This of course made my life much easier, because I can cut figures of musketeers
out of classical paintings.
Gucci's Creative Director Alessandro Michele, Lana del Ray and Jared Leto looked like they stepped
out of a classical painting in complementary custom Gucci outfits.
Not exact matches
Trained in East Germany in the
classical art
of realist
painting, Richter's images have the quiet stillness
of European masterworks, taking in genres such as the still life, landscape and portraiture, but
of contemporary subjects that are often rendered like a slightly
out of focus photograph.
Rauschenberg's use
of juxtapositioning various things
out of a context, creating a whole new environment and context, always appealed to me more so than making a
painting about something; about a landscape, portrait, still life, or historical or
classical event and so forth; biblical thing.
[6] The show was well received by critics, including Frieze Magazine [14] and The Brooklyn Rail, noting «Quaytman makes reference in the title to both the seat
of seeing (i am), and the
classical meter
of poetry», and «Quaytman's sophisticated dissection
of the complexities
of seeing and the manifold aspects that inform perception is evident not only in individual works, but also in the relationship between specific works installed in the exhibition, and in the cumulative effect
of the whole,» [13] and the New York Times «The
paintings in R. H. Quaytman's exhibition are cerebral, physically thought
out and resolutely optical.
Even more interesting, rounding
out the works for The Road are a series
of pieces re-appropriating
classical Christian
paintings like The Annunciation except the main characters are missing leaving empty structures and buildings.
A compilation
of raster dots act
out a
classical scene
of nude, female bathers enveloped in swatches
of white, yellow, red and blue
paint.
His published Discourses, first delivered to the students, were regarded as the first major writing on art in English, and set
out the aspiration for a style to match the
classical grandeur
of classical sculpture and High Renaissance
painting.