Sentences with phrase «through narrative painting»

[3] While some artists aimed to present black experience and culture through narrative painting in a straightforward and sincere way, others created archetypes who stand - in to represent a larger experience.

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Wilson claims to have surmounted these difficulties: he elaborates the known facts of Holbein's life into a vivid narrative encompassing the events of the Reformation, and he attempts to reveal the «real man» through a close and imaginative (indeed, often fanciful) interpretation of his paintings.

The story's told through brief cutscenes and stage transitions, and though there are some zones without these, there was enough substance to paint an idea of both the narrative and the journey itself.

Now we have a media that is sometimes known to lie through its teeth and paints misleading narratives far worse than before, «fake» media sites that thrive on controversy and lies, internet commentators and social media users in full on delusional filter bubble mode and all manner of other stuff besides.

The annualization and inconsistent naming structure of Assassin's Creed titles, coupled with the abandonment of the one major through - line narrative of the games, painted an ugly and confusing picture of the series which once dominated the video games industry.

Jack Whitten's narrative Abstract Expressionist works from the 1960s draw imagery from the Civil Rights movement, including ghosted images of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr; Joan Semmel's figurative paintings question representation of female sexuality through the lens of self - portraiture; Gay liberation and the AIDS crisis are the cultural context for narrative paintings by the late Hugh Steers (1963 — 1995).

If you're unfamiliar with Kiel Johnson's work, his work, he creates transmorphic drawings, paintings and sculpture that seem to synthesize the ever - expanding media explosion through a kind of personal narrative.

Through painting and sculpture, each artist transforms this typically self - referential genre into one that speaks as loudly as narrative imagery.

Titus Kaphar is an artist whose work interacts with the history of art by appropriating its styles and mediums through painting and sculpture, and then altering the work in a nod to hidden narratives and unspoken truths about the nature of history.

With painting as his main artistic expression since the 1960s (M.M.M. in G and A, 1961 — 66 and P.D.Stengel, 1963), Baselitz has reinvented himself through the richness of his palette and the expressionist depiction of his narrative, which has never stopped embracing the human hypostasis.

3,000 years of Portraits, Katonah Museum of Art, New York, USA Adventures of Truth, Painting and Philosophy: A Narrative, Maeght Foundation, Saint - aul de Vence, France Through the Eyes of Texas: Masterworks from Alumni Collections, The Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas, USA 30 Americans, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, USA

Instead of accepting the historical narrative that leads from linear - perspective, through the camera obscura, to photography; Kwabena imagines an alternative history, one in which photography grows out of scroll - painting.

The wonderfully prolific artist, who communicates his vision through a variety of media, including sculpture, hand carved masks, paintings on canvas, gouache and watercolors on paper, and even short video, made advocating for the natural world the main focus of his narratives.

Through his painting, Andy explores the city as a place of narrative — both cinematic and graphic — utilizing the traditions of Impressionism, Pop art, and graphic art.

Revisited forty years later, these paintings of Reed's, which have a lilting, narrative quality even in their abstraction, invite an approach to Wool's word works through the themes of artistic progeny and cyclical exchange.

More recently, his work has addressed social and political controversies through large - scale narrative paintings that combine elements of the Japanese woodblock print with inspiration from Renaissance church art.

With a painting style that is self - effacing and grounded in the vernacular, Dawson offers careful consideration of narrative through composition and intimate detail.

His practice demonstrates the narrative potential of images through the intersection of painting and photography.

For El - Saieh's solo museum debut, he will create a suite of new paintings that explore the connections between abstraction and the Haitian tradition of narrative icon painting, on view through February 2018.

His powerful epic narrative is the result of elevation and transformation of the medium of drawing into the painting through the use of traditional methods of processing light and dark as the primary elements.

Despite the prevailing minimalist and conceptual narrative of the time, the Italian - born artist sought to confront the fundamental aspirations and failures of Modernist painting through the very medium of painting itself.

The Art of the Flower positions floral paintings within a broader art historical and cultural narrative and reveals how the traditional genre was reinvented through artistic experimentation in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Through these paintings, he opens the door the potential for a narrative; however, none is given.

Though Brown began his current group of paintings with a loose narrative in mind (not unlike the subtle psychological dramas of Eric Fishl) the paintings became increasingly romantic and expressionistic and less literal as he worked through the series.

The works tell the story through various fragments and landscapes, including a magnificent sea vista from a lighthouse beacon that produce what the artist refers to as a «missing narrative» reminiscent of an atmospheric nineteenth - century seascape painting.

Weintraub explores potentials for the future of humanity through large - scale hyper - colored narrative paintings, which are saturated with information and describe a world where morals have fallen and children act without consequence.

So, as we pass through this collection of around 40 drawings and paintings, we're supposed to look for clues and hints of the later brilliance and construct a narrative or timeline that leads to its blossoming (which, here, comes in the form of At the Edge of Town (1986 - 8), a painting showing a figure emerging onto the kind of semiabstracted landscape for which Doig is best known).

Houston - based artist Trenton Doyle Hancock's collaged paintings and etchings are imbued with fictional narratives that explore ideas of reclaiming identity through the development of adapted personalities, which are illuminated by his use of repeated symbols and masking motifs.

The singular artist, her patented methodology, her hand, her oeuvre, a life primed for retrospection contra the looming anticipation of death, banal idioms whose meanings have worn through semantic satiation, the grand narrative of painting and its anthropomorphic object, legends of pop culture, salient reason itself — all appear to instinct as enframing devices or resistances to subvert.

These iconic compositions of complex, skewed angles and radiant, tonal color allude to the multiple narratives coursing through the history of modernist painting, from the utopian vision of Russian Constructivism to the hallucinatory images of Op Art.

Featuring internationally recognized artists such as Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Andy Warhol, Ai Wei Wei, Jean - Michel Basquiat, Lyle's paintings unfold as such; recognizable subject, recognizable composition, laugh, debate narrative, repeat... The narrative, of course, as seen through the lens of a full - time painter and part - time «jack of all trades» who must take whatever job he can get in order to connect the dots and survive.

This narrative is further explored through the paintings and photographs included in the exhibition, such as the silver bromide prints from Grasso's Specola Vaticana series.

Large - scale, hyperrealistic, and rendered in smooth oil paint, the works immortalize the flower through an entrancing and evocative narrative.

Visit his website at www.georgeschmidt.com to witness history and narrative painting come alive as he walks us through his May 2012 solo exhibition at the University of Louisiana in a series of YouTube videos.

She tends to place her subject matter upon the figure and narrative, and employs a unique painting technique by pushing acrylic paint through a thin wire mesh to make rich, fiber - like surfaces.

Fowler creates elaborate assemblage paintings through intuitive layering of found objects and unconventional materials that illustrate imagined and concrete narratives from his personal experience.

The New Hampshire - based painter — whose Narrative Figure Paintings is on display at TEJAS Gallery through the month of March — is telling me about -LSB-...]

While both artists create paintings that spark the imagination through dreamlike narratives featuring a compelling cast of characters, each painter's style is distinct.

At the heart of her narratives is mystery, wonder and a courage that is often quiet and understated but signals confidence and trust resonating through her narrative figurative paintings.

His works tell the story of the East End's resilience through a turbulent time of war and peace and will be shown alongside sketchbooks and political pamphlets that haven't been seen for 70 years, providing a vivid and contextual narrative to the paintings.

Fallah left the sale with diaries, home movies, clothing and other objects chronicling the family's personal history; he then spent the course of the next year sifting through these fragments of the family's life, filling in the gaps where necessary, to create a narrative and build portraits of the family members through painting, sculpture and collage.

Through repetitive patterns, mark making, and textural floral elements, her paintings depict personal narratives that focus on feelings of identity, vulnerability, and loss.

The show will explore the entire scope of the artist's career, including early cartoons and drawings; his macabre, emotionally - charged paintings of the early 1960s; his epic rock and postcard paintings of the late 1960s and early 1970s; his «bloody head» series of mutilated figures from the late 1970s through the present; and his social commentary paintings targeting corporate America, which include his narrative tableaux that combine painting with woodworking, found materials, and thick mounds of modeling paste, seamlessly blended into the painted surface to create a remarkable illusion of depth.

Its narrative is drawn from letters, diaries, and reports from the period, and these histories are made tangible through a dazzling array of art objects, sculpture, costume, and paintings.

Similarly, Carter not only builds the cities of his drawings and paintings through his fictional narratives but also through the process of drawing itself.

The iconic magazine honored the artist for his contributions to marginalized and ignored black people in both the American society and art community, something Kerry achieved through bold and in - your - face narrative paintings.

Leavitt prefers to think of himself as «a narrative specialist or something,» trying to «frame some story through an object or a painting or a situation that would lend itself to further narrative.»

Based on diligent research and inspired by Harlem Renaissance artists Augusta Savage and Charles Alston, Jacob Lawrence illustrated African American history through colorful narrative paintings.

My ongoing painting project explores the global narrative of Modernism through the singular story of the life and work of a fictional Russian - American artist, Alissa Blumenthal.

Through video, painting and narrative, Rosen's humor can be thought of as at once self - deprecating and incendiary.