Sentences with phrase «monumental oil paintings»

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775 — 1851), nineteenth - century Britain's greatest land - and seascape artist, depicted ports throughout his career, both in monumental oil paintings and in watercolors.

In his third exhibition at Steve Turner, Boz will present three monumental oil paintings on wood panels.

He is best known for his monumental oil paintings, but his watercolours, prints and photographs — though less known — are equally powerful and significant.

As you compare his monumental oil paintings with these watercolors, you can see that this, most unforgiving, medium has been tamed into plasticity practically identical to oil.

In 2011, Peter Opheim abandoned abstraction and began sculpting small maquettes out of colored clay, which he's continued to transform into monumental oil paintings that...

To speculate on the psychological implications of Jim Dine's 15 - year obsession with uninhabited bathrooms (11 monumental oil paintings of robes made up the bulk of his recent exhibition at the Pace Gallery in New York), is to ponder on Dine's personal identity.

A monumental oil painting titled I Love You hanging in the project space conveys deep sexual undertones.

Cleveland, OH (September 27, 2017)-- The Cleveland Museum of Art's recent acquisitions include a portrait of Colonel Charles Heathcote by British artist Joseph Wright of Derby, a drawing by German Expressionist Oskar Kokoschka, a 14th - century Japanese hanging scroll featuring the Buddhist deity Aizen Myōō, Wisdom King of Passion, and a monumental oil painting on canvas by contemporary Chinese artist Liu Wei.

The monumental oil painting Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows, painted in 1831 by the great English Romantic painter John Constable (1776 - 1837), will be shown alongside one of the most powerful and celebrated of all Scottish landscape paintings: The Storm (1890), by William McTaggart (1835 - 1910).

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In 1958 DeFeo began working on The Rose, a monumental work created over eight years, with so much oil paint that she called it «a marriage between painting and sculpture.»

Bartlett is known for monumental multi-canvas oil paintings that make use of meticulous gridlines to help guide the viewer across scenes that may seem familiar but move beyond to take on new meaning.

Highlights include the vibrant pastel on paper, Cakes, 1967, a monumental figurative painting, Girl in Striped Blouse, 1973 - 75, and a rich oil painting, Sunglasses,1983 - 85.

The exhibition is comprised of nine mesmerizing oil, acrylic and graphite paintings, monumental in size and typically void of any specific narrative.

Poppy Fields features a series of vividly colored, oil on linen paintings that are uniquely intimate in scale and nature compared to the artist's iconic large - scale Ash paintings and monumental sculptures.

On display are oil paintings, experimental works on paper, and a monumental new mural that was created in collaboration with Peter Doig's students.

The eleven artists juxtapose divergent approaches in conversation with each other, reflecting on primal questions consuming artists over the millennia: Elliot Arkin's conceptual use of web - based commerce spins an absurdist view on the commodification of artists; Babette Bloch's stainless steel reassessments of nature and artistic precedent limn positives and negatives through light; Christopher Carroll Calkins's street photography captures moments of under - the - radar narratives; Valentina DuBasky's acrylic and marble dust works on paper and plaster are a contemporary comment on the prehistory of art; Gabriel Ferrer's performance - like in - the - moment sumi - ink drawings on handmade paper reflect on memory and personal narrative; Christopher Gallego's realist, pure light - filled oil painting elevates the ordinariness of an artist's space to visual poetry; Ana Golici, in pergamano and collage, takes inspiration from 17th Century female naturalist, entomologist and botanical illustrator Maria Sibylla Merian to explore questions of science, nature and objective truth; Emilie Lemakis's monumental amplification of an ancient Greek krater employs scale to upend perceptions for the viewer's reconsideration; Mark Mellon's bronzes address the oppositions of movement and stillness; the alchemy of Michael Townsend's uncontrolled poured acrylic paintings equate the properties of materials with the turbulence of the universe; Jessica Daryl Winer's engagement with luminous color and choreographic line reflects in visual resonance the sonic history of a musical instrument.

Best known as a painter of monumental works in oil, Sean Scully (b. 1945) has garnered international acclaim as one of the most prominent painters in the abstract tradition, fusing the conventions of European painting with the distinct character of American abstraction.

The exhibition will include nine new works, among them two large watercolour diptychs depicting the Swiss psychiatrist and author C.G. Jung's house in Küsnacht, as well as a monumental allegorical oil painting on canvas.

The exhibition opens on the ground floor with new paintings from Colen's Mailorder series (2015 — 2018) of lush oil - on - linen screen prints, which depict images of clothing from mail - order catalogues, enlarged to a monumental scale.

Ryan Sullivan's monumental drip paintings March 8, 2014 - April 15, 2014, 2014, and Untitled, 2014, build layer upon layer of paints (oil, enamel, lacquer, latex and synthetic polymer paint) to create a three - dimensional relief surfaces.

The powerful and monumental paintings in Vincent Desiderio's ninth show with Marlborough Gallery since 1993 reveal his continued fascination with the history of figurative art and a mucky pleasure in pushing copious amounts of oil around a surface.

Presenting a monumental, rare oil painting by American artist Ron Blumberg (1908 - 2002.)

Eric Freeman (b. 1970) is an American artist whose monumental, monochromatic oil paintings are rendered in an abstract vocabulary that evokes optical illusions of landscapes.

Most paintings are underscored by a layer of graphite upon which she applies oil paint, which make them radiate a strange light through which the image gets a sort of frozen light quality, in a nearly monumental way... they balance between the fictional, the illusion and the reality of the day dream.

Oil paintings and pencil drawings are interspersed with sculptures and film, characteristic of an artist whose media have ranged from found thrift store paintings to monumental banners.

We pass from room to room: first, Me, Jesus and the Children, a monumental trompe l'oeil spray painting of Dan's chest, a Jesus piece, and cartoon cherub psychopomps who crash the viewer into its solid plastic face; then, Whatever, a 5» x 6» scene extracted from Pinocchio, where an extinguished candle lights a room; two walls of Confetti, the Moments Like These Never Last series, as varied in aura as they are in approach and technique; four walls of indomitable Trash paintings; four more of his Miracle works, oil medium and raw pigment powder conjurations so boundless they literally escape their backings.