Sentence examples for figure composition from inspiring English sources

Thomas Hart Benton, People of Chilmark (Figure Composition), 1920, in the Hirshhorn Museum collection, Washington, D.C. Drawn to the compositional principles of the Renaissance masters, Benton's breakthrough came with his discovery of Tintoretto's method of sculpting wax figures and lighting them to use as models for his paintings.

When objects are represented, it is almost always as part of a figure composition.

An undated "Picnic" (Figure Composition)" has, besides an array of figures, a horse and rider at the center which makes the work grander, like a frieze.

Eventually, Rodin even worked with mere fragments such as broken torsos, and he enormously enlarged the range of figure composition.

Her drawing skills were acknowledged with a prize for figure composition in 1898, her final year at the school.

In the art of their followers, obsession with style in figure composition often outweighed the importance of the subject matter.

Only Vuillard's contemporary Edvard Munch could generate such psychological resonance in figure compositions.

Landscapes appeared in most Renaissance paintings, however, only as settings to portraits and figure compositions.

His indoor subjects were most apt to be studio glimpses, still lifes and figure compositions involving his large and exuberant family.

These two monumental figure compositions are far removed from the limited realism in which he had been trained.

From about 1928 de Kooning began to paint still life and figure compositions reflecting school of Paris and Mexican influences.