Sentences with phrase «traditional nude painting»

Her outsized, fleshy and frequently disturbing paintings of naked women flout the rules of traditional nude painting, challenging conceived notions of body image.

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Two of the most striking; paintings on display in London now are by women firmly seizing the traditional male territory of the female nude.

There are traditional sketches of the female nude that may be self - portraits, and an embroidered work where she has used needle and thread like a paint brush.

There is a painting of a reclining nude in the show, which of course is a traditional subject for figurative painting, but we nicknamed this work «Billboard,» because the figure seems to command the presence of demanding a billboard all to herself.

At the opening reception of his latest exhibit, The World of Line, Ink, and Nude by Chang - Woo Seok, now on display at the Korean Cultural Center Washington DC through June 8, the artist demonstrated his very personal technique, making use of his prosthetic limbs to grasp a brush and his torso movement to paint across a room - sized canvas of traditional Korean paper, spread across the gallery floor.

The works engage the psychological realm of attachment to the female body and how that's processed through both a traditional and a contemporary reading, as the many reclining, sitting or lounging female figures relate distantly to any number of female portraits (often reclining female nudes) painted throughout history.

For MATRIX 270, Neri contributes a new series of ceramic sculptures that upend traditional representations of the female nude, while McCarthy includes a new group of paintings that explore her characteristic motifs such as grid weavings, double rainbows, and colored bars.

- The traditional situations of painting would be the subjects: the reclining nude, a still life on a table, a portrait, an interior, etc. (S. Stealingworth, 1980, p. 15).

«In traditional painting, across the centuries of the nude, there's a particular kind of gaze that's implied between a male viewer and a to - some - degree objectified female nude subject.

As a student in Paris in the late 1930s, she painted nudes, city scenes, the French countryside, and traditional still lifes.

His works «Le Dejeuner sur l'herbe» (1862 - 1863) and «Olympia» (1863) prominently featured nude women and riffed on previous paintings, combining elements of works by masters like Raphael and Titian with traditional portrait, still life, and landscape styles.

Estate sale found, I love the classic detail of this female nude painting by artist Barbara R. Katz in its original 1.5» traditional giltwood frame, originally signed with her initials lower left.

Reinvesting traditional art historical genres (still life, portraits, nudes, landscapes, and interiors) with an abundance of rich and surprising forms — such as cast sculptures and assemblages, paintings, digital montages, spatial installations, kinetic objects, and texts — he ceaselessly explores the intersection of art and everyday life.

Sylvia Sleigh (1910 - 2010) was a figure in the feminist art movement of the 1970s who is best known for turning portraiture and art history on its head as she reversed traditional sex roles in her paintings, casting her husband and their friends and associates as male nudes that recalled the female subjects often found in paintings by Titian or Ingres.

Marcel Duchamp's highly abstract painting Nude Descending a Staircase (1912, Philadelphia Museum of Art), caused an uproar among the traditional American visitors.

In 1912 he exhibited his controversial «Nude Descending a Staircase,» and by 1913 he had abandoned traditional painting and drawing for more experimental forms, including mechanical drawings, studies and notations.