But behind the
busy urban scene are unique natural wonders that make the capital an impressive tourist destination as well.
Even so, their compositions are typically small - scale, under - stated, and depict
everyday urban scenes and events.
Researchers found that the individuals who viewed the nature scenes showed faster physical recovery from the effects of stress than the subjects who
viewed urban scenes.
When evidence of man's presence in the wilderness is included, or when
more urban scenes are depicted, the view remains consistent.
With rich colors, life - like white balance, and excellent rendering of both highlights and shadow details, images of landscapes and
urban scenes alike are pleasing to the eye.
His work is epitomized by a series of claustrophobic
urban scenes with their drop - curtain - like gray clouds and cardboard - box apartment buildings, suggesting an amalgamation of boyish enthusiasm for model making and adult despondency.
The artist
paints urban scenes in oils and acrylics that capture vibrate street scenes, bustling storefronts, and a variety of architectural details.
Inspiration came
from urban scenes, pagan and animal paintings, and also academic - style subjects like religious portraiture and landscapes.
Many of Arden's earliest works from the middle of the 1980s, some of which appeared in his first solo exhibitions at artist run centres like Western Front in Vancouver in 1986 and YYZ Artist's Outlet in Toronto in 1987, consist of found, black and white archival photographs of
urban scenes in Vancouver.
While living in the village, Neel joined the Works Progress Administration and painted
urban scenes for the organization.
He returned to New York in 1933 and painted
urban scenes while working for the easel division of the Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project.
During the 1930's the author lived in Greenwich Village, New York, where she painted
urban scenes as a member of the Works Progress Administration.
Regionalist artists are well - represented with important works by Thomas Hart Benton and Grant Wood, providing a pastoral contrast to gritty
urban scenes by protagonists of the Ashcan School, George Bellows and John Sloan.
In addition to Multi-storey, he has three other works exhibited in the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours 206th Exhibition, all
depicting urban scenes in exquisite detail.
It thrived amid the 19th - century
urban scene through the clever idea of having a mixed - use building: the church built more space than it needed for worship and rented some of the space to businesses.
LG: Your work seems to share affinities with
urban scene painters like Edward Hopper and perhaps precisionist painters such as Charles Sheeler, Charles Demuth and Ralston Crawford.
Five museums collaborated — the Whitney Museum of American Art, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art — with each submitting 20 works from their collections, from
gritty urban scenes to»60s Pop Art to challenging images reflecting race and gender politics.
Avoiding the brand - name flashiness embraced by 1960s Pop and the
slick urban scenes introduced at that time by the Photorealists, the artists in Lifelike investigate the quieter side of the quotidian, choosing potentially overlooked items or moments as subject matter: a paper bag, an eraser, an apple core, a waiting room, an afternoon nap.
Avoiding the brand - name flashiness embraced by 1960s Pop Art and the slick
urban scenes introduced at that time by the Photorealists, the artists in Lifelike investigate the quieter side of the quotidian, choosing often overlooked items or moments as subject matter: a paper bag, an eraser, an apple core, a waiting room, an afternoon nap.
Jeff Wall (b. 1946) adopts the nineteenth - century poet Baudelaire's famous description of one of his contemporaries as «a painter of modern life» to describe his own very different work: huge transparencies mounted on to light boxes that diffuse a brilliant glow of white light evenly through his photographs of
contemporary urban scenes and «constructed» social situations.
Using the traditional «needlepoint» technique, which dates back thousands of years, Hamer creates these «pixel art» pieces by taking photographs of
various urban scenes, and then painstakingly transferring them onto a perforated plastic canvas, all by hand.
Jacinta presents a collection of nude studies and
abstract urban scenes inspired by her walks around the city and along the Liffey.
Though he is primarily based in New York City, where he has painted numerous cityscapes and
urban scenes such as his series of four paintings, entitled «Four Spots Along a Razor - Wire Fence», [4] Downes has traveled widely, creating a significant number of landscape paintings on site in Maine and Texas, of subjects including the harbor of Portland, Maine and the Donald Judd structures in Marfa, Texas.
For example, a study done in Korea, for instance, showed participants photos of rural
versus urban scenes.
With the pulsing DJ music, celebrity photographers and international stars of the Trinidad Tobago Film Festival, it was a
sophisticated urban scene pulsating with island life.
Today, the Wasatch Valley offers a
stimulating urban scene with live performances, vibrant nightlife, delicious dining, and family - oriented festivals and celebrations for all ages.
His claustrophobic,
urban scenes influenced by Expressionism were replaced with more abstract imagery linked to archaic symbols.
Approximately forty of Mark Rothko's rarely exhibited Depression -
era urban scenes, still lifes and nudes from the 1930s and 1940s will be on view at PaceWildenstein (32 East 57th Street in New York City) from October 31, 2001 through January 5, 2002.
Beginning with retelling the tall tales of her youth in her Accidentally Kansas series, she has progressed to
imagining urban scenes of the apocalypse.
Van Gogh's Outskirts of Paris (1886) portrays the depressing effects of Haussmannisation and urban sprawl, notions evident in Lowry's
urban scenes including Blitzed Site (1942) and Industrial Landscape (1955).
Della Francesca painted an
idealized urban scene - devoid of people, a harmony of classical architectural elements.
Rejecting the romantic grandeur of their predecessors, the early twentieth century Ashcan school created politically
charged urban scenes with an imagery that acknowledged social problems.
Saturdays Surf NYC's resident photographer's solo show melds
moody urban scenes with surreal seascapes
Three Photographers / Six Cities April 30 — September 25, 2016 Julien Levy Gallery A unique look at life in six major African cities — Cairo, Nairobi, Lagos, Johannesburg, Bamako, and Tombouctou — through the eyes of three contemporary African photographers: Akinbode Akinbiyi's careful observation of urban centers; Ananias Léki Dago's off -
beat urban scenes; and Seydou Camara's examination of endangered Islamic manuscripts in Mali.
The exhibition opens with the achievements of some of the leading figures of «The Eight,» including John Sloan and George Bellows, who recorded the
changing urban scene with a gritty realism as horse carts gave way to motor vehicles on city streets.
JS: Over time, your paintings have evolved from tonalist landscapes to more clearly
defined urban scenes.
Beauford Delaney's work from the 1930s to the 1970s spanned a range of styles, from
naïf urban scenes and portraits to abstract.
With great skill the artist weaves
together urban scenes, sounds and smells to create a rich sensory immersion.
He also
favored urban scenes that focused on the «side where the seams are,» featuring Dallas Little Mexico in such prints as Industrial Encroachment (1939).
In this vein, the Tate show, curated by renowned art historians T. J. Clark and Anne Wagner, seek to reposition Lowry as an artist
whose urban scenes recast his contemporaries» sense of the modern — in part through their working - class subject matter but also because of their coupling of realist and Impressionist traits.
Inside these windowed façades, Torres - García includes quotidian symbols — bottles, a pot, an abstract figure and a key — to depict a
schematic urban scene from his own imagination.
Luks continued to pursue his realistic depictions of
urban scenes even while new schools of abstraction began to dominate the New York art world.