Sentences with phrase «paints mysterious figures»

The British - born artist paints mysterious figures, a diverse cast of Black subjects plucked from her imagination.

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Our lead is aided by a mysterious male figure on a motorcycle, their duplicitous dealings painted starkly.

The story begins with the painting of the first portrait, when More was almost at the peak of his powers — in which the mysterious John Clement doesn't figure — and ends with the second portrait five years later, after the deeply Catholic More had lost his job and was being hunted down by his Protestant rivals at court.

Lerma uses layers of figurative as well as abstract elements, charcoal and colours, text, the blank canvas and smudges of paint to create vibrant, erratic compositions in which you recognize cartoonish figures, mysterious calligraphic signs, and vegetal varieties.

Robert Lostutter is best known for his brightly colored paintings of mysterious male figures wearing elaborate feathered and flowered masks.

His figures inhabit mysterious landscapes and ambiguous architecture, often composed of wide swaths of color that contain echoes of color field painting.

The rosy pink color that dominates the Bortolami show's eight paintings — four large seasonal scenes of defiantly numinous figures, Dionysian grapes, leafy curlicues and metallic silver daubs; three other large paintings; and one modestly sized portrait of a naked cat, facing away from the viewer into a stoically indifferent opacity, its body like a chicken's carcass, its red tail like a snake charmer's cobra, poised to strike — brings to mind the mysterious pink lasers that transmit divine messages in Philip K. Dick's novel VALIS.

As seen in Zito's newest solo exhibition In the Trees at Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space, this collection of paintings present land escapes through a quiet investigation of surroundings and mysterious figures within them.

Ahead of her first solo show at Brooklyn gallery Signal later this month, you'll find two of Kasey's voluptuous, Botero - like figures and dreamy, surrealist landscapes in Nicelle Beauchene's booth: a fleshy, reclining figure, Person Lying on a Salty Beach (2015; $ 10,000), that hangs in the booth's interior and fake plant at a restaurant (2015; $ 8,500), a mysterious tableaux where a bellybutton, a pierced ear, and the tips of fingers curiously peek between leaves, which calls fairgoers into her painted world.

Other highlights of this auction include Lot 20, «Duridium,» a 26 - by - 36 inch magna on canvas, dated 1964, by Roy Lichtenstein (1923 - 1997), estimated at $ 600,000 to $ 800,000, which sold for $ 607,500; Lot 21, «Ileana Sonnabend,» a 1963 metallic paint on canvas, 77 3/4 - by -128-inch work by Frank Stella (b. 1936) that has a high estimate of $ 600,000, and which sold for $ 684,500; Lot 29,» Evening in the Studio,» a monumental painting that out - Rubens Rubens by Lucian Freud and has an ambitious high estimate of $ 3,500,000, and which sold for only $ 2,422,500; Lot 30, «Lying Figure,» a large, interesting composition by Francis Bacon (1909 - 1992) that has an ambitious high estimate of $ 2,500,000 and is starker than his more painterly small works, and which was passed at $ 1,600,000; Lot 35, «Bedouin (Personage Gris et Rougeatre),» a great Jean Dubuffet (1901 - 1985) painting that is conservatively estimated at $ 700,000 to $ 900,000 and which sold for $ 992,500; and Lot 46, «Aux Bons Principes,» a more colorful but not as strong Dubuffet that has an ambitious high estimate of $ 3,000,000, and which sold for $ 2,202,500; and Lot 63, an untitled, large painting by Sigmar Polke (b. 1941) that has a mysterious, luminous and mystical sense of a great mountainscape by the Sung Dynasty masters of China and has a conservative high estimate of $ 300,000, and which was passed at $ 150,000.

Sculptures and works on paper with stacked compositions and overlapping vignettes inform one another, the paintings providing the viewer with a sense of the mysterious world Banerjee's sculptural figures might inhabit.

The absence of a human figure tasks the objects in the paintings with suggesting a narrative arc, imbuing them with a sense of mysterious drama — a door that is slightly ajar, a glass of water left on a bathroom sink, a broom leaning against a wall are the only evidence of the presence of a person, perhaps having moments before walked through the picture frame, or lingering just out of sight.

His mysterious historical paintings conjure up the personality of dead pop stars - Jimi Hendrix, Ian Curtis and Kurt Cobain - or political figures like Gorbachev and Che Guevara through their furniture or their rooms.

And the painting, showing three mysterious figures framed against a moonlit sea, makes a dazzling restatement of Doig's key strengths.

However, Yoshitomo Nara gave those cute looking figures a different twist, portraying them in dark and mysterious manner, painting them in almost horror like the light.