Sentences with word «rococo»

«A postindustrial Rococo master, Kris Kuksi obsessively arranges characters and architecture with an exquisite sense of drama.

Arken... 12Apr > Munich Rococo from Asam to Gunther.

[16] The manufacture of silk at Spitalfields in London was also a traditional Huguenot business, but from the late 1720s silk design was dominated by the surprising figure of Anna Maria Garthwaite, a parson's daughter from Lincolnshire who emerged at the age of 40 as a designer of largely floral patterns in Rococo styles.

Kuksi's work, sometimes described as Fantastic Realism is influenced by the Baroque and Rococo periods.

For Adam Cvijanovic's third solo show at Bellwether Gallery, Love Poem (10 Minutes After the End of Gravity), he has created two monumental paintings that hark back to the triumphant decoration of late eighteenth - century Rococo.

The recurring visual trope of Rococo - like excess and abundance performs a celebratory re-assertion of the endless possibilities available to the painter.

Artists found inspiration in the splendor of the buried world and in the writings of the great philosophers of their time and reacted against the excess and flourishes of the Rococo style by emulating the great works of the Renaissance.

Tapping into the rococo heritage of porcelain, British artist Rachel Kneebone's white sculptural works are innately sensual.

Unlike in France and Germany, the English adoption of the Rococo style was patchy rather than whole - hearted, and there was resistance to it on nationalist grounds, led by Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington and William Kent, who promoted styles in interior design and furniture to match the Palladianism of the architecture they produced together, also beginning the influential British tradition of the landscape garden, [18] according to Nikolaus Pevsner «the most influential of all English innovations in art».

Matthew Barney lures our gaze towards physiological processes in which cells and organs, flaring up in rococo agitation, are transmuted into figures of uniquely sexual beauty.

The paintings of «The Rococo Riots» embody a punchy aggression that couples flawlessly with the unruly elegance of the uninhibited and unrepentant.

Its characteristics include classical themes, combined with Egyptian, Chinese and French Rococo elements.

«The Rococo Riots» runs until 1 June at Vitrine Bermondsey Square, First Floor, 183 - 185 Bermondsey Street, London SE1 3UW.

The National Gallery describes works from the period of art history known as the Rococo as «dominated by asymmetry, curved forms, and light bright colours», a move away from the symmetrical simplicity of Neoclassical art and architecture.

Rococo Elegant, decorative style of c.1730 - 80.

Neoclassical Art The late 18th - century European style, lasting from c. 1770 to 1830, which reacted against the worst excesses of the Baroque and Rococo, reviving the Antique.

Redefining Rococo celebrates the extraordinary gift of more than 1,350 works of art from the collection of financier J. Pierpont Morgan to the Wadsworth Atheneum 100 years ago.

Ian Whitmore paints skillful pastiches of decadent, rococo confections, sprinkling them with gestural abstraction and hints of Koonsian kitsch.

Chair - like sculptures UF and Foxtrot occupy the French and Italian Rococo gallery, interacting with objects of 18th - century design.

Her videos seamlessly blend fiction and truth, objects, images, and sound into large, ramshackle Rococo realities.

Collection de l'Art Brut Laausanne... 18Apr > Munich Rococo from Asam to Gunther.

His sculptures of resin, bronze, or gold luster on glazed stoneware combine a Rococo hedonistic sensuality with a Surrealist sense of fantasy and are filled with historical references.

Canaletto's reputation as one of the finest rococo period artists has remained high ever since his death, and his famous landscape paintings of Venetian lagoons, canals and pageantry continue to command high prices at auction (eg.

Ruga's Azania is a world of confusing transformations whose references are Rococo and its more modern derivative Pop.

Presented in a gaudy pastiche of periods, Travelers» Suite is a veritable visual mash - up: caveman meets rococo meets your spinster great - aunt, where oversized velvet couches, gilded chairs, rock wall fireplace, and a mirroring set of Victorian beds more than decorate the room — they become characters.

The decline was that of men who «had lost sight of nature», among them the rococo painter Francois Boucher (1703 - 70) whose «scenery», said Constable, was «a bewildered dream of the picturesque».

Part of my Poissons Volants series, combining winged fish and Rococo portraiture, this also features the Turquoise Motmot bird (who I encountered many time on my birdwatching trip to Mexico earlier this year).

William Blake (1757 - 1827) Watercolourist, Illustrator, Engraver Thomas Lawrence (1769 - 1830) Rococo portraitist John Constable (1776 - 1837) Naturalist landscape painter Thomas Girtin (1775 - 1802) First major watercolourist.

Gaspari Traversi (1722 - 70) Italian Rococo artist.

Contemporary meets Rococo GENIUS LOCI - About the (good) spirit of the space.

Decorative Art and Sculpture The Museum holds an unmatched collection of English silver and porcelain, along with a range of historically significant 18th century French decorative art in the rococo style of the eighteenth century.

However surreal and attention - grabbing his efforts, Houghton Hall consistently outdoes them, absorbing outsized anatomical statues into the dreamlike expanse of its landscaped estate, putting spot paintings in the shade with rococo tapestries and fairytale beds.

He was a keen student of art history, including Greek Antiquities, the Italian Renaissance, the Rococo and the Romantics.

Its collection features French paintings and book illuminations of the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries, as well as many Old Masters from the Renaissance, Baroque and Rococo eras.

Later Italian exhibits include works by the great Venetian rococo painters Tiepolo (1696 - 1770), Canaletto (1697 - 1768) and Francesco Guardi (1712 — 1793)

(2) Georgian Britain 1714 — 1837: covering Palladianism, Rococo, Chinoiserie, Neoclassicism, Regency, and the Gothic Revival.

All are pulled from three different series: «Society Portraits» (Sherman as UES women battling age with plastic surgery), the «History Portraits» (Sherman as Renaissance and Rococo figures) and the seminal «Centerfolds» series (Sherman as a modern version of the reclining woman but all lost in private moments as opposed to, you know, tugging at a bikini string).

In October she was the subject of a glowing profile in the New Yorker («Owens had hit on a necessarily willful new direction — not exactly forward, but fruitfully sideways — for painting, my favorite art form,» writes the art critic Peter Schjeldahl), and her retrospective at the Whitney was met with similarly gushing reviews (the New York Times» critic Roberta Smith notes that «her work has a playful, knowing, almost - Rococo lightness of being»).

Excerpts from Dault's reviews: «Emmy Skensved's pictures are built upon a vivacious embrace of the decorative — upon her obvious fondness for ornate borders, for sweeping curves purloined from baroque, rococo, and Empire styles), for pattern, and for abrupt contrasts between graphic congestion and openness.

Irish juxtaposes the writing of a Vietnamese poet with images of American war protesters; poetry of a Vietnam War veteran with lavish rococo interiors that represent a suggested oligarchy.

He abandoned painting for a series titled «Linopanel,» using linoleum as a material that mirrored cultural traditions of flooring (Rococo patterns, Colonial wood, generic tiling, etc.).

Such whimsies became fodder for Renaissance masters and later for Baroque, Rococo, Romantic, modern, and postmodern artists.

I campaigned for Rococo and Baroque art (because clearly 400 - year - old art movements need a champion) and became enchanted with Matthew Barney's meandering but aesthetically pleasing films.

Angela Fraleigh's newest work reconsiders the classic female nude by taking figures from Baroque and Rococo paintings and reexamining their surroundings, attire and gaze.

With references to Japanese motifs, Rococo foliage and the Impressionists, these paintings complement contemporary interiors, both residential and commercial.

Beth Katleman (Ceramics» 95), whose sculptures have been described by Ken Johnson in the New York Times as «doll - sized rococo theaters of murder and domestic mayhem,» will be showing her ornate, porcelain installations with Todd Merrill Gallery.

In an electric Rococo style, her new works picture her signature cartoonishly curvy, childlike women in sexually titillating postures in expansive, wilderness landscapes.

Built between 1873 and 1913, the castle's architecture is a clash of historical styles ranging from Renaissance to Gothic Revival to Rococo.

Titles such as Objects Above and Below Horizon and Rococo Figures portend the paintings by his students of a decade later, with their banalities: «things» and «objects» set in incoherent spaces.

By referencing Gothic, Baroque, and Rococo artistic conventions, and reconfiguring religious icons, Delvoye upends the creative process.