Sentences with phrase «paintings of women»

Marlene Dumas Marlene Dumas's provocative paintings of women, children, celebrities and people of colour are as psychologically disturbing as they are violently beautiful.

Now I seem to be making paintings of women much larger than I am going in and out of the water.

During this period he also created other paintings of women.

Her breakthrough came in 1996, when her tiny, luminous paintings of women posing in pornographic magazines were selected for the New Contemporaries exhibition at the Tate Gallery.

Drowning Girl showed a brunette being deluged beneath a torrent of fluid color, a witty rejoinder to De Kooning's famously brushy paintings of women.

Trips to Europe in 1925 and 1928 inspired him to shift from imaginary to more realistic paintings of women and still lifes, which received critical praise.

Clare Bonnet is well known for her paintings of women, who appear in pairs or as solitary figures.

He subsequently reverted chiefly to nonfigurative work, but during the 1960s, when he moved to Long Island, he also produced more paintings of women as well as many works with landscape elements.

She is focused on gender issues, while her most notable works involves highly layered embroidered paintings of women's bodies referencing pornographic imagery.

Daliah Ammar is a young Palestinian - American artist best known for her paintings of women that emerge from dark backgrounds.

His most famous works are his paintings of women, such as Woman I (1950 - 2, Museum of Modern Art, New York), one of a series of six numbered «Woman» paintings.

I was still too young to see that the earlier and magnificently frenetic and repellent paintings of women, which seemed excessively grotesque, like bashed dolls, were not really paintings of women so much as what happens to women: what men do to women and what women do to themselves in the hysteria of the pop performance world, fashion, eros and self - travesty, all plainly visible in Manhattan.

Throughout the gallery we also see paintings of women intertwined with lovers or alone, or even lying naked next to a lover in an attempt to reimagine ``... the nude without objectifying the person, of using a specific body rather than an idealized form.»

Cotton's most recent work, which will debut in a September show at Mary Boone's uptown gallery, features paintings of women wearing dresses he fashions by hand.

And so it was no great switch for him to embark, in the immediate aftermath of the largely abstract «Excavation,» on his garish, violent series of paintings of women.

Opening: «Heidi Hahn: Bent Idle» at Jack Hanley Gallery Making her New York solo show debut, Brooklyn - based artist Heidi Hahn presents a series of new paintings of women in psychological settings.

December 5, 2012 / A couple years ago in the LA Times, art critic David Pagel wrote that Carroll Dunham's paintings of women were «vulgar beyond belief... offensive, demeaning and disgusting, as well as mean - spirited, malicious and horrific... bordering on vicious.»

Though the debate over abstraction versus figuration lost its steam long ago, the paintings of women by Jean Dubuffet and Willem de Kooning of the late»40s and early»50s ferociously rage on.

I had absolutely no knowledge of how incredibly massive her body of work was, how controversial and pivotal her paintings of women were and still are.

Ann - Caroline Breig sews large paintings of women, relationships, and the clamouring world with a patchwork of things she finds such as advertising signs and fruit boxes.

Pioneering Korean painter Chun Kyung - ja — best known for her vivid paintings of women and flowers — died at the age of 91.

A suite of Mickalene Thomas's lush, glittering photos and paintings of women went on display at the Newcomb Art Museum on the Tulane University campus on Wednesday evening (January 18).

Dancy, whose work is currently on view in MoMA PS1's «Greater New York,» has gotten a lot of critical attention for her paintings of women rendered in Fauvism - inspired rich blues and purples.

The exhibition will include a number of works by the German artist Paula Modersohn - Becker (1876 — 1907), whose paintings of women and children are an enduring influence on Joffe.

My paintings of women artists in their studios start when I succumb to an artist's body of work.

That's the principle at work in Will Cotton's new paintings of women adorned by and embodying confectionary delights.

Stavros at His Bath draws inspiration from 19th century paintings of women at their toilet, bathing scantily - clad by the river, or lunching in the grass naked with their clothed male companions.

For the last two years, Asper has been developing a a series of oil paintings of women in yoga poses, glazed to create luminous effects, which defy the expectations of portraiture.

By pairing three historical paintings of women by men with contemporary portraits of women predominantly by women, the exhibit takes as its point of departure the notion that both reading and authoring representational images is a form of feminist resistance.

Willem de Kooning is famous for his wild and very «hot» abstract paintings of women and also for his more lyrical late, bright abstractions.

At odds with her paintings» self - conscious qualities, Rawlings often uses bold, block colours and patterns that, combined with the subject of femininity, are reminiscent of Pop artist Pauline Boty's paintings of women from the 1960s.

Kehinde Wiley Collaborates With Designer Riccardo Tisci to Create His First - Ever Paintings of Women

This intergenerational exhibition features surreal and sexy paintings of women by art world icons like Joan Semmel, mid-career masters like Nicole Eisenman, and newcomers like Allison Zuckerman.

She adds a feminist twist with paintings of women hunting, while nodding to the goddesses and symbols of ancient Greece.

The exhibition will also include a number of works by the German artist Paula Modersohn - Becker (1876 — 1907), whose paintings of women and children are an enduring influence on Joffe.

This question is not small, and its profundity is rendered expansively in Thomas's large - scale paintings of women, which are arguably her most recognizable work.

This July I started a series of paintings of women in long skirts.

In turn, they would give rise to his fetishistic furniture sculptures of female figures, paintings of women in rubber and exaggeratedly high heels, and their subject matter would lead him on to explore novel techniques of relief printmaking in the later 60's.

Known for paintings of women, Lisa Yuskavage's images occupy the space between high and low; the sacred and the profane.

The strange violence that has been exerted on the canvas, and therefore to the Nurse of Greenmeadow herself, with paint dripping down the surface, recalls the shock and scandal with which de Kooning's celebrated paintings of women were received in the late 1940s and early 1950s, puncturing the myth of the woman in art.

Willem De Kooning was the leading runner - up with his abstract - expressionistic paintings of women; the title of one was «Marilyn Monroe.»

The breadth and variety of works on view, from Kolsrud's paintings of women behind grates to Ferris's oil and pigment self - portraits, reflects on the complexity of the female experience, which defies any single representation.

He explores the gesture of affection and empathy and his wealth of images have included the dreamlike and enchanting melancholy paintings of women and flowers, children absorbed in daydreams, the serene White cat Gardens and beach scenes.

What's so great about de Kooning's odd paintings of women?

Paintings of womens dances may be linked to initiation or birth.

We see a painting of a woman lying on her stomach with her bare buttocks exposed.

A powerpoint used to teach about Jesus» treatment of outcasts and sinners, using paintings of the Woman and Simon the Pharisee as a stimulus.

He shows her his collection — a painting of a woman with a stream of water shooting out of her mouth into a bucket below, a lifelike pair of legs sticking out of the wall with arrows protruding from the rear.

I began to have my suspicions about any painting of a woman with a book or a drawing - pad or a letter in her lap — the self - portrait pose (at the time, I was still working on a series of self - portraits begun five years before), particularly the beautiful painting of a woman before a window by David, which has since been attributed to Constance - Marie - Charpentier.

A painting of a woman with big eyes and a big afro, a pensive gaze, and what appears to be a protective shadow against a patterned background sold for nearly three times the estimate.