Sentences with phrase «painter of large works»

A large picture is an immediate transaction; it takes you into it» meaning that you could walk into the paintings and be in them, surrounded by them, immersed in them; he also said — «the reason I paint large pictures is because I want to be very intimate and human» and as a painter of large works I agree with this.

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I visited a sixty - three - year - old portrait painter in her studio, traced the history of her work chronicled in her large portfolio, and watched as she applied thin luminous layers of paint to a portrait in progress.

Ramos writes: «Half - way between the vibrant exuberance of Rebecca Campbell's images and Luc Tuyman's clinical stroke - by - stroke reproductions lay the gliding, neutral toned figures of LA based French painter Claire Tabouret... The figures in the larger works and monoprints are characters from history, of various levels of obscurity and notoriety, and knowing a little bit of their stories imbue each scene with a poetic fascination.

Kurchanova writes: «Apart from large canvases covered by Pollock's signature all - over web of patterned, dripped or sculpted paint, a range of his smaller abstract paintings adds complexity to our understanding of his work as that of an «action» painter... Pollock's active engagement with printing presents his achievement as a painter to us from a completely different angle and complicates the understanding of his work as based in physical action and unmediated involvement of the artist's hand.

They are most evident in the rather awkward work for which the Hauser & Wirth show is titled, Painter III (1963), in which the large central black oval is clearly enough the head of the painter whose brush - wielding hand can be made out justPainter III (1963), in which the large central black oval is clearly enough the head of the painter whose brush - wielding hand can be made out justpainter whose brush - wielding hand can be made out just below.

CHICAGO — Presented in the Sullivan Galleries of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and curated by John Corbett and Jim Dempsey, Touch and Go is the largest and most extensive gathering of works ever devoted to the influential painter and collage - maker, Ray Yoshida (American, 1930 — 2009).

Works by David Siqueiros, a political, radical - minded Mexican social realist painter, and an adversary of Rivera, who was best known for his large fresco murals, are also included in the collection.

This selection of tough and tender, large - scale works of oil on canvas are so much about painting that we could call Eisler a painter's painter, and yet they use painting as an added layer of mediation.

This is due in large part to the site's dedication to representing primarily painters working in the realm of Magic Realism, a predominantly Midwest American school of painting often considered an offshoot of Surrealism, but which traces its roots to the early 20th century as an outgrowth of German expressionism (thereby actually pre-dating the surrealists by a few years).

In a beautifully installed show in Stephanie Theodore's new (also larger) upstairs space at 56 Bogart Street, four Brooklyn - based painters, Steven Charles, Michael Callaghan, Brian Dupont, Christopher Moss present a selection of recent, but thematically unrelated, work.

Portrait of the Artist Listening to Music shows the painter grappling with his mortality and is one of the largest works the British artist painted.

LG) If you walk into a very large group show of painters you've never heard of before, what work will be most likely to catch your eye and hold your interest?

Nigerian - born painter Njideka Akunyili Crosby's vibrant, large - scale renderings of everyday life can appear simple from far away (or online, where I first encountered her work).

In Winnipeg, Wanda Koop and Eleanor Bond are two image painters of note whose work is characterized by a strong and emblematic approach with both working on a large scale.

From focused exhibitions on the work of Cuban painter Amelia Peláez and Haitian born, Miami - based artist Edouard Duval - Carrié to thematic presentations of the Museum's permanent collection to major retrospectives on artists Ai Weiwei and Beatriz Milhazes and group exhibitions on the exchange of ideas between the Caribbean basin, Europe, and North Africa, PAMM's upcoming projects serve as critical frames through which larger dialogues about recent history, migration, new cultural formations, and diverse ideologies can be structured.

Original artworks and commentary by Mark Tansey (b. 1949), whose large scale monochromatic allegories reference the art of photography, a pivotal technology in the reproduction and dissemination of popular images; John Currin (b. 1962), who has referenced the art of Norman Rockwell, and whose provocative figural paintings reflect upon domestic and social themes that were prevalent, though differently portrayed, in the mid-twentieth century; Vincent Desiderio (b. 1955), whose dark intellectual melodramas re-imagine scenes of crime and adventure from pulp fiction; Lucien Freud (1922 - 2011), the painter of deeply psychological works that examine the relationship of artist and model; and Jamie Wyeth (b. 1946), son of noted painter Andrew Wyeth and grandson of illustrator N.C. Wyeth, whose images convey stories real and imagined, among other artists, will be featured in the exhibition and its accompanying catalogue.

The latter contributes a number of scrappy, colorful collage works; Gahl has a small painting of flowers and a larger canvas that incorporates an enlarged image of a house painter that the artist has scavenged from his own childhood drawings.

Over the years, the works of architects, photographers, painters, builders and faculty and students of the school have been exhibited, drawing viewers from schools of architecture and the wider professional communities as well as the public at large.

Featuring large - scale installations, lush colorful paintings, video works, and sculptures from the 21st century as well as an accompanying exhibition of works by Francis Newton Souza, one of the most important 20th century Indian painters, these exhibitions showcase two significant Columbus - based collections, offering an unprecedented look at modern and contemporary art from India.

This will be an interesting chance to get a closer look at the process of a prolific abstract painter in a smaller, gallery setting, as the New Work show will be an assortment of gouache color studies, 2D drawings, and large - scale paintings.

In 1966 he switched to water - based acrylics, somewhat belatedly but for the usual reason: abstract painters working at the time on large canvases with solvent - based media had become increasingly aware of their hazards.

G L Brierley is an intriguing young British painter who creates domestic scale and larger works that overtly allude to the history of painting.

Twice nominated for the Turner Prize, the highly regarded Irish - British painter Sean Scully has enjoyed a steadily building market moment these past few years — in part because of his savvy positioning under the ace dealer Robert Mnuchin, and in large part because his work has been seized upon with uncommon fervor by China's surging collector community.

In his large - scale oil painting Mother Tongue (2013), a hybrid geometric and gestural abstract work, Gerber has been informed by French lyrical abstraction, more precisely the calligraphic style of the German born painter Hans Hartung (1904 - 1989).

Abstraktes Bild is one of a large number of paintings that emerged from what is surely the German painter's most prolific period of making abstract works, between 1988 and 1992.

Painting, however, continues to have a large public and young artists setting out to be painters now need more than ever to see how artists of earlier generations successfully resisted the status quo and remained outside what evolved into an academic style, for this is what much of the conceptual, film and photographic work has become; merely another academy.

He often left large areas of the canvas untouched, with the negative space playing a significant role in his work, as in Gamma Omicron (1960); his initial inspiration for this method is said to come from a visit to the studio of Helen Frankenthaler, a pioneering stain painter.

One piece that especially stood out — a large work made up of twenty white paper squares divided by a thin wooden frame on which much smaller squares and rectangles painted in oil had been arbitrarily placed — is a visual testimony to the love of music and poetry that informs the creative work of this painter.

Fluent in a number of styles, minimalist, monochromatic, gestural, impressionistic, and quite potent in working on scales both small and large, Jean — Baptiste Bernadet is a French contemporary painter whose works hovers between what is abstract and what is recognizable.

Her work stands as the heart of the exhibition, and is surrounded by the photographs taken by painter Paul Nash (1889 - 1946), the large paintings by Rose Wylie (1934) and sculptures by Anthea Hamilton (1978).

Towner holds the largest public collection of works by the English painter Eric Ravilious.

In tandem with an independently organized retrospective at the Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, this hometown survey of Fishman's fifty - year - long career features the painter's esteemed large - scale gestural abstractions alongside a selection of intimate studio investigations — an assortment of miniature paintings, sketchbooks, and small sculptures — that share the same physicality and unapologetic emotional punch as her bigger, iconic works.

The baker's dozen of freshly graduated painters from the city's largest arts incubator, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, made perfect the participating artists» sense of painting, and the position of the medium in the frantic and rebellious quality of the work.

The Elevation of the Cross (1718), by Mexican painter Antonio de Torres, will enhance LACMA's leading collection of Spanish colonial painting, while Oxen and Shepherds (18th century) by Soga Shōhaku is a rare addition of a large - scale Japanese work for a museum outside of Japan.

LIU Xiaodong is a painter of modern life, whose large - scale works serve as a kind of history painting for the emerging world.

The SCAD Museum of Art presents an exhibition of selected works by acclaimed German painter Corinne Wasmuht, marking her first solo museum exhibition in the U.S. Wasmuht is best known for her large - scale oil paintings, which seek to define her own place within a contemporary global landscape wrought with a constant influx of information and imagery.

While the two schools of abstract expressionist painting shared certain characteristics ---- large scale; bold, gestural brushwork; emphasis on the materiality of paint; figure and ground equal or collapsed into overall, non-hierarchical compositions ---- Bay area artists, influenced by Asian cultures and the expansiveness of the western landscape, in addition to European painting, invited landscape references into their work whereas New York painters resisted such associations.

This exquisitely designed monograph of new works by Scottish painter Peter Doig (born 1959) is published for an exhibition at the Palazzetto Tito, Venice, at which Doig debuted recent large - scale and small - scale works.

On the occasion of the painter's recent exhibit at Moti Hasson Gallery, which will be on view until November 1, Joanna Pousette - Dart welcomed Rail Editor - at - Large Joan Waltemath to her Broome Street studio to talk about her life and work.

This volume presents landscapes by Gerhard Richter spanning 35 years: outstanding, large - format reproductions and two major essays elucidate the artist's working methods and his philosophy, while demonstrating that Richter's landscapes and abstract works, far from being artistic opposites, are closely related aspects of the painter's unique appropriation of reality.

The SCAD Museum of Art presents an exhibition of selected works by acclaimed German painter Corinne Wasmuht, marking her first solo museum exhibition in the U.S. Wasmuht is best known for her large - scale oil paintings, which seek to define her...

The «mother of American modernism» and the world's most - expensive woman artist, this pioneering feminist painter is a true American icon, as famous for her lifestyle in the rugged New Mexican desert, as for the large paintings of flowers that are her best - known works.

At the forefront of this new paradigm was HALE WOODRUFF, whose integration of African - design motifs into his colorful, large - scale canvases stood alongside an enigmatic and symbol - laden painterly abstraction in works by other painters.

The large and vital group of painters throughout the world who work in this mode still continue to gain from the philosophical and visual roots of the original movement, while adding their own relevant influences.

These small - scale background elements — which pay homage to the history of painting as well as to Wood's personal history (both of his maternal grandparents were hobbyist painters and collected works by Francis Bacon, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Motherwell, and Robert Rauschenberg, among other artists)-- are writ large in New Plants.

The 7 - ft by 11 - ft 29.09.64 is one of the painter's first large - scale abstract works.

A painter and sculptor, her work has often taken the form of large site - specific murals sometimes incorporating animations.

Landmark surveys of major figures in the history of art will include the largest display of work by Canaletto ever to be shown in Scotland, an exploration of the extraordinary impact of Rembrandt's work in Britain, only to be seen in Edinburgh, and a retrospective of the great German Expressionist painter, Emil Nolde.

James Rosenquist came to prominence among New York School Pop Art figures like Roy Lichtenstein, Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg is well known for his large - scale, fragmented works that bring the visual language of commercial painting onto canvas, from 1957 - 60, Rosenquist earned his living as a billboard painter.

was another painter who worked in a large variety of mediums, but who turned to acrylics later in her career because of their particular physical qualities.