Sentences with phrase «reference iconic paintings»

Thomas often riffs on art history — unabashedly posing her subjects to reference iconic paintings by masters such as Manet or Ingres.

Not exact matches

OK, so «chill» in the title of this three - episode collection is supposedly a reference to the temperature — because in each, the iconic artist teaches viewers how to paint wintery scenes.

Continuing the Warholian reference, on show will be a series of large scale unique silkscreened portraits of the artist as Che Guevara, Joseph Beuys, Elvis Presley amongst others, as well as works based on Warhol's urine oxidation paintings, abstract works made by pissing on copper metallic painted canvas Turk takes a Gestalt approach to cliché and iconic imagery subverting our sense of what we think we are seeing.

Referencing the «old masters» of art history and tradition, she creates her own versions, much like Picasso did with Manet's iconic painting, Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe.

This exhibition of new paintings and cyanotypes provides evidence of the many different bodies of work McGinness has been exploring in recent years — from self - reflective Studio Views with process - referencing subject matter to iconic Signals, Skateboards, Mindscapes, and Black Holes.

The success of Thomas» balance of the iconic and contemporary was evident to anyone strolling by New York's Museum of Modern Art, where a large painting by Thomas titled Le Déjeuner Sur L'herbe: Les Trois Femmes Noires, referencing Manet's famous work, bedecked the façade next to the museum's acclaimed restaurant, The Modern.

The series continues the artist's exploration of the Hackney neighborhood of East London through the imagery of iconic paintings, referencing artists like Delacroix and Wyeth to describe the local myths, struggles and dreams of his local community.

The dazzling mixed - media works of Mickalene Thomas (b. 1971) combine rhinestones with acrylic and oil paints to create compositions that often reference iconic works of art from nineteenth - century Europe.

The paintings and sculptures of New York - based Wendy White reference iconic branding against a spectrum of color.

In Rio de Janeiro, Wiley's inspirations did not rest in old master paintings hanging on the walls of powerful institutions, but allowed the work to be impacted by the iconic nationalistic sculptures found around the city, which he might argue are the cultural equivalent to the David or Velasquez paintings referenced in his earlier work.

The exhibition features large - scale paintings, sculptures and an installation drawing references to signature Off - White ™ motifs alongside Murakami's iconic cast of anime characters, reflecting incisively on the signs of the current times.

In addition to the formal, art - historical reference found in her paintings, Schulnik draws inspiration from the works of Hans Christian Anderson and The Brothers Grimm, interweaving the dark realities of iconic stories in to her own «allegorical odyssey.»

This recent series titled, «Mandala for Crusoe», brings together fourteen paintings developing Clemente's singular pictorial language, gathering together myriad cultural references and merging timeless symbols, iconic imagery and philosophies.

Gallagher's group of four paintings, Negroes Battling in a Cave (2016), is a direct reference to handwritten marginalia found on the edge of one of Kazimir Malevich's iconic black square paintings.

The resemblance to flags of the fabric panels in both Tantric Geography and the Jammers series was probably not lost on Johns, who might have seen a winking reference in these works to his own iconic paintings of the American flag.

The pieces on view in this exhibition represent a diverse range of iconic word - based arrangements including a desktop calendar, diary entries, movie script, and Chinese scrolls, while referencing specific texts such as the Constitution of the United States of America, The New York Times, the Periodic Table, Twitter and authored books, all dovetailed with an array of artistic mediums from fine art prints, painting on paper, and collage; to installation art, aerial sculpture, and video art.

Thomas, born in 1971, is known for lush rhinestone - encrusted paintings that combine references to iconic artworks from the Western canon and 1970s» pop culture.

The 18 works in Master Painters (2011) give personal re-readings of famous paintings, sometimes subtly, but generally with wit or irony: thus Canarian Gothic references Grant Wood's American Gothic; Flowers for a Martyr reworks Vincent van Gogh's iconic sunflowers; and Pedro (Naked at Stairs) harks back both to Gerhard Richter's Ema (Nude on a Staircase) of 1966 and beyond it to Marcel Duchamp's fragmented Nude Descending a Staircase (No. 2) of 1912.

At POTSE 68, he will introduce his new project called Le Grand Verre, (a reference to Marcel Duchamp's iconic work by the same name) it merges abstract painting, photography and light art into new perspectives on the history of art.

In recent work, Clay has focused on two contrasting sets of artifacts — first, on the Black Paintings of Frank Stella, iconic monuments to modernist authorship, and, second, on handmade marbleized paper (such as that used in the colorful endpapers of antique books), readily identifiable as a reference to anonymous historical craft.

Thomas's interest in re-appropriating and referencing iconic modern western paintings stems from a desire to reclaim and reinterpret these canonised images of beauty.

Some of the references behind the work include Japanese ukiyo - e prints and Hokusai's iconic «The Great Wave off Kanagawa ``, as well as European Romanticism and dramatic scenes such as Théodore Géricault's 1818 painting «The Raft of the Medusa», which depicts a famous sea disaster.

In his paintings, sculptures, videos, and installations, renowned artist Mark Wallinger references British history, class, politics, and iconic works of art.

This recent series brings together 14 paintings which continue Clemente's singular pictorial language, gathering together myriad cultural references and merging timeless symbols, iconic imagery and philosophies.

A reference to Janine Antoniʼs iconic Gnaw, Licks is intended to be in a constant state of evolution, and is «an action painting made using the landscape.»

On the allegation that the references in a specific e-mail to a «trick ‟ and to «hide the decline ‟ in respect of a 1999 WMO report figure show evidence of intent to paint a misleading picture, we find that, given its subsequent iconic significance (not least the use of a similar figure in the IPCC Third Assessment Report), the figure supplied for the WMO Report was misleading.