A painter colleague, Fabian Marcaccio, uses a phrase to describe
a certain kind of artist.
Of course, its abundant light and space have always drawn
a certain kind of artist — members of the Light and Space movement, for instance, like Bruce Nauman and James Turrell.
Not exact matches
The future belongs to a type
of person with a
certain kind of mind: designers able to empathize, people who can recognize patterns, people who can give meanings
of things,
artists, inventors, counselors, thinkers who see the «bigger image» — they will reap praise and joys society «(Pink, 2006, p 27).
Yet at the same time Rosa Bonheur is forced to admit: «My trousers have been my great protectors... Many times I have congratulated myself for having dared to break with traditions which would have forced me to abstain from
certain kinds of work, due to the obligation to drag my skirts everywhere...» Yet the famous
artist again feels obliged to qualify her honest admission with an ill - assumed «femininity»: «Despite my metamorphoses
of costume, there is not a daughter
of Eve who appreciates the niceties more than I do; my brusque and even slightly unsociable nature has never prevented my heart from remaining completely feminine.»
It is a
certain kind of groundedness on the one hand, and on the other hand — I won't call it a romantic sensibility — but a willingness to evoke rather than to state, a willingness to use the variable memories
of an audience to infuse a given
artist's metaphor with content beyond its literal description.
Having had the opportunity to work with many young people on projects, particularly in South East London, I realised that a lot
of the misaligned youths that I was working with were
artists of some
kind, but were born into the wrong class, without
certain resources.
I had to do it differently, because a
certain kind of super-ambitious
artist didn't want to be in the same place as fresh new talent.
In his opinion the
artists selected exemplified «Euro - art, a term I've made up to describe a
certain kind of technically competent, bland, and ultimately empty art made specifically for international biennales.»
«It is great to be a somewhat celebrated
artist, but you know in
certain situations or circumstances the way that I am treated I have to
kind of set people straight and create boundaries.
Kerlin Gallery
artists Mark Garry, Elizabeth Magill and Paul Winstanley are included in a major new exhibition at Towner Art Gallery, A
Certain Kind Of Light.
Steers described his artistic perspective in an interview in September 1992: «I think I'm in the tradition
of a
certain kind of American
artist —
artists whose work embodies a
certain gorgeous bleakness.
A
Certain Kind Of Light explores how
artists have responded to light, its materiality, transience and effect over six decades.
Artists Assemble at the Museum
of Latin American Art Words by Chris Greenspon, Features Writer, Bermudez Projects «There's a
certain Mexican way
of telling a joke, a really dramatic
kind of irony,» said Felipe Flores, founder
of Trabajo Press.
And I think because
of transparency and the formats I can get away with with
certain kind of color situations that I would bet that a lot
of other
artists can't handle.
And the whole abstract expressionist movement — the title even is so bread and it takes in so many different
kinds of paintings that it's almost impossible to even think
of it without beginning to speak
of certain artists.
The piece has stirred all
kinds of debate about what the
artist's motivations could have been: Was this a coy way
of commenting on affirmative action, on the supposed «advantages» conferred on
certain underrepresented minorities?
A
certain kind of creative ruthlessness connects the various
artists represented in «Low Life Slow Life,» from the raw ugliness
of Robert Mallary's «Little Hans» (1963), a sculpture made
of resin - dipped tuxedos, to the sheds - present in the exhibition but sealed shut - containing all the paintings acknowledged as his own by McCarthy's friend, Al Payne, who died during the show's preparation.
«Non-Western» denotes to a broad realm including terrestrial references as well as cultural ties; therefore this exhibition limits the term to the
artists who have connections to the broad geography
of the non-West but who speak
of a
certain kind of displacement, immigration, or a voyage due to their experiences.
Recycling Warhol's car crash paintings from the Pop
artist's «Death and Disaster» series, which in turn were appropriated from photographs
of fatal accidents in newspapers, Turk swaps Warhol's American car with a white van, a symbol
of a
certain British white working class, now dying its own
kind of slow death as the demand for blue - collar labor begins to diminish.
In the late 1930s the Abstract
Artists used to have a meeting once a week or once every two weeks or whatever it was, and that always made for a
certain kind of stimulation.
A
Certain Kind of Light explores how
artists have responded to light, its materiality, transience and effect.
But I reject the idea that somehow the central question is that the
artist needs protecting, as opposed to the issue that Hannah is centering, which is how images
of Black suffering circulate for a
certain kind of enjoyment and profit.
That show was largely about how there's
certain groups
of black
artists who do a
kind of work that is called Black Art.
In a lifetime
of making a
certain kind of painting, an
artist may find some
kind of transcendence in the production and some
kind of sign
of that transcendence in the work, but, as time passes, I'm not sure how immutable that transcendence is.
Lisa Espenmiller's paintings are reminiscent
of Agnes Martin, or a
certain kind of drawing
of the 60s and 70s, and the
artist in the front room, who works with acrylic nails, dental floss --
One
of the most significant
artists in the show is Carl Renner, whose large scale paintings on black backgrounds embody a
certain kind of 1950s cool.
«When one thinks
of the works
of contemporary African
artists, there's always a
certain kind of value attached to these works, what I call «the burden
of Africanism.
These young guys were spanning the spectrum
of this history
of art production in Los Angeles, and there really was a sense
of a sort
of renaissance, where not only were they receiving a great amount
of attention but they were simultaneously paying a
kind of a homage to a
certain group
of artists who had not received the international attention that they deserved.
It takes a
certain kind of courage for a post-Post-Minimalist
artist, born in 1971, to make such clearly articulated forms.
Each
artist wields a
certain kind of mojo that make human hearts skip a beat.
The exhibition «a
certain kind of Eden», at Burning in Water Art gallery in Chelsea, exquisitely explores the relationship
of the
artists» creation -LSB-...]
These paintings not only represent but also embody the
kind of intensive travel and networking that is essential for the accruement
of press and praise that often lifts
certain artists and their work into a heightened echelon
of contemporary popularity and discourse, if even only temporarily.
And due to the skill
of the con
artist (through the applying
of the power
of autosuggestion mostly) the victim will have some
kind of «revelation», by which and through it, he or she discovered so «cleverly», all by himself, the main and the very
certain way to success by «intellectually» valuating the best benefits in regard to future outcomes,,,,,,,,,,, in a single moment moving from imagination or otherwise a projection to a revelation or what otherwise could be considered as a very
certain prediction.