Sentences with phrase «recalls classical painting»

While Borremans's technical command of his medium recalls classical painting — the rich tactility and special glow of his painted surfaces evoke the Old Master tradition and artists such as Francisco Goya — his compositions elude traditional interpretative strategies.

Known for his ability to recall classical painting, both through technical mastery and subject matter, Borremans's depiction of the uncanny, the perhaps secret, the bizarre, often surprises, sometimes disturbs the viewer.

Not exact matches

Opie has posed Streb against a black drop cloth and uses theatrical lighting to create a formally classical portrait that recalls seventeenth - century painting with allegorical dimensions.

The classical torso of St. Sebastian also recalls the many Renaissance paintings which portray the tortured saint.

While the bodies of the warriors recall classical portrayals of war as heroic, Norman's painting critiques precisely that valorization by focusing on the gruesome and far - reaching devastation of such violence.

The material recalls classical Greek sculpture, while the style, and even the titles at times, refers to classical Chinese landscape painting.

Formally, the pieces recall classical sculpture and modernist and Pop Art painting, referencing works by the likes of Matisse, Wassily Kandinsky, Cy Twombly and Andy Warhol.

Given my involvement as a geometric abstract painter over the years, I have indelibly respected and admired Ortman's block - like paintings, each built in a hybrid manner related to a kind of folk constructivism — a way of working that recalls some strains of classical music, such as Bartók and Dvorak, and to a lesser extent, the folk - style sculpture of H. C. Westermann and the faux - systemic paintings of Alfred Jensen recently shown at Pace.

The paintings teeter on the edge of craft by referencing quilting and decorative arts, yet also recall classical spiritual or religious imagery.