Sentences with phrase «traditional painting subjects»

The films in the lower gallery deploy traditional painting subjects such as still life, bathers, landscape and portraiture.

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His painting is very much about looking, about seeing a traditional subject in a way that eschews sentiment and convention for the sake of an unflattering, unaffected gaze at the hard facts.

According to Dr. Matthew Lynch, «Instead of treating the arts like a separate, distant relative to other classroom endeavors, (arts integration) programs integrate musical instruments, painting, dancing, drawing, singing and more into traditional subjects like science, math and language.»

Oberammergau is a small Bavarian town, which is famous for its painted houses: the facades of the buildings are painted with biblical, fairy tale or everyday subjects and traditional ornaments.

Andy Baird bairdstudios.com «My paintings are unique in that they are finely rendered subjects done by dripping paint instead of the traditional methods of «medium and brush.»

The painting also departs from traditional portraits by capturing a momentary and involuntary pose that a subject would not have been able to hold long enough to have it documented.

Biggers» Haute Mess (2014) and Cave's Soundsuit (2013) are critically necessary, for their chaotic relation between antique quilt fragments and spray paint — traditional patterns and the human figure — refusing the subject - object dichotomy.

Rather than assembling a group of artists who are concentrating on the demise of traditional painting supports — torn, shredded or punctured canvasses, exposed stretcher bars, paintings hung backwards, oddly shaped canvases, painting as sculpture, etc... this exhibition will focus on works that address time as a subject, or are time - sensitive.

With Abstract Expressionism at the forefront of American painting, these artists, which included Richard Diebenkorn, David Park, Roland Peterson, and Wayne Thiebaud — often referred to as the Bay Area Figurative artists — explored inventive new ways to depict traditional subject matter — the figure, landscape, and still life.

Japanese artist Tetsuo Mizù, in his first solo exhibition in Hong Kong at Whitestone Gallery, presents a welcomed deviation from more traditional depictions of the subject with paintings that focus on the storied practice of international maritime flags.

The exhibition will merge contrasting subjects such as physics and art via quantum sculptures, traditional painting versus digital, lenticular photography, graffiti, and paint - injected bubble wrap, as well as contemporary dance and meditation, animation film and VR experiences.

While antithetical to traditional landscape painting, the square canvas, with slight compositional variations of placement, scale, color, and architectural imagery, is appropriate to her modernist subject matter.

Unlike traditional figurative paintings in which models are used as subjects, in his paintings Klein incorporated his models as an intrinsic part of the creative process.

Their subject matter includes all of the traditional categories within Western Art: figurative, landscape, portraiture, indoor and outdoor genre and still life paintings.

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.

Employing his traditional painting and drawing talents, and pushing past their limitations, the artist fixes his subject matter so he can experiment within these restrictions to innovate.

Analia Saban dissects and reconfigures traditional notions of painting, often using the medium of paint as the subject itself.

It includes figurative paintings, such as landscapes, still lifes and portraits, many of which are based on photographs, such as the series S. and Child, a personal and intimate variation on the traditional subject of the Madonna and Child.

Influenced by literature, film, and architecture, Helfgott incorporates audio, kinetics, photography, assemblage, projections, and traditional sculptural materials to address such diverse subjects as the self - portrait, landscape painting, and gender and age transformation.

And, while painting has certainly been subject to a reappraisal during the last few decades as postmodern theory, conceptual and time - based art practices have challenged the primacy of painting and increasingly advocated for the dematerialization of the traditional art object, the tenets and practice of painting far from disappearing or being weakened by this realignment, have indeed emerged revitalized and re-imagined in the hand of many a creative practioner.

She turns the traditional subject of landscape painting into a statement on modern society by including vestiges of human habitation.

After years of a highly prolific career, Yifei found great commercial success after moving to New York in the 1980s where he created renowned series of dark paintings depicting traditional Chinese subjects.

Taking inspiration from both traditional Japanese painting from the Edo period as well as contemporary anime and manga comics, Yamaguchi Ai depicts geisha subjects with subtle references to freedom — like wildly unkempt hair and hairpins littered on the floor.

His subjects evoke traditional Chinese landscape painting: figures and scenes recall tales and epics from Chinese folklore and history.

His work blended abstract and expressionist styles of painting with traditional representational subject matter, bridging the divide between European Modernism and Abstract Expressionism.

He studied at the New York Academy of Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts — both bastions of traditional figurative painting and sculpture — and he paints with his subjects arranged in frontal poses, as if for a photograph (which, since these look like paintings from photos, they probably were).

After his last truly Futurist works — a series of paintings on war themes — Severini painted in a Synthetic Cubist mode, and by 1920 he was applying theories of classical balance based on the Golden Section to figurative subjects from the traditional commedia dell» arte.

- 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).

Dropping the pictorial element of the cartoons to focus on the punch line, the young Prince realized that to pair it with the traditional medium and discipline of painting transmuted these banal, slightly out - dated witticisms into a provocative subject matter.

In the wide range of art the gallery offers, subjects range from water and beach scenes, boats, landscape, flower arrangements, graphic paintings of musicians, fifties photographic paintings, birds, fish, traditional still life, figure painting, portraits and trees, covering every major contemporary figurative category and genre.

The exhibition focuses on recent sculptures by the Japanese contemporary artist Bidou Yamaguchi (b. 1970) who employs the forms, techniques and transformative spirit of traditional Noh masks to create contemporary sculptures whose subjects are drawn from such iconic European paintings as Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa and Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring.

The work of Gillian Carnegie introduces into the traditional genre of landscape painting undertones of anxiety, conveyed not by the subject matter but through the paint and its obsessive handling.

The last part of the exhibition explores the paintings of 20th century artists, such as Georgia O'Keeffe, Edward Hopper, David Hockney, Gerhard Richter, and Ed Ruscha, who brought fresh perspectives to traditional landscape subjects.

«Horses, A Series, # 7» emphasizes the angularity of the horses bodies while drawing upon a unique Chinese device practiced in traditional brush painting that allows the viewer to see the subject from a multi-level perspective.

«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.

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.

James Dean Erickson, an artist whose paintings explore the space between realism and abstraction to elicit the ephemeral and enduring qualities of nature, will lead the Painting Traditional Subjects with Modern Material workshop and Simplicity and Synthesis lecture in February.

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.

Geoff's traditional style of painting aims to capture the essence of the subject.

His subjects hover between traditional figurative painting and portraiture; only about five percent of his production is true commissioned portraiture.

Tsherin Sherpa uses traditional Thangka painting techniques to swirl subjects in a reflection of instability, and Rhonda Holberton presents a virtual desert, recalling the ambiguous possibilities of digital space and its impact on daily life.

Caroline Kent is a visual artist whose practice is a constant pursuit of concretizing an abstract language that speaks beyond the corridor of a traditional painting practice to engage subjects related to the moving image as well as the written word.

Although Saville's methods and subject matter are both traditional, the Young British Artist has somehow found a way to reinvent the art of figure painting.

In a group of paintings by Tong Hongsheng, the artist applies the techniques of Vermeer — universally acclaimed as one of the greatest painters in Western art history — to traditional Tibetan Buddhist subjects, an intriguing twist considering that whole political can of worms.

His work is an attempt to push further the language of painting by adopting processes that disrupt a straightforward depiction of a traditional subject matter.

Although he worked in a modern style, the subjects of his work were often traditional, such as portraits, still life, landscapes and genre paintings.

Iranian - born, Los Angeles — based artist Tala Madani (born 1981) addresses political subjects through paintings of ritualistic scenarios in which traditional gender roles are inverted.

The large format paintings showcase Martinez's bold brushstrokes and bold approach to traditional subject matter.

While the abstractness of Abstract Expressionist art made it hard to illustrate sacred subjects, some of these artists associated their paintings with traditional sacred ways of thinking.

Her choice of subject matter (fish in a bowl, withered flowers, general waste) assign a contemporary air to traditional still life painting.