Sentences with phrase «whose paintings marked»

She was, in many ways, a rebel, whose paintings marked covert but unflinching resistance to the oppressive political and social conventions of the Cold War era.

Not exact matches

When the wasps were returned to their nests, those with the altered markings were attacked more often than wasps whose paint jobs coincided with their original patterns — even though they retained the chemical cues that they belonged in the nest, Tibbetts reports in the 22 July issue of the Proceedings of the Royal Society.

In short, the movie starts with Thor chained up in the lair of a fire demon named Surtur and ends on Asgard with Thor, his adoptive brother Loki (Tom Hiddleston), who is more often his enemy than his friend, an Asgardian warrior known as a Valkyrie (Tessa Thompson), and the Hulk (Mark Ruffalo) battling Thor and Loki's recently freed sister Hela (Cate Blanchett, camping it up deliciously), the Goddess of Death, whose role in Asgard's conquering of the nine other realms has been largely obliterated from the official history (this is the film's one major socio - cultural theme, and it gets a beautifully realized visualization when Hela causes a seemingly innocuous painted dome to crack open, revealing a portrait of a much darker and more violent history underneath).

Meanwhile, her evil half becomes the darker - skinned Cia, who casts dark magic, wears an extremely sexualized outfit, and whose body is adorned with markings reminiscent of tribal body paint.

By pairing the first - an abstract painting whose flat forms are schematic and derived from markings observed on a soccer field with the second - a silkscreened canvas depicting a nearly identical painting photographed at an angle, Uglow creates a visual experience charged with the potential of both abstraction and representation.

Sigmar Polke, an artist of infinite, often ravishing pictorial jest, whose sarcastic and vibrant layering of found images and maverick, chaos - provoking painting processes left an indelible mark on the last four decades of contemporary painting, died yesterday in Cologne, Germany.

Mark Grotjahn, whose riotous tunnels of color still dazzled at MoMA, was shown to be just as effective with sparser painting compositions and bronze sculpture in Variations.

Mark di Suvero's sculpture, and to a lesser degree John Chamberlain's (whose sculpture bridges Abstract Expressionism with Hard - Edge painting), and the paintings by Joan Mitchell, Grace Hartigan, Robert Rauschenberg, Cy Twombly, and Alfred Leslie resonate with the qualities of the Second Generation.

At the time Bennington was a bastion of Color Field painting and Greenbergian formalism, and although Mueller rejected many of its tenets, he was also deeply marked by the work of artists like Helen Frankenthaler and Kenneth Noland whose influence, he remarked to an interviewer much later, was «shoved down your throat» at the Vermont college.

Unlike his contemporaries, such as Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman whose art expressed an urge to transcendence, Kline was focused on pure abstract forms and gesture itself, deprived of any symbolic character or «painting experience».

Rothko to Richter: Mark - Making in Abstract Painting from the Collection of Preston H. Haskell spans the years 1950 to 1990, an era whose commitment to artistic experimentation is rivaled only by the first decades of the 20th century, when abstraction was invented.

His «Tribal Marks Series» of paintings depicts men and women — like the young girl pictured above — whose faces are marked from the scarification process, common among some Nigerian tribes.

Variations: Conversations in and Around Abstract Painting presents 30 artists whose work reflects the language and style of abstraction: Markus Amm, Mark Bradford, A.K. Burns, Sarah Cain, Aaron Curry, Theaster Gates, Mark Grotjahn, Iva Gueorguieva, Sergei Jensen, Rashid Johnson, Jennie C. Jones, Rachel Lachowicz, Dashiell Manley, Julie Mehretu, Dianna Molzan, Albert Oehlen, Alexandra Olson, Laura Owens, Anthony Pearson, Howardena Pindell, Gerhard Richter, Sterling Ruby, Analia Saban, Maaike Schoorel, Amy Sillman, Diana Thater, Lesley Vance, Mary Weatherford, Lisa Williamson, and Christopher Wool.

A painting such as Untitled # 17 (1980)-- hazy stripes of varying widths whose fluttering boundaries are marked in graphite — might hold the interest in isolation: you could get lost in it, like fog.

The Painted World includes paintings by important historical figures such as Paul Feeley (1910 - 1966), Yayoi Kusama, and Myron Stout (1908 - 1987); Moira Dryer (1957 - 1992) and Steven Parrino (1958 - 2005), two influential artists whose lives were cut short; and younger artists who are seriously pursuing abstraction, such as Mark Grotjahn and Ann Pibal.

Artists like Robert Motherwell, Clyfford Still, Mark Rothko, Adolph Gottlieb, Hans Hofmann, Helen Frankenthaler, Sam Francis, Mark Tobey, and especially Ad Reinhardt and Barnett Newman, whose masterpiece Vir heroicus sublimis is in the collection of MoMA, used greatly reduced references to nature, and they painted with a highly articulated and psychological use of color.

Sarah Wiseman Gallery presents in June «Line & Surface», an exhibition examining the work of Simon J Harris, Steven MacIver (whose work «Divide and Rule» is shown here courtesy of the artist and Sarah Wiseman Gallery), Henrietta Dubrey and Mark Beattie, making connections across the fields of painting and sculpture.

This five - venue national exhibition marks the first major survey of this Los Angeles — based artist whose multifaceted practice encompasses painting and sculpture as well as media and sound installation.

Clare Bonnet, whose painting «Scarlet Peace» is shown here courtesy of the artist and Sarah Wiseman Gallery, is a Cornwall based artist who mixes figurative painting with abstract mark - making.

Original artworks and commentary by Mark Tansey (b. 1949), whose large scale monochromatic allegories reference the art of photography, a pivotal technology in the reproduction and dissemination of popular images; John Currin (b. 1962), who has referenced the art of Norman Rockwell, and whose provocative figural paintings reflect upon domestic and social themes that were prevalent, though differently portrayed, in the mid-twentieth century; Vincent Desiderio (b. 1955), whose dark intellectual melodramas re-imagine scenes of crime and adventure from pulp fiction; Lucien Freud (1922 - 2011), the painter of deeply psychological works that examine the relationship of artist and model; and Jamie Wyeth (b. 1946), son of noted painter Andrew Wyeth and grandson of illustrator N.C. Wyeth, whose images convey stories real and imagined, among other artists, will be featured in the exhibition and its accompanying catalogue.

There he was introduced to the work of Mark Gertler, Henry Moore, Augustus John and other prominent English artists of the time whose emphasis on visual acuity and technical skill would have a major effect on Mead and accounted for the restraint of his early paintings.

Thornton watches a painting by Marlene Dumas climb over the $ 1 million mark — at that point, Dumas was only the third living woman artist whose work had broken the million - dollar ceiling at an auction.

To mark the anniversary of the Bard's death, Compton Verney, in his home county of Warwickshire, examines Shakespearean - themed art, bringing together paintings by Rossetti and Watts with contemporary pieces by the likes of Tom Hunter, whose photographic series reimagines A Midsummer's Night Dream in modern - day Hackney.

The Clark is making good use of its new Tadao Ando - designed gallery to celebrate some of those artists, with an exhibition of abstract modernist paintings by the likes of Jackson Pollock (whose Number 1, 1950 (Lavender Mist) is a highlight), Mark Rothko and Helen Frankenthaler.

Miotte developed a vocabulary of bold, quasi-calligraphic markings whose vaulting, liquid jets and arcs of paint were at once suggestive of the body in motion while at the same time denying corporality.

Helen Frankenthaler, Morris Louis, Frank Stella, Ellsworth Kelly, Richard Diebenkorn [26] David Smith, Sir Anthony Caro, Mark di Suvero, Gene Davis, Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski, Isaac Witkin, Anne Truitt, Kenneth Snelson, Al Held, Ronald Davis, [27] Howard Hodgkin, Larry Poons, Brice Marden, Robert Mangold, Walter Darby Bannard, Dan Christensen, Larry Zox, Ronnie Landfield, Charles Hinman, Sam Gilliam, Peter Reginato, were some of the artists whose works characterized abstract painting and sculpture in the 1960s.

silver with a touch of green mixed media painting that is 24 x 36 inches from Erin Parish, whose trademark paintings are marked by the repetition of circular forms and the influence...

Rashid Johnson's voluptuous black paintings, whose thick graffitilike marks are scrawled into a mix of wax and black soap with a broom handle, confront the more delicate and colorful improvisations of Michaela Eichwald, which look impressive but more decorous than usual.

Shimmering complex red, blue, gold and white contemporary abstract mixed media painting in resin and oil by Erin Parish, whose trademark paintings are marked by the repetition of cir...

-- Nikolay Oleynikov, Tsaplya Olga Egorova, Dmitry Vilensky, and others Claire Fontaine (fictional conceptual artist)-- A Paris - based collective including Fulvia Carnevale and James Thornhill CPLY — William N. Copley Diane Pruis (pseudonymous Los Angeles gallerist)-- Untitled gallery's Joel Mesler Donelle Woolford (black female artist)-- Actors hired to impersonate said fictional artist by white artist Joe Scanlan Dr. Lakra (Mexican artist inspired by tattoo culture)-- Jeronimo Lopez Ramirez Dr. Videovich (a «specialist in curing television addiction»)-- The Argentine - American conceptual artist Jaime Davidovich Dzine — Carlos Rolon George Hartigan — The male pseudonym that the Abstract Expressionist painter Grace Hartigan adopted early in her career Frog King Kwok (Hong Kong performance artist who uses Chinese food as a frequent medium)-- Conceptualist Kwok Mang Ho The Guerrilla Girls — A still - anonymous group of feminist artists who made critical agit - prop work exposing the gender biases in the art world Hennessy Youngman (hip - hop - styled YouTube advice dispenser), Franklin Vivray (increasingly unhinged Bob Ross - like TV painting instructor)-- Jayson Musson Henry Codax (mysterious monochrome artist)-- Jacob Kassay and Olivier Mosset JR — Not the shot villain of «Dallas» but the still - incognito street artist of global post-TED fame John Dogg (artist), Fulton Ryder (Upper East Side gallerist)-- Richard Prince KAWS — Brian Donnelly The King of Kowloon (calligraphic Hong Kong graffiti artist)-- Tsang Tsou - choi Klaus von Nichtssagend (fictitious Lower East Side dealer)-- Ingrid Bromberg Kennedy, Rob Hult, and Sam Wilson Leo Gabin — Ghent - based collective composed of Gaëtan Begerem, Robin De Vooght, and Lieven Deconinck Lucie Fontaine (art and curatorial collective)-- The writer / curator Nicola Trezzi and artist Alice Tomaselli MadeIn Corporation — Xu Zhen Man Ray — Emmanuel Radnitzky Marvin Gaye Chetwynd (Turner Prize - nominated artist formerly known as Spartacus Chetwynd)-- Alalia Chetwynd Maurizio Cattelan — Massimiliano Gioni, at least in many interviews the New Museum curator did in the famed Italian artist's stead in the»90s Mr. Brainwash (Banksy - idolizing street artist)-- Thierry Guetta MURK FLUID, Mike Lood — The artist Mark Flood R. Mutt, Rrose Sélavy — Marcel Duchamp Rammellzee — Legendary New York street artist and multimedia visionary, whose real name «is not to be told... that is forbidden,» according to his widow Reena Spaulings (Lower East Side gallery)-- Artist Emily Sundblad and writer John Kelsey Regina Rex (fictional Brooklyn gallerist)-- The artists Eli Ping (who now has opened Eli Ping Gallery on the Lower East Side), Theresa Ganz, Yevgenia Baras, Aylssa Gorelick, Angelina Gualdoni, Max Warsh, and Lauren Portada Retna — Marquis Lewis Rod Bianco (fictional Oslo galleris)-- Bjarne Melgaard RodForce (performance artist who explored the eroticized associations of black culture)-- Sherman Flemming Rudy Bust — Canadian artist Jon Pylypchuk Sacer, Sace (different spellings of a 1990s New York graffiti tag)-- Dash Snow SAMO (1980s New York Graffiti Tag)-- Jean - Michel Basquiat Shoji Yamaguchi (Japanese ceramicist who fled Hiroshima and settled in the American South with a black civil - rights activist, then died in a car crash in 1991)-- Theaster Gates Vern Blosum — A fictional Pop painter of odd image - and - word combinations who was invented by a still - unnamed Abstract Expressionist artist in an attempt to satirize the Pop movement (and whose work is now sought - after in its own right) Weegee — Arthur Fellig What, How and for Whom (curators of 2009 Istanbul Biennial)-- Ana Dević, Nataša Ilić, Sabina Sabolović, Dejan Kršić, and Ivet Curlin The Yes Men — A group of «culture - jamming» media interventionists led by Jacques Servin and Igor Vamos

«The Loom of History» marks the first US solo exhibition of Armenian - Egyptian artist Anna Boghiguian (b. 1946, Cairo, Egypt), whose raw and expressionistic works combine painting, drawing, writing, collage, and sculpture to contemplate the past and present through intersections of economics, philosophy, literature, and myth.

A radical return to painting marks this new solo show by Anish Kapoor, whose work continues to evolve, seduce and challenge, more than three decades since he first exhibited at Lisson Gallery.

Touch (1999) resembles a fingerprint whose whorls are limned in dust, while several other paintings explicitly recall the warp and weft of finely woven gauze as the marks seem to float like mist over the painting field.

Vertical, curvilinear shapes prevailed in the past decade and also characterize her wall painting Rajasthan (2012), a composition of intersecting forms in green, gray, orange, and red whose presentation here marks its first display outside of Europe.

Most recognized for her evocative paintings marked out with pale color washes and subtle pencil lines, Agnes Martin was a Canadian - born American artist, whose conviction of the emotive and expressive power of art shaped her career.

«Mr. Polke, an artist of infinite, often ravishing pictorial jest, whose sarcastic and vibrant layering of found images and maverick, chaos - provoking painting processes left an indelible mark on the last four decades of contemporary painting, died yesterday in Cologne, Germany, at 69,» writes Roberta Smith.

NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — In the Abstract brings together a mix of multi-generational artists whose works represent a potent and muscular approach to contemporary abstraction that adopts and adapts various formal strategies of painting — from hard - edge geometries and dense color blocks to gauzy color fields and expressionist marks — with that of sculpture, photography, digital processes, and video.

Thin, horizontal striations of vibrant neon colors seem to liquefy and drip, creating an unusual grainy texture across the surface of the aluminum paintings, whose markings bear a kinship to rough textiles such as coarse, unprimed canvas.

At least 10 bidders in the packed room and on telephones tried to buy the 2015 mixed - media and collage abstract «Smear» by Mark Bradford, who now mainly paints for museums and whose works are virtually unobtainable from galleries.

There is an especially immersive gallery devoted to eight radiantly colored canvases by Mark Rothko, and another nearly as intense, with seven by Barnett Newman, as well as generous pockets of paintings by Arshile Gorky, Adolph Gottlieb, Robert Motherwell, Franz Kline and Philip Guston, whose figurative 1969 «Edge of Town,» near the show's exit, designates him as the only artist who got out alive.

This is the intersection of traditional and «street» sensibilities, from Mexican - born artist Carlos Donjuán's paintings of masked figures to the atmospheric drawings of Bucharest - based artist Mark Francis Williams, whose work responds to the new shopping malls around his city.

Gems by AbEx pioneers Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Barnett Newman (whose painting White Fire, along with Jonathan Borofsky's sculpture Flying Man, inspired the show's title) will be shown alongside major works by Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, Bruce Nauman, Borofsky, Cindy Sherman, and Robert Gober.

Marking the 100th birthday of print maker and painter Will Barnet - whose students have included Donald Judd, James Rosenquist, Mark Rothko and Cy Twombly - Will Barnet: Relationships, Intimate and Abstract, 1935 — 1965 features the Amon Carter - owned abstract painting Self - Portrait (1952 — 53) alongside related drawings being shown for the first time.

This non-representational approach is aptly illustrated by the 20th century abstract movement, as in the works of Piet Mondrian (1872 - 1944), Mark Rothko (1903 - 70) and Sean Scully (b. 1945), whose paintings lack any objective meaning and must therefore be interpreted entirely by the spectator.

Two visionaries — one whose photos feel like John Cage tracks and one whose music sounds like Mark Rothko paintings — collaborated on a gallery show that feels like a light - and - space installation.

A key influence was the avant - garde American artist Mark Tobey (1890 - 1976), whose all - over calligraphic painting style anticipated that of Pollock.

From his beginnings in Sydney Australia, Mark Whalen has evolved into an artist whose methodically sophisticated paintings and sculptures examine the complexities and nuances of the human condition.

Jarry's slapstick, clown - like imagery marked an affinity with Themerson, whose paintings and drawings were similarly crude and comic, often mocking social stereotypes and classes.

Parasnis, whose vivid new «Serenity» paintings are on view at Caldwell Snyder Gallery, cites Abstract Expressionist and Bay Area figurative painters — namely Richard Diebenkorn, Nathan Oliveira and Willem de Kooning — among his influences for their expressive marks and «spirituality and color.»

At the time he belonged to the Hard Edge movement, whose proponents painted bands of pure colour with clearly marked outlines on the canvas.