Sentences with phrase «photorealist paintings»

[4][5][6] Graham Thompson wrote «One demonstration of the way photography became assimilated into the art world is the success of photorealist painting in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

About Chuck Close Chuck Close, born in Monroe, Washington in 1940, received a BFA (1963) and an MFA (1964) from Yale University and, upon graduation, abandoned the Abstract Expressionist style to work with photographs as source material for photorealist paintings, notably the 21 - foot - wide Big Nude (1967).

Whether Betty Tompkins» monumental photorealist paintings of sexual acts, Marilyn Minter's Porn Grid photography series or Renate Bertlmann's sculptures combining dildoes and cacti, their work was considered way too raunchy and transgressive for the male - dominated art world and even too hardcore for mainstream feminism.

Standing before a 40 - foot - wide photorealist painting of a cloud - studded skyscape, prime ministers Brian Mulroney of Canada and Gro Harlem Brundtland of Norway pledged that their countries will slow fossil fuel use and forgive some Third World debt, allowing developing countries to grow in a sustainable way.

Edging toward banality themselves, John Baldessari and Ed Ruscha immortalized their local gas stations in the mid -»60s and Vija Celmins made photorealist paintings of catastrophic imagery pulled from the news, shortly after Warhol debuted his own «death and disaster» series.

SEE / / Richard Hickam: Perpetual Pilgrim Richard Hickam started his career in the late 1960s, heavily influenced by the emerging photorealist painting style.

,» simultaneously bespeaks the open - endedness and closure of the fourteen immaculately airbrushed Photorealist paintings that were on view.

More photorealist paintings of young African (African American, Brazilian, or otherwise) men set against ornately patterned, Louis Quatorze - meets - Louis Vuitton backgrounds.

Ms. Minter, whose lush photorealist paintings comment on glamour and decadence, said, «Jay - Z speaks to the times we live in.»

In the video, Zhang washes a live chicken for two and a half hours, again wearing surgical gloves, which lends the video a disturbingly forensic ambience and recalls his early photorealist paintings of latex gloves.

A stunning range of contemporary photorealist paintings is currently being displayed at New York City's Bernarducci Meisel Gallery.

Whereas Gerhard Richter's gray photorealist paintings create photographic effects, the surface of Lutter's images have the physical presence of oil paint loaded with lead and aluminum.

Champagne Life Fourteen women from around the world show works that range from photorealist paintings to massive clay cows, in an exhibition that aims to upset male domination of the art market.

Martinez: I would say that the year 1993 was a pronounced moment of clarity, when I produced the Museum Tags for the Whitney Biennial, an installation at the Aperto, in the Venice Biennale exhibiting photorealist paintings of the Red Brigades, and then opened the two projects at Cornell University, an installation that was inspired by May ’68 in Paris.

Though exquisitely rendered, Hickam's 1970s photorealist paintings and drawings of provocative characters in interior settings belie a penchant for the abstraction fundamental to his vocabulary.

Bickerton's slyly demagogic photorealist paintings shock the art world out of pigeonholing him; his gaudy portraits of nymphs play with gender and race and are often encased in rich iconographic frames recalling deities demanding to be worshipped; and his devotion to sharks, beads, flowers and fish draw attention to his environmental concerns.

Celmins eventually ventured into sculpture and continues producing photorealist paintings.

«He's gone from extremely controlled photorealist paintings to creating works which allow for the impact of gesture and the impact of chance,» she said in a telephone interview.

Highlights in the latest group of purchases include Audrey Flack's monumental photorealist painting World War II (Vanitas)(1976 - 77); Unraveling (2017) by Sonya Clark, which will be performed at PAFA on November 4; a sketchbook with drawings by Linda Kramer; and two mixed media print investigations into interior space from 2016 by Mickalene Thomas.

It then moves to her wry Photorealist paintings — a block of frozen peas and a broken egg circling the drain of a kitchen sink, a sheet of plywood juxtaposed with a linoleum floor, a puddle of Tab diet cola spilled on it.

On June 1st, Jenny Morgan will open a new set of photorealist paintings in Kith and Kin at Plus Gallery in Denver, Colorado.

FLAG ART FOUNDATION Betty Tompkins is known for the monumental photorealist paintings and drawings that she began making in the 1970s, copying from pornographic imagery.

Following an exhibition of Robert Bechtle's «luscious» photorealist paintings of shiny automobiles, Alameda street scenes and Weber grills, with the Richard Tuttle retrospective of «plywood scraps, color pencil squiggles, raggedy paper cut - outs and other things my 3 - year - old could do» arbitrarily confounds viewers who just want to know what art is and how they can tell.

Upon entering, you see the big lunchbox of Koonsian archetypes — three humongous stainless - steel balloon beings (each offered in five variants), a batch of photorealist paintings, and a polychromed bronze sculpture of the Incredible Hulk pushing a wheelbarrow full of real petunias — and the show as a whole fizzles.

Alongside significant early works such as Me, Jesus and the Children (2001 — 2003)-- a photorealist painting of the artist's chest, overlaid with cartoon cherubs and floating speech bubbles — the exhibition features paintings from Colen's long - running «Gum» and «Trash» series.

Her images engage the Western canon — from the Baroque to photorealist painting, from German Romanticism to contemporary portraiture.

Known for her photorealist paintings and representational sculpture, Audrey Flack has had her art shown in such renowned institutions as the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

Whilst realistic, it has more spirit than photorealist paintings, with objects and backgrounds blurred in a style akin to that used by old masters.

Sydney and Walda Besthoff have specialized in collecting modern and contemporary sculpture, in addition to photorealist painting, since the 1970s.

On View at NOMA November 8, 2014 — January 25, 2015 New Orleans, LA — The New Orleans Museum of Art is pleased to present Photorealism: The Sydney and Walda Besthoff Collection, the most extensive presentation to - date of the Photorealist painting collection of Sydney and Walda Besthoff.

[19] «One demonstration of the way photography became assimilated into the art world is the success of photorealist painting in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

In a New Yorker review, critic Peter Schjeldahl once admonished Jeff Koons for depicting a Play - Doh sculpture in a series of photorealist paintings: «Painting is a medium of concerted imagination, symbolizing consciousness.

There will be photorealist paintings, sculptures and installations by the New York artist collective known as the Bruce High Quality Foundation; paintings and sculptures by Dan Colen, another New York artist; bronze sculptures, as well as textured white paintings made with a mixture of confectioners» sugar and corn syrup on canvas by the Conceptual artist Terence Koh; and photographs by David Benjamin Sherry.

Baðcýk, known for his photorealist paintings that are inspired by turning points of the 20th century, also exhibited this work at his solo exhibition at Galeri Zilberman.

Since the 1970s, Sydney and Walda Besthoff have specialized in collecting modern and contemporary sculpture, in addition to photorealist painting.

Realised shortly after the artist's 18th October 1977 cycle of photorealist paintings, Struktur 2 projects a breathtaking drama and can be understood as a coda to this landmark suite, now housed in the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

In his painting process, Richard Estes uses photography as a basis from which to create his photorealist paintings, on view in the exhibition...

In his painting process, Richard Estes uses photography as a basis from which to create his photorealist paintings, on view in the exhibition Richard Estes: Painting New York.

In 2013, his 1968 photorealist painting «Domplatz, Mailand» (Cathedral Square, Milan) was sold at Sotheby's New York for $ 37.1 million, a world record for a living artist.

When observing a Photorealist painting, the viewer is always aware that they are looking at a painting.

In a more recent series, Rabah turns his attention to the history of Palestinian art in his new series of 50 photorealist paintings (fabricated in China), entitled «Art Exhibition: Readymade Representations 1954 — 2009» (2011).