Sentences with phrase «subjects depicted by»

During the 19th century, naval ships (although quite rare now) were one of the most popular subjects depicted by PoWs.

The first team chooses one of the school subjects depicted by the icons, and a team member must speak a phrase / sentence expressing likes or dislikes and give a reason.

Not exact matches

Just as the Eden so gloriously portrayed in book 4 is dismissed by Gabriel as «this rock» in book 11, so does the poem in the end forsake its own verbal glories and descend to a «subjected plain»: «Milton's epic depicts the relinquishing of its own imaginative plenitude and riches, the end of epic poetry itself.»

The Citizen is mirrored by The Subject, which depicts a parading loyalist Orangeman.

In the early part of his career, which was influenced by the neorealism and, at the same time, censured by the government, he was, arguably at his most creative, innovative, and courageous in the way he presented and treated his subjects and depicted his characters.

A lush new volume devoted to the best works by beloved American Impressionist and portraitist John Singer Sargent, whose dazzling use of light and color depicts modern subjects with arresting intimacy.

In the starlets depicted by Laing, there is an erotic charge that echoes between surface and subject as the models shift between figuration and abstraction, their colour - blockedcostumes in tension with bodies contoured through half - tones.

The resulting grids may be connected by passages of large painted writing relating to the subject depicted.

Hiller's interest in Yves Klein is evidenced by an indirect homage to Klein's Leap Into the Void: her series, Homage to Yves Klein: Levitations (2007 - 08), is dedicated to this shamanistic defiance of gravity, with assembled images sourced from the internet illustrating the phenomenon of internet self - portraiture by subjects who depict themselves levitating or flying.

Fauvism depicted objects with intense arbitrary color, while Orphism was characterized by bright patches of color rather than a figurative subject.

These revolutionary artists attempted to take the realist lessons of Courbet and the shocking insights of early Manet one step further by depicting everyday life as subject and content for their art.

Vija Celmins at Matthew Marks Gallery, West Hollywood Reviewed by Christopher Michno In a world increasingly short of attention, Vija Celmins has for more than four decades been depicting a narrowly delimited set of subjects with a degree of emotional distance that has offered expansive space for reflective thought.

First inspired by the printed book in the late fifteenth century, early printed series frequently depicted narrative subjects drawn from literary sources.

Executed in charcoal, ink and often ballpoint pen, her self portraits and images of her brothers and others are usually set against dark backgrounds, the subject's skin depicted in black hues defined by pattern, texture and mark making.

I would argue it's impossible to respond only to the subject depicted — in any work of art, by any artist — as soon as we know even a tiny bit about the maker.

«Though the works effectively resist the hype around 3 - D modeling, they also comment upon the objects they depict: By subjecting them to an algorithm's gaze, Valla's works transform the originals from the unitary, transcendent objects of our contemplation into provisional artifacts whose reception is necessarily conditioned by discourses and technologies alike.&raquBy subjecting them to an algorithm's gaze, Valla's works transform the originals from the unitary, transcendent objects of our contemplation into provisional artifacts whose reception is necessarily conditioned by discourses and technologies alike.&raquby discourses and technologies alike.»

Wiley's signature portraits of everyday men and women riff on specific paintings by Old Masters, replacing the European aristocrats depicted in those paintings with contemporary black subjects, drawing attention to the absence of African Americans from historical and cultural narratives.

Appropriating the format of specific paintings by renowned masters ranging from Titian to Édouard Manet, Wiley often depicts his subjects wearing sneakers, hoodies, and other gear associated with today's hip - hop culture and sets them against ornate decorative backgrounds that evoke earlier eras and cultures.

When discussing art depicting a maritime subject, romantic images of a large boat with billowing sails, breaking through white - capped waves and being battered by the ocean breeze, may cross one's mind.

The Velasquez masterpiece has been the subject of interpretation not only by Finch, but most famously by Francis Bacon who depicted the seated Pope in a much more sinister and fragmented narrative.

Standing in strong contradiction to the naive visuals, but also in clear correspondence with the straightforward approach and expression, the content of his drawings usually depicts vulgar narratives and subjects, and it was once described as «vulgar beyond belief» in an essentially affirmative review by David Pagel.

L'Eté (estimate: $ 2,500 - 3,500) by Tissot, is a classic Belle Époque image, embodying the romantic French style of the late 1800's that glamorized upper class life by depicting the refinement and elegance of the society subject.

While the ostensible subjects of O peixe are the fish and fishermen depicted, the absence of language and text in the film generates a poignant ambiguity and invites a range of interpretations: one might feel empathy and grief in witnessing death, or heartened by an expression of solidarity with the natural world, or captivated by the peculiar sensuality of this animistic rite.

By the late 1950s he shifted to more representational subject matter, often depicting everyday scenes with great poignancy.

presented at the Jewish Museum and later published in Commentary, Rosenberg delved into art produced by Jews and art depicting Jewish subjects.

In fact, the signature performance documentation seemed an afterthought (as virtually anything relegated to the space's misbegotten working corridor «gallery» inevitably does), here represented simply by a trio of photographs, all 2010, depicting actions in which different chairs are «worn» in ways that torque and distort the subjects» bodies.

Together entranced by change and yet to an extent still nostalgic towards the past, the paintings produced during the period of American Impressionism were vibrant, fusing light and color, keeping the meaning of the subject matter while depicting the energy of the urban life on one side, but also focused on the quiet side resulting in a number of vignettes of domestic life.

With subjects painted using vibrant hues and tactile surfaces, Fratino's portraiture depicts a relatable sentimentality by transforming quotidian activities, like eating, lounging or loving, into opportunities to reflect on the complexities of life.

With a lifelong interest in film, often returning to the work of filmmakers such as Derek Jarman and Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Eisler's paintings range in subject matter from representational (as seen in «Margit» (2013), depicting an isolated facial crop of German actress Margit Carstensen in Fassbinder's 1973 TV - movie World on a Wire) to abstract (as in «Headlights» (2015), sourced from Amos Poe's 1984 film Alphabet City, in which a car is almost completely obscured by the shine of its high beams).

Curated by Courtney Anich and Alisa Reynolds, UK art history graduate students and interns in the Art Museum's registration department, «What Dreams May Come» presents a selection of artwork depicting a range of subliminal subjects — from angelic dreams to violent nightmares, and everything in...

Although her referents are often the anonymous models depicted in works by such artists as Manet and Matisse, Thomas frequently identifies her own subjects in her titles.

The exhibition represents a significant departure from Wiley's previous subject matter by depicting African - American women, his first - ever series dedicated to female subjects.

With a remarkable technique, John Currin depicts women that often look like the subjects of classical paintings, yet have odd proportions, perhaps like caricatures, that take you by surprise yet make you not be able to look away.

Ferris is best known for her large, multi-layered paintings that depict glimmering pictorial spaces, inspired by various subjects including digital image pixelation, New York City graffiti and city lights that are visible from her Brooklyn studio at night.

By the 1950s, White depicted working men and women on a grand scale, with an intensity of mark making and an attention to natural gestures that made his subjects into heroic figures.»

The revealing and often dark subject matter depicted on these pots is at first disguised by their colourful, decorative appearance.

Entitled Iconic, the presentation at The Art Show will mark the debut of these intimately scaled portraits which use the visual language and gestures of 15th century icons to depict contemporary subjects selected by Wiley from the streets of New York City.

The painting depicts a further subject — as indicated by its descriptive title — to which we must strain our eyes.

The Q&A was the highlight of the day for me, bringing authenticity & humor to an otherwise complex and serious conversation.Mokgosi grand - scale paintings focus on post-colonial Africa depicting realistic rendered subjects inspired by the style of European history paintings.

His paintings — depicting lush and evocative landscapes populated by figures and animals — are as much about colour, the slippery nature of memory and the visual pleasure of painterly mark - marking as they are about their often enigmatic subjects.

The poem, or as Ebner refers to it, «the photographic sentence,» seeks to enliven the image by subjecting it to various challenges that ask the photograph to perform outside its usual function of reporting or depicting events, people, places, and things of our time.

Depicting a variety of subjects, his art is infused with meaning, mood and atmosphere whether the subject is figurative, landscape, architectural or inspired by nature.

By stages, he claimed, images become ever more accurate representations of the subjects that they depict.

Curated with Janet Phelps, «Twisted Sisters is an exhibition of works that are made by women artists and depict women as the subjects.

July 8 - 31, 2009 In «Portraits,» American Artist - in - Residence Rudy Shepherd presents a series of recent works that challenge and transcend traditional notions of who and what is a worthy subject of high - art portraiture, e.g., criminals, anonymous Taliban members, black heroes, or houses.The painted portraits in Shepherd's «Criminal / Victim» series from 2009 depict both perpetrators and victims of the same crime side - by - side, visually blurring the line between innocence and guilt.

Following in the footsteps of the representatives of Sots Art, Voligamsi addresses a subject defined by the exhibition curator Valentin Diaconov as the «correspondence between a realistic image or a photograph and the reality it depicts.»

Contrary to Western images of the Arab world, which often depicted marginalized or dehumanized subjects, photographs by indigenous Middle Eastern residents captured the quotidian lives of these changing communities.

The grey - bearded man depicted here in profile appears in other works by the artist, primarily with a biblical subject.

In «Portraits,» American Artist - in - Residence Rudy Shepherd presents a series of recent works that challenge and transcend traditional notions of who and what is a worthy subject of high - art portraiture, e.g., criminals, anonymous Taliban members, black heroes, or houses.The painted portraits in Shepherd's «Criminal / Victim» series from 2009 depict both perpetrators and victims of the same crime side - by - side, visually blurring the line between innocence and guilt.

Conde chooses subjects representative of the dichotomy of strength and vulnerability, generally exemplified by women, whom he frequently depicts as religious figures.