The small shingled house in the East Hampton hamlet of Springs that the artist shared with Joan Ward and their daughter in the 1960s — he worked on his fierce, expressionistic paintings of women in a makeshift garage studio — was anything but the cozy nest Ms. Ward longed for.
Mr. Keplinger's paintings are fierce, almost defiant, but also strangely beautiful: or maybe it's impossible not to read them like this after watching his struggle.
People used to think that the heavily modelled surface of his paintings, their fierce contrasts of colour, and their coiling, violently rhythmical drawing, were in themselves indices of neurosis, perhaps of outright insanity.
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich SE10 until 21 April The Scottish Colourists Series: JD Fergusson The fierce expressive Fauves-tinged paintings of Fergusson make him a powerful follower of the 20th century avant garde.
The early works of José de Ribera show a synthesis of Spanish realism and ideas drawn from both Annibale Carracci and Caravaggio; the fierce darkness of these paintings formed the basis of the Tenebrist style that dominated Neapolitan painting during the first half of the 17th century.
Her jazzy new geometric-gestural paintings, which are fierce of color and thick of paint applied with zealous offhandedness, demonstrate commitment issues and an insouciant ambiguity that is very fashionable.
The earliest paintings here are fierce, wilfully chaotic psychic meltdowns that strip art down to something not far from an obscenity on a subway wall.
Recent items included fierce wooden facemasks, primitive still-life paintings on glass and a necklace with golf ball-size chunks of fire-orange coral and turquoise.
The mandalas are set among by many paintings of Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, goddesses, fierce divinities and guardians of dharma, and also lesser divinities.
As an artist he learned from the fierce English satirists, but he learned too from the paintings of Velázquez, hanging in the palaces, and from the current court painters, the moralizing, neoclassical Anton Mengs and the elderly, fantastical Tiepolo.
