However,
some critics see these paintings as an indication that his ability and power is declining.
Not exact matches
The film looks gorgeous, and I've
seen lots of
critics compare its aesthetic to a
painting.
Some
critics saw the Race to the Top stipulations as federal strong - arming that allowed the Obama administration to
paint state adoption as entirely voluntary when, in fact, there were potential financial consequences for opting out.
It is inspiring to
see so many artists and
critics writing daily about
painting.
While a
critic of 1843
saw «a club, a people's bank or a phalanstery» in «this dream of the gardens of Academe,» and noted the unusual amalgamation of Horace's Odes and Plato's dialogues with the steamship and the telegraph, the expendability of these contemporary elements is revealed when L'Artiste announces that Papety, on the basis of critical advice, has replaced his steamboat with a Greek temple, «which,» remarks the anonymous
critic, with unconscious irony, «is perhaps more ordinary but also more severe than socialism in
painting.»
«Any kind of formal invention in the work of black artists was
seen as, if not second rate, then something done the second time around,» says Odita, noting that Clark laid claim to making the first shaped
painting — before Frank Stella — and that the king - making art
critic Clement Greenberg regularly visited Bowling's studio but never took the opportunity to write one word in support of his work.
So he is able to tell his somewhat patronizing guide, the French
critic Pierre Schneider, to
see Uccello's The Battle of San Romano as a modern
painting, a flat
painting, and to explain why Mantegna's Saint Sebastian bleeds no more than a piece of wood despite being pierced with arrows.
BIBLIOGRAPHY 2009 Helfand, Glenn, «
Critic's Pick: A Wild Night and a New Road,» artforum.com, January 2009 Now You
See It, SkyWest Magazine, January / February 2009, p. 38 Garrels, Gary, «Oranges and Sardines: Conversation on Abstract
Painting,» Hammer Museum: Los Angeles, 2009, pp. 11 - 12 and 32 - 47 Pagel, David, «Review: «Oranges and Sardines» at the Hammer», Los Angeles Times, January 2, 2009
Appeasing, flattering, or even prostituting oneself to corporate sponsors is par for the course when trying to keep a major museum afloat, but the Centre Pompidou in Paris had
critics seeing red when, in 2006, at a Pernod - Ricard — sponsored gala, it staged an unauthorized revival of the artist Yves Klein's most famous performance, Anthropométries, substituting the Yves Klein — blue
paint splattered on the performers with what looked suspiciously like the liquor brand's signature blue.
Free of the old formulas of Abstract Expressionism or informal art, leaving behind the repetition of geometric art, young artists and
critics saw in Reinhardt the affirmation of an ultimate
painting.
Critic Helen Sumpter suggests in her recent essay on Gabb: «It's almost as if Gabb had taken something of the cool colour field
paintings of Barnet Newman and turned them into something like the gestural action
paintings of Jackson Pollock... These extraordinary artworks could also be
seen as somewhat flighty but if they've become sculpture,
paintings should at least stay fixed in their final form, shouldn't they?
Does
painting have
critics «
Seeing Red»?
In an unexpectedly combative interview in advance of the show's installation, he spoke to Artspace deputy editor Karen Rosenberg about what
critics do or don't
see in his work, whether figurative
painting is having a resurgence, and why the word «political» carries so much baggage.
Ben Davis, a
critic at artnet News, felt that the
paintings,
seen together, reveal Martin's search for clarity.
Morris, a longtime East Hampton resident who died in 1979 at the age of 61, was an instructor at Cooper Union among other schools and was a visiting
critic at Yale University's graduate school in addition to being in the collections of the Guggenheim and Whitney Museums, but it is easy to
see why this
painting might have been lost in an era defined by aggressive masculinity.
A few years before the memorable crit at MassArt, his work had been included in the Corcoran Gallery's 40th Biennial of Contemporary American
Painting, which
critics saw as an antidote to the «camp and kitsch» of figurative painters like David Salle and Eric Fischl.
Although the heretical «maximalist» Stella divided
critics, his extravagant flights into literal space extended his definition of
paintings as objects and
seeing as a physical act.
Having
seen this
painting in the landmark 1905 Van Gogh retrospective at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Paul Cassirer, the leading German gallerist of the time, placed it immediately afterwards in his own traveling exhibition, which alerted the German public, art
critics, historians, and contemporary painters alike to the achievement of an artist who was rapidly achieving legendary status.
Painters including Jackson Pollock (1912 — 56), Willem de Kooning (1904 — 97), Franz Kline (1910 — 62), Robert Motherwell (1915 — 91), Mark Rothko (1903 — 70), Barnett Newman (1905 — 70), Adolph Gottlieb (1903 — 74), Richard Pousette - Dart (1916 — 92), Clyfford Still (1904 — 80) and Lee Krasner (1908 — 84)
saw the individual process of art - making as equal to or more important than the final result, and art
critic Harold Rosenberg coined the phrase «action
painting» to refer to this overriding significance of the act of
painting.
I prefer the innocent reaction of those who might think that they
see cloud shapes in my
paintings to what [a
critic] says that he
sees in them.»
In the catalog essay «The Elbow and The Milky Way,» the
critic John Yau writes of how Mr. Jensen's
paintings «can not be
seen all at once... [and] must be experienced both visually and physically.»
Larry Poons's lyrical color
paintings were first exhibited at the Greene Gallery in 1962, where they left an immediate impression upon the artists,
critics, and collectors who
saw the show.
Hodgkin's incidental connection to the Bloomsbury set, reinforced by his own studio's Bloomsbury address, would later bring him grief at the hands of some
critics, who wanted to
see in his
paintings an equivalent to the domestic designs produced for Fry's Omega Workshops.
The first exhibition failed to draw positive criticism, driving the artist to give up
painting in 1921, but the second exhibition received strong support from
critics, including Henry McBride of The New York Sun, who, admitting his own delay in recognizing Eilshemius» talent, wrote «Suddenly, like another St. Paul, I
see a great light and the scales drop from my eyes.
Thus, we could
see in Stamos's
paintings of the 1960s — with their expanses of near - monochrome pigment and spare deployment of geometric shapes — an affinity with color - field canvases by Jules Olitski, Helen Frankenthaler, and other painters championed by the formalist
critic Clement Greenberg.
A
critic in Berlin praised Jack Tworkov for dispensing with ready - made premises and assumptions,
seeing the world afresh, and
painting what is «real.»
As objects, the
paintings were flat and screen - like, and
critics saw them as a calculated affront to the sensual
paint handling of Willem de Kooning, the Abstract Expressionist who was then the senior figure of the New York School.
Pollock
saw her work with
critic Clement Greenberg in 1946 at Peggy Guggenheim's The Art of This Century Gallery and the next year Pollock began flinging and pouring
paint.
And in the hey day of Modernism,
critics like Clement Greenberg pursued a narrative which
saw Modernist
painting as a «peculiar form of tunnel vision leading away from pictorial depth and compositional complexity towards flatness, all - overness and the absence of association.»
In its first run, at the New Museum in Manhattan, Peyton's exhibition was packed; but it also attracted hostile reviews from
critics who
saw her
paintings as shallow, celebrity - obsessed ephemera.
Many
critics have somewhat misleadingly identified these darker
paintings with Rothko's «dark side» and
seen in them a symbol of the increasing depression of his last ears but this view is a simplistic categorization give in hindsight that misinterprets Rothko's original intentions.
«Your first reaction on
seeing Robert Colescott's
paintings is to laugh out loud,» wrote Washington Post art
critic Paul Richard in 1988.
These works just didn't cohere, and most of Johns's work had been nothing if not coherent, sometimes internally so (e.g. the Targets, 1955 ---RRB-, and sometimes in conspiracy with the viewer (The
Critic Sees, 1961, or
Painting with Two Balls, 1960).
Notably, 1953 was also a pivotal year for de Kooning, who finally found staunch critical support and solid financial success following the exhibition of
paintings and drawings from his Woman series at the Janis Gallery that spring.22 By then, Rauschenberg had known de Kooning for a year or more and had
seen him on occasion, often through their mutual friend Jack Tworkov (1900 — 1982), who sublet studio space from de Kooning.23 Even as other details of the Erased de Kooning Drawing story changed, Rauschenberg always insisted that he chose de Kooning out of deep respect for his work and because there was no question that a drawing of his would be considered art — and this was more true than ever in 1953.24
Critic Leo Steinberg later reported asking Rauschenberg whether he would have erased a drawing by Rembrandt, to which he replied no.
Some
critics are quick to
see the influence of Edward Hopper's Gas (1940) in Ruscha's 1963 oil
painting, Standard Station, Amarillo, Texas.
Critic Dore Ashton, who visited the University of New Mexico in 1950, notes: «One of my enduring memories was
seeing, for the first time, a
painting by Richard Diebenkorn — a golden vision of the Southwest, abstract, with small currents of shadow drawing by the winds in the sands, and filled with the special light that still emanates from his
paintings.»
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Butler writes that both shows» [suggest] that a renewed interest in traditional genres — portrait, still life, landscape — is thriving within the
painting community... That galleries are positioning a new kind of
painting to replace what they (and many
critics)
see as a tired form of abstraction is a salutary development and very different from the days when the objectness of Minimalism, performance, installation, and electronic media challenged
painting.»
Instead of paying attention to the
paintings on the walls, the powdered beaux and magnificently coiffed women
saw the exhibition,
critics complained, as one huge pick - up opportunity.
In past decades, of course, a divide was deep and intense, yet a handful of artists and
critics, especially those interested in landscape
painting,
saw a productive union or practical non-differentiation in methods.
Beloved New York artist and
critic Walter Robinson gained the notice of lifestyle maven Martha Stewart after she
saw some of his
paintings at Vito Schnabel «s gallery in St. Moritz, Switzerland's famous holiday resort.
[6] The show was well received by
critics, including Frieze Magazine [14] and The Brooklyn Rail, noting «Quaytman makes reference in the title to both the seat of
seeing (i am), and the classical meter of poetry», and «Quaytman's sophisticated dissection of the complexities of
seeing and the manifold aspects that inform perception is evident not only in individual works, but also in the relationship between specific works installed in the exhibition, and in the cumulative effect of the whole,» [13] and the New York Times «The
paintings in R. H. Quaytman's exhibition are cerebral, physically thought out and resolutely optical.
She called them Infinity Net
paintings and they were a hit with smart young artists and
critics like Donald Judd, who
saw in them something new being forged from something old, high art being conflated with craft, masculinity with femininity, individuality with multiplicity.
Seen in light of the collage
paintings, her earlier lettering foretells the obsessive grid by which
critics would long judge her entire generation.
In the early 1950s, inspired by her friend Jackson Pollock (where she
saw this staining effect in his work) and encouraged by
critic Clement Greenberg (with whom she was having a relationship), Frankenthaler found her original voice by pouring
paint onto unprimed canvases.
[9] Her visionary work, according to The New York Times art
critic Roberta Smith,
sees painting as multipurpose.
As Richard Dorment says in his review: «The phenomenon started in 1840 when John Ruskin, who was raised in the evangelical church, told readers of Modern Painters that Turner's pictures should be read as moral allegories — to which Turner replied that the
critic «
sees more in my pictures than I ever
painted.»
So while
critics gave these black
paintings a lukewarm reception — Pollock, says Delahunty, was devastated — other artists took notes: «They were
seen by Helen Frankenthaler, Frank Stella, Ad Reinhart, Robert Ryman, Morris Lewis, Kenneth Noland.»
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Mr. Salle's mission in «How to
See» is to seize art back from the sort of
critics who treat each
painting «as a position paper, with the artist cast as a kind of philosopher manqué.»