Sentences with phrase «painted stark landscapes»

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As NASA's Curiosity rover scours the surface of Mars and beams pictures of the stark and desolate landscape back to Earth, we've begun to paint a picture of what living on the red planet might actually be like.

Chris Menges» cinematography — with its customary emphasis on landscape (stark), the texture of buildings (rust, peeling paint), and even the air (or airlessness)-- undercuts the melodrama, and Caro coaxes exquisitely nuanced performances from her actors.

AGNES MARTIN The ultraminimal, rigorous and ethereal paintings of Agnes Martin (1912 - 2004), inspired by Taoism, Zen Buddhism and the stark landscape of New Mexico, have been hugely influential for artists.

«Working in a studio is actually a bit isolating; this is a chance to meet and interact with artists and art appreciators in my area,» said Scally, whose paintings include stark, wild landscapes emblazoned with vivid images of man - made things and people.

A New Orleans native, Dunbar studied in Philadelphia and New York before returning to Louisiana in the 1950s to create paintings, sculptures, assemblages, and prints that marry the stark geometry of modern art with lush, elemental materials like clay and gold leaf that call forth Louisiana's distinctive local landscape.

She's looking at a bright view of the world and digesting a range of sources: from Gustave Courbet's corporeal paintings to David Hockney's prismatic interiors and landscapes to Romare Bearden's collaged images of urban life to Carrie Mae Weems's stark portraits of African - Americans to the innovative compositions of Edouard Manet to the lush set designs of Malinese portrait photographers Seydou Keïta and Malick Sidibé.

Known for her stark black and white paintings depicting vast views of the sea, endless landscapes of scattered rocks, traditional sand gardens and intricate blades of grass, Shi's paintings are at once deeply visceral and contemplative.

In «Funeral Mountain,» the stark southwestern landscape with its powerful white light is both recreated with and obliterated by oil paint.