Sentences with phrase «small oil sketches»

A series of new and grandiose grisaille panel paintings, based on small oil sketches and completely devoid of color, distort their subjects into grotesque parodies of altar paintings.

The small oil sketches in this exhibition originate in his practice of painting directly outdoors.

Heward produced several small oil sketches of Venetian scenes during this trip as well as during her previous trip to Europe, such as Venice (1926).

To make one of his large works, Katz paints a small oil sketch of a subject on a masonite board; the sitting might take an hour and a half.

In his most recent paintings and smaller oil sketches, Hugh Steers chronicles contemporary urban life haunted by the presence of AIDS.

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.

For example, small technical sketches of shipbuilding plans from Still's time working in the war industries are included, which no doubt played a role in the abstracted, mechanistic forms found in many of his drawings and oil works from the early 1940s.

In the first of a series of collaborative exhibitions between the Courtauld's IMAF Centre for Drawings and the Drawing Institute of the Morgan Library & Museum, New York, «A Dialogue with Nature» presents 26 small watercolours, oil sketches and drawings which sing rather than shout of a new vision, forged in the furnace of war, revolution, and industrialisation.

The Frick is sending oil sketches and watercolors by European masters including Albrecht Dürer, Claude Lorrain, Eugène Delacroix for the previously planned exhibition «Small Treasures from the Frick.»

1 Georges Seurat (National Gallery, London): The story of the complex evolution of the quotidian but disturbing Bathers at Asnières was told through drawings and oil sketches on small panels in such a way that you felt you were following the young Seurat's ambitious progress, moment by moment, draft by draft.

As striking in their way as any of Church's major paintings are his small oil studies and sketches, many executed wholly or partly in the field and several in the studio as designs for the major works.

Particularly notable: a small sketch made with oil crayon in 1953 (Sand, Sea & Sky), revealed as inspiration for two 1958 paintings that also picture three - part seascapes depicting the horizon, ocean, and shore.

The small, energetic oil on canvas sketches made shortly before the artist's death, are juxtaposed with earlier, large - scale abstract work.

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Small oil paintings such as this one are sketched from life and often intended to be scaled up into larger works, but their economic execution and visible brushstrokes reveal an intimate side to his practice.

The oil sketches and small works — a bit like Rubens's oil sketches.

Other pieces are completed in the studio, using smaller oil and watercolor sketches as inspiration.

The most obvious point of reference is perhaps John Constable, especially as Fergus's small format oils bear a sometimes uncanny resemblance to Constable's oil sketches.

Our annual juried Exhibition of Small Oil Paintings is one of our oldest and most prestigious shows not only for us at the Sketch Club, but for the Philadelphia region.

Read my review of 152nd Small Oil Painting Juried Show, Philadelphia Sketch Club on DoNArTNeWs Philadelphia Art News Blog