Sentences with phrase «multifigured allegorical scene»

The European side begins with works by two artists not widely appreciated today: Puvis de Chavannes, the eccentric classicist then much admired by avant - gardists, and a big, strange, multifigured allegorical scene by the British painter Augustus John.

Dennis Rudolph is a German artist who creates landscapes, portraits and allegorical scenes in oil paint and graphics.

In the introduction to the catalog, Pegg notes that the works were created between 1870 (Lot 40: «Landscape,» an oil on canvas by Charles Ethan Porter, 1845 - 1943) and 2005 and that prices range from $ 300 to the highest estimate of $ 80,000 (Lot 550: Bob Thompson's «Allegorical Scene,» a circa 1959 oil on canvas).

While the artist's third solo exhibition retains the diaristic backbone of her anxieties, indulgences and dreams, Morgan enriches her palette of archetypal characters with allegorical scenes.

This exhibit features portraits, still lifes, allegorical scenes and landscapes, trade signs, and figure and animal sculptures.

In his still lifes, portraits, allegorical scenes, and abstract works, Verne Dawson investigates the continuities that persist in human nature and culture, exploring how they are chronicled through narrative and visual representation.

As Hieronymus Bosch used allegorical scenes and elaborate fantasy imagery in his paintings as a commentary on the social and religious climate of the 15th and 16th centuries, Wright reacts to today's social networking with Baroque - like compositions of intricacy, interconnectivity and complication.

In 1950, the organization removed his Big City from an exhibition at the de Young Museum because of eight, small, allegorical scenes depicting prostitution.

The silkscreen and acrylic works in the show combine Andy Warhol's factory aesthetic with reproductions of Böcklin's painting and BHQF's own adaptation of the allegorical scene — a veiled figure floats toward a huge garbage dump that obscures the Manhattan skyline.

Robert Jessup, until now a figurative painter of allegorical scenes, presents a new body of gestural abstractions that he describes as an attempt «to become aggressively visionary... to reconfigure my invented world, to subvert the known and destroy the comfortable.»

Kertess turns to stare at a large painting in progress — «Many Mansions,» an intricate allegorical scene portraying three male figures gardening against the backdrop of a decrepit Chicago housing project called Stateway Gardens.

Williams interweaves references to true incidences of violence with allegorical scenes in which black resistors taunt and tame their abusers.

During the Italian Renaissance, the circle was considered to be a divinely inspired shape and throughout the fourteenth century the tondo (Italian for round) was reserved for religious icons or allegorical scenes.

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The end of the play would be much more comfortable for us if we could treat the Portia of the trial scene as an allegory of the Divine Judge who forces Shylock (the allegorical sinner) to relinquish all his wealth with the conditional restoration of a part of it upon his baptism» that is, he must throw down everything he has and follow Christ.

Jonathan Blow's strange allegorical platformer helped kickstart the modern independent gaming scene, showcasing Xbox Live as a venue for experimental projects as well as deathmatches.

EUROPEAN and AMERICAN paintings framed by Gill & Lagodich include (in alphabetical order): Milton Avery, Conversation in Studio, 1943; Jules Adolphe Breton, The Song of the Lark, 1884; Elbridge Ayer Burbank, six Native American portraits, Kah - Kap - Tee / Moqui, Wick - Ah - Te - Wah / Moqui, Ko - Pe - Ley / Moqui, Pah - Puh / Moqui, Shu - Pe - La / Moqui, Ho - Mo - Vi / Moqui, 1898; Gustave Caillebotte, Paris Street; Rainy Day, 1877; William Merritt Chase, North River Shad, c. 1910; Thomas Cole, New England Scenery, 1839; Jasper Cropsey, Blasted Tree, c. 1850; Gustave Courbet, Reverie (Portrait of Gabrielle Borreau), 1862; Thomas Doughty, Coming Squall (Nahant Beach with a Summer Shower), 1835; Thomas Eakins, Study for «William Rush Carving His Allegorical Statue of the Schuylkill River», c. 1876 - 77; DeScott Evans, The Irish Question, 1880s, Marsden Hartley, The Last of New England — The Beginning of New Mexico, 1918/19; George Hitchcock, Flower Girl in Holland, c. 1887; Winslow Homer, Peach Blossoms, c. 1878; Edward Hopper, Nighthawks, 1942; George Inness, Crossing The Ford, 1848; George Inness, Summer in the Catskills, 1867, George Inness, The Mill Pond, 1889, George Inness, Early Morning, Tarpon Springs, 1892; George Inness, The Home of the Heron, 1893; George Inness, After A Summer Shower, 1894, Joshua Johnson, Mrs. Andrew Bedford Bankson and Son, Gunning Bedford Bankson, 1803/05; Otis Kaye, Heart of the Matter, 1963; Fernand Leger, Reclining Woman, 1922; Fernand Leger, Still Life, 1926; Edouard Manet, Still - Life with Carp, 1864; Edouard Manet, Bullfight, 1865/66; Julius Gari Melchers, Mother and Child, c. 1906; Jean - Francois Millet, In the Auvergne, 1866/69; Jean - Francois Millet, Bringing Home the Calf; Jean - Francois Millet, The Shepherdess; William Sidney Mount, Bar - Room Scene, 1835; Camille Pissarro, The Place du Havre, Paris, 1893; Severin Roesen, An Abundance of Fruit, 1860; Albert Pinkham Ryder, The Essex Canal, 1896; John Singer Sargent, Venetian Glass Workers, 1880/82; John Singer Sargent, Thistles, 1883/89; John Singer Sargent, The Fountain, Villa Torlonia, Frascati, Italy, 1907; Elihu Vedder, The Fates Gathering in the Stars, 1887; Charles Wilbert White, This, My Brother, 1942; Hale Woodruff, Twilight, 1926; and more...

It was also in New York that Thompson quickly arrived at his mature style, taking Dody Müller's advice to heart by reworking the compositions of European Masters such as Piero della Francesca, Nicolas Poussin, and Jacopo Tintoretto into simplified, abstracted forms painted in threatening and seductive tones that were hot and violent or deep and dark — seizing on the dynamism of these classical scenes and often transforming them into contemporary allegorical nightmares.

Ged Quinn specializes in allegorical paintings that include contemporary images in idyllic scenes based on classical paintings such as the pastoral works of Claude Lorrain and Caspar David Friedrich.

The 16th - century Low Countries painter Pieter Aertsen pioneered a new genre of large - scale art: the market scene, which combined the virtuoso rendering of materials prevalent in still life paintings with a human element that often had an allegorical subtext.

Paul Pretzer paints scenes depicting fabulous creatures engrossed in absurd acts with allegorical still - life arrangements.

A master of the allegorical landscape, Friedrich painted dramatic scenes accentuating both the beauty and the intimidating magnitude of nature.

He called this work The Drain, and it is a piece emblematic of a «cinematographic» style that he developed across many series, which are overly allegorical, full of suggested narrative and allusions to both history painting and scenes from early modern painting.

Through a combination of figuration, color, and form, he transformed scenes inspired by the the Old Masters into abstracted, allegorical images of modern American life.

Known for her allegorical portrayal of sexual and comedic scenes, the Brooklyn - based artist often references art history in her caricatures of contemporary life.

Known by most, in the contemporary art scene, for his 16th century inspired allegorical still lives, where his carefully constructed panels contain playful, yet honest objects which remind viewers of death's inevitability, to his various grandiose and remarkably detailed storefront window installations commissioned by the exclusive and internationally renowned Bergdorf Goodman department store; this particular third solo exhibition at Salomon Contemporary, «Interstellar Overdrive «is a hypnotic show all on it's own.

Curated by Mr. Gioni, the show features the Brooklyn - based artist's allegorical portrayal of sexual and comedic scenes in her paintings from the past 20 years, and recent sculptural works that were made specifically for this show.

Her world is filled with orgiastic crowds, dionysiac sacrifices, and allegorical and heroic scenes where the main roles are played by women.

Keeping this in mind upon leaving the Hofmann school, Muller returned to the fiugre, and the allegorical, but managed to keep close all that he had learnded held these ideas In Landscapes I and II, Muller is true to form, using bold blocks of color to create an impressive landscape scene.

Far more allegorical is Blood Stained Auction (2014), which takes a depiction of peasants bringing a cruel landlord to justice from Wang Shikuo's 1959 painting Blood Stained Shirt and updates it as a scene of a contemporary art auction.