Sentences with phrase «focus attention on painting»

Indeed, 2017 will focus attention on painting with a series of special shows.

The same year he began exploring the idea of monochromatic canvases — a series of acrylic drawings consisting of white and off - white squares arranged into groups of three to five panels — but tabled the idea a year later to focus his attention on paintings organized around a nine square grid structure.

«Structures» At first LeWitt focused his attention on painting, he hired models and drew from life and copied Old Masters.

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«Overall, we're trying to paint an updated, accurate picture of what teens these days are facing across our nation so as to underscore the critical importance of devoting additional resources and attention to this persistent problem, and inform schools exactly what they should focus on,» said Hinduja.

When the children first viewed a Van Gogh painting, they focused on bold, bright colors and attention - grabbing objects: A striped house, vivid roses, dark trees painted against a light skyline.

My personal feeling is that I alway respond to painting abstractly - not paying much attention to ostensible subject matter, but instead focusing on the space, line, form, and color - the language of painting.

Vignetted - some background is painted but only to focus attention on the main image, with blank areas at the edges of the picture:

Tiffany Bozic and Alfred Steiner, also skillfully create work that combines painted elements from our world, to create new surreal compositions: Bozic focusing on the natural world, while Steiner draws our attention to contemporary culture.

At the same time, the thickly painted surfaces emphasize the shape of the pairs, focusing our attention on the surface and abstract qualities.

In the late 1980s and 1990s, Katz focused much of his attention on large landscape paintings, which he characterizes as «environmental,» according to The Whitney.

After his historical painting exhibited at Salon in 1865 attracted little attention, Degas decided to focus on scenes of modern life.

[13] From 1958 he purified his paintings by creating matte, monochrome surfaces, thus focusing the viewer's attention on the slices that rend the skin of the canvas.

Muniz challenges the viewer to look at these historic paintings through a new lens, focusing the attention on the literal creation of the works and the richness and purity of each colour used.

In a painting like this, all of the attention is very focused on the subject and the background is incidental.

Initially painted in a standard rectangular format, as a final step to the painting process the paintings were cut into unusual shapes to focus the viewer's attention on what's present and not present.

In the last few years he has focused his attention on his life - long love of Arabic calligraphy and fine art painting.

Headed first by Minna McLeod Beck and then Carol Sax, the Department focused on drawing, painting, and design, with particular attention to collaborating with the University's Little Theatre.

Using the American flag, Johns said, took care of a great deal for me because I didn't have to design it; that gave him the freedom to focus his attention on making paintings.

Focusing her attention on specific aspects of the weather, the beach shore, architectural details and plants that grow in these areas - Gallace's oil paintings are realized with wet - on - wet brushwork into formal compositions and completed on small wooden panels.

Much attention is being focused on the paintings of the late Japanese Gutai painter and Tendai monk, Kazuo Shiraga (1924 — 2008).

Focusing on a ten - year period between mid «40s and forth, Paintings New York at Hauser & Wirth brings attention to possibly the least - known aspect of Kaprow's decades - long career, bringing together a body of works at the gallery's uptown outpost, a location where the former Martha Jackson Gallery housed the artist's first Yard installation in 1961.

Now, well, she has focused her attention on pubic hair, lots of pubic hair, both in painting and photography, in a new book called «Plush,» for which there were only a limited edition of 500 printed with 10 deluxe copies, published by Richard Prince's Fulton Ryder book shop.

According to Flam, «John Yau focuses his attention on how the artist's pioneering paintings relate to life as it is lived — and on what they tell us about what it means to be mortal and alive in time.

Since then he has also painted rap and sports stars but for the most part his attention has focused on ordinary men of color in their everyday clothes.

Surface Tension focuses on a selection of contemporary artists whose approach to abstraction incorporates a range of materials, processes, and techniques — such as sanding, stitching, dying, and layering — to draw attention to the dynamic potential of a painting's surface.

The spaces's new fall look may make immediate comparisons between Still's approach to drawing and painting difficult to consider, but the museum is clearly attempting to focus much - needed attention on a historically overlooked aspect of a widely renowned figure of Abstract Expressionism.

Susan Main combines painting, drawing, video and projection to explore transitory phenomena, focusing on that which is on the periphery of our conscious attention.

That same year Erik began experimenting with monochromatic works — a series of acrylic drawings consisting of white and off - white squares arranged into groups of three to five panels — but tabled the idea a year later focusing his attention instead on paintings organized around a nine square grid structure (3 rows x 3 columns).

A concept that had roots in the action painting of Jackson Pollock, Process Art tended to focus attention onto the artist and his or her actions as much as on the finished product.

He takes time away from painting walls and focuses his attention on canvas.

She returned to the Bay Area and soon after focused on making wire jewelry as a way to earn a living but shifted her attention back to painting a few years later and had her first solo exhibition in 1954.

In Peggy Guggenheim's first gallery, Guggenheim Jeunne, the walls were painted white to focus people's attention on the paintings.

It was a difficult time to paint representational subject matter, as most critical attention was focused on abstraction.

Much attention is being focused on the paintings of the late Japanese Gutai painter and Tendai monk, Kazuo Shiraga (1924 — 2008), who for years has been collected throughout Europe, even as he has been virtually ignored in the United States.

Painting the woodwork and panelling in a moody blue / grey tone focuses the attention on the wallpaper panels depicting black swans in flight.

To focus attention on a single object, such as this antique sink, paint adjacent surfaces a softer, creamier white.