Sentences with phrase «painting by young women»

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Set in the Netherlands in early the 17th - century, during the period of the Tulip mania, an artist (Dane DeHaan) falls for a married young woman (Alicia Vikander) while he's commissioned to paint her portrait by her husband (Christoph Waltz).

I also knew it would be a novel that centred on three sisters — two of them young women and one a child when the book opens — and one summer in the life of the sisters, a summer when the portrait that gives the novel its title is being painted by a Cambridge friend.

When Rachel Kushner sat down to write her second novel, she had three images taped to the wall above her desk: A pretty young blonde woman, face painted for war, with an X of tape across her lips, which eventually became the cover image; a well - heeled engineer standing with his creation, a 1971 Ducati motorcycle; and two men racing by in a primitive cycle and sidecar, circa World War I.The...

One young woman's tribute describes unwrapping her cadaver's hands and being brought up short by the realization that the nails were painted pink.

- Kirkus «This new novel by the author of the popular debut Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet paints a many - colored entangled double portrait of a young boy and a woman.

«KEHINDE WILEY: A New Republic» @ Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth Fort Worth, Texas About 14 years ago, Kehinde Wiley found his niche painting grand portraits of young men (and more recently women) he identified by walking the streets of major cities around the world.

1963 Rencontre Internationale des Artistes, Musée des Oudaïs, Rabat, Morocco (December 1963 — January 1964) Group exhibition including works by Jean Degottex, Simon Hantaï, Joan Mitchell, and Jean - Paul Riopelle, Galerie Jean Fournier et Cie, Paris (December) 19 Salon de Mai, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (May) Women in Contemporary Art, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina (February 19 — March 22) Three Young Americans: Joan Mitchell, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio (January 8 — 29) Directions: American Painting, San Francisco Museum of Art, California (September 20 - October 20)

This will be after taking in Robins sculpture, and Gary Wraggs paintings in Deal.Great that there are two shows of British Abstract Painting and Sculpture on at the moment.With Bill Tucker at Pangolin and Sams cracking show of 60s colour in Liverpool, Abstraction is far from a dead issue.Indeed there is a symposium by Matthew Macauley at a northern university [to be confirmed] coming up, with requests for papers.Two very good painters rang me to say go and see the Picasso show at Tate Modern, which I did.It was stunning and there were probably eight or so masterpieces in one room from one year!Tony and Sheila Caros show in Peterborough and Graham Boyd at the Cut, Frank Bowling in Dublin and Scully in Newcastle, Mali Morris at Women can't Paint at Turps Banana, loads to see, enjoy, think about and stimulate new work.I hope there are all those hungry [artistically] young Abstract Painters and Sculptors out there keen to extend the genre.!

Display highlights include a portrait painting of a young woman in profile by Armenian - Egyptian artist Ervand Demirdjian titled Nubian Girl, which is believed to be one of the earliest works in the collection made between 1900 - 10.

Sotheby's started the evening's other 38 lots with the 2012 painting «Drown,» by the young Nigerian - born figurative painter Njideka Akunyili Crosby, who earlier this year was the subject of a one - woman show at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Fla..

The exception to the series is the last painting, a portrayal of intellectual and activist Susan Sontag as a young woman alongside a heavily blacked - out male figure, again symbolic of the contributions to contemporary culture made by a woman in a predominantly male - orientated world.

Most of the drawings — including explosions of technical wizardry based on the complexities of the Laocoön and brilliant studies of young women and men in his busy studio in Florence — are in the dungeon of the Frick, but the paintings with related studies are in the oval room usually occupied by the Whistlers, and that is where there are lessons to be learned.

In her solo exhibition at 5 Car Garage, Sullivan has re-purposed an entire exhibition — or at the very least it's title, «BIG GIRL PAINTINGS» — by Julian Schnabel at New York's Gagosian gallery in 2002, which featured enormous portraits of young blond women whose eyes have been covered by raw, horizontal swaths of paint.

When she referenced her 2010 piece, Little Dot, inspired by Georges Seurat's painting Young Woman Powdering Herself, Houston Ballet first soloist Katharine Precourt entered to perform 664 bourées, representing the number of red dots in the painting.

Los Angeles based artist Soey Milk paints confident young women in boldly colored clothing inspired by the imagery of her Korean heritage.

It shows recto - verso reproductions of a portrait by Albrecht Dürer of a handsome young Wilhelm Haller, on the rear of which is painted a grinning old woman, her breast exposed and with a bag bursting with money.

In the 90s, she commanded solo shows in galleries in New York, Santa Monica, London and Milan, and her paintings were included in group surveys such as My Little Pretty: Images of Girls by Contemporary Women Artists at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago in 1997 and Young Americans 2: New American Art at the Saatchi Gallery in London in 1998.

Just outside Alexander Gray Associates where they hang, the staircase to the High Line offered the constant ascent and descent of women young and old, caught briefly in the dappled sunlight and framed by the massive gallery windows, Marcel Duchamp's landmark painting set in motion.

The works in this collection are supremely imaginative in both form and content: from the semi-autobiographical novel painted by a young artist who died in the Holocaust (Charlotte Salomon) to Alison Knowles» computer - generated chance operation for «imagining» houses and their inhabitants; from the pseudo-scientific examination of a conversation between a mother and a daughter (Eleanor Antin) to the dark, comic interrogation of violence against women (Sue Williams); from the transformations of newspaper headlines (Suzanne Treister) to the probing of animal consciousness (Cole Swensen & Shari De Graw); from the body maps drawn by South African women with AIDS (Bambanani Women's Group) to the alchemical transformation of the pregnant body into an evolving landscape and philosophical meditation (Susan Hilwomen (Sue Williams); from the transformations of newspaper headlines (Suzanne Treister) to the probing of animal consciousness (Cole Swensen & Shari De Graw); from the body maps drawn by South African women with AIDS (Bambanani Women's Group) to the alchemical transformation of the pregnant body into an evolving landscape and philosophical meditation (Susan Hilwomen with AIDS (Bambanani Women's Group) to the alchemical transformation of the pregnant body into an evolving landscape and philosophical meditation (Susan HilWomen's Group) to the alchemical transformation of the pregnant body into an evolving landscape and philosophical meditation (Susan Hiller).

Here, they are harlequins, young female acrobats, men in djellabas, a silhouette stretched out beneath a fire... In other paintings we find women in kimonos, musicians, silhouettes shaded by parasols.

I liked everything I saw in Galleri Charlotte Lund's selection of young Swedish artists, and especially a magical painting of two young women — the artist and her lover — by Ulrika Minami Warmling.

Painted in a loose, folkloric style, the canvases capture young women with blurred or caricatured faces sharing thoughts together in lamp - lit rooms or solemnly sitting alone on a bed or in nature with a dog while thinking of time passing by.

• Young Italian Woman Leaning on her Elbow (1900) J.Paul Getty Museum Note: For earlier works by Cezanne, see: Greatest Modern Paintings (1800 - 1900).

Displayed on their living room walls are exactly the sorts of contemporary art trophies ambitious collectors are competing for: a huge Warhol silkscreen of a.22 - caliber pistol; a sculpture of a dollar sign in shimmering lights by the British artists Tim Noble and Sue Webster; and a John Currin painting, «The Clairvoyant,» depicting a beautiful young woman with cloudy blue eyes.

In 2000 the National Gallery in London commissioned a work by Oldenberg entitled, Resonance, After J.V., which reinterprets Vermeer's paintings of young women playing an instrument.

The painting by Jean - Honoré Fragonard of a Young Woman painted in the 18th - century was temporarily removed on 10 February and replaced with a replica produced in China.

The painting by Jean - Honoré Fragonard of a Young Woman painted in the 18th - century was temporarily removed on 10 February and replaced with a replica produced -LSB-...]

Published this week, «Kehinde Wiley: The World Stage Jamaica,» features both young men and women painted against textiles by British designer William Morris.

Finally, she presented her triple channel video of young Liverpool students describing a painting by Picasso, The Weeping Woman.

[14] Gwen John's early paintings such as Portrait of Mrs. Atkinson, Young Woman with a Violin, and Interior with Figures are intimist works painted in a traditional style characterised by subdued colour and transparent glazes.

While he kept the Picassos, her picks included a striking 1880 Manet pastel of a coolly poised young woman, Suzette Lemaire, and a large, abstract painting by Joan Mitchell.

As the parade of high - profile guests rambled by, including a fascinating trio of young women from Bahrain, whose couture outshone even the tattooed presence of Ashley Bickerton relaxing on a streamlined sofa near one of his paintings, the gravitas of Joannou's annual event in Athens sunk in.

Over the past three decades, Judith Linhares has practically invented the genre of imaginative figurative painting largely populated by confident young women engaged in activities ranging from the banal to the idiosyncratic, thus paving the way for artists such as Amy Cutler, Hillary Harkness, and Dana Schutz.