Sentences with phrase «big paintings rather»
In an essay in his book Black and Black Again, Ian McKeever RA notes that «Barnett Newman emphasised the need to stand close to big paintings rather than standing back... he wanted his paintings to be experienced physically, by the whole body, rather than just being seen by the eye and absorbed in the mind... giving us that sensation of our body being as much engaged as our mind.»
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The biggest mistake that most atheists make is painting with the broadest of brushes: rather than use words like «some» or «many» or «most» re Christians, most atheists simply paint the entirety of U.S. Christianity as a monolithic group that supports everything the so - called «Christian right» (which, like the Moral Majority before it, is neither) lobbies for.
He'd rather have Sanogo or the fat guy from the third row with his belly painted with a big red A. Both have the same chance of scoring.
Love that it's not to harsh in its pigment, when it comes to eyebrows I prefer to paint several times and get the perfect shade rather than one big one that you can't adjust!
Even in fine Christmas season films from the US, Santa Claus has been tarnished with a cynical brush that paints him as a rather desperate loser or out - and - out nutcase — Gene Hackman's undercover cop Santa in William Friedkin's The French Connection (1970); Dan Aykroyd's smashed Santa in John Landis» Trading Places (1983); and the one - two combination of cinema's worst shopping mall Santas, Jeff Gillen in Bob Clark's A Christmas Story (1983) and Billy Bob Thornton in Terry Zwigoff's bad - taste, big - heart classic Bad Santa (2003).
In the more recent paintings, Force Fields (1997 - 2002), which were included in the exhibition you just mentioned, I've left the construction lines, which for me emphasised this idea that they're somehow part of something bigger, some kind of grid, rather like the galaxies.
Rather than guess at literal interpretations, Graham - Dixon prefers to focus on the «finality» of the big, black splotches around the painting's edges.
Rather than doing actual experiments artists are finding a way to produce new but ultimately the same paintings that can fetch bigger amounts of money.
This manifests expansively in Gronk's big paintings and compactly in his small paintings and monoprints, the latter as vigorous as the large paintings but the former more contemplative and notational, rather like late Miros rendered in delicious earth tones.
A bottle of water abandoned on a bathroom sink and a closet door left open appear to be clues to a crime (or at least a bigger story waiting to unfold), while the artist's placement of the image on the canvas, with strips of gray dissecting the scenes, positions his paintings in a more conceptual realm of art where we are reminded that we're looking at images rather than an actual scene.
While the sense of scale generated by Dachman's work has always been imposing and big, the work presented in Recent Paintings creates a perception of size from within the painting rather than from its physical aspect.
In her office, beneath a rather menacing, heavy - looking assume vivid astro focus light sculpture, she shared a war story about how she prevailed over other art - frenzied shoppers to score the big Martin Eder poodle painting: «They were saying, «I'll donate it to a museum!»
Nowadays distinctions between «photography» and «art» have blurred — Cindy Sherman, Jeff Wall and Andreas Gursky are photographers who regularly show in big - ticket contemporary art auctions — but younger artists can be a lot more affordable when photography, rather than painting, is their chosen medium.
Mark Skilton: And they are also more substantial in their size; they are bigger elements, bigger parts of the painting, rather than being these events that happen to float around on the surface.
I like the idea that the small painting is kind of monumental rather than miniature — that it can contain a bigger space, like the imaginative space of a book, and that you can get back from a smaller painting more easily.
But for now let's focus on the question, rather than Katz's answer: this issue of faces vs. paint was a big issue in both Britain and America in the 50s and 60s.