Sentences with phrase «of icon paintings»

Amy Mandelker has drawn attention to the term «reverse perspective» as used by Russian Orthodox theologians to describe the unusual dimensions of icon paintings, with the gaze of the viewer drawn to the level of earthly events and yet given a peculiar perspective, as from a heavenly seat, so that people and objects do not have their expected everyday appearance.

Nikolai Kormashov's Paintings from the 1960s 18.10.2013 — 09.02.2014 4th floor, B - wing The exhibition focuses on the first decade of Nikolai Kormashov's (1929 — 2012) work, where we find a combination that seems impossible at first glance: the work motifs and industrial views familiar from the official art of the day combined with the sacred aesthetics of icon painting.

The dominance of the respective color background and proportions of the original photos he incorporates often evoke the tradition of icon painting.

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The Church provides for painting their icons, composing hymns and prayers to them, publishing an official version of their life stories, and venerating their relics (if the communists left anything behind).

Matthew's story of the transfiguration becomes a luminous narrative icon, a painting in words that points beyond the text to the true reality of Christ, the light of the world.

There are many Icons (paintings) of him from that culture (Byzantium), and that faith, The Greek Orthodix Church.

With his careful choice of very beautiful line drawings and colour plates of icons, Hart demonstrates that the spiritual life of the person who paints icons is of great significance.

There he photographed a young Eritrean man, Abdullah; one of a number of artists who had decorated the makeshift sanctuary with paintings of icons and sacred triptychs.

I began to wander without ambition, finding myself first in medieval paintings and tapestries, walking through galleries of dark religious icons.

The Orthodox Church has icons (paintings) because of this.

Besançon first earned his reputation as a historian of Soviet politics and of Russian nationalism (toward both of which he entertains understandably dim views), and he thinks that the Russian nationalists of the nineteenth century, among their other sins, killed the genre of icon «painting when they began to praise the icon's superiority over Western art.

As early as 787, at the Second Council of Nicaea, it was ruled that icon painting was to be seen not an invention of artists but an inherited and established institution of the Church, entrusted to men totally committed to God.

From the vestments (which are really nothing more than the Fourth Century CE court clothing of the Eastern Roman Empire), the canonized saints (which are essentially «Christian» demigods that replaced the pagan pantheon), the numerous feast days and holy days (which replaced pagan holidays), the statues and painted icons (which replaced pagan idols), and the episcopal structure (in which «third sons» of landed aristocrats who had no hope of inheriting their fathers» titles and lands could become «princes of the church» with as much worldly comfort as the «first sons» and almost as much wealth and power), the Anglican Church was practically indistinguishable from the Roman Church except that they used English in the Mass instead of Latin.

When debate about an artist's merit no longer seems to have any point, one is left either with an icon of culture, too sacred to enjoy, or with a target of satire, brought down to our more humdrum level by a vaudeville lampooning of the unapproachable totem, as when graffiti artists paint a moustache on reproductions of the Mona Lisa.

Art and such intellectual life as existed was nourished in them, and the icons were painted which were means of strengthening the religious life and became prominent in Russian Christianity.

The Olympics turned all of Athens into an Olympians Reunion Center, like one of those paintings you see in diners in which Elvis, Brando, James Dean, Marilyn Monroe and a hundred other icons are all packed into the same small frame.

While the comparison is lax — any midfielder with an eye for a pass can be compared to the Barcelona icon — it paints a picture of composure, calmness and the ability to look for a pass that few others can see.

Paintings of goddesses hung on the walls, and there were ornate icons and decorations.

An icon (from Greek εἰκών eikōn image) is a religious work of art, most commonly a painting, from the Eastern Orthodox Church, Oriental Orthodoxy

An icon (from Greek εἰκών eikōn image) is a religious work of art, most commonly a painting, from the Eastern Orthodox Church, Oriental Orthodoxy Icons - Land offers Vector Icons: Transports, Points of Interest, Sports.

11:11 pm 12th An icon (from Greek εἰκών eikōn image) is a religious work of art, most commonly a painting, from the Eastern Orthodox Church, Oriental Orthodoxy

Oh, and The General Lee, the icon from the original series reborn, the late 60's Dodge Charger painted bright red, featuring doors that don't open and an ability to land almost any ridiculous jump conceived of as a way to relieve our intense boredom.

«Immerse yourself in the disco - era world of Puerto Rican - born fashion icon Antonio Lopez, who upended the industry with his vibrant illustrations while painting the town with friends and lovers including Karl Lagerfeld, Grace Jones, Jessica Lange, and Jerry Hall.»

«Immerse yourself in the disco - era world of Puerto Rican - born fashion icon Antonio Lopez, who upended the industry with his vibrant illustrations while painting the town with friends and lovers including Karl

Documents, photographs and paintings can be accessed directly from the icons at the top left of each slide.

The School of Rock logos and music - inspired icons are hand painted.

The Icon Series features brand new solid color schemes that offer a more unique, one - of - a-kind paint option for consumers.

The icons and menus have been given a fresh coat of paint but are still easily recognizable as Android; the notification bar has been jam packed with toggles and controls yet avoids being over-crowded and difficult to navigate.

The big, touchable icons on the desktop include a sample version of ArtRage 2, a paint program, and Daum PotPlayer, a free video player whose Korean roots are evident in the Hangul characters that ornament the English - language menus.

The example given was A Song of Ice and Fire, where the covers have gone from elaborate painted fantasy (when the series was new) to very simple, almost generic icons on single - color backgrounds, almost totally obscured by the author name.

It is filled with beautiful examples of the «Cusco School» style of paintings, gold and religious icons.

Other notable pieces include a painting of Queen Beatrix by pop culture artist and icon, Andy Warhol, medallions by Frank Lloyd Wright, and a massive floral painting by Charles Ben.

Again, as you expand your studio you'll likely gain more of these icons that let you shift brushes around until you get to a point where this small element of management almost disappears entirely as you have enough symbols, brushes and movement icons to let you paint as much as you want.

In this Lesson, from John's «Acrylics: Watercolour Style» course, John shows you how to paint on icon townscape of London, using acrylics in a watercolour style - giving the translucent feel that watercolourists love but with the flexibility and forgiveness of acrylic paint.

Among the trio of Target pieces is a vast 70 foot long mural, rendered in bold red and white and mixing cute illustrated icons alongside hand - painted lettering and symbols.

And those paintings at Pat's function as icons of those daily moments.

For the majority of viewers, this show will be a revelatory introduction to an artist who is best known for «The Rose,» a legendary and inimitable work that is both a densely built - up painting and a wall relief, a religious icon that weighs 2300 pounds.

The silhouette of the artist's head is a recurring icon in the paintings, a device that Dine uses to merge self - portraiture with his study of surface, texture and paint itself.

In a time when the word icon can mean anything from commercialized images that flood the media to religious icons, the paintings of Linda Smith, Secular Icons, help to fill a void in contemporary icons, the paintings of Linda Smith, Secular Icons, help to fill a void in contemporary Icons, help to fill a void in contemporary life.

His paintings mentally continued beyond the edges of the canvas are «abstract icons», a counter-images to reality, the result of his «transcendental experiences».

Hofmann, Mitchell, Pousette — Dart, Stamos, Hollis — Taggart Galleries, New York (October 30 — December 6) De la pierre à l'écran: Studio Franck Bordas, Paris, Le Centre de la Gravure et de l'Image imprimée, Brussels, Belgium (October 4, 2014 — January 11, 2015) Make it New: Abstract Painting from the National Gallery of Art, 1950 — 1975, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts (August 2 — October 13) Joan Mitchell: Mémoires de paysage, Musée des Beaux - Arts de Caen, Caen, France (June 14 — September 21) Rothko to Richter: Mark - Making in Abstract Painting from the Collection of Preston H. Haskell, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey (May 24 — October 5) Mitchell, Benglis, Wilke, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts (May 19 — October 26) Hans Hofmann, Joan Mitchell, Sam Francis, Galerie Thomas Moderne, Munich, Germany (March 21 — May 17) Modern Masters: 20th Century Icons from the Albright - Knox Art Gallery, Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado (March 2 — June 8) Made in the U.S.A.: American Masters from The Phillips Collection, 1850 — 1970, The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. (March 1 — August 31) Grażyna Kulczyk Collection: Everybody is nobody for somebody, Fundacíon Banco Santander, Madrid, Spain (February 15 — June 15) Ed Clark: Big Bang, Tilton Gallery, New York (January 14 — February 22)

Gallery Talk on Icons of the Desert: Early Aboriginal Paintings from Papunya given by Fred Myers, Silver Professor and Chair of Anthropology, NYU.

Kelly's Blue Green Yellow Orange Red, a painting with stark vertical color panels, was named a Pratt Top 125 Icon in 2012 as part of the Institute's 125th anniversary celebration.

Hockney's swimming pool paintings are among the most popular pictorial icons of the 1960s.

As we saw in Tokyo, KAWS has been pushing further and further into multi-layered paintings, hiding and revealing some of his icons underneath bursts of color and line work.

The five wall - mounted «icons» on view bridge the mediums of painting and sculpture.

What is slightly different with the Hong Kong show is the centerpiece of the show is not a painting with icons covered by thick black lines.

Bridging the mediums of painting and sculpture, the selection of icons created between 1961 and 1964 connects the work that Flavin made early in his career to the sculptures in light for which he is remembered.

«As I Opened Fire» three prints after paintings of the same title by Pop icon artist Roy Lichtenstein.

His paintings of cakes, pies, pastries and toys, characteristically outlined in multiple colors, became an icon of American painting.