Sentences with phrase «quotidian scenes»

The meticulous staging of quotidian scenes of family and friends lent the images an unparalleled sense of heightened drama and ambiguity.

A set of monochromatic illustrations to The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky from the late 1930s incorporate a greater sense of narrative than many of Neel's other compositions and show the actors at various key stages of the existential drama; her own life is referenced in often richly colored, quotidian scenes depicting herself in the company of her lovers.

Swiss artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss have been known throughout their prodigious careers for their sculpture, photography, and videos that present common objects and quotidian scenes in inventive and surprising ways.

Alain Beraud, a French Neo-cubist, presents work that dissects and reconstructs quotidian scenes.

In seventeenth century Netherlands, a market for art developed outside of religious works, and artists began to make genre paintings, showing quotidian scenes of contemporary life.

Spanish artist Manuel Jiménez Palma uses pastels to capture quotidian scenes, imbuing the ordinary with uninhibited emotional affect.

Her intimate and seemingly quotidian scenes of domestic life in Nigeria and the U.S. are bold and colorful, literally layered with narratives that are personal and political, «like the layering of sediment,» she says.

Tania Pérez Córdova's sculptural work connects the viewer with quotidian scenes outside the exhibition space.

While some of Powers» work sees the artist acting as a deft conductor of art historical moments set on a stage of the artist's making, another concurrent body of work sees the artist painting quotidian scenes that depict the places and people that surround the artist: most notably his wife and new baby, and the garden that lies out the door of their San Francisco apartment.

In their depictions of quotidian scenes, Larsen's paintings emphasize the way visual and narrative hierarchies are conjoined or interrupted.

The focus is on the intimacy of this quotidian scene, an intimacy conveyed not only through the subject matter but also through the proximity and visual unity of the two bodies in space.

New York gallery Thierry Goldberg had work by a talented 26 - year - old painter named Grace Weaver, who combines rubbery figures and tight gridded patterns in her paintings to create formal juxtapositions of quotidian scenes.

In their colorful depictions of quotidian scenes, Greeff's recent works recall the early 1960s paintings of the American Pop artist Tom Wesselmann, while his earlier seascapes hark back to Winslow Homer, whom Greeff cites as a major influence.

Informed by a myriad of exchanges and experiences the artist had during his residency in the city, the show is structured as two installations that at first glance simply depict quotidian scenes, albeit, in two very different worlds.