Sentences with phrase «small tempera»
In 1941, Jacob Lawrence, then just 23 years old, made a series of 60 small tempera paintings on the Great Migration, the decades - long mass movement of black Americans from the rural South to the urban North that began in 1915 — 16.
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Though fairly small and executed on paper, these loosely brushed tempera and oil paint - ings demonstrate an awareness of Abstract Expressionism while often asserting cruciform shapes in vivid reds, golds and purples.
Made when the painter was 32 years old and still emerging into maturity, it consists of a tentative trail of uneven white blobs squeezed from a tube of tempera on to a small rectangle of brown paper.
To those who know his work today, it may come as a surprise to learn that his early work, resulting from the more introverted approach, consisted mainly of very small paintings done in egg tempera and entirely with brushes, somewhat in the manner of Vermeer, whom he still greatly admires.
Instead of flat planes, however, each plane of color is comprised of compacted small strokes of various colors weighted to a particular hue, like the fire - like brushstrokes in Pissarro's late paintings, or the compacted myriad of little strokes in pre-Renaissance tempera panels.
A small, egg tempera painting.
Last year, in her Vermont studio, Blakely glanced up at a small painting she had made in 1974, a tempera depiction of the inside of a green pepper, and was inspired to return to previous subject matter with entirely new artistic tools.
Tobey's works are small in size by the standards of 20th - and 21st - century American art, and the cool refinement of their primarily watercolour, tempera, or pastel surfaces further distinguishes them from those of his contemporaries.
Bissier developed a technique of egg - and - oil tempera for the later works on small canvas he called «miniatures» — symbolically rich compositions of multiple, densely colored washes.
T1938 - 31 (1938) a small painting on wood could be seen as a precursor to Jackson Pollock's mature paintings — black tempera is dripped and brushed on a white ground.