Sentences with phrase «of early paintings»

Many of her early paintings consisted of shapes that were more or less rectangular, often in silver, gray and black, defined by crisp lines and edges.
It comprises a range of recent work and a selection of earlier paintings.
The opportunity to consider this work and chart her artistic evolution from the series of early paintings of the 1960s is really a remarkable experience.
It also features a group of early paintings and works on paper that serve as a catalyst for her current work.
After a few rooms of early paintings, we enter a number of large galleries with the artist's recognizable work.
They are full in color, and don't feature black and white, a hallmark of her earlier paintings.
David Zwirner is pleased to present an exhibition of early paintings by Dutch painter Piet Mondrian (1872 - 1944) at the gallery's London location.
(Full disclosure: I included several of his early paintings in a small - scale European show a half - decade ago.)
Karsten Schubert curates an exhibition of early paintings by Dutch painter Piet Mondrian at David Zwirner, London.
Do you remember that great show of his early paintings at the National Gallery of Art (Cézanne: The Early Years 1859 - 1872) in 1988?
While the current exhibition concentrates on William Bailey's recent work, both figure and still - life paintings, also included is a selection of earlier paintings including Italian Profile from 1963, Girl in White Skirt from 1977 and L'Attesa from 2006.
Richter had his first one - man show with Alfred Schmela in 1964 where he exhibited several of his early paintings based on photographs.
The exhibition highlights the range of his production, starting with examples of early paintings executed around the time of his 2001 residency at the Studio Museum in Harlem.
Once again enrolling at the local Kunstakademie, Richter intended to work in a more uninhibited, avant - garde manner, in the process of rethinking his approach to art making, he purposely destroyed many of his early paintings from the «50s and the «60s.
Plagued by depression and professional disappointments, that forced him to destroy most of his earlier paintings, Ahn experienced the terrifying incident as profoundly transformative.
In these works, the expressionist brush strokes of his early paintings are replaced by the effects of a vapor evaporator, a piece of specialized machinery that allowed Bell to apply subtle gradations of translucent color.
Instead, he emphasizes the importance of nationhood, the kind of nation building, or community building, really, that was a principal part of the Black Power and Black Arts Movements and that he expressed in one of his early paintings titled «Nation Time» (1969).
It also graces, to surprisingly good effect, a series of early paintings by Andy Warhol, which look like paragons of intellectualism alongside the Koonses.
Consisting of over 150 works, «Juanito and Ramona» opened with a small set of early paintings before quickly moving on to Berni's hectic assemblages.
So Kandinsky was studying anthropological things about shamanism in Vologda and he comes back and a lot of those early paintings with the imagery of riders jumping over people — that's all about shamanic dream travel.
Joseph is best known for his two - colour paintings, those of the 1960s being boldly geometric, relying on primary colours and optical effects; for Herrera the more lyrical abstraction of her early paintings gave way to a focus on pure geometry.
The compressed and flattened space of his early paintings gave way to illusions of deep, cavernous space, for example in his imaginary landscapes and seascapes, such as Un Sospiro di un onda.
The show includes rare examples of his earliest paintings before he began collaging history into his art.
The exhibition and its accompanying publication offer a retrospective view of the artist's work from the 1960s to the 1990s — from the loose geometries and web - like forms of early paintings such as Turn Back Columbus (1963) to the artist's groundbreaking experiments in «pop abstraction.»
His exhibition of early paintings at the Budapest Art Hall led to an invitation by the Arts Alliance of Austria for a solo exhibition at the Kunsthalle in Vienna, followed by solo exhibitions in Paris, Rome, Moscow and St. Petersburg.
After completing a number of early paintings in the Expressionist tradition of Erich Heckel (1883 - 1970) and Karl Schmidt - Rottluff (1884 - 1976), he joined the Bauhaus design school at Weimar, under Walter Gropius, where he became a teacher.
Bacon reproduced recognizable religious paintings of earlier masters including Velazquez and El Greco and then, with great ferocity, canceled out the authority of the earlier painting with striking symbols of his rage.
The exhibit features three of Nicola L's signature heads from 1991: Earth, Forest and Fire Head, a set of early paintings around the same theme, with three sets of Giant Penetrables from 2002 and 2012.
Sharply defined and repeated geometric shapes were characteristic of his earliest painting, that were described by Goossen as depicting «yellowish pink and green dawns, blue noons, and red - orange sunsets that swiftly slide from purple to black», hypothesizing that Ohlson's experience growing up and working long days on the family's farm gave him a unique passion for color.
During his long career, Munch returned over and over again to the themes of his early paintings.
In 1968, the Whitney Museum of American Art staged a retrospective of his work which included none of his early paintings.
Auerbach is known for the heavy impasto of his paintings, where the brush strokes and layers of paint take on the sculptural quality of a relief, although in many of his later works, the layers of paint indicative of his early paintings are instead scraped away before being repainted.
This selection of early paintings documents a conceptual shift in the artist's work as the landscape imagery offered by earlier paintings begins to incorporate and is consumed by the symbol - laden abstract compositions that would become a recurring theme throughout his career.
A series of early paintings completed during her time at the college depict those same amorphous spheres.
He recalls painting both the backs and the fronts of his early paintings, and his installations have sometimes featured light emanating from behind walls or parts of paintings hidden behind architectural elements.
In them, the society dames of the earlier paintings have left their home turf to visit the Painter, imagined as a blond — pompadoured and bearded, usually bare - chested male animal with a brush.
I miss the unequivocal frontality of the earlier paintings, with their blustering walls of words.
In the catalogue accompanying Eva Hesse Spectres 1960, which is currently on view at The Brooklyn Museum, Louise S. Milne, Lecturer at the Edinburgh College of Art, wonders about the merits of the early paintings by Eva Hesse (1936 — 70).
On July 5, 2011, the day of Cy Twombly's death, Julian Schnabel (born 1951) painted a series of cruciform works as a tribute to Twombly, who was an important influencer of his early painting and a close friend.
It lacks the interest of her early paintings, and yet I find her less pretentious than her scale and materials.
Home Again traces the circuitous path of this earlier painting from Diao's studio, through two auctions, and finally back into the artist's own possession — back home, as the title suggests.
The smaller - scale work at Half Gallery has the signature aspects of those earlier paintings, but raises questions about her larger intent.
In her solo show at Half Gallery, Trudy Benson presents easel - size paintings that continue her riff on the digital imagery of early paint software like MacPaint, SuperPaint, and Painter.
There he was introduced to the work of Mark Gertler, Henry Moore, Augustus John and other prominent English artists of the time whose emphasis on visual acuity and technical skill would have a major effect on Mead and accounted for the restraint of his early paintings.
Even as hardened a type as Jasper Johns obliterated traces of his early paintings.
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