So this book, which is an invitation to get to know the characters and their backgrounds more fully, will, I hope, build on that and allow the reader to develop his or her relationship
with the figures in our landscapes.
This flirtation with narrative,
with figures in a landscape, suggests multiple connotations that carry veiled references to both current events and our place in history.
Not exact matches
CNBC's «Mad Money» host Jim Cramer calls him «a heroic
figure in a
landscape filled
with people who are just part of a bland army,» while T - Mobile Executive Vice President of corporate services Dave Carey told «The Brave Ones»: «He can be charming on one hand and a raucous Las Vegas night club act on the other.»
In the three weeks since dozens of women came forward
with allegations of sexual assault and misconduct against movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, the cultural
landscape has been altered,
with claims brought against
figures across other industries.
The
figure shows how the genetic
landscape of HCC (
in grey) and liver cancers
with biliary phenotype
with hepatitis (
in black) are clustered, unlike those of liver cancers
with biliary phenotype without hepatitis (
in blue).
Having established some understanding of the open chromatin
landscape in healthy mice, the researchers now hope to
figure out how these relationships change
with disease states.
Miguel knows that he is no longer
in Kansas when he sees skeletal - like
figures with colorful skulls existing
in a strangely elaborate and visually diverse
landscape.
An (apparently unintentional) riff on The Searchers that's also perfectly
in line
with its director's previous visions of lone
figures in the
landscape, Jauja is finally chancier and more surprising than its minimalist aesthetic might suggest.
Wandering the mountainous
landscape, gorgeously photographed by veteran cinematographer Dean Cundey (Apollo 13, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Jurassic Park), the psychically tortured protagonist has a series of run -
ins with various
figures, including a sympathetic Indian (Adam Beach), a Chinese immigrant (Tzi Ma), an old war buddy (Danny Glover) and, most memorably, a vicious killer named Ezra (Walton Goggins, stealing every scene as usual) who demands a «toll» from Jackson for encroaching on his territory.
Many of the
landscapes are painted backdrops
with moving
figures, as
in a»30s film, and some of the outdoor action, especially a chase down a ski hill, looks accomplished
with models.
K - 12 technology leads all sectors of education
in number of mergers and acquisitions so far this year,
with private equity firms continuing to
figure prominently
in the new education
landscape, according to a new report.
Succeeding as a writer
in today's digital world takes so much more:
figuring out how to work
with clients, navigating the changing
landscape of traditional publishing, learning the
ins and outs of social media, growing a following for your blog and finding a community that will support you along the way.
With such a legacy, the prices of his jewel - like paintings of
figures, houses and rainbows
in landscapes are shockingly modest: $ 8,000 to $ 35,000.
Tuck writes that: «the paintings
in this show alternate between the quiet and the chaotic:
landscapes that are represented like
in comics and topographical maps — on a soft colored ground lines are drawn
with paint, the
figures are much smaller than life size and feel like quotes from movies... [Richter] draws seamlessly from our common cultures of art, entertainment, violence, music, etc., and plants these things
in his paintings.»
His paintings are usually about a particular moment — «The work of art — a stop of time», he wrote
in a diary — a chance arrangement of things on the breakfast table,
with a
figure perhaps, or a
landscape as he saw it
in the light of an instant, and so they are usually painted from a single drawing, or from more than one made
in quick succession on the same occasion.
The German abstract
figure painter, who became widely known
in the»80s along
with Jörg Immendorff - associated circle of friends Werner Büttner, Georg Herold, and Martin Kippenberger, often painted interiors, self - portraits,
landscapes, language fragments, and diverse abstractions.
Brooklyn - born painter Walter Price stands out as particularly impressive
in this context,
with a selection of small skewed and abstracted
figure -
in -
landscape paintings.
The mostly chronological narrative begins
in the 1920s
with traditional
landscape subjects and Depression - era
figure studies that transform into quasi-abstractions.
Amply sculpted
figures and hilly
landscape in «St Jerome and a Donor» (1451) are harmonised
in a palette of soft hues, bathed
in an envelope of crystalline light
with which, says Longhi, «leaving the past to embrace the future. . .
It was a moment when de Kooning turned to what he called the tableaux: «forcefully composed paintings
with ideas of less frontal or variously posed
figures in a well defined
landscape space» (J. Cowart, «De Kooning Today,» de Kooning 1969 — 78, Gallery of Art, University of Northern Iowa, 1978, p. 15).
His collages are of
landscape but often
with figures in them.
Additionally, the narratives
in many of the portrayed scenes are representations (but also, at times, literal acts) of miscegenation, including a geisha
figure laying down
in a tropical
landscape, copulating
with a dark - skinned mulatto man.
Understood
in their broadest definition, the drawings and photographs assembled here include a wide range of material, among which are an 1864 photograph of the forest of Fontainebleau by the little - known French photographer Constant Alexandre Famin; a pastel completed earlier this year by Jasper Johns; a 3 x 5 inch Cezanne
figure drawing; a new 6 1/2 x 10 foot
landscape drawing by Ugo Rondinone; a digitally - manipulated photograph of the musician Björk by Inez van Lamsweerde; a small piece by an outsider artist known as the «Philadelphia Wireman,» who carefully bound his drawings up
with bits of wire so they are barely visible; a recent charcoal on canvas by Gary Hume; and a 1949 sketchbook by Tony Smith.
Mainly working
with oil - based ink on unprimed boards and
with no formal concept
in mind, the artist works intuitively to produce obscured
figures and
landscapes that appear like otherworldly phenomena.
In the following eight years, O'Keeffe studied art and art education, taught art, traveled, and worked on developing her unique style — a blend of symbolism, abstraction, and photography
with subjects including cityscapes,
landscapes,
figure studies, and flower paintings.
With his iconic paintings serving as a trademark of American contemporary art, Wayne Thiebaud is a Pop art painter best known for his colorful works depicting commonplace objects like pies, lipsticks, paint cans, ice cream cones, pastries and hot dogs, although he has painted many
landscapes and
figures in his time as well.
«I have often thought that the pictures of this period of my work should not be considered «
figure in landscape» but «
landscape with figure» — ocean, sky, rocks
with figure.
Those familiar
with Robert Greene's early paintings of
figures, architecture, and
landscape combined
in fairy - taleish scenarios would recognize a shift
in the artist's most recent abstract works.
Sometimes suggesting a table top, or a harbour, a
landscape, or a
figure or, as with Figure into Landscape, one of the best works in the Jacobson show, a transformation from one to the
figure or, as
with Figure into Landscape, one of the best works in the Jacobson show, a transformation from one to the
Figure into
Landscape, one of the best works
in the Jacobson show, a transformation from one to the other.
Born
in North Manchester, Indiana, Garber began his formal art training at the Art Academy of Cincinnati
in 1897 where he studied for one year
with landscape and
figure painter Vincent Nowottny and fraternized
with the followers of Frank Duveneck known as the «Duveneck Boys.»
Diebenkorn often said how much he owed to European painting and the debt is acknowledged here,
in the second room of the show,
in big works depicting human
figures framed
in landscape — on a terrace, at a window — or secluded
in shady interiors,
in placid unanimity
with their surroundings, sunken - eyed, reading, or lost
in contemplation.
Two
landscapes, bare of
figures, suggest an easy, American - colloquial interest
in grand, open spaces, but
in Cityscape # 1, a tapestry record of human management,
with fields and buildings beside a long road, the absence of persons and the pristine brightness of the day give off a charge of anxiety.
A figurative artist who still attracts comparisons
with Rothko, Anthony Fry painted
landscapes and
figures in rich, dreamlike colours.
This development can be seen
in the floor sculptures
Figure with Nganga (1984) and Untitled (1983 - 84), which show an affinity to works she made
in the
landscapes of places like Cuba, Iowa, and Mexico.
By the beginning of his professional artistic life
in the late 1930s, Pasmore had quickly established himself as an assured painter of lyrical
landscapes,
figures and still - life studies
in a style that drew upon his familiarity
with the work and writings of a number of post-impressionist masters such as Pierre Bonnard.
Blending themes of mythology, warfare and nature, haunting
figures exist
in the shadows of austere
landscapes, carrying
with them both a sense of danger and serenity.
Piero della Francesca pairs two
figures from 1465, but
in profile and
with a more distant
landscape.
The works build through a stream of images and ideas
with a dreamlike, surreal feeling, to which Heffernan contributes by titling each one «Self Portrait...»
In her recent paintings, the figure set in a tortured landscape functions as a metaphor for contemporary experienc
In her recent paintings, the
figure set
in a tortured landscape functions as a metaphor for contemporary experienc
in a tortured
landscape functions as a metaphor for contemporary experience.
The Puerto Rico - based artists have studied the ephemeral nature of collective drawing
with monumental sticks of chalk at the Biennial de Lima, Peru (Chalk [Lima], 1998 — 2002); the imprints of colonial, nationalist, and military violence on the diverse populations and
landscapes of Vieques, Puerto Rico (Land Mark (Foot Prints), 2001 — 2002; Land Mark, 2003; Returning a Sound, 2004; Under Discussion, 2006 and Half Mast / Full Mast, 2011); and the resonance of playing, warping and combining music from various moments
in history (Clamor, 2006; Wake Up, 2007; Sediments Sentiments -
Figures of Speech, 2008; Stop, Repair, Prepare: Variations on Ode to Joy for a Prepared Piano, 2008; Raptor's Rapture, 2012; Apotomē, 2013; 3, 2013); as well as the entanglement between biophysics, semiotics and actuality (Growth, 2004; Puerto Rican Light - Cueva Vientos, 2015).
In works like Darkytown Rebellion (2000), the artist uses overhead projectors to throw colored light onto the ceiling, walls, and floor of the exhibition space; the lights cast a shadow of the viewer's body onto the walls, where it mingles
with Walker's black - paper
figures and
landscapes.
The visitor sees him develop his work from an early loose style — fireworks
in Dieppe flung across the canvas
with impressionistic strokes — through bold and colourful portraits influenced by Matisse to
figures and
landscapes in the contrails of Cubism.
Historical and contemporary works of art, videos, machines, archaeological artefacts and iconic objects, like the giant inflatable cartoon
figure of Felix the Cat — the first image ever transmitted on TV — inhabit an «enchanted
landscape» created
in Nottingham Contemporary's galleries, where objects seem to be communicating
with each other and
with us.
Figure shown
with back to the viewer, alluding to
landscape imagery made popular during the period of German Romanticism by painter Caspar David Friedrich
in the 19th century.
He has made his name
in the past few years creating,
with ostensible effortlessness, messy yet sophisticated paintings that feature bug - eyed
figures in craggy
landscapes.
The main gallery showcases paintings by the designer and street artist duo Graphic Airlines, populated
with their signature ghostly, bloated - faced
figures, alongside Mok Yat San's and Kevin Fun's fanciful sculptures and Lam Tung Pang's mixed - media
landscapes,
in which plastic models of floating islands hover above the Hong Kong cityscape.
This catalogue for a traveling exhibition considers the working drawings and spontaneous studies of Josef Albers, beginning
with the
landscapes and
figure studies he created before enrolling at the Bauhaus, to abstractions inspired by archeological sites
in Mexico, to color studies for his famous Homage to the Square paintings.
In this way, Bacon tackled
landscape painting similar to the way he dealt
with the human
figure.
This sense of vitality is echoed
in the presence of musical instruments played by the
figures, which resonates
with the sense of sound and smell captured
in the
landscapes.
From the late 60s to the late 70s de Kooning explored the
figure with new gestural liquidity, merging the
figure into
landscape and working
in sculpture for the first time.
In these small works there are bricks, bottles, and shoes flying around a barren landscape; engulfing waters in which figures are immersed; interiors with overstuffed chairs, dangling light bulbs, mirrors, and framed pictures; objects and books stacked up in piles; rolled - up compacted clusters of «stuff» extruding fingers and gun barrels; suns and balls on the horizo
In these small works there are bricks, bottles, and shoes flying around a barren
landscape; engulfing waters
in which figures are immersed; interiors with overstuffed chairs, dangling light bulbs, mirrors, and framed pictures; objects and books stacked up in piles; rolled - up compacted clusters of «stuff» extruding fingers and gun barrels; suns and balls on the horizo
in which
figures are immersed; interiors
with overstuffed chairs, dangling light bulbs, mirrors, and framed pictures; objects and books stacked up
in piles; rolled - up compacted clusters of «stuff» extruding fingers and gun barrels; suns and balls on the horizo
in piles; rolled - up compacted clusters of «stuff» extruding fingers and gun barrels; suns and balls on the horizon.