Sentences with phrase «mature painting style»

Alma Thomas did not achieve her mature painting style until the 1960s, after she retired after more than three decades as a junior high school art teacher.

Tobey's mature painting style evolved after a visit to East Asia in 1934, during which he spent one month in a Zen monastery in Kyōto and studied Chinese calligraphy in Shanghai.

One recent Pollock biography recounts a primal scene in which the infant Jackson watches his father standing on the rock above him, urinate spectacularly, an experience which informed hia mature painting style.

The retrospective includes paintings, sculpture, prints, and drawings — some of which are being shown for the first time — and reveals Gorky's development as an artist and the evolution of his singular visual vocabulary and mature painting style.

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According to the Phillips Gallery in Washington, D.C., «His large canvases, typical of his mature style, establish a one - on - one correspondence with the viewer, giving human scale to the experience of the painting and intensifying the effects of color.

It was also in New York that Thompson quickly arrived at his mature style, taking Dody Müller's advice to heart by reworking the compositions of European Masters such as Piero della Francesca, Nicolas Poussin, and Jacopo Tintoretto into simplified, abstracted forms painted in threatening and seductive tones that were hot and violent or deep and dark — seizing on the dynamism of these classical scenes and often transforming them into contemporary allegorical nightmares.

«Joan, Gordon, and Rufus [their dog] in Front of the S.F. Opera House,» painted two years later and the largest work on view, is, in her mature style, another quite impressive painting — dignified yet intimate, simple yet subtle.

[iv] This new approach led first to his «imaginary landscape» paintings and the to the «burst» paintings — immediately recognizable for their large round bursts of color placed over dark lines — which distinguish his mature style.

The painting was shown by the artist in the 1877 annual exhibition of the American Watercolor Society and marked the beginning of his mature style.

With Kelly's return to the States, he moved away from figurative painting into the crisp, carefully wrought geometries of his mature style.

Though radically different in their painterly strategies, both bodies of work exploit a particular brand of wet - on - wet painting, which has come to define Diamond's mature style.

As curator James Harithas wrote about Bluhm in 2007, «Each body of work represents a new stage in his spiritual growth, beginning in his search for himself and his own style and ending in a profoundly personal realization of unity of all things in his mature paintings.»

It is in the paintings of the fifties and early sixties - the period from which this MATRIX unit has been selected - that Avery achieved his mature style.

In the 1950s, Riopelle developed his well - known, mature style of creating large, colour mosaic paintings executed with a palette knife and by squeezing colors onto the canvas directly from the tube.

In the 1950s, Riopelle developed his well - known, mature style of creating large, colour mosaic paintings executed with a palette knife and by squeezing colours onto the canvas directly from the tube.

She joined a small group of pioneer sculptors who were committed to abstraction, with whom she developed her more mature style marked by organic abstraction and innovative use of various media including string, wire and colored paint.

From 1950 to his death in 1953, Tomlin painted approximately 25 oil paintings in his mature style, of which at least 18 are in museum collections.

Each painting showcases Mitchell's mature artistic style that, over a prolific period of three decades, had fully developed into a unique personal language of colour, line and form.

They were so fresh and inventive, yet from their complexity and the assurance of the vocabulary — loose geometry, gridlike formations, unnamable shapes, and squiggly lines — I knew at once that this was the work of a confident and mature artist, even though it fit into the context of what many younger painters were engaged in at the time, when abstract painting had returned to issues of eccentric composition and irregular forms realized through diverse approaches of painting styles.

[5] By the 1960s, Neel had reached her mature style, blending elements of realist representation with expressionistic aspects such as her frequent use of green as a base for skin tones, a choice that infuses her paintings with an unsettling quality.

Indeed, he described the evolution of his mature style of painting in the mid-1940s and the freedom it ultimately gave him as «a journey that one must make, walking straight and alone.

Her signature, disorientating Op Art painting style matured at the beginning of the 60s with which it and she became synonymous.

A.R. Penck: Paintings from the Sixties illustrates the first mature manifestations of the artist's wide - ranging interests and sheds light on the development of his unique style and sensibility.

His mature style is narrow but intense: water and dirt are invoked through washes of ultramarine blue and burnt umber which combine to form a glowering near - black and bleed out at the edge of geometric forms, generating a trembling beauty due to the differential absorption of the various layers of thinned paint.

Her mature artistic style was faux - naïve, featuring paintings whose subjects, furniture and clothing set in doll - house type interiors and suburban landscapes, were stand - ins for the implicitly female figure.

Acclaimed for his distinctive mature style of still life painting, had numerous solo exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco.

Although he established himself quickly as an intellectual within the community of serious artists working in Post War New York, it was not until he was in his 40s that Willem de Kooning arrived at what could be considered a mature abstract painting style.

Thus, when he came to write his «Letters on Landscape Painting», Durand deftly sidelined Cole's mature but melodramatic style, and advocated instead a straightforward method of plein - air sketching shorn of most philosophical content.

Curated by the National's Jeffrey Weiss, the show traces Rothko's development from his early figurative expressionism through his mythographical explorations of the»40s and the floating zones of deep color that characterize his mature style — work that made him one of the most celebrated and influential forces in the midcentury triumph of American painting.

The oil and pastel painting Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion (1944) heralds the beginning of his mature style and includes elements that he returned to many times, such as: the triptych format, the open mouth, and the distorted imagery.

«An artist's mature style often has a curious affinity with the art that was being produced during her childhood, and so it would be with Berkenblit and hand - painted Pop.

Her pieces would cover up entire walls, and it was then that the trademark of her mature style was born: her complex assemblages consisted of chair backs, finials, furniture legs, mouldings, spindles, and bits of architectural ornamentation and they were completely painted in matte black.

The crown jewel of the gift is Pollock's «Lucifer» (1947), a stellar example of the artist's mature, drip - painting style, which reset the level of ambition and the physical scale of American painting after World War II.

After seeing Ad Reinhardt's and Barnett Newman's paintings in person for the first time at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York in 1961, Truitt arrived at her mature style and began to create painted wood sculptures.

In his mature style, developed in the 1950's, the paintings include images of either friends or lovers, or images of people found in movie stills, reproductions of historic paintings and medical photos.

Though Feeley was born in the same generation as the Abstract Expressionists, his mature style was hardly gestural; instead, according to Feeley, his paintings «just sat still and had a presence rather than some sort of an agitated fit.»

The exhibition is kicked off in high style with a choice 1907 Picasso study for his epochal «Demoiselles D'Avignon»; Matisse's 1916 study for the «Portrait of Sarah Stein,» the finished painting of which is also in the collection; Amedeo Modigliani's 1913 «Blue Caryatid,» a figure study characteristic of the artist's archaicizing tendencies; a 1978 drawing of adolescent eroticism by Balthus; and a 1925 nude by Matisse of a mature woman luxuriantly spread out on a chaise for his personal delectation.

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In a slide talk Murray gave at the Whitney Museum in 1980, one year after completing «Druid,» she adds further insight to her painting process detailing the arrival at the shaped canvas and foreshadowing the eventual arrival of her mature inventive style that would challenge the definition of what painting can be:

De Koonings mature style of painting began to emerge during this era and is described by Stevens in detail including the key influences in the painter's early abstract works.

Placed alongside these three more mature artists (albeit in a separate room), Rachel Malin's unruly style might seem at odds with Painting Advanced «s overall harmony.

It includes his first abstract paintings, which combine a Cubist - influenced aesthetic and geometric decomposition, alongside his mature abstract style in which lyricism and geometrical abstraction merge.

Delaney's painting style (s) matured as he indulged his passionate interest in the modern art he found in La Rive Gauche galleries and studios, in opera at the Palais Garnier, and in the Greco - Roman sculpture at the Musée du Louvre.