Sentences with phrase «painted at the height»

His later paintings, those painted at the height of his creativity in the 1940s, are something else altogether.
Reynolds made the painting at the height of his powers when he had just been elected the first President of the Royal Academy.
It reappears in several paintings by Dalí, most spectacularly in Apparition of Face and Fruit Dish on a Beach, painted at the height of his fame and also in the Atheneum's collection.
This is a stunning post COBRA mature example of William Gear abstract painting at the height of his artistic output and a stunning example of British abstract art.
Four telephone bidders fought for the painting, «Three Studies for Portrait of George Dyer (on Light Ground),» which depicts the artist's lover and was painted at the height of their affair.

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Six fluorescent lights, painted pink to look «like salmon swimming up a river,» hang at different heights from a tin ceiling.
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At the height of his career, Fuertes was commissioned to illustrate the three - volume set, Birds of Massachusetts and Other New England States, for which he produced a treasury of paintings.
At that moment, the town drunk, Italo Bambolini, climbs to the top of the water tower to paint over his screed from earlier days supporting Mussolini, but paralyzed with both realization of the err of his ways, as well as a fear of heights, he drinks himself to the brink of suicide.
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At 3,982 millimetres (MINI Cooper S 5 door and MINI Cooper SD 5 door are 4 005 millimetres), overall length extended by 161 millimetres compared with new MINI; equal vehicle width of 1,727 millimetres, height increased by 11 millimetres to 1,425 millimetres; characteristic brand styling with design features such as hexagonal radiator grille, headlamps and rear lights with wide chrome surround, side turn indicator element and black body bordering from the new MINI; additional exterior paint finishes: roof and exterior mirror caps in contrasting colour on request.
Climb to new heights in the larger - than - life rocket ship Climber, weave your way through the Noodle Forest, buy and sell «groceries» at the market, or paint a giant castle in the art studio.
In regions of steady uplift, continual littoral erosion may produce sea caves of great heightPainted Cave is almost 40 m high at its entrance.
At the height of the art market, Saatchi sold five Scully paintings for $ 400,000 each, which was «just above the record price» at the time, and «a very nice business deal» given that he had purchased the works a few years earlier for $ 20,000 each, according to Mary Sabbatino, vice president of Galerie Lelong, New York, which represents the artisAt the height of the art market, Saatchi sold five Scully paintings for $ 400,000 each, which was «just above the record price» at the time, and «a very nice business deal» given that he had purchased the works a few years earlier for $ 20,000 each, according to Mary Sabbatino, vice president of Galerie Lelong, New York, which represents the artisat the time, and «a very nice business deal» given that he had purchased the works a few years earlier for $ 20,000 each, according to Mary Sabbatino, vice president of Galerie Lelong, New York, which represents the artist.
He hung the paintings at a particular height; he fussed with the lights; he obsessed over every detail.
Even at the height of his career painting is still the most challenging thing Tal R has ever done.
AT THE HEIGHT of the Abstract Expressionist movement, which has been referred to as the «Triumph of American Painting,» 1 a somewhat younger generation of painters, while interested in and often respectful of their predecessors, formed the conviction that an art based on the depiction of the natural world could make a serious and ambitious statement in the latter part of the Twentieth Century.
In 1947, at the height of the Abstract Expressionist era, the Museum of Modern Art mounted an exhibition called Large - Scale Modern Paintings; to qualify for inclusion, paintings had to measure at least six feet in one dPaintings; to qualify for inclusion, paintings had to measure at least six feet in one dpaintings had to measure at least six feet in one direction.
These culminate with Still's groundbreaking wartime abstractions and monumental late paintings that show the artist at the height of his powers.
In this overdue exhibition, Toroni has cunningly hung twenty - five square paintings from 1987, each one marked with fourteen orange strokes, at the height of the gallery's mezzanine: in the main space, the canvases are a tick below eye level, while in the upper space they're propped against the wall, as they rest on the floor.
Her first solo exhibition at Sean Kelly gallery invites visitors to walk through a large architectural structure made of marble and steel, and be immersed in a series of pastel toned paintings that almost cover the height of the walls.
As the artist states: «The scale of the paintings (at times over two metres in height) gives the works the presence of large screens or banners.
For the most part, the paintings, all vertically oriented, are spaced evenly around the gallery, and hung at a standard height.
John Miller's painting Labyrinth 1 (1999) renders a zoomed - in frame from the perennially popular TV game show The Price is Right at the height of mass media's ubiquity.
Striking for their hot, vivid, deep colors, pierced and jagged forms, and pulsating energy, these wax - resist paintings on paper, done at the height of abstract expressionism's ascendancy, captivated Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner and inspired Jean Dubuffet to write his only monographic study on Ossorio.
Louis was at the height of his professional abilities, having painted many Stripes in the months leading up to the summer of 1962.
Unframed paintings, reliefs, collages, sculptures and mobiles were placed at different heights so that the space of the whole studio was animated.
Focusing its energies on the mounting of exhibitions onsite and off - space, and on the publishing of artist books, La Salle de Bains is working towards new exhibition formats and methods of mediation, such as the 2012 show Tell the Children / Abstraction pour Enfants (an echo of Andy Warhol's Painting for Children Pop art show at Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zürich, in 1983), which introduced children (and adults) to very contemporary abstract paintings by artists including Claudia Comte, Lisa Beck and Olivier Mosset — all hung at children's eye height, on vividly patterned wallpaper.
Executed during the same period as her celebrated Sunflower paintings, together these paintings stand as «audacious, masterful works in which the artist adroitly juggles emptiness and fullness, balance and unbalance, lightness and weight» (P. Albers, Joan Mitchell: Lady Painter, New York, 2011, p. 315) and as act as works which show Mitchell at the height of her artistic prowess.
One of the most important painters of our time, Richter shows no signs of slowing down: the new paintings, characterized by vibrant colors and layered compositions, reveal an artist still at the height of his powers.
Westfall contends that Wilson is painting «at the height of her powers,» creating sky paintings that are «a perfect synthesis of abstraction and representation, field and tactile subject, the general and particular, process and memory.»
In 1963, at the height of his internationally acclaimed career, the artist donated nearly fifty paintings to UC Berkeley in recognition of the University's important role in his early career.
At the height of his career, Pollock painted in a barn in Springs, New York, but he was born in Cody, Wyoming in 1912 and grew up in Arizona and Chico, California, experiencing Native American cultural symbols, which may have influenced his work as glyphs and motifs, what Jung called archetypes, emerged during his Jungian analysis.
Tables at varying heights surrounded by paintings fill the galleries and question the object's form and function in everyday life.
Untitled, 1953 reflects the confidence and virtuoso painting of an important figure in the New York School at the height of his career,» said Tricia Laughlin Bloom, curator of American Art at the Newark Museum, in a press release.
Best known for his cartoonish paintings and drawings from the late 1960s onwards, Philip Guston audaciously returned to figuration at the height of Abstract Expressionism.
Lund's painting presents a misty grey and butter - yellow expanse of London's skyline at the height of Edwardian prosperity.
And at the height of the Abstract Expressionist movement in the late 1940s he could be found painting a monumental series whose subject was Women, albeit women painted on a scale and with an intensity unlike anything else in the history of art.
Lynne Harlow, Gulhane Park, 2006 Copper on wood panel and acrylic paint on wood panel 10 x 10 x 0.5 inches Panels installed on opposite walls precisely facing each other at a height of 53 inches December 11, 2009 — January 30, 2010
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.
Cultivation of Nature and People Who are Looking at it 1971 Plastic, soil, adhesive, snail shells, thermometer, wood, hair, paint Height: 9 1/2 inches (24.1 cm) Diameter: 10 inches (25.4 cm) ARG # KT1971 - 002 © ADAGP, Paris & ARS, New York Courtesy of Joshua Mack Photo by Christopher Burke
Opening in August 2012 at the height of the Olympic celebrations, Picasso and Britain will comprise over 150 works from major public and private collections around the world, including over 60 paintings by Picasso.
Norman Lewis made the painting in 1969 at the height of the civil rights movement.
Frequently protruding from the walls, painted vividly, and installed at various heights, the works have a Calder - like ability to playfully conflate stability and mobility.
Painted in 1992, at what is widely considered to be the height of the artist's abstract period, this particular example is distinguished by a series of prominent vertical striations, that act as a translucent gateway, simultaneously tempting and taunting us with what might lie at the heart of Richter's exposed canvas.
In 1983, at the height of his career, Simon Hantaï (1922 — 2008), then sixty years old, decided to withdraw from the art scene and stop exhibiting his work, if not to stop painting altogether.
In an email, Mr. Guyton explained that he instructed the dealers to hang his paintings at identical heights, «so each time you walk up to one, you would have a similar physical encounter.»
My guess is that her artistic sensibility was formed in a time when abstract expressionism and color field painting was at its height.
In Struktur (2), carried out at the height of his practice, Richter creates a work of sensual pleasure and perhaps unwitting beauty; the viewer marveling at the rich optical sensation of freely applied paint and colour.
One such piece is the Wojnarowicz painting, which was auctioned off circa 1990 at the height of the economic crash.
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