A film comedy directed with the grace of a ballet, the painstaking
detail of an action painting and the affection of a love song, Playtime is one of the most sublime celebrations of individualism in the alienated landscape of modern urban life and consumer culture.
Not exact matches
They are also asking for an overall review nine months into the program; the redeployment
of staff and resources from projects like station
painting and retiling to signal repair and track inspection; better ways to report causes for subway delays; and a comprehensive plan for the future that
details how work from the Subway
Action Plan will be carried forward over the coming years.
MINERVA CUEVAS (
detail) Crossing
of the Rio Bravo, 2010
Action, string, lime, water, brush, metallic bucket, historical documents, postcards, map, petrified wood, petrified dinosaur bone, tire piece, pavement
paint, rocks, compass, flowers.
Kuspit writes that «It seems possible to link Jukuchu's 18th - century Japanese nature
paintings to 19th - century European
paintings romanticizing nature... But European
paintings that «romanticize» nature, whether as ingratiatingly idyllic or in stormy
action, don't fully enlighten us about the truth
of nature as Jukuchu's
paintings do, however fewer the
details of nature on which they focus, not to say meditate.
He was no «
action painter,» but meticulously prepared for his major
paintings in suites
of detailed drawings, many
of which are in the show.
In addition to his favourite hobby
of copying the narrative «
action»
paintings of Old Masters, he specialized in small - scale
detailed works
of landscape
painting, executed in oils, containing a number
of human subjects and typically several features
of topographical or other interest, including crowds or military scenes.
As colorful as his cinematic,
action - packed
paintings, Morley is sipping a cappuccino at the Carlyle hotel in New York and reminiscing about how he came to be a pioneer
of photo - realism, the hyper -
detailed style
of painting that he prefers to call «super-realism» and that would help earn him the very first Turner Prize, in 1984, and the Francis J. Greenburger Award, which he received this spring.