Belgian painter Michael Borremans has long mined the aesthetic moorings of antiquity for his work, creating meticulously labored paintings that owe much to 17th and 18th
century painterly technique.
Not exact matches
Meets Jim Dine and introduces him to monotype
techniques; writes catalogue essay for The
Painterly Print: Monotypes from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth
Century, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (travels to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1981); the monotype Window Sequence (Fire)(fig) is included in that exhibition; solo exhibition: Pace Editions, New York; group exhibitions: Aspects of the» 70's: Directions in Realism, Danforth Museum, Framingham, Massachusetts; Three Decades, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, Massachusetts; Realist Works on Paper, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond.
In Panorama of Rome (2012), you use
painterly techniques that were popular long before the «white cube» even existed — the rococo, nineteenth -
century panorama rooms, Renaissance frescoes, even Poussin and Corot.
Add to this her wonderful
painterly technique, which recalls the prestige portraits of 19th -
century art, and Yiadom - Boakye looks poised to be this year's winner no matter who takes home the prize.
His sumptuous settings and characters, rich palette, and realistic, yet
painterly technique speak to both modern urban realism and masterly works of turn - of - the
century American painters.
Johnson is «a materialist at heart» and his earliest work —
painterly, monochromatic photographs of African - American men made with obsolete 19th -
Century techniques — evidence a career - long fascination with materials and processes.