Sentences with phrase «nude figure studies»

Art historian Robert Hobbs singles out the artist's charcoal nude figure studies from this period.

Sixty three lots were offered for sale at the second edition of the Photographs — Icons & Style sale at Christie's Paris, with works by Irving Penn, Helmut Newton, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Nick Brandt, among others, with Helmut Newton's Big Nude II as the highest priced lot of the auction — this is a work from Newton's first and most important set of the dramatic life - size standing nude figure studies, that he initiated in 1980.

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A glance at three recent works by Kate Davis (b. 1977) from a numbered series Disgrace appear to have pencil scrawls on pages of an art catalogue featuring nude studies of the female figure.

A painter who inspired Delacroix with his studies of heads, Cezanne with his nudes, and Van Gogh with his cows, Jordaens is a figure worthy of re-evaluation.

-LSB-...] His landscapes were not landscapes of a definite country; his nudes were floating figures with no studied anatomy.

Great American Nude # 2 was shown in the travelling exhibition entitled Recent Painting USA: The Figure, put on by MoMA, which also arranged a study day devoted to Pop Art in the same year.

These are accompanied by a suite of early paintings that reflect Golub's study of antiquity, a group of unsettling portraits of the Brazilian dictator Ernesto Geisel, and works on paper that represent subjects of longstanding interest to the artist, from mercenaries, interrogators, and the victims of violence to political figures, nudes, and animals, all of them rendered in the raw, visceral style for which he is justly celebrated.

An early study of a seated nude demonstrates not only Still's ability to render forms accurately but also his attentiveness to the planes of light and shadow that define the figure.

These intimate studies — many of them full figure nudes — of neighbour Helga Testorf, made him very rich.

The show will examine his understanding of form and light in the composition of formal portraits, still lifes and figurative works that celebrate the sensual quality of nature and the human body.The works relate strongly to the museum's permanent collection of fine art that includes portraits from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Dutch old master still lifes and studies of the nude and human figure, a staple of western art dating back to the classical forms of Greek sculpture.

Exhibition Checklist Main Gallery (Clockwise from entrance) Robert Arneson Splatt, 1983 bronze with unique ceramic base 71 x 21 x 21 inches RAs 130.01 Robert Arneson Elvis II, 1978 conte, pastel on paper 41 5/8 x 29 7/8» RAd 04 Joan Brown Self - Portrait at Age 42, 1980 enamel on canvas 71 3/4» x 60» JBRp 19 Steven Campbell Men Insulting Nature and the Notion of Travel, 1986 oil on canvas 83 x 99 inches SCamp 01 Carol Cole Tar Baby, 2004 mixed media 7 x 13 inches CCs 1 Peter Saul Come and Get Me, 1968 oil on canvas 63 1/2 x42 inches PSp 118 Richard Shaw Figure on a Palette, 1980 glazed porcelain 39 x 13 x 18 inches RSs 68 Andrew Lenaghan Big Sarah, 2005 acrylic on canvas 77 1/2 x 58 inches AnLp 395 Yoan Capote Madness II, 2004 steel 70 1/2 x 40 x 23 inches YCs 19 Collier Schorr Esther's Fine Dream (Ashes to Ashes, We All Fall Down), 1991 cast paper, acrylic, pencil, and collage L 18 x W 12 x D 10 inches CoSs 1 James Barsness Untitled (Red nude on street), 2004 acrylic, ballpoint pen 12 x 9 inches JBARd 60 James Barsness Untitled (with jack o'lantern), 2004 acrylic, ballpoint pen, inkjet archival print on paper 11 7/8 x 8 5/8 inches JBARd 61 Anthony Kulig Look - Out, 2005 plaster, acrylic Two figures 17 x 4 1/2 x 3 inches each AKuls 8 Don Colley Weave 2003 7 x 6 1/2 inches scratchboard, artist's frame DCp 10 Don Colley Reel, 2003 scratchboard, hand - made hardwood frame 6 x 6 inches DCp 09 Side Gallery Diane Edison Self - Portrait Interior (striped robe), 1992 color pencil / black paper 30 x 22 inches DEd 8 Adolph Gottlieb The Watchers, c. 1941 oil on canvas 30 x 24 inches AGotp01 Lesley Dill Of, 2005 unique bronze with oil paint 67 x 58 x 28 inches LDs 207 Alfred Leslie Bread and Coffee, 1983 oil on canvas 84 x 60 inches ALp 02 Stanton Macdonald - Wright Study for American Synchromy # 1, 1919 charcoal on paper (2 - sided drawing) 25 x 18 1/2 inches SMWd 3 Stanton Macdonald - Wright Study for American Synchromy # 2, 1919 charcoal on paper (2 - sided drawing) 25 x 18 1/2 inches SMWd 4 James Valerio David, 2004 pencil on paper 30 1/2 x 25 inches JVd 52

I especially recommend a group of figure studies, the best of which is Reclining Nude (After Shelby Creagh) from 1982, which trades classic linear life drawing marks for a heavier, angled black line that in many ways can be extended from these early works into the idiom of the silhouette for which he is best known.

«Daisies and Nudes» aligns not just some of their finest figure studies, but also flowers — for which Uglow is known but Coldstream is not.

The exhibition will also include early Golub paintings that reflect his study of antiquity, his series of unsettling portraits of the Brazilian dictator Ernesto Geisel, and works on paper rendered in a raw, visceral style depicting subjects from political figures and victims of violence to nude forms and animals.

He experiments with etchings, monoprints, oil and acrylic paintings and has become known on the East End for his studies of the nude figure.

[1] Three of her drawings, two nudes and a figure study, are owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, [3] and her work may also be found in the collections of the Wadsworth Athenaeum, the Allen Memorial Art Museum, and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art.

In 1887 he completed a series of studies of a group of nude female figures known as the Bathers (Philadelphia Museum of Art).

The nude figure drawing or figure study of a live model rapidly became an important part of artistic practice and training, and remained so until the 20th century.

Michelangelo's suspiciously boyish Study of a Kneeling Nude Girl for The Entombment (Louvre, c. 1500), which is usually said to be the first nude female figure study, predates this and is an example of how even figures who would be shown clothed in the final work were often worked out in nude studies, so that the form under the clothing was undersStudy of a Kneeling Nude Girl for The Entombment (Louvre, c. 1500), which is usually said to be the first nude female figure study, predates this and is an example of how even figures who would be shown clothed in the final work were often worked out in nude studies, so that the form under the clothing was understNude Girl for The Entombment (Louvre, c. 1500), which is usually said to be the first nude female figure study, predates this and is an example of how even figures who would be shown clothed in the final work were often worked out in nude studies, so that the form under the clothing was understnude female figure study, predates this and is an example of how even figures who would be shown clothed in the final work were often worked out in nude studies, so that the form under the clothing was undersstudy, predates this and is an example of how even figures who would be shown clothed in the final work were often worked out in nude studies, so that the form under the clothing was understnude studies, so that the form under the clothing was understood.

The exhibition is kicked off in high style with a choice 1907 Picasso study for his epochal «Demoiselles D'Avignon»; Matisse's 1916 study for the «Portrait of Sarah Stein,» the finished painting of which is also in the collection; Amedeo Modigliani's 1913 «Blue Caryatid,» a figure study characteristic of the artist's archaicizing tendencies; a 1978 drawing of adolescent eroticism by Balthus; and a 1925 nude by Matisse of a mature woman luxuriantly spread out on a chaise for his personal delectation.

[27] Perhaps shedding light on the over-reporting of earlier studies, the researchers found that the figure rose to 9.6 % when the definition was broadened from images prosecutable as child pornography to any suggestive image, not necessarily nude ones.

The picture on the wall in the dining room is a copy of Francis Bacon «s Study of A Nude With Figure In A Mirror and is so big it had to be hoisted into the apartment through a window.