Sentences with phrase «conventional ideas of painting»

More interesting is the element of undoing in this work, the way in which the artist makes and then breaks down his source connections, so to speak, undoing and defacing conventional ideas of painting, beauty, form, and structure.

Wade is working in what by now is a pretty venerable tradition, against the conventional idea of painting» (A. Temkin quoted in, R. Smith, «Dots, Stripes, Scans: Wade Guyton at the Whitney Museum of American Art.»

Not exact matches

We tend to think of the history of art as a series of exceptionally unique ideas, but in fact, the figurative painting tradition is deeply conventional, and artists have mined narrow spaces for invention.

Drawing on the ideas explored in one of our current exhibitions Painting in the 2.5 th Dimension, the panel of leading artists, writers and curators will discuss contemporary painting practices that rethink the conventional mediums of the disPainting in the 2.5 th Dimension, the panel of leading artists, writers and curators will discuss contemporary painting practices that rethink the conventional mediums of the dispainting practices that rethink the conventional mediums of the discipline.

Noting that the Project Space is not designed for the conventional display of paintings, Cavers will allow intuition and gut feeling to guide him in the exploration of a freestanding display system, which questions and defines ideas of painting placement, in an entertaining and inventive manner.

«Throwing the objects together introduces an element of randomness and subverts the conventional idea of the sober, ordered still life painting,» Thane says.

His current body of work is a series of «painthings,» formal sculptural objects made exclusively of paint; these objects play with ideas of representation in abjection to conventional hegemony of the image.

However if the idea of being underground seems antithetical to the south of France, there is much to be seen above ground with a solo show of paintings and sculpture by Tracey Emin in another beautiful and more conventional suite of galleries designed by French architect Jean - Michel Wilmotte.

Ryan Peter Miller's body of work objectifies paint, playing with ideas of representation in objection to conventional hegemony of the image.

JB The idea of a wet painting speaks to this more stereotypical or conventional understanding of what painting is.