Sentences with phrase «painted on a monumental scale»

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.»

Not exact matches

Thus, an exhibition now on view at Lori Bookstein Fine Art in New York that showcases a number of Müller's mature, large - scale paintings is a welcome, if short lived, opportunity to see his monumental Abstract Expressionist allegories.

New paintings on view feature monumental nude figures and intimately scaled body parts.

The gallery's website describes Chamberlain's process as «crumpling, crushing, bending, twisting and welding to form individual objects, which may be further painted and sprayed, [and combined] into aggregations, often on a monumental scale.

The artwork of Edgar Heap of Birds includes multidisciplinary forms of public art messages, large - scale drawings, Neuf Series acrylic paintings, prints, works in glass, and monumental porcelain enamel on steel outdoor sculpture.

The intricate flourishes of reflected black pools and bold silhouettes, painted and then printed on a monumental scale, confront each viewer individually.

Made on a monumental scale, the paintings envelop the viewer from both their sheer size and the extensive expressive markings that make up the art work.

As the exhibit progresses, animals become more prominent, finally exploding in the last gallery with dynamic paintings of birds, including a magnificent Raven with the brooding intensity of a religious icon on a monumental scale more usually associated with contemporary realism.

As it turned out in the decades before and after World War II, Picasso, Matisse, Miró and the New York School continued to make monumental mural scale paintings on the level of the greatest art of the past.

The current exhibition presents a selection of Riopelle's large - scale paintings from the early 1950s through the 1970s in addition to four monumental works on paper from the 1960s.

But the artist and critic Brian O'Doherty did something of the sort in the 1970s, when he wrote of how far both the creation and canonisation of modern art had been informed by the dominant «white cube» model of gallery space, which had conferred a monumental aura on much large - scale abstract painting.

The choice of scale is self - confident, as with the domestic size canvases by Varda Caivano that do not need to be monumental to make their powerful visual arguments, or the vast, unstretched linen that Jessica Warboys paints on the seashore.

The 2004 painting, 4 Pattern Dub, on a monumental scale at nearly 9 feet square, isn't a cut - up at all, but an elegant and good - humored fusion of Picasso's late Synthetic Cubist designs and the landscape abstractions of Arthur Dove.

Often tropical in their subject matter, these are paintings of intense color on a monumental scale.

Poppy Fields features a series of vividly colored, oil on linen paintings that are uniquely intimate in scale and nature compared to the artist's iconic large - scale Ash paintings and monumental sculptures.

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.

Filled with light installations, monumental paintings, interactive graphic works and large scale public sculptures, Happy Station is designed to bring playfulness and delight to the day - to - day commute, making it the happiest train station on earth.

Especially in paintings from 1967 and ’68 titled «Rignalla» and «On the Ledge» from 1976, she lines up the vases on a high horizon, giving them a personable lean and monumental scale reminiscent of Philip Guston's late workOn the Ledge» from 1976, she lines up the vases on a high horizon, giving them a personable lean and monumental scale reminiscent of Philip Guston's late workon a high horizon, giving them a personable lean and monumental scale reminiscent of Philip Guston's late works.

Leading the evening sale on 12 December 2017 are two large scale works: Günther Förg's (1952 — 2013) monumental 300 x 200 cm painting Untitled (1999, estimate $ 200,000 — 300,000) from the artist's most distinctive series of paintings on lead.

The main component styles included: the animated all - over Action - Painting (developed by Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner); Gestural Painting (developed by Willem de Kooning); Colour Field Painting (practised by Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, Clyfford Still), and «Hard - Edge Painting» (invented by Frank Stella), most of which were executed on a monumental scale.

A comprehensive survey of the work of the Guyana born British artist, Mappa Mundi covers five decades of Bowling's artistic achievement with a focus on his monumental and large - scale paintings.

The most ubiquitous media used by Socialist Realist artists was the poster, although painting and sculpture was also produced, typically on a monumental scale, showing fearless individuals and groups in idealistic and heroic poses.

In the post-war period New York had produced abstract painting of a certain scale and ambition, and this context, along with the size of Bowling's New York studio, allowed him to work on the larger, often monumental scale works on view at IMMA.

Filmmaker and Neo-expressionist artist Julian Schnabel's large - scale paintings are materially and thematically monumental, drawing on a wealth of influences from Cubism to the practice of Cy Twombly and themes such as sexuality, obsession, suffering, redemption, death, and belief.

The eleven artists juxtapose divergent approaches in conversation with each other, reflecting on primal questions consuming artists over the millennia: Elliot Arkin's conceptual use of web - based commerce spins an absurdist view on the commodification of artists; Babette Bloch's stainless steel reassessments of nature and artistic precedent limn positives and negatives through light; Christopher Carroll Calkins's street photography captures moments of under - the - radar narratives; Valentina DuBasky's acrylic and marble dust works on paper and plaster are a contemporary comment on the prehistory of art; Gabriel Ferrer's performance - like in - the - moment sumi - ink drawings on handmade paper reflect on memory and personal narrative; Christopher Gallego's realist, pure light - filled oil painting elevates the ordinariness of an artist's space to visual poetry; Ana Golici, in pergamano and collage, takes inspiration from 17th Century female naturalist, entomologist and botanical illustrator Maria Sibylla Merian to explore questions of science, nature and objective truth; Emilie Lemakis's monumental amplification of an ancient Greek krater employs scale to upend perceptions for the viewer's reconsideration; Mark Mellon's bronzes address the oppositions of movement and stillness; the alchemy of Michael Townsend's uncontrolled poured acrylic paintings equate the properties of materials with the turbulence of the universe; Jessica Daryl Winer's engagement with luminous color and choreographic line reflects in visual resonance the sonic history of a musical instrument.

Located in the imposing Palazzo Falier on the Grand Canal, Land Sea will feature a broad selection of new works, many monumental in scale and conceived specifically for this exhibition, offering compelling insight into Sean Scully's recent practice and reaffirming his position as one of the leading figures of abstract painting.

Empires primarily includes paintings, many monumental in scale, along with a handful of sculptures and works on paper.

The exhibition opens on the ground floor with new paintings from Colen's Mailorder series (2015 — 2018) of lush oil - on - linen screen prints, which depict images of clothing from mail - order catalogues, enlarged to a monumental scale.

Her debut at the gallery centers on Structural Psychodramas # 2, an installation of small Murano glass sculptures, as well as two of the artist's monumental disaster paintings and large - scale, provocative neon works, one of which reads «NO MORE MASTURBATION.»

Like his masters, Thomas Struth shot one - point perspective of empty, unpopulated scenes, sometimes of the streets in Düsseldorf, and later in his career made pictures on a monumental scale: The photos in his museum series are as big as the paintings they depict.

He has completed several series of works - for instance, on the Second World War, the Passion of Christ, and the Prodigal Son - as well as numerous shorter series and individual paintings, often on a monumental scale.

A powerful painting rendered on a monumental scale, Joan Mitchell's Noon captures the ephemeral quality of nature itself.

Noted de Kooning scholar Judith Zilczer agrees: «It is as if he had chosen to focus on and enlarge to monumental scale some detailed passage of his figure paintings.

His art contributions include public art messages, large - scale drawings, the Neuf Series acrylic paintings, prints, and a monumental porcelain enamel on steel outdoor sculpture.

The Royal Academy exhibition will present a chronological examination of a body of work which includes pieces on an epic, monumental scale, and which ranges across a breadth of media from painting and sculpture to photography to installation.

DiMattio was inspired by the ICA's striking building and location on Boston Harbor to create Banquet — a new, multi-panel painting of monumental scale.

His paintings post-emigration are characterized by exuberant color, a refreshing openness of pictorial space and a focus on working at a monumental scale.

Von Heyl's challenge in translating her drawing on site at this monumental scale (17 x 67 feet) was to reinvent each gesture with equal degrees of precision and liveliness (the painting process did not allow for mistakes or revisions) in order to keep the overall image, rhythm, and freshness of her original sketch.

Often executed on a monumental scale, creating huge architecturally sized paintings on building façades.

Several works of the latter sort will be on view in the current exhibition, including large - scale canvases that feature collaged photographs of other fans» paintings of Winehouse embedded in monumental geometric forms, or alongside magazine and picture book images of birds, planets, cannabis leaves, and architecture.

The monumental scale of the Veils, coupled with the vibrant saturation of pigment on the the surface of Beth Zayin, endows the present painting with a prowess that emulates the name it bears.

Untitled, from 1970, is an early example of these beeswax paintings, executed distinctly on two adjoined sheets of paper to achieve a more monumental scale.

«Orange Crush,» 9 feet tall, 15 feet wide and painted in garish, glossy enamels on a billboard - size metal panel, blows up to monumental scale a still from her high - definition video projection «Green Pink Caviar.»

The paintings on view range from monumental (some as large as six by twelve feet) to modest in scale.

* Velázquez has had the greatest influence on Valdés» art; the 17th - century Spanish Baroque master has guided Valdés over the years through a broad range of endeavors, from large scale painting to monumental sculptures.

This week the RA welcomes the works of German artist Anselm Kiefer: from intimate watercolours and artist's books, to vast paintings, complex sculpture, and installations on a monumental scale.