Sentences with phrase «painting of a lion»

It has almost become a ubiquitous pop icon but also very folk in the sense that people are inspired to make a painting of a lion on the wall.

Her painting of a lion is being shipped down to the Mall Galleries, in London, where the winner will be judged in June by...

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As CS lewis wrote of God, «He is not a tame lion...» I know some would like to put the spirit of Yaweh into a box and proclaim, «He would never allow a butterfly to die, never allow suffering ever,» but logic, life, and scripture paint a different picture.

Why go to a museum to see a painting by George Stubbs, who never left Europe but depicted lions sinking tooth and claw into the necks of terrified horses?

For years, scientists have hotly debated the age of some of Europe's oldest cave art: Were the stunning images of cave lions, horses, and bulls (examples above) in the Chauvet - Pont d'Arc cave in southeastern France somewhere in the neighborhood of 20,000 years old, as some researchers have suggested, or had they been painted millennia earlier?

Cast: Noah Noah's Wife Sons: Shem, Ham Japheth Shem's wife Ham's wife Japheth's wife Wild valley people including: Tribe leader Jeerer 1 Jeerer 2 Jeerer 3 Cruel woman and child 2 Peasants Wild deer and hunter Specific Animals: Raven Dove (s)(for creative dance sequence) 2 Monkeys 2 big cats (lions or tigers etc) 2 elephants Singers (Selected singers will be costumed and face painted as animals of your choice)

Aside from a little debris in one of the plastic name badges — featuring a white lion and a red cross against a blue background — and a small streak of discolored paint on one fender, Sterling's workmanship was hard to fault.

We are treated to multiple spreads of the boy's fantasy: He's painting various safari animals, from elephants to zebras to majestic lions, and every scene pops with color and action.

One large painting in the conference room features a lion gazing at the bones of an animal in a desert.

St. Francis Wolf Sanctuary: September 2012: 64 - 65 Houston Zoo, Saving the Orangutan: October 2012: 64 - 65 Saving the Lions: November 2012: 62 - 64 Saving Lives in Central America: December 2012: 60 - 61 Saving Sea Turtles: Jan / Feb 2013: 62 - 63 Saving the Borneo Elephants: March 2013: 64 - 65 Conservation Corner: April 2013: 64 - 65 Lowland Tapir Conservation Initiative: May 2013: 62 - 63 Conservation Corner: June 2013: 64 - 65 Protecting the Ethiopian Wolves: July 2013: 66 - 67 Saving Rhinos from Extinction: August 2013: 62 - 63 Saving Animals from Extinction: September 2013: 64 - 65 Conservation of the African Painted Dog: October 2013: 64 - 65 Conservation of Chimpanzees: November 2013: 64 - 65 Conserving Attwater's Prairie Chickens: December 2013: 64 - 65 Traveling to See Animals in the Wild with the Houston Zoo: Jan / Feb 2014: 64 - 65 Blue Billed Curassow Conservation: March 2014: 62 - 63 Houston Toad Conservation: May 2014: 60 - 61 Lion Conservation: June 2014: 58 - 61 Giant Armadillo Conservation Project in Brazil: July 2014: 58 - 59 Conserving the Gorillas: August 2014: 58 - 59

In Sidon was found a sarcophagus, from the end of the fourth century BCE, on which is painted Alexander the Great and the King of Sidon hunting a lion with the help of a hunting dog, similar in build to the dogs in Ashkelon and similar in appearance to the Canaan Dog.

Along with enormous birdmen, a lion man with a paint palette for lips and all manner of chicanery that would make Guillermo Del Toro visit a psychiatrist.

In this captivating oil painting class, artist Ben Waddams shows you how to paint a close up of a mountain lion.

As I've said, the lion share of both abstract and representational painting and sculpture produced in America since 1950 is left out.

Of course there are exceptions, not least among the many collateral events such as Catalan sculptor Jaume Plensa's monumental fine - mesh head appearing in the dusk of San Giorgio Maggiore like a disembodied soul; and a fine show of Peter Doig's latest paintings, full of jauntily piratical lions and strange new characters to add to his mythological dramatis personae, at the Palazzetto TitOf course there are exceptions, not least among the many collateral events such as Catalan sculptor Jaume Plensa's monumental fine - mesh head appearing in the dusk of San Giorgio Maggiore like a disembodied soul; and a fine show of Peter Doig's latest paintings, full of jauntily piratical lions and strange new characters to add to his mythological dramatis personae, at the Palazzetto Titof San Giorgio Maggiore like a disembodied soul; and a fine show of Peter Doig's latest paintings, full of jauntily piratical lions and strange new characters to add to his mythological dramatis personae, at the Palazzetto Titof Peter Doig's latest paintings, full of jauntily piratical lions and strange new characters to add to his mythological dramatis personae, at the Palazzetto Titof jauntily piratical lions and strange new characters to add to his mythological dramatis personae, at the Palazzetto Tito.

The title of this exhibition comes from Thompson's painting Yesterday and Tomorrow; characteristic of Thompson's brightly coloured, fluidly painted works, this image of a lion facing a row of statues encapsulates the joy and spirit of this exciting artist's practice.

1940 «Recent Paintings and Construction by Gallatin, Morris, Shaw,» The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL «American Abstract Art,» assembled by Mr. Stephen Lion, Galerie St. Etienne, New York, NY Museum of Non-Objective Art, New York, NY

Earlier, a Golden Lion for lifetime achievement was awarded to the American artist Carolee Schneemann, whose paintings, performances and videos explore the boundaries of the body and the political power of women's sexuality.

The gathering learned that although the characterful lions that prowl, cavort and generally populate many of these recent paintings might chime with their current Venetian context, they are all renditions of the Lion of Judah, which are as ubiquitous throughout the artist's adopted country of Trinidad as the lion of St Mark is in VenLion of Judah, which are as ubiquitous throughout the artist's adopted country of Trinidad as the lion of St Mark is in Venlion of St Mark is in Venice.

The lion in this case, which is a motif that's in quite a number of the paintings, came about from living in Trinidad and seeing the motif of the Lion of Judah which is quite common thlion in this case, which is a motif that's in quite a number of the paintings, came about from living in Trinidad and seeing the motif of the Lion of Judah which is quite common thLion of Judah which is quite common there.

That painting is a mixture of looking at the lion's cage in the zoo, observing the lion in the zoo and sort of turning it inside out with the lion on the exterior of the city jail.

Upon entering the gallery, the visitor encounters the silhouette of a lion's head on an expansive wall painting.

Michael Werner gallery, London In these grave and noble paintings of our catastrophic age, the Scottish artist uses lurid colours to create bold beach scenes haunted by murders and mangy lions

While her work carries a sustained atmosphere of profound meditativeness, her strategies of approaching art range broadly across the spectrum, from photography to paintings to performance to feature - length films — a diversity attested to by the fact that she has won both the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale (in 1999) and the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival (in 2009).

Polke also received numerous international awards, including the Golden Lion prize at the Venice Biennale of 1986 and, more recently, the Japan Art Association's 2002 Praemium Imperiale award for painting.

Patrick Lakey's flatly lit blend of still life and (nude) self - portraiture, from a series in which he plays dozens of characters from the Marquis de Sade's writings, caught hold of me at The Happy Lion's booth; at Madrid's Travesia Cuatro, Gonzalo Lebrija's intimate communion between himself, wearing a red hooded sweatshirt, and the lone red canvas in a selection of On Kawara «Date Paintings» brought out the latent melancholy in any notation of time; and at Cherry and Martin, Elad Lassry's small - scale conceptual tableaux possessed at once a fierce confidence and an estranging oddness.

In another, smaller painting from the same show, the crowned lion seems to disport itself on a beach, framed above and below by bands of green and red.

MoMA, in collaboration with the Hammer Museum, presents over 290 works by the artist, from early paintings made in the 1960s — prismatic explorations of perception under the influence of LSD — to her white panopticon, What It's Like, What It Is # 3 (1991), to The Probable Trust Registry: The Rules of the Game # 1 — 3 (2013)-- an exercise in social contracting that won the Golden Lion Award at the 2015 Venice Biennale.

Another artist making a new painting for my black - and - white room is Christian Marclay, creator of the 24 - hour video piece The Clock, winner of the Golden Lion at the 2011 Venice Biennale.

In Sleeping by the Lion Carpet, a 1996 painting in the show, Sue Tilley, a frequent subject of Freud's in the 1990s, is seen draped in a chair.

For whatever mayhem may take place within the confines of his simple church, the public aspect of his project is pure roadside carnie, as his lawn sprouts billboards with messages like «God Loves Fags» written in Hebrew, a «Crucify thy Selfie» made of quotations from three famous art - history crucifixion paintings with a hole to stick your head through, and a lion's cage made of an old hay wagon.

He paints the Tourist series [CR: 368 - 370] based on photographs from magazine Der Stern of a tourist attacked by a lion in a Spanish safari park, and a series of works depicting the artists Gilbert & George [CR: 379 - 384].

Before 11 January: For his father's birthday, Calder makes Animal Zoo Puzzle, a game consisting of five painted animals — a tiger, a lion, and three bears — and a wooden board with nails divided into six pens.

Taking Sam Gilliam (b. 1933)'s landmark painting Lion's Rock Arc (1981) as inspiration, the exhibition includes a number of works comprised of multiple parts, such as the recent acquisition Anthology (William Pope L.)(2011) by 2005 — 06 Artist - in - Residence Clifford Owens (b. 1971).

Martin was honored with the Skowhegan Medal of Painting and Sculpture (1987), Oskar Kokoschka Prize (1992), Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale (1997), National Medal of Arts (1998), and Lifetime Achievement Award from the Women's Caucus for Art (2005), among other awards.

Text appeared in many of the paintings combined with a series of symbolic references, including dogs, lions, skulls, and skeletons.

In Rain in the Port of Spain (White Oak), one of the 13 paintings in Doig's latest show, opening Thursday night at Michael Werner Gallery in New York, an orange lion prowls outside of Port of Spain's huge jailhouse as a sinister figure approaches.

We say, «Painting is the timid appraisal of yourself by lions.»

In Rain in the Port of Spain (White Oak), a yellow wall, filling most of the painting, may represent Trinidad's zoo or its prison, while a large lion prowling in the foreground may be an animal from the zoo or the Lion of Judah, emblem of the prison's Rastafarian population, or both — and that sharp perspective down the wall to the left, with the strangely transparent prison guard, references the great Italian surrealist Giorgio de Chirlion prowling in the foreground may be an animal from the zoo or the Lion of Judah, emblem of the prison's Rastafarian population, or both — and that sharp perspective down the wall to the left, with the strangely transparent prison guard, references the great Italian surrealist Giorgio de ChirLion of Judah, emblem of the prison's Rastafarian population, or both — and that sharp perspective down the wall to the left, with the strangely transparent prison guard, references the great Italian surrealist Giorgio de Chirico.

Unfortunately, geometric images can't compare with the beauty of figurative cave art, as exemplified by the powerful bulls in the Lascaux cave paintings or the watching lions in the Chauvet cave paintings.

Painstaking and obsessive in their efforts to capture an entire scene or the slightest of gestures — a turn of a lion's head here, the edge of a Bruegel painting there — Brown's drawings take the act of looking as their very subject.»

This edition is a wonderfully edgy and unexpected work by the great artist, who won the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in the 2011 Venice Biennale, and whose works have been fetching staggering multiples of their estimates at auction in recent years, with a record of $ 710,000 set by one of her ersatz Lichtenstein paintings in 2011.

In 1993, a year after Bacon's death, Sylvester curated a show of paintings at the Museo Correr, for the Venice Biennale, and was awarded the Golden Lion, the first time it had been given to a critic rather than an artist.

Over in the Giardini, ILLUMInations played out like an elegant museum exhibition: Gedewon's melodious drawings that recall Ethiopian narrative painting, Karl Holmqvist's writing on the wall, DAS INSTITUT's (Kerstin Brätsch & Adele Röder) gorgeous install of Blocked Radiants (for Ioana), Gabriel Kuri's neo-povera balancing act, and Monika Sosnowska «s neo-Rococo wallpapered star - shaped parapavilion / nesting place for works by David Goldblatt and Haroon Mirza, who won the Silver Lion for Promising Young Artist.

While the lustrous, candy - colored icons from «Celebration,» 1994 — , may have captured the lion's share of Koons's recent public attention, the lesser known «Popeye» series comprises some of his most inventive oil paintings and trompe l'oeil sculptures, which take his abiding preoccupation with the readymade to mind - boggling new heights.

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I am reminded of the small painting by Rae that I saw at that Lion and Lamb exhibition, Party Time is Coming, it might even be here already, and it's not necessarily a good thing, even though I do think Rae's paintings are a very good thing!

Lion & Lamb Gallery's Summer Saloon show will be in Miami as part of «Art Britannia - The Best of New British» and includes my painting «Later».

New costumes can not just be worn but must first go through a ceremony where the eye of the lion is painted, giving the creature sight.

I brought home loads of paint chips and chose Stone Lion by Behr by comparing it with the brown strands in the pink yarn in my yarn hanging.