Not exact matches
Since the
early days, Kirby games have evolved and included a variety of features and
functions, ranging from a simple and charming yarn aesthetic to a magical world of
paint.
It was first build in the
early 18th century with primary
function in 1945 as a court of law and then became a historical building displaying an array of
paintings.
Bacon: We were talking
earlier today about how, since the whites in your work are not
painted, by you at least, since the canvas comes to you from the manufacturer already primed with that white ground, and then you didn't
paint the top, but you
painted the bottom half, it
functions almost literally like a bank, right?
Whereas Bickerton's
early works tackle form,
function, and communication, with sometimes single words acting as the entire
painting, his later figurative pieces are visually deafening, with bright color and cluttered objects mirroring the over-the-top excess featured as the work's subject.
Similarly, his
early assemblage
paintings, which included
functioning objects and gadgets, present shifting images that advance and retreat depending on the viewer's relative position, like stage sets that can be seen but not entered.
At a very
early stage he starts adding various materials to the ground of his
paintings and they have various
functions; they change the surface, but also influence the composition, undermining the more literal shapes and
painted forms, or are used to reinforce the more formal linear structure.
Rothko's first fully abstract
paintings, the Multiforms represent the crucial fulcrum point of his career,
functioning at once as a direct reckoning with his figurative work of the
early 1940s and a bridge toward his later classic
paintings.
In an
early «dark» style particularly, his
paintings functioned as a kind of fever chart of the ecstasies and the torments of his sense of isolation.
Rail: So many of your
paintings are in dialogue with
early painting from art history — it's very clear that there is a deep awareness of the history of images and how they
function.