Sentences with phrase «through classical artists»

2018 will offer a variety of exhibitions to cater for everyone's taste in art from spending time with modern masters such as a year in the life of Picasso, Monet's relationship with architecture, drawings by Klimt and Schiele, through classical artists Ribera and Murillo to contemporary greats like Tacita Dean and Joan Jonas not to mention Frida Kahlo's iconic wardrobe.

Not exact matches

At Fourteen30 Contemporary, Rafferty, a participant in this year's Whitney Biennial, presents new work concerning language and the body, a connection bridged through the concept of «figure drawing,» which applies both to the classical practice of artists observing and representing a model as well as using the innate elasticity of words to suggest multiple, sometimes contradictory meanings.

The Kohn Gallery's latest exhibition, Engender, features 17 contemporary artists who are approaching a study of gender binaries through the classical form of painting.

Looking through the very different paintings in the Studio School installation, it's clear that the artist isn't always interested in classical, hierarchical composition.

Whether through painting, drawing, sculpture, video, or other media, contemporary artists have drawn on the centuries - old tradition to create works of conceptual vivacity, beauty, and emotional poignancy in the present time.Structured according to the classical categories of the still - life tradition — Flora, Food, House and Home, Fauna, and Death, each chapter in Michael Petry's book explores how the timeless symbolic resonance of the memento mori, has been rediscovered for a new millennium.

Organised in collaboration with Rupert Wace Ancient Art, «CLASSICITY «will re-represent classical art through the lens of contemporary responses (by artists including Edward Allington, Rachel Kneebone, Sarah Lucas and Alexandre Singh), inviting us to see antiquities not as museum artefacts but as seductive, emotive and provocative works of art in their own right.

Through a newly commissioned work, each artist responds to the work of a classical composer stripped of the usual operatic traditions and storytelling; open to audiences that may not have engaged with opera before.

In his depiction of this, Bas makes a gentle nod to Théodore Gericault's The Raft of the Medusa, 1818 - 19, although allusions to classical themes and genres are always viewed through the prism of his interpretations as an observer and an outsider — whether trying to follow in the footsteps of Lord Byron, or portraying punters or freshers, terms unknown to the artist before his Cambridge sojourn.

Paul Delvaux: Inspired by the works of Giorgio de Chirico, Belgian artist Paul Delvaux (1897 - 1994) became associated with Surrealism when he painted illusionary scenes of semi-nude women sleep - walking through classical ruins.

Drawing Room, London Curated by Shanay Jhaveri This exhibition explores how Indian classical music has inspired modern and contemporary artists, traces a long history, from early Indian miniature paintings (Ragamalas) through to drawings, animations and video works from the present day.

Extending across the entirety of the museum, the exhibition allows for free association between artists and the themes they address: at once playful and dynamic, works from Ryan Gander, Institute for New Feeling, Liu Wa, and Yangzi invite audiences to explore a wealth of possibilities through combinations of meditation and wry humor; classical mediums of sculpture and painting are reinvented by Yngve Holen and Austin Lee; insidious implications of our hi - tech society are skewered by Lawrence Abu Hamdan and aaajiao; the powers of synthetic materials over human desire are brought to the fore by Sean Raspet and Pamela Rosenkranz; and products of Internet culture are given to refined study with Gillian Wearing and Amalia Ulman.

A total of 150 works by some 80 artists will be shown, from classical paintings of the forties through Andy Warhol to contemporary renowned and as well yet less known protagonists of young international art.

Based on Contempt, Cheryl Donegan's Line, 1996, does not, the artist maintains, «seek to analyze or critique the Godard film, but to use it as a... classical language through which other stories can be told.»

Writing for Art in America, artist and critic Carrie Moyer observed, «[Congdon's paintings are] neither history paintings nor landscapes, [but] more like candy - colored billboards advertising a stroll through a scenic archeological dig or a verdant classical garden.»

Before she was an abstract artist, Gross was interested in dance, having trained in classical ballet and jazz through high school.

For many artists, through history, nature represented the ideal, and Arcadia, since classical Greece, has been an Edenic aspiration of man within nature.