Sentences with phrase «started painting landscapes»

It wasn't until the Renaissance era that artists started painting landscapes as a subject in its own right.

He visited Fălticeni and Balcic, and started painting landscapes in the manner of Paul Cézanne.

April Gornik: I never started painting landscapes to express anything in particular.

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Soon, John starts to wonder how the heck this will lead to his learning to paint beautiful landscapes.

Both artists started to make their first early Cubist art: landscape paintings, in Estaque and Ceret.

Magical Huaraz program is a complete tour which contains elements of the region's main cultural and natural circuits, starting with the delightful city of Huaraz, journeying along the Callejón de Huaylas, visiting Chavín de Huántar, contemplating the snow - capped Mount Pastoruri and lagoons, crossing the White Cordillera, through the Tunnel of Cahuish, going on a hike on the glacier, observing the famous Phuyas de Raymondi which are naturally gaseous water pools, ancient paintings on rocks, and we'll have a chance to enjoy beautiful landscapes and thermal baths, appreciate local handicraft and taste the exquisite regional gastronomy.

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So I started painting sculptures in landscapes.

I remember that she used to say — since she paints landscape, still life, and figures — that she knew that she was getting somewhere with a painting, if the painting started to look like something other than what it was.

The subject would turn out to be Monet's last confrontation with modernity, before he abandoned the painting of modern life, and started to pursue pure landscape painting.

When I'm painting a landscape, I start them outside.

In a treatise offering advice to students of landscape painting, Pierre - Henri de Valenciennes (1750 - 1819) advocated that artists start with the sky, which determines the palette of the entire composition, and then complete their sketches swiftly, preferably in fewer than two hours.

By Sara Schnadt, July 3, 2012 In his work he sparks an awareness of the contrast between an American national identity that was developed at the start of the country and communicated around the world through landscape painting with imagery from contemporary American post-industrial cities.

Starting from an abstracted image of a waterfall — paint which has been left to literally drip down across the painting's surface — Steir's paintings borrow from the vertical compositions of Chinese landscape painting and reference the metaphysical power of the waterfall as a symbol connecting heaven and earth.

Depending on the type of landscape I'm painting I always start with a collection of different photos and drawings that I take visual reference from.

A mid-career, full time artist, Christie Scheele has been painting devotedly since receiving her BFA, and started painting her atmospheric, minimalist landscapes just before moving to the Catskills from New York City a decade later.

I begin painting traditional landscapes but then every summer I started going out to paint on different islands.

After starting with figurative paintings in the 1960s and»70s, she moved on to bold, color drenched, landscapes and eventually abstractions that explore color spectrums.

Harris started out representationally, painting the landscape as well as urban scenes from Toronto of houses and industrial subjects.

He fell in love with landscape painting and started exploring the language of direct expression of what just in front of him.

«Peter Doig: Early Works» showed, in twelve paintings and thirty - eight works on paper, his development from the early 1980s, when he was an art student in London, to the more contemplative and romantic landscape works he started to make later in the decade.

Greg Hardy and David Alexander also took lessons from Emma Lake workshops to produce bold modernist landscapes, and Edward Epp - another artist who started in abstraction - found a original way to paint watercolour landscapes.

As its European father, the American Impressionism saw different artists gathering and following in its footsteps regarding the depiction of the everyday modern life and the tradition of the en plain air, started with Monet's landscape paintings.

He was, of course, aware of the rejection that could be directed at him by his professional avant - garde peers and the unwelcome reception he could receive from parties for whom a landscape means conformity and lack of criticality.At that time, the»60s, he started framing his paintings with the gold - faced wooden strip that Greenbergian Colorfield painters were using.

Starting a family and a career in landscape painting, she decided to remain in Savannah finding inspiration in the beautiful low country wetlands.

The paintings presented in her first exhibition at the gallery started out as ruminations on the landscape.

I started the landscape painting and then decided to put the window frame, from another painting, on top of that scene.

Donald Judd started out making traditional art — drawings and paintings of landscapes and people.

The Glass House was the start of Johnson's 50 - year odyssey of architectural experimentation in forms, materials, and ideas, through the addition of other structures - the Brick House / Guest House, Pond Pavilion, Painting Gallery, Sculpture Gallery, Ghost House, Library / Study, and Da Monsta — and the methodical sculpting of the surrounding landscape.

Pointing to one of the student's landscape paintings, he used to start by asking «shall we try turning this picture upside down?»

Alex Katz: «I guess it was a reaction to up front painting... I started making nocturnal landscapes then.

During the 1950s he produced still lifes indebted to William Scott (also no relation) and then at the start of the following decade, when he represented Ireland at the Venice Biennale, more landscapes, often of bogs, which at last found him beginning to discover his own distinct timbre through the use of unprimed canvas into which tempera paint sank.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art started acquiring his work six years later, including a small landscape with rocket, then a big Oxbow painting in 1998, and later a huge nine - foot Kaaterskill Falls piece.

This exhibition joins three important contemporary artists who have each incorporated reminiscences of Pollock into their works in very different ways: Thomas Demand's work Barn, is a photograph of a paper reconstruction based on the mythical barn used by Pollock as a painting studio; Peter Doig's painting, Daytime Astronomy, takes as its starting point a central figure lying in the grass in an open landscape - the figure is based on a photograph by Hans Namuth of Pollock lying in the same position; while Andreas Gursky's work Untitled VI is a photograph of a Pollock painting hanging in the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Although she had been interested in modern and tribal art, by the time I started going to school in the mid-1940's she had fallen in love with the Hudson River School of landscape painters of the 19th Century whose paintings were auctioned off for a few dollars, literally, then at the various auction houses where we spent most Saturdays on University Place like Kalisky and Gabay and Lawners, and the nearby Astor over on Broadway.

Hemali Bhuta: Artists thrive on the idea of uncertainty, give it environmental, political, social, economic in the hope of this utopia but what if we reach the state of certainty, then would we look back and find ways of addressing the uncertainties of the past or we shall start painting beautiful landscapes?

All my paintings start from direct observation of landscape, often from the view outside of my studio window.

Before Starting is an original, one - of - a-kind landscape painting signed by artist Lyubov Kuptsova.

I had made landscape paintings for ten years, but I started thinking about abstraction.

However, it wouldn't be until Alex Katz attended the renowned Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture where he started to develop his true voice within the art community, especially with the usage of natural elements in his landscapes, portraits, and sculptures.

The concerns and questions that arise from the tradition of landscape painting and landscape design, starting with the gardens of the Baroque to the current public green spaces, are the triggers for the creation of these works.

Our Magnolia takes as its starting point the surreal landscape painting Flight ofthe Magnolia (1944) by Paul Nash, official war artist of World War I and World War II.

And before you get started with checking out the amazing landscape art, make sure to look out for this book, you'll certainly like it if you are interested in landscape paintings.

The modern movement of Chinese landscape painting was started by Gao Jianfu, Gao Qifeng, his brother, and Chen Shuren.

The show starts this weekend and displays atmospheric landscapes and seascapes painted from memory, sceneries that, because of its lack of specific reference points, gain a dreamlike effect.

During the 1960s, she started painting a series of abstract landscapes reflecting her earlier experiences in the west of Ireland, at the Burren, Co..

All the lushness of Gauguin's grandest landscapes start to look rather safe against the harshness of the woodcuts and monotypes, and some of the late works can be positively embarrassing: compared to the sinister Oviri series, a painting of a bare - breasted girl with a fan from 1902 looks like the middling efforts of a Sunday dabbler.

Benglis: Like most young artists starting out, my paintings were of the figure and landscape, but they were quite involved with color in a Rothkoesque sense.

«One day, I just started working on that, painting a landscape, in a way I'd never done before on canvas — very loose and liquid, so the paint dripped down in places,» he said.

Often using paintings as the starting point for an elaborate photographic process, Von Morisse is influenced by everything from Manet and pop culture to retro futurism and sci - fi landscapes.