His works are profoundly psychological and emotive — often
painted on a huge scale — and return again and again to themes of oppression, violence and the misuse of power.
Not exact matches
The
huge scale evokes the sublimity of the ocean; the subject of many
paintings such as Théodore Géricault's Raft of Medusa, where human life is shown abandoned to its fate
on a sea that is both terrifying, as well as a thing of great beauty.
Not unlike the religious painters of the Renaissance, Hughie O'Donoghue often
paints on a monumental
scale, creating
huge canvases and charcoal drawings that have reminded some art critics of «the Abstract Expressionism of the fifties in their heroic
scale and intention.»
Often executed
on a monumental
scale, creating
huge architecturally sized
paintings on building façades.
At the threshold you are confronted with Vir Heroicus Sublimis (1950 - 51), a
huge painting seen, as I think it should be,
on a wall that does not dwarf it but rather allows the viewer to experience her own
scale.
Leaving the original
paint and textures
on these doors, De Croock and his father, a woodworker, constructed these impressive large -
scale collages, starting with De Croock translating his graphic art onto wood, and cutting them piece by piece and assembling the works like
huge puzzles.