Sentences with phrase «real artists paint»

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Floral Olive Green by theclosetbychristie featuring patent leather pumps Photorealism is a painting genre in which the artist paints a real image that appears photographic.

Our Julie Accent Plate geometric bamboo motif was hand painted by our in - house artist and applied on porcelain with real gold leaf rim for extra shimmer.

Gregory Peck and Lauren Bacall play the aging parents of an artist (Peck's real - life daughter Cecilia) who returns home to paint their portraits in this made - for - TV drama from Arthur Penn..

All the while, a frantic Ford is working a case involving land developer «Lew the Jew» (Adam Goldberg), whose deal is being scuppered by a mysterious graffiti artist painting X-rated murals of the real estate tycoon (a subplot as puerile as it sounds, though undeniably funny in parts).

The infamous Silent Hill 2 painting, «Misty Day, Remains of the Judgement» has been re-imagined and in a sick twist, the artist used real blood...

The infamous Silent Hill 2 painting, «Misty Day, Remains of the Judgement» has been re-imagined and in a sick twist, the artist used real blood to create it.

«The Goldfinch» was inspired by a real painting of the golden bird from Carel Fabritius, a young artist who died in the Delft gunpowder magazine explosion of 1654, which also blew up his studio and much of his work.

Meanwhile he keeps the real artist sequestered away in her home studio churning out painting after painting.

Warhol was actually the first artist to actually paint the finished car — all artists prior to this simply painted designs on a one - fifth scale model, which was then copied by assistants and technicians on the real thing.

Having tried my hand at painting fabric I can appreciate the accomplishment of this artist in making it look so convincing you think you're looking at the real thing.

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The infamous Silent Hill 2 painting, «Misty Day, Remains of the Judgement» has been re-imagined and in a sick twist, the artist used real blood to create it.

The infamous Silent Hill 2 painting, «Misty Day, Remains of the Judgement» has been re-imagined and in a sick twist, the artist used real blood...

Although not every artist in Yearning Upwards, depicts «real places,» it seems this statement might well address a common desire among the artists, perhaps especially the more abstract painters, to once again return painting from a more conceptual state to one more connected to nature.

The real jokesters, in Naumann's way of thinking, include the «excessivist» artist who signed his work Joachim - Raphaël Boronali and showed a picture that was painted by a donkey's tail at the Salon des Indépendants in Paris in 1910.

Essentially being an artist for art's sake and to paint more (with real paint and paintbrushes).

The exhibition, which will run through October 12th, features over 75 original paintings, bronze sculptures, embellished reproductions and collectible images from the legendary careers of Seuss (or Theodor Seuss Geisel, if you're on a real - name basis) and ten authorized Disney artists.

The participating artists work in painting, sculpture, drawing, installation, and video, and they each combine elements of the real and the represented.

These simple themes which were constantly revisited and revised throughout the artist's career supported, somewhat paradoxically, an extraordinary artistic rigour and tireless passion for probing the possibilities and limitations of painting — its ability to present the real and express materiality upon the two - dimensional planar surface of a canvas.

Over the course of fifty - six paintings, some of them real showpieces, and over a hundred drawings, «Nature and Metamorphosis» makes clear the pull of one artist's preoccupations, and underlines the deliberation and skill with which they were realized.

Cynically we might say that it's because the museums have turned artists into celebrities and profit from their marketing, but I still believe that it's the unique power of those paintings, the color, the vision of the artist worked out in the physical material of the painting that fills a spiritual hunger that's as real, and as important as the body's need for food.

Group exhibitions include: «GENERATION: 25 Years of Contemporary Art in Scotland», Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh (2014); «A Picture Show», Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow (2013); «Studio 58: Women Artists in Glasgow Since WWII», Mackintosh Museum, The Glasgow School of Art (2012); «Edge of the Real», The Whitechapel Gallery, London (2004); «Painting Not Painting», Tate St. Ives, Cornwall (2003); and «Matisse and Beyond», San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco (2003).

«Pour» insists on real pours, and an older artist at Benson's gallery, James Hyde, has pushed painting more and more into the third dimension, sometimes under glass.

The artist does not paint portraits of real people, rather she depicts people she has conjured up — fully formed subjects who appear to have complicated, interesting lives and deep backstories.

In line with the recent trend of figurative painting, this show, curated by Katrina Neumann, brings together a multigenerational group of artists who create paintings that consider the human form within real and imagined environments.

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As late as 1989 Celant had accepted a number of artists (Cucchi, Clemente, Kiefer) but still regarded the new painting as nationalistic and apolitical and characterised instead by a personal vision in the guise of «beautiful painting» that would seduce the viewer into believing it was a superior or «real» form of art.

Indeed, his first and real ambition was to be an artist; and for all his many and varied achievements, he was perhaps as proud as anything of an invitation in 2000 from the Mayor Gallery in Cork Street, London, to put on an exhibition of his paintings.

The idea for that show was that these were artists who were trying to re-assimilate other already - known properties of painting, other already - known connections, but the real curatorial connection there was that everybody touched the canvas.

Reed's entire oeuvre makes it clear that he places the painted image in a structural «in between»: Thus painting becomes, in the artist's cosmos, a normal and real part of our lives as well as a completely artificial and illusory staging.

This work by British artist Chris Ofili, in which a black Virgin Mary is depicted adorned with real elephant dung, was at the centre of a major controversy in 1999 when New York's then - mayor Rudy Giuliani tried to cut funding to the Brooklyn Museum for exhibiting the painting.

Call me only if you are in the gutter, Grice Bench, Los Angeles, CA Exalted Position, curated by Vlad Smolkin, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, NY Pipe Dream, presented by Night Gallery and Rachel Uffner Gallery, 170 Suffolk Street New York, NY Gallery Artist Group Show, Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York, NY TDW: Three Way Weekend, Blum & Poe, Art Los Angeles Contemporary, and ROGERS, Los Angeles, CA 2015 The John Riepenhoff Experience, Misako & Rosen, Tokyo, Japan Intimacy in Discourse: Unreasonable Sized Paintings, School of Visual Arts Chelsea Gallery, New York, NY Let's Be Real, Projekt 722, New York, NY 2014 The Crystal Palace, Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York, NY QUALIA, FJORD Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 2013 The Room and its Inhabitants, organized by Patrick Howlett, Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto, Canada The 2013 deCordova Biennial (with Dushko Petrovich), deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA 2012 Love, curated by Stephen Truax, One River Gallery, Engelwood, NJ Art on Paper 2012, curated by Xandra Eden, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC Take Shelter in the World, curated by Dushko Petrovich, Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA In Plain Sight, organized by Nicole Russo and Lumi Tan, Mitchell - Innes & Nash, New York, NY 2011 The Idea of the Thing That it Isn't, curated by Rachel Uffner, Halsey McKay, East Hampton, NY Channel to the New Image, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, NY Exhibition of Work by Newly Elected Members and Recipients of Honors and Awards, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY Paper A-Z, Sue Scott Gallery, New York, NY Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY Battle of the Brush, organized by Corporate Art Solutions at Bryant Park, New York, NY 2010 The Pencil Show, Foxy Production, New York, NY ITEM, Mitchell - Innes & Nash, New York, NY S (l) umm (er) ing on Madison Avenue, curated by Jo - ey Tang, The Notary Public, New York, NY Kristin Calabrese, Andy Parker, Mary Weatherford, Roger White, Kathryn Brennan Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2009 What's Bin Did and What's Bin Hid», curated by Ryan Steadman, 106 Green Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Cave Painting: Installment # 2, organized by Bob Nickas, Gresham's Ghost, New York, NY The Audio Show, organized by Seth Kelly, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, NY 2008 The Merits of Silence, Gallery Min Min, Tokyo 2007 Heralds of Creative Anachronism, D'Amelio Terras, New York, NY The Price of Nothing, EFA Gallery, NY 2006 Mystic River, Southfirst, Brooklyn, NY / Arcadia University, Glenside, PA 2005 Kevin Bruk Gallery, Miami, FL You Are Here, Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX The Most Splendid Apocalypse, PPOW Gallery, New York, NY Crits» Pix, Black and White Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2004 Halloween Horror Films,, Southfirst Gallery, Brooklyn NY Summery Summary, 58 N3, Brooklyn, NY 2003 Dreamy, ZieherSmith Gallery, New York, NY Escape from New York, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ Late to Work Everyday, Dupreau Gallery, Chicago, IL 2001 Learnedamerica, P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York, NY Tirana Bienalle 1, National Gallery, Tirana, Albania 2000 Columbia University M.F.A. Thesis Show, Brooklyn, NY 1999 All Terrain, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, NY Wight Biennial, UCLA Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1998 Episode 1, Gair Building, Brooklyn, NY

In much of the country, «real art» by visual artists was still defined as only painting or sculpture.

These works marked his rejection of making figurative art with clear references to the real world, and in particular his move away from the post-WWII Kitchen Sink group of artists who were painting ordinary scenes of everyday life.

Charles Gilman, chair of the MOCA Board of Trustees, and his wife, Marilyn, donated a work by Jason John, a Jacksonville artist and University of North Florida professor whose work was featured in MOCA's Get Real: New American Painting.

Another well - known artist, Roger Raveel, mounted a birdcage with a real live pigeon in one of his paintings.

He was much more a real painter, but like most artists he couldn't make it all by painting.

Ted started painting for real in 1987 when a friend gave him some paint for Christmas with a card that read, «You keep saying you are an artist, paint!»

Seeking new ways to negate or efface the picture plane, artists such as Douglas Gordon, Mark Grotjahn, Wade Guyton, Adam McEwen, Albert Oehlen, Richard Prince, and Rudolf Stingel represent sustained challenges to the limits of painting, both real and imagined.

As a student in 1949 at the Art Students League of New York, for example, he laid paper on the floor of the building's entrance to capture the footprints of those entering and exiting.10 The creation of receptive surfaces on which to record, collect, or index the direct imprint of elements from the real world is especially central to the artist's pre-1955 works.11 Leo Steinberg's celebrated 1972 article «Reflections on the State of Criticism» isolated this particular approach to surface as collection point as the singular contribution of Rauschenberg's works of the early 1950s, one which galvanized a new position within postwar art. 12 Steinberg coined the term «flatbed picture plane» to account for this radical shift, through which «the painted surface is no longer the analogue of a visual experience of nature but of operational processes.»

(2) Programs like SketchUp and Blender allow the artist to create sketches for paintings that are perhaps more real than a painting could ever be, though the content itself seems to have been passed through some futuristic filter reminiscent of 1980s - era video games.

Castlefield Gallery's exhibition Real Painting, co-curated by Aesthetica Art Prize finalist Deb Covell, investigates the crossover between painting and sculpture featuring the work of 10 Painting, co-curated by Aesthetica Art Prize finalist Deb Covell, investigates the crossover between painting and sculpture featuring the work of 10 painting and sculpture featuring the work of 10 artists.

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A Pollock biographer wrote:»... [Tobey's] dense web of white strokes, as elegant as Oriental calligraphy, impressed Jackson so much that in a letter to Louis Bunce he described Tobey, a West Coast artist, as an «exception'to the rule that New York was «the only real place in America where painting (in the real sense) can come thru.»

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But each of the artists» works are also about the misjudgment of a real environment — a real chair made out of special rope (Campana); a box made of terracotta and glaze (Cherubini); a lamp made out of found metal (Coolquitt); an abstract painting titled after a transsexual (Ferris); and collage, deceptively flat - looking, made from among other things, feather and beads (Alvarez).

The mix of real and imagined present a metaphorical reflection on the act of painting or in the artist's words, each painting becomes «a container of countless memories.»

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.

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