Sentences with phrase «figures in the painting claim»

Meanwhile, figures in the painting claim to be out of not history, but art history, and they draw out critical clichés.

Not exact matches

Seven - figure settlement finalised in Ross Bleckner painting case A resolution has been reached in the long - fought legal dispute between actor Alec Baldwin and New York art dealer Mary Boone over a $ 190,000 painting by Ross Bleckner, which Baldwin claimed he was tricked into buying.

In contemporary reviews of that exhibition, the curator and art historian Andrew Wilson claimed that Rae's paintings upset «the traditional figure - ground relationship» (Wilson 1996 — 7, p. 9), while the critic Andrew Graham - Dixon described Untitled (emergency room) as «a picture of something about to take shape before it has actually done so» (Andrew Graham - Dixon, «On the Surface», Independent, 19 November 2006, http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/on-the-surface-1353083.html, accessed 15 June 2015).

Rego has also claimed that Willing suggested adding male figures to the painting, which she then based on her son Nicholas (who sat for her) and on a photograph of her husband (quoted in Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, p. 255).

This story is complicated, however, by figures like Roy Colmer (1935 - 2014), who in the early part of the decade made paintings inspired by video feedback and who claimed inspiration from Arshile Gorky and Jackson Pollock as well as Bruce Nauman and Nam June Paik.

All of the above concerns that Heilmann avoids figure in the claims that could be made about their paintings, claims that might be seen as overblown or pretentious nonsense.