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.»
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.
Not exact matches
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.
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.
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.
A master
of the
allegorical landscape, Friedrich painted dramatic
scenes accentuating both the beauty and the intimidating magnitude
of nature.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Williams interweaves references to true incidences
of violence with
allegorical scenes in which black resistors taunt and tame their abusers.
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.
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.