Sentences with phrase «most extraordinary paintings»

The exhibition travelled to London's Victoria Miro after opening at David Zwirner in New York, and some of the most extraordinary paintings on show were those of men of physical and political action, in moments of calm.

The exhibition focuses on the most extraordinary painting of a stone ever created in China: Wu Bin's Ten Views of a Lingbi Stone (1610), a Ming dynasty handscroll comprising 10 separate views of a single stone from the famous site of Lingbi, Anhui Province.

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Taking advantage of extraordinary access, including years of Bout's personal videos and his words from prison, directors Tony Gerber and Maxim Pozdorovkin paint a portrait of one of the most enigmatic figures of our time.

The prolific Iranian artist, now 90, is most famous for her mirror mosaics and mirror - reverse glass painting; however, the Infinite Possibility collection also features a number of her sketches and drawings, providing a unique look at this extraordinary artist.

A meditation about love and life, this film offers a rare glimpse in the creative process of two extraordinary artists who pursued their call against all odds and became England's most unique voices in contemporary painting today.

Princeton, NJ — A remarkable gathering of paintings by some of the most important artists of the postwar era will provide a window into a moment of extraordinary creative ferment, when the very nature of abstract painting was being hotly contested.

An amazing collection of paintings and other works from the Centre Pompidou, Paris, traces the development of this extraordinary and inventive artist, from his early figurative works to his most modern pieces.

Every single one has extraordinary color: the variety and brightness each piece carries, detail: the amount of work that is put into every aspect of each painting that make it look so realistic and abstract, lighting: the bright light shining throughout each image giving each piece an intriguing positive / enthusiastic energy, shading: the detailed shadings on each face giving them that 3 - dimensional look, definition: the quality of the defined lines that are portrayed through every painting (piece) and every small detail in the painting (like the faces and body parts) line: the complex and balanced lining that is seen in both, the abstract and realistic images in these works, texture: somewhat giving off an appealing texture to the works by the dimensions, as if you can reach out and grab the images, dimension: the realistic look that each women has (3 - dimensional), spacing: the space is used wisely in each work, very nicely spread out adding to its originality, touch: the clear and powerful finishing touch that every piece has, and the most visible that is seen in every piece here, is simply life.

-LSB-...] Some of the greatest artists through the ages have amassed extraordinary holdings, among the most brilliant being Rubens's collection — featuring a remarkable selection of Venetian paintings and drawings by Florentine and Roman masters, including Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael — and that of Degas, who left 500 paintings, and 5,000 prints and drawings, at his death, including masterpieces by Ingres, Delacroix, Gauguin and El Greco.

The exhibition will occupy each of the gallery's three spaces with an extraordinary presentation of new paintings and works on paper representing four different bodies of work, most never before exhibited.

Displaying key works such as Robert Rauschenberg's Barge (1962 — 63) and Mark Rothko's Untitled (1952 — 53), as well as an extraordinary group of large - scale paintings by Anselm Kiefer transcendently juxtaposed with Joseph Beuys» Lightning with a Stag in its Glare (1958 — 85), Bilbao plays its most powerful trump card: scale.

This revised, updated edition spotlights the extraordinary evolution of her career, and examines the pivotal role she has played in shaping some of the most fundamental ideas around which contemporary sculpture and painting revolve today.

As a DIA curator, I researched our extraordinary painting collection, enhanced our permanent galleries by displaying our artwork in new ways, curated temporary exhibitions, visited private and public art collections with our patrons, and identified new works for acquisition among many other things — the work curators perform is one of the most interesting in the museum profession because of the multiplicity of duties that it entails.

Since this time, Kusama's extraordinary artistic endeavours have spanned painting, drawing, collage, sculpture, performance, film, printmaking, installation and environmental art as well as literature, fashion (most notably in her 2012 collaboration with Louis Vuitton) and product design.

«One of the most extraordinary things to look at is a painting of heaven and the celestial hosts and the mother of God — these are themes that artists gave as an experience of spiritual matters to their audience.

On the other hand, he is unwilling to comment on the most extraordinary aspect of contemporary painting: that the tradition survives, and indeed flourishes, at all.

Like Beuys, Polke created extraordinary assemblies of the most ordinary materials, which also appeared in his collages and paintings: at one point he developed a particular penchant for liverwurst and potato that culminated in 1967 with Potato House, a remarkable flat - pack installation.

The show has been arranged by Micol Forti, director of the Vatican's modern and contemporary art department, a little - known sliver of the extraordinary Vatican Museums responsible for the Collection of Modern Religious Art — that little - remarked - upon stretch of donated paintings by artists from van Gogh to Fontana and Botero that most visitors to the Holy See skip over on their way to the Sistine Chapel.

As well as paintings by Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, Ed Ruscha and Andy Warhol, Christie's will showcase an extraordinary grouping of works by Jasper Johns, including one of the most famous icons of 20th Century art, Jasper Johns» Flag (Estimate: $ 10,000,000 - 15,000,000).

The Collection boasts masterpieces from Cubism, Futurism, Metaphysical Painting, European Abstraction, Surrealism, or Abstract Expressionism by some of the most extraordinary modern masters, such as Brancusi, Braque, Calder, Dalí, de Chirico, Duchamp, Ernst, Giacometti, Kandinsky, Klee, Léger, Magritte, Miró, Mondrian, Picabia, Picasso, Pollock, or Severini.

The most significant work by the renowned artist to ever come to market, the painting is a tour de force that captures Marshall's extraordinary vision and technical command while serving as a harbinger of his impact on the arc of art history.

The installation includes a remarkable room of paintings by Peter Doig and an extraordinary re-installation of the Chapman Family Collection - one of the most significant works produced by any artists anywhere in the last few years.

Late Turner: Painting Set Free will reassess the artist's extraordinary output from 1835, when many of his most celebrated paintings were created including Rain, Steam, and Speed — The Great Western Railway 1844 (National Gallery) and The Blue Rigi, Sunrise 1842 (Tate).

«Mark's innovative, multi-layered abstract paintings with paper, seen most recently in Pickett's Charge at the Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, and Stephen's extraordinary textile works on view at the BMA are evidence that these new modes of contemporary painting can produce artworks as compelling as those created using more traditional methods.»

The book covers Livingston's last three solo exhibitions from between the years 2006 and 2013, ones that have engaged the gallery context in a most extraordinary fashion, presenting conceptual painting - based installations where the underlying message is distinct and multi-layered.

One of the most significant artists of her generation and the winner of the 2006 Turner Prize, Abts is known for her acrylic and oil paintings whose extraordinary magnetism belies their modest scale.