Sentences with phrase «on the contemporary painting scene»

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• Amsterdam: Explore the canals by night in a saloon boat • Athens: View the Parthenon from the Grande Bretagne Hotel rooftop • Barcelona: Go on a tapas crawl • Belle - Île, France: Enjoy oysters at Le Bistrot du Port • Berlin: Tap into the underground nightlife scene • Budapest: Stay at the restored Four Seasons Gresham Palace • Copenhagen: Browse contemporary design shops • Florence: Tour the Vasari Corridor at the Uffizi • Galway, Ireland: Pair oysters with Guinness at Moran's Oyster Cottage • Iceland: Marvel at the Northern Lights • Isle of Skye, Scotland: Go for whisky tastings at Tallisker distillery • Istanbul: Wander the Grand Bazaar • London: Start with breakfast at the cabmen's shelter on Pont Street • Madrid: Visit the Black Paintings room at the Museo del Prado • Moscow: Tour the Diamond Vaults within the Kremlin • Paris: Snack on bread from Du Pain et Des Idees • Peloponnese, Greece: Stay at the ultra-luxe Amanzoe • Prague: Explore Prague's historic center • Rome: Buy a gelato at San Crispino • Santorini, Greece: Lounge at Red Beach • Sicily: See the mosaics at Villa Romana del Casale • Siena, Italy: Attend the medieval - era Palio horse race • Spain: Take an architecture - themed drive from Bilbao to Granada • Stockholm: Visit the Vasa Museum • Venice: Shop for glassware at L'Angolo del Passat • Versailles, France: Explore Andre Le Notre's gardens at Versailles • Vienna: Attend a concert at the Musikverein

When «Radical Presence» opened at the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, last year, it also included five works from Piper's 1975 series I am the Locus, collaged and painted Polaroids on which images of Piper as the Mythic Being are inserted into scenes of a crowded street.

Exhibitions on View Terracotta Army: Legacy of the First Emperor of China (admission fee) Ragnar Kjartansson: The Visitors and Scenes from Western Culture William Kentridge: More Sweetly Play the Dance Cagnacci: Painting Beauty and Death Contemporary Japanese Ceramics Marcel Duchamp: Boîte - en - valise Mementos of Affection

It was also in New York that Thompson quickly arrived at his mature style, taking Dody Müller's advice to heart by reworking the compositions of European Masters such as Piero della Francesca, Nicolas Poussin, and Jacopo Tintoretto into simplified, abstracted forms painted in threatening and seductive tones that were hot and violent or deep and dark — seizing on the dynamism of these classical scenes and often transforming them into contemporary allegorical nightmares.

With a strong emphasis on painting and process - heavy work, the show is an exemplary display of the heavy hitters in the contemporary scene.

Ged Quinn specializes in allegorical paintings that include contemporary images in idyllic scenes based on classical paintings such as the pastoral works of Claude Lorrain and Caspar David Friedrich.

Their work is exhibited at Eigen + Art's stand alongside painters who hark back to the German Romantic era — most notably Martin Eder, whose paintings of bloodied, embattled women dressed in armour are a comment on the tribulations of contemporary feminism; and Jörg Herold, who paints crepuscular scenes as mournful as any Caspar David Friedrich.

Through the East London Painting Prize, we set out to nurture this talent and help some of these outstanding artists to make their mark on the capital's contemporary art scene.

In recent years the American contemporary artist Alex Israel (b. 1982, Los Angeles, USA) has attracted considerable attention on the international art scene, for his paintings and sculptures and for his infamous interview show As It Lays.

A revered patriarchal figure on the Los Angeles art scene, Moses's work stands out from that of his «Cool School» contemporaries for his focus on the medium of painting.

The exhibition begins with large paintings on paper that ushered her into the contemporary art scene in the early 1990s.

His first works were naïve paintings of remembered Greek scenes and episodes from classical myth, on display in his first show, at Contemporary Arts on 57th Street, in 1938.

MACUF - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Gas Natural Fenosa, La Coruña Under the title «Almost Anything», the exhibition of the american artist Alex Katz at the Contemporary Art Museum Gas Natural Fenosa, MACUF, presents a selection of 22 paintings of landscapes, scenes and portraits, mostly of them large size, with the plain style of this author of flat compositions, silhouettes and «cutouts», as well as portraits on cut out wood he has been made since the sixties.

The 29 year old Vito Schnabel has already made a lasting impact / notable impression on the American contemporary art market / scene since the tender age of 19, when he discussed the highly competitive Manhattan art market during his first significant / notable exhibition which featured paintings of American painter, Ron Gorchov.

Titled Scenes for a New Heritage, the display is filled with every form of contemporary expression, from computer games to cellphone photos to paintings on cardboard.

The artist will exhibit contemporary impressionist paintings of Beach scenes on Long Island.

A row over a work by her on the cover of a rock album in 2009 typified the way she makes painting a force on the contemporary scene, able to shock and trouble a world far beyond art galleries.

Exhibited together at the New Museum, the two works introduced a sense of monumentality hitherto unseen in his practice, which most recently found its zenith in Bradford's installation for the U.S. Pavilion at the 2017 Venice Biennial, and Pickett's Charge, currently on view at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C. Bradford was first catapulted onto the contemporary art scene in 2001, following the inclusion of his multi-layered collage paintings in Thelma Golden's Freestyle exhibition at the Studio Museum in Harlem.

Lawrence Campbell, a critic who chronicled New York's contemporary art scene for nearly four decades, while also painting, teaching art history and working as an editor, died on Tuesday at Beth Israel Medical Center in Manhattan.

The unheroic nature of modern dress was seen as a major obstacle in the depiction of contemporary scenes, and the Scottish gentleman - artist and art dealer Gavin Hamilton preferred classical scenes as well as painting some based on his Eastern travels, where his European figures by - passed the problem by wearing Arab dress.

His books include Scene jezika [Scenes of language](Belgrade, 1989), Pas Tout (Buffalo, 1994), Prolegomena za analitičku estetiku [Prolegomena for analytical aesthetics](Novi Sad, 1995), Postmoderna [Postmodernism](Belgrade, 1995), Asimetrični drugi [The asymmetrical other](Novi Sad, 1996), Estetika apstraktnog slikarstva [Aesthetics of abstract painting](Belgrade, 1998), Pojmovnik moderne i postmoderne likovne umetnosti i teorije posle 1950 [Glossary of modern and post-modern visual arts and theory after 1950](Belgrade and Novi Sad, 1999), Paragrami tela / figure [Paragrams of body / figure](Belgrade, 2001), Anatomija angelova [Anatomy of angels](Ljubljana, 2001), Figura, askeza in perverzija [Figure, asceticism and perversion](Koper, 2001), Martek — Fatalne figure umjetnika: Eseji o umjetnosti i kulturi XX stoljeća u Jugoistočnoj, Istočnoj i Srednjoj Europi kroz djelovanje umjetnika Vlade Marteka [Martek — Fatal figures of the artist: essays on 20th - century art and culture in South - Eastern, Eastern and Central Europe through the work of Vlado Martek](Zagreb, 2002), Impossible Histories — Historical Avant - gardes, Neo-avant-gardes, and Post-avant-gardes in Yugoslavia, 1918 — 1991 (Cambridge Mass, 2003), Politike slikarstva [The politics of painting](Koper, 2004), Pojmovnik suvremene umjetnosti [Glossary of contemporary art](Zagreb and Ghent, 2005), Konceptualna umetnost [Conceptual art](Novi Sad, 2007), Epistemology of Art (Belgrade, 2008) etc..