Sentences with phrase «squint painting»

A Leper Squint painting by Michael Simpson.

We are excited to announce that Michael Simpson is showing his first solo show in China at the Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum until June 15 The show entitled Squint Paintings will be presented alongside the John Moore's Painting Prize, China 2018.

Not exact matches

There's no grand climax, no wicked revenge or Grand Guignol comeuppance, just a shot of a stretch of New York City highway, a faded sign, painted on a brick wall, visible if you squint: BIG APPLE BIG DREAMS.

Pros: Put up your hand if you've ever stared at painting in a store, or squinted at a picture on your tablet, trying to imagine how it would look in your space?

The winner of the prestigious first prize in 2016 was Michael Simpson with his painting Squint.

He liked the effect, and made it his own, combining the wiped marks with sprayed loops to create complex abstract fields that began to look, squinted at from a distance, like black and white reproductions of paintings by Franz Kline or de Kooning.

If you squint, these works might even look like an abstract painting by Barnett Newman or Mark Rothko.

«I remember him standing back from the painting, squinting his eyes and saying, «But it works.

Michael Simpson wins John Moores Painting Prize Michael Simpson has been awarded the top award at this year's John Moores Painting Prize for his oil painting SquiPainting Prize Michael Simpson has been awarded the top award at this year's John Moores Painting Prize for his oil painting SquiPainting Prize for his oil painting Squipainting Squint (19).

Simpson's paintings have the air of a medical or ophthalmology consultation room, and conflate eye tests with the leper's squint - holes built into medieval churches.

When you squint at your painting, and not only at your subject, you trick yourself into seeing something that may not be there.

Other canvases are located between these unextremist extremes — Briggs is not trying to blow painting to smithereens or starve it into submission — but rather make emphatically material visual objects that sustain the curious observer's involuntary response, which is to squint, knit their brows and say to themselves «What's that?»

He crouches down beneath the second painting, then squints up at it intently.

A pugnacious art world fugitive who had studied with and then taught under Josef Albers at Yale in the 1950s, yet defiantly rejected his era's vogue for nonrepresentational painting, out in his element he'd be squinting at the fish, the birds and the far - off horizon, spitting tobacco, chewing his mustache, cursing us all — a roll of Tums in his shirt pocket and his eye zeroing - in on the flat, all - over screen of his life's obsession....

In that painting a step ladder is pictured beneath a leper squint.

A tiny painting, entitled Squint, (2016 - 17), is cleverly situated very high on the wall in the main gallery, and could have been cut out of his large painting that won the John Moores prize last year.

The winner of the prestigious first prize in 2016 was Michael Simpson with his painting, Squint (19).

Squint (19), 2015, Michael Simpson (b. 1940, Dorset)-- One of a continuing series of paintings.

The Walker Art Gallery has announced the winner of the prestigious John Moores Painting Prize 2016 is artist Michael Simpson with his painting SquiPainting Prize 2016 is artist Michael Simpson with his painting Squipainting Squint (19).

The winning painting depicts a ladder positioned underneath a «leper squint».

This squinted vision is how your painting should look at this point.

Asked how much the paintings were selling for, a gallery assistant said, «Oh, you know,» pursing her lips and squinting a little.

Simpson (b. 1940, Dorset) received the # 25,000 first prize for his work, Squint (19), which is one of a continuing series of paintings by the artist.

The prestigious # 25,000 John Moores art prize 2016 has been awarded to the artist Michael Simpson for his painting» Squint (19) «2015.

Because we had already installed bead board on the lower half of the room, it felt less daunting to choose a deep, saturated green for the walls above, and after squinting at countless swatches, we finally landed on a paint color.

If you squint real hard though you can imagine what it will look like with the rest of the back splash installed and the cabinets painted gray.