Sentences with phrase «painting of rural life»

Jules Bastien - Lepage (1848 - 84) Famous for his sentimental realist genre painting of rural life.

Jules Bastien - Lepage (1848 - 84) French painter famous for his genre painting of rural life.

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Water was «read» by their mind, heart, sensorial attitude, into a valuable process of transdisciplinary knowledge.3 The visit to The Water Tower4 of the town and its museum facilitated the real knowledge of the objects and instruments that were used during the centuries by the rural and urban civilization concerning the use of water; the creative workshops facilitated unexpected «meetings» between poetry, music and painting in the artistic imaginary frame of water; the presentations revealed the magic powers of the water as they are known in folklore, mythology and also the astonishing Bible significations of the water and its use in religious rituals; the scientific outlook on water brought forward for discussion its physical - chemical properties, its role in the human metabolism and in all living beings.

A Piece of The World tells the back story of the subject of artist Andrew Wyeth's most famous painting, Christina's World - Christina Olson of rural Cushing, Maine, a severely crippled woman who still leads a brave, productive life.

The centre of town is a short walk away and the nearby river is a never ending, ever changing painting of tranquil rural life, Laos - style.

If you have a very contemporary, urban style of painting, you should probably not try to market your art to women in their 80s living in rural areas — not because 80 - year - olds will never purchase your work, but because your art won't attract this demographic.

Still stayed in New York for the rest of the 1950s, and then in 1961 he moved to rural Maryland, where he would live out the rest of his life, painting prolifically but largely out of public view.

An abstract sculpture by Thornton Dial composed of the painted skeleton bones of cows, references the cycles of life and death, rural farm life, and white supremacy.

BOOK > «Draw What You See: The Life and Art of Benny Andrews» a children's book about Benny Andrews, the rural Georgia - born artist who spent his career in New York painting and standing up for the rights of artists of color, is published on Jan. 6.

Art critics had favorable opinions about the painting; like Gertrude Stein and Christopher Morley, they assumed the painting was meant to be a satire of rural small - town life.

Easily one of the greatest American Modern masters to have ever lived, Edward Hopper is known for his realistic oil paintings of rural and city life in the United States between the two Great Wars.

The Korean Cultural Center Washington, D.C. and Friends of Korea are proud to present â $ œSketches of Korean Rural Life in the»70s, â $ an evocative new exhibition of original ink brush paintings by U.S. Peace Corps Korea veteran Neil Landreville and photos from the Corpsâ $ ™ years of service in Korea during a bygone era, on display September 5 - 30.

Taylor McKimens has been known for years as a painter of «American Life», making large and narrative paintings that feature rural tableaux, economically marginalized people, overlooked and often beautiful details of the natural world and cultural debris.

He has painted a wide range of subject matter from the landscape of the rural west to the cityscape of Brooklyn, NY as well as the still life.

The exhibition will consist of about 130 works, and feature many of Wood's classic paintings depicting the pastoral life and landscapes of rural America in the 1920s and»30s.

Though abstract in form, the paintings reflect Binion's experience: his childhood in the rural South, living in a two room house, with eleven siblings, moving to Detroit, and being part of the nascent art community in ew York.

The painting is presented in the context of his life: He was born into slavery in rural Alabama in 1853.

With both nostalgia and satire, her paintings explore the intricacies of daily life, often depicting rural scenes and traditions at risk of disappearing.

Her family lived in Enugu, a former coal mining town, and she spent weekends and summers in her grandmother's rural village — images of which factor heavily into her paintings.

Organized by the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, this exhibition is the second stop on a three city tour.More than one hundred pieces, from paintings to sculptures are included in this exhibition of the career and life of the artist Henry O. Tanner (1859 - 1937)- including Tanner's upbringing in Philadelphia in the years after the Civil War, the artist's success as an American expatriate artist at the highest levels of the International art world at the turn of the 20th century; Tanner's role as a leader of an artist's colony in the rural France and his unique contributions in aid of American servicemen to the Red Cross efforts in WWI France and his modernist invigoration of religious painting deeply rooted in his own faith.

A major painting by Williams, a masterful blend of color and geometry, is mounted at the entrance of the visual art galleries of the new Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington D.C. Born in rural Cross Creek, N.C., Williams was raised in New York, where he still lives and works, splitting his time between the city and Connecticut.

Salt's recent paintings continue to portray imagery of America from the 1970s; Red Mailbox II features signature elements that the artist has depicted throughout his career — the nearly broken - down vehicle in the driveway, the aging mobile home, and the subtle signs of life disrupting and comingling with the isolated, rural setting.

An important group in pre-revolutionary Russian art, it was an association of progressive socially / politically minded Russian artists, who predated Impressionism by a decade and who - chiefly concerned with rural landscape painting - toured the countryside painting what they saw in an effort to promote awareness of rural life outside the cities.

Newlyn's plein air painting followed the Impressionist doctrine of naturalism - working directly in nature, using subject matter drawn from rural life, especially that of the fishermen.

Celeste Spencer - Dupuy paints the daily life of rural 21st century America.

The great Catalan painter and sculptor began by painting scenes of rural peasant life, and went on to become a wayward surrealist, abstractionist and creator of a freeform symbolic world.

Cubism, Expressionism, Dada and Surrealism were the most important of these movements, and attracted a number of indigenous American artists, including: the New Jersey Cubist / Expressionist John Marin (1870 - 1953); the vigorous modernist Marsden Hartley (1877 - 1943); the expressionist Russian - American Max Weber (1881 - 1961); the New York - born Bauhaus pioneer Lyonel Feininger (1871 - 1956); the unfortunate Patrick Henry Bruce (1881 - 1937), noted for his semi-abstract impastoed pictures; Stanton Macdonald - Wright (1890 - 1973) and Morgan Russell (1883 - 1953), two Americans living in Paris who invented a colourful abstract style known as Synchromism; Arthur Garfield Dove (1880 - 1946) noted for his small scale abstracts, collages and assemblages; the Mondrian and De Stijl - inspired Burgoyne Diller (1906 - 65); the influential American Cubist Stuart Davis (1894 - 1964); the calligraphic abstract painter Mark Tobey (1890 - 1976); the surrealist Man Ray (1890 - 1976); the Russian - American mixed - media artist Louise Nevelson (1899 - 1988); the Indiana metal sculptor David Smith (1906 - 1965); Joseph Cornell (1903 - 72) noted for his installations; the Iowa - raised Grant Wood (1892 - 1942) noted for his masterpiece American Gothic (1930), and the Missouri - born Thomas Hart Benton (1889 - 1975), both of whom were champions of rural and small - town Regionalism - part of the wider realist idiom of American Scene Painting; and Jacob Lawrence (1917 - 2000) the famous African - American artist.

In this body of work, Sandra Mendelsohn Rubin creates small, meticulously detailed paintings of the rural Northern California landscape where she lives.

Ahead of our America After the Fall exhibition, Debra N. Mancoff spotlights Hart Benton's paintings of idealised rural life during the Great Depression — and his mentorship of an emerging young artist, Jackson Pollock.