Sentences with phrase «major figure in painting»

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Lucas is a major figure, and Revenge of the Sith may be some kind of historic achievement — the first movie in which it is fully impossible to tell where flesh ends and digital paint begins.

Loving Vincent is structured as a mystery, with Armand Roulin (Douglas Booth)-- the son of a postmaster (Chris O'Dowd) who was himself a subject of Van Gogh's paintings, as are almost all the major characters in the film — wrapped up in trying to figure out whether Van Gogh actually killed himself or he was murdered.

Paul Jackson Pollock born 1912 in Cody, Wyoming was an influential American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement well known for his unique style of drip painting.

This exhibition, his first major museum show, covers a relatively brief yet vibrant period starting in 2011, from his abstract paintings on rawhide to sculptural figures decked out in beads, jingles, and a rainbow of fibers that look like Afrofuture kachina dolls.

Most notably, the DMA has become a major player in the field of contemporary art, as evidenced by the November acquisition of Leaf (1970), a major «Drape» painting by Sam Gilliam, a figure in postwar American abstraction.

Also included in this exhibition is a never before exhibited painting by Richard Diebenkorn a major figure in Abstract Expressionism in the Bay Area.

Kerry James Marshall's major monographic retrospective presents a broad range of pictorial traditions to counter stereotypical representations of black people in society and reassert the black figure within the canon of Western painting.

His work, starting in the 1980s was usually of the figure including a number of major paintings with subject matter.

Elizabeth Peyton: Live Forever Vibrant paintings of Kurt Cobain, Sid Vicious and Jarvis»n' Liam having a fag vie for space with stylised portraits of Peyton's friends and historical figures (Napoleon and the Queen) in this first major survey of the acclaimed US artist's work.

Rothko, a contemporary of Jackson Pollock and a major figure in abstract expressionism (though he personally loathed the term), produced 40 large format paintings in shades of dark red, brown and black for the Seagram commission.

«Chéri Samba from Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo is a major figure in African painting,» says the gallerist.

On view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) from February 18 through June 17, 2012, and at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) from February 18 through May 27, 2012, in its only West Coast presentation, Mark Bradford is the first major museum survey of paintings, sculptures, and multimedia works by this leading figure in contemporary American art.

This painting was purchased by the Jerwood Foundation in 2008 and exhibited in the major Scott exhibition Divided Figure at Jerwood Gallery, Hastings in 2013.

David Park and Milton Avery — who bucked the trend and painted the human figure in abstract - expressionist times — receive deserved attention in a gallery show highlighting their substantial influence on two major postwar art movements.

At a time when race and identity became major issues in music, sport and literature, brought to public attention by iconic figures like Aretha Franklin, Muhammad Ali and Toni Morrison, «Black Art» was being defined and debated across the country in vibrant paintings, photographs, prints and sculptures.

On the other hand, both parts of Black in the Abstract make it perfectly clear that, on the whole, the quality of the work being produced by black artists whose practices include abstraction — as the inclusion of Hammons, McMillian and Donnett indicate, not everyone here is an «abstract painter» — does not suffer in comparison with that of their colleagues of other backgrounds, including major figures like Amy Sillman and Charline von Heyl, both of whom have work in Arning's Painting: A Love Story.

In addition to the two ongoing exhibitions dedicated to major figures of twentieth - century painting, Emil Nolde (1867 — 1956) and Philip Guston (1913 — 80), the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art is opening a solo show by Danish - Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson.

Bringing together major works from MoMA's extraordinary collection, the exhibition features breakthrough projects in painting, drawing, sculpture, prints, book and graphic design, film, photography, and architecture by leading figures such as Alexandra Exter, Natalia Goncharova, El Lissitzky, Kazimir Malevich, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Lyubov Popova, Alexandr Rodchenko, Olga Rozanova, Vladimir and Georgii Stenberg, and Dziga Vertov, among others.

Her first major body of work was a series of paintings depicting men's and women's figures engaging in sexual intercourse.

Guston had a major retrospective of his work at the Guggenheim Museum in New York in 1962 and in 1967 he moved back to Woodstock permanently where he continued to make paintings incorporating his signature cartoon - like forms and figures.

Capogrossi was featured in several major exhibitions of Italian artists in the 1930s, including Exposition des peintres romains in Paris in 1933 and the Quadriennale of Rome in 1935; following the latter, critics recognized him as one of the major figures in the renewal of Roman painting.

In the wide range of art the gallery offers, subjects range from water and beach scenes, boats, landscape, flower arrangements, graphic paintings of musicians, fifties photographic paintings, birds, fish, traditional still life, figure painting, portraits and trees, covering every major contemporary figurative category and genre.

Hassel Smith, a major figure in Bay Area art whose expressionist abstractions and figurative paintings were admired for their improvisational zeal, potency and humor, has died at age 91.

His recent show at the Fondation Beyeler (now at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk; until 16 August) hung alongside a major Gauguin exhibition; a mid-career retrospective at the Tate — an accolade for any artist — was accorded him in 2008 when he was still in his 40s; and during this year's Venice Biennale he will show a selection of new works which he summarises laconically as: «Five or six large paintings and quite a number of smaller paintings: some cityscapes, some walls, some figures, some animals.»

[1] Throughout his tenure there he continued to paint and exhibit, establishing himself as a major figure in Asian - American and Pacific Northwestern art, and a well - known name in modern art internationally.

One of the last paintings of Pope Pius XII held in private hands, the others are housed in major museum collections including Pope II, 1951 (Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim), Figure Sitting, 1955 (Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent) and Study (Imaginary Portrait of Pope Pius XII), 1955 (Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich).

These major works remain an essential part of the New Image movement of the 1980s that heralded a return to subject and imagery in contemporary painting - a movement in which Jennifer Bartlett was a central figure.

Based in Silver Spring, Md., over the past 35 years, he has painted major figures in a variety of fields.

Park Seo - Bo is a major figure of the Korean contemporary art scene and a leader of the Dansaekhwa movement (which usually refers to non figurative paintings (monochrome sometimes) painted in neutral tones).

Bringing together major works from MoMA's extraordinary collection, the exhibition features breakthrough projects in painting, drawing, sculpture, prints, book and graphic design, film, photography, and architecture by leading figures such as Alexandra Exter, Natalia Goncharova, El Lissitzky, Kazimir Malevich, Vladimir Mayakovsky and Dziga Vertov, among others.

A pioneer in the revival of lithography during the early 1960s and a relentless explorer of the possibilities of paint, June Wayne has been a major national and international figure in the...

Comprising a selection of around sixty painted objects in a wide variety of materials (canvas, wood, glass, vellum, ceramics, silk, and more), the show includes work by masters of the Northern Renaissance, such as Jan van Eyck and Albrecht Dürer, as well as major modern and contemporary figures like Jackson Pollock and Gerhard Richter.

Major historical works by artists including Howardena Pindell, Sam Gilliam and Melvin Edwards demonstrate the Rose's commitment to diversifying its holdings in 20th century painting and sculpture by acquiring important works by figures who until recently have been excluded from canonical accounts of art history due to race and gender - based discrimination.

This exhibition traces a narrative of Schor's work since the early 90s to the present, from Semi-colon in a Flesh Comma (1994) which punctuates the text of the female body, and Undue — a section of War Frieze, her major 1991-1994 200 - running feet long multiple canvas work on militarism and aggression, painted in the aftermath of the first Gulf War but still as timely today — through representations of the nature of artmaking itself — the sign, the trace — to the empty thought balloon when grief has left the artist at a loss for words, to her most recent works schematically figuring the artist as thinker, reader, writer in an uncertain world.

From his position as a major figure in both British and American painting, Benjamin West became a focal point for American artists who increasingly came to Europe to make their grand European tours.

A major figure in French painting, at Chamagne in Lorraine, the artist known as Claude Gellee or Claude Lorrain is one of the best landscape artists of the 17th century.

Hackett Mill; San Francisco in conjunction with the New York Studio School presents: As I Am: Painting the Figure in Post-War San Francisco The first major survey in New York of 24 artworks by the founding members of the Bay Area Figurative Movement.

The first major retrospective of the paintings of George Bellows to be seen in thirty years, this exhibition afforded a welcome opportunity to reassess the work of a leading figure in early 20th - century American art.

Born in 1927, Alex Katz is a major figure of late 20th - century American painting.

John Minton was one of the major figures in the Neo-Romantic school in Britain in the 1940s, painting landscapes that charted a changing world but which also drew influence from 19th - century precursors such as the pastoral painter Samuel Palmer.

Ellsworth Kelly was one of the key figures in postwar American art, exercising major influence on the fields of Pop art, minimalism, Color - Field, and hard - edge painting.

Among sophisticated patrons and dealers this show established de Kooning as a major figure in contemporary American painting.

John Constable, major figure in English landscape painting in the early 19th century.

I majored in painting and metal - smithing at Miami (Ohio) where the art program was rigorous - lots of figure drawing and painting from life.

The unheroic nature of modern dress was seen as a major obstacle in the depiction of contemporary scenes, and the Scottish gentleman - artist and art dealer Gavin Hamilton preferred classical scenes as well as painting some based on his Eastern travels, where his European figures by - passed the problem by wearing Arab dress.

John Constable, (born June 11, 1776, East Bergholt, Suffolk, England — died March 31, 1837, London), major figure in English landscape painting in the early 19th century.

Greenberg introduced her to the major figures in New York School of painters, including Jackson Pollock, whose drip - painting later inspired her «painting by pouring».

David Hockney's career has spanned and epitomised the art movements of the last five decades; his story is one of precocious achievement at Bradford Art College, the Swinging 60s in London where he befriended many of the iconic cultural figures of the generation, to California and the cool of the swimming pool series of paintings, through the acclaimed set designs for countless operas around the world and major retrospective exhibitions.

[Gene Davis was] a major figure in 20th - century American painting whose contribution was invaluable in establishing Washington, D.C., as a center of contemporary art.

Davis a major figure in 20th - century American painting whose contribution was invaluable in establishing Washington, D.C., as a center of contemporary art.