Sentences with phrase «called pure painting»

In this period, about 1912, it was called pure painting.

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The paint - tube - pure hues of Moonrise Kingdom evoke picture books but also reinforce subtle connections between the characters, who live on an island called New Penzance off the New England coast, in the summer of 1965.

In what he calls «butterfly» paintings, Grotjahn builds a sensory world, gripped by curiosity and wonder, the visible and the invisible, in which we encounter the specters of modernism, and indeed, in which we find our perception transformed from pure optical sensation into motive power and emotional energy.

Pure abstraction suffers from its association to «Zombie Formalism,» what the painter and critic Walter Robinson called abstraction made to feed the market, while the bulk of contemporary figurative painting does little more than illustrate the conceptual and / or political leanings of the artist.

On the contrary, whiteness — as seen in the paintings from 1917 - 18 — symbolized what Malevich called «the desert» — the place of a journey, a spiritual vision, and a transcendence — where color ultimately gives way to pure light.

Looking at these triptychs, one might have thought for a moment of Aleksandr Rodchenko's iconoclastic Pure Red Color, Pure Yellow Color, Pure Blue Color of 1921, except that where the Russian Constructivist's work was meant to boil down painting to its primary colors, what the artist called its «logical conclusion,» Levine's wooden panels are invested in painting's history: The color of each is derived from the digital averaging of the hues in one of Renoir's many zaftig yet jaundiced nudes.

Her pure abstract paintings call to mind the stained canvases of the Color Field artists, but her work embodies a unique elegance that differentiates it from that of her contemporaries.

What we call «Modern Art» lasted for an entire century and involved dozens of different art movements, embracing almost everything from pure abstraction to hyperrealism; from anti-art schools like Dada and Fluxus to classical painting and sculpture; from Art Nouveau to Bauhaus and Pop Art.

In the late 1960s Guston helped to lead a transition from abstract expressionism to neo-expressionism in painting, abandoning so - called «pure abstraction» in favor of more representational, cartoonish renderings of various personal situations, symbols and objects.

«This move across the Atlantic and Bowling's subsequent immersion in New York's creative scene marked a defining moment in the painter's career: his break with figuration and entrance into a new world of abstraction — or what he has called «pure painting,»» says Hales associate director Sasha Gomeniuk.

Many ends of painting have been called: showing the world, displaying pure form or color among them.

This move across the Atlantic and Bowling's subsequent immersion in New York's creative scene marked a defining moment in the painter's career: his break with figuration and entrance into a new world of abstraction — or what he has called «pure painting».

Gallery, during a 2010 showing of his work of The Castelli Years 1955 — 1959, I remember quite clearly two of his yellow paintings, one called «La Mer» (1958), a painting made during a brief stay in France, merging sky and sea, and the other, a blazing «Indian Yellow» (1958), about illumination, pure and simple, this one sent to Castelli for Schueler's one - person exhibition in 1959.

He focused on the tension between doubt and belief in painting — he once called painting «pure idiocy».

Like Clement Greenberg, you may think pure painting must be flat, call attention to itself as two - dimensional manipulation of color and form on a wall.

From the 60s onwards, Gaitonde's canvases demonstrate his commitment to what he called «pure painting — painting which has detached itself from the world of objects to explore its endlessly exciting possibilities.»

Many of his works involve action painting and, what he calls, pure expressionism.

The dresser body is painted Cali Taupe by Kristi Kuehl Pure Home Paint, while the drawers are painted in a Mustard yellow called Golden Rule for a pop of color.

Next, we will apply a darker stain called teak, also by Kristi Kuehl Pure Home paint over the whitewash.