Sentences with phrase «paintings by a female»

Visions of the Orient features 125 prints and paintings by female Western artists exploring Asian cultures between 1900 and 1940.

The premise of the show is disarmingly simple: abstract paintings by female artists.

Riot Grrrls celebrates a plethora of loud and adventurous paintings by female artists.

Other top prices included $ 11,284,628 ($ 8.8 m to $ 12.1 m) for Gitane by the Dutch Fauvist portrait painter Kees van Dongen (1877 - 1968); and $ 10,216,148 (estimate: $ 6.4 m — $ 9.6 m) for Espagnole by the Russian modernist Natalia Goncharova (1881 - 1962)- a record auction price for a painting by a female artist.

One of the great 20th - century paintings by a female artist.

This exhibition brings together some of her most important works, including Jimson Weed / White Flower No. 1 1932, the most expensive painting by a female artist ever sold at auction.

Espagnole, circa 1916, by Natalia Goncharova realized # 6,425,250 at Christie's Impressionist and Modern Evening Art Evening Sale in London, establishing a record price for a painting by a female artist sold at auction.

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Then there's the Chair, a seat made in 1969 out of a female mannequin in a compromising position, which was covered in paint stripper by a feminist protestor on International Women's Day in 1986.

Democrats nationwide are trying to win over female voters in November by painting their GOP opponents as weak on women's issues.

The Lost World of Old Europe: The Danube Valley, 5000 — 3500 B.C. Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, NYU, New York City Millennia before the great pyramids of Giza were built, elaborately painted female figurines and costumes gleaming with copper and gold were being created by the artisans of Old Europe, who thrived around 4500 B.C..

Influenced by Asian women and high fashion photography, Deng's elevated hand - painted illustrations of outrageously yet impeccably dressed females radiate drama and elegance.

For a spell, it feels as if the film will transcend the unpromising irony of its title with a female protagonist painted as unflattering and tortured, but by the time the final credits roll after an unforgivable third act, Murder by Numbers washes out as just another imminently forgettable movie starring Sandra Bullock.

Shot in artful, quiet light (many of the frames look like elegant paintings), The Innocents is beautifully performed by its nearly all - female cast; each nun, even those unnamed, is given her own personality and story.

The first, «It Felt Like Love,» directed by Eliza Hittman, paints a vibrantly honest and authentic portrait of adolescent female sexuality that is anchored by two stunning performances by newcomer actors Gina Piesanti and Ronen Rubinstein.

Ostensibly both a remake of the Southern Gothic erotic thriller by Don Siegel from 1971 and also an adaptation of Thomas P. Cullinan's 1966 novel «A Painted Devil», Coppola (who also wrote the screenplay and won the Best Director Award at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival) smartly and slowly unravels her tale via the female gaze in a film that, if one is patient with it, slowly pulls you under its sunlit and fainéant spell.

RIM's response to the market - share - gulping iPhone is to try to appeal to the female consumer by splashing pink paint all over the BlackBerry Pearl.

Combined, they paint a rather grim picture of a young female single parent trying to make a better life for herself and her children by acquiring more debt than she can possibly manage on her modest income.

So in addition to helping paint a gritty picture for the rest of the game experience, this kind of sexualized violence against inessential female characters is exploited by developers as a sort of cheap one - note character development for the «bad guys».

Cards are hand - painted by artists Megan Majewski and Elin Jonsson, whose style has been described as Tim - Burtonesque with a female twist.

Although it has been noted in history and become common knowledge that Toby Gard, Lara Croft's creator, made her bust robust by accident, it began to paint a picture of how female characters in games would be portrayed.

Their flickering, rhythmic arrangement suggests harmony, yet a single female figure (perhaps Faust's Gretchen) looks on, equally at home in the painting, supported by a kneeling red figure.

Amongst her most recent paintings, stunning female portraits influenced by Old Masters hint at some degree of historical regression.

Touted as «a trailblazing artist on a meteoric rise» by Vogue, watercolor artist Fahren Feingold brings an ethereal state to her unique paintings depicting the female form.

Jack Whitten's narrative Abstract Expressionist works from the 1960s draw imagery from the Civil Rights movement, including ghosted images of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr; Joan Semmel's figurative paintings question representation of female sexuality through the lens of self - portraiture; Gay liberation and the AIDS crisis are the cultural context for narrative paintings by the late Hugh Steers (1963 — 1995).

Be mesmerised by the kaleidoscopic paintings of the international female artist, Fahrelnissa Zeid

The 1977 show also included female Old Masters of established reputation: Renaissance painters like the Cremonese aristocrat Sophonisba Anguissola and the Bolognese Lavinia Fontana; eighteenth - century professionals like the pastel portraitist Rosalba Carriera, whose Venetian studio was once as essential a stop on the Grand Tour as that of her male colleague Pompeo Batoni in Rome, and the Swiss - born Angelika Kauffmann, represented by a self - portrait that showed the dark - haired, porcelain - skinned beauty making a definitive choice between painting and music.

Curated Exhibitions 2017 Dreams, Community and Individual Voices - Spoken Through Symbolism, guest curator, Saint Louis Art Museum's Danforth Collection, St. Louis, MO 2016/2017 Sinew: Female Native Artists of the Twin Cities: Artistry, Bloomington, MN, Tweed Museum of Art, Duluth, MN 2016 American Art: It's Complicated (co-curated), Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, MN 2016 Synthesis: Paintings by Aza Erdrich, All My Relations Gallery, Minneapolis, MN 2014 Rosalie Favell: Relations, All My Relations Gallery, Minneapolis, MN 2014 On Fertile Ground, All My Relations Gallery, Minneapolis, MN 2014 Where I Fit, All My Relations Gallery, Minneapolis, MN 2013 Found, All My Relations Gallery, Minneapolis, MN 2013 Make it Pop, All My Relations Gallery, Minneapolis, MN 2012 Indian First, All My Relations Gallery, Minneapolis, MN 2012 Ded Unk» Unpi — We Are Here, All My Relations Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, Minnesota History Center, St. Paul, MN 2012 The Hopeman Family Collection, All My Relations Gallery, Minneapolis, MN 2011 Mni Sota: Reflections of Time and Place, All My Relations Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, Mille Lacs Indian Museum, MN, Nash Gallery University of Minnesota, Tweed Museum of Art, Duluth, MN.

First held at the Galerie Internationale d'Art Contemporain in Paris in 1960, Klein's performances (now considered by many to be outrageously sexist) featured nude female models — who the artist referred to as «human paintbrushes» — rolling themselves in his patented International Klein Blue paint.

7:30 pm Women Painting television premiere Television premiere of Women Painting, a video documentary produced by Girls» Club interviewing eleven contemporary female painters in South Florida and the New York area.

The highest praise Hoffman would give a female student (Lee Krasner was one of them) «this painting is so good, you'd never know it was done by a woman!»

Venus Fly features new abstract work by three female artists each working in different media: large - scale paintings, mixed media wood carvings, and ceramics.

Two of the most striking; paintings on display in London now are by women firmly seizing the traditional male territory of the female nude.

Using a refined painterly technique inspired by the Hudson River School and traditional figure painting, Cotton paints utopian landscapes and portraits, often composed of sugary desserts inhabited by female figures.

A contemporary abstract expressionist acrylic painting by American female artist Rebecca Allan.

Highlights from Michelle Grabner's crowd - pleasing selection include Dawoud Bey's presidential portrait photography (Barack Obama, 2008), Karl Haendel's Theme Time Drawings, pencil drawings of various subjects arranged in shaped frames across a massive section of wall, and works by Donelle Woolford, the fictional young black female artist «created» by Joe Scanlan and played by various actors whose Joke Painting (detumescence)(2013) investigates the notion of authenticity.

At this space, the figure of a female nude tied to what looks like a torture device is the disturbing central image of a nine - panel 1975 painting called «Moving Through» by the American artist Juanita McNeely.

In Delahunty's words, this sculpture is «one of the first commissioned works by a living female artist to be installed at the entrance of an American Museum» and it is «by far the most ambitious sculpture she has ever made in terms of scale and painted surface.»

Previous influential works by their peers and predecessors are also featured, such as examples from Yves Klein's Anthropométrie, which uses the naked female body as a living paint brush, and Andy Warhol's invocation of automatic movement and action through his series of Dance Diagrams.

(As seen above) Woman V is one of a series of six paintings made by de Kooning between 1950 and 1953 that depict a three - quarter - length female figure.

It ranges from the NMWA's women only collection and exhibition - programme to an entire wing of the Brooklyn Museum being dedicated to feminist art; there's also The Metropolitan Museum of Art's decision to show work by lesser - known artists like Helen Torr and Elizabeth Catlett that has never been on view in «Reimagining Modernism: 1900 — 1950» (the rehang of their modern art collection); and there's the recent acquisition by the Tate of a painting by Mary Beale, who is regarded as Britain's first professional female artist.

De Kooning is well known for paintings of the female figure that transcend traditional figurative and abstract categories and break up conventional aesthetic frames of reference by maximizing the expressive power of paint in line and color.

He creates otherworldly and surreal encounters by a female nude with Cattelan's art, has Gilbert & George awkwardly interacting in their would - be home with an androgynous male model, and places Harland Miller's large - scale paintings of book covers into actual book covers held by 50's pin - ups.

The stand featured dedicated rooms of new work by three of the gallery's prominent female artists: «Infinity Net» paintings and sculptures by Yayoi Kusama; a presentation by the British painter Celia Paul; and an installation of cracked tile paintings by Brazilian artist Adriana Varejão.

An impressive collection of paintings by the 1920s modernist Emily Carr, Canada's most celebrated female artist, plus cutting edge local art.

While the paintings might at first appear to traffic in erotic subversion, when evaluated cumulatively they demonstrate a preoccupation with 1950s gender constructions: a body forced into submission by restrictive undergarments designed to create an ideal female form.

This retrospective of paintings by Alice Neel (1900 — 1984)-- one of North America's most important female artists, although largely unappreciated during her own lifetime — is the fruit of a collaboration between several European institutions.

«Nine Female Inmates of the Cincinnati Workhouse Participating in a Patriotic Tableau,» a painting John Wesley made in 1976 to commemorate the American Bicentennial, has been reimagined and adapted by Mr. Wesley, now 85, to conform to the 25 - by -75-foot format of the billboard.

And think back to that quote by Joan Mitchell who was asked to be in a female painting show, to which she declined and said «ask me to be in a painting show» (or something akin to this), and I'm there.

The Turner Prize - winning artist Chris Ofili has been a bit chary, let's say, of showing in New York City ever since a certain Mayor Rudolf Giuliani threatened to defund the Brooklyn Museum for showing his absolutely gorgeous The Holy Virgin Mary — a 1996 painting of a black Madonna with a bared breast made from dried elephant dung, surrounding by putti made from female genitalia cut from porn magazines — as part of the 1999 stateside leg of Saatchi Gallery's «Sensation» show.

Mitchell met de Kooning early on — inspired by his painting, she sought out an introduction — and was a rare female participant in artistic debates at the notorious Cedar Tavern.