Sentences with phrase «scroll paintings»

At first glance, the works appear to be traditional Chinese scroll paintings, but on a closer inspection, we are confronted with the less - serene depictions of homelessness and disaster.

First, he says, the colors used in the murals were entirely new, much brighter and more vivid than those found in classical scroll paintings.

Often in the form of a watercolor scroll his paintings tell visual stories of places and events through time.

In «Ski Jacket» it was a newspaper image of a Japanese ski resort combined in his mind with ideas of Japanese scroll painting that inspired this picture.

Instead of compromising, Liu Wei submitted an entirely new work, Looks Like a Landscape (2004), a mural - size photograph that resembled a moody Chinese scroll painting of a mountain range, but it was actually an assemblage of naked backsides.

During the reception, the forty - two - foot - long cigarette included in Xu Bing's work Traveling Down the River will be ignited on a reproduction of a famous Chinese scroll painting by Xhang Zeduan, commenting on the way tobacco culture spread into China.

The Mead holds the art collection of Amherst College, celebrated for its American and European paintings, Mexican ceramics, Tibetan scroll paintings, English paneled room, ancient Assyrian carvings, Russian avant - garde art, West African sculpture and Japanese prints.

HARTFORD >> Two monumental scroll paintings by Japanese artist Kitagawa Utamaro (1753 - 1806) will be reunited for the first time in more than 130 years at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in an exhibition, «Utamaro and the Lure of Japan,» opening Jan. 7.

Kobayashi shot the film entirely in a studio built in an airplane hanger with painted backdrops (in «The Woman in the Snow,» the clouds of the hand - painted sky become eyes watching the woodcutter) and sets pared to their essence, like an ancient scroll painting.

The works will include scroll paintings and images of the author's hadwritten manuscripts as well.

Rio Nakano's linked emphasizes the idea of Japanese traditional scroll painting of «choju - giga,» historical scrolls created in 12th century in Japan and often referred as animal - person caricatures.

The large, long, non-representational scroll painting was intended to be a performance piece.

She also asserts in her essay that «commentators have overlooked how McLaughlin appropriated the geometrically shaped elements» that make each Japanese scroll painting dating from the 15th century unique.

Inspired by the hand scrolls and painted screens of early 17th Century Japanese artist Tawaraya Sōtatsu, who combined the traditional themes of the indigenous school of Japanese narrative scroll painting with the bold, decorative designs of the great screen painters of the Azuchi - Momoyama period.

Aoshima draws on the expanse and tranquility found in historical Japanese scroll painting while permeating each image with contemporary elements including an abundance of female protagonists and stylistic references to manga (comic books).

This exhibition features a number of Ji's major works created during the past decade, including several scroll paintings more than ten meters long, which have never before been seen together.

In her first solo show in New York, Krantz will present a large scroll painting and new works from her recent residency in Holland.

Holzman draws upon Renaissance art, Chinese and Japanese scroll painting as well as Cezanne's life studies to create a style all his own.

These included a 30 metre long scroll painting produced on the top of Beachy Head in Sussex with his collaborator Jan Stephens, and several notable pieces with the left - field artists group Order out of Chaos; one of which «Discarded Sculptures» (1986) was the first project to bring his work to the attention of a wider public.

Known as In the Land of the Dead, Stepping on the Tail of a Rainbow, the new body of work revives scroll paintings, totemic sculptures, religious iconography, and art produced in response to natural disasters in Murakami's signature sharp, colorful aesthetic.

Ranging from Chinese art from 2400 BCE to contemporary Japanese art, the museum has a significant collection of Asian arts and crafts, featuring scroll paintings, sculptures of Buddhist and Hindu gods and rare Indian miniature paintings.

Lê also displays his more recent and breathtaking abstract celluloid - like C - print scroll paintings.

«Prospect.3 artist Yun - Fei Ji's 60 - foot scroll painting is an ecological cautionary tale,» by Doug MacCash

Gratitude is extended to Erik Thomsen Gallery for the loan of two important scroll paintings; one attributed to Shugetsu (1440 - 1529), a disciple of Sesshu, and an anonymous Kano school scroll from 17th century Japan.

As such, they are the outcome of a lyrical combination of both Eastern and Western visual histories that range from Chinese scroll painting to European cubism.

At the center of the exhibition lay the reunion of two monumental scroll paintings by Kitagawa Utamaro (1753 - 1806): the Wadsworth Atheneum's own Cherry Blossoms at Yoshiwara and its recently re-discovered companion Fukagawa in the Snow from the Okada Museum in Hakone, Japan.

An interesting feature is 2000 Dragon Scroll focuses on Hardy's scroll painting of 2,000 dragons to commemorate this Millennial Dragon Year.

Named for its founder, William Rutherford Mead (an 1867 graduate of Amherst College and a partner in the storied architectural firm of McKim, Mead & White), the Mead holds the art collection of Amherst College, celebrated for its American and European paintings, Mexican ceramics, Tibetan scroll paintings, English paneled room, ancient Assyrian carvings, Russian avant - garde art, West African sculpture and Japanese prints.

However, rather than adopting the idealism characteristic of traditional scroll painting, Ji's work presents the gritty reality of life in China today.

In the photo above, taken in 1980, he's at the Denver Art Museum, explaining Japanese scroll paintings to two patrons.

According to the website, filmmaker Doug Lefler, who created both the app and all the comics currently on it, was inspired by a print platform, an ancient Chinese scroll painting.

This is the exhibition's only horizontally aligned canvas and the picture plane here appears to unfold, recalling the unraveling motion of Chinese and Japanese scroll painting and — as indicated by the work's title and emphasized by its green hues — the undulation of waves.

Pakistani painter Shahzia Sikander puts a contemporary spin on ancient art, often taking cues from traditional Eastern ideas of music, texts, scroll painting, and the Persian art of miniature painting.

In the foreground, left, a sculpture incorporating a weighing scale is by Mill; he is seen standing, in the vignette on the right, near a scroll painting by his father.

Her many other works play upon traditional Eastern ideas of music, texts, and scroll painting, shocking those precedents into the present day.

The format and presentation of the works is an intentional reference to the expansive environments of Japanese screens and the delicacy of Chinese scroll paintings.

She is a prolific multimedia painter, impossible to label by style, having produced over 23,000 drawings for one solo exhibition, a 108» painting for another, and most recently exhibited 23 scroll paintings, each 108» x 29».

Chervin's similarly dense and meditative large - scale drawing, composed of modulated clouds of charcoal, brings to mind an abstract Chinese scroll painting.

Fiona Rae's colourful paintings have stewed together sources as broad as clip - art, Chinese scroll painting and Abstract Expressionism, synthesising them into a personal aesthetic, always creating challenging but cogent canvases.

The exhibition showcases how operatic characters and stories were represented in pictorial and decorative motifs in a wide array of media including ceramics, illustrated books, painted fans, prints, photographs, scroll paintings, and textiles.

Diverse influences such as the Japanese woodcut prints of Katsushika Hokusai and Ando Hiroshige, Chinese scroll paintings, and the decorative illustrations of Arthur Rackham

A small area of the gallery is dedicated to displays of scroll paintings.

The re-use of everyday materials is further found in Stephen Prina's piece as the artist has painted on simple roller blinds to reference Japanese scroll painting, kakemono.

Allowing light to stream through the works gives the paper ground a translucent effect that is visually arresting and also generates a visual effect reminiscent of both Japanese shoji doors and Chinese scroll paintings.

The re-use of everyday materials is further found in Stephen Prina's piece as the artist has painted on simple roller blinds in reference to Japanese scroll painting, kakemono; this work was recently featured at the Pavilion for Japanese Art of LACMA, Los Angeles.

I wanted to re-create a three - dimensional version of a Chinese scroll painting — a rolled up painting that a collector can easily carry and go anywhere.

Diverse influences such as the Japanese woodcut prints of Katsushika Hokusai and Ando Hiroshige, Chinese scroll paintings, and the decorative illustrations of Arthur Rackham are all visible in his design work from this time.

Born in Ecuador to Chinese parents, Cecile Chong portrays cross-cultural narratives using encaustic and mixed media with imagery appropriated from international sources, such as European children's books and Chinese scroll painting.

step inside and feel surrounded by scroll paintings, sculptures, flickering butter lamps, the scent of incense, and the sound of Buddhist chanting, all to help them imagine the experience of standing inside the shrine room of a traditional Himalayan home.»

According the website, the Shrine room allows visitors to «step inside and feel surrounded by scroll paintings, sculptures, flickering butter lamps, the scent of incense, and the sound of Buddhist chanting, all to help them imagine the experience of standing inside the shrine room of a traditional Himalayan home.»