Sentences with phrase «scale paintings take»

Her large - scale paintings take cues from the 19th and early 20th century realism of the avant - garde.

Not exact matches

The large scale paintings at L'Orangerie are so awesome that I just sat and took them in with tears in my eyes for their beauty.

And how I almost murdered Kyle when he took us off - trail to scale the same mountain painted on the bag.

Hunter writes: «In the show, twelve recent, mostly large - scale, conventionally stretched works share fast - looking brush strokes; few visible layers of oil or acrylic; a graphic, flat appearance that emphasizes surface; and the impression — confirmed in the curatorial statement — that these paintings did not take long to make... The works in the exhibition raise the question, for me, of what it is that we value about painting right now — where we locate meaning and value in paintings made quickly.»

[10] Jones notes that Riley investigated Seurat's pointillism by painting from a book illustration of Seurat's Bridge at an expanded scale to work out how his technique made use of complementary colours, and went on to create pointillist landscapes of her own, such as Pink Landscape (1960), [10] painted soon after her Seurat study [13] and portraying the «sun - filled hills of Tuscany» (and shown in the exhibition poster) which Jones writes could readily be taken for a post-impressionist original.

In the most minimal examples, we are presented with a singular aperture, which, taken out of context and scale, also suggests an eye socket — as though to imply that one must even look through the eye, and that all these painted rectangles are re-constituted and shifted from ovular visions.

Like David Hockney and his flat, large - scale collages of Polaroid prints, Wood takes multi-angle photographs of his subjects and then cuts and pastes the images together to produce his fractured paintings.

Shahzia Sikander is a Pakistani - born international artist whose pioneering practice takes Indo - Persian miniature painting as a point of departure while experimenting with scale and media, including animation, video, and mural.

He has taken large - scale paintings for «walks» around the block, involving his neighbors and local shopkeepers in creating the meaning and experience of his work.

Shahzia Sikander is a Pakistani - born artist whose pioneering practice takes Indo - Persian miniature painting as a point of departure and experiments with scale and media, including animation, video, and mural.

The first room of the exhibition takes on a gloomy and philosophical feeling with Nara's popular large - scale paintings.

Kerry James Marshall (b. 1955) is known for his large - scale paintings, sculptures, and other objects that take African - American life and history as their subject matter.

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.

A 2005 group show at the Whitney, called «Remote Viewing,» took painting, drawing, and sculpture on the scale of a room — often directly on museum walls.

Sikander's pioneering practice takes classical Indo - Persian miniature painting as its point of departure and challenges the strict formal tropes of the genre by experimenting with scale and various forms of new media.

The gestural abstraction of Yayoi Kusama's ongoing series of Infinity Net paintings and her important large - scale accumulation sculpture Prisoner's Door provides a formal counterpoint to the geometric abstraction of Conrad Shawcross's Perimeter Studies sequence and Plosion sculpture, which take theories of cosmic expansion and contraction as their starting point.

The display ends with Hamed Ewais's Le Guardien de la vie (1967 - 8), a large - scale oil painting that depicts a fighter, weapon in hand, while underneath him everyday events such as a wedding taking place and a child riding a bike are shown, suggesting the possibility of societal renewal following the collapse of the Pan-Arab ideal after the Six - Day War in 1967.

Taking a large - scale painting and attaching it to a smaller canvas, allows the artist to use the excess «painting» to mold at will, forming wrinkles, waves, and even unplanned imperfections that all result in the final work.

From such monuments, it takes a moment to adjust to the small scale of Hodgkin's paintings themselves, hung very far apart on walls dramatically painted eau de nit, mailbag grey and mustard yellow, at Tate Britain's sweeping main galleries.

For All Inside of Itself, Close, Baras continues to work intuitively in her medium while taking an expansive step forward in both the scale and structure of her paintings.

Taking the potential of mimicry to its logical conclusion Daignault has painted, to scale, a version of White Columns» «Bulletin Board» project space.

Taking direction from architect and theosophist Claude Bragdon's treatise on drawing four - dimensional patterns on a two - dimensional plane, Ms. Auerbach presents a series of glass sculptures and a sculpture consisting of 3D - printed parts, along with large - scale acrylic paintings created with custom - made tools and a new group of her coveted Weave paintings.

Melissa Marks» works take the form of drawings, paintings, large - scale wall - drawing installations and animations.

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.

Source photographs for the large - scale paintings were taken by the artist, or in some cases by a friend «as close as possible to the artist's viewpoint.»

All the artists take the viewer beyond the surface to question; process, space, scale and colour, documenting the evolving trends, ideas and concerns within contemporary painting.

I took their large scale for a cool rehash of late modern painting within quotation marks, as I often had for Jeff Wall.

A levitating concoction composed of a white semitransparent polyester scrim, a black attenuated aluminum beam and a black line painted on the wall, it has the scale of a spectacle; it takes up the museum's entire fourth floor.

Known for her large - scale pattern paintings depicting constellations of everyday items that have been isolated from their original context, American artist Katherine Bernhardt has created a new ensemble of colourful and dynamic images that take inspiration from both Brussels and New York.

It is a take on the painting - within - a-painting idea, or (if you shift the scale to landscape) maybe a drive - in - movie - screen - within - a-painting.

A member of the first generation of abstract expressionists, Conrad Marca - Relli took the epic scale of New York School painting and applied it to collage.

«Playing with Fire,» with its focus on large - scale painting, is the first major museum survey to take up the mantle.

Highlights from this include his piece Spiderman (2015), in which the artist takes on the persona of a trans woman for a raunchy, politicized standup routine, and his signature large - scale abstract compositions, which he forms by layering paper and paint before sanding them down to reveal previously - obscured layers of color.

Taking inspiration from Warhol's late prints on view in the museum's Andy's Toy Box gallery, Rudnick created three new large - scale abstract paintings, installed in The Warhol Store's street - facing windows.

In her fourth solo exhibition titled She's a Riot at Shin Gallery, Gyon takes over the main gallery and project space with an assortment of mixed media sculptures and large - scale paintings.

For barely a month, it takes a lesser - known but representative painter, makes no preposterous claims for him, uses the different scales of two adjacent rooms well, and concentrates on just forty paintings and a few drawings.

Once you have overcome the arresting imagery, the jumps in scale and shifting tempos, the painting takes over.

Although Close is best known for his meticulous, large - scale paintings, his prints are equally time consuming and, unusually, they can often take longer to complete than a painting.

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.

The artist applies paint to the canvas surface, millimeter by millimeter, often taking months to meticulously accumulate brushstrokes into large - scale renderings of marble tile.

On view for the first time will be the large - scale Black Painting; Horse, Bird, Cat (2016), from which the exhibition takes its title, as well as a group of works on paper that together underscore the artist's distinctive working process and intuitive approach to image - making.

But in a new, grand triptych, events take on a cinematic scope and scale, with a crowd of extras cast from Dutch genre painting and zombie flicks.

In the large - scale pictures, painting takes place as a metamorphotic process of dissolution and densification.

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.

Erika Rothenberg is a conceptual artist whose provocative and humorous work about social and political issues takes many forms, from paintings and photographs to museum installations and large - scale outdoor works.

The optically titillating large - scale paintings are made by applying layers of acrylic paint to a canvas in a pre-determined order, resulting in heavily - built surfaces that take on illusionistic depth as the tone scale varies.

The second part consists of six delicately colored pencil drawings which are designed to look like hand colored postcards and depict views of the hospitals in Germany and Austria where the T4 Euthanasia programme took place between 1939 and 1941, whilst the third part consists of five large scale oil paintings which display the insides of Nazi Gas Chambers.

Taking on the artistic traditions of Western nineteenth century painting, Monkman's appropriations of «New World» painting are meticulous recreations of large - scale, sublime landscapes.

Known by the tag name «Twist» for his graffiti and street art, McGee has also developed a career within museums and galleries, exhibiting drawings, paintings, prints, and large - scale, mixed - media installations that take inspiration from urban culture, incorporating elements such as empty liquor bottles, cans of spray paint, signs, scrap wood or metal, surfboards, and other found materials.

Be Strong Boquan (after a line taken from a performance video that's featured in the show), is composed of large abstract paintings, the first thing you encounter is «Deimos» (2015), a Cinemascope - scaled video projection depicting enormous orange wheels careening across an unspecified expanse to the beat of Sylvester's 1978 disco anthem «Grateful.»