Sentences with phrase «of decorative»

The museum also has smaller collections of decorative arts and architecture.

In a small selection of her paintings, one can discern hints of the decorative motifs of Pierre Matisse, the unsettling figures of Pierre Klossowski, the otherworldly symbology of William Blake, the dark satire of George Grosz, and the cheerful palette of Florine Stettheimer.

The exhibition is organized at VMFA by Barry Shifman, Sydney and Frances Lewis Family Curator of Decorative Arts from 1890 to the Present.

She holds an MA in the history of decorative arts and design from Parsons The New School for Design (2014), and a BFA in craft and material studies from the University of the Arts (2004).

Selected group and solo shows include Studio Voltaire (UK), Object Gallery (Australia), Tramway (Scotland), Hales Gallery (UK), Bonnefantenmuseum (Netherlands), National Museum (Sweden), Victoria & Albert Museum (UK), World Ceramic Centre (Korea) and The West Norway Museum of Decorative Art (Norway).

His work signaled a return to the figure and the development of decorative research in close liaison with architecture.

But she had an extraordinary installation also at this place called the Piazza Stampalia, which is a museum of decorative arts, where her work was installed through the museum, where her work was the very contemporary work with these other decorative objects from, you know, 17th, 18th, 19th Century.

Twenty - two flags designed for the occasion are installed in the place where the city celebrates its popular festivals — the Loire Festival and the Joan of Arc Festival — through its tradition of decorative flagging.

Division of Decorative Arts, Department of Fine Arts, San Francisco.

GOLDEN COLLABORATIONS: A lecture on works of Peter Carl Fabergé and Henrik Wigstrom by John W. Keefe, curator of decorative arts at the New Orleans Museum of Art. 3 p.m. Wednesday.

Eastman's house presented a classical facade of decorative craftsmanship.

Rather, they offer up the perspective that modern and contemporary ceramics, often relegated to the annals of the decorative arts, are of equal artistic merit and deserving of the same scholarly attention as painting and sculpture.

A popular and fashionable style of decorative design and architecture in the inter-war years (much beloved by cinema and hotel architects), Art Deco designs also extended to furniture, ceramics, textile fabrics, jewellery, and glass.

Victoria and Albert Museum London (V&A) The world's largest museum of decorative arts and design, its permanent collection consists of more than 4.5 million objects.

The result of research conducted on two fronts — conservation and curatorial — the catalogue offers a reconsideration of the cut - outs by exploring a host of technical and conceptual issues: the artist's methods and materials and the role and function of the works in his practice; their economy of means and exploitation of decorative strategies; their environmental aspects; and their double lives, first as contingent and mutable in the studio and ultimately made permanent, a transformation accomplished via mounting and framing.

Suzan has exhibited nationally and internationally at such institutions as the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Montreal Museum of Decorative Arts and the National Museum in Zurich..

«Considered as instruments of political power, ideological vehicles, demonstrations of ostentatious luxury and economic power, but also as incarnations of emotions and experiences, the historical archetypes of decorative arts consummately provide me with useful material.»

Matisse would cut painted sheets into forms of varying shapes and sizes — from the vegetal to the abstract — which he then arranged into lively compositions, striking for their play with color and contrast, their exploitation of decorative strategies, and their economy of means.

By incorporating casts of firebricks and porcelain slip molds into her sculptures (revealing the tools of industry), she reflects on and investigates the tradition of decorative arts.

Louis Vuitton Les Petits Nomades, a new collection of decorative objects was premiered at Palazzo Bocconi.

At the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts, Kathleen Morris, curator of decorative arts and director of exhibitions and collections, says a similar process prevails.

I had the honor of curating an exhibition of her work at Guild Hall in 1992, «Miriam Schapiro: The Politics of the Decorative,» which allowed me the opportunity to get to know her better.»

In his day Chareau was celebrated as a designer of exquisite furniture and stylish interiors, which he displayed at the annual salons of decorative art.

In 2008, a portion of the decorative plaster cornice of the Whitney Studio collapsed, prompting the closure of the space to visitors and drawing renewed attention to its condition.

The curtain in the painting has a different color scheme, but the geometry of the decorative elements is more or less the same, with the folding of the cloth adding another dimension.

Constructed with hand - upholstered cushions in luxurious fabrics, referencing 19th century aesthetic style and craftsmanship of decorative objects the installation fills the gallery space forcing viewers to explore and touch their crowded expanses and cavernous corners, creating a small maze not unlike the Essex Street market itself.

The exhibition includes approximately 12 paintings, 40 drawings, 40 works of decorative art, and vintage photographs of Klimt, drawn from public and private collections worldwide.

Its heady sense of decorative delirium.

A series of decorative panels, The Public Gardens (1894), were shown together for the first time since 1906.

All of this is contained in the notion of decorative delirium, the tenor of which has to do partly with the violent rootlessness and mutability associated with the intensified complexity of the work.

And in BAD DIMENSION (INFINITE REBOOT), he gives a pair of knifelike metal cutouts leaning against the wall a coating of decorative graffiti.

The affirmation of the decorative is intrinsic to the ambition of these paintings.

Sarah Schleuning, the High Museum's curator of decorative arts and design since 2011, will depart the institution to assume a new role as the Margot B. Perot senior curator of decorative arts and design at the Dallas Museum of Art beginning March 5.

In recent works Bas extends his long interest in and exploration of the decorative arts, in particular rethinking and examining unique interiors.

During the 1970s he painted numerous works that used as a point of departure the reinterpretation of the decorative effects of traditional Japanese painting.

«The Department of Decorative Arts and Design at NOMA has a large portion of the museum's collection, with more than 15,000 works of art,» said Susan Taylor.

Artworks will be judged by Susan Taylor, The Montine McDaniel Freeman Director at NOMA, Russell Lord, the Freeman Family Curator of Photographs, Prints & Drawings at NOMA, and Mel Buchanan, the RosaMary Curator of Decorative Arts & Design at NOMA.

A Louisiana Parlor: Antebellum Taste & Context will be on view June 26 — October 11, 2015 in the Ella West Freeman Gallery and will be integrated into NOMA's permanent collection of decorative arts shortly thereafter.

Given the recent rise of a similarly trans - cultural phenomenon in the form of Gerhard Richter's abstract paintings, there's something to be said for Contemporary artists who find a way to make lage bodies of decorative work with few barriers to interpretation or assimilation.

Through an astonishing selection of decorative and design objects, Inventing the Modern World: Decorative Arts at the World's Fairs, 1851 - 1939, showcases the technological and scientific invention, cross-cultural influence, national pride, modernism and historicism that defined the world's fairs, and which is especially resonant in New Orleans, the home of the 1884 and 1984 World's Fairs.

Since 2009, Mel has been the Demmer Assistant Curator of 20th - century Design at the Milwaukee Art Museum, and previously served as Assistant Curator of Decorative Arts at The RISD Museum.

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[26] The Center has John Gellatly's European collection of decorative arts.

Milhazes draws upon local visual traditions as diverse as Baroque colonial art, folk styles of decorative painting and the mass - produced textiles, wallpaper, and ceramic tile of her everyday surroundings.

In 1915 with the construction of the Evans Wing for Paintings, and in 1928 with that of the Decorative Arts Wing, both designed by Lowell.

One was the atmosphere around Peter Cook and the Archigram Group at the Architectural Association, where he studied; the other an appreciation of decorative detailing which owed much to late 19th century eclecticism.

Also includes examples of his decorative arts inspired by his travels.

Since 2000 he has produced a body of «lace paintings» — wilfully beautiful canvases luridly coloured and richly patterned with impressions of decorative lace.

In the Comic Strip Strasbourg School of Decorative Arts educated Marion Fayolle previews new strip «The Collector».

«Rocaille» refers to a form of decorative art that uses or suggests the shapes of shells, as the seat and back of the chair do here.