Sentences with phrase «called death of painting»

- Richard Shiff, Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art of Europe and America, University of Texas at Austin «The great number of young artists who set out each year to become painters should long ago have put to rest conversations about the so - called death of painting.

«Few modern myths about art have been as persistent or as annoying as the so - called death of painting.

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In a show called «Death Is a Conceptual Artist,» conceptual art may be the death of painting, or it may have the last Death Is a Conceptual Artist,» conceptual art may be the death of painting, or it may have the last death of painting, or it may have the last word.

Christopher Wool has continued and enhanced the Pop tradition of word painting begun by Pop artist Robert Indiana, twenty years before; Damien Hirst placed a pickled tiger shark in a cage and called it The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living; Richard Wilson filled a room with sump oil and called it 20:50.

He is best known today for his final works, the so - called black paintings, which he focused on from 1954 until his death of a heart attack in 1967, at age 53.

She created a series of paintings called Odes, which depicted her immense grief at the untimely death of her husband in 1951.

The release event for I Can't Work Like This held at Proqm in Berlin took place on the evening of the 28th of March, only eleven days after the artist Parker Bright stood in protest wearing a t - shirt, sharpie emblazoned with «BLACK DEATH SPECTACLE» in front of a painting by a white woman of Emmett Till's mutilated corpse, and only a week after Hannah Black published an open letter to the curators and staff of the Whitney Biennale calling for the paintings» removal and destruction.

In fact, so polarizing were Pollock's so - called black paintings, created from 1951 to 1953 (though he began to reincorporate color in 1952), that they haven't featured prominently in major exhibitions of the artist's work in the decades since his death.

Unaffected by medium denying conceptualism; the often announced «death of painting» itself; and the so - called post - modern / multi-media innovations (for the sake of «contemporaneity») that developed from the 1970s onwards — Gouk has continued to explore the endless scope of his particular form of abstract painting and unashamedly celebrates its «medium - specificity».

Not only was she working in a supposedly moribund medium — the radical»60s were filled with calls for the «death of painting» — but she was returning to a fraught traditional form.

Then in between multicolored rings and meandering «iconscapes» as he calls them, there will be a strange depiction of a dime store Jesus, Frankenstein, or the Death Star from Star Wars, all presented with the same lovingly lavish paint.

The second part is called In and Out of Love (Butterfly Paintings and Ashtrays), a room in which dead butterflies are stuck to canvases, with a table nearby, on which sits an ashtray and cigarette ends — an early example of Hirst's use of cigarettes as a metaphor for pleasure and death.

But, because the paintings repeatedly call to mind the subject of death, while the exhibition may falter, it never fails.