Sentences with phrase «scaled portrait paintings»
The intimately scaled portrait paintings featured in the exhibition engage viewers in an investigation of mood and atmosphere, highlighting van Bart's innate ability to capture the psychologies and personas of her invented figures.
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It builds on Andrew Solomon's landmark book to paint a complex and universal portrait of acceptance with an empathy and scale that only true cinema can do,» said Jonathan Sehring and Lisa Schwartz, co-Presidents of Sundance Selects / IFC Films.
The painting in question is, like all of Anderson's recent movies, a large - scale portrait of an individual who, in his particular failures, losses, commitments and dislikes, embodies something fundamental about the time and place in which he lives.
«Using only palette knives, acrylic paint and canvas, I started on a journey of creating 10 large - scale portraits using the authorized work of National Geographic photographers Cristina Mittermeier and Martin Schoeller, along with renowned environmental photographer Art Wolfe.»
Mickalene Thomas, known for her large - scale, multi-textured, and rhinestone - encrusted paintings of domestic interiors and portraits, has also identified the photographic image as a defining touchstone for her practice.
Kansas City based artist Ben Parks paints large scale portraits.
Inspired by billboard advertising and the experience of going to the cinema, Katz characteristically employs an oversized format in his painted and sculptural portraits in order to play with the viewer's sense of scale.
Chuck Close (b. 1940, Monroe, Washington) is an artist best known for his large - scale, photo - based portrait paintings.
A closer observation confirms the large scale painting of portraits established by macroscopically precise details.
Highlights of the exhibition include a Katharina Fritsch sculpture of a bright orange octopus; two complex new abstract paintings by Terry Winters completed this summer; a Robert Gober sculpture of a sink sprouting contorted children's legs; new portrait and landscape photographs from Paris and New York by Nan Goldin; a Martin Honert sculpture based on his childhood drawings of toy soldiers; a large - scale painted white relief by Charles Ray of his two nephews; and a photograph of Germany's largest soccer stadium by Andreas Gursky.
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.
David Hockney RA, has distinguished himself throughout his long and successful career as a gifted draughtsman; his confidence and strength of line characterises his work from single line portrait studies, to large scale paintings of LA in the 60s.
Recognized for her large - scale, rhinestone - embellished paintings of powerful black women and pattern - rich interiors, this volume, produced conjunction with the exhibition «Muse: Mickalene Thomas: Photographs,» gathers the photography of Mickalene Thomas for the first time — portraits, prints and Polaroids — and features a nod to fellow contemporary African American photographers who inspire her.
Burgert's monumental paintings are an unsettling collision of traditional scenes (interiors, still lifes, full - scale portraits, art - historical quotations) and nightmarish visions.
He painted large - scale figurative allegories and numerous self - portraits.
The show, which is presented at the New York location of Arario Gallery, is entitled «Smile - isms» and is comprised of lithographs, several statues and one large - scale painting, all featuring the grinning self - portraits for which Minjun is known.
Her famous paintings of domestic interiors and portraits are large - scale, multi-textured and rhinestone - encrusted.
Unexpected Portrait (2016) is a large - scale acrylic - on - canvas painting where a long tube - shaped orange line with dark edges glides across the work defining a cartoon - like head...
David Uessem is a German painter and illustrator known for his large - scale photorealistic portraits and figurative paintings.
The majority of works in the exhibition will be on loan from private collections, and will comprise important, large - scale paintings from his most memorable themes, including French Money, Vocabulary Lessons, Civil War Veterans, Camel cigarette packs, as well as portraits of his mother - in - law Berdie, his then wife Augusta, and the poet Frank O'Hara.
For The Relics, her first exhibition in the United States at James Cohan Gallery in June 2013, Zhiying expanded upon these ideas debuting large - scale paintings of decorative and religious relief carvings and intimate portraits of antique vessels that illuminate the spirit of the imagery that has endured for hundreds of years.
2007 Existencias, Musac, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Léon Some kind of Portrait, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA Size Matters: XS, Recent Small - Scale Paintings, HVCCA, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY Joy Feasley & Clare Rojas: Pow - Wows or The Long Lost Friend, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Silly Adults, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen Very Abstract and Hyper Figurative, Thomas Dane Gallery, London Panic Room, Works from The Dakis Joannou Collection, Deste Foundation, Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens In The Fullness of Time: The Luggage Store 20 Year Anniversary Exhibition, San Francisco, CA
David Choong Lee is a Korean born USA - based artist known for his homeless people portraits, abstracts paintings and large - scale assemblage pieces.
Presented in this exhibition are new, large - scale paintings and portraits.
It's fascinating to see a tiny Pollock self - portrait and a couple of surreal apprentice - Rothkos, but you're itching to get on to large - scale paintings that will lift you almost bodily out of yourself — to find out if art that rocked the world when rationing was in force still makes an impact.
One of the most significant young artists today, Kehinde Wiley (American, b. 1977) is known for his vibrant, large - scale paintings of black urban men rendered in the self - confident, empowered poses typical of classical European portrait painting.
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.
The resulting work, Fela: Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen... (2002), ended up being one of the most talked - about works in the exhibition, and likewise represented another breakthrough for Barkley, which ultimately got him painting large - scale portraits again.
The portrait paintings, of which there were five (three of solitary visages, one bearing two heads, and one comprising a group of four severely discombobulated busts), were either medium or large in scale, and constituted the most labor - intensive, complex, and accomplished works in the show.
Moving to New York in 1985, Bill Jacklin has concentrated on painting «Urban Portraits» of «the city» in all its guises; from large scale canvases of crowds in flux to intimate moments in Seurat - like etchings.
«Like Phaidon's excellent volumes on painting (Vitamin P) and drawing (Vitamin D), this is a comprehensive effort, representing artists from all fields (documentary, portraits, video, etc.) and 30 countries... The scale of the project and the talent of those chosen is undeniable.»
Wåhlstrand creates extraordinary large - scale ink wash paintings featuring monumental landscapes, compelling portraits and serene interiors with intriguing compositions.
This exhibition comprises nearly forty large - scale paintings made in the past ten years, all of them portraits ---- some of couples and others of the artist.
Three Studies for a Portrait of George Dyer is one of only five triptychs that Bacon painted of Dyer in this intimate scale.
The large - scale paintings are oversized portraits of empty and well - worn containers, in front of non-defined black backgrounds.
His paintings may resemble billboards, or they may adopt the more intimate scale of the painted sketch, but they are always... portraits in an extended sense — slices of life ennobled by a deadpan iconic American eye.»
Richard Phillips has achieved international fame for his large - scale hyper - realistic portraits that appropriate material from a range of cultural sources: porn, advertising spreads from the»50s,»60s, and»70s, photographs, and Pop paintings.
From large - scale portraits of wooly buffalos to scenes of travelers traversing distant lands to images of Midwestern choir singers, Furnas's new paintings exude a sense of nostalgia that simultaneously feels at the brink of rupture — at any moment those idealized views will crack from the energy and emotion underneath.
Portraits of You are paintings that render the world metaphorically, in which scale is discontinuous, space is abstract, and form more idealized.
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.
His mastery of formal composition, colour and detail have made him one of the pre-eminent European art photographers of our time, and he is best known for his large - scale cityscapes and his ongoing series of family portraits, many of which nod to Renaissance paintings.
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.
Chuck Close is renowned for his highly inventive techniques of painting the human face, and is best known for his large - scale, photo - based portrait paintings.
Impressive were iridescent mushrooms by Sylvie Fleury at Thaddeus Ropac; Alice, a 1961 canvas by John Wesley at Waddington; Kim Fisher's new large - scale paintings at China Art Objects; Martin Boyce's space - dividing sculpture at Anton Kern and The Modern Institute's shared booth; John Stazeker's new «Film Portrait» collages at The Approach; and Sigmar Polke's 1967 Match - stick Piece at Michael Werner.
Grünes Kleid mit Rot («Green Dress with Red,» 1979) inflates a vaguely - familiar excerpt from Jan van Eyck's Arnolfini Portrait to a full image motif; the large - scale work Stoff 1 («Fabric 1,» 1981) quotes the folds of a dress in a saint portrait by Francisco de Zurbarán while Landschaft mit Architektur («Landscape with Architecture,» 1981) cites an arbitrary painting snippet from a neoclassical allegory by Nicolas Portrait to a full image motif; the large - scale work Stoff 1 («Fabric 1,» 1981) quotes the folds of a dress in a saint portrait by Francisco de Zurbarán while Landschaft mit Architektur («Landscape with Architecture,» 1981) cites an arbitrary painting snippet from a neoclassical allegory by Nicolas portrait by Francisco de Zurbarán while Landschaft mit Architektur («Landscape with Architecture,» 1981) cites an arbitrary painting snippet from a neoclassical allegory by Nicolas Poussin.
Chuck Close (b. 1940, Monroe, WA) is best known for his large - scale, photo - based portrait paintings, which he started making with his first iconic black - and - white Self - Portrait portrait paintings, which he started making with his first iconic black - and - white Self - Portrait Portrait of 1968.
These tiny vignettes also shift the scale of the portrait heads themselves, turning them into architecture, which then turns the tiny paintings into murals: Prangenberg rejoices in shifting scales and temporal frames of reference.
She generally paints expressive portraits of women and children, often in very large scale.
He has gained notoriety nationwide for his large - scale portraits of family and community members, as well as large - scale paintings of family quilts which serve as allegory for themes of family and faith.
Lastly, «Portraits» also features several small - scale paintings, all dated 2006, that could be called «house - portraits» of significant writers, cultural thinkers or places of historical import: Frederick Douglass» House, Aerial View Neverland Ranch, Freud's Childhood Home, and the gate to the Auschwitz concentration camp with the haunting phrase emblazoned on it, Arbeit Macht Frei (Work will make yPortraits» also features several small - scale paintings, all dated 2006, that could be called «house - portraits» of significant writers, cultural thinkers or places of historical import: Frederick Douglass» House, Aerial View Neverland Ranch, Freud's Childhood Home, and the gate to the Auschwitz concentration camp with the haunting phrase emblazoned on it, Arbeit Macht Frei (Work will make yportraits» of significant writers, cultural thinkers or places of historical import: Frederick Douglass» House, Aerial View Neverland Ranch, Freud's Childhood Home, and the gate to the Auschwitz concentration camp with the haunting phrase emblazoned on it, Arbeit Macht Frei (Work will make you free).