Sentences with phrase «model figure paintings»

Some works include magazine pages and thus relate to my earlier solo work of model figure paintings.

We use magazine pictures in some of them, which also relates to my earlier solo work of model figure paintings.

Not exact matches

The writer Delmore Schwartz, who almost certainly was one of the models for Bellow's Humboldt, liked to say that life is a wedding, by which he meant that the universe is meaningful, and one can happily take his place in it like the figures in Brueghel's painting.

Granted, manis modeled after fine art aren't anything new: We've seen Monet lilies, Van Gogh stars, and even Keith Haring figures painted on fingertips in the past.

Many of the landscapes are painted backdrops with moving figures, as in a»30s film, and some of the outdoor action, especially a chase down a ski hill, looks accomplished with models.

We're fascinated by Deborah Paswaters» abstract figure paintings, which are often accompanied by «living model sculptures» at shows and exhibitions.

In the 1960s, in response to his move to the countryside in East Hampton, he painted a series of paintings based on the North Atlantic light, and also began sculpting figures modelled in clay that he cast in bronze.

If the paintings conjured a massive presence, I thought at the time, the language of modeling would operate as an authority figure attempting to bind the more wildly associative or grotesque imagery, usually referring to the human body.

Monday June 8th Life Painting @ Hillyer Art Space «An independent figure drawing class that allows students to work from a nude model in your choice of mediums.While easels, chairs and artistic ambiance are provided by Hillyer, artists are required to bring their own drawing materials.

Iconic German artist Lucien Freud is known for his psychologically complex painted portraits and figures that reveal a heightened discomfort between artist and model.

In his recent still - lifes Marsh painted distorted figures that have been created by modelling plasticine.

Sometimes he even turned the model and painting upside down in an effort to avoid conventional results and to disregard the traditional hierarchy between figure and background.

Studies at Royal Academy Schools, London; begins to draw seriously from the model and to paint figures.

Sharon Sprung teaches Contemporary Realism figure painting in oil from the model.

Where there's little modeling in work by Leon Golub and George Cohen, Lerner's paintings and drawings have always had a sense of volume, and his work since the 1970s has continued to tap similar mythic and metaphorical material (mummies, hanged or tortured figures) but in a more classical figurative style.

In 2005, he turned to painting, developing a distinctive greyscale aesthetic that combines deft tonal modeling of figures with a material flatness, both alluding to and obscuring characters appropriated from western popular culture and marginal countercultural sources.

All but one of the sketches are annotated with a name, presumably that of the person portrayed or the individual who commissioned the corresponding painting — thereby putting to rest a long - standing debate over whether the fantasy figures depict known individuals or imaginary models.

The main gallery showcases paintings by the designer and street artist duo Graphic Airlines, populated with their signature ghostly, bloated - faced figures, alongside Mok Yat San's and Kevin Fun's fanciful sculptures and Lam Tung Pang's mixed - media landscapes, in which plastic models of floating islands hover above the Hong Kong cityscape.

Monday May 18th Life Painting @ Hillyer Art Space «An independent figure drawing class that allows students to work from a nude model in your choice of mediums.While easels, chairs and artistic ambiance are provided by Hillyer, artists are required to bring their own drawing materials.

Beginning with early 20th century paintings by French artist Suzanne Valadon and ending with works by up - to - the - minute figures such as Japan's Mariko Mori, Switzerland's Pipilotti Rist and England's Rachel Whiteread, «elles» will offer an international array of paintings, sculptures, installations, drawings, photographs, prints, videos, furniture and architectural models.

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.

The theme of the artist's studio bears the metaphor of painting: the one - to - one between the painter and his model (from Rembrandt, to Courbet and Picasso), the space of painting — representation of the real, the process of creation -, the figure of the artist — self - portraits and rereading the masters.»

Here Bickerton's merging of figuration and abstraction comes to new levels: in m - DNA eve 3, for example, he has nearly obscured the image of the figure with impasto strokes of vibrant green, blue and yellow paint, blending the foreground and background until the model's bulging, exaggerated features seemingly emerge from the camouflage.

What gives them away are the slightly awkward figures of the artists — Essenhigh lounging on the couch, Mumford confrontationally regarding his painting — modeled in some unidentified substance.

Recently, Dodd has included the figure or figures in a series of paintings made during the summers in Maine, working from models posed in the landscape.

Eisenman is also opening up the remote practice of painting the public by hosting a public figure - drawing class of live models in the Museum's galleries.

The Misanthrope, 2011, Modelling material, foil, wire, acrylic paint, silk, wood, polyester padding, nylon, costume jewellery, found table, (figure) 59 x 25 x 30 cm, (table) 80 x 80 x 53 cm

What's so interesting about figure drawing or painting with models is that they move; they can't hold their position perfectly for that long a time, and so you are constantly adapting.

While she has been devoted, on and off, to drawing from the live model for most of her career, she has returned to the figure within her painting only in the last five or six years.

He has been best known for sculptures and collages using everyday products in series such as «White Discharge,» 2002 — , quasi-architectural constructions assembling action figures, plastic food models, and other inexpensive small objects, covered with white - painted resin, or «Sea

These reproductions were intended for study and further replication through figure drawing or as models for paintings.

In a large painting and several small works on paper Patricia Treib continues her breezy exploration of shape and color, while Nick Goss contributes a tabletop of unpainted plaster figures cast from elaborately folded wooden models as well as one large painting and two drawings, deftly straddling abstraction and representation.

Titled Some New Painting (and Photography), the exhibition shows Hockney's latest works, series of joyful, vibrantly colored pictorial explorations of human figure which were created in his LA studio with artist's friends, colleagues and dancer posing as models.

for Greater Baghdad, 2018, inkjet prints, drawings, painted resign figures and acrylic models, dimensions variable.

Dana Parlier is a lifetime member of the Art Students League, where he has concentrated on life - size figure clay modeling, plaster casting, drawing, anatomy, stone carving, wood carving, and oil painting.

He began by taping together handmade tetrahedral figures, allowing assistants to create full - size plywood shapes from the final models which were then covered with thick black paint.

Though he could draw accurately from a life - model, and did, the figures in his paintings were subject to an expressive distortion that separates him from more journalistic painters of urban subjects such as Théodore Steinlen.

Knowing the historical context of the nude in high art and refreshing the complex artist - model relationship, her work is distinct from the «raw» figure paintings of Jenny Saville and Lucian Freud, and goes beyond John Berger's juxtaposition of female nudes from old master paintings with porno shots in Ways of Seeing (1972).

On the other hand, the project gave license for Kaapcke to incorporate her training in American abstraction: none of the figures in these series of paintings depict models.

Join us for Figure Drawing and Painting sessions each Wednesday from 12:30 pm - 3:30 p.m. Models are clothed and / or unclothed.

His best - known picture, Ophelia (1851 - 2; Tate Gallery, London), illustrates his working method during this time - the setting painted meticulously from nature during the summer and the figure added from a model in the studio during the winter - ready for the Royal Academy exhibition in May.

Pearlstein turns 92 in May yet he continues to work on large - scale paintings where the nude figure is juxtaposed with a diverse range of objects: from crashed model aeroplanes to marionettes, a model of the White House that is in fact a birdcage, and richly patterned rugs and fabrics.

To mention a few, Lisa Bartolozzi's essay on painting techniques shows how incessantly experimental painting has always been; Vincent Desiderio looks deeply into figurative painting's» technical narrative»; Alexi Worth's hypothesizes «the invention of clumsiness» after photography hit the 19th c. painting world; Donald Kuspit describes some of the impact Freud had on the figure; Kurt Kauper explains kitsch and Jule Heffernan «the male gaze»; Laurie Hogin examines the politics of figurative painting; and John Jacobsmeyer and Nicola Verlato each discuss the meanings of spatial organization via perspective, the camera obscura, 3 - D modeling, and cyberspace.

I wasn't told that he worked from drawings, or from photographs that he took of his models, or how he used the same figure in several different paintings.

Figure - drawing workshop Draw or paint a live model's short / long poses at 2 - 5 p.m.; long pose at 6:30 - 9:30 p.m. Del Ray Artisans, Nicholas A. Colasanto Center, 2704 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

The clock calls upon the figure par excellence of the model of temporality Treib's paintings question most: chronometric time.

He has painted and worked with iconic and celebrated figures including actors Kevin Spacey, Dennis Hopper and model - turned - actor Cara Delevingne, artists Damien Hirst and Grayson Perry, former Prime Minister Tony Blair, peace activist Malala Yousafzai and has produced official commissions of HRH The Duke of Edinburgh and HRH The Duchess of Cornwall.