Sentences with phrase «defines ideas of painting»

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.

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This approach, editor Helen A. Harrison explains, «lies at the core of what was then being defined as the new American painting, although many artists would replace ideas with even more subjective stimuli such as experiences and emotions.

It was a moment when de Kooning turned to what he called the tableaux: «forcefully composed paintings with ideas of less frontal or variously posed figures in a well defined landscape space» (J. Cowart, «De Kooning Today,» de Kooning 1969 — 78, Gallery of Art, University of Northern Iowa, 1978, p. 15).

He defines systems in his work as «a way of communicating an intelligible idea in terms of shapes colours and forms, or an organisation principle that I predetermine and allow to run to see what the outcomes will be...» In his painting here, Triangles within a Dodecagon, he takes the regular twelve sided shape as its starting place and bases an equilateral triangle between two of the vertices, or along one of the sides.

I went on to define the technical ideas developed in the late 19th century that had been imposed on the sensibilities of the artists of the 20th century that worked against representational painting.

As Linda Nochlin famously pointed out in 1971, for centuries women were excluded from even attending the academies, never able to learn the skill - sets and tools of painting, and were persona non grata among those who defined the status quo and controlled the flow of ideas and capital.

Matthew Ritchie's installations, which integrate painting, wall drawings, light boxes, performance, sculpture, and projections, are investigations of the idea of information explored through science, architecture, history and the dynamics of culture, defined equally by their range and their lyrical visual language.

Using thick, impasto paint and heavy pigment he celebrated American culture, creating well - defined shadows not only of elements in his paintings but also of ideas typical to the country's middle - class.

Biography: Matthew Ritchie's installations, which integrate painting, wall drawings, light boxes, performance, sculpture, and projections, are investigations of the idea of information explored through science, architecture, history and the dynamics of culture, defined equally by their range and their lyrical visual language.

Steinberg championed Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, and Philip Guston when it mattered, with the idea of the picture as a «flatbed» that helped define Rauschenberg's combine paintings for others.

With more than 100 illustrations, Sean Scully: Vita Duplex provides a comprehensive look at the artist's visual oeuvre, as well as his world of ideas, and defines its place in the history of abstract painting.

The ideas that define the discipline of painting are as malleable as the material itself.

Athier's definitive idea of what «futuristic» looked like was strongly fused with the Metaphysical Painting movement, the Futurists and the Memphis movements throughout Europe in the early twentieth century, as well as early visual effects defined by the late 80s and early 90s aesthetic: bright colours and crude grid - based computer animation.

The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) presents Meleko Mokgosi: Acts of Resistance, an exhibition that includes a suite of new paintings by the artist that examines the idea of resistance, defined by Mokgosi as any instance in which a subject refuses to give in to the oppression of her or his spirit.

What both tendencies have in common is a rejection, or at least a deep skepticism, of formalism — a defining idea that Rubinstein's latest curatorial effort, Reinventing Abstraction: New York Painting in the 1980s at Cheim & Read, gets to the heart of.