Sentences with phrase «paintings of people»

John Mitchell: When we met in grad school at Yale (Yale School of Art's Painting Program), you were making paintings of people.

What Johanson Makes: Colorful and almost childlike paintings of people, cities, and solar systems, often with words of wisdom or existential outbursts.

He worked in New York for the Works Progress Administration, creating serigraphs (prints) and paintings of people and landscapes around the city.

This split aesthetic may be why Wood's paintings of people — even the often - brilliant self - portraits, such as Calais Drive (2012) or the creepy and monumentally American The Hypnotist (2011)-- actually seem to discomfit the most.

Best known for his paintings of people, among them Paul McCartney and Randy Lerner (but are they portraits?

There were «monster «paintings of people with multiple eyes and mouths, and works that are now known as «transparencies, «which he produced by drawing figures «often appropriated from the paintings of Botticelli or ancient art «one on top of another on top of another.

Perhaps Wayne Thiebaud's deadpan paintings of people against blank backgrounds were an inspiration.

His paintings of people immersed in books caricature the loneliness of the reader, the author and the painter but they also poke fun at our absorption into our mobile devices.

So what does the art world suddenly see in that most basic idea, paintings of people?

Lynette Yiadom - Boakye (b. 1977) is a contemporary artist renowned for her oil paintings of people conjured from her imagination, drawings and scrapbooks of found images.

In touch with his dark and contradictory feelings, Saul has done more paintings of people strapped into electric chairs than anyone else in history.

Exhibitions include: David Noonan, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels (2015); One Day, Something Happens: Paintings of People, Leeds Art Gallery, UK (2015); The Age of Aquarius, The Renaissance Society, The University of Chicago, USA (2011); British Art Show 7: In the Days of the Comet, UK (2011).

Sharjah Biennial 12», Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, pp.484 - 493 Anna Collin, Lydia Yee, «British Art Show 8», Hayward Publishing, London, pp.128 - 131 Elvira Dyangani Ose, «A story within a story...», Art and Theory Publishing, Stockholm, pp.236 - 237 Lynette Yiadom - Boakye, Hilton Als, Glenn Ligon, Amira Gad, «Lynette Yiadom - Boakye», Serpentine Galleries and Koenig Books Glenn Ligon, Francesco Manacorda, Alex Ferquharson, «Glenn Ligon: Encounters and Collisions», Tate Publishing, p. 113 Jennifer Higgie, «One Day, Something Happens: Paintings of People», Hayward Publishing, London, pp. 28 - 29

«British Art Show 8», Southampton Art Gallery, Southampton «BIG», Big Hodges Gallery, New York «British Art Show 8», Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Norwich (cat) «The Female Gaze, Part Two: Women Look at Men», Cheim & Read, New York «Making & Unmaking: An exhibition curated by Duro Olowu», Camden Arts Centre, London (cat) «You go to my Head», Galerie Templon, Brussels «Drawn from Life: People on Paper», The Collection, Lincoln «Entanglements, Curated by Glenn Ligon», Luhring Augustine, New York «Stranger», Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleveland «One Day, Something Happens: Paintings of People», The Atkinson, Southport «British Art Show 8», Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh (cat)

Seemingly effortless but complex, eccentric but liberating, obscene but amicable, Kremer's paintings of people engaging in orgies and lovemaking in his «Gatherings» series and crying faces in his «Pause» series not only strike the viewer with an «in your face» effect, but also emanate nuanced sensitivity toward humanity at the same time.

Since 2005 he has been working on head - shot paintings of people he admires — from his wife and friends to musicians, artists, and people he has never met — often modeled on images gleaned from the Internet.

A self - described «collector of souls,» Alice Neel is celebrated for almost single - handedly reviving the art of portraiture in the twentieth century, although she preferred the term «paintings of people» to that of «portrait.»

Her paintings of people, a record of celebrities as well as ordinary New Yorkers, continue to provoke and inspire.

His observational paintings of people in his neighborhood are contemporary versions of traditional genre painting, still life and portrait» (PR TTG).

The exhibition presents contemporary impressionistic paintings of people and animals found on the East End throughout history.

This insightful catalogue examines anew the full range of Alice Neel's (1900 - 1984) celebrated paintings of people, still lifes, and cityscapes.

South African artist Kirsten Beets creates paintings of people and how they interact with nature in a recreational way.

Think about the 19th - century realist paintings of people like John Everett Millais or Gustav Courbet — it's interesting to read that at the time people complained, «Why are you painting peasants?

This retrospective at Tate Britain brings together 70 paintings of the people and landscapes local to his London studio.

The British artist Henry Moore is most famous for his sculptures, but also known for his ink, wax, and watercolor paintings of people sheltering in London's Underground stations during the Second World War.

Now, with his new show at Anton Kern, add to this rangy body of work intimate paintings of the people closest to the artist: his family, his friends, and, in a rare bout of self - portraiture, Wood himself.

Critically recognized for her moody - hued paintings of people who sprout from her imagination (above), the British artist says the challenge is a good thing.

Frank Auerbach (b1931) is well known for his intensely worked paintings of people and London scenes, which are often repeated...

«These paintings of people, bedrooms, and ballrooms stand in sharp contrast to the speed of modernity...»

Even street artist Dan Witz's paintings of people entranced by the glow of their phones, where they could be reading anything from a text to Tolstoy, don't hold a candle to the street style - ish blog Underground New York Public Library.

It looks like rings that were worn during the middle ages and Renaissance in paintings of people of that time.

You get far away and it looks like Seurat's famous painting of people in the park (jpg).

In Uptown, which is, a little regrettably, located in Chelsea, Als brings together over thirty portraits Neel painted of people within her social circle in Harlem (if one takes a detour to Als's Instagram, they will stumble upon a similar project: a compulsive record of tender snapshots presenting the people encountered in his life).

I was doing a whole series based on the Victorian era and death in general, so I was obsessed with collecting these Victorian hairworks, which are these pictures made from around the turn of the century where people take the deceased person's hair and chop it up and make a little painting of the person's tombstone and willow trees.

In a painting of a person, it's best to build the tonal value in a color that is neutral to the person.

And yet, this is a painting of people.

Not exact matches

If people saw enough movies and slide films and paintings and photographs of oil and oilmen perhaps they would begin to understand (and like) the industry.

To Imgur's staff of 70, these are beloved gifts from users, daily reminders that people care so much about what Imgur has built that they will put a hand - painted image of a giraffe, or, heck, just a banana, in the mail to say «thanks.»

But the political right and the dirtiest chemical industry players in all of industrial capitalism have long painted environmentalists as killers - of people, progress and jobs.

From honoring scientific discoveries to displaying paintings by masters, museums help to preserve, document and share some of the most spectacular accomplishments of people.

During the clashes that followed, protesters threw bottles, paint bombs, and rocks at the police, while authorities fired tear gas and eventually drove a police vehicle toward the mass of people, according to Rappler.

Below you'll find a cherry - picking of quotes and anecdotes dug up from the past that help paint a picture of what kind of a guy Steve Jobs was, and the emotions he could evoke in people.

The airlines we love don't win us over with how they advertise or what they paint on their fuselages, but with what's in the hearts of the people who work there.

About 20 people were arrested as a result of the clashes, including some people who the police said ran into police lines and threw red paint at the US Embassy.

The press release on Race Together bizarrely leads with the subheading «It began with one voice,» painting Howard Schultz as a visionary progressive for daring to discuss race — something others, especially people of color, haven't exactly been silent on in recent months or the last couple centuries.»

Try to paint a vision of the future that inspires your people to do whatever it takes to get there.

He told Rose that they have seen people start online businesses doing everything from teaching others to raise Venus flytraps to selling art in the form of painted gourds.

«We acknowledge that none of the criteria individually represent a full healthy person, but put together, it can paint a picture,» says Whole Foods spokesperson Libba Letton.

They can aggregate search data and social media data to paint incredibly precise pictures of who people are and what they want to buy.

Jeffrey Cramer, a former federal prosecutor who spent 12 years at the Department of Justice, cautioned against painting the identity of Person A with too broad a brush.