Sentences with phrase «painted genre scenes»

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Marshall has done this «from the ground up,» as Metropolitan Museum curator Ian Alteveer put it, working through historical styles and genres, including Rococo love scenes, large - scale history paintings, and Impressionist plein air fetes.

Installed thematically in two rooms on the first floor and four rooms on the second, the show explores five genres that developed as categories when painting was still in its infancy as a respected medium: Still Life, Landscape, Scenes of Everyday Life, Portraiture and History Ppainting was still in its infancy as a respected medium: Still Life, Landscape, Scenes of Everyday Life, Portraiture and History PaintingPainting.

In the selected items on view, the developments of American artistic traditions can be traced through the early interests in portraiture, the rise in prominence of landscape painting in the 19th - century, the popularity of genre scenes, as well as the academic traditions of history and large - scale society paintings.

It was not until the late «30s that his paintings — cityscapes and genre scenes — began to see the light of day.

The exhibition has greater success in demonstrating that Sully's previously forgotten «fancy pictures» — imaginative fusions of history paintings and genre scenes painted on spec when business was slow or he wanted to experiment — deserve a higher status within his oeuvre than they've enjoyed.

Emerging on the art scene with fellow New York artists such as Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns, Twombly kept to a genre all his own, blurring the line between painting and drawing, and incorporating words, scribbles, and a childlike sensibility that revealed mediation and melancholy.

This Turkish artist specializes in what could be described as reverse Orientalism, subverting the 19th - century category of genre paintings that captured scenes of the Middle East imagined as exotic by Europeans at the time.

Shaped by her upbringing amid Scandinavian forests and art books, Karin «Mamma» Andersson creates deeply psychological prints, paintings, and drawings, channeling her reference into theatrical genre scenes.

The subjects of the paintings include mythological, religious, historical, and genre scenes painted on canvas, wood, and copper.

Genre paintings, or scenes that take everyday life as their subject matter, flourished in the Dutch Republic in this period.

The 16th - century Low Countries painter Pieter Aertsen pioneered a new genre of large - scale art: the market scene, which combined the virtuoso rendering of materials prevalent in still life paintings with a human element that often had an allegorical subtext.

Approx. 450 important paintings of scenes from history and literature, landscapes and seascapes, genre scenes, still lives and portraits will be presented.

No wonder Evans, who painted under various pseudonyms, signed these paintings S.S. David while saving his real name — or rather a variation on his given name, David Scott Evans — for the «serious» work on which his reputation was based at the time: now - forgotten genre scenes and portraits of rich young women.

In the wide range of art the gallery offers, subjects range from water and beach scenes, boats, landscape, flower arrangements, graphic paintings of musicians, fifties photographic paintings, birds, fish, traditional still life, figure painting, portraits and trees, covering every major contemporary figurative category and genre.

Currin's accomplished and alluring paintings of distorted and disfigured women and men, including portraits, genre scenes, and still - lifes, bring back the figurative in contemporary painting with an informed nod to art history.

Mamma Andersson's paintings welcome us into comfortable domestic interiors, lush landscapes, and cozy genre scenes just enough to allow their otherworldly air to take hold.

By using the network to access global locations that show little else than the swaying of trees, the occasional car, or person walking past, the scenes are evocative of the landscape genre in painting, yet brokered through the contemporary paradigm of surveillance.

Last year Smith organized the show «Obscuridades Bucólicas» at La Tallera in Cuernavaca, south of Mexico City, for which she conceived a series of tableaux vivants restaging different scenes in the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Brueghel the Elder's, that explored the morality of genre painting from a contemporary perspective.

The strategy is also reminiscent of Milton Avery's quiet genre scenes, which are characterized by simplified forms articulated through eccentrically colored shapes and lines that are just as often etched into the layers of paint as they are drawn.

Morton reviews works from Gérôme's entire career - the early «Néo - Grec» paintings with references to classical antiquity, historical scenes, Orientalist genre paintings, and his late focus on sculpture - to make the case for his spectacular art.

Cezanne adopted a rigorous classical approach to plein - air painting; Gauguin used rich colours but preferred indoor studio painting; Van Gogh painted outdoors but more to express his inner emotions than capture nature; while Toulouse - Lautrec specialized in indoor genre scenes.

Out of the Nabis came another style of post-Impressionist painting, known as Intimism, exemplified in the tranquil domestic genre scenes of Edouard Vuillard, his close friend Pierre Bonnard, and Gwen John.

During this period Brook painted portraits, genre scenes, and a widely exhibited series of canvases depicting women.

• AMERICAN SCENE PAINTING (Regionalism)(c.1925 - 45) Edward Hopper (1882 - 1967) American realist, one of the best genre painters of the 20th century.

It includes American Impressionist paintings, early American portraits, landscapes, and genre scenes, furniture, and decorative arts.

The other traditional classes of history and portrait painting were present, but the period is more notable for a huge variety of other genres, sub-divided into numerous specialized categories, such as scenes of peasant life, landscapes, townscapes, landscapes with animals, maritime paintings, flower paintings and still lifes of various types.

The Swiss artist Jean - Etienne Liotard was one of the greatest portraitists of the Enlightenment period, whose oeuvre includes pastel portraits, oil paintings, still lifes, genre scenes and trompe l'oeil.

The genre naturally shares much with landscape painting, and in developing the depiction of the sky the two went together; many landscape artists also painted beach and river scenes.

Organizes several exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art and wrote the accompanying catalog, including: «American Genre: The Social Scene in Paintings and Prints (1800 - 1935)» (1935); «Winslow Homer: Centenary Exhibition» (1936); «A Century of American Landscape Painting 1800 to 1900» (1938); «Pioneers of Modern Art in America» (1946); «Ralph Albert Blakelock: Centenary Exhibition» (1947); «Albert P. Ryder: Centenary Exhibition» (1947); «Yasuo Kuniyoshi» (1948); «Max Weber» (1949); «Edward Hopper» (1949); «John Sloan» (1952); «Reginald Marsh» (1955); «Four American Expressionists: Doris Caesar, Chaim Gross, Karl Knaths, Abraham Rattner» with John I. H. Baur (1959); «Edward Hopper» (1964); «Edwin Dickinson» (1965); «Art of the United States, 1670 - 1966» (1966); «Raphael Soyer» (1967); «The Graphic Art of Winslow Homer» (1968); «John Heliker» with Patricia FitzGerald Mandel (1968); «Georgia O'Keeffe» with Doris Bry (1970); «Edward Hopper» (1971); «Winslow Homer» (1973); and «Winslow Homer in Monochrome» with Abigail Booth Gerdts (1986).

Where his early works encompassed portraits and Impressionist landscape painting, as well as genre - painting featuring groups of figures in cafes, dance - halls, boats, or riverside scenes, his later works are largely concerned with female nudes or semi-nudes.

Name: The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere (1931) Artist: Grant Wood (1892 - 1942) Medium: Oil on masonite Genre: History painting Movement / Style: American Scene painting Location: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Derived from the plein air painting traditions of the Barbizon school of landscape painting, Impressionism in France encompassed many famous painters and many individual styles, and its paintings ranged across all genres, from landscape and still life to portraiture and genre scenes.

Genre Painting Scenes of everyday life.

• Genre Painting Championed by 17th century Dutch Realists, such as Jan Vermeer (1632 - 75), this category of «everyday scenes» was seen as No 3 in the Hierarchy of Painting Genres.

Pierre Bonnard (1867 - 1947) A member of the Nabis, committed to the applied arts (decorative panels, stained glass, furniture, book illustrations and prints) and influenced also by Japonism, he painted landscapes, genre scenes as well as numerous decorative works.

This hierarchy, which crystallized during the Renaissance, ran as follows: (1) History painting; (2) Portrait art; (3) Genre Painting, that is scenes from everyday life; (4) Landscape; (5) Stipainting; (2) Portrait art; (3) Genre Painting, that is scenes from everyday life; (4) Landscape; (5) StiPainting, that is scenes from everyday life; (4) Landscape; (5) Still Life.

Another response to the war, was to look inwards, and his work in the early 1940s shows a new affection for Belfast life in his genre - paintings of street scenes.

Having previously explored the dynamic potential of portraiture, landscape, and still life, Redwood embraces genre painting or scenes from everyday life, imagining a suite of large - scale figurative works suggesting a time to come after an unlikely culprit.

As well as genre - scenes, Bingham is also noted for his landscape painting and portrait art.

Their handling of colour and tone, their compositional ability, their skill in landscape painting (the dusty road, the quiet forest), their ability in presenting rural genre - scenes, their portraiture, and their history painting, is on a par with any national school of fine art.

Best known for his landscape painting, he was also noted for his genre painting of village and farm life, as well as his Connecticut boat scenes.

Protestant Reformation Art Small - scale 17th - century style of painting, typically of genre - scenes, still lifes and portraits.

The artists of the Ashcan School were responsible for one or two of the greatest paintings of the 20th century, within the idiom of urban genre scenes.

Although he was a highly versatile painter who created altarpieces, frescos, scenes from mythology, landscapes, cityscapes, and contemporary genre scenes in the manner of Venetian painter Pietro Longhi, he remains best known for his urban landscape painting of Venice.

Along with the Annuals and Biennials, the Whitney Museum has organized significant exhibitions including American Genre: The Social Scene in Paintings and Prints (1935), European Artists in America (1945), Nature in Abstraction: The Relation of Abstract Painting and Sculpture to Nature in Twentieth - Century American Art (1958), Anti-Illusion (1969), Calder's Circus (1972), 200 Years of American Sculpture (1976), Jasper Johns (1977), Nam June Paik (1982), and Nan Goldin: I'll Be Your Mirror (1996).

Venice, Florida, Ireland), still - life interiors, portraiture, genre - scenes and history painting.

Since 1950 - 1951 Park had been painting a series of genre scenes, broadly modeled with a direct and forceful brushstroke.

The delay, the show's curators state in the superb exhibition catalog, «gave Marshall time to bring his project of infiltrating the Western canon of art, and its handmaiden the museum, with images of black people to a nearly complete state that includes almost all of painting's major categories: portraiture, history painting, genre scenes, landscapes, fetes galantes, and abstraction.»

Victorian painting developed the Hogarthian social subject, packed with moralizing detail, and the tradition of illustrating scenes from literature, into a range of types of genre painting, many with only a few figures, others large and crowded scenes like Frith's best - known works.

The five genres — Still Life, Landscape, Scenes of Everyday Life, Portraiture, and History Painting — serve as a productive point of dialogue with contemporary artwork created within an expanded field of artistic practices, including not only painting but also photography, video, and instaPainting — serve as a productive point of dialogue with contemporary artwork created within an expanded field of artistic practices, including not only painting but also photography, video, and instapainting but also photography, video, and installation.