Sentences with phrase «painted stick figures»

The late artist Andreas Züst documents in his photographs the spray - painted stick figures of Harald Nägeli, a legendary street artist in the «80s in Zurich.

Not exact matches

If you can calm your control freak urges, it could be loads of fun to allow the kids to paint a Christmas window (think, a quaint, stick figure nativity).

And Lewis's «Alabama II» (1969) deploys a small, barely visible line of marching stick figures on a searing expanse of sunset pink, hinting at the struggle for civil rights while still insisting on being read as an abstract painting.

His simple, wavy stick figures painted over metallic backgrounds, or wonky chevron patterns, are a figurative version of his older series of «DUMB AND EASY» text paintings exhibition at Tomorrow Gallery in 2011.

Work perceived as trending that sold out the first day included pop comments on Pop (Sylvie Fleury's life - size crushed car that she painted with pink nail polish and posed against a wall caked with makeup; impeccable fabrication (Anish Kapoor's shiny discs that danced down every aisle); mannequin sculptures (Chicago imagist Karl Wirsum's robotic stick figures); body fetish (Guillaume Leblon's truncated ceramic legs and Jonathan Monk's kicking ones, Naotaka Hiro's body casts of himself made with his right hand).

Bernard Buffet, for instance, has long been held up as the lowest common denominator in French painting, but, as the current exhibition «Cher Peintre: Painting the Figure since Late Picabia» reveals, a lineup of Buffet's anguished stick figures and sloe - eyed gamines can look quite marvelous in the company of Elizabeth Peyton and Johnpainting, but, as the current exhibition «Cher Peintre: Painting the Figure since Late Picabia» reveals, a lineup of Buffet's anguished stick figures and sloe - eyed gamines can look quite marvelous in the company of Elizabeth Peyton and JohnPainting the Figure since Late Picabia» reveals, a lineup of Buffet's anguished stick figures and sloe - eyed gamines can look quite marvelous in the company of Elizabeth Peyton and John Currin.

In another painting from the «Social Consequences» series, a figure adorned with polygons is poked with wooden sticks or metal spears, as if bodies were at once formed by and put at risk by inhuman elements.

He created the animated, crudely drawn stick figures of this postwar apartment complex by scratching through black paint to reveal hidden, delicate colors beneath.

From the»40s on, American Abstract Expressionism dominated the Western art landscape and returned many artists» attention to the evocative formal qualities of paint on canvas and traditional sculptural materials — although the biggest figure associated with «Action Painting», Jackson Pollock, also stuck detritus including cigarette butts, coins, buttons, and keys onto the surfaces of his paintings.

Art: Alberto Giacometti's fragile, stick - like figures are well known and much copied but, as these sculptures, paintings and drawings show, they still vibrate with a feverish, existential anxiety

Long fascinated by geology and prehistoric cave paintings, Penck filled the canvas with a standing stick figure in thick black lines.

German artist A.R. Penck's paintings from the late 1960s and»70s, which display stick figures and rudimentary markings, are today widely regarded as emblems of postwar existential angst and Cold War discontent.

Despite their disparate shapes and backgrounds, each painting features a grid of mirrored tiles that form the shape of an upside - down stick figure.

Some, like a dense oil - on - canvas painting of a stick figure summoning, catching, and consuming a fish, are undated.

Stick figures, many sporting gargantuan erections, fill his paintings and drawings.

They are life - sized stick figures tacked together from scrap lumber that's painted in various colors — the minimalist essence of fashion.

Ralf Winkler, the German artist who rose to fame in the 1970s with his caterwauling, violent, humorous, rigorously flat paintings of stick figures, animals and monsters that he signed with the pseudonym A. R. Penck (the better to elude unsympathetic East German officials, at least for a while), has periodically made stuffed felt sculptures.

The enigmatic title refers to the painter's «crown,» a heroic accessory evoked in Aldrich's «Figure with Cape,» (2008) a shakily painted outline of a caped matador with three wooden sticks attached to the canvas surface.

One of Kruglyanskaya's regular devices is to paint a preparatory drawing into a painting, as in Puppeteers with a Big Face (2015), where the drawing is reproduced in oil stick, held up by two black - clad figures on either side.

His latest paintings, perhaps closer to Jackson Pollock or Cy Twombly than Matta's animated stick figures and skeletal machines, step toward the path of patterned abstraction without venturing onto it.

In another series, he arranges monochrome canvases to create modular paintings suggestive of clunky, looming totems with heads, torsos, and legs (imagine Ellsworth Kelly stick figures).

I removed the drawers before painting the chest — I figured it would be best to paint those separately, so the drawers wouldn't stick.