Sentences with phrase «themes of his early paintings»

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We'll explore ways to introduce the language of color into the early grades curricula as you work on seasonal themes, curriculum inspirations, color dialogues, painting techniques, and the important practical work of set up and clean up with children.

Many of the paintings seen earlier crop up again in new contexts, which is part and parcel of the section's theme: that what we think we see depends in no small measure on our frame of reference.

The current exhibit does a good job of explaining and illustrating how Burchfield expanded his earlier themes and paintings.

This resplendent monograph, which accompanies the exhibition yet is intended to endure long beyond it, reveals both the overt themes and the more ambiguous substructures of Otero's oeuvre to date, from his early still lifes and famous «skins» — paintings made of fragments and scraps of oil paint culled from previously painted images — to his more recent «transfers» and innovative sculptural work in porcelain and steel or iron.

Chris Pfister is an American artist who explores themes of industrialization in gray - scale and sepia - toned paintings that recall early landscape photography.

This selection of early paintings documents a conceptual shift in the artist's work as the landscape imagery offered by earlier paintings begins to incorporate and is consumed by the symbol - laden abstract compositions that would become a recurring theme throughout his career.

Painted using a predominantly black and white palette, through portraiture Baselitz explores notions of time passing, physicality and the self, themes powerfully addressed in the earlier, celebrated «Avignon» canvases exhibited at the 2015 Venice Biennale.

Still Life paintings, sculptures, and drawings, produced from 1972 to the early 1980s, cover a wide range of motifs and themes, including the most traditional such as fruit, flowers, and vases.

This presentation of masterworks and experimental pieces from SFMOMA's collection of painting and sculpture explores themes that have shaped the history of modern art from the early twentieth century to our own time.

Moreover, Bas shifts the focus away from earlier themes toward an exploration of the essence of painting, displaying an overt interest in abstraction that puts the work far from the misguided comparisons to Kilimnik / Peyton of yesteryear.

Earlier, he had been painting scenes of urban life with a sense of isolation and mystery; after World War II, he turned to timeless themes of death and survival, and to concepts drawn from ancient myths and religions.

A WPA artist who identified strongly with the plight of the Jews in Europe, he relentlessly explored themes of war, torment, and futility in his early decades of painting.

With its formal and thematic links to the earlier painting, Winter Sea, 1925 - 37, Totes Meer demonstrates Nash's preoccupation with metamorphosis and the hostile encroachment of the sea, themes that recur throughout his career.

One of the most persistent themes in contemporary art since the early 1990s has been the proliferation of work that addresses «ruined modernity» and «failed utopias»: in other words, a type of art that reformats iconic examples of 20th - century architecture and design into painting, sculpture, photography, video, slide shows, archival installations, etc..

BRACHA: Pietà — Eurydice — Medusa is the first comprehensive solo museum exhibition of Bracha's work in the United States, featuring a range of works spanning the last four decades — oil paintings, often created over several years, earlier and more recent drawings, notebooks, and three video works — that address the themes of loss, love and trauma within the context of the atrocities of war and traces of memory of the tragedy of the Holocaust.

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.

The themes are present in her earliest textured abstract paintings, made in New York under the wing of mentor Norman Lewis.

The theme excludes too much by detaching Picasso's line from his innovations in paint and sculpture, yet remains too broad for the kind of deep dive the Kimbell Art Museum has taken — tellingly, with far fewer works drawn from a mere decade — in Monet: The Early Years, which manages to make another seemingly overexposed artist look incredibly fresh.

Since the early 1960s he has explored a number of related themes and ideas, producing paintings and photographs that question the nature of the images that can be produced by both mediums.

The show will present examples of Bickerton's earlier consumerist work as well as his tropically - coloured mixed - media paintings, which explore themes varying from fantastic eroticism and nightmares, to «the end of the world».

This companion volume to the artist's largest exhibition to date is a feast taken from countless visual documents of Kelley's early formation, such as his involvement with the experimental band Destroy All Monsters (DAM), which also featured Jim Shaw, Cary Loren, and Niagara (born Lynn Rovner) in 1973 while Kelly and Shaw were students at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor; early performative sculptures and objects; drawings; paintings; handmade dolls and stuffed animal sculptures; photography; videos; and endless inventive installations in various forms and shapes that explore and deal with the themes of self - destruction, repression, class relations, sexuality, religion, politics, and whatever else lies between the grotesque and the sublime, the sacred and the profane.

While known primarily for his performances in the early 1990s, which involved feats of physical and psychological endurance, Zhang Huan's recent work has featured sculptures and paintings that explore themes of memory and spirituality and how these relate to Buddhist practice.

While known primarily for his performances in the early 1990s, which involved feats of physical and psychological endurance, his recent work has featured sculptures and paintings that explore themes of memory and spirituality and how these relate to Buddhist practice.

In The Phoenix Greg Cook reports that Alexis Rockman, whose earlier work is often compared to the Museum of Natural History's diorama painting, has adopted an «expressionist action - painting style while holding to the disasters - of - global - climate - change theme.

He further developed that theme in the early 1960s with a series of paintings inspired by film stills and publicity shots.

Also included will be the new series of sculptures, Aftermath, in which Hambling has transformed gnarled pieces of wood into painted bronze totems, and a selection of earlier works confronting themes of war, death and memory — including the exquisitely ambivalent Gulf Women Prepare for War, of cloaked women bearing rocket launchers in a desert of blush pink.

The exhibit features three of Nicola L's signature heads from 1991: Earth, Forest and Fire Head, a set of early paintings around the same theme, with three sets of Giant Penetrables from 2002 and 2012.

Highlights will include rarely seen works exploring tender and personal themes, from his early series of Love paintings and We Two Boys Together Clinging 1961 to delicate drawings of the artist's friends and family, including designer Celia Birtwell, poet W H Auden, artists Andy Warhol and R B Kitaj, and Hockney's own parents.

The central theme of his paintings and prints is space: from the intimate close - up views of his early nudes to the broad panorama views of his monumental pictures of the Grand Canyon, executed in late nineties.

Her early paintings consist of figurative dreamlike imagery, with enigmatic themes involving childhood scenarios and women.

The presentation at ABMB includes his earliest figurative work from the 1950s; classic drawings and paintings of the early 1960s, including two from his Ice Box series; as well as historical themes of the 1970s such as his mural - size, Custer's Last Stand # 1 (1973).

The theme of the family recurred in several of Hepworth's paintings of this type, details of which are given in an earlier Tate catalogue entry (Tate Gallery Aquisitions 1976 - 8).

In this new body of work, Georg Baselitz continues to explore canine imagery, a theme that has run from his earliest animal paintings to his recent work.The majority of these paintings were completed in Imperia, Italy, during the summer of 2000.

De Kooning's most perfectly beautiful paintings, perhaps, came even earlier, in the late Forties when he had been concerned with the city as an experience as well as with the human figure, with which he often had odd difficulties, and made some kind of fusion between the two themes, resulting in a sequence of miraculously «occupied» canvases, free of the human figure but alert, bristling with its presence.

• Biography • Early Interest in Landscape Painting • John Trumbell, William Dunlap, Asher B Durand • Plein - air Painting in the Hudson Valley • Moves From Pure Landscape to Historical Themes • Style of Painting • Paintings by Thomas Cole • The Hudson River School • American Colonial Art (c.1670 - 1800)

Continuing the retrospective theme of her recent New Museum retrospective, the artist has chosen to exhibit work from the 1960's to the present, including her signature early paintings, drawings, sculptures and an important video box.

Sexual confusion, mistaken identity, decadence, and lost innocence are among the themes Nir Hod confronts in his work, motifs that animated his earlier production of poetry, music, sculpture, and photographs and imbue his recent «Genius» (2008 - 2011) paintings.

Howardena Pindell: What Remains to Be Seen traces the themes and visual experiments that run through the New York — based artist's five decades - long career, featuring early figurative paintings, pure abstraction and conceptual works, and personal and political art that emerged in the aftermath of a life - threatening car accident in 1979.

Bringing together a group of landscape pastels and paintings, produced in the final years of the artist's life, the show will also include paintings from the early 1960s, demonstrating Artschwager's ongoing engagement with the landscape theme.

«Shades of Black (ness),» Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, January 25 — March 3, 2005 «Collection Remixed,» The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY, February 3 — June 5, 2005; catalogue «Landscape,» Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, March 24 — September 18, 2005 «The Shape of Time,» Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, April 17, 2005 — October 25, 2009 «Very Early Pictures,» Luckman Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, CA, May 26 — July 23, 2005; traveled to Arcadia University Gallery, Glenside, PA, September 6 — October 30, 2005 «African American Art: Masterworks of Contemporary Art,» Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, June 24 — August 28, 2005 «Wordplay: Text and Image from 1950 to Now,» Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, October 25 — December 11, 2005 «The Painted Word: Language as Image in Modern Art,» Williams Center for the Arts Gallery, Lafayette College, Easton, PA, October 28 — December 14, 2005; brochure «Between Image and Concept: Recent Acquisitions in African American Art,» Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ, November 12, 2005 — February 6, 2006 «Beauford Delaney in Context: Selections from the Collection,» Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, November 13, 2005 — February 26, 2006 «A Brief History of Invisible Art,» CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA, November 30, 2005 — February 21, 2006 «Linkages and Themes in the African Diaspora,» Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA, December 1, 2005 — March 12, 2006 «Looking at Words: The Formal Presence of Text in Modern Contemporary Works on Paper,» conceived by Barbaralee Diamonstein - Spielvogel, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY, October 28, 2005 — January 15, 2006 «Collective Histories / Collective Memories: California Modern,» Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA, February 9, 2005 — September 26, 2006 «Drawing from the Modern, 1975 - 2005,» Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, September 14, 2005 — January 9, 2006 «ROMANCE (a novel),» curated by Adriano Pedrosa, Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal, September 14 — October 15, 2005; catalogue «A Thousand Words,» Inman Gallery, Houston, TX, July 9 — August 27, 2005 «Getting Emotional,» Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, May 18 — September 5, 2005 «Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art Since 1970,» organized by Valerie Cassel Oliver, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX, January 22 — April 17, 2005

The simplified geometry of Smith's monumental late sculptures, the final works he produced before his untimely death in a car accident in 1965, are often seen as representing a distinct break from his earlier sculptures, which often radically reinterpreted the traditional themes of painting, such as landscape, the figure, and still - life.

In the early 1960s Stella painted a series of progressively more complex variations on the theme of the frame - determined design and used both metallic - coloured paints and irregularly shaped canvases to that purpose.

A pioneer of the British Pop Art movement in the early 1960s alongside Richard Hamilton, David Hockney gained recognition for his semi-abstract paintings on the theme of homosexual love before it was decriminalized in England in 1967.

He is also co-founder of the Jendela artist group whose members, in the early phase of their careers, surprised art audiences in Indonesia with works that eschewed sociopolitical themes or efforts to capitalize on the technical sophistication of realist painting.

From early experiments with painting and performative events, many subsequently recycled into new works through unexpected arrangements of found materials and objects, to an innovative use of video and sound in pioneering multi-media installations, Hiller's work has retained an extraordinary consistency in its exploration of overlapping themes.

Although the book focuses on her portraits, it also covers the artistand # 8217; s early social realist paintings and cityscapes, tracing the evolution of Neeland # 8217; s style and examining themes that she revisited throughout her career.

Whileknown primarily for his performances in the early 1990s, which involvedfeats of physical and psychological endurance, his recent work hasfeatured sculptures and paintings that explore themes of memory andspirituality and how these relate to Buddhist practice.

This exhibition, the first major museum show to focus on the artist's most profoundly inventive and experimental years, features over 100 paintings, collages, drawings, and objects, along with a selection of photographs, periodicals, and early commercial work, that trace the birth of the themes and strategies Magritte would go on to use throughout his long, productive career — and which make his paintings so unforgettable today.

These works encompass the same themes and motifs that occupied Bourgeois throughout her career, and they are explored here within the context of related sculptures, drawings and early paintings.