Sentences with phrase «aesthetic value of the painting»

The aesthetic value of the painting will be proportionate to the degree of intensity to which variety, diversity and contrast are gathered together into novel unity.

Not exact matches

But when I resituate this isolated segment back onto the whole painting I find that its formerly chaotic or monotonous qualities are resolved by the overall harmony and nuance into factors that contribute to the aesthetic value of the whole.

It is an irony that the development of secular art, which had begun to free aesthetic value from religious restraints, should find itself being turned to quasi religious imagery as in Thomas Moran's paintings, which are the basis of Joni Louise Kinsey's book, Thomas Moran and the Surveying of the American West.

Look Mickey is notable for its ironic humor and aesthetic value as well as being the first example of the artist's employment of speech balloons, comic imagery and Ben - Day dots — a system used in mass - circulation printed sources such as comics, newspapers, and billboards — as a source for a painting.

Chief among these is the megawatt debut of Leonard Lauder's Cubism collection at the Met, with his historic gift of art — 33 pieces by Picasso, 17 by his co-conspirator Braque, 14 by Léger, and 14 by Juan Gris (all valued at over $ 1 billion)-- telling the story of the still - mysterious aesthetic breakthrough that modernized the tradition of painting.

When asked about the value of those paintings in today's market she grows irritated and almost impatient, saying that for her the value was always historical, aesthetic and could not be measured by money, and she can't possibly imagine how these works got so expensive.

Other works in the exhibition include Jorge Pardo's handcrafted wooden palette and modernist designed furniture that question the nature of the aesthetic experience; pioneering conceptual artist Joseph Kosuth's discourse on aesthetics in neon, An Object Self - Defined, 1966; Rachel Lachowicz's 1992 row of urinals cast in red lipstick, which delivers a feminist critique of Duchamp's readymade; Richard Pettibone's paintings of photographs of Fountain; Richard Phillips» recent paintings based on Gerhard Richter's highly valued work; Miami artist Tom Scicluna's neon sign, «Interest in Aesthetics,» a critique of the use of aesthetics in Fort Lauderdale's ordinance on homelessness; the French collaborative Claire Fontaine's lightbox highlighting Duchamp's critical comments about art juries; Corey Arcangel's video Apple Garage Band Auto Tune Demonstration, 2007, which tweaks the concept of aesthetics in the digital age; Bernd and Hilla Becher's photographs, Four Water Towers, 1980, that reveal the potential for aesthetic choices within the same typological structures; and works by Elad Lassry and Steven Baldi, who explore the aesthetic history of photography.

(again) within the mere experience of paint, or handmade visualness in general, what determines aesthetic value?

Accompanying works take rectilinear shapes as form and subject, utilizing drawing, painting, collage, printmaking, and sculpture in explorations of geometry and its influence on the formation and consideration of aesthetic values.

His work, which is primarily installations and paintings, explores critical aesthetic values by reconstructing the basic principles of the media used.

Action painting is distinguished from the carefully preconceived work of the «abstract imagists» and «colour - field» painters, which constitutes the other major direction implicit in Abstract Expressionism and resembles Action painting only in its absolute devotion to unfettered personal expression free of all traditional aesthetic and social values.

The New York Times art critic John Canaday was highly critical, but Clement Greenberg proclaimed abstract expressionism in general and Jackson Pollock in particular, as the epitome of aesthetic value, enthusiastically supporting Pollock's work on formalistic grounds as the best painting of its day and the heir to an art tradition - stretching back to the Cubism of Pablo Picasso, the cube - like pictures of Paul Cézanne and the Water Lily series of Claude Monet - whose defining characteristic is the making of marks on a flat surface.

The meaning of this painting is open - ended, such that we may enjoy its aesthetic values without arriving at clear answers to these questions.

Francis» paintings are valued historically for their one of a kind aesthetic vision, but at the same time, his curious mind and spirit have won him an amazing legacy of a innovative renaissance man.