Sentences with phrase «approach to painting which»

The Turner Prize panel said they admired Himid's «expansive and exuberant approach to painting which combines satire and a sense of theatre».
They admire her expansive and exuberant approach to painting which combines satire and a sense of theatre.

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A more pictorial and naturalistic but no less conceptualized variation on this approach is the popular painting by William Holman Hunt, The Light of the World (1851 - 1853), in which Christ knocks at the allegorical door of the heart, waiting to enlighten it with his lamp of truth.
Painting roofs white, he says, is a much different approach than spilling iron into the ocean to encourage plankton blooms (which soak up carbon dioxide).
The approach, which is described in a paper published in Scientific Reports, integrates three existing techniques — hyperspectral diffuse reflectance, luminescence and X-ray fluorescence — to examine the painting.
Approaches to oil painting techniques include indirect painting, whereby successive layers of paint are added to build up a painting's surface, as well as «wet into wet,» which involves blending wet paint directly on the canvas and is closely associated with alla prima painting.
His films are meticulously constructed enigmas, which require the same type of open minded approach to understanding as it likely takes Lynch himself to paint with images.
I find this one useful to get students thinking in how they might identify places at first which feeds into looking at painting approaches and differences in thinking.
Approaches to oil painting techniques include indirect painting, whereby successive layers of paint are added to build up a painting's surface, as well as «wet into wet,» which involves blending wet paint directly on the canvas and is closely associated with alla prima painting.
Approaches to oil painting techniques include indirect painting, whereby successive layers of paint are added to build up a painting's surface, as well as «wet into wet,» which involves blending wet paint directly on the canvas and is closely associated with alla prima painting.
Call Of Duty: Infinite Warfare (PS4, Xbox One, PC) sets its conflict in the future, safe in the knowledge that no memories are being trampled in its more gung - ho approach, which sees your hero fighting his way up from Earth to its planetary colonies in pursuit of rebels who are painted as utterly unsympathetic and totally evil.
But with «St. Sebastian,» a blank - slate approach was unexpectedly easy, primarily because, for all the image's familiarity, I realized how different the painting looked, or rather felt, in the flesh... It's the painting's endearingly strange comedy — especially the bottom half of the body, which seems to flap away (and bring to mind the flagellation of St. Bartholomew)-- that rescues it from post-adolescent self - pity and actually, in an odd way, ennobles it, as if invested with an amused stoicism.»
Exploring the angular compositions, the artist created Four Square (1956) which also represents one of the finest realizations of his gestural approach to painting.
Brennan conceives each new work by first mixing a specific color, which then determines his particular approach to making the painting.
The exhibition brings together a selection of nine paintings on monochrome stone (slate and white marble) by Italian painters such as Sebastiano del Piombo, Titian, Daniele da Volterra and Leandro Bassano, which reflect the consolidation of a new approach to artistic techniques that emerged in the early decades of the 16th century.
Language as medium also allowed for new approaches to painting and sculpture, and Lawrence Weiner famously uses works as the medium for his sculptures, which require the participation of the viewer to be realized in thought.
Therefore, there's little deviation from the initial impetus, which is profoundly different to how I approach painting.
As the 40th anniversary of the epoch - making events of May 1968 approached, Quaife embarked on a series of over 30 paintings which would take him three years to complete.
Investigating approaches to painting, the use of medium, the way we paint, challenging easel painting by holding the structure freely in one hand and applying paint through the other — this allows a more fluid approach to painting, an almost organic process in which artist, support, media and brush work in unison without normally rigid intervention of easel or wall.
She has worked across photography, film, and dance, but is best known for her experimental approach to painting, the medium in which she was trained, stretching its bounds and assumptions through conceptual and abstract works.
Born in 1954, Mr. Oehlen, one of the best artists of Germany's postwar period, is known for his supposedly ironic and insincere approach to painting, but in recent years, especially, his work has conveyed a sublime sense of abandon and freedom — which he has identified as «my subject matter.»
[iv] This new approach led first to his «imaginary landscape» paintings and the to the «burst» paintings — immediately recognizable for their large round bursts of color placed over dark lines — which distinguish his mature style.
Although all of the artists have donated works to help to support the magazine and the development of the art school, this exhibition has been carefully considered to reflect that which is current, significant and critical in contemporary painting, including abstract works by Thomas Nozkowski, Mali Morris and Phil Allen, and painters who have championed a figurative approach such as Chantal Joffe, Neal Tait and Dinos Chapman.
Revisited forty years later, these paintings of Reed's, which have a lilting, narrative quality even in their abstraction, invite an approach to Wool's word works through the themes of artistic progeny and cyclical exchange.
The artist's new works will continue his distinctive approach to painting, in which his works are both painterly and sculptural and also textural and figurative.
Entitled Tworkov Paints a Picture, the piece walked readers through Tworkov's approach to painting and demystified abstraction by presenting it as a deliberate process in which an artist uses color, line, and flame - like brushstroke to express a subject, much like in figural representation.
Influenced equally by music, storytelling, and individual history, McArthur Binion has described his approach to painting from the position of a «rural Modernist» and one through which he «abridges the lyricism of colour with a Black rural sensibility.»
Abstract expressionist paintings share certain characteristics, including the use of large canvases, an «all - over» approach, in which the whole canvas is treated with equal importance (as opposed to the center being of more interest than the edges).
Sarah's autobiographical subject matter presents an unpretentious approach to rendering people, places and things with vibrant, meticulous and detailed brushwork characteristic of the egg tempera medium in which she often paints.
Her low - tech approach to two and three - dimensional work involves assemblage of simple items, found objects and detritus, which she transforms using paint, plaster, and fiberglass.
These large scale depictions of sexual activities reclaimed gaze of the female nude, which heralded an unprecedented approach to painting and representation in the 1970s.
WalkingStick, a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, is best known for her distinctive approach to painting and for her diptychs, side - by - side square paintings in which she portrayed landscapes inspired by her home and travels alongside abstract panels representing spiritual or «mythic» memories.
Her artistic practice and pedagogical bent — she is an esteemed professor of painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, a position from which she weilds considerable influence in the city's art scene — has shaped her presentation on the fourth floor of the Whitney, which she has organized as a sort of visual curriculum on various artistic processes and approaches to materials.
The artist's approach, according to his galleries, «involves layering subtly modulated acrylic paint across canvases, repeated polishing with sanders, and veneers of reflective resin which allow light to penetrate the stratum of the picture and reflect back with exceptional illumination.»
Bartlett is acclaimed for her analytical and systematic approaches to painting, particularly through her self - fashioned medium of gridded enameled - steel tiles, which she has employed as a type of modular canvas since the late 1960s.
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.»
A citizen of the Cherokee Nation, she is best known for her distinctive approach to painting and for her diptychs, side - by - side square paintings in which she has portrayed landscapes inspired by her home and travels alongside abstract panels representing spiritual or «mythic» memories.
I hope that it will provide an opportunity for the public and students to see afresh the optimism with which British painters were approaching the possibilities of painting at this time.
There's an element of camp in Sam McKinniss's work, which can peek out subtly in his homoerotic oil portraiture or ham it up in more «pop» pieces, that belies a smart, nuanced approach to painting.
Her signature approach to representational painting was forged in a crucible of artists and poets who championed the centrality of personal experience in creative production, paying particular attention to the ways in which one's perceptions of New York City could be translated into art.
Although there is a clear relation to nature in the forms and colors, at the same time those paintings, including Ladybug (1957) at MoMA, have a bold confidence in the sculptural individuality of each stroke of paint in a manner which anticipates the post-minimalist approach of painters such Joan Snyder.
Set in a gilt and ebonised wood frame, this beautiful 19th Century antique oil painting is typical of Berger's refined style, which is famous for its romantic approach to genre painting.
For his first solo exhibition at CB1 Gallery, extravagant promises, the artist has taken a new approach to the images which have eluded the transfer to paintings.
Anderson is attracted to the directness of paint or ink on absorbent rice paper, which demands an assured but spontaneous approach.
WW: I saw a talk with you and Thelma Golden, and something I thought was interesting was you said, «I don't believe the rhetoric around abstract paintingwhich I took to mean as you simplify interpretation of your work as a way of approaching it.
Rather, Copperwhite approaches «action painting» as an inherited language, to which she contributes some striking dialect of her own.
Robert Bechtle has been a seminal force in the development of the Photo Realist approach to representational painting, one which presents a relentlessly factual depiction of a subject that has been first photographically recorded, then painstakingly translated into paint on canvas.
If we travel back in time indeed to where Martin was when she was still painting things that could be said to approach representation it is interesting to look at some of Tabatabais 10 year old works on paper in which color and an appearance of striving to differentiate grounds are still visible.
It features approximately 45 paintings as well as a selection of ceramics, chairs and works on paper, many of which have never been exhibited, offering a unique insight into her playful approach to abstraction.
Ten years ago he was approached by Search Press who invited him to write «Painting in Oils» which went on to be translated into 16 languages and become a best seller.
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