Sentences with phrase «mythic figure at»

Not exact matches

The artist Christopher D'Arcangelo — another mythic figure that Garcia Torres has addressed in earlier work — created another challenge in this regard, opting in 1978 to remove his name from the announcement and printed materials associated with an exhibition that he was asked to take part in at Artists Space in New York.

«Fresh, original voices in L.A.: A deceptive look at a mythic figures,» Los Angeles Times, October 28 Ammirati, Dominic.

In her often mythic work, Schimert selects iconic figures - Ophelia, Sir Lancelot, Neil Armstrong, Nixon, and, for her MATRIX exhibition at the Berkeley Art Museum, Oedipus - and merges their stories with her own in an abstractly narrative space composed of drawings, sculpture, wall drawings, and film.

The mythic figures and beasts merge various myths (Egyptian, Assyrian, Meso - American, Greco - Roman), sitting uneasily at the juncture of spectacle and satire, but their sheer detail and scale (one figure, Demon with Bowl, stands several storeys high) makes the jaw drop.

It is the nude human figure in both these paintings, truncated and at times in violent motion that is «the starting point for Bacon's mythic imagination.»

Mir's paintings present a world populated by mythic figures, creatures, machines, and fragments of ambiguous forms that are at odds with their surroundings.

In the world Si - Qin constructs, the artist is not only a regenerative creative force like the mythic namesake of the exhibition, a central figure within Navajo mythology who grows old each winter and is young again come spring, but also an architect looking at extant forms of culture in order to transfigure them, discovering which traits can be refashioned to abstract or practical effect.

In the world Si - Qin constructs, the artist is not only a regenerative creative force like the mythic namesake of the exhibition, a central figure within Navajo mythology who grows old each winter and is young again come spring, but also an architect looking at extant forms of culture in order... [read more»]

Berkson is right about Bischoff working in a pastoral mode, but he fails to recognize that the dream - like worlds of «Figure at Window with Boat» and the later mythic paintings are obsessed.

However, by including such figurative works as «Figure at Window with Boat» (1964) and the later mythic paintings, «Figure, Boat, Clouds» (1971) and «Figure with Tree» (1972), the exhibition suggests that there are more sides to Bischoff's figurative paintings than his urban scenes, and the full extent of what he did between 1952 and» 72, is still unknown, particularly on the East Coast.

The mythic figures are too big and uncomfortable, not quite at ease in the natural world, which is made up of slathers of paint.