Sentences with phrase «common practice of painting»

In his canvases, Zhang reflects the government's common practice of painting green on the bottom portions of the wall in the 1960s and 1970s.

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Painting, printmaking and photography have all been integral to his practice which places an emphasis on a lengthy scrutiny of common - place objects.

This ritual reflects a common tradition among cultures that practice sand painting — allowing for new drawings to be made while also speaking to the impermanence of life and the cyclical nature of the universe.

Traveling widely from her home in Brooklyn, Halvorson's experiential process reaches outside the more common studio - based painting practices of New York City, taking her to train yards in Tennessee, a slaughterhouse in Iceland, and the English countryside.

The finished work will give the appearance of an orchid, a common motif found in Asian ink paintings, often done as practice in learning how to control brushstrokes, but also for the discipline of caring for the fragile Asian flower that serves as the artist's model, a task that demands patience and knowledge meant to measure the virtue and status of the revered flower's caretaker.

With historical distance we may begin to discern a common thread running through French postwar abstract painting, across many disparate practices and over multiple generations: a recurring pattern of lightness of tone, of silence, absence and withdrawal.

He says he explores the relationship between common household objects and the rarefied art world in a fast paced and disorderly daily practice wherein particular places, histories and narratives unfold within the fluid context of abstract painting.