Sentences with phrase «most powerful paintings»

Guernica is one of the most powerful paintings ever made, because I experienced Iran - Iraq war for eight years and I am aware that he captures the suffering and chaos of war in the most human way.

A 1969 work by Sam Gilliam, which was painted to commemorate the first anniversary of Luther King's murder, is one of the most powerful paintings in the show — it falls down the wall like a curtain of purple sorrow and without even knowing the subject of the work it is striking in it's consciousness.

Whenever I come into your gallery, with its beautifully spare rooms and elegant finishings, I immediately remember two previous shows here that strike me as among the most powerful paintings shows I've experienced, the early Frank Stella show from 2012 and the David Hammons show from 2011.

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THE human mind is among the most powerful forces on earth: the intelligence emerging from it allows us to cultivate vast cornfields or rice paddies and build sprawling cities; to launch spacecraft, paint pictures, compose music — or use reason to write this article.

While I still hate the look of the battle system and I hate that Toads are the only friendly characters, the locations of the game look very unique for a Mario game, and the Hammer meter (They confirmed battles actually have a purpose, as they eventually upgrade your Paint Hammer's capacity, and painting cards while watching your paint reserves does bring more strategy then spamming your most powerful attacks in the Mario & Luigi games and older Paper Mario games) brings some diversity to the bland battle system.

The luster and the pride of workmanship extend under the hood, where the most powerful engine — a direct - injected, forty - eight - valve, twin - turbocharged twelve - cylinder — ever found nestled within a Rolls is topped by a large chrome V - 12 badge on a shining bed of black paint.

Nevertheless, the most powerful 3 Series available in Malaysia that isn't an M3 gets the full M Sport - specific aerodynamic exterior package, inclusive of 18 - inch M light alloy double - spoke wheels painted in Ferric Grey Metallic.

Far more than just a fancy paint job this vehicle is the most powerful «street - focused» Veloster ever.

Underneath the incredibly powerful stereos, high gloss paint finishes and LCD screens, one of the most important aspects of the drivetrain upgrade the Infiniti G35 received was the addition of a new six speed manual and a new seven speed automatic gearbox.

After all, when you add a supercharger to a performance - built 302 V8, update every square inch (including the suspension,) and then paint the whole project in a slick metallic blue, you are going to create one of the most unique and powerful first - generation Mustangs around.

In a fresh and knowing voice, Meltzer takes us down the rabbit hole of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and paints a riveting picture of a danger only one man will know - what it's like to fall in love with the world's most powerful daughter.

He was recently named one of the art world's most powerful people by Art & Auction magazine, and lately his paintings have been selling for as much as $ 125,000.

He painted a somewhat hilarious picture of how he turned down working with one of the most powerful men politics, in America, for marrying a Costa Rican prostitute.

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.

Considered one of the most important painters of the twentieth century, Still was among the first generation of Abstract Expressionist artists who developed a new, powerful approach to painting in the years following World War II.

Possessed of a past, they have a future, which concerns us and brings me to the most powerful thing these paintings do.

He is also painting some of the most powerful and distilled compositions of his astonishing career.

PD I like to think of Polke first and foremost as a great painter because I believe his most powerful works are ones that were made within the language of painting.

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.

She will send this photograph to her husband to remind him that he still has a family to support (it is this photograph that Gorky later discovers in his father's drawer and he uses it as the source of his most enduring and powerful painting.

Perhaps as a result, the most powerful of his abstract paintings may be among his least - known — works made, presumably, after the 1961 show of abstractions but before the fateful meeting of the Spiral group in 1963, after which Bearden returned to figuration.

Francis Bacon: Invisible Rooms will feature approximately 30 paintings alongside a group of rarely seen drawings and documents including some of Bacon's most powerful works, surveying the variety of Bacon's compositions united by this common motif.

These surreal and powerful abstract paintings and found object sculptures, so remarkably strong and of certain muscular type, are the result of various influences that shaped Martinez's unique style, most notably those of urban culture and modern masters.

Considered one of the most important painters of the 20th century, Still was among the first generation of Abstract Expressionist artists who developed a new, powerful approach to painting in the years following World War II.

The Taos paintings, both meditative and classical, are among Martin's most powerful invocations of the sublime, as well as persuasive expression of pure joy.

Although Pousette - Dart (1916 Saint - Paul, Minnesota, USA - 1992 Suffern, New York, USA) created several distinct series of paintings during his long career as an Abstract Expressionist painter, his monochromatic series called Presences spanning the late 1950s through the early 1990s, was among his most powerful.

His most iconic painting, room - sized F - 111, is a powerful deconstruction of the American dream.

With a practice spanning painting and photography and landscapes and figuration, he was most recognized for his powerful images of 1970s subjects whose cool poses and confident style of dress conveyed a certain attitude and hipness.

These works on paper are her most powerful creations, and there is a rich affinity between her graphic pieces, such as the sublime T&I, and Twombly's large paintings and collage - drawings.

Untitled (Boxer), from 1982, is one of Basquiat's most potent and powerful paintings.

Neo-futuristic abstract expressionism best describes the genre of Johnathan's work; colorful and evocative, his paintings create powerful visual discourses about the relationships we form with pop culture and its most iconic characters.

Simultaneously modest and ambitious, his epic cycles of paintings on black history, most famously «The Migration of the Negro» (1940 - 41), tell crucial American stories in powerful ways.

It was overwhelming — the large powerful paintings, and most of the crowd had left.

They are amongst his most elemental and powerful paintings to date.

It is perhaps testament to Still's art that, despite his eschewing of the growing commerciality of the art world, his work became among some of the most powerful and important paintings produced in the latter part of the twentieth century.

«For me, painting's capacity to make images through the manipulation of materials seems to be its most powerful and magical quality.

This magnificent example painted during Istrati's most important period wonderfully demonstrates his powerful style of sensuously nurtured surfaces and supremacy of colour.

In «Café Dolly» the powerful paintings of the mature Willumsen can be experienced along with paintings by two of the 20th and 21 century's most significant artists: The Franco - Spanish Francis Picabia, who was Willumsens's contemporary and one of the leading figures in the Parisian avant - garde, and the living American Julian Schnabel (b. 1951), a headliner in the 1980s new painting and a successful film director.

The day's most powerful critic would crown Tobey innovator of the «all - over» composition method, meaning that the marks stretch evenly across the painting, more like a printed pattern than Teng's «hole in the wall.»

Paul Nash, one of Britain's most important 20th century artists, shows us the terrible impact of war through his powerful and symbolic paintings.

He took a painting and started «editing» it by painting over different parts to see which different abstract forms and figures are the most powerful and evocative.

There's nothing more powerful than the artist painting what's going on in the world around him and the fact that artists are seen to be as powerful as soldiers, with their paintbrush using a visual type of propaganda, especially when most of the population were illiterate.

Artists responded to rapid social change and economic anxiety with some of the 20th century's most powerful art - brought together now in this once - in - a-generation show, America after the Fall: Paintings in the 1930s.

Now one of that show's most subtly powerful pieces, an untitled 2009 painting - sculpture hybrid, has permanently insinuated itself into two collections — the Menil and the Dallas Museum of Art's.

One of the most powerful and moving expressions of this association can be found in the choral masterwork Rothko's Chapel, composed as a tribute to Feldman's close friend Mark Rothko, for the dedication of the chapel in Houston, Texas, which houses 14 paintings by Rothko.

With their splotchy, crusty rivulets of paint and veiny, expansive, vaguely vegetal - organic forms, Maekawa's paintings are as powerful as any of the most emblematic canvases of the legendary postwar New York School.

Considered one of the most important artists of the twentieth century, Still was among the first generation of abstract expressionist artists who developed a new and powerful approach to painting in the years immediately following World War II.

When viewing an abstract painting, color is often the most powerful aspect of the experience.

Noted for his forceful expressionism - exemplified by a bold use of colour in his landscape painting as well as his portrait art - his most significant contribution is probably his woodcuts, which are among the most powerful examples of Expressionist printmaking.

The 1920s, meanwhile, saw the newly - wed Ben and Winifred Nicholson bouncing ideas off each other and their fellow artists in a ferment of creativity, while over on the other side of the planet the redoubtable Emily Carr battled against isolation and rejection in British Columbia to create one of the most powerful legacies of modernist painting in Canada.