Sofia Cavallo ¬ What the devil are Hernan Bas» lush, painted magical landscapes, currently up at Lehmann Maupin gallery, all about?

But in the late 1970s, he bravely returned to painting with renewed intensity, creating dream - like landscapes and portraits in lush, sumptuous colors.

A New Orleans native, Dunbar studied in Philadelphia and New York before returning to Louisiana in the 1950s to create paintings, sculptures, assemblages, and prints that marry the stark geometry of modern art with lush, elemental materials like clay and gold leaf that call forth Louisiana's distinctive local landscape.

Like many of the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists, Mitchell was fascinated by the French countryside and the lush landscape of Vétheuil featured prominently in her late paintings.

His paintings — depicting lush and evocative landscapes populated by figures and animals — are as much about colour, the slippery nature of memory and the visual pleasure of painterly mark - marking as they are about their often enigmatic subjects.

Mamma Andersson's paintings welcome us into comfortable domestic interiors, lush landscapes, and cozy genre scenes just enough to allow their otherworldly air to take hold.

It illuminates the artist's wide - ranging representations of the state throughout his career, from early lush, Post-Impressionist mountain landscapes to glass paintings done at the Ogunquit art colony to canvases painted from memory while abroad to late, roughly rendered images of the rugged coastline, magisterial Mount Katahdin, and hardy people.

John Laub's landscape paintings are immersive environments of lush forests, winding pathways, and sun - soaked beaches.

Each painting depicts a lush landscape that's visible only through the narrow «window» of a single, unpainted swipe in the shape of a brushstroke.

His lush paintings of cakes and pies, as well as landscapes and figures, have made him one of the most acclaimed American artists of the last 50 years.

Invoking the exquisite landscape paintings of the Song dynasty (960-1279 A.D.), he rendered in watercolors and pastels a series of nature scenes that were moody, lyrical and atmospheric, at once lush and spare.

Jorro, Portuguese for a spurt or stream, depicts a muddied fountain that vacillates between water feature and tree with the haze and fog of a lush forested landscape sublimated in paint.

Melding the artistic traditions of Color Field and Minimalism, Laura Owens creates a lush landscape, replete with energy and whimsy, that emphasizes the delicacy and precision of her painting style.

Over the years, Alejandro's early geometric paintings have evolved into lush tropical landscapes; noted Cuban writer Antonio José Ponte called him «an artist of the terrible, of mystery.»

While never specifically addressing Dutch landscape painting in his previous films, Herzog has long explored landscapes, from the lush Peruvian jungle of Fitzcarraldo (1982) to the verdant, springtime meadows of Alaska in Grizzly Man (2005).

British artist Hurvin Anderson is internationally renowned for his vibrant paintings of urban barbershops and lush Caribbean landscapes.

For the next five decades, looking out onto lush marshes and farms, Freilicher objectively chronicled the changes on the East End of Long Island in works including Landscape with Construction Site (2001) and The Changing Scene (1981), in which she inserts into the painting a sliver of herself, drawing back the curtains to reveal a landscape transformed by rampant development.

In early landscape paintings from the 1930s, small representations of trees, hillsides and valleys emphasize the acrid and dry, forsaking the lush and verdant.

The thirteen paintings and one diptych, most intimately sized but some of epic dimensions, in Hurvin Anderson's first New York solo gallery exhibition can be classified as landscapes: They picture the lush, equatorial scenery of Trinidad, where the London - based artist spent some time a few years ago.

Among the artists who have found inspiration in the area's lush landscape are Winslow Homer, who painted there throughout his life and lived in a local lighthouse; Edward Hopper, who worked out of the fishing village in the 1920s; as well as Marsden Hartley, Stuart Davis, Mark Rothko, and Milton Avery.

She's looking at a bright view of the world and digesting a range of sources: from Gustave Courbet's corporeal paintings to David Hockney's prismatic interiors and landscapes to Romare Bearden's collaged images of urban life to Carrie Mae Weems's stark portraits of African - Americans to the innovative compositions of Edouard Manet to the lush set designs of Malinese portrait photographers Seydou Keïta and Malick Sidibé.

The paintings, with those gorgeous blends of thinned - out colors, often suggested lush Chinese landscapes, while the complex woodcuts were dream - state visions, their rich imagery blurred behind the prominent scrim - like grain.

The diverse body of paintings includes cool - toned studies of lush flora, complemented by fiery views of banana leaf trees, and a sleek spaceship - like heater that conjures some otherworldly landscape out of a science fiction novel.

A tribute to the painter Alice Neel, Vita evidences Joffe's interest in painting portraits of young, female characters, cast in vibrant hues and set against lush landscapes.

This exhibition will explore Marsden Hartley's complex, sometimes contradictory, and visually arresting relationship with his native state — from the lush Post-Impressionist inland landscapes with which he launched his career, to the later roughly rendered paintings of Maine's rugged coastal terrain, its hardy inhabitants, and the magisterial Mount Katahdin.