Sentences with phrase «macabre paintings»

Originally trained as an animator, Allison Schulnik creates ethereally macabre paintings, sculptures and films that evoke a Shakespearian tragedy set in the deepest realms of the forest.

This macabre painting is seething with absurd creatures, conflicts in birdland.

Not exact matches

He did this all while drenched in macabre face paint and a leather arm brace that made him the best Gothic football player of all time.

But a new study published in the journal PLOS ONE paints a warmer, less macabre picture that defies everything researchers know about these creatures.

These included the films of Alfred Hitchcock, Fritz Lang, F.W. Murnau and Walt Disney, as well surrealist painting, the macabre literary works of Edgar Allen Poe and the delirious writings of Thomas De Quincy.

These playful fantasy realms are upon closer inspection macabre theaters of politics and war: watercolor paint bloodies the canvas, and sinister global machinations play out in abstracted landscapes populated by faceless figures and dominated by oil refineries and labyrinthine pipelines.

His bizarre characters evoke a carnival world of surreal nightlife and macabre theatre — monsters that can only live in a painting, or maybe Francis Bacon's Soho.

Returning to the central, almost figural form in the work, its contraposto exposing a skeletal armature that reminded me not only of the macabre Giacometti floor sculpture often called The Rape but of the large grisaille anti-war statement Picasso painted in June and July of 1945, The Charnel House.

In this extract from his new book, Timothy Hyman explores how the visionary Belgian painter remade figurative painting in his own macabre manner.

Through multiple examples of assemblage, painting and lithography, Dark Visions: Mid-Century Macabre illustrates the ways in which artists have portrayed humankind's struggle to come to terms with death and life's evils — whether through catharsis, psychosis, or a portrayal of horrors.

Allison Schulnik uses painting, ceramics, and animation to choreograph her subjects in compositions that embody a spirit of the macabre, a Shakespearean comedy / tragedy of love, death, and farce.

The show will explore the entire scope of the artist's career, including early cartoons and drawings; his macabre, emotionally - charged paintings of the early 1960s; his epic rock and postcard paintings of the late 1960s and early 1970s; his «bloody head» series of mutilated figures from the late 1970s through the present; and his social commentary paintings targeting corporate America, which include his narrative tableaux that combine painting with woodworking, found materials, and thick mounds of modeling paste, seamlessly blended into the painted surface to create a remarkable illusion of depth.

In The marquis and a bearded dominatrix with a cake in the oven, Angelo Filomeno will present new embroidery paintings and sculpture that exemplify his signature technique and fascination with the macabre.

The Complete Spot Paintings instead feels more like a scientific experiment, one of Hirst's macabre vitrine works spun out into real - life testing grounds, intended to divide the camps into those who follow and those who resist.

Themes of macabre mundanity continue in David's Living Room Revisited, 2014, a black - and - scarlet muraled room designed by Kuitca inspired by a drawing David Lynch made for «The Air Is on Fire,» a retrospective of the auteur's paintings, drawings, and photographs organized at the Fondation Cartier in 2007.

His macabre obsession with death and decay evokes the Prague mannerist court of Rudolph II, the bizarre paintings of Arcimboldo who was cherished there, and the modern Czech surrealism of Jan Svankmajer.

Enormous cherry still lifes and loony faces, macabre chorus lines of legs, hapless - looking Ku Klux Klan figures: These paintings deliver a sardonic commentary on art, art - making, politics and life that never goes out of style.

Chris Mars's paintings engross viewers in a dark and macabre world where exaggerated humanoid characters of different colors and sizes find themselves in a dark inferno.

«This tale was the perfect genesis for the beautiful, yet slightly macabre, pieces I wanted to create, and became the jumping off point for this group of paintings.»

Phantoms, skulls, skeletons and other macabre figures populate the paintings, drawings and prints of James Ensor.

He invented new types of painting: allegorical pictures, distinguished by a haunting and melancholy poetry; fanciful portraits of romantic and enigmatic figures; macabre and horrific subjects; philosophical subjects, which bring into painting some of the major philosophical and scientific concerns of his age.

At turns whimsical and macabre, naïve and sophisticated, Wulff's paintings draw the viewer into an imaginary realm diversely marked by distant locales: grassy green knolls, rocky ocean cliffs, and urban sidewalks.

Operating between abstraction and figuration, Minter wrestles with classic modern painting themes, and Impressionism — from Edgar Degas's awkward bathers, Georges Seurat's pointillist nudes, or Pierre Bonnard's macabre bathing nudes.

In using these patterns to define his subject matter, Dodge's paintings are subversively elegant: the shrouded cloths are mysterious and the forms defined by absence, invoking the body with a bit of the macabre.

Columns and reviews Associate editor Pablo Larios writes a fan letter in praise of the late Guy Davenport; Olivia Laing discussed the enduring relevance of Philip Guston's «Klan» paintings amidst recent racial tensions in the US; Krzysztof Kościuczuk observes how «necropolo,» a new genre of macabre, deadpan music in Poland, reflects current political anxieties; Ben Eastham witnesses a revival of state - of - the - nation novels in his review of Virginie Despentes's book trilogy, «Vernon Subutex»; Andrew Mellor surveys the London Sinfonietta, past and present, as it celebrates its 50th anniversary; and Elvia Wilk asks whether live - action role play can help us overcome social obstacles in the art world.

The subject of both this print and the painting it is based on (featured in Miller's 2012 exhibition The Next Life's On Me at White Cube Hoxton Square) Charles Addams, the macabre American cartoonist and notorious womanizer who was best known as the creator of the Addams family stories.

Rubens's macabre Massacre of the Innocents breaks the world auction record for any old master painting, selling at Sotheby's London for # 49.5 million.

Sculptures too, and drawings continue this investigation of the macabre, the carnivalesque and the abject, as well as apparently abstract painting compositions from which the familiar physiognomies of Condo's players emerge and into which they return.

Evolving from visions of macabre hospital scenes depicting human wreckage and paintings of bloody, butchered meat to portraits of stoic, sophisticated figures clad in Western suits and often wearing white masks, Zeng's art often reflects his concentrated exploration of the unconscious.

Perhaps most macabre is Chapman's 3D painting stuck with plastic ears and a finger, while Grayson Perry has dressed up as his mum in his photographic portrait, complete with iron.

The Rabbinical paintings presented in this exhibition, permeated by historical influences ranging from Grünewald and Rembrandt, to Redon and Soutine, to Indian tantric art and Chinese painting, reflect the mystical and macabre with vivid intensity: sordid subjects depicted in sensual, jewel - like colors.

From softly abstract paintings in London to a macabre installation at the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds, we bring you the must - see shows opening this week.