Sentences with phrase «using iconic paintings»

Often using iconic paintings, stained glass windows, or frescos as source material, the artist re-contextualizes these masterpieces by transforming brush strokes, sculpture and architecture into algorithmically derived abstract geometry, moving image and sound.
For the opener of the story, «Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of a Video Game,» we used an iconic painting called the Declaration of Independence by John Trumbull, which hangs in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda and is on the back of the two - dollar bill.

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They are easy to paint and can be used to create awesome iconic designs, such as this popsicle stick Christmas tree.
Peony — Bold pink peonies evoke the bright fuchsias used in this iconic painting.
Perhaps the explosive disc art might pacify some of those who find the oddly patriotic new cover art a downgrade from the more iconic and artistic poster paintings used on its initial videocassettes.
Some have objected to its cover, which makes compelling use of the iconic Grant Wood painting, American Gothic, to highlight the spread of the social reality that concerned Moynihan by displaying an African American mother and child with a ghosted, absent father.
On the lower half of the car, Petty's Garage uses crushed and tumbled glass mixed with iconic Petty Blue paint and an exclusive tri-coat pearlescent blend of Ford Tuxedo Black on the upper half.
The concept is painted in Subaru's «WR Blue Pearl II,» which is a new generation of the iconic WR blue paint scheme that has been used on production STI's.
The gloss carbon fibre contrasts with the Glacier White paint that all 300 cars will be finished in, and the inspiration of the Continental GT3 race car is highlighted by the use of two - tone green graphics that trace the two power lines to the side profile of the car — one leading backwards from the front wheel, the other tracing the shape of the Continental GT's iconic rear haunch.
Sudamala Suites & Villas offers elegant five - star accommodation on the namesake Jalan Sudamala in the southern area of Sanur, a half - hour transfer from the Ngurah Rai International Airport in Tuban and only 15 minutes drive east from Balis provincial capital of Denpasar.While not a beachfront hotel, Sudamala is minutes away to Mertasari Beach, one of Sanurs quieter coasts.A number of laid - back cafes and restaurants line the streets connecting Sudamala, and you can enjoy leisurely cycling trips along the quiet streets and the beach footpaths.The great traditional Balinese inspired villas and suites offer a homey feel with Balis iconic Kamasan style paintings and fine fabrics used throughout its decor.
I'm a mixed media artist using recycled materials, iconic / symbolic images with paint (on some occasions) to produce patterns.
How Edward Hopper Storyboarded Nighthawks: Drawings at the Whitney reveal the step - by - step process the artist used to create his iconic painting of a New York diner at night Robin Cembalest
This luxe association complements Perez's subject, the iconic Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami, a topic he has visited in prior paintings and editions, which has garnered new meaning with the use of a mirrored surface.
It was during this period that Pollock abandoned his iconic abstract drip paintings and produced the Black Pourings, a series of «drawings» on unprimed cotton duck using mostly black industrial paint.
The iconic patterns used by Ed Moses in his grid paintings are a variation on a theme that the artist has used for decades.
Jasper Johns (born 1930) made his major breakthrough as a painter in the mid-1950s when he started using iconic, popular images in his paintings — an explosive move at a moment when advanced painting was understood to be exclusively abstract.
Chitra Ganesh creates wall installations, paintings, drawings, photographs, and animations that make use of an expansive visual vocabulary that ranges from Bollywood films, comics and graphic novels, to iconic feminist imagery.
Meanwhile, Warhol restructured his artistic practice around the Polaroid Big Shot camera: he produced carefully staged Polaroid portraits of friends and celebrities, many of which he used as the basis for his iconic prints and silkscreen paintings.
Here, Weil takes one of the most iconic paintings in history, strips it down and injects her own visual vocabulary, focusing on the Apostle's hands (hands are a recurring theme in her work), as well as the image's innovative use of perspective.
Also on view are maquettes used to develop Calder's large - scale works, including Cafritz Fountain [maquette](1966), a sheet metal and paint study for the iconic Gwenfritz (1968) currently at the Smithsonian's National Museum of America History.
Katherine Bradford's bold paintings depict ships, swimmers, divers and superheroes — iconic imagery that the artist has used over the course of her career.
Other Warhol source images a photograph of an electric chair that inspired «Triple Silver Disaster,» which he created in 1963, when he was transitioning from hand - painted to mechanically reproduced pop, and a publicity still from the 1953 Marilyn Monroe film noir «Niagara,» cropped tightly and used to create his iconic «Marilyn» prints.
The color of each painting derives from the nudes by Impressionist artist Auguste Renoir, and revisits a technique Levine first employed in 1989 with her Meltdown series of woodcut prints, where an averaging algorithm was used to create a checkerboard composition based on modernist artists» iconic paintings.
A number of cast bronze sculptures that appropriate objects from outside of the Western canon will also be on view, including Gamelan Figures, Naga Effigy, and Little Dancer (all from 2017); as well as Monochromes after Van Gogh Sunflowers: 1 - 12 (2015) in which the artist makes use of pixelation to produce a series of monochromatic panels where the individual colors are derived from Van Gogh's iconic paintings.
His latest body of work incorporates the artist's iconic use of kinetic brushstrokes of boldly colorful textured acrylic paint on canvas.
In contrast to my work on canvas, I originally called the paintings on wood panel «billboard paintings», due to their catchy and iconic imagery and the use of flat planes of colour that is reminiscent of the style often used on billboards.
Drawings at the Whitney reveal the step - by - step process the artist used to create his iconic painting of a New York diner at night Read More
In this ArtTutor class, professional artist Jane Lazenby paints an iconic Nevada landscape in acrylics using a simple palette of colours.
He demonstrated (using an assistant's body) the way he modeled Clasp, this cast - iron work, on the sensuous water carrier Ingres depicted in his iconic painting (itself inspired by classical statuary) The Source.
On view are iconic works from key moments of his career, from his student days in the 1960s to the present, including his large - scale double portraits of the celebrity friends of his youth; the collaged Polaroids through which he examined new possibilities within Cubism as well as the artistic use of photography; his later forays into painting the landscape on location in his native Yorkshire; and finally, his experimental works using iPad apps.
And Mark Rothko used acrylic paints along with oils to create his iconic, contemplative canvases.
~ Federico Garcia Lorca By Gary Brewer To converse with history and use images from iconic paintings that set the stage for a contemporary expression of «Vanitas», these and other...
Although my work doesn't look on the surface much like his, I think he taught me about using iconic signifiers and figures that I could project myself into for emotion and as an avatar in paint (like Scott McCloud describes in his amazing book, Understanding Comics, that we do as comic readers), and create figurative narrative allegories that hopefully resonate deeper than most political cartoons and relate to Goya and other art historical uses of politics and allegory as much as the imagery could relate to underground comics and contemporary worlds.
Jones frequently uses iconic phrasing from jazz vocalists and instrumentalists as raw material that she fragments, disrupts, and dissolves into associative sounds, which in turn function as distinct installations or in combination with sculpture or installations of her now emblematic Acoustic Paintings.
The collection entitled «Casino» takes inspiration not from Condo's iconic paintings as much as from the characters and their suggested lifestyles, to bring it back to the artist, Condo's characters are used as templates for the models head masks, which were masterly crafted by Gabe Bartalos, a -LSB-...]
Before making her widely known and iconic feminist work of the 1970s, 1980s, and beyond, Judy Chicago explored painting, sculpture, and environmental performance, often using innovative industrial techniques and materials, including auto body painting and pyrotechnics.
In «Cat and Girl versus Contemporary Art», part of the Cat and Girl series, the author critiques the difficulty and purpose of finding the meaning behind art using Guston's iconic Head and Bottle painting.
The brand new body of work, «Skins,» from Camil — whose conceptual and performative pieces make use of natural materials and textiles — is an homage to Frank Stella's iconic Copper Paintings (1960 - 61).
Angel Otero: Everything and Nothing chronicles the evolution of Otero's practice to date and features four distinct bodies of work created between 2006 and 2015, including his iconic skin and transfer paintings, early work created using silicon and collage, as well as sculpture.
His large - scale paintings, almost weight - down by excessive use of paint, striking in their vivid or in - depth color and upside - down iconic characters are every bit a part of the movement as we can imagine.
He translates these images into both drawings and paintings, and, in doing so, he makes use of the iconic quality of pictures, which the media and art use daily - each according to its own agenda.
In recent work, Clay has focused on two contrasting sets of artifacts — first, on the Black Paintings of Frank Stella, iconic monuments to modernist authorship, and, second, on handmade marbleized paper (such as that used in the colorful endpapers of antique books), readily identifiable as a reference to anonymous historical craft.
Part of his iconic Abstrakte Bilder series, it is an example of a visual stimulus through the use of color, in this case the tonal vivacity of red, yellow and blue, drawing our attention to the physicality of the oil paint itself, as a physical substance in both its original and manipulated forms.
The iconic remixing of the popular imagery San Pablo uses, whether once met with approval or rebellion during their original circulation then become emblematic within the tradition of painting.
Already an established artist when he began his iconic photography experiments in 1969, Greek - born Lucas Samaras created drawings, design objects, paintings, photographs, sculpture and installations using a variety of materials.
Margaret Harrison tackles gender politics through the use of iconic characters such as Captain America and Playboy pinups, Meriem Bennani's animations explore Muslim cultural taboos, and Jamian Juliano - Villani's surreal paintings distort familiar images from pop culture and comics.
Tänzerin is an exceptional rarity in Polke's use of his most celebrated and iconic earlier technique of the hand - painted Raster and his prolific experimentations with color.
Not limited to wearable art, Camil has also used hand - dyed fabrics to create abstract representations of abandoned billboards in Mexico City and versions of Frank Stella's iconic Minimalist paintings.
It was at this time that Pollock abandoned his iconic abstract designs and produced the Black Pourings, a series of figurative «drawings» created on unprimed cotton duck using mostly black industrial paint.
A reference to Janine Antoniʼs iconic Gnaw, Licks is intended to be in a constant state of evolution, and is «an action painting made using the landscape.»
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