White Cube, Bermondsey The body screams in Emin's latest show, which moves from crumbling,
fleshy paint to tortured bronzes, and shakes the tradition of the female nude to the core.
One is a crazed sketch of Rubens's
fleshy painting Samson and Delilah in the National Gallery while another portrays a tiny Freud gazing entranced at an immense nude — a caricature of Freud's Benefits Supervisor Sleeping.
Not exact matches
Lovely Maria (Liv Corfixen, a
fleshier Bridgette Wilson) is having a nice glass of herbal tea (not really, but I'm
painting a picture here) with her good girlfriend Isabella (Charlotte Munck) when Isabella's nutty grandparents drink chicken blood, hold hands, and accidentally summon a cat demon that possesses Maria's beloved kitty.
She
painted what she had become, a saggy,
fleshy, bespectacled granny.
The final products — small
paintings in which the artist's face shifts between abstraction and realism — are rendered in that
fleshy skin tone.
The L.A. - based artist's tiny, nearly miniature
paintings are filled with enigmatic narratives — the gaping red mouth of what might be a small dog; a girl in an opulent bedroom lined with lush jungle - like wallpaper; seven small horses that gradually rise on their hind legs, the last one jumping onto a form resembling a
fleshy nose.
Cecily Brown explores youth and transience in kaleidoscopic compositions of
fleshy, abstracted figures, utilizing the materiality of
paint to replicate physical sensation and the illusion of motion.
Tyler incorporates the same
fleshy and lush quality of pink taffy - like
paint and energetic brush strokes.
All are pushed in the direction of bodily mimesis through considered assemblage, the creationof orifice - like holes and phallic protrusions, andby layering and staining with
fleshy - colored
paint.
Her outsized,
fleshy and frequently disturbing
paintings of naked women flout the rules of traditional nude
painting, challenging conceived notions of body image.
The
fleshy area also looks softer than any other section in the way the
paint is applied too.
This seems to contribute to my sometimes seeing the bottom «half» of the
painting as sitting forward of the top «half» and sometimes seeing the other harder shapes as framing the soft
fleshy area.
Scottish National Gallery of Art, Edinburgh 24 March — 16 September Jenny Saville graduated from Glasgow School of Art in 1992 and has spent the past 25 years
painting and drawing big,
fleshy, female bodies from angles that art history would perhaps prefer not to see.
Bathed in deep
fleshy peach, marine blue, and emerald green tones, the
paintings spontaneous configurations mime the rhythms found in musical scores.
From the
fleshy handling of
paint to the use of colour, violence and spectacle, Saville's selection shows the continuing preoccupations artists share with Rubens.
He
painted figures as
fleshy and threatening as Pablo Picasso's women, just when history was starting to worry about the lost perspective of real women — whether Lee Krasner and Joan Mitchell or the ones put on canvas for the male gaze.
His
paintings reveal a deep and colorful abstract landscape, using
fleshy colors reminiscent of the work of Cecily Brown.
Sick Head (1967 — 8), a
painting of an amorphous
fleshy mess attached to an electrolysis machine, practically jumped from the wall.
This combination and juxtaposition of materials blurs the usual distinctions between figure and ground, creating a tension between the mass - produced and handcrafted elements that is further heightened by the contrast of the cold, flat stripe of faded metallic
paint across the
painting's lower edge and the
fleshy white of the oil
paint.
The London - based sculptor and video artist blends common artistic materials like plaster,
paint, and lacquer with unexpected organic — sometimes even edible — matter into forms that look
fleshy, gooey, and seductive, if not a bit intimidating.
Her application of
paint is sumptuous, dense and
fleshy.
Ahead of her first solo show at Brooklyn gallery Signal later this month, you'll find two of Kasey's voluptuous, Botero - like figures and dreamy, surrealist landscapes in Nicelle Beauchene's booth: a
fleshy, reclining figure, Person Lying on a Salty Beach (2015; $ 10,000), that hangs in the booth's interior and fake plant at a restaurant (2015; $ 8,500), a mysterious tableaux where a bellybutton, a pierced ear, and the tips of fingers curiously peek between leaves, which calls fairgoers into her
painted world.
When de Kooning
painted «women,» he used
fleshy pinks and bloody reds, but Park seems to have assigned color arbitrarily in «Two Bathers.»
Untitled (2012) is a departure from both the
fleshy tonality and graphic war imagery of the artist's larger
paintings.
I thought it would be interesting to pair them with some monochrome
paintings of mine, After Renoir Nudes, which are in
fleshy shades.
Freud famously stated that «I want the
paint to work as flesh does», and the large gallery lined with the
fleshy reality of his sitters such as the late Leigh Bowery or the magnificently abundant form of a slumbering Sue Tilley is worth the visit alone.
For the
fleshy pink brick
painting on the north wall, Thorne and her team outlined each brick in color pencil, with enough negative space between each brick to indicate cement.
«As the 1950s waned,» Mitchell's biographer Patricia Albers notes, «Joan's
paintings swung between... a dance of reds, greens, yellows, blues, and blacks, indebted to [Jackson] Pollock, on one hand, and, on the other, vigorous,
fleshy fists of
paint: blue blacks, greens, mustard yellows, and opaque whites» (P. Albers, Joan Mitchell: Lady Painter, New York, 2011, p. 281).
The cloudy brick - red field and
fleshy pink central band of text in Untitled (Check
Painting) # 13 inescapably allude to the feathered, muted reds of Rothko's monumental canvases or the bifurcating bands of Barnett Newman.
Like oil
paint being a physical oily skin, or poured pigment reading as blood, urine, semen... The physicality of
paint and the experience of living inside a
fleshy mass are intertwined for me.
Another of Anderson's
paintings, Oligarchs at an Olive Garden, contains a number of pink
fleshy masses and shoes, all done in a lumpy cartoon style that surely references the
paintings of Philip Guston.
Although Monument's size — some of the limbs are taller than an adult viewer — reinforces the idea that the
painting depicts (and, in itself, might be) a monument, the meaning of the
fleshy structure imagined by Guston remains ambiguous, and was never clarified by the artist himself.
On her arrival in New York back in the early 1990s, critics were quick to challenge her
paintings displaying images of
fleshy nymphets in various states of undress, which some perceived as paedophilic imagery.
Fraleigh's environments couple the seen with the unseen: swirling abstract spaces combine with bold voids of color; thick pours of
paint or lustrous metallic leafing obscure
fleshy forms; turned heads and cropped faces reject the viewer's gaze.
Stef Driesen merges in his
paintings the human figure with the natural landscape, incorporating sensual brushstrokes and a
fleshy palette.
Made with a palette knife in dense,
fleshy layers of oil, gesso, and linen, Winner's sculptural
paintings expose their own accidents and mistakes, laying bare the seams.
A talented draughtsman and former student of Arshile Gorky, Burkhardt thought
painting must have careful drawing as its basis: He always sketched in pencil, pastels, or ink before building up his heavily layered,
fleshy surfaces in oil.
The Los Angeles - based artist Matt Greene is becoming known for his ethereal landscapes of
fleshy fungi and bushy bombshells,
paintings that explore his favorite shelves in the library: vintage pornography, fairy tales, horticulture, horror films, nineteenth - century Symbolist art, and, of course, the history of Modernism.
Although they came to public attention by skillfully and boldly reclaiming the tradition we most treasure in art — society portraiture — during what was mainly a boom time (when such a phenomenon is to be expected), today each
painting, after its zesty explosion of
fleshy luminosity, also ends up feeling trivial, undernourished and unsustaining.
The work's bold,
fleshy pinks interplay with sinewy, supple blues and delicate yellows to create a dynamic, lyric
painting that is at once wholly abstract and yet curiously representational.
Saville made her name with giant
paintings of
fleshy, flawed bodies.
Fleshy pink oil
paint looks variously laid on with a palette knife, a small brush and maybe even fingers.
German painters Michael Toenges and Peter Tollens, in thrall to the hedonistic,
fleshy qualities of
paint itself, explore different positions from the big, pluralistic manifesto of abstraction.
The
paintings and collages by Mr. Prince depict tropical settings filled with
fleshy women, Rastafarians with cascading dreadlocks, electric guitars and black bodies.
In all of these
paintings, Guérin builds dense,
fleshy surfaces that rise from the flat canvas, besmear it, and transform it into a vision all her own.
It's a super pale
fleshy pink - even paler than what appears on this
paint chip.
We decided we were ready for a little refresh, and the things we wanted to tackle were the fluorescent light, the unfortunate and most embarrassing state of our laundry sink which you'll see at the end of this post, and of course the offensive
fleshy swine color
painted on the walls.
That dry
fleshy pink
paint color has nearly been the death of us.
Oh how I hate «
fleshy» colored
paints.