In these and other ways, the exhibition subtly probes
the essential nature of painting, distilling a simultaneity of object and image and emphasizing the time - based aspect of creation and reception.
In my view,
the essential nature of painting is that being flat, and also, very importantly, being bounded so that it consists of necessarily mutually defining relationships, it succeeds in embodying so many feelings and experiences, many of which we would never have but for the existence of the paintings which convey them.
Not exact matches
However,
painting does seem partial and subjective, it describes events and ideas and abstract emotions, which are
essential responses that are constantly connected to things and states
of human
nature.
His
paintings, stemming from this dual interest in the forces
of nature and abstraction, have strong gestural and textural qualities, intricate layering (with the strongest elements
of each layer coming through into the final work), and an evocative sense
of color and light that aim to distill something
essential from the natural world.
Johns's flat, graphic images
of common objects such as targets and flags prompt viewers to question the
essential nature of representation and whether these pictures are really
paintings or simply new iterations
of the items themselves.
Cynthia Daignault is always confounding our ideas about the
nature of painting — and asks if it has an
essential nature at all.
Her
paintings allow psychological, historical and geographical space to flow into one another, sensitively and intuitively summoning a feeling
of the experience
of nature on the writer and evoking the sense that the world in the
painting lies somewhere between our physical and more
essential interior world.
Gueorguieva discusses the
essential nature of studio time and the important, magical
nature of the
painting process: «A lot
of what I do has to do with a way
of thinking about space and time.
In 1951 Rauschenberg created his «White
Paintings,» in the tradition
of monochromatic
painting, whose purpose was to reduce
painting to its most
essential nature, and to subsequently lead to the possibility
of pure experience.
The path forward in art - historical terms was split between those artistic movements more aligned with deeper investigations into the increasingly
essential properties
of a particular medium or reductive practices (e.g., Abstract Expressionism, Color Field painting, Minimalism) and those movements that actively sought an expansion of the arts into a plurality of new forms, hybrid media, and interactive experience (e.g., expanded cinema, intermedia, installation art, performance).13 Of these choices, hippie modernism would follow the latter course through experiments that drew upon the theatrical qualities and the participatory actions of the Happening, embraced Fluxus's democratic spirit in its everyone - is - an - artist philosophy, explored the work of experimental filmmakers seeking to expand cinematic experience, and experimented with the fluid nature of light and sound as well as the interactive qualities of kinetic ar
of a particular medium or reductive practices (e.g., Abstract Expressionism, Color Field
painting, Minimalism) and those movements that actively sought an expansion
of the arts into a plurality of new forms, hybrid media, and interactive experience (e.g., expanded cinema, intermedia, installation art, performance).13 Of these choices, hippie modernism would follow the latter course through experiments that drew upon the theatrical qualities and the participatory actions of the Happening, embraced Fluxus's democratic spirit in its everyone - is - an - artist philosophy, explored the work of experimental filmmakers seeking to expand cinematic experience, and experimented with the fluid nature of light and sound as well as the interactive qualities of kinetic ar
of the arts into a plurality
of new forms, hybrid media, and interactive experience (e.g., expanded cinema, intermedia, installation art, performance).13 Of these choices, hippie modernism would follow the latter course through experiments that drew upon the theatrical qualities and the participatory actions of the Happening, embraced Fluxus's democratic spirit in its everyone - is - an - artist philosophy, explored the work of experimental filmmakers seeking to expand cinematic experience, and experimented with the fluid nature of light and sound as well as the interactive qualities of kinetic ar
of new forms, hybrid media, and interactive experience (e.g., expanded cinema, intermedia, installation art, performance).13
Of these choices, hippie modernism would follow the latter course through experiments that drew upon the theatrical qualities and the participatory actions of the Happening, embraced Fluxus's democratic spirit in its everyone - is - an - artist philosophy, explored the work of experimental filmmakers seeking to expand cinematic experience, and experimented with the fluid nature of light and sound as well as the interactive qualities of kinetic ar
Of these choices, hippie modernism would follow the latter course through experiments that drew upon the theatrical qualities and the participatory actions
of the Happening, embraced Fluxus's democratic spirit in its everyone - is - an - artist philosophy, explored the work of experimental filmmakers seeking to expand cinematic experience, and experimented with the fluid nature of light and sound as well as the interactive qualities of kinetic ar
of the Happening, embraced Fluxus's democratic spirit in its everyone - is - an - artist philosophy, explored the work
of experimental filmmakers seeking to expand cinematic experience, and experimented with the fluid nature of light and sound as well as the interactive qualities of kinetic ar
of experimental filmmakers seeking to expand cinematic experience, and experimented with the fluid
nature of light and sound as well as the interactive qualities of kinetic ar
of light and sound as well as the interactive qualities
of kinetic ar
of kinetic art.
Like many Impressionist landscapes, Morris»
paintings convey two things: first, his boundless love
of nature, along with a fascination for light, atmosphere and distance; second, his compositional ability, an
essential quality for rapid outdoor
painting.
Rosenquist's Sister Shreik, one
of his classic representations
of females and flowers; Prendergast's The Promenade, n.d., a post-impressionist
painting of a garden party with costumed women in a setting
of nature; Chagall's Le Repos, c. 1980 with its
essential bouquet offered by a lover floating above a village; and Ben Schonzeit's spectacular photorealist still life, Fred and Ginger Rose, 1997.
It is simultaneously one thing and several things — you can never see colour by itself, it is always affected by other colours... Colour relationships in
painting depend on the interactive
nature of colour; this is its
essential nature.
Because they were not
painted on something movable, each
of his works was site - specific and temporary, emphasizing the
essential fragility and ephemeral
nature of his art.
Her works —
paintings and installations that often establish dialogue between one another — are characterised by the use
of neutral shades such as black, grey and white, and by their geometric and
essential nature.