Sentences with phrase «scale narrative paintings»

More recently, his work has addressed social and political controversies through large - scale narrative paintings that combine elements of the Japanese woodblock print with inspiration from Renaissance church art.

His grand metal sculptures and large - scale narrative paintings are informed by popular iconography of political, social and historical realities, cultural myths and the Candi reliefs at Sukuh Temple.

will feature around 80 works, including many of Marshall's large - scale narrative paintings, which should feel monumental within the concrete - heavy Marcel Breuer building.

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Employing grand religious subjects as familiar narratives for his works, Furnas has developed a suite of six large - scale paintings presented in the downstairs gallery which depict the Creation myth, while upstairs, a series of contemplative near - abstractions evoke the vast desolation of the final flood.

Prior to 1950, monumentally sized art was generally reserved for mural paintings in the narrative tradition and abstraction was explored on an easel - sized scale.

Often executed on a grand scale her work reveals her fascination for epic narratives, comic book illustration and the performative quality of painting and drawing.

Paintings of Abraham Lincoln are on permanent display at the Illinois Governor's Mansion in Springfield, Illinois and her large - scale narrative depiction of the assassination of Wild Bill Hickok,

The supernatural compositions of Bas's past are here expanded into grand mythologizing narratives, taking on the weight and scale of 19th - century history painting.

Look for the way that he deconstructs problematic narratives surrounding Canada's indigenous population in his stunning, large - scale paintings at Pierre - Franҫois Ouellette Art Contemporian.

Her canvases are mostly scaled to the artist's own body, often dyed with rich violets and greens, and occupied with flatly painted signs scrambled into effusive narratives about their own making.

Further highlights include Polly Apfelbaum's strips of textile that are combined to form a colorfully woven painting; Rashid Johnson's tropical enclave containing various unexpected elements from sculptures made with shea butter to video portraits; Katherine Bernhardt's monumental painting with tropical birds, cuddly robots and cigarette stubs, which at once editorializes and summarizes modern culture and the artist herself; an interactive multimedia installation by Nedko Solakov comprising nine sofas in the shapes of the nine Chinese characters constituting the phrase «I miss Socialism, maybe»; and Yu Hong's large - scale painting depicting a famous Chinese fable widely cited in both modern Chinese art history and Chinese Communist narratives.

Marshall creates large - scale paintings that explore African American culture from the Civil Rights to today, drawing from and weaving a history of black experience into his narratives.

The wide array of sources that underlie her large - scale forms include Biblical and mythological narratives, Arab oral traditions, Gothic architecture, Western painting, Islamic ornamentation, and scientific advances in physics and astronomy.

Her works are often constructed on a grand scale; with narratives of destruction and hope, they are in dialogue with classical history paintings.

This ambitious large - scale painting addresses the issues of black representation by interweaving narratives of art history, society, culture and politics.

Weintraub explores potentials for the future of humanity through large - scale hyper - colored narrative paintings, which are saturated with information and describe a world where morals have fallen and children act without consequence.

In the exhibition, painter Caleb Weintraub will present 3 large - scale paintings and two small sculptures, which feature his signature surreal narrative.

Large - scale, hyperrealistic, and rendered in smooth oil paint, the works immortalize the flower through an entrancing and evocative narrative.

For her current solo show, «Into The Wind,» Kowch also made a series of small paintings that are intimate in scale but rich in detail and narrative implications.

Exhibition to Feature 14 Large - Scale Paintings from Contemporary Artists Considered Pivotal Career Works Long Beach, CA — The Long Beach Museum of Art will open its newest exhibition this fall entitled Masterworks: Defining A New Narrative.

The large scale painting along with the video installation intensely introduces the viewer with the ability to identify with the narrative.

The exhibition revolves around three large - scale paintings that, each in their own way, meld traditional narrative painting, classical themes and modern pop - culture.

The medium scale canvases suit Sullivan's ability well as he creates a vague narrative through organic forms and cracked paint.

Among them, Lehmann Maupin will show new photographs by Catherine Opie; Cheim & Reid will unveil new large - scale sculptures by Lynda Benglis; at PPOW, Dotty Attie's subversive gridded narratives painted from photographs are on view; and David Zwirner continues the gallery's 25th anniversary celebration with gallery artists including Annie Albers, Ruth Asawa, Marlene Dumas, Sherrie Levine, Alice Neel, Bridget Riley, and more.

«Celebrated internationally for large - scale, gestural paintings, the Ethiopian - born artist addresses both the formal concerns of color and line and the social concerns of power, history, globalism, and personal narrative,» said the announcement from Skowhegan.

Room 2 features large - scale paintings by Michael Armitage which weave together narratives drawn from historical and current news media and his recollections from time spent and lived in Kenya.

The Japanese artist Chinatsu Ban creates imaginative narratives using a recurring cast of figures, primarily little girls and elephants, and objects, such as apples and ice cream, in her drawings and large - scale acrylic paintings, which initially suggest the whimsy of children's book illustrations.

Widely recognized in Europe for his erratic paintings that maneuver around abstraction and representation, Pils creates large scale paintings bursting with energetic brushstrokes and mysterious narratives.

The eleven artists juxtapose divergent approaches in conversation with each other, reflecting on primal questions consuming artists over the millennia: Elliot Arkin's conceptual use of web - based commerce spins an absurdist view on the commodification of artists; Babette Bloch's stainless steel reassessments of nature and artistic precedent limn positives and negatives through light; Christopher Carroll Calkins's street photography captures moments of under - the - radar narratives; Valentina DuBasky's acrylic and marble dust works on paper and plaster are a contemporary comment on the prehistory of art; Gabriel Ferrer's performance - like in - the - moment sumi - ink drawings on handmade paper reflect on memory and personal narrative; Christopher Gallego's realist, pure light - filled oil painting elevates the ordinariness of an artist's space to visual poetry; Ana Golici, in pergamano and collage, takes inspiration from 17th Century female naturalist, entomologist and botanical illustrator Maria Sibylla Merian to explore questions of science, nature and objective truth; Emilie Lemakis's monumental amplification of an ancient Greek krater employs scale to upend perceptions for the viewer's reconsideration; Mark Mellon's bronzes address the oppositions of movement and stillness; the alchemy of Michael Townsend's uncontrolled poured acrylic paintings equate the properties of materials with the turbulence of the universe; Jessica Daryl Winer's engagement with luminous color and choreographic line reflects in visual resonance the sonic history of a musical instrument.

Engaging in a variety of media, ranging from Weiner's signature large - scale paintings and time - lapse videos to a series of sculptural objects, SMUSH explores a process - based narrative, adapting medium specificity for the reality television era.

Alex Ramsay: Paintings and related works 2000 - 2010 In this selection of works made during the last ten years Alex Ramsay explores his concern with mapping and notions of narrative through a series of large scale abstract paintings, text based paintings, and a group of small sculpturPaintings and related works 2000 - 2010 In this selection of works made during the last ten years Alex Ramsay explores his concern with mapping and notions of narrative through a series of large scale abstract paintings, text based paintings, and a group of small sculpturpaintings, text based paintings, and a group of small sculpturpaintings, and a group of small sculptural works.

Large in concept and scale, each painting offers lavish twists and turns of narrative that draw us into the visual space of the painting, much as a movie pulls us into the imagined world of the filmmaker.

His later painting becomes larger in scale and infused with literary and ethical narrative.

Blending abstraction and figuration, Romanticism and psychedelia, von Wulffen's large - scale paintings wryly revisit and reprocess tactics and tropes of modern painting from German Expressionism onward, while recent series of drawings have tweaked the conventions of the children's book, the comic strip, and the storyboard, turning these formats into vehicles for her own psychologically charged narratives.

The most popular genre of painting was landscape painting - usually large - scale - along with flower - and - bird compositions, and narrative figure painting which allowed artists maximum scope to praise the new Ming rulers.

In addition to his favourite hobby of copying the narrative «action» paintings of Old Masters, he specialized in small - scale detailed works of landscape painting, executed in oils, containing a number of human subjects and typically several features of topographical or other interest, including crowds or military scenes.

His work frequently explores boundaries and taboos, spanning large scale installation and sculpture, narrative painting and multimedia.

Revisiting the ideologically charged genres of Western history painting and portraiture, Donkor's dramatic, large - scale works represent narratives of legendary figures and events from African history, as well as more recent issues associated with civil unrest and police violence.

On the first floor, the studio space contains three great, large scale paintings by Lynette Yiadom - Boakye — there is a fourth in the space next door — with her characteristically enigmatic cast of characters conjuring all kinds of narrative imaginings, while hidden away up a roped - off staircase is a work by perennial provocatrice Klara Lidén; Untitled (Trash Can), from the group of works with which she won the German blauorange Art Prize in 2010.

Working in a large scale, Mehretu draws on the 21st - century city for inspiration, transferring its energy into her gestural sweeps of paint and built - up marks in ink and pencil — often transposed from projections — and condensing seemingly infinite urban narratives, architectural views, and street plans into single unified compositions.

But these works rehearsed all the aspects of her later art: eccentric dimensionality, large scale, crusty paint surfaces and suggestive, emotionally charged, implicitly autobiographical narratives conveyed by extravagant distortions of form.

Here is a magisterial drawing that combines graphic power, expressive force, and narrative ambiguity on the grand scale of history painting.

Crowther attempts to combine a fascination with films and narrative paintings in the construction of single large - scale photographs.

«Winter Eclectic Exhibit,» Carrie Haddad Gallery, 622 Warren St., Hudson Cost: Free Contact: 828-1915 or http://www.carriehaddadgallery.com Notes: Contemporary «Double Landscape» paintings by Tony Thompson, straightforward portraits by Tracy Helgeson, large - scale abstract paintings by Jenny Nelson, outsider - art - inspired mixed media works by Judith Hoyt and witty narrative paintings by Ashley Cooper.

Scott's large - scale pieces — often in excess of four feet in dimension — blend photographic prints, found materials, drawing and painting into complex strata of emotion, historical narrative and nostalgia.

With elements fragmented and scales distorted, many of the paintings suggested narrative readings.

Once the least respected of the academy's categories — history painting, with its large - scale figures and high - minded narratives ranked highest — still life became a favorite motif of modernists, since inanimate forms, such as bottles, plates, and even fruits and vegetables, permitted an emphasis on purely formal concerns.