Sentences with phrase «difficult painting medium»

Not exact matches

Today he is widely known for his ability to capture the beauty and moods of the places where water joins land, controlling the difficult medium of watercolor, often in very large paintings.

Through years of experimenting and refining, he has developed his own mixtures of oil paint and beeswax and has mastered the difficult medium of encaustic to achieve restrained but lush pictorial effects.

In that period I was beginning to consider painting with oil and both Jensen's scraped, palette knifed surfaces and the surfaces of Hartley's late works, painterly and sculptural also, even when relatively thin, were both helpful mentors in my transition to this difficult rich medium.

John Yau offers a tribute to the late painter Michael Mazur, whose early paintings of apes in a zoo were recently exhibited in New York: «This is the kind of challenge that most artists, no matter what the medium, avoid: to confront and stroke difficult subject matter, to be open and sympathetic without trivializing or becoming sentimental.»

These works were difficult to categorize: though I thought of myself as a painter, as I had earlier when working with gouache on paper, in defiance of the rules left over from Greenbergian formalism in the New York School that made oil or acrylic on canvas the probative medium, these were not paintings.

In Ligon's paintings, the instability of his medium — oil crayon used with letter stencils — transforms the texts he quotes, making them abstract, difficult to read, and layered in meaning, much like the subject matter that he appropriates.

It is difficult today to imagine a time when learning about a particular paint medium required extensive legwork.

Sept. 26 — Dec. 19, 2015 «RENEE STOUT: Wild World» @ Hemphill Fine Art Washington, D.C. Working in a range of mediums from painting and photography to assemblage, Renee Stout «confronts difficult realities in her personal life and attempts to better understand the human condition.»

«RENEE STOUT: Wild World» @ Hemphill Fine Art Washington, D.C. Working in a range of mediums from painting and photography to assemblage, Renee Stout «confronts difficult realities in her personal life and attempts to better understand the human condition.»

You can be skeptical about painting, because you think it's perhaps difficult to create meaningful work in that medium.

Often, what is too difficult to say with words can be said by dolls, puppets, paints, or clay, among many other mediums of play.

Mediums such as paints, sand - tray and clay, may help you put words to difficult feelings and emotions in a non-threatening way.»