Sentences with phrase «ego out of painting»

Gaines wanted another way of making images, one that took the ego out of painting.

Although Gaines experimented with guration and abstraction in painting, he ultimately looked for a different way to communicate his ideas, one that took the expression and the ego out of painting.

Not exact matches

This method of simultaneously revealing and concealing summons Duchamp's Fresh Widow (1920), a blacked - out window authored by Duchamp's female alter ego, Rrose Sélavy, and is significant in its ambivalence — positioned somewhere between painting and sculpture.

The marks and gestures in these and other paintings don't have a telltale signature or a sense of the artist's ego yearning to burst out in full cry.

Then there are even a few artists who make painting - like things out of nontraditional materials like Valerie Snobeck (sculptural objects), Sheila Hicks (textiles), and Donelle Woolford (wood; also Woolford is actually a fake alter ego invented by artist Joe Scanlan).