Sentences with phrase «appeal by painting»

So why not give your front door some kerb appeal by painting your house number on a plant pot or two.

Give your child's bedroom long - lasting appeal by painting the walls in a neutral colour.

Not exact matches

Take several of Ikea's storage baskets which are perfect for storing small toys in and make the baskets look more appealing to children by painting them with acrylic paint in a variety of colors and attaching pom poms on the side using yarn in the same shades of the paint.

Colour is key, and paint is carefully mixed by hand to achieve an appealing, contemporary palette.

These private overtures were the way of escaping from the deep hatred of 2010 and 2011, when Ed Miliband appealed to disgruntled left - leaning liberals to desert to the Labour party and Clegg was painted as being a closet Tory by every opposition figure you ever met.

The shimmering metallic Polar Silver paint is well complemented by an interior of Classic Gray and a newer Metropol Blue cloth soft top that lends this machine a unique Germanic appearance that manages to appeal to all the right senses.

Besides the obvious appeal of the Admiral Blue metallic paint (GM # 28... Dark Cloisonne Metallic), and the Arctic White (GM # 10) center stripe, along with the red hashmarks, that have, parenthetically, been so shamefully copied by Ford and Dodge, there is the history behind the car.

RIM's response to the market - share - gulping iPhone is to try to appeal to the female consumer by splashing pink paint all over the BlackBerry Pearl.

Here, tiled roofs, exposed brick domes, rock walls and world art pieces, including original modern art paintings by Tico artists, blend with oversized windows, Italian marble, comfortable mattresses, high - end appliances and an appealing open layout.

Because of the mass appeal of Hockney's Royal Academy Exhibition, the iPad paintings have unfortunately been branded by popular criticism and media as the epitome of contemporary art practice, fuelling the delusions of those who unwittingly consider landscape painting to be one of the few modes of visual art.

Bookended artistically and conceptually by two paintings, Mark Rothko's Untitled (1968) and Gerhard Richter's Abstract Painting (613 - 3)(1986), the exhibition charts the alternating appeal of gesture, authenticity, and self - expression, on the one hand, and irony, appropriation, self - effacement, on the other.

Netze und andere Gebilde,» Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland, catalogue «1999 Drawings,» Alexander & Bonin Gallery, New York, NY «00,» Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY, July 6 - August 5, 2000, catalogue 1999 «Description Without Place,» AC Project Room, New York, NY, October 23 - December 4, 1999 «Proliferation: Work from the Permanent Collection,» Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, March 7 — June 20, 1999 «Life is Elsewhere,» Theoretical Projects, Naples, Italy, March 25 - May 1, 1999 1997 «Maxwell's Demon,» Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, November 8 - December 20, 1997 «Elusive Paradise: Los Angeles Art from the Permanent Collection,» Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, October 5, 1997 - November 14, 1999 «Painting Machines,» curated by John Stomberg, Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA, October 31 - December 14, 1997 1996 «Just Past: The Contemporary in the Permanent Collection, 1975 - 96,» curated by Ann Goldstein, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, September 28 - January 7, 1997 «Final Projects: The House,» MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Schindler House, Los Angeles «The Garage Project,» MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Mackey House, Los Angeles «Everything that's interesting is new,» Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece 1995 «The Big Night,» Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA «Plane / Structures,» White Columns, NY, curated by David Pagel «Ambient,» Olivier Antoine, Nice, France «Saturday Night Fever,» Thomas Solomon's Garage, Los Angeles, CA 1994 «Un Papillon sur la Roue,» L'Espace d'Art Moderne et Contemporain de Toulouse et Midi - Pyrenees, Toulouse, France «Plane / Structures,» Otis Gallery, curated by David Pagel, Los Angeles 1993 «Co-Conspirators,» James Corcoran Gallery, curated by Cliff Benjamin, Santa Monica, CA «Just What Is It That Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing?

Every single one has extraordinary color: the variety and brightness each piece carries, detail: the amount of work that is put into every aspect of each painting that make it look so realistic and abstract, lighting: the bright light shining throughout each image giving each piece an intriguing positive / enthusiastic energy, shading: the detailed shadings on each face giving them that 3 - dimensional look, definition: the quality of the defined lines that are portrayed through every painting (piece) and every small detail in the painting (like the faces and body parts) line: the complex and balanced lining that is seen in both, the abstract and realistic images in these works, texture: somewhat giving off an appealing texture to the works by the dimensions, as if you can reach out and grab the images, dimension: the realistic look that each women has (3 - dimensional), spacing: the space is used wisely in each work, very nicely spread out adding to its originality, touch: the clear and powerful finishing touch that every piece has, and the most visible that is seen in every piece here, is simply life.

Various Private Collections - New York, NY; Detroit, MI: Memphis, TN; Nashville, TN; St.Petersburg, FL; Washington, DC; Oxford, MS; Seattle, WA, Los Angeles, CA; Little Rock, AR; Boston, MA; Raleigh, NC SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY Artscope, «Centerfold», Volume 4, Numer 2, May / June 2009 ArtSEEN, «Drawing Conclusions», Volume 5, Spring 2007 NY ARTS, «Artist's Voice», Volume 12, Issue 5/6, May / June 2007 The Washington Post, «Portraiture's Harsh Lessons» by Blake Gopnik, June 25, 2006 The Atlanta Journal - Constitution, «Colorful Melange Blends Well», by Jerry Cullum March 12, 2006 The Commercial Appeal, «A Splash of Great Painting» by Frederic Koeppel, January 21, 2005 The Star - Ledger, «Connecting Art and the Everyday» by Dan Bischoff, Sunday, August 1, 2004 Art Papers, Exhibition Review «Homegrown» by Linda Johnson Dougherty, Volume 26, Issue 1; Jan. / Feb. 2002 The Spectator, «The Spaces Between: Brian Bishop's «The Longest Year»» by Glenn Perkins, December 26, 2001 New York Times, «Among a Show of Drawings, Looking for Ones with Bite» by William Zimmer, May 14, 2000 The Memphis Flyer,»... Offering up an earful and eyeful» by Cory Dugan, March, 1998 New American Paintings, Open Studio Competition, 1998 CURRENT EMPLOYMENT Professor of Art and Chair, Department of Art + Music, Framingham State University, Framingham, MA click here to download a comprehensive cv in pdf format.

Inspired by this encounter with Harry's paintings, and by a slightly longer acquaintance with Anne Smart's recent work, I've been trying to think through the appeal and import of these kinds of small - mark, not - quite - all - over painting.

It would be fair to say that his works would appeal to a painting aficionado who can truly appreciate the finer elements that would perhaps be over-looked by one who couldn't notice the subtle harmony that Lorimer achieves within his works.

A # 200,000 Art Fund grant has kick - started an appeal by the National Maritime Museum to buy two significant paintings by celebrated British painter George Stubbs.

The hyperreal paintings done by the studio, the ginormous polished metal and plastics of the sculptures are specifically designed to appeal to our basest visual instincts; they are instantly marketable and anyone can instantly like them, with only the merest passing reference to deeper meaning.

MISAKO & ROSEN This Tokyo - based gallery's three - person exhibition includes brash paintings by Trevor Shimizu and five appealing color photographs of sushi, omu - raisu and other household staples, by a Prix Pictet winner, Motoyuki Daifu, sprawled across compositions that are halfway between advertisement and still life.

More than this, though, when you actually consider how it was made — by individually positioning each minute blob, dab and lozenge of grey paint within every minuscule cell of a vast grid — it seems like the sort of repetitive, even absurd, endeavour that would appeal only to someone in a distinctly unsettled frame of mind.

Inspired by Pollock's pouring and dripping of paint, as well as by the watercolors she herself had produced the previous summer, Frankenthaler's soak - stain technique enabled an entirely new experience of pictorial color: fresh, breathing, disembodied, exhilarating in its unfettered appeal to eyesight alone.

Collection, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Orlando, FL Commemorating 30 Years (1976 — 2007): Part Three (1991 — 2007), Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL The Blake Byrne Collection, The Nasher Museum of Contemporary Art, Duke University, Durham, NC 2006 Do Not Stack, Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles, CA Black Alphabet: ConTEXTS of Contemporary African - American Art, Zacheta, National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland Down By Law, Wrong Gallery at the Sondra Gilman Gallery, Whitney Museum, New York, NY Hangar — 7 Edition 4, Salzburg Airport, Salzburg, Austria Redefined: Modern and Contemporary Art from the Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Relics and Remnants, Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, Jamaica, NY 2005 Maximum Flavor, ACA Gallery, Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, GA Neo-Baroque, Tema Celeste, Verona, Italy Neovernacular, Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Kehinde Wiley / Sabeen Raja: New Paintings, Conner Contemporary Art, Washington, D.C. 2004 Eye of the Needle, Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles, CA Glory, Glamour & Gold, The Proposition, New York, NY She's Come Undone, Greenberg Van Doren, New York, NY The New York Mets and Our National Pastime, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY Beauty, Kravets + Wehby, New York, NY African American Artists in Los Angeles, A Survey Exhibition: Fade, City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department, Los Angeles, CA 2003 Peripheries Become the Center, Prague Biennale 1, Galleria Nazionale Veletrzni Palac Dukelskych Hrdinu 47, Prague, Czech Republic Superreal, Marella, Milan, Italy New Wave, Kravets Wehby Gallery, New York, NY Re: Figure, College of DuPage, The Guhlberg Gallery, Glen Ellyn, IL 2002 Painting as Paradox, Artists Space, New York, NY Mass Appeal, Gallery 101, Ottawa, Canada Ironic / Iconic, The Studio Museum of Harlem, New York, NY Black Romantic, The Studio Museum of Harlem, New York, NY 2001 It's Bigger Than Hip Hop, Rush Arts, New York, NY

The exhibitions include surrealistic paintings from Mexico, internationally recognised character appeal from Finland, illustrations by «Trump's most hated artist» from the US, quirky animist ceramics from the UK, haunting child portraits from Chile, limited fine - art prints from Lithuania, immersive virtual wonder - worlds from Brasil, and a multitude of fresh, character - driven art, mixing pop culture with anthropomorphic spiritualism.

IN a closely watched copyright case with broad implications for the contemporary - art world, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Thursday decided largely in favor of the artist Richard Prince, who was found by a federal court in 2011 to have illegally used photographs from a book about Rastafarians to create a series of collages and paintings.

The addition of two paintings by the excellent Francis Bacon makes this small display even more appealing.

The five large - scale abstract paintings were sold for prices ranging from # 25,000 to # 75,000, according to artnet News, and were bought by a range of museums and foundations, contradictory to some previous suggestions that Hernández's appeal was somewhat limited to private collectors.

He works additively and reductively by both building up and editing surfaces — by painting around appealing marks and editing out others.

I begin editing the work by painting around marks that appeal to me.

«Excerpts for John # 4,» 2012, an oil painting by Vincent Valdez in the exhibition «Home — So Different, So Appealing» at LACMA.

Were my office or apartment closer to Chelsea, I would make it a point to drop in a few times on the current Marianne Boesky Gallery exhibition of paintings by Svenja Deininger, Viennese sorceress of subtlety, if only to confirm the long - term appeal of its initially seductive first impression.

Unlike the women who appear in paintings (often done by men) throughout art history, her nudes are imbued with a sense of strength and self - possession, in addition to a knowingly exaggerated sex appeal.

Dr Tarnya Cooper, Curatorial Director, National Portrait Gallery, London, and co-curator of The Encounter: Drawings from Leonardo to Rembrandt, says: «Part of the appeal in looking at portrait drawings is that they seem to speak to us directly without embellishment or polish; in contrast to painted portraiture the graphic process appears unmediated by the artfulness of technique.

BACKSTORY: Organized by Duke University Prof. Richard J. Powell, the exhibition originated at the Nasher Museum which describes Motley as «one of the most significant yet least visible 20th - century artists, despite the broad appeal of his paintings.»

... whose subdued palette and severely reduced subject matter — a few jars and bottles — bespeak an eloquent obsession that appeals to me; or by a painting by Sean Scully...

While his canvases might not be as large as the ones used by Pollock, there were some similarities such as the dripping appeal of the paint that was all over the canvas.

Inspired by Pollock's drip style, her soak - in technique resulted in fresh, appealing expanses of color that spurred similar experiments by Kenneth Noland and Morris Louis (whom Greenberg took to Frankenthaler's studio in 1953) and prefigured Color Field painting of the later 1950s and 1960s by Louis, Noland, Jules Olitski, and Frankenthaler herself.

It was less than a year ago that the contemporary art world — and the artist Richard Prince in particular — declared a victory for appropriation when the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled that Mr. Prince's use of photographs by Patrick Cariou in his own paintings and collages were permissible under fair use, because they had «a different character» from Mr. Cariou's work.

The US Justice Department may have tried to hit below the belt and appeal to emotion rather than reason by painting a gruesome future.

Well, I attempt to paint a picture of a sub-par resume trying to compete against a focused resume designed by a professional to appeal to already - bored readers with tired and blood - shot eyes.

That could mean increasing my home's curb appeal by hiring expert to handle landscaping, painting and reroofing, removing excess clutter from inside my home and paying storage fees for extra items, the real estate agent's commission and several fees at closing.

Less labor - and skill - intensive projects are more likely to be completed by the owner, including interior painting and redecorating, replacing appliances, landscaping and improving curb appeal, and completing a minor bathroom upgrade.

«A top item on the staging list should be curb appeal items (you can't get people in if they don't like the drive - by): Trim shrubs, fix peeling paint, and add greens or planters near the entrance.»

It is no surprise that Chalk Paint ® decorative paint by Annie Sloan appeals to the royals — what with its rich pigments, historic color palette and being known to many as «the best paint in the world.»

If you already have those elements, bolster their appeal by giving them a fresh coat of paint or stain.

A fresh paint job, new front and garage doors and extensive landscaping give this home by the beach the curb appeal it desperately needed.

I wanted my New Year's table to include things that we love and enjoy all year around, so I collected some moss from our walking route and tied it around the black painted whisky bottles.I enjoy the mossy walking route with our dog, and my husband enjoys a glass of scotch on the rooks in the evening by the fire, so topped with my favorite red roses this floral arrangement became a very appealing and will add a romantic touch to our New Year's Eve table setting.

We've been doing quite of bit of DIY in our home from a master bedroom makeover to a little curb appeal by stripping & painting our front door.