Sentences with phrase «carefully at the painting»

That said, it is time to look more carefully at the painting in front of us, for its particular virtues and for what it anticipates.

In a 1959 essay, the representational painter and critic Fairfield Porter wrote, «The Impressionists taught us to look at nature very carefully; the Americans teach us to look very carefully at the painting.

Not exact matches

As a skilful cook says of a dish in which there are already a great many ingredients: «It still needs just a little pinch of cinnamon» (and we perhaps could hardly tell by the taste that this little pinch of spice had been added, but she knew precisely why and precisely how it affected the taste of the whole mixture); as an artist says with a view to the color effect of a whole painting which is composed of many, many, colors: «There and there, at that little point, it needs a touch of red» (and we perhaps could hardly even discover the red, so carefully has the artist shaded it, although he knows exactly why it should be introduced).

It has always seemed strange to me that the GOP paints itself as so Christian, and yet if you really look carefully at the beliefs of Jesus of Nazereth, he was by their standards a flaming liberal.

Conditions at hotels and other lodging may not be as safe as those in the U.S. Carefully inspect for exposed wiring, pest poisons, paint chips, or inadequate stairway or balcony railings.

Simply paint the hands of your kiddos red, and carefully place them on white cardstock -LCB- one at a time -RCB- to form the shape of a heart -LCB- the thumbs will be touching -RCB-.

Bespoke pieces like the Jen Ramos painting above the sofa seem right at home with more readily attainable objects from stores like West Elm and Crate and Barrel, and carefully edited gallery walls fill the space with personality and character.

We have a lot of dry wall, and because we live in a brick and timber loft with exposed duct work and pipes, we ended up spending lots of time «cutting in — a term I now know means painting carefully with a brush at the edges of a wall or around anything like a pipe or fixture — and taping.

The sky and the sea and the cluster of houses at the shore are presented in carefully composed tableaus, not unlike the images captured in Lewis's paintings.

At first glance, it seems like any other black - and - white painting but more carefully observed, there are traces of yellow and pale salmon that adorn severity of dark shapes, giving the sense of warmth.

I have found that it's important for me to frequently put the painting up and look at it carefully and critically.

It eradicates at once Cubism's layered edges and carefully centered compositions, Matta's fluorescent, chilly mannerism, the storybook literalism of many other Surrealists, and the whole distinction between drawing and paint.

I admire Geoff's ability at being able to suggest a huge mass of detail in foliage with a few carefully placed brushstrokes, and even though there are 11 colours in the palette for this particular exercise — This was yet another painting where I just couldn't wait to get started on this one and learn more of Geoff's watercolor techniques!

Complex, but never muddy, the overlapping elements in the paintings appear both spontaneous and carefully arranged at the same time.

Since his bravura institutional outing in 1997 at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Melgaard's forté has been crass, crudely drawn, graffiti - like images of, and writings about, bareback and interracial gay sex — «hate fucking,» «gay terrorism,» «white Daddy dick,» «big fat black dick,» «straight cock,» and other delightful variations on the theme, all layered and scrawled on paintings, old beds, couches spilling over with posters, and other messy piles of carefully amalgamated bric - a-brac.

Organized by Malba — Fundación Costantini and curated by Philip Larratt - Smith (Deputy Chief Curator, Malba, Buenos Aires) and Frances Morris (curator of Kusama's retrospective at Tate Modern, London) in collaboration with the artist's studio, the exhibition offers an in - depth survey of the work of the most prominent living Japanese artist through over 100 carefully chosen works from 1950 to 2013, including paintings, works on paper, sculptures, videos, slideshows, and installation works.

At once improvisational and carefully carpentered, these paintings explode toward the eye, like nature on first sight, at it's most welcoming and irrepressible.&raquAt once improvisational and carefully carpentered, these paintings explode toward the eye, like nature on first sight, at it's most welcoming and irrepressible.&raquat it's most welcoming and irrepressible.»

Published in 2015, this handy and affordable softcover includes an illustrated chronology of the artist's life and work; carefully annotated color reproductions of more than 35 outstanding paintings and works on paper; overviews of the Museum's archival and conservation efforts; and a detailed look at Allied Works Architecture's award - winning concept and design for the Museum.

A seemingly all - white painting soon reveals itself to have a multi-planed surface with carefully defined fields that are not pre-determined but are arrived at organically.

The mid-career survey, Laura Owens at the Whitney Museum of American Art (November 10, 2017 — February 4, 2018), presents around 70 paintings in different sizes — from wall - mounted works, to installations, to carefully arranged freestanding canvases painted on both sides.

The oil on canvas painting was bequeathed to the foundation by Luisa Toso, and carefully restored before being put on display at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice.

His works sometimes featured bright colors and words, and at other times appeared more conceptual than artistic, with the painting appearing carefully planned and executed rather than impulsive.

You might do the worst painting ever, but the time you spent looking carefully at nature and doing your utmost to make sense of it will always result in artistic growth.

Inside these baroque forms are uniformly sized blocks, each square its own pure color, sometimes only subtly distinguished from neighboring colors... Gordon's shapes are carefully molded in heavy impasto paint with a palette knife, a bas - relief in color that pops off the canvas... [Diamond] uses nature - based drawings to create forms that at first glance resemble figures but after closer study escape into the realm of the imagination.

From then on, all my paintings began with carefully worked out drawings and measurements that I could repeat at will.

I looked at Callum's work, I looked at one painting over and over, and very carefully.

He wrote, «All my paintings began with carefully worked out drawings and measurements that I could repeat at will.

The paintings included in the exhibition are diagrammatic, and at first appear to be exploded views of reasonable systems, with their meticulously rendered components equally carefully labeled.

They range from the well known figurative painter Susanna Coffey at Boston's Alpha Gallery to one of the West's best abstractionists, and best kept secrets, Robert Kelly, whose carefully considered paintings are on view this month at James Kelly Contemporary in Santa Fe.

Improvised yet carefully constructed, her paintings explode toward the eye, like nature on first sight, at its most welcoming and irrepressible.

The new paintings in The Unseen Landscape at PayneShurvell are carefully mediated versions of our landscape.

In his own carefully considered approach to painting, Noland showed admiration for Matisse, having once said, ``... I think that when you experience art — I mean really have that experience — when you're looking at it, it tends to lose gravity.

During this time, he continued his formal explorations by looking carefully at the way a painting exists in space.

In a new show at Canada Gallery, Connors divides the gallery space into four mini white cubes that hold carefully selected groups of paintings that test the visual perception and emotive experience to color and form.

But Hockney is also an art world - favorite whose carefully observed portraits, optimistic studies in color, and vigorously experimental compositions are as full of life as they've ever been — and continue to influence generations of artists at a time when we're seeing a new golden era of figurative painting.

The Undiscovered Country does not position painting as a threatened medium, nor as one unjustly underrated, but instead looks carefully at the work of a number of painters who have thoroughly examined their own practices, and who continue to find approaches to representation that can only be resolved through painting.

Slick's handsome presentation at Chazan includes one of his round flag paintings carefully rendered on glass, several small paintings of ghostly blue, smoke - like coyote heads, and a smaller, more gestural white coyote - head abstraction.

Exhibited at the Washington Gallery of Modern Art in 1967, Number 36 belongs to a specific subset of Stripe paintings in which Louis exploits a new technique: allowing paint to drain off the bottom of the canvas, he carefully manipulates the top ends of the stripes using a long daubing stick with cheesecloth wrapped around one end.

In the cityscape, «Montgomery Block» (1956 - 59) and the genre painting, «Woman Getting a Haircut» (1962), it is evident that Bischoff has looked carefully at the work of Edward Hopper and other artists who were focused on ordinary life.

John Gordon Gauld's selection of carefully hand painted still lives at Salomon Contemporary provide a surprising antidote to this wave of slapdashery.

I'm looking carefully at Mark Greenwold right now since I'm going to be painting smaller (I'm carving out a basement studio space as we speak).

German street artist (check out the Widewalls list of 10 German street and urban artists) 1010 (take a look at the 1010 Print Release: Abyss 49) has become well known for his eye catching «portal» designs that play on the eye and the mind, creating optical illusions on a grand scale (read the Bridget Riley: The Stripe Paintings article about one of the masters of creating optical art, Bridget Riley or check the work of Levalet in this Levalet: Bagages article that uses optical illusions in a different way) that turn the sides of flat buildings into an abyss that one could simply walk into as the layers of colour and carefully constructed shadows vanish into a dark centre that hypnotically draw you in (explore the mind blowing optical illusions of Julie Oppermann in this The Intense Afterimage article).