Sentences with phrase «magisterial painting»

In 1973, upon hearing that the National Gallery of Australia had purchased Jackson Pollock's magisterial painting Blue Poles (1952), the artist Thomas Hart Benton remarked to a friend: «I taught Jack that.»

Putting in mind Mark Rothko's large, monochromatic fields of color, this magisterial painting by Barnaby Furnas presents a sweeping and audacious experiment in abstraction.

Not exact matches

The paintings and stuccoed ceiling work are stunning, particularly in the magisterial (albeit slightly rundown) main room on the first floor.

In particular, on the west side of the building next to tall windows, visitors will have a penetrating light to reveal the brush strokes of Arshile Gorky's iconic The Artist and his Mother (seventh floor), to inspect the surfaces of Jasper Johns's White Target and Frank Stella's magisterial Die Fahne Hoch (side by side on the sixth floor) and not far from the Hudson (turn around and look from the fifth floor window) a fluvial Cy Twombly grey blackboard painting from 1968.

The canvas (Mycenae - axe - blue) was a highlight of the Tate's celebrated 1964 exhibition Painting & Sculpture of a Decade, 54 - 64, this magisterial abstract work is on the scale of his Festival of Britain -LSB-...]

The canvas (Mycenae - axe - blue) was a highlight of the Tate's celebrated 1964 exhibition Painting & Sculpture of a Decade, 54 - 64, this magisterial abstract work is on the scale of his Festival of Britain commission and akin to his celebrated work that forms part of Tate Britain's recent rehang.

Steps from the Van Doren show is the magisterial Frick Collection, where «Andrea del Sarto: The Renaissance Workshop in Action» is devoted to drawings and three paintings by Andrea d'Agnolo (1486 — 1530), known as del Sarto because his father was a tailor (sarto).

This experience may have had a bearing on his celebrated pictures of women as magisterial, predatory, even ferocious totems, painted with violently expressive brushstrokes.

Two of the late paintings on view are magisterial.

Even his later near - monochromes and a painting of a lump of gold edge towards a kind of magisterial abstraction (it has a grandeur that Robert Motherwell or Helen Frankenthaler could dream of, but never quite achieve).

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.

Her father was abstract expressionist Jack Tworkov, and the living room's centerpiece is a magisterial Tworkov painting.

Many paintings in this early field, including Elaine de Kooning's scrappy Bullfight, 1960, and Joan Mitchell's magisterial Ladybug, 1957, hint pointedly at these doyennes» fierce struggle for acceptance without any asterisk.

In the process, he produced more than 400 paintings as models for his magisterial book, «The Birds of America.»

5 «DANCING AROUND THE BRIDE: CAGE, CUNNINGHAM, JOHNS, RAUSCHENBERG, AND DUCHAMP» (PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART; CURATED BY CARLOS BASUALDO WITH ERICA F. BATTLE) This magisterial and thrilling show stood out among the growing genre of performance - based exhibitions, bringing the works of Duchamp, Cage, Cunningham, Johns, and Rauschenberg into a theatrical setting masterminded by artist Philippe Parreno, who carefully choreographed the interaction of radical paintings, sculptural installation, dance, music, and set design, complete with entrance marquee.

Here is a magisterial drawing that combines graphic power, expressive force, and narrative ambiguity on the grand scale of history painting.

Thus he came to enroll at the California School of Fine Arts (now the San Francisco Art Institute) in its heyday, when the godfather of Bay Area figurative painting, David Park, and the magisterial abstractionist Clyfford Still were among its teachers.

Dexter Dalwood is the artist whose work titled The Death of David Kelly might draw comparisons with hefty history paintings such as David's magisterial The Death of Marat, which depicted the revolutionary journalist's corpse in his bath after he was killed by Charlotte Corday.

Manet, Lautrec and especially Matisse in his Cubist phase, gave magisterial blacks and greys a primary role as if to dramatize the drastic, two - dimensional character of modern painting; by its very nature monochrome painting is more abstract than colour.

In some ways, Louis's immersive works seem to have more of an affinity with paintings by other Color Field artists like Newman and Rothko than they do with Frankenthaler's stains; they evoke sublime, magisterial experiences of caves and grottos (as in the somber «Curtain,» with its stalactitelike points) or waterfalls (in the luscious «Tet,» on loan from the Whitney Museum of American Art).

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.