Sentences with phrase «of draftsmanship»

While a more recent touring exhibition of his work was entitled Kerry James Marshall: Mastry, this catalogue of works — created for his first exhibition at David Zwirner Gallery in London in 2014 — reveals Marshall's mastery of draftsmanship and painting and his exciting experimentation as he addresses these canonical limitations.

The eclectic yet singularly focused selection demonstrates the multifaceted ways in which artists have played with this technique, using it to expand the traditional boundaries of draftsmanship.

Well aware of Kara Walker's work and impact, they actively sought to acquire a major example of her draftsmanship.

The title of the exhibition, Stones to Stains, alludes to the development of the artist's idiosyncratic form of draftsmanship and its relationship to the transformative properties of water.

The artist's studio practice is based on her feel for visual texture, a rich and adventurous palette, and a level of draftsmanship that takes full advantage of an expressive linear technique.

Spanning from a drawing from the workshop of Raphael, to the first - ever watercolor by Winslow Homer to enter a museum collection, to works produced in the past five years by Natalie Frank, William Kentridge, and Titus Kaphar, the exhibition highlights the role of draftsmanship in artistic practice through a diverse selection of masterworks from artists across a wide range of art history.

Curator Rachel McGarry discusses her discoveries and examines the role of draftsmanship to some of the world's most renowned artists.

Not exact matches

Echoing the artist's early training and expert draftsmanship, the imagery in the eight prints in the ICA / Boston's collection originate from the immersive multimedia work, In Search of Vanished Blood.

The untitled works vaguely imply architectural draftsmanship including abstract floor plans, measurements and landscaping akin to the preliminary drawings of Frank Gehry.

Characterized by austere lines and grids superimposed upon muted grounds of color, Martin's paintings elegantly negotiate the confines of structure and space, draftsmanship, and the metaphysical.

This rare example of Monet's draftsmanship was produced early in the artist's career when he was tackling a large canvas depicting a luncheon party of elegantly dressed figures picnicking in a garden.

A master of traditional draftsmanship, Blanck's unique interpretations and advancements mark an emerging trajectory within contemporary art.

If he reminds me of anyone, it's R.B. Kitaj, the late School of London fixture and American expat with whom Doig shares a penchant for primitivist draftsmanship and thinly applied color — though not, thankfully, the same pretensions to creating a form of contemporary history painting.

Joel Daniel Phillips» work focuses on the tenets of classical draftsmanship employed in monumental formats.

Indistinct, marvelously enigmatic blobs of pooled ink and paint, blurred draftsmanship that obscures faces, and hazy horizons align with the endgame of MoMA's traditional agenda, as outlined by curator Alfred Barr in 1938 in a famous diagram tracking the progression in modern art toward abstraction.

These masterworks of narrative compositions are astutely conscious of flatness, illusion, and draftsmanship, with dynamic brushwork and colors that freely incorporate comics and pop culture as much as they sample the grand tradition.

More than an easy way to achieve the identifiable «look» of contemporary work, these monochromatic stylings highlight the draftsmanship and technical skill of the artists who made them.

Noted for his deft draftsmanship, Martinez creates large - scale works that maintain the feeling of drawings.

Eric White's paintings reference 20th century film, music and pop culture backed by consummate draftsmanship and painterly finesse to subvert and recode the dominant narratives of contemporary society.

His work has been the subject of solo exhibitions worldwide, including Photography Autocracy, Klein Sun Gallery, New York, NY (2017); Fountain 泉, Klein Sun Gallery, New York, NY (2016); Off Target: Cai Dongdong, Charles Chu Reading Room, Connecticut College (2016); Image Uterus Production Power, Gallery 55, Shanghai, China (2013); Draftsmanship, Mattias Kuper Galleries, Stuttgart, Germany (2012); Tea Garden, UNIDEE Art Foundation, Biella, Italy (2011); and 51m2: 6 # Cai Weidong, Taikang Space, Beijing, China (2010).

The French artist is noted for his use of color and his fluid, brilliant draftsmanship.

Let the Light Enter, Major Drawings, 1942 - 1970 will feature a dozen drawings that reveal the extraordinary draftsmanship of an artist dedicated to the heroism, tribulations, hopes, histories, and strengths of known and unknown African Americans.

But he was a late - blooming prodigy who almost right from the moment he enrolled in John Sloan's class at the Art Students League in New York in 1923 distinguished himself by the boldness of both his ambition and his draftsmanship.

The vast experience of life today can not be captured by draftsmanship alone.

Scheduled to be on view from May 18 to July 27, Nancy Grossman: Drawings will consist of fourteen arresting works on paper from the 1960s and 1970s, revealing the confident draftsmanship of a celebrated, international sculptor.

There are a mere 21 of his portrait drawings, mostly from the late 1960s and»70s and none recent, just enough to affirm his exceptional draftsmanship.

The resulting drawings range from small - scale abstractions to monumental figures and scrolls, which demonstrate Ramírez's unique draftsmanship of concentric lines, undulating patterns, and surreal topography.

This way of learning is very tight and technical, and helped me to understand draftsmanship, line, form and light.

Known for his narrative murals and outstanding draftsmanship, John Biggers dedicated his work to the depiction of the human condition.

Often repeating certain generic themes and motifs — such as hearts, skulls, and tools (as well as the Disney version of Pinocchio)-- in multiple forms and mediums, his interest in seriality and the everyday are emblematic of the Pop style, yet Dine's work is simultaneously distinguished by his masterful draftsmanship.

Richter's mother, the daughter of a concert pianist, encouraged her son's early talent for draftsmanship.

The artistic practice of Raoul Dufy was very diverse and prolific and it included painting, draftsmanship, printmaking, book illustration, scenic design, furniture design and urban space planning.

2015 20 Years, essays by Stephen Friedman and Sarah Thornton, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England (catalogue) Kerr, Dylan, Artist Paul McDevitt on Fusing Draftsmanship With the Anarchy of the Streets, Artspace, 24 March

Loose enough to be atmospheric, yet containing just enough detail to be both accurate and satisfying on closer more detailed inspection, his intuitive use of colour in bold flowing washes, is underpinned by his firm grasp of perspective and draftsmanship, complemented by a strong sense of place.

Other telling elements of the show, and of this moment, are a certain preference for densely layered, intricate draftsmanship and a shift to what Sussman terms «nonchromophobia,» the artists» embrace of color and scale in the service of a loose but detectable visual narrative, of the sort found in Lari Pittman's work.

«I discovered that I had both the instinctive eye and inventiveness for costume craft but, as an architect, was compelled to use my skills in architectural design and draftsmanship, turning to folding printed card as a medium instead of fabric.»

Wu's art effortlessly switches back and forth from impeccable draftsmanship to total abstraction... Wu Guanzhong's art has a very calming and refreshing effect and it demonstrates the possibility of an expert representational painter successfully integrating abstraction.»

From the epics of Peter Paul Rubens to the sublime graphics of Mondrian, Donato Giancola's oil paintings mine classical draftsmanship, narration, and aesthetics of composition to lay a foundation rich in historical associations.

As O'Hara said, «There has never been enough said about Pollock's draftsmanship, that amazing ability to quicken a line by thinning it, to slow it up by flooding, to elaborate that simplest of elements, the line — to change, reinvigorate, to extend, to build up an embarrassment of riches in the mass by drawing alone.»

While Jacobsen's meticulous draftsmanship is evident in his remarkably faithful reproduction of the original, he emphasizes the subtle shifts, distortions, and softened details.

(Think architectural draftsmanship in the spirit of Zaha Hadid.)

A room in the Virginia Steele Scott Galleries of American Art has been transformed by the installation of six oversized books, illustrated with 65 new paintings that display Pittman's brilliant draftsmanship and acidic color.

Henri Matisse drew constantly, and his direct, elegant draftsmanship has become a hallmark of modern art.

Most often with work that is big on creativity, innovation, or shock value, rather than through traditional skill in draftsmanship or use of color.

The ongoing series «White Snow», first exhibited York in 2009 and now encompassing hundreds of works, reveals the artist's deft draftsmanship and layered, gestural approach to drawing.

This is the first major museum survey of the L.A. - based artist, known for her painstaking draftsmanship and enigmatic drawings and paintings.

Her work confirms a major sensibility, a preternatural gift for draftsmanship, a discerning eye for composition, and a genius for the architectonic arrangement of lines, angles, planes, circles, and negative and positive space, all enhanced by potent shadings of color and light.

The deceptively rough appearance of the marks is countered by Baldridge's use of rennaisance cartoon transfer techniques which include the laborious process of working and reworking each image through thousands of tiny pinpricks, as well as flawless technical abilities in serigraphy and draftsmanship.

Either way, he was certainly some kind of crackpot genius, and his cartoonish, sexually charged, mystically suggestive colored - pencil drawings from the 1950s, on view in «From Barefoot Prophet to Avant - Garde Artist «at Michael Werner Gallery, are as compelling for their beautiful draftsmanship as they are for their bizarre metaphysics and gleefully fierce satire.

Right from the beginning of Krasner's career, dating from the 1930s until she met both Pollock and painter John Graham in the early 1940s, Krasner displayed a precocious and competent draftsmanship.