Sentences with phrase «who paints subjects»

Western Pennsylvania About Blog Jonelle Summerfield an oil painter from Western Pennsylvania who paints subjects include interiors, animals, still life and scenes from her travels.

Western Pennsylvania About Blog Jonelle Summerfield an oil painter from Western Pennsylvania who paints subjects include interiors, animals, still life and scenes from her travels.

This group inspired later generations of artists such as Henry Schnakenberg, Aaron Harry Gorson, and others who painted subjects of labor and leisure.

Not exact matches

I used to think that God wanted me to paint the perfect portrait of him, but now I think that just maybe the point of it all isn't who paints the best portrait, but who's willing to sit with the subject long enough to try.

It was the great subject of his art: «My only ambition is to be able some day to paint a Christ so moving that those who see him will be converted.»

Dr. Gayle D. Jones, Oneida County Director of Health, says it is essential that anyone who disturbs lead - based paints in pre-1978 housing be properly trained and certified in lead safe work practices and that contractors or renovators found to be non-compliant with EPA regulations are subject to substantial fines.

«The committee's report paints a picture that, sadly, will be all too familiar to many who have found themselves subject to the Mental Health Act.

Modelled by Hayett McCarthy, who also was the subject of this painting by Chloe Wise, this earring is just me all over.

Positioned as a kind of educational thriller, Loving Vincent follows Armand Roulin (one of van Gogh's many subjects) as he unravels the circumstances that led to the young artist's suicide, spotlighting details of his life, and meeting many of the people who would inspire his paintings, along the away.

Loving Vincent is structured as a mystery, with Armand Roulin (Douglas Booth)-- the son of a postmaster (Chris O'Dowd) who was himself a subject of Van Gogh's paintings, as are almost all the major characters in the film — wrapped up in trying to figure out whether Van Gogh actually killed himself or he was murdered.

First was «The Girl in the Pearl Earring,» where she played the assistant to legendary painter Johannes Vermeer and who would become the subject of one of his most famous paintings.

Among the subjects reported on are a blindfolded performance artist who head - butts a stone aqueduct in the nude, a pre-teen girl who per her parent's demands throws a tantrum with paint cans on canvas to much admiration and attention, and a man who has had his picture taken every day of his life.

As if the vampiric dimension weren't obvious enough, these ruthless gals messily smear their mouths with lipstick (speaking of «on the nose,» one brand is called Redrum), tongue Jesse's hand wound, and crave the attention of a photographer — bald with sunken features, the Nosferatu of Beverly Hills — who sniffs his subjects» throats before slathering them in body paint.

A Piece of The World tells the back story of the subject of artist Andrew Wyeth's most famous painting, Christina's World - Christina Olson of rural Cushing, Maine, a severely crippled woman who still leads a brave, productive life.

Instead of literature, this time Kostova's subject is painting — and painters who struggle to balance love and art.

But a visit from a dangerous stranger, who looks uncannily like a subject in one of Derek's older paintings, leads the young artist to a place where the line between life and art seems not to exist at all.

But the reaction from AG and its members who commented on the open letter paint the Alliance as a group of thugs out to make all authors» works subject to rip off.

For two years now, he has been painting portraits of dogs who have been put down at shelters across the country, and he's more than halfway to his goal: 5,500 portraits that he hopes will someday — unlike their subjects — find a forever home.

It may be sheer coincidence, but exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum and the Kunsthalle Vienna this autumn both focus on the women artists who were identified with Pop art, while an exhibition at the Jewish Museum in New York tackles a related subject: painting and feminism (with a bit of Jewishness thrown into the mix).

With every painting, Everhart brings lighthearted humor to his subject matter and titles, honoring the playful spirit of Schulz, who once said, «If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.»

17 In mid-century France, as in 17th - century Holland, there was a tendency for artists to attempt to achieve some sort of security in a shaky market situation by specializing, by making a career out of a specific subject: animal painting was a very popular field, as the Whites point out, and Rosa Bonheur was no doubt its most accomplished and successful practitioner, followed in popularity only by the Barbizon painter Troyon (who at one time was so pressed for his paintings of cows that he hired another artist to brush in the backgrounds).

According to the museum, her paintings «embrace many of the conventions of historical European portraiture, but expand on that tradition by engaging fictional subjects who often serve as protagonists of the artist's short stories as well.»

The Hamptons» own Lee Krasner demonstrates the expressive possibilities of the first medium in «The Umber Paintings, 1959 — 1962,» while «David Hockney: Works on Paper, 1961 — 2009» provides a close - up view of the world of the beloved British painter, who is currently the subject of a major exhibition at The Met.

Group of British artists founded in 1975 who aimed to revive the painting of figure subjects in idyllic rural settings

«Barkley's groundbreaking oeuvre represents everyday people, shining a light on subjects who weren't typically depicted in life - sized oil paintings.

The sculpture is a functioning wind vane and a freestanding portrait of the artist's wife and life - long muse, Ada, who is the subject of many of his works, including a painting in the exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery.

To create this work, the artist finds photographs of domestic scenes and anonymous people who wouldn't necessarily be the subject of paintings.

The artist does not paint portraits of real people, rather she depicts people she has conjured up — fully formed subjects who appear to have complicated, interesting lives and deep backstories.

'' A painting must always move beyond its subject,» says British painter Michael Simpson, who sees the practice of painting as» giving form to an idea.»

Like glimpses into various Xanadus, the subjects here include a blackamoor sculpture from the apartment of Coco Chanel; a violent bronze in the drawing room of Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé «s Paris apartment; two Chinese scholar stones auctioned from the collection of Liz Taylor and a text painting about the Polish Art Deco artist Tamara de Lempicka who died in 1980.

Yiadom - Boakye's lush oil paintings embrace many of the conventions of historical European portraiture, but expand on that tradition by engaging fictional subjects who often serve as protagonists of the artist's short stories as well.

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.

It seems like African American painters are among the few who still use painting as a political platform... Even though it's abstraction, your work straightforwardly tackles very difficult subject matter: issues of race, economic disparity, AIDS.

By which he meant: the artist who was overturning abstract expressionism before its very principals had quite done with it; who, in the same instant, seemed to push the new painting beyond itself, subject it to antic parody and shrug off the whole profound and athletic painterly adventure.

Cubism: Cubism was a revolutionary new approach to representing reality invented in around 1907 by artists Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque who aimed to bring different views of subjects together in the same picture, resulting in paintings that appear fragmented and abstracted.

«Our paintings have always been recognized as a turning point in Turner's work in a movement that began in the teens and accelerated in the»20s,» said Susan Grace Galassi, the senior curator at the Frick Collection who organized the show, «moving away from naturalism towards a more poetic treatment of topographical subject matter, and towards a more imaginative treatment of light and color.»

A pink painted staircase leads to her second floor space, owned by Warhol factory superstar «Baby Jane» Holzer, who herself was the subject of a blockbuster show at the Norton Museum in West Palm Beach last season.

Yiadom - Boakye, who comes from a Ghanaian background, paints her subjects going about ordinary business — dancing, running, reading.

Sotheby's started the evening's other 38 lots with the 2012 painting «Drown,» by the young Nigerian - born figurative painter Njideka Akunyili Crosby, who earlier this year was the subject of a one - woman show at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Fla..

Fall programs, organized and moderated by Douglas Dreishpoon, Director of the Helen Frankenthaler Catalogue Raisonné, included an October conversation that brought together artists who were in residence at the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture in 1986, when Helen Frankenthaler was a visiting artist there; and Helen Frankenthaler: Saluting France, a panel discussion on the subject of Frankenthaler's work and its connection to French art and culture.

The history of painted portraiture, particularly of women, is replete with demure subjects who, rarely, if ever, confront the viewer.

Along with his watercolours, Roberts showed works on canvas, particularly self - portraits and images of his first wife Marian, who would be the subject of numerous nude and clothed figure paintings.

Queens - based artist Jansson Stegner deals in figurative painting that focuses on subjects who take on both typically feminine and masculine visual signifiers.

One of two permanent collection displays on the Museum's fifth - floor mezzanine, Edward Hopper and Photography pairs Hopper paintings from the Whitney's permanent collection with the work of contemporary photographers who share an interest in elevating everyday subject matter by manipulating light.

Most were encouraged to discover new approaches to Canadian landscape by the fact that prairie subjects had been passed over by the GROUP OF SEVEN who had dominated Canadian painting before the war.

A thought - provoking and unconventional survey, including work from the past thirty years, Albert Oehlen: Woods near Oehle reflects Oehlen's complex layering of methods, subject matter, and viewpoints, while also celebrating an artist who continues to radically question the limits of painting.

Lüpertz has frequently claimed that his subjects are really just motifs, that he is essentially an abstract painter (a similar claim is made by Baselitz, who metaphorically empties his paintings of content by inverting them, like pouring water from a glass).

This was a group of New York artists — among them were Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Ad Reinhardt, Franz Kline and De Kooning - who had found a new way to paint that made no attempt to depict the subject, but aimed to communicate a feeling for a subject simply through the imaginative application of paint.

Past recipients of the J. Paul Getty Medal have included Harold Williams and Nancy Englander, who were honored for their leadership in creating today's Getty; Lord Jacob Rothschild, for his leadership in the preservation of built cultural heritage; Frank Gehry, for transforming the built landscape with buildings such as the Walt Disney Concert Hall; Yo - Yo Ma, for his efforts to further understanding of the world's diverse cultures; Ellsworth Kelly, for paintings and sculptures of the highest quality and originality; Anselm Kiefer, painter and sculptor noted for his powerful work and complex subject matter; and Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian writer, politician, journalist, college professor and recipient of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Featuring internationally recognized artists such as Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Andy Warhol, Ai Wei Wei, Jean - Michel Basquiat, Lyle's paintings unfold as such; recognizable subject, recognizable composition, laugh, debate narrative, repeat... The narrative, of course, as seen through the lens of a full - time painter and part - time «jack of all trades» who must take whatever job he can get in order to connect the dots and survive.