Sentences with phrase «wide landscape painting»

And at the mantel, a wide landscape painting hangs over an arrangement of seashells and fan coral.

Squeaking past its high estimate of $ 11.5 million to become the night's number - two sale was Doig's 8 - foot - wide landscape painting Road House (1991), which set a record at $ 11,925,000, edging by his previous auction high of $ 11,899,378, set last year at Christie's London.

Overview: 55 paintings and drawings by John Constable were shown in this exhibition, which focused on Constable's 6 - foot - wide landscape paintings, including The Hay Wain, View on the Stour near Dedham, and Hadleigh Castle, and the associated full - size oil sketches.

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Gray's wide shots are among the saddest in contemporary film, and as a result the movie is pervaded by loneliness and resignation — intervals of space, sometimes akin to the ma of Japanese landscape painting.

Georgia O'Keeffe's letters as well as her painting art demonstrate a very personal way of perception and show her intimate relation with the wide American landscape in her art and life.

«I think it's very conducive to seeing that he fits in a wider context than Canadian landscape painting,» Martin said of the adjacent galleries.

It centers on a college student engrossed in a laptop, her cat and two fellow travelers, while, out the window, passing landscape forms a wide vertical band that dominates the painting's right side.

The MFA Boston's permanent collection includes a wide variety of historic landscape paintings and drawings, but its latest exhibition looks to the contemporary scene.

His figures inhabit mysterious landscapes and ambiguous architecture, often composed of wide swaths of color that contain echoes of color field painting.

Butler has remarked that in the beginning, the landscape motifs were a way to make abstract paintings that were accessible to a wide audience.

I learned early on that while most people know Barkley for his figurative paintings, he considered his practice much wider - ranging in nature, including landscapes and photography.

He has painted a wide range of subject matter from the landscape of the rural west to the cityscape of Brooklyn, NY as well as the still life.

The three exhibitions, Tacita Dean: Landscape, Portrait, Still Life, shaped by Dean's response to the individual character of each institution, will explore genres traditionally associated with painting — landscape at the Royal Academy of Arts, portraiture at the National Portrait Gallery and still life at the National Gallery — seen through the contemporary prism of Dean's wide - ranging artistic practice.

His hexagonal paintings depict a wide range of subjects, including the deck of his Hollywood Hills home, the Grand Canyon, and even fantasy landscapes.

The exhibition featured 50 figurative works and landscapes that used a wide range of materials and media including pencil, ink, oil stick, and charcoal, drawings, prints, and paintings.

«Philadelphia gallery featuring contemporary realist paintings of landscapes, city scenes, still life and interiors in a wide range of styles by over forty artists.»

In the wide range of art the gallery offers, subjects range from water and beach scenes, boats, landscape, flower arrangements, graphic paintings of musicians, fifties photographic paintings, birds, fish, traditional still life, figure painting, portraits and trees, covering every major contemporary figurative category and genre.

In his sunlit top floor studio in Manhattan, under a wide, square skylight, a large canvas on the working easel, others in progress on the walls nearby, and a paint covered and stained work table beside them, Kahn continues to invent landscapes of often unlikely color combinations and expressive brushwork.

But while Owens's work certainly plays on the conventions of Color Field, she draws from a wide range of source materials, including embroidery and Asian landscape painting, frequently commingling vaporous washes of color with frankly goofy representational elements.

The Zwirner show includes a wide array of subjects that recapitulate Courbet's scope: still - lifes, seascapes, landscapes, portraits, group scenes, and — most startling — a large and lovingly detailed photograph of a man's buttocks and scrotum, the gay man's version of «The Origin of the World,» Courbet's notorious and exquisitely brushed painting of a woman's groin.

It illuminates the artist's wide - ranging representations of the state throughout his career, from early lush, Post-Impressionist mountain landscapes to glass paintings done at the Ogunquit art colony to canvases painted from memory while abroad to late, roughly rendered images of the rugged coastline, magisterial Mount Katahdin, and hardy people.

«My landscape paintings all depict wide - open spaces and clear views of the sky.

These include a trio of Joseph Yoakum's transporting, abstract landscapes, Sister Gertrude Morgan's evangelical paintings, a set of William Dawson's wide - eyed, figural wood carvings, and an assemblage of a cat head by Ashby.

The artist's wide - ranging iconography samples genres ranging from 11th - century Chinese landscape painting to Cubism, and draws on sources both high tech and mundane: spam emails, emoji, internet memes, newspaper classified ads, her own photographs, coloring book illustrations, fantasy environments, vintage embroidery patterns, and a host of whimsical plant and animal motifs.

Los Angeles — based artist Laura Owens's practice blurs representation and abstraction, borrowing extensively from a wide variety of art historical sources — from Chinese landscape painting and the work of European painters like Henri de Toulouse - Lautrec, to Color Field painting and Pop Art.

A surreal landscape painting over 8 - feet - wide from 1977 sold for $ 18 million, within its estimate of $ 15 million to $ 20 million.

With such an undefined and endless landscape of possibilities, painting became an entirely new, somewhat chaotic domain, ushering in a wide influx of late abstract expressionism and countless subsequent movements and conceptual innovations.

The mystical orange field reminded me of the pulsing tone used by Francis Bacon in his paintings of the 1980s, while the full moon and chalky white of the conch shell below, separated by a gap that reads like it is miles wide, are more like the delicate denizens of a landscape by Yves Tanguy.

After years as a landscape painter, Stuart Shils has assembled a wide - ranging show at Steven Harvey, integrating painting, photography, and sculpture, often in the same piece.

However, it was in the same period, with the rise of the Protestant church and its rejection of overtly religious art, that landscape painting found wider popularity in Northern Europe.

Spanning a wide range of mediums, the exhibition features more traditional studies of light — such as the delicate landscape paintings of English artist LS Lowry RA, and more abstract works such as Anish Kapoor RA's reflective installations.

Another highlight is the large - scale painting I am not ready... by Li Shurui from her «Light» series works that reproduce the look and feel of light in different environments, from arctic landscapes to nightclub, also in a screening room features a wide range of new video works, including Huang Ran's Blithe Tragedy and Fang Lu's Lovers Are Artists (Part One).

This wide - ranging collection of objects dates from the colonial era to the late 1920s and encompasses the major genres of American art — from the founding tradition of portraiture and the first «national» style of landscape painting to a diversity of still life and figure painting.

Featuring a selection of 80 figurative works and landscapes in a wide range of materials and media including pencil, ink, oil stick and charcoal, drawings, prints and paintings, Alex Katz: Seeing, Drawing, Making demonstrates how the artist explores and elaborates the same image through diverse media.

TP Flanagan spent the majority of his painting career in Ireland, but his landscapes have received wide attention and his work has been recognised both in Ireland and abroad.

Members of the Wanderers Movement produced a wide range of landscapes, portraits and genre paintings, which they then sent on exhibitions around Russia.

It was restored to view in 1980, reflecting a wider revival of British interest in American nineteenth - century landscape painting, and is now among the most popular works in the Scottish National Gallery.

Litchfield uses a wide range of media including collage, paint, photography, and digital prints to create fragmented and abstracted landscapes that are derived from a sublimation of desire and / or fear.

Landscape painting, also known as landscape art, is the depiction of landscapes in art — natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, and forests, especially where the main subject is a wide view — with its elements arranged into a coherent composition.

Although certainly less dominant in the period after World War I, many significant artists still painted landscapes in the wide variety of styles exemplified by Charles E. Burchfield, Neil Welliver, Alex Katz, Milton Avery, Peter Doig, Andrew Wyeth, David Hockney and Sidney Nolan.

«In Japan, art and poetry reflect the gentle changes in climate resulting from the islands» topography as an archipelago, whereas in China, art reflects the cycle of seasons through stunning landscape paintings of craggy cliffs, wide rivers and soaring mountains.»

The Netherlandish tradition of the «world landscape», a panoramic view from a very high viewpoint, pioneered by Joachim Patinir in the 1520s, once again begins to include a wide expanse of water in a rather similar way to the classical paintings, which these artists can not have been aware of.

English School of Painters (1700 - 1900) The English schools of figurative and landscape painting embraced a wide variety of visual artists, including painters and sculptors from Ireland.

We offer a wide variety of courses including sculpture, figure drawing, landscape painting, still — life, figurative watercolor, and many more.

The collection features a wide selection of Irish portrait artists, Irish genre painters and Irish landscape artists, with works of portraiture by James Barry (1741 — 1806), Hugh Douglas Hamilton (1740 — 1808), Sir John Lavery (1856 — 1941), Sir William Orpen (1878 - 1931); landscape painting by Roderic O'Conor (1860 — 1940), Nathaniel Hone the Elder (1718 — 84); and genre scenes by Francis Danby (1793 — 1861), Walter Osborne (1859 — 1903), and William John Leech (1881 — 1968), to name but a few.

The intellectual perception of these paintings exists, too, in this catalogue, in an excellent essay by Matthias Boeckl which places Weiler's landscape paintings within contexts of both specifically German landscape painting (Grünewald, Caspar David Friedrich, Gerhard Richter) and a wider history of the genre (Chinese scrolls), as well as spirituality in painting (Mark Rothko).

Located within a broad history of portraiture and landscape painting, the work weaves a self - referential narrative of trauma, grief, and healing into a wider exploration of the interiority of the female body through nature, the selfie, and the sublime.

Intended as a major genealogy of the rise of a still - powerful and evolving photographic practice by artists, the checklist will include a wide array of works examining a range of issues: performativity and photographic practice; portraiture and cultural identity; the formal and social architectonics of the built environment; societal and individual interventions in the landscape; photography's relationship to sculpture and painting; the visual mediation of meaning in popular culture; and the poetic and conceptual investigation of visual non-sequiturs, disjunctions and humorous absurdities.

His landscapes come edged with peculiar strips of abstract mess that it can take a while to figure out: What we're seeing is the frame of the truck's 40 - inch - wide rear door, along with the slathered paint that ends up there when Miller reaches out to scrape his tools on it.»

It features a wide array of full - color reproductions of her work across media — much of it new and never before published — including photo collages and provocative landscapes, along with an interview with the artist and critical texts that elucidate her paintings» investigations of femininity, sexuality and power, and provide extensive context for her oeuvre as a whole.