Sentences with phrase «of classical painting»

The exhibition is centered around the idea of renewing figurative painting by implementing traditional methodologies of classical painting with digital CGI software.

I like to play with elements of classical painting, but I'm just not interested in making work which is purely «good looking».

The motives and oil paintings by Swiss artist Kevin Aeschbacher are initially conceived on a computer by means of Photoshop and only after are they, in the tradition of the classical painting format, transformed into oil paintings.

I have long remembered the remark of a notable art critic — though I have forgotten which one — that many modernist paintings could be understood as fragments of classical painting blown up for their own sake, displaying the formal and technical elements by which painting is accomplished but eschewing the narrative depiction within which such patches of paint on canvas would earlier have had their place.

Paul Pretzer's painting reflects his deep observations of the history of classical painting; Velazquez, Goya, Munch, and even Cézanne's are his starting point but then his work has a surfeit of add characters and objects.

Rashid Rana from Pakistan, represented by Leila Heller Gallery, showed large C - prints of classical paintings with oriental subject matter and opulent still - lives that have been rephotographed, overlaid by a digitally produced grid and partially obscured.

The artist's portraits of young children highlight the attention to detail, composition and color that characterize much of classical painting.

Included are portraits of personalities such as Vincent Minnelli, Jane Fonda, the Marx Brothers, Louis Brandeis, and Sitting Bull, important German and Swiss figures Mildred Scheel, Max Bill and Joseph Beuys, commemorative images, such as Truck and The New York Post and a reinterpretation of the classical painting «The Annunciation».

With astute technical resolution, Gutierrez is easily able to address a golden age of classical painting while dealing with story lines of Evolutionary Psychology.

Forgive Me Father, For I Have Painted (2011) is a series of paintbrushes and tubes of acrylic enclosed in clear resin, which responds to contemporary art's fascination with new media, often at the expense of classical painting techniques.

From the same period, Abstraction (1949 — 50) revealed the potent religious symbolism that permeated the artist's iconography, which spans from lust and perdition to salvation, making it a modern take on the reflections on the human condition rendered by the masters of classical painting.

With a remarkable technique, John Currin depicts women that often look like the subjects of classical paintings, yet have odd proportions, perhaps like caricatures, that take you by surprise yet make you not be able to look away.

I felt elements of familiarity and sincerity in the work; they struck me as compelling and unique compositions, yet tied to the canon of Classical painting.

In her series The New Painting (2000 - 2005), Brotherus probed the relation of photography to art history and found inspiration in the iconography of classical painting.

There is little doubt that the success of the current exhibition is the result of a long journey of pushing the boundaries of classical painting — not through empty experimentation, but through a concentrated effort and clear knowledge of what painting means.

A leading figure in the contemporary revival of classical painting, Jacob Collins was born and received his formal training in...

Remaining true to his original figurative style, despite the prevailing move towards abstraction, Katz has continued to create his flat, brightly - coloured works, which blend perspectives from popular culture with the poise and composition of classical painting.

Without being classified within a historical perspective, this exhibition focuses more on a young generation of artists that are not painters as such, but they all adopt various and enthusiastic strategies about painting, without indulging however in the forms and materials of classical painting.

Weiner's paintigns of pearls invoke a range of classical paintings - from the Vanitas still life paintings of William Claesz to Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring, to Boticelli's The Birth of Venus.

French street artist Nadège Dauvergne is about to take her wonderful creations, formed from a hybrid of classical painting and street art, to Le Cabinet d'Amateur in Paris.

Influenced by Abstract Expressionism and reacting against the naturalism of classical painting, Claude Viallat developed a new formal language in his paintings.

«OM Rider» is a cinematic experience, unlike Takeshi's other digitally manipulated work, combining the high production values of today's video games with the aesthetic tableau of classical painting captured in slower moving scenes arranged compositionally.

By exploiting the tropes of classical painting styles and subjects, the result is an unsettling evolution of concepts of beauty, a tension between idealized figures and a grotesque reality.

It has the look of a classical painting, but the subject's tattoed torso is defiantly modern.

In the 1980s, at a time when figurative painting was undergoing an international revival, Garouste's practice called for the return to the grand tradition of classical painting, and played with influences by traditional masters from Greco to Titian.

This of course made my life much easier, because I can cut figures of musketeers out of classical paintings.

When they hang a Currin on the wall, they are given permission — more than that, they are given the right — to appreciate this oilcloth horror as a painterly painting as exquisite as a Velázquez, or to enjoy it as an incompetent high - kitsch send - up of classical painting, or to assess its value as social commentary, or to laugh at it as a piece of Dadaist stupidity - for - stupidity's - sake.

Based in the outskirts of Amsterdam, the Dutch - born van Meene has been steeped in the traditions of classical painting.