Sentences with phrase «powerful paintings»

That's a huge painting and it's probably the most powerful painting that I've ever seen in realism.
The exhibition ends with a room full of powerful paintings by younger female painters all at the top of their game.
It was overwhelming — the large powerful paintings, and most of the crowd had left.
One of the most powerful paintings of all time, as far as religious themes are concerned, is his famous painting of «Jacob Wrestling With the Angel.»
With luscious color and brushstrokes and highly detailed patterning, his direct and intimate scenes of black middle - class life conjure a wide range of emotions, resulting in powerful paintings that confront the position of African Americans throughout American history.
The exhibition entitled Francis Bacon: Invisible Rooms brings together many of the artist's most iconic and powerful paintings with a special focus on the recurring motif of the cage or frame like structure which often surrounds the subjects of his work.
Marshall has spent 35 years working to rectify that absence, creating powerful paintings of black figures in everyday life and, often, in settings referencing earlier work by artists from the Renaissance to Edward Hopper and Frank Stella.
Michaël Borremans: As sweet as it gets The most powerful painting show by a contemporary artist I have ever seen opens at the Dallas Museum of Art Sunday.
For her first solo exhibition this side of the Atlantic, this young African American artist has reinvented Britain's greatest painter for the digital age, transforming one of his most powerful paintings into an apocalyptic, seething video spectacle of stormlight and doom - laden waters.
Guernica is one of the most powerful paintings ever made, because I experienced Iran - Iraq war for eight years and I am aware that he captures the suffering and chaos of war in the most human way.
His own powerful paintings, tighter and flatter than his daughter's, can be found at MoMA, the Guggenheim and the Albright - Knox.
Meet Edvard Munch, an icon of emotion whose powerful paintings are the subject of the exhibition Edvard Munch: Between the Clock and the Bed, on view through October 9.
Rubin explores plant life and a variety of other subject matter, to discover forces and interconnections; yielding essential rhythms, active powerful paintings, reminiscent of the abstract expressionists.
Dan Witz is always innovating, commenting on and beautifying our surroundings with his discreet yet powerful paintings and sculptures.
Tate Modern Agnes Martin retrospective goes off the grid with silently powerful paintings from a turbulent mind
Her drawings are really sensitive and beautiful and Marlene Dumas is making some very powerful paintings.
Her hauntingly powerful paintings of black men and women, every one of them fictional, have been attracting more and more attention in the last few years.
Mine reaches back to the early Renaissance panels of Sassetta and other Sienese masters, the small but powerful paintings of Mughal India and forward to 20th - century outsiders like Martín Ramírez and Forrest Bess.
Catch the peaceful and powerful paintings by Art Guerra as he attempts to capture the fleeting moments between day and night at the opening of Slippery... At Dusk at Sugar.
Each of these artists was a masterful colorist, who used their skills to create powerful paintings and prints.
Whenever I come into your gallery, with its beautifully spare rooms and elegant finishings, I immediately remember two previous shows here that strike me as among the most powerful paintings shows I've experienced, the early Frank Stella show from 2012 and the David Hammons show from 2011.
The small panels are powerful paintings with the atmospheric tones represented in washes of emotional color, a sensitive hand and restrained color palette design an emotional experience.
A 1969 work by Sam Gilliam, which was painted to commemorate the first anniversary of Luther King's murder, is one of the most powerful paintings in the show — it falls down the wall like a curtain of purple sorrow and without even knowing the subject of the work it is striking in it's consciousness.
Bring the powerful paintings of renowned artist and Holocaust survivor Samuel Bak into your classroom.
I've looked at this Dutch artist's powerful paintings and masterful drawings amid jostling throngs in temporary shows mounted by the National Gallery of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute... Read More
For nearly thirty years after his death in 1926 his most important and powerful paintings were ignored and dismissed as studio rejects gathering dust in his studio at Giverny.
His powerful painting, 9-11-01 (2006), was included in the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013 and is currently on view at The Baltimore Museum of Art.
I heard you got arrested today, 2018, is a powerful painting where deep black and dark red shapes are intertwined on the surface suggesting movement away from the center, as if escaping from an explosion.
The other two are Self - Portrait with Endymion Porter (1633), a powerful painting now in the collection of the Museo del Prado, Madrid, and the Self - Portrait with a Sunflower (1632 — 33), now part of the eminent private collection of the Duke of Westminster.
His powerful painting, 9-11-01, 2006, was recently included in the 56th Venice Biennale in 2013 and received an honorary doctorate from Brandeis University in 2016.
In her powerful paintings of black haired, red - lipped women, she mimics the texture of the mahaffa by cutting the canvases and reweaving them.
I shuttled between the large, color - filled works of Shields and the powerful paintings of Brooks, whose palette had a commensurate chromatic punch.
Whether calligraphy, landscape or still life the objective is to unite masterful brush strokes, an essence of the subject matter, and the hand of the artist into spare but powerful paintings.
She will send this photograph to her husband to remind him that he still has a family to support (it is this photograph that Gorky later discovers in his father's drawer and he uses it as the source of his most enduring and powerful painting.
Celebrating the artist's recent 100 birthday, «Carmen Herrera: Lines of Sight» highlights more than 50 major examples of her spare but powerful paintings and three - dimensional objects, on view September 16 to January 2, 2017.
Produced in close collaboration with the artist, Flashback tracks Bridget Riley's career from its sensational beginnings in the early 1960s, at the helm of Op art, to the ambitious and powerful paintings and works on paper of recent years.
His independent passion and fierce commitment to his ideas and practice are evident in his powerful paintings, and his singular work garnered him shows at the Betty Parsons Gallery in New York City alongside Jackson Pollock, Clyfford Still, Barnett Newman and Mark Rothko.
«We very much look forward to bringing Thornton Dial's powerful paintings, drawings, and assemblages into the broader conversation of contemporary art.
Created in 1982, a breakout year in Basquiat's meteoric career, Untitled is emblematic of his early success and ranks among the artist's most powerful paintings.
Consisting of monumental, geometric panes of saturated color, the ethereal and powerful paintings in the Ocean Park series capture the psychology of place that defined the California coast during this time and showcase the innovations and improvisations of an artist whose work inspired legions of artists and greatly advanced the lexicon of abstraction.
«The largest Francis Bacon exhibition ever staged in the north of England» showcases more than thirty powerful paintings, alongside a group of rarely seen drawings and documents.
It is this combination of artist and sitter which makes the portrait so arresting suggests Sandy Nairne, Director of the National Portrait Gallery, «Anna Wintour by Alex Katz is a powerful painting — of one great international figure created by another.»
Many of Hawkins» most powerful paintings, including Prudential NYC, Ohio Stadium, Red Dog Running, and Tasmanian Tiger are also featured.
They are amongst his most elemental and powerful paintings to date.
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