Sentences with phrase «of nude female figures»

In 1887 he completed a series of studies of a group of nude female figures known as the Bathers (Philadelphia Museum of Art).

In the old days in China carvings of the nude female figure were used for diagnosis.

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The plaza was formerly the site of the controversial «Triumph of Civic Virtue» statue, a 17 - foot - high marble statue that depicted a male nude standing on top of two female figures representing «Vice» and «Corruption».

Choose from a diverse collection of female nudes, Pre-Raphaelite figures and famous portraits.

A glance at three recent works by Kate Davis (b. 1977) from a numbered series Disgrace appear to have pencil scrawls on pages of an art catalogue featuring nude studies of the female figure.

In lush evocations of the female form, such as Nude — Elbow on Knee (above), painted in 1961, he continued many of the pictorial innovations of his previous series, but set them within an intimate portrayal of the human figure.

Transition from Cool to Warm takes its title from Kiefer's book Erotik im Fernen Osten oder: Transition from Cool to Warm (1976), in which atmospheric renderings of an arctic seascape lead to the emergence of a female figure and then to a series of loose, abstracted, and exquisitely stained nudes.

The Guerrilla Girls» famous poster protesting that while only 5 % of the artists in the modern section of New York's Metropolitan Museum are women, 85 % of its nudes are female is definitive in that way (the figure was still at 4 % and 76 % when they updated the work in 2011).

At this space, the figure of a female nude tied to what looks like a torture device is the disturbing central image of a nine - panel 1975 painting called «Moving Through» by the American artist Juanita McNeely.

Lucian Freud's oeuvre is comprised of expressive, realist portraits, most often of female nudes or of himself, but also of various public figures, such as Clint Eastwood, Leigh Bowery, and Queen Elizabeth II.

Art for every body on display at Color of Energy gallery By Brittany Erwin Photo: Parrish's untitled nude figure calls viewers to confront the female form Is the ideal female body tall and long - limbed?

The subject of Christopher Brown's new multipanel paintings is a wooded landscape, crossed by a river, and sometimes including a nude female figure.

A small, flat silhouette in the shape of a vessel is painted on one side with a nude female Venus figure, and on the other side with abstract patterns in washy colors — a careful method with a quick look inherited from Modern painting masters.

The works engage the psychological realm of attachment to the female body and how that's processed through both a traditional and a contemporary reading, as the many reclining, sitting or lounging female figures relate distantly to any number of female portraits (often reclining female nudes) painted throughout history.

As a coda to this narrative, the exhibition includes Pearlstein's most recent paintings, a series of three canvases completed in early 2015: nude female figures are animated with vibrant animal masks as they lounge and recline over Navaho rugs.

Often playing with images and materials associated with beauty and desire, Hamilton repeatedly uses sculptural cut - outs of film stills or women's legs made from transparent plastic and wooden shapes based on Modernist depictions of female nudes such as the curvy abstracted figure found in her 2007 piece The Piano Lesson, based on Fernand Léger's 1921 painting Le Grand Déjeuner.

The figure here is nude, yet her nudity is denied through these bars of reflections.Amusingly, this disembodied, incomplete yet suggestive female figure must be seen as some kind of «portrait» of Mr. Helms, here feminized, stripped and placed on view for all to see.»

In lush evocations of the female form, such as Nude — Elbow on Knee, painted in 1961 ($ 800,000 - 1,200,000)-- he continued many of the pictorial innovations of the prior series but nestled them within an intimate portrayal of the human figure.

In this exhibition, Women: New (Re) Presentations, McGinness expands upon his ever - growing language of symbols with a concentrated yet expansive body of work based upon the traditional academic drawing of the female nude figure.

In Pin - up (1961), a mixed - media work exploring the female nude, sculpted plastic was used for the breasts of the nude figure.

In the exhibition «She», Warren constructs a bold new figure of the female nude that couldn't fail to make us smile.

Pee Body (1992), for example, depicted a nude female figure in wax crouched on the floor relieving herself, urine trailing behind in the form of yellow beads.

Known for her explicit male nudes that quote and subvert the art historical tradition of male gaze onto female body, in her portraits feature artists, musicians and writers of both genders, dressed and naked, representing a pantheon of significant cultural figures.

Known for his intimate figure paintings — especially of the female nude — and delightful portraits of Parisian socialites, Renoir has collected a cast of characters who still very much play a role in contemporary art today.

Measuring over 12 ft. (4 m) tall, a nude female figure steers a raft, while simultaneously balancing an enormous tower of found objects — trunks, pots, pans and various household essentials — on her head.

Often he squirted the pigment at his figures without touching a brush - «my tube is like a rocket, which describes its own space» - or laid it on thickly with a palette knife: Reclining Nude of 1966 (in a private collection) is less concerned with the female body than with the «tangible sensuous experience» of painting.

Many things on display in «14 Rooms» would make for excellent clandestine iPhone photo fodder: there's Damien Hirst's Holly, Gretel, in which two identical twins were reading the same Jodi Picault novel under a Hirst spot painting; Marina Abramovic's Luminosity, from 1997, featuring a nude woman suspended on the wall and washed in the glare of a spotlight; an early Bruce Nauman performance called Wall - Floor Positions; and, as an epilogue, Jordan Wolfson's [Female Figure], the now - famous robot that was on view at David Zwirner earlier this year.

Where his early works encompassed portraits and Impressionist landscape painting, as well as genre - painting featuring groups of figures in cafes, dance - halls, boats, or riverside scenes, his later works are largely concerned with female nudes or semi-nudes.

A master of both painting as well as printmaking, Mueller is noted above all for his landscape painting, populated by female nudes, and elongated figures.

In Thomas» own photograph, «Sidra Sitting,» the artist replaces the typically demure, white figure of the reclining female nude with a fully dressed black woman confident in her posture and looking at the camera head - on.

She is noted, first and foremost for her figure painting and classical - style figure drawing of large - scale obese female nudes, characterized by their extreme physicality.

Semmel's treatment of the figure — the gaze directed at either her own body or her lover's — was her challenge to the dominant patriarchal portrayal of the passive female nude.

Note: X-ray analysis shows that originally a second female nude stood in place of the male figure, before Giorgione erased it.

Perhaps Botticelli wanted to distort the female figure in the same way Citarella manipulated his nude, producing and at the same time questioning the sensuality of the body.

Inspired by nutcrackers depicting female figures - and in particular one found on the internet of Hilary Clinton - these interactive sculptures embody the two polar stereotypes of female power; the idealized, sexualized nude female form and the too - powerful, nut - busting uberwoman.

The video depicts a gray - toned, three - dimensional rendering of what appears to be three nude female figures melding into a single conjoined form.

Knowing the historical context of the nude in high art and refreshing the complex artist - model relationship, her work is distinct from the «raw» figure paintings of Jenny Saville and Lucian Freud, and goes beyond John Berger's juxtaposition of female nudes from old master paintings with porno shots in Ways of Seeing (1972).

On display were embroidered works as well as miniature clay figurines that «challenge misogynistic ideals found in fairy tales» with nude, highly sexualized figures of females and a distinct narrative that portray a profound tale.

On view are «Large Dark Figure» (1962 — 63), a shadowy, abstract painting, and «Two Sisters» (1976), a highly realistic work of two female nudes, both of which reveal the range of her exploration into how best to capture her subjects.

The exhibition is arranged in sections that illustrate these themes, including: * The self portrait * The male portrait * The female nude * The still life * The seated female figure There will also be examples of Picasso's later work on display, where he parodied great works of the past, such as Manet's Déjeuner sur l'Herbe.

Although each work is an independent work of art, the various images relate to each other stylistically and the long wall seems to narrate a story: demure charcoal drawings of reclining nude female figures and black and white portraits of dogs are being juxtaposed with Shishkin's colourful and richly patterned paintings.

Turning the perspective of her compositions to her own body as subject, she began painting the nude female figure, shifting the point of view from outside of the canvas as the viewer, to a simultaneous observer and subject.

Sylvia Sleigh (1910 - 2010) was a figure in the feminist art movement of the 1970s who is best known for turning portraiture and art history on its head as she reversed traditional sex roles in her paintings, casting her husband and their friends and associates as male nudes that recalled the female subjects often found in paintings by Titian or Ingres.

[28] Lisa Yuskavage's nude figures painted in a nearly academic manner constitute a «parody of art historical nudity and the male obsession with the female form as object».

Michelangelo's suspiciously boyish Study of a Kneeling Nude Girl for The Entombment (Louvre, c. 1500), which is usually said to be the first nude female figure study, predates this and is an example of how even figures who would be shown clothed in the final work were often worked out in nude studies, so that the form under the clothing was understNude Girl for The Entombment (Louvre, c. 1500), which is usually said to be the first nude female figure study, predates this and is an example of how even figures who would be shown clothed in the final work were often worked out in nude studies, so that the form under the clothing was understnude female figure study, predates this and is an example of how even figures who would be shown clothed in the final work were often worked out in nude studies, so that the form under the clothing was understnude studies, so that the form under the clothing was understood.

Late in his career Corot also turned to figure painting and it is only fairly recently that this aspect of his work has emerged from neglect — his female nudes are often of high quality.

In the Nudes in the Landscape show, as in Women at Work, all of the female figures are in fact based on drawings from a single nude model who posed for Ms. Dodd in the model's Maine garden, where all the props to be seen in the figure compositions - the clothesline with laundry, the wood pile, the house and garden - were already in place.

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