Sentences with phrase «painting horse portraits»

I had been painting horse portraits since I was 22.

Not exact matches

This isn't a problem if one is painting horses, landscapes, portraits, or pretty abstractions, because people are generally familiar enough with art to appreciate that.

GLENN O'BRIEN — Apelles painted Alexander's portrait, and when Alexander's horse whinnied at the horse in the painting Apelles said, «Your majesty, your horse has better taste in art than you do.»

Prior to this Wallinger had made a lusciously detailed 1992 oil painting of a racehorse under the characteristically multi-meaning title Race, Class, Sex, and a self - portrait as Emily Davison, the suffragette who threw herself in front of the king's horse in 1913.

You just referred to one painting «Horse and Rider» as also probably in some ways a self - portrait, where does that come from?

For instance, the self - portrait type painting in the exhibition, Horse and Rider, that was made over 3 to 4 years.

Shortly after the Cram portrait series, Dingle created the «Paintings of the West» series employing vintage wallpaaper and other imagery as her canvas along with a hundred curated drawings of «Horses by Teenage Girls».

The exhibition allies a range of highly varied works; Reza Aramesh's critical reconfiguration of postures of oppression taken from the documentary photographic record of the late 20th century within the context of high - cultural legacy of the Enlightenment, Jake & Dinos Chapman's attack of those same Enlightenment spawned delusions of cultural progress, Desiree Dolron's exquisite, dense, almost painterly rendering of light and shadow within the photographic medium, Terence Koh's white - on - white neon declaration of Eternal Love, Wayne Horse's lighter - lit display of sub-cultural, cul - de-sacs articulated in a trash aesthetic, Dawn Mellor's radical portraits of female film stars, re-contextualized from the objectifying gaze of cinematic light into the critical, imaginative space afforded by painting, Gino Saccone's loose but formal play of material, surface and light in his multi-media, sculptural assemblages, Peter Schuyff's abstract, shaded path from ambient light into a dark portal and finally Conrad Shawcross» beautiful and austere kinetic work that emanates an ever shifting pattern in shadow and light.

NEW YORK — From a striking steel horse by Deborah Butterfield to Chuck Close's felt hand - stamped portraits and a fascinating set of tin types made modern with whimsical strokes of brightly colored paint, Armory Modern offered a restrained complement to the main Armory Show's contemporary showcase.

«Equestrian Portrait of Philip III» (2016), the most spectacular of several large paintings by Kehinde Wiley in the fair, depicts a young man, dandified to the point of silliness, on a rearing horse surrounded by birds and flowering and fruiting trees.

Though logically sensible and easy to follow, this has resulted in some interesting juxtapositions, such as a Rubens next to stately portraits, and one small room with works as diverse as horse paintings by George Stubbs, a portrait by Joshua Reynolds and an apocalyptic depiction of Vesuvius erupting.

In one of The Armory Show's few overtly political moments, a powerful and timely painting by Titus Kaphar hangs on the booth's outer wall; the work (The Cost of Removal, 2017) was inspired by President Trump's hanging of a portrait of Andrew Jackson in the Oval Office and sees Jackson on a horse with the names of his slaves penned on shreds of canvas tacked on by rusted nails.

His most famous portrait of a stag is probably «The Monarch of the Glen» (1851, Diageo Collection), while his finest horse painting is probably «Shoeing» (1844, Tate Collection).

Prior to the opening of the exhibition Susan Rothenberg: Moving in Place, the artist and curator of the exhibition discuss the development of Rothenberg's imagery, from the ground - breaking early horse paintings of the mid-1970s to her fragmented and spinning self - portraits.

George Stubbs, The Nilgai, 1769 The medical man and art collector William Hunter commissioned this portrait of an exotic species from the sublime Stubbs, who is most famous for his eerily beautiful paintings of horses.

The exhibition is particularly strong in portraits of mature men, many connected to horse racing; in little - known, small - scale works; in a painting and nearly identical etching of the same person, and in that triumph of Freud's art — nudes depicting «the body in the round».

Other lots included a portrait commission by William Wegman, paintings by Bleckner, Malcolm Morley and George Condo, a self - inflatable mylar sculpture, a giant silver phallus called «Brancusi Tree» by Paul McCarthy; a Bruce Weber photo, «Johnny and Pal,» a naked man and horse, entangled bodies on the beach, had the auctioneer commenting, «We don't know what went before.»

• Unique Forms of Continuity in Space (bronze)(1913) by Umberto Boccioni • Fountain (urinal)(1917) by Marcel Duchamp • Bird in Space (bronze)(1923) by Constantin Brancusi • Merzbau (3 - D collage)(c.1930 - 43) by Kurt Schwitters • Pierced Form (1931) by Barbara Hepworth • Fur Cup (1936) by Meret Oppenheim • Presidential Portraits, Mount Rushmore (1941) Gutzon Borglum • Horse (bronze)(1950) by Marino Marini • Sky Cathedral (painted wood)(1958) by Louise Nevelson • Homage to New York (exploding construction)(1960) by Jean Tinguely • Untitled (Stack)(lacquered iron)(1967) by Donald Judd • A Thousand Years (installation)(1990) by Damien Hirst • Apple Core (1992) by Claes Oldenburg • Puppy (Plants, wood, earth)(1992) by Jeff Koons • My Bed (installation)(1999) by Tracey Emin • 227: The Lights Going On and Off (conceptual art)(2001) Martin Creed • Controller of the Universe (tools and wire)(2007) by Damian Ortega