Sentences with phrase «male figure in these paintings»

BP: The way you speak about the male figure in these paintings, it's almost like he's waking up from a blackout — as if he's coming to and not quite sure of his surroundings.

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Tompkins was an important figure in the photorealist movement of the 1970's but largely overlooked due to the fact that she was a woman making large - scale paintings of heterosexual intercourse, imagery that until then had been reserved for male artists and viewers.

In contrast, a dramatic new painting by Kehinde Wiley depicts a reclining semi-naked male figure mimicking the pose of a dying Thomas Chatterton in Henry Wallis» famous portrait of 185In contrast, a dramatic new painting by Kehinde Wiley depicts a reclining semi-naked male figure mimicking the pose of a dying Thomas Chatterton in Henry Wallis» famous portrait of 185in Henry Wallis» famous portrait of 1856.

AT THE WHITNEY BIENNIAL, there are two more paintings by Taylor on view depicting a black male figure in a white t - shirt.

By portraying the figures in her paintings with cartoonish whimsy, she is trying to strip the male oppressors of their power by undermining the culture of machismo that pervades many societies.

They are printed with bawdy tales involving a character named Richard and elegant scribbles in the style of market - hot white male artists like Richard Prince (whose own «Joke» paintings can sell for seven figures), Christopher Wool, Michael Krebber and Albert Oehlen.

The large paintings, a continuation of the artist's latest «Wrestler» series, feature muscular male figures in acrobatic stances against bright backdrops dotted with a curious dog here or an ominous swarm of black birds there.

The exception to the series is the last painting, a portrayal of intellectual and activist Susan Sontag as a young woman alongside a heavily blacked - out male figure, again symbolic of the contributions to contemporary culture made by a woman in a predominantly male - orientated world.

Ellen Altfest is an American artist known for her realist paintings of still life and male figures in painstaking detail.

These paintings each depict a muscular shackled male figure in the throes of torture, their strained flesh lit up against surrounding darkness.

Tim Eitel's nearly 9» tall oil on linen, Schwarzer Sand (2004) and two paintings (both 9-7/8» x 7-7/8») of solitary male figures in sand dunes: Landeinwarts (Upcountry) and Sand, are also on view.

Sotheby's Contemporary Art Evening Auction on 8 March will be led by Untitled (One Eyed Man or Xerox Face), one of Jean - Michel Basquiat's finest full - length male figures from his series of grand - scale paintings that took the art world by storm in the early 1980s.

He created enigmatic archaic figures, as in an untitled stone sculpture (1985; Canberra, N.G.) depicting a male carrying a horn - shaped vessel, while such works as the painting Flayed (1986; Canberra, N.G.) exemplify his preoccupation with the themes of death and sacrifice.

Dorothy Iannone started her practice in the 1960s making vivid and energetic paintings, drawings, prints, videos, and objects portraying female and male figures in situations of physical union and ecstasy.

Conversely, when two, typically large, neo-expressionist paintings by Julian Schnabel and Eric Fischl — each depicting an attenuated male figure — are placed within the feminist - themed «Gender Trouble» section, they gain fresh relevance as signifiers of «masculinist» culture's decline in the»80s and of the American male's diminishing economic prospects today.

Kertess turns to stare at a large painting in progress — «Many Mansions,» an intricate allegorical scene portraying three male figures gardening against the backdrop of a decrepit Chicago housing project called Stateway Gardens.

In 1938 he began a series of male figures, while simultaneously starting a series of abstract paintings.

Rego has also claimed that Willing suggested adding male figures to the painting, which she then based on her son Nicholas (who sat for her) and on a photograph of her husband (quoted in Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, p. 255).

He created enigmatic archaic figures, as in an untitled stone sculpture (1985) depicting a male carrying a horn - shaped vessel, while such works as the painting Flayed (1986) exemplify his preoccupation with the themes of death and sacrifice.

The figures in his paintings are both humorous and unnerving; take «Acid Man's Funeral» for example, a black rabbit with male sex organs, standing upright, human - like, in Nike trainers.

Sylvia Sleigh (1910 - 2010) was a figure in the feminist art movement of the 1970s who is best known for turning portraiture and art history on its head as she reversed traditional sex roles in her paintings, casting her husband and their friends and associates as male nudes that recalled the female subjects often found in paintings by Titian or Ingres.

[28] Lisa Yuskavage's nude figures painted in a nearly academic manner constitute a «parody of art historical nudity and the male obsession with the female form as object».