Sentences with phrase «painting on a grand scale»

But while he painted on a grand scale, he saw in human terms.

Narrator: In the 1950s, Davis began to make abstract paintings on a grand scale.

Khan has recently turned to painting on a grand scale.

«One of the goals behind Vitality and Verve is to spotlight artists who are stepping out of their studios to paint on a grand scale using outdoor walls as their canvas as well as urban artists who are beginning to work in a traditional studio setting.»

Quirt's greatest achievement for the WPA was a panoramic mural in New York's Bellevue Hospital, The Growth of Medicine From Primitive Times, which combined Surrealism and history painting on a grand scale.

Not exact matches

The Street Painting Festival is grand performance art on a large scale.

Though one of them paints images and the other does not, one might well feel that they have much more in common than either one does with a painter who prefers to work on a grand scale and with reference to important public issues.

The grand yet sombre paintings on show in London are large in scale, using areas of black and gold leaf.

Often executed on a grand scale her work reveals her fascination for epic narratives, comic book illustration and the performative quality of painting and drawing.

The work slyly suggests that a grand, large scale painting of, say, Jackson Pollock has fallen off the wall and lies flaccid and impotent on the floor.

These paintings, all created on a grand scale, also create a visual dialogue among such widespread references as Dada, Surrealism, and early Russian theater.

The supernatural compositions of Bas's past are here expanded into grand mythologizing narratives, taking on the weight and scale of 19th - century history painting.

Her works are often constructed on a grand scale; with narratives of destruction and hope, they are in dialogue with classical history paintings.

I was therefore surprised to find myself backing off from Shadow on Frankfort Barren, the largest of Welliver's paintings in the show — although by no means his grandest scale: he liked to work on canvases 10 feet wide.

What / Why: «Blurring the boundaries between sculpture, installation and painting, Sarah Sze builds intricate landscapes from the ordinary minutiae of everyday life, yet on a grand architectural scale.

Now one of the world's most successful photographers, Gursky's curiously detached worldview, often presented on a scale associated with grand history paintings, is well known.

Christina Pettersson's work explores resurrection and savage demise on a grand scale once reserved for history painting.

The paintings were the first canvases Marshall executed on a large scale in a grand manner.

The Q&A was the highlight of the day for me, bringing authenticity & humor to an otherwise complex and serious conversation.Mokgosi grand - scale paintings focus on post-colonial Africa depicting realistic rendered subjects inspired by the style of European history paintings.

Sotheby's Contemporary Art Evening Auction on 8 March will be led by Untitled (One Eyed Man or Xerox Face), one of Jean - Michel Basquiat's finest full - length male figures from his series of grand - scale paintings that took the art world by storm in the early 1980s.

But in a new, grand triptych, events take on a cinematic scope and scale, with a crowd of extras cast from Dutch genre painting and zombie flicks.

Her work explores resurrection and savage demise on a grand scale once reserved for history painting.

combines the force of gravity with gallons of paint to create vibrant pour paintings — think spin art on a much grander scale, with less spinning.His pieces will make you long for the flower power of the «60s.

Artist Holton Rower combines the force of gravity with gallons of paint to create vibrant pour paintings — think spin art on a much grander scale, with less spinning.His pieces will make you long for the flower power of the «60s.

Christina Pettersson explores resurrection and savage demise on a grand scale once reserved for history painting.

Often printed on the grand scale of a history painting — exhibited either as backlit lightboxes akin to advertising displays or as crisp ink jet and silver gelatin prints — Wall's works reveal their poetic potential through portraying empathetic characters, picturing impossible vantage points, and capturing elusive moments.

Located in the imposing Palazzo Falier on the Grand Canal, Land Sea will feature a broad selection of new works, many monumental in scale and conceived specifically for this exhibition, offering compelling insight into Sean Scully's recent practice and reaffirming his position as one of the leading figures of abstract painting.

In many of Aldrich's paintings, the grand scale of Abstract Expressionism and the ensuing post-modernist takes on the genre come together as awkward bedfellows.

Paintings on paper, drawings and one grand - scale painting make up this exhibition which examines the authority of traditional painting motifs through the artist's playful interpretation of landscape and portraiture.

Here is a magisterial drawing that combines graphic power, expressive force, and narrative ambiguity on the grand scale of history painting.

Powerful, poetic and enacted on a grand scale, Under April Mood is Frankenthaler's resounding answer to the transcendent canvases that Rothko, Newman and Pollock introduced into the corpus of 20th century abstract painting in the late 1940s, and which came to define the American abstract vernacular.

The organic concave and convex shapes are mirrored in the hand painted patterns that replicate Shonibare's signature Dutch wax batik fabrics on a dramatically grand scale.

German street artist (check out the Widewalls list of 10 German street and urban artists) 1010 (take a look at the 1010 Print Release: Abyss 49) has become well known for his eye catching «portal» designs that play on the eye and the mind, creating optical illusions on a grand scale (read the Bridget Riley: The Stripe Paintings article about one of the masters of creating optical art, Bridget Riley or check the work of Levalet in this Levalet: Bagages article that uses optical illusions in a different way) that turn the sides of flat buildings into an abyss that one could simply walk into as the layers of colour and carefully constructed shadows vanish into a dark centre that hypnotically draw you in (explore the mind blowing optical illusions of Julie Oppermann in this The Intense Afterimage article).