Sentences with phrase «deadpan painting»

A deadpan painting of 1963 shows a row of three men's socks, each displayed as they would be in a shop window or in an advertisement.

Perhaps Wayne Thiebaud's deadpan paintings of people against blank backgrounds were an inspiration.

Not exact matches

Magnussen was straightforward in his prediction for the race: «I think we'll be swapping more paint than usual,» the Dane deadpanned.

Early in her career, Plimack Mangold painted deadpan trompe l'oeil of her wooden floor.

The paintings after 2005 — a collage of grids in different scales colliding at different angles; a counterpoint of impasto freestyle painting, or silk - screened commercial imagery, or an expanse of text with the deadpan look of an old phone book.

With deadpan drollery, LaDuke raced through a gamut of concerns, from abject life to brutish death, presenting images of paintings that veered from the photorealistic to the abstract and of extraordinarily painstaking, lifelike sculptures.

Having an idiosyncratic approach to Surrealism, he avoided stylistic distractions of most modern painting, settling on a deadpan, illustrative technique that clearly articulated the content of the work.

We will also show small photographs by Sam Samore from his deadpan, 1973 The Suicidist series and a sixteen - foot wide 1998 automobile painting by Andreas Schulze.

His paintings may resemble billboards, or they may adopt the more intimate scale of the painted sketch, but they are always... portraits in an extended sense — slices of life ennobled by a deadpan iconic American eye.»

- Richard Prince Painted in 1990, If I Die is one of Richard Prince's celebrated series of monochromatic joke paintings; the deadpan, visual expressions of humor that have been the mainstay of the American artist's career.

His text paintings on monochrome canvases or found panels overspray lettering in missives urging the exploration of sexuality, the committing of suicide, or deadpan self - description.

Ruscha achieved recognition for paintings incorporating words and phrases and for his many photographic books, all influenced by the deadpan irreverence of the Pop Art movement.

Titled «Anna», Osborne will show a number of new large works alongside a series of smaller scale paintings on linen.Osborne works with deadpan juxtapositions.

Stubbs» earlier paintings look like cakes but also, in their deadpan way, seem to allude to the painterly abstraction of artists like Robert Ryman or Jasper Johns.

A BLOCK AWAY AT THE VENUS OVER MANHATTAN GALLERY, run by Observer columnist Adam Lindemann, there are 10 haunting photorealistic paintings that are as chilly and deadpan as Mr. Melgaard's art is violent and sybaritic.

Isolating key sentences and phrases from the novel for his paintings and drawings such as «In California you chew the juice out of grapes and spit away the skin, a real luxury,» «the holy con man began to eat,» or «fit and slick as a fiddle,» Ruscha adds another layer of deadpan aesthetic analysis to Kerouac's original and radical use of language.

His paintings of deadpan phrases such as «I Du n no» and «Just Us Chickens» read like absurdist love poems written in the sky.

There is also a lot of strong monochromatic painting, by artists like Marcia Hafif (a small, bright, handsome, yellow enamel square), Olivier Mosset (a small off - white square, typically flat and deadpan), Kathy Drasher (a warm, peachy decagon with a poetic bit of text) and Daniel Levine (another square, this one an ethereal, almost glowing, white).

The seductive forms that inhabit her paintings are consciously anthropomorphic and deadpan.

With clear references to folk painting, the lack of context and disjoint between the deadpan emotion and activity also evoke Surrealist work.

The abstract gestures in Kissick's latest renderings drift in the space between the deadpan and the ironic, while remaining committed to the sheer materiality of paintings as objects.

As well as paintings and drawings, it will feature several deadpan sculptures, including a stuffed Jack Russell holding a placard that states, «I'm dead» (a Surrealistic joke that would surely have pleased Magritte).

Masquerading as yet another example of the least offensive, most intellectually bent paintings of the era, a Prince Hood is in fact a deadpan coronation of the devil - may - care American badass.

Columns and reviews Associate editor Pablo Larios writes a fan letter in praise of the late Guy Davenport; Olivia Laing discussed the enduring relevance of Philip Guston's «Klan» paintings amidst recent racial tensions in the US; Krzysztof Kościuczuk observes how «necropolo,» a new genre of macabre, deadpan music in Poland, reflects current political anxieties; Ben Eastham witnesses a revival of state - of - the - nation novels in his review of Virginie Despentes's book trilogy, «Vernon Subutex»; Andrew Mellor surveys the London Sinfonietta, past and present, as it celebrates its 50th anniversary; and Elvia Wilk asks whether live - action role play can help us overcome social obstacles in the art world.

I don't get the point of Mr. Cain's paintings or Ms. Linn's deadpan snapshots.

Drawing on a variety of sources that also included his own drawings, prints and artist's books, Ruscha was often associated with the west coast cool style, but ultimately his work confounded the art world with its sly and elusive sense of deadpan humor, as seen in his series of bird paintings and in the liquid word paintings that rounded out the decade.

The letters themselves, their sound and their shape, are the subject of the painting and telegraph Reeder's potent deadpan humor.

Pacific Standard Time hopes to establish Los Angeles as an equal player in the post-World War II art world by spotlighting its unique contributions, including David Hockney's dazzling swimming pool paintings, Ed Ruscha's deadpan - humorous prints and the lifestyle - defining furniture of Charles and Ray Eames.

It might be as simple as flipping a picture upside down — Georg Baselitz's paintings, which you'll find at Galerie Thaddeus Ropac's booth, can strike as immensely funny in that simple gesture — or it could come through repetition, parody, deadpan delivery, ironic detachment, messy execution or tongue - in - cheek titles.

His reinterpretation of famous masterpieces were both pop and expressionistic at the same time, but he steered clear of the deadpan commercialization of pop with his luscious painting surfaces where color ruled.

Like Joseph Cornell's work, Mr. Johnson's art combined deadpan relief drawing, painting, lettering and found objects as well as abstract mosaic elements.

Viewers who see only deadpan materialism in Lawson's «Jizo Paintings» can find precedents for it in the work of Robert Ryman and elsewhere.

Jianyi first earned recognition with his oil paintings of deadpan laughing faces, such as The Second Situation, 1987, which was featured in the controversial 1989 group show «China / Avant - Garde» at the National Art Museum of China in Beijing, marking the artist's move to collage, photography, video, and conceptual installations.

Since the late 1980s, he has made deadpan, at times dour paintings that embrace politics as their subject matter, while tending toward compact brushwork and scales of gray rather than flashy colors and bravura expression.