Sentences with phrase «fashioned narrative paintings»

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The dominant narratives in our society paint a picture of happiness and ease, and fashion, beauty, weight loss, and pharmaceutical industries make a lot of money telling you there's something wrong with you if you're not calm and / or happy all the time.

Pulling from source materials imbued with personal narratives, Eric N. Mack fashions his compositions from worn or discarded textiles, Sam Moyer combines stone countertops extracted from their domestic settings with delicately painted canvases, and Kevin Beasley drenches housedresses, t - shirts, and du - rags from a discount store near his studio in Harlem in resin to shape gestural, even painterly, slabs.

In his oil on canvas paintings, the German artist Johannes Kahrs interprets mass media and visual culture in a highly intimate, personal, and subliminal fashion, while stripping the original content from its formal narrative and visual form.

In keeping with his signature approach, Marshall has painted his figures in strikingly opaque black pigments, both fashioning and abstracting their presences in order to assimilate the limitations and contradictions of style, subject, and chronology inherent in art - historical narratives written from a white, Western perspective.

He also reacted away from European Modernist fashions, towards the kind of narrative painting that had long existed in India, for example in the miniature paintings made for both Mughal and Hindu courts.

Here's what they will tell us: for abstract painting look elsewhere (narrative rules in this biennial); fashion — meets — art doesn't rate; LA, a city whose artistic vitality the curators see as ascendant, does; slipshod facture's out; the real world's not, just unwelcome in unmediated, text — based versions; performance figures in the planning; and film and video will «be selected from the point of view of two curators of contemporary art.»

He cites popular culture (cartoons, fashion photography, YouTube videos), personal narrative, and our embrace of online... read more... «New subjectivity: Figurative painting at Pratt Manhattan Gallery»