Sentences with phrase «monumental canvases»

Having settled into her new surroundings she began producing a series of monumental canvases that reflected this new sense of space and freedom.

Previously associated with work on an intimate scale, he began producing monumental canvases in the 1960s.

She has an acute sense of space and composition and thinks nothing of added extensions onto her already monumental canvases to accommodate the composition as the painting develops.

A visit to Houston's Rothko Chapel invites contemplation in the presence of monumental canvases by Mark Rothko.

After all, Gerhard Richter and Anselm Kiefer have both painted monumental canvases of seas and mountains that astonish audiences with their visual impact.

From 1958 to 1969, he worked on three major commissions: monumental canvases for the Four Seasons Restaurant and Seagram Building, both in New York; murals for the Holyoke Center, Harvard University; and canvases for the chapel at the Institute of Religion and Human Development, Houston, known worldwide as «The Rothko Chapel.»

Among the exhibition's many highlights are bold, groundbreaking paintings by Matisse from his most adventurous years, as well as highlights from nearly every phase of Diebenkorn's oeuvre from the early 1950s to 1980 — including several monumental canvases from his Ocean Park series, a renowned exploration of color, light, and space.

Comprising a series of works from the artist's celebrated Waterfall series, this exhibition brings together a number of monumental canvases which reflect the range of themes explored by the artist in this continually evolving series.

Her work is full of thighs, bellies, wounds, surgeries and corpses, spread out on monumental canvases in thick oil and murky charcoal.

By 1964 he was producing bronze sculpture using banal objects like beer cans (Ale Cans, 1964, Offentliche Kunstsammlung Basel), along with monumental canvases like According to What (1964), which managed to combine collage, readymade lettering, as well as attached objects including a chair and a cast of a human leg!

These range from such small - scale studies as Mural Sketch (Study for Elegy to the Spanish Republic 100) and Study for State II «Elegy No. 100,» both of which were made in advance of one of the artist's largest paintings, to such monumental canvases as Elegy for the Spanish Republic XXXV (Elegy to the Spanish Republic No. 35), which measures over six by eight feet.

Drawing on the folk art and modernism present in a strain of African American painting that traces back to Jacob Lawrence and Romare Bearden, Taylor has painted monumental canvases based on WPA photographs of black farm workers.

This exhibition is the pioneering artist's first solo exhibition in New England, and features several never - before exhibited monumental canvases in the early 1970s.

Peters Projects: Upon entering Kent Monkman's solo exhibition, resist the temptation to revel in the raucous party raging across monumental canvases in the -LSB-...]

BIG Deal will highlight monumental canvases from the permanent collection, many of which have not been on view in recent years, in an attempt to unpack preoccupations with size in post-1945 art.

A calming start: If the tone of the world wasn't to your liking in 2016, you could start 2017 quietly, with better resonance, breathing deeply underneath Mark Rothko's monumental canvases at the Rothko Chapel.

Comprising approximately 40 works, the selection begins with the extraordinary drawing Graufeld / Grey field of 2003 and concludes with an equally monumental canvas that was in progress and well advanced when I visited the artist's studio last December.

Mark Rothko's Monumental Canvas No. 7 (Dark Over Light), 1954 to Highlight Christie's Evening Sale of Post-War and Contemporary Art.

At nearly eight feet high, it belongs to a group of monumental canvases Franz Kline (1910 - 62) painted between 1950 and the early 1960s.

Eleven monumental canvases and eight smaller studies were included in this selection of paintings from Warhol's largest series of works based on Leonardo Da Vinci's great masterpiece of the same name.

Five figurative artists — Vincent Desiderio, Eric Fischl, Neo Rauch, Jenny Saville, and Mark Tansey — involved with the institution in some way present monumental canvases based at least partly on the human figure.

In a signal show held at Susan Caldwell Gallery of monumental canvases entitled Mercenaries and Interrogations (January 1982), Golub's work became more broadly appreciated in the contemporary art scene.2 I was fortunate to see examples of these works in process during many eye - opening visits to his and Spero's studios on LaGuardia Place in lower Manhattan, where my colleagues and I would also discuss Golub's conceptual and working methods with him.

A further highlight is Gerhard Richter's monumental canvas Abstraktes Bild from 1989, arguably the greatest Richter abstract ever to come to auction and painted at the high point of the artist's abstract period (1988 - 1992).

Although Braque's late paintings and Cubist compositions have come under fresh scholarly scrutiny in recent years, Georges Braque: A Retrospective is the first museum exhibition since 1988 to present the full arc of the artist's career, from his first Fauve paintings of 1906 to 1907, to his final monumental canvases of the 1960s.

An exhibition devoted to the artist's major monumental canvases is currently on view at Fondation Beyeler in Basel through 22 March, traveling to the Louisiana Museum, Copenhagen from April 17 to August 16, 2015.

Comprising six monumental canvases arranged in two cycles of three, the vibrant murals portray heroic efforts to resist slavery as well as moments in the history of the college, which opened in 1867 to serve the educational needs of a new population of freed slaves.

It's a worthy honor for the abstract painter, who imbues his often monumental canvases with both pointed social commentary and a variety of collaged materials as he continues to break down the hard edges of the painted grid.

A number of the artists had been influenced by the experience of painting murals for the New Deal's Federal Art Project, with many going on to favour monumental canvases that almost engulf the viewer.

Pollock's wife Lee Krasner reached an apogee in 1960 when she realised monumental canvases in a single main colour that give Pollock a run for his money in terms of their ambition, intensity and vitality.

Rising Up: Hale Woodruff's Murals at Talladega College centers on six monumental canvases by acclaimed African - American artist Hale Woodruff commissioned in 1938.

Pat Steir: The Rhythm of Silence, 2003 Text by Doris von Drathen 48 pages, Softcover Published by Locks Art Publications ISBN: 1 -879173-61-1 Comprising a series of works from the artist's celebrated Waterfall series, this publication brings together a number of monumental canvases which reflect the range of themes explored by the artist in this continually evolving series, featuring an essay by art historian Doris von Drathen.

Revelation: Major Paintings by Jules Olitski draws together more than 30 monumental canvases from public and private collections.

Jackson Pollock's experiments culminated in the famous «drip» paintings, Mark Rothko painted fields of atmospheric color on monumental canvases, and Louise Nevelson's tabletop sculptures collaged from found pieces of wood metamorphosed first into wall sculptures and finally into total environments.

Queens artist Esteban Cabeza de Baca is the exuberant star of the show, filling the gallery's front room with monumental canvases.

In that exhibition, titled «Mental States,» Capote exhibited monumental canvases of the sea and horizon.

However, the real highlight at the new Gagosian Gallery London are the fascinating Bacchus paintings of tremendous red looping handwriting etched across monumental canvases.

Some feel the work already seems dated and holds little significance or local interest, but others have raved over the grouping of monumental canvases.

The Convent is home to a monumental canvas painted by Juan Espinoza de los Monteros, measuring 12 x 9 m and depicting the Franciscan family tree.

The 80 - year - old Sam Gilliam, known for his ravishing color - field canvases that he sometimes drapes sculpturally on the wall, painted a monumental canvas stained and splattered all over with hot pinks and reds, titled Red April (1970), in direct response to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968.

Another bronze sculpture, placed in front of one of the two large windows allows us to imagine the painterly contraption required to execute such physical actions on the monumental canvases.

The monumental canvases are youthful idylls, celebrating the greatest drama of a peaceful life: adolescent self - discovery.

Since its hegemony in the 1940s and 1950s, Abstract Expressionism has retired from the arena to the salon, with a concomitant reduction of its monumental canvases to the scale of easel painting.

The monumental canvas is one of two surviving works from a series of four murals Douglas created for the Hall of Negro Life at the Texas Centennial Exposition in Dallas.

Admiring this monumental canvas — replete with hues of white truffle, viridian and lapis lazuli — one discovers chromatic equivalents to the cypress trees and succulents that blanket the Cap d'Antibes» coastline, the cacophony of terns and gulls wheeling and feeding in the roaring surf and the sting of sea spray against one's face.

Much of this intensity survives intact in Newman's monumental canvases, in the depth and craft of their surfaces, and in the hard - won simplicity of their construction.

As such, this monumental canvas ranks as perhaps the most memorable single tribute to Pollock's seismic achievement.

HIGHLY REGARDED FOR HIS GRAND MURALS and monumental canvases, artist Aaron Douglas «s work straddled the visual and literary arts during the Harlem Renaissance.

The cost of the acquisitions was about $ 300,000, officials said, with the largest amount ($ 200,000) going to corral the monumental canvas by photorealist Flack.

Mark Rothko's monumental canvas, No. 7 (Dark Over Light), 1954, will highlight the May 17 Evening Sale of Post-War and Contemporary Art in New York (estimate in the region of $ 30million).