Sentences with phrase «of nude figures»

[32] Dumas says of her paintings of nude figures that «it was not the nude I was looking for, nor the posing figure, but the erotic conditions of life... Two «subjects» confronting each other.»

Stephen Hayes portrays the human condition through intuitive sketches of nude figures he made in 1993.

The South London Gallery became a chapel with two tiers of Renaissance frescoes in which the settings for the groupings of nude figures were not the usual columns and arches but structures erected from enlargements of turds.

Commissioned to represent the seven ages of man, they consisted of 18 eight - foot sculptures of nude figures with chunky thighs, straight roman noses and pronounced musculature.

Classical paintings of nude figures are seen.

Happy Dance (Joie de Vivre), from 1961, is a flimsy decorative armature that includes a painting of a 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.

He experiments with etchings, monoprints, oil and acrylic paintings and has become known on the East End for his studies of the nude figure.

She photographed artist K8 Hardy posing in the gallery; silkscreened images of her nude figure recur throughout the chapter.

Not exact matches

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

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».

In these experiments, Berger and colleagues show that somatic PREX2 mutations identified through whole - genome sequencing of human melanoma can contribute to enhanced lethality of tumor xenografts in nude mice (Figure 3B, S6B, and S6C; Berger et al., 2012).

None of the ten C57BL / 6 beige nude mice rejected BALB / c corneal allografts (Figure 2A).

I started my search for a minimalistic, classic nude high heel sandal back in February and figured I'd give a run down of my favorites tried on to date, from splurge to steal:

Cate's reminded me too much of the figure skating costumes with the nude illusion, but it does look nice on her.

Apparently she didn't think she could get away with baring this much either, because the nude illusion is just that — one of those tacky swaths of nude fabric that figure skaters love so much.

I also received a girly nude bag with gold hardware that I LOVE, jade faux - wrap dress (too big on me), olive midi skirt (could not for the life of me figure out what to pair with it), and this gorgeous gold chain and emerald beaded necklace.

helena Christensen is an impeccable figure as she poses nearly nude in the new issue of Madame Figaro, while admitting she has never been on a diet in her

The brilliant low - budget sci - fi action flick that launched James Cameron's career begins its mirror dance of destruction and destiny with a tank - bot crushing human skulls in a post-apocalyptic wasteland and two nude figures materializing from blobs of animated lighting in mid-1980s Los Angeles.

To hold on to sanity when the Luftwaffe's bombs began to fall, she burned to memory, brushstroke by brushstroke, these exquisite artworks: the nude figures of women, the angels, the serene Madonnas that had so shortly before gazed down upon her.

Before I started working this way, I was painting nudes, and most of my work still begins that way, with a nude figure that I «dress» as the piece develops, usually according to whatever I feel that subject would wear.

For instance, in Four Posters: Figure in Front of a Mantel (1984), a gift - shop poster of Balthus's Nude Before a Mirror from the Metropolitan Museum proclaims: «Some details are decorative... but the whole is totally twentieth century.»

The Mete of the Muse (2006) juxtaposes differing representations of race in two bronzes: one a black patinated Egyptian figure and the other a white painted classical European nude.

This is just another term for a realistic work (as opposed to a work featuring a figure which is variously known as a nude, life painting or figure painting, a life drawing or figure drawing, or if they are clothed, a costume painting, costume drawing or portrait if a personality is the center of focus.)

The Life Drawing series is an independent figure drawing class that allows students to work from a nude model in your choice of mediums.

Selected Group Exhibitions 2016 — «Faculty Exhibition», Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL 2015 — «Wish List», Gallery Project, curated by Gloria Pritschet and Rocco DePietro, Toledo, Ohio and Ann Arbor, Michigan 2015 — «Roots», Linda Warren Projects, Chicago, IL 2015 — Noyes Cultural Arts Center, Evanston, IL 2015 — «Faculty Exhibition», Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL 2014 — «National Contemporary Painting», Weatherhead Gallery, University of Saint Francis, Fort Wayne, Indiana 2013 — «31st Juried Art Show», Wilmette Public Library, Wimette, IL 2012 — «30th Juried Art Show», Wilmette Public Library, Wimette, IL 2012 — «Narrative Fragments», Quidley & Company, Boston, MA 2011 — «Juxtaposed», juried by Alyssa Monks, Six Summit Gallery, Ivoryton, CT 2011 — «Paintworks», Gowanus Ballroom, curated by Kristin Kunc, Courtney Jordan & Hyeseung Marriage - Song, Brooklyn, NY 2011 — «Space Invaders», co-curated by Virginia Rose and John Nickle, Rose Contemporary, Portland, ME 2011 — «Cinematic Bodies», curated by Jamie Adams, Zolla Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL 2010 — «Snow», XL Projects, Syracuse University Gallery, Syracuse, NY 2010 — «Women Painting Women», Robert Lange Studios Gallery, Charleston, SC 2010 — «Remnants», Fuse Gallery, New York, NY 2010 — «Highlights» Island Weiss Gallery, New York, NY 2010 — «Conceptually Sound», Medialia Rack and Hamper Gallery, New York, NY 2010 — «Chicago Art Fair», shown by Linda Warren Gallery in Chicago, Illinois 2010 — «Looks good on Paper», DFN Gallery, New York, NY 2009 — «Water / Bodies», Eden Rock Gallery, St. Barths, F.W.I. 2009 — «Summer Exhibition 2009», curated by Eric Fischl, Matthew Flowers, Anne Strauss, New York Academy of Art, NY, NY 2009 — «Old School», Jack the Pelican, Brooklyn, NY 2009 — Caldwell Snyder, San Francisco, CA 2008 — «Small Works», Sarah Bain Gallery, Anaheim, CA 2008 — «City Lights», George Billis Gallery, New York, NY 2008 — «Chicago Art Fair», shown by Linda Warren Gallery in Chicago, Illinois 2008 — «Take Home a Nude» Art Auction at Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, NY 2007 — «Summer Exhibition 2007», curated by Eric Fischl, Jenny Saville, Vincent Desiderio, New York Academy of Art, NY, NY 2007 — «Four Handed Lift: Advocacy, Art, Spirit and Community», Moti Hasson Gallery, New York, NY 2007 — «Small Works», Sarah Bain Gallery, Anaheim, CA 2008 — «Chicago Art Fair», shown by Linda Warren Gallery in Chicago, Illinois 2006 — «Contemporary Imaginings, The Howard A. and Judith Tullman Collection», Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, Alabama 2006 — «Night of a Thousand Drawings», Group Show, Artist's Space, New York, NY 2006 — «AAF», shown by DFN Gallery, New York, NY 2006 — «Salon 2006», New York Academy of Art, New York, NY 2006 — «LA Art Fair», shown by Linda Warren Gallery in Chicago, Los Angeles, CA 2005 — «New Works», curated by Eric Fischl, Jane Gallery, St. Barthelemy, F.W.I. 2005 — «A Terrible Beauty: Figurative painting in the 21st Century», Grey McGear Modern, Santa Monica, CA 2005 — «Small Works», Sarah Bain Gallery, Brea, CA 2005 — «Cityscapes», Sarah Bain Gallery, Brea, CA 2005 — «Take Home a Nude» Art Auction at Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, NY 2005 — «Go Figure», George Billis Gallery, New York, NY 2004 — «Postcards from the Edge, Visual Aids Benefit», Brent Sikemma Gallery, New York, NY 2004 — «Night of a Thousand Drawings», Group Show, Artist's Space, New York, NY 2004 — «Points of Muse», Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago, IL 2004 — «Separate Visions», Sarah Bain Gallery, Brea, CA 2004 — «Still Life», Sarah Bain Gallery, Brea, CA 2004 — «27th Small Works Exhibition», New York, NY 2003 — «Space Invaders», curated by Peter Drake, Fish Tank Gallery, New York, NY 2003 — «26th Small Works Exhibition», New York, NY 2002 — «National Arts Club 26th Annual Student Show», National Arts Club, New York, NY

A key figure of Australian art since the mid-1980s, Linda Marrinon has developed an idiosyncratic language of figurative painting and sculpture that merges contemporary cartoons with neoclassic tropes of the nude, reclining figure, and bust or standing portrait.

Monday June 8th Life Painting @ Hillyer Art Space «An independent figure drawing class that allows students to work from a nude model in your choice of mediums.While easels, chairs and artistic ambiance are provided by Hillyer, artists are required to bring their own drawing materials.

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.

His early work passed though the styles of impressionism, Orphism, Dada, Surealism, and verbal and visual collagel his later art extended from composition that superimpose linear painted figures upon one another (and, sometimes, several of those on apinted ground), to painting based on pinup nudes and commercial illustrations and, finally, to coarse, heavily textured canvases that depict totems, masks and shields.

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.

But whereas the work of those artists achieves a meaningful dissonance through a sundry aggregation of disjunctive motifs, Picabia's layered images serve to reinforce one another within each painting, coalescing in their signification into a unified expression or theme: in one case it is the seductive menace of his Portrait of Kiki (ca. 1938 - 40), a demimonde figure painted in lurid yellows and greens with a spider form imposed over her face; in another it is the cheesy eroticism of Reve (ca. 1935), an image of a sleeping woman about to be kissed imposed over a nude standing (like Botticelli's Venus, but with arms upraised) on the surface of the waves.

The Fauve's later nudes, like Odalisque with a Tambourine,1925 - 26, held in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, is especially prescient in the context of Diebenkorn's figures and draws a distinct visual link between the two artists.

Alongside the exhibition, pioneering works by Gerhard Richter from the collection of the Museum Ludwig are being presented, including icons such as Ema (Nude on a Staircase) from 1966, 48 Portraits of German intellectual figures from 1971/72, the abstract painting War from 1981, and the glass work 11 Panes from 2003, among others.

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.

Join us on the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month for this adult figure drawing class with a nude model.

Opening: «Izumi Kato» at Galerie Perrotin After exhibiting in Japan since 1996, Izumi Kato makes his New York solo show debut with a display of recent paintings and sculptures of nude, alien - like figures with multiple heads, limbs that sprout plants and torsos with wings.

At the centre of David Shrigley's installation Life Model (2012) is a pissing, blinking, 3m - tall nude male figure.

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?

A painter who inspired Delacroix with his studies of heads, Cezanne with his nudes, and Van Gogh with his cows, Jordaens is a figure worthy of re-evaluation.

Some of the brides wear elaborate satin gowns, others are nude; most are attended either by partially visible assistants or fully developed figures who share a congested space with them.

Serge Attukwei Clottey shows a new series of pastel drawings on paper, depicting disjointed figures and faces - not unlike the visions of nude women under Cubism, a European movement which drew heavily from traditional African tribal sculpture.

Reinterpreting the Otto Dix image using recent polaroids of himself and Elke nude, sitting in a similar position as Dix's parents, the artist painted the figures using predominantly black and white palette and addressed the powerful themes of his celebrated «Avignon» canvases exhibited at the 2015 Venice Biennale.

They have depicted themselves as naked figures in their pictures, recasting the male nude as something vulnerable and fragile rather than as a potent figure of strength.

In a series of large - scale works Castator's cartoonized figures guzzle beer, flail in the nude, roll doobies, and watch nuclear warheads launch across TV screens — all while the emergency exits melt and coalesce.

He also produced series of monumental nudes, where the gestural scrutiny of the posed body and the direct gaze intensify the figure's physical presence.