Sentences with phrase «of renaissance painters»

Not only does Peter Joseph not consider himself a minimalist artist, he sites early Venetian and Florentine painting as influences and subscribes to a methodology usually associated with that of Renaissance painters.

In 1936, he moved to New York where he developed his interest in philosophy, poetry and the work of the Renaissance painters.

The work of the Renaissance painter Tintoretto was shown at the Venice Biennale in 2010 and the controversial artist Jeff Koons has just had his work on show at a museum in Frankfurt normally devoted to Old Masters» sculpture.

Their extravagant symmetries of colorful plants, flowers and animals usually surround or cover human faces like elaborate headdresses or masks and evoke Mardi Gras revelers, Mayan carvings and the anamorphic portraits of the Renaissance painter Arcimboldo.

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Examples of this «trick of the eye» art, or trompe l'oeil as it commonly known, date back to Graeco - Roman times, but it wasn't until the Renaissance, when painters mastered the art of perspective drawing, that the genre flourished.

From Renaissance painters» first use of perspective to artistic algorithms shaping 21st - century works, mathematics and art have a long, rich history

Senior Chris W. researched and wrote about Aaron Douglas, a Harlem Renaissance painter, and created a wood carving of Douglas's work «Noah's Ark» (right) with the help of Si Thompson, a mentor, history teacher, and accomplished carver.

Later in his artistic life De Chirico changed into a more «classical» painting style, inspired by the painters of early Renaissance, Giottto and Ucello.

Historical fiction buffs will also want to look out for Karen Harper's The Queen's Governess, a Tudor drama told from the perspective of Elizabeth I's governess; Ellen Horan's 31 Bond Street, about a 19th - century murder scandal in New York City (the book will be «difficult for any reader to put down,» according to Ron Rash); and Lynn Cullen's The Creation of Eve, about Renaissance female painter Sofonisba Anguissola.

As part of the exhibition «Metamorphosis: Titian 2012» at the National Gallery, London (11 July — 23 September 2012), fourteen leading poets were invited to respond to three masterpieces by the Renaissance painter, Titian: Diana and Callisto, Diana and Actaeon and The Death of Actaeon.

Diego Velázquez (1599 - 1660) was a painter in the court of Spain's Philip IV during the Spanish Golden Age (Siglo de Oro), a period influenced by the Italian Renaissance, during which the arts flourished throughout the country.

* If you have trouble recognizing the paintings of Botticelli just remember the advice of my elementary school art teacher - «Botticelli paints people with chilly botties», but then again, so did many other Renaissance painters!

A haunting novel of rivalry, love, and betrayal that transports readers back to Renaissance Italy, Leonardo's Swans will have you dashing to the works of the great painter — not for clues to a mystery but to contemplate the secrets of the human heart.

One of the oldest known breeds, going back 700 years, during the Renaissance Papillon dogs were used extensively as models for painters, including Rembrandt.

Seville, capital of Andalusia, Roman city, Arabic, renaissance, baroque, American, Mary - devoted, flamenco, bullfighting, modern, festive, luminous, perfumed, seafaring, traditional, hospitable, gracious, cosmopolitan, religious... All these adjectives and many more that could be added to describe this city, that aside from personifying the typical «Spanish» and «andaluz», has so many attractive artistic, cultural, social and tourist qualities that has converted it into one of the most universal, well - known and most - visited cities in the world, cradle of inspiration for writers, painters and artists in general.

You also find any possible environment: varied and world - famous seaside regions (Italian Riviera in Liguria, the Amalfi coast, Sicily, Sardinia, a total of 7000 km of coast), beautiful and varied rural areas which inspired Renaissance painters, be it with cypress - studded landscapes or with scenic countryside.

The walls of Belmondo Hotel in Chania are decorated with replicas of famous Renaissance painters, like Da Vinci and Michelangelo, but the rooms are appointed with modern amenities.

The painters and sculptors of the Italian Renaissance are most noted for their melding of religion and realism; the Romantic movement in England, appropriately, centered on the artist's individual feelings and motivations while still making the language accessible to the common reader; China's Tang Dynasty allowed art and poetry became more popular among the middle and lower classes than ever before, and while landscapes and nature remained the focal point of most art, increased contact with new foreign countries expanded their own artists» techniques.

Boucher introduces Lotto as «an outlier in Italian Renaissance art, a portrait painter capable of capturing the soul on canvas, a man whose religious art struck a note of sincerity in an age bound by ritual and dogma, a figure overshadowed in life by Titian and Raphael and condemned to poverty and relative failure in his own day.»

He was influenced by his traveling companion Paul Cadmus and the works of the Renaissance Manorists painters who steered him to the use of egg tempera and the development of his magic realism.

The 1977 show also included female Old Masters of established reputation: Renaissance painters like the Cremonese aristocrat Sophonisba Anguissola and the Bolognese Lavinia Fontana; eighteenth - century professionals like the pastel portraitist Rosalba Carriera, whose Venetian studio was once as essential a stop on the Grand Tour as that of her male colleague Pompeo Batoni in Rome, and the Swiss - born Angelika Kauffmann, represented by a self - portrait that showed the dark - haired, porcelain - skinned beauty making a definitive choice between painting and music.

Guston briefly provides biographical information and spends the remainder of his time speaking of his experiences working on the Mural Project (PWAP) in Los Angeles; his move to New York working under Reginald Marsh as a non-relief artist; his multiple mural projects in New York (Penn Station Subway, Queensbridge Housing Project, WPA Mural for the World's Fair, etc.); his success in WPA Fine Arts competitions; his move to Woodstock, New York; his time spent teaching at the University of Iowa; his many influences (Renaissance, Modern and Abstract Painters); his personal / professional feelings about the WPA as well as his political feelings about it.

With its dour farm figures portrayed with the flat but meticulous detail of a Northern Renaissance masterwork, the painting seemed a natural extension of the painter himself, who cultivated a homespun, folksy persona.

Focusing on two key works — the Pietà and the Raising of Lazarus — this exhibition examines the artistic fruits of their camaraderie, which was borne in part out of a rivalry with the High Renaissance painter Raphael.

«Dosso Dossi, Court Painter in Renaissance Ferrara,» ran at The Metropolitan Museum of Art through March 28, 1999.

His fascination with technological methods for producing paintings is also evident in the 2001 television program Secret Knowledge, in which Hockney posited that the Old Master painters used camera obscura techniques to project images of their subjects onto their paintings» surfaces, leading to the photographic quality of Renaissance painting.

Kaphar cuts, bends, sculpts and mixes the work of Classic and Renaissance painters, creating formal games and new tales between fiction and quotation.

My mother had a ton of books on classical painters, like Caravaggio, and the greats of the Renaissance, whom I loved, but no books on contemporary art.

I am a figure painter, borrowing a lot of techniques from the Renaissance painters, and so his work really resonated with me.

Paolini's belief that a work of art is not just reflective of the «here and now» but is also resonant of earlier traditions, has led him to investigate art's relation to the past, creating intriguing installations deeply rooted in art history from the Renaissance to today - from plaster casts of classical sculptures shattered on the ground, to photographs of iconic paintings by Northern Italian Renaissance painter, Lorenzo Lotto, or inquiries into the construction of the image.

Frowned upon by generations of art historians as the last expression of irrationality (as opposed to perfect perspective) the primitive painters played a pivotal role in bridging Medieval styles with the resurgence of classicism characteristic of Renaissance artists and architects.

Within art history the term primitive applied to Italian painters of the late Middle Ages refers to artists that precede the onset of Renaissance.

The early works, such as Botticelli's Virgin Adoring the Sleeping Christ Child, which has not been exhibited outside of Scotland for more than 150 years, are religious paintings while later works from the Renaissance masters, 17th - century painters, Impressionists, Post-Impressionists, and Cubists include different genres of paintings such as portrait, still life and landscape, and represent the changing treatment of those genres over time.

Born in Urbino, Italy on April 6 (or March 28) 1483, Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino aka Raphael was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance.

Drawing in Tintoretto's Venice will be the first exhibition since 1956 to explore the drawing practice of this major figure of the Venetian Renaissance and will offer an entirely new perspective on Tintoretto's evolution as a draftsman, his individuality as an artist, and his influence on a generation of painters in northern Italy.

The three inaugurating exhibitions include «Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible,» 140 works from the Renaissance to the present that consider when an artwork is completed; a retrospective of the Indian modernist painter Nasreen Mohamedi (1937 - 1990); and performances by the Met's current artist in residence, Vijay Iyer.

An illustrator, muralist, painter, sculptor and educator, Alston was an important contributor to the art of the Harlem Renaissance, and his social activism also informed his artistic practice.

Old Masters Now: Celebrating the Johnson Collection Featuring Italian Renaissance painters, Dutch masters, and French Impressionists, Old Masters Now: Celebrating the Johnson Collection is on view November 3, 2017 — February 19, 2018, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, first floor Dorrance Special Exhibition Galleries, 2600 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, -LSB-...]

Even now it could be too late for some of the artists on its wish list, such as contemporary figures like painter Mark Bradford and painter - sculptor Kerry James Marshall, whose prices are now topping seven figures, or Harlem Renaissance hero Aaron Douglas, whose works are both expensive and scarce.

Modernism is defined in Latin America by painters Joaquín Torres García from Uruguay and Rufino Tamayo from Mexico, while the muralist movement with Diego Rivera, David Siqueiros, José Clemente Orozco, Pedro Nel Gómez and Santiago Martinez Delgado, and Symbolist paintings by Frida Kahlo, began a renaissance of the arts for the region, characterized by a freer use of color and an emphasis on political messages.

Webb looks at Sienese Renaissance painters such as Sassetta and the Lorenzetti brothers for solidity and volume, and Matisse for fluidity of colour and line.

American painter, printmaker, and sculptor Oliver Lee Jackson (b. 1935) has created a complex body of work which masterfully weaves together visual influences ranging from the Renaissance to modernism with principles of rhythm and improvisation drawn from his study of African cultures and American jazz.

The modern painter can not express this age in the old forms of the Renaissance.

Taking cues from the fruit and flower portraits of Italian Renaissance painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo and vanitas paintings depicting decaying plants and vegetation, Jiang's forms portray plants realistically.

«It seems to me that the modern painter can not express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.»

Two major acquisitions for the San Diego Museum of Art this month: Lucas Cranach the Younger's Nymph of the Spring (c. 1537 — 1540), described by the museum as its «most important Northern Renaissance painting» and John Singer - Sargent's Portrait of John Alfred Parsons Millet (1892), the first work by the painter to enter its collection.

Recent exhibitions and publications on Josef Albers (1888 — 1976) have established this influential artist as a true Renaissance man of modernism — a painter, furniture designer, glass artist, writer, pedagogue, and even album cover designer.

Duccio, Botticelli, Crivelli — just three of the great Renaissance painters who placed architecture at the heart of their works.

Estonian Painter at the Courts of Renaissance Europe together with an Art Museum of Estonia guide.

How could a painter of sweetness and light like Raphael leave such a mark on the High Renaissance?