Sentences with phrase «whose iconic painting»

The sale set 17 records for artists, including Ethiopian Julie Mehretu, whose iconic painting Untitled 1 sold for $ US1, 022,500 dollars, a new record for the artist and well over the high estimate of $ US600,000 - 800, 000.

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It brings together painting, sculpture, and photography by iconic modern and contemporary artists whose work and ideas have changed the course of art history.

She is an artist whose self - image paintings from the 1970s have become iconic feminist works of art.

The next night brought Peter Doig's tour de force new paintings and drawings uptown at Michael Werner Gallery — whose rooms were once home to Leo Castelli's iconic stable of artists.

Joyce Pensato is a Brooklyn - based artist whose paintings are readily recognized for their iconic subjects and bold presentation.

Another acknowledged leading figure of the movement is Michelangelo Pistoletto (b. 1933), whose now iconic mirror paintings played with the representation of reality by inviting the viewer to enter the work.

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 exhibition's central themes continue in a display of paintings, sketches and watercolours of erotic subjects by Tracey Emin as well as JMW Turner and Auguste Rodin, whose iconic sculpture The Kiss is on show at Turner Contemporary until 2 September 2012.

These iconic appliances appear in the work of James Valerio - a self - portrait standing next to an open fridge displaying such items as a half - eaten chicken and a bottle of Gatorade - and Amer Kobaslija whose miniature painting of a fridge contains numerous caffeinated beverages in the likes of Red Bull and Coke.

On display will be an example of Yayoi Kusama's iconic Infinity Net paintings — seriality as a form of self - obliteration and self - definition — and a painting by the late US artist Mildred Thompson, who often found inspiration in scientific theories and universal systems, and whose buzzing palette of yellows and reds and calligraphic brushstrokes evoke the invisible forces of magnetic energy.

The exhibition's central themes are continued in a group of sketches and paintings of erotic subjects by Tracey Emin, JMW Turner and Auguste Rodin, whose iconic sculpture The Kiss is on show in the Sunley Gallery at Turner Contemporary.

«I just paint things I always thought were beautiful, things you see every day,» said Andy Warhol, whose portrayal of Elvis as an iconic western character, symbolized the growing intersection of popular culture and contemporary art.

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).

Perhaps the most noted among them was Kazuo Shiraga, whose «foot paintings» and the iconic 1955 Challenge to the Mud performance (in which the artist wrestled half naked in a pool of mud, cement, clay, gravel, and then suspended himself with a rope over a canvas to paint with his feet) are among the most celebrated among Gutai artists.

As Wherever, the title of her first New York solo exhibition in nine years suggests, Eva Lundsager paints abstracted iconic landscapes whose imagery lingers somewhere between familiar and otherworldly.