Sentences with phrase «often paint collections»

Not exact matches

Often featured in the news are the new paintings of past Prime Ministers, for example the famous first official portrait of Tony Blair by Phil Hale, added to the Parliamentary Arts collection in 2008.

More than 200 paintings and sculptures make up the permanent collection and there are often special exhibits.

A colourfully painted collection of duplex - styled bungalows and longhouses on the top of a hill overlooking Labuan Bajo and the sea, this popular Dutch - run hotel is often deservedly full, although the brightly painted rooms aren't quite as nice as Bayview, which is in the same price range.

Third visit during the full day ubud tours is visit Batuan village to see process making the traditional painting and see their collection, Batuan village is always become magnet for those like the fine art, the style of traditional painting in Batuan were often dark, crowded representations of either legendary scenes or themes from daily life, freakish animal monsters, and witches accosted people.

As one might expect from a collection of 19th and 20th century Scandinavian paintings, scenes are full of gloomy weather, domestic interiors and often that signature anxious isolation that permeates work created in these environments.

The resulting paintings, often distinguished by an arc shape that imbues them with a sense of movement, are also distinct for their attention to surface texture and experimental application of color as in Harmonica YP (1972), a highlight of BAMPFA's collection.

Pippin, who took up painting after losing the use of his right arm (he was shot in the shoulder during active service in the First World War) trod a line between modernist and folk art traditions: «The painting will serve as a bridge within the broader American collection to reveal complex and often - overlooked relationships between styles and practices», M. Melissa Wolfe, the museum's curator of American art, explained.

Critics have often noted that his collages rank among his highest achievements, and few of the works at the Parrish or the late paintings at Ameringer McEnery Yohe in Chelsea compare with collages or the small collection of assemblages that appeared at New York University's Grey Art Gallery under the exhibition title «Concrete Improvisations.»

Paintings like this don't come on the market very often, for Klimt's jewelled sarcophagus - like portrait of one of his many Jewish patrons in fin de siecle Vienna hung in that city's Belvedere museum until it was prised out of this major public collection by law.

With a fluidly shifting yet recognizable visual language, Sprecher's paintings often explore and juxtapose motifs from landscapes, natural and human - made objects, and imagery taken from photographs that linger in the artist's mind — a desert vista from a residency in Marfa, Texas; a collection of stones; an aging photograph of three doves from an old family photo album.

More than that, the collection of paintings communicated a sense of unease beyond the often lustrous and saturated textures of each work's surface.

In his work at the Leeds Art Gallery, Horizon (Leeds), he made a selection of a dozen or so 19th and early 20th landscape paintings from the extensive Leeds Art Gallery permanent collection, and hung them at different heights so that a formed a single horizon, which cut across their (often ornate) picture frames.

Martinec's paintings and drawings explore ideas about time, history, reality and spirituality, often appropriating imagery from vintage photographs and the Old Masters, and these new works have been developed in response to an invitation from the National Gallery in Prague to respond to the museum's Baroque collection.

Close often paints abstract portraits of himself and others, which hang in collections internationally.

«While my work is situated in the present, it often invokes artists from the past whose paintings linger in our collection memory and influence how we think about landscape.

The Frick Collection in New York and Norton Simon in Pasadena, Calif., have popularized the model of treating one remarkable painting as an exhibition in itself, often using a work on loan to shed light on items in the permanent collection.

One of the most intriguing and often - reproduced American paintings in the collection of the National Gallery of Art is the inspiration for Deacon Peckham's «Hobby Horse» — a focus exhibition on view on the Ground Floor of the East Building from May 27 through October 8, 2012.

Wright's groups often spend extra time in the Painting and Sculpture galleries, which housed the vast art collection Johnson and Whitney acquired over their 40 years together.

This evolving continuum of personal and idiosyncratic images is often presented in epic collections of small - scale drawings, paintings, and photographs, presented in flowing and seemingly haphazard installations that appear to grow organically, like a busy life well lived.

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.

[lvi] «Muriel Newman did not admire Wells Street painting, but often invited us up to her apartment to see her collection, watch a movie, and serve us Kraft cheese and Ritz crackers.»

Known for his monumental, architectural - scale sculptures, which incorporate salvaged steel and steel I - beams, often brightly painted and ranging from 20 to 60 feet tall (6 to 18 meters), di Suvero's sculptures can be seen in over 100 museum collections, public parks, university campuses, and urban plazas throughout the United States, Europe, and Australia.

[8] The collection essentially begins in the Renaissance, initially with works mainly by foreign artists of Scottish royalty, nobility, and mainly printed portraits of clergymen and writers; the most notable paintings were mostly made on the Continent (often during periods of exile from the turbulent Scottish political scene).

«The painting will serve as a bridge within the broader American collection to reveal complex and often - overlooked relationships between styles and practices typically presented as quite disparate.»

Surveying a range of approaches — from painting and sculpture to drawing, installation, moving image, performance, and photography — the exhibition sequences groupings of works by each artist that underscore the often provocative, historically charged, and risk - taking nature of the Walker's multidisciplinary collection.

One In A Million highlights Gronquist's brand of satirical, often fantastical, and always gorgeous sculptures as well as a collection of paintings.

As a movement that is all too often painted as kill - joy, holier than though, and maybe even a little smelly, shouting too long and too hard about the evils of weekly trash collection risks only perpetuating such stereotypes.Yet there is no doubt that something has to be done about our all - too - casual attitude to waste.

Often, paint companies have a collection of whites that aren't just white but contain subtle variations of white that lean toward a color, like this barely blue hue.