Sentences with phrase «scale figure paintings»

The exhibition featured Walker's handsome, large - scale figure paintings, interspersed with smaller drawings and still life sketches.

Not exact matches

It tracks Elaine de Kooning's development as a first - rate, innovative portraitist through variously sized drawings, figure studies, trial sketches and small paintings across five decades, with each room dramatically highlighting the best of her large - scale oil paintings, some never exhibited publicly until now.

New paintings on view feature monumental nude figures and intimately scaled body parts.

The small, fragile ceramic vessels that reference military and funerary formations, «the family units of historical figures in Vietnam,» stand in sharp contrast to the energy and movement of the large - scale paintings.

The format of Rythm Mastr, whether as an animated feature, graphic novel, or multi-panel sequence on newsprint, may feel like a departure from Marshall's painting practice, more tethered to pop culture than the high - brow arena where the artist's large - scale works fetch seven figures.

Tompkins was an important figure in the photorealist movement of the 1970's but largely overlooked due to the fact that she was a woman making large - scale paintings of heterosexual intercourse, imagery that until then had been reserved for male artists and viewers.

The large - scale paintings in Sequences from a Volatile Now dissolve, however, explicit reference to historical figures.

In his 2012 exhibition at the Matthew Marks Gallery, Cricket Music, Tessellation Figures & Notebook, 11 large - scale, richly hued, and layered paintings create complex patterns and grids.

In my more recent paintings, by increasing the scale and gesture of the stars, the figure / ground relationship shifts from delicate to muscular.

The canvases range from a few feet tall to roughly human height; in preliminary drawings for the paintings Richter sketched human figures alongside the layouts of some of the works, indicating the meticulousness with which the scale of the works was devised.

Price: The scale of your figures in your paintings and on some of the painted objects is small.

The figures who people Njideka Akunyili Crosby's large - scale works — hybrids of painting, drawing, collage, and printmaking — inhabit familiar - looking domestic interiors.

Shaw uses a focus on the over-arching themes of fallibility — fallen heroes, collapsed economies, and political figures — to center his exhibition around a series of large - scale paintings begun in 2004 on old, cut - apart theatrical backdrops.

Bringing together a selection of recent cut - out paper figures, mixed media works on paper, collage paintings in beehive frames, a large - scale painted sailcloth and hand - painted texts on the gallery wall, the exhibition will showcase Anna Boghiguian's raw and expressionistic oeuvre that explores economics, philosophy, literature and myth.

This large - scale bronze playfully casts the classical female figure, reimagined in Giorgio de Chirico's surreal paintings, as if she is made of crudely carved polystyrene, further debunking the fetishized art historical form.

It includes small - scale paintings by «other art» artists of various trends, key pictures and objects by masters who make up the nucleus of the «Moscow conceptual school», works by classics of Sots - Art, Post-Modernist painting and photo - realism, as well as works by leading figures of the post-Soviet period.

She plans to use her time at the 18th Street Art center to meld the two mediums: bringing together the art of painting with the aesthetics of tattooing with works on paper, and to create some small scale sculptures that she can see in her mind's eye and now need to figure out how to bring into fruition.

She focusses on techniques, structure, and composition, and by playing with the scale and gaze of her figures she reformulates the visual language of traditional oil paintings.

Siskin and Fly are continuations, on a more intimate scale, of her recent large paintings inspired by English birds, in which she gives her human figures feathered collars but few other defining accessories.

Two large - scale paintings depict a figure almost completely obscured by foliage, which gives the impression of something glimpsed in a dream or recreated from a lost source.

Exploring deeply personal themes, these large - scale paintings maintain a sense of intimacy and purpose as the figures interact within an increasingly complicated world.

Texan artist Robert Yarber is renowned for his dizzying large - scale paintings of figures flying in the night sky above glittering megacities.

The resulting sculptures, which she worked into by hand, sometimes adding a lick of white paint or a shade of coloured pencil, are of a human - scale and could equally be age - worn human figures or gnarled tree trunks — again, the human and the natural is a juxtaposition Carey enjoys exploiting.

To See Beyond Its Walls (and access the places that lie beyond) combines a large - scale painting of a female figure with a reimagined interior of Sans - Souci Palace (1813) in northern Haiti, tracing conflicted histories and current political contexts of Hispaniola (the shared island of the Dominican Republic and Haiti) and America.

In a fugue of abstraction and representation, depth and surface, micro and macro, the remarkable slippage between gestural waves of paint and fantastically rendered figures, creatures and objects, these epically scaled paintings evolve Cooke's fundamental interest in the theory and practice of painting to a compelling hybrid state of generation and destruction.

The exhibition brings together recent work, medium scale paintings where a figure or figures are situated in psychedelic and symbolic landscapes, alluding to spiritual or heightened emotional interiors.

In the large - scale work Hebron (1998 - 2001), Petlin utilizes chalk and oil on unprimed linen to create outlines of figures and smears of red paint and chalk, indicating bloodshed.

It is amazing what human presence adds to a painting regardless how small scale the figure is.

Exhibition highlights include: two ornate, figurative paintings by Australian artist Del Kathryn Barton; three large - scale, realist paintings by Terry Rodgers portraying gaunt and privileged youth; conceptual portraits by Swedish artist Sara - Vide Ericson; a mixed - media fragmented figure by Brooklyn - based artist Nathaniel Mary Quinn; four small - scale sculptural works depicting contorted human forms by Korean artist Dongwook Lee; and one large - scale surrealist drawing by German artist Dennis Scholl; among others.

Her New Museum exhibition brings together a selection of recent cutout paper figures, mixed - media works on paper, collaged paintings in beehive frames, a large - scale painted sailcloth, and hand - painted texts on the gallery walls.

Alternatively, the figures in his large - scale paintings might find themselves alone, or nearly so, and in intimate settings where self - reflection is powerless to stave off the distractions of glittering company and indulgence in earthly pleasures.

Sotheby's Contemporary Art Evening Auction on 8 March will be led by Untitled (One Eyed Man or Xerox Face), one of Jean - Michel Basquiat's finest full - length male figures from his series of grand - scale paintings that took the art world by storm in the early 1980s.

He blended the artistic styles of his adopted countries with those of Africa, creating mythical hybrid figures — combinations of animals, plants and humans — in large - scale paintings.

Alongside these works, the exhibition features a selection of new paintings that range from monumental nude figures to intimately scaled canvases that present details of bodily parts and facial features.

While the two schools of abstract expressionist painting shared certain characteristics ---- large scale; bold, gestural brushwork; emphasis on the materiality of paint; figure and ground equal or collapsed into overall, non-hierarchical compositions ---- Bay area artists, influenced by Asian cultures and the expansiveness of the western landscape, in addition to European painting, invited landscape references into their work whereas New York painters resisted such associations.

Known for his vibrant, large - scale paintings of black man posing as famous figures, Kehinde Wiley's Obama presidential portrait features the US ex-leader sitting in front of a floral backdrop.

Before beginning a given painting, Opheim first determines the scale of the work and the type of figure he wishes to paint.

As his new exhibition is installed at Lisson Gallery, London, the artist explains how painting, place, scale and skin all figure in his thinking about sculpture

Richter's large - scale paintings question the context of history painting in a society whose historiographic idea of progress has been significantly altered, hence Richter's lone, heroic figures depicted singularly or in an ecstatic mass.

A much - revered figure in the art world, Robert Ryman has, over six decades, continuously and methodically experimented with the different possibilities inherent within a painting — abolishing color in order to focus on material, brushstroke, support, and scale.

Essenhigh's large scale paintings create an enigmatic world in which animated action figures are cast alongside mythological characters and the demimonde in roles where time - honoured human concerns such as patriotism,...

Named for African - American abolitionist and women's rights activist Sojourner Truth, Parsons paints strong female characters, like the scintillating, silhouetted figure smoking in the darkness in her large - scale work Anthony at Night with the butterflies (2016).

Usually painting from collaged photographs, Wood takes delightful liberties with background, scale, and color, often distorting figures, employing unusually vivid hues, or adding a work of art in place of a family photo in an interior scene.

Ghada Amer is best known for her large - scale, hand - embroidered paintings of seemingly abstract lines that resolve into repetitive patterns of highly erotic figures and scenes.

The exhibition includes 40 beautiful and impressively scaled paintings by such major figures as Helen Frankenthaler, Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland and Jules Olitski.

British artist Jenny Saville paints the figure in massive scale, combined with an overt, never - ending interest in the pure rendering of human flesh.

Intrigued by the multiple complexities in Greenwold's paintings, Bui writes: «With their repeated penetration of lines, Greenwold's new paintings and drawings evoke Giacometti's existential angst, while the calibration of scale among figures, objects, interiors, and landscapes conjures Balthus's magnified psychological space.

Piri Halasz reviews three exhibitions of works by Jules Olitski: Revelation: Major Paintings by Jules Olitski at American University, Washington D.C. (through December 16), Jules Olitski On An Intimate Scale at George Washington University, Washington D.C. (through December 14), Anthony Caro and Jules Olitski: Masters of Abstration Draw the Figure at Freedman Art, New York (thorugh February 2, 2013).

James Rosenquist came to prominence among New York School Pop Art figures like Roy Lichtenstein, Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg is well known for his large - scale, fragmented works that bring the visual language of commercial painting onto canvas, from 1957 - 60, Rosenquist earned his living as a billboard painter.

Cast in bronze from a full - scale fiberboard construction and painted, they are intrinsically equivalent to the figures themselves.