Sentences with phrase «velvet paintings»

The esteemed velvet painting museum has a new show up dedicated to the pioneers of punk.

What Verhoeven and Eszterhas are doing here is painting a sperm and blood - stained black velvet painting of a festering sore of a world; an empty, black hole that sucks in delusional, naive, men and women, turning them into meat - puppet mulch...

Tony Shore is an exhibiting artist and curator best recognized for his black velvet paintings of blue collar life.

Head of the plot to destroy the world's currency system is Tijada's dictator, a General Garcia (Richard Libertini), who has a Z - shaped scar on his face, does Seà ± or Wences imitations with a face painted on his hand, and boasts the world's foremost gallery of Tijuana velvet paintings.

The artist, whose oil on velvet painting Hamid in Alcheringa (1983) hammered at $ 320,000 at Christie's ($ 391,000 with fees, est. $ 200,000 - $ 300,000), will react to specific sites both inside and outside the building, where three or four bodies of his works will be shown.

My favorite restaurant has headshots of Laurel and Hardy on the wall, and I just bought a 3 - foot - long velvet painting of The Last Supper with Marilyn Monroe holding court and Charlie Chaplin, Marlon Brando, Clark Gable, and James Dean as her acolytes.

Nevertheless, New Line offers up another of their sterling video transfers for DVD, shunting this miscreant seed home with a 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen treatment that finds Hooper's saturated colors squirming like the creepy velvet paintings they are.

The Navigator's price climbs quickly, however: The uplevel Reserve trim I tested topped out at almost $ 89,000 after adding extras like Burgundy Velvet paint, a premium Revel audio system and — oddly — a $ 225 single - CD player option.

Mel Bochner's oil on velvet painting Ha, Ha, Ha (2010), estimated at $ 20,000 to $ 30,000, is sure to be a crowd favorite, as is a pencil - on - paper drawing by British artist Ewan Gibbs titled San Francisco (2010), estimated at $ 10,000.

The exhibition is to take a backwards look at Lee's work to date from the past three decades as well as showing new work including a series of silk velvet paintings and an installation commissioned by the gallery for the show.

Tucson - based artist Kyle Kulakowski specializes in video game - inspired black velvet paintings, a medium that uses black velvet in place of canvas, allowing vibrant colors to pop out more against the dark background.

The luxuriously overdetermined texture of Issy Wood's large oil - on - velvet paintings of clothing provide a perfect backing for the primordial shock of Ann Greene Kelly's aesthetically bifurcated folding chair — an ordinary steel chair, spangled with rust, that Ms. Kelly sliced and reconstructed with curving ersatz masonry.

Doesn't it look like it's going to be the cutest movie this year?!?! That part with the velvet painting... OMG!

It's pure patriotic kitsch, the cinematic equivalent of a black - velvet painting of a bald eagle clutching an American flag in its talons as it soars majestically over Mount Rushmore.

I keep thinking that things stated to go bad for the velvet paintings business after the 1979 release of the movie «The Inlaws» which featured a South American dictator that had the world's greatest collection of Tijuana velvet paintings.

Inside, the SUV's interior resembles a black velvet painting, a superhero's costume, and something you might see at a rave, depending on where your eyes land.

Kulakowski specializes in painting scenes from classic video games like Pac - Man and Joust (which look great when lit by a black light) as you'll see past the post break, but he also has a couple for more modern titles like the Psychonauts piece above — noting that Psychonauts is the only video game to prominently feature black velvet paintings.

Hearkening back to velvet paintings of the 1960s, with the addition of timeless denim, these works also lend a knowing wink to current times.

When I first saw Matthew Miller's portraits at a group show at Centotto, I thought they seemed to combine aspects of northern Renaissance portraiture and Mexican black velvet paintings.

In the velvet paintings the paint is delivered to the surface indirectly.

Immediately noticeable is their resemblance to the kitsch side of black - velvet painting.

Of his velvet paintings Bochner has written:

Of his velvet paintings Bochner has written: «I began making paintings on velvet in 2005.

The museum houses about 500 velvet paintings, and today marks the opening of the first reinstall since moving to their new space in L.A.

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