Sentences with phrase «different subjects of your paintings»

Before your arrival I was looking at the images and thought they were related to the different subjects of your paintings.

Not exact matches

After a brief account of the history of the church's ambivalent understanding of art, Trotter proposes a scheme for identifying three types of «religious» art, going beyond subject matter to the effect different paintings have on us.

PT: In his catalogue essay for Yearning Upwards, Neil Plotkin makes a case that painting a tree is akin to riffing on a jazz standard in that the «standard offers the opportunity to consider a familiar subject from a different point of view.»

I followed this one up with the post on «The benefits of a series» and at the end of it all I have cemented a loose concept into a formal plan that will give me a range of five different subjects to work on, as well as use drawings and paintings from each of these «portfolios» to contribute to a central series theme.

Fishman is currently the subject of two large exhibitions: «Louise Fishman: A Retrospective» at the Neuberger Museum of Art acts as the 77 - year - old's first comprehensive show, while «Paper Louise Tiny Fishman Rock» at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia displays an entirely different body of work, focusing on sketchbooks, smaller paintings and sculptures, and other rarely - seen items.

She believes in continually painting a variety of subject matter, enjoying the varied challenges and stimulation that different subjects offer.

He will pay particular attention to how this process played into the creation of his most recent project, A Trilogy of Burials, a series of abstract paintings, photographs, and multimedia images that are intended as a meditation on how different cultures have addressed mortality, a subject we often have a hard time discussing in Western society.

This exhibition of new paintings and cyanotypes provides evidence of the many different bodies of work McGinness has been exploring in recent years — from self - reflective Studio Views with process - referencing subject matter to iconic Signals, Skateboards, Mindscapes, and Black Holes.

Morley often finds his subject matter in different types of photographs (including pictures of old - master paintings, family portraits and images from travel brochures and calendars), which he transfers to the canvas using a grid system.

VMFA's painting directly relates to this award - winning 1927 publication for which Douglas produced related works, including versions of the same subject in different media.

Cubism: Cubism was a revolutionary new approach to representing reality invented in around 1907 by artists Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque who aimed to bring different views of subjects together in the same picture, resulting in paintings that appear fragmented and abstracted.

As a proactive member of the feminist art movement, she began adopting the photographic techniques and subject matter used in pornography to create a series of paintings that presented a different narrative from the fetishized one promoted by the porn industry.

The display of many series focussing on one subject from different periods in a major contemporary artist's career gives the audience a chance to see how his painting has evolved over time, including his technique, materials, and even his conception of the theme of portraiture.

«Offers a great insight into sources of [Sasnal's] inspirations and fields of interest: painting about painting, figurative painting and portraits, the history of Poland and travel shots... The book itself is a journey full of facts and intriguing perspectives on materiality and subject matter of Sasnal's paintings and his way of deconstructing the different symptoms of current times... Jam - packed with fascinating personal stories and facts from the artist's life.

The architecture, the light, the colors, and the different textures of the space in the building are all compelling subjects, and this piece has pushed my boundaries as an artist, opening up new perspectives on watercolor painting.»

London's Kensington Gardens, where Wylie recalls seeing dogfights in the sky as a child during the Blitz (the artist's older brothers taught her to recognize different aircraft), are the subject of Park Dogs & Air Raid, a new four - canvas painting created specifically for the Serpentine exhibition.

Neel's work, is an assimilation of many different moments and moods, a distillation of many hours of scrutiny of the subject that concludes in a single summarising image where the impressions captured over time are related not simply through an image but through the material quality of paint, the flicks of the wrist and the movements of an arm, paint laid on hastily and contours outlined slowly.

For decades we debated different questions: What is the subject of abstract painting?

Food is the subject of two paintings with the same topic, a plate of salad, albeit in different ways that seem relevant to her chosen materials.

It seemed that if one wanted to get away from such things as the American scene or social realism and perhaps cubism, this offered a possibility of a way out, and the hope that given a subject matter that was different, perhaps some new approach to painting... might also develop.»

It wasn't just that it «looked» quite good because of the subject matter (it did), or that it looked like the artist had some really good painting skills (it did), or even because it was eye catching in a different frequency from most works (it was).

For instance, in hanging Auerbach's Head of E.O.W. [Stella West], 1964, alongside Rembrandt's Portrait of Dr Ephraïm Bueno, 1645 — 47, we invite an exploration of the two intimate portraits, the different solutions for similar subjects and the artists» purpose and intention in creating the rich surface through hours of painting and intense observation.

Monet often painted a series of paintings with the same subject in different lighting conditions.

The artist explores the subject using different mediums and two distinct approaches: A series of portraits painted in oil with text and two large scale drawings which form a diptych.

This exhibition shows the artist's approach to this subject over different phases in his career, and spans from the 1980s to his latest paintings of monumental landscape.

This exhibit includes two groups of paintings that address different areas of subject matter.

The exhibition poses a relationship of visual analogy between Wesley's paintings and Andre's sculpture, looking at how each artist uses systematic approaches to different materials and subject matter.

As different as they may seem from her signature work, these paintings are startling in their revelation of the nascent strategies, subject matter and subversive disposition that Spero mined throughout her unconventional career.

-- Adrienne Baxter Bell, associate professor of art history at Marymount Manhattan College and author of George Inness and the Visionary Landscape «Richly illustrated, this thoroughly modern painting guide invites painters working in every medium, style, and subject matter to pull up an easel or open a sketchbook to explore new and different ways to think about painting.»

Exploring reflections and transparency, blooms of ink and layers of watercolor, paintings rendered over photo transfers onto wood panel, and favorite subjects rendered in perfect lighting, these four artists address their subject matter in different ways, but all are harmoniously linked in this breathtaking exhibit.

In Figure by a Pool (2008 - 2012) and Walking Figure by Pool (2011), which are essentially the same image painted in different colours, I couldn't help but see a slight nod to Hockney in subject matter, though whereas Hockney emphasises the harsh, bright surface of things in his swimming pool paintings, what makes Doig's paintings so distinctive is what he does to the surface — how he draws attention to and manipulates the texture and palette of his surfaces; not flattening them out, or making them uniform, but dividing them up to create intriguing and, at times, unsettling contrasts.

THE often controversial Turner Prize provided a shock of a different kind yesterday when an artist known for painting the most conventional of subject matters - such as landscapes and still life studies - was shortlisted for the award.

THE often controversial Turner Prize provided a shock of a different kind yesterday when an artist known for painting the most conventional of subject matters - such as landscapes and still...

Grace Weir, A Reflection on Light, 2015 A meditation on time and the nature of light «A reflection on light» consists of a seemingly single long take that weaves together events from different histories and disciplines that orbit a painting whose subject is light by the Irish Cubist artist Mainie Jellett.

Though related in subject matter, the works of each gallery function differently; and the experience of each set of works is different: the tension of the temporary wall drawing is a set against the solid relief and forms of the painted objects.

The painting, whose reclining figure «has a sensuous, alluring posture, looks back at the classical traditions of the nude in a very different way» than in the treatment of similar subjects by other artists.

Colour is meticulously distributed and contrasted in sections, creating volume and dimension, and serves as an emotive indicator, while different uses of texture and clear divisions of the painting's surface allow the viewer to enter the psychological depth of his subject matter.