Sentences with phrase «history of painting»

His use of broad loose strokes and translucent colour - fields shows a profound connection with the rich history of painting, as an acknowledgement and observation of those painterly traditions.

At the heart of the 1968 project is an appreciation for the shared material histories of painting and the so - called decorative arts.

I have a fifty - year history of painting, many different kinds of painting.

He employs multiple approaches to the figure / ground relationship, recalling his personal history of painting.

I did my recent paintings specifically in response to a very particular history of painting.

I went through my own history of painting and wrote down on small wooden cards 300 separate elements or ingredients, which were different features found in my own past work.

That is, he is concerned with the long history of painting as a platform for conveying an individual point of view, returning painting to its polemical status.

In his introduction to this show, John Roberts shows awareness of the slippery state of «realism» by prefacing his comments on the paintings by a history of

According to a press release, it is «difficult to overstate the importance of Oehlen's work to the recent history of painting, [though] it is also challenging to find a comfortable resting point for him within the story of contemporary art.

This defence expert has a long history of painting injured claimants as malingerers and vilifying those in pain as fakers — despite repeated rebukes from triers of fact for having done so (examples below)-- and despite a «long line» of case law refuting this insurer - friendly sentiment.

Plus Gallery published her first monograph «New Territory» in 2010 documenting her entire history of paintings dating back to 2003.

Steir continues to self - reflexively explore the grand history of painting in her work.

As a group (which also included Gabriel Laderman, Louis Finkelstein, and Louisa Matthiasdottir among others), they refused to accept the conclusions of previous generations, each choosing to re-work their way through the whole history of painting.

We see it so much in the recent art history of painting that we forget that Surrealism's first start was in literature, and how it took hold of sculpture and photography early on.

As of November 2017, this website now contains reference images and information on all 584 numbered works published in Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné, 2016, including the exhibition history of each painting.

To mark the appearance of such work of this rarity, Jason Andrew, Manager / Curator of the Estate of Jack Tworkov offers a brief history of the painting and its relationship to its time and place.

People have been painting since the stone age, and the conscious, written history of painting goes back to ancient Greece.

Chemists can use these distinct chapters in the technological history of paint to help determine the authenticity of a work of art.

Here, then, are notes towards another chapter of my once and future history of painting in New York.

Painting in the 1960s was meant to be a terminal affair, the moment when the entire history of painting absorbed all its own verities: image, surface, brushstroke.

Tension lies in a familiar composition, which points to the white male - dominated history of painting (The Twain Shall Meet, 2015, recreates Vilhelm Hammershøi's 1899 painting Interior), and in the patterns of textiles that furnish her works, which suggest of the corruption in Nigeria's recent political history.

Modernist Women in Germany, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany Katrin Plavčak and friends: History of Painting Revisited, curated by Katrin Plavčak, Function Room, London Drawing Biennial 2015, Drawing Room, London Present Conditional, Mier, California

A New Spirit in Painting set out to survey an alternate history of painting in order to assess the current state of the medium, drawing over 150 works from both established and emerging artists.

Employing a variety of techniques and painterly vocabularies, Quaytman knowingly explores the complex history of painting.

Although Cain acknowledges the long and storied history of painting, acknowledging the importance of small but daring gestures by artists like Richard Tuttle and Elizabeth Murray, she also takes pleasure in shaking things up a bit, and watching the ramifications rattle off accordingly.

Kantarovky's diverse range of references results in images that are attached to broad histories of painting, literature, and the popular arts but experienced in intimate and humorous episodes.

So all of a sudden, the wall itself, as a painted object, becomes a site to think through, as part of an overall history of painting, and this very basic and fundamental relationship between a painting and its wall can emerge as a much more complex and layered one, which I guess is what led to some aspects of the Wattis show, in terms of it being a show of wallpaper — or walls merged with painted paper.

This volume's broad sweep of material, all from a The Metropolitan Museum of Art, makes it at once a universal history of painting and the ideal introduction to the iconic masterworks of this world - renowned institution.

Reed: It amazes me that in New York there's a history that painters know, a street history of painting, that is totally different from the history that the museums know and the history that is written about in books.

So even as a child I felt a proximity to a certain history of painting which had a foot in both urban modernism and regionalism.

At the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, curators Eric Crosby and Bartholomew Ryan have organized «Painter Painter,» an exhibition comprising work by fifteen artists, some of whom are working with painting materials in ways that are often labeled «painting» but may be more firmly rooted in Minimalism and Process Art than with the formidable history of painting and abstraction.

«Having no sacred thoughts on the persistence of a modern history of painting, hanging on the wall, it is subtly profane like the best of Cattelan's work - irreverent but sly,» Sirmans says.

Bitumen (1986) is a work from the first decade of his career, when Winters was exploring such basic natural processes as crystal formation, fungal growth, and (as in this oil on linen painting) cellular division and was equally immersed in the natural history of painting itself.

Painting's fall from grace has precipitated quite a few exhibitions dedicated to revisionist and alternative histories of painting, including «Reinventing Abstraction: New York Painting in the 1980s,» organized by the critic Raphael Rubinstein at Cheim & Read in New York over the summer.

For years now our museums and galleries have been presenting a ridiculously oversimplified history of painting in New York in the decades after World War II.

Louise Bourgeois at MOMA: I audibly gasped as I beheld the first wall of images: droops, bulges, swellings, sags — the shapes of women, shapes that no man has painted in the long history of painting shapes.

Ideal's layering illustrates a visual history of the painting's evolution while simultaneously concealing it, transforming the image into something altogether new.

However, what's most relevant about Bradford's work right now is the way his chosen materials — instead of expensive oil paint, he uses found and printed paper combined with Home Depot supplies — challenge the fraught history of painting and seek to subvert its tradition of cultural and market dominance.

Grisaille Paintings History of Painting Technique: Grey Pigments, Monochrome Paint.

Drawing on any number of figurative and abstract histories of painting the world around us, Crowner's work is a refreshingly nuanced interpretation, one that draws similar graceful curvatures and natural forms from cut and sewn canvases.

Although the artists are aware of the rich history of painting in New York, they aren't beholden to it.

Acknowledging the grand history of painting and the importance it still plays to this day in the ways we see ourselves, Williams has long considered the human figure to be the obvious vehicle to represent the human condition.

More important, the chief concerns of the best painters of the past two decades, in this country at any rate, have not had to do with the question of figuration versus abstraction, but rather with certain formal problems that have arisen out of the recent history of painting itself.

Abstract painting has been around for over on hundred years now, so an abstract painter deals with the history of abstraction, but also, like any painter, she thinks about the whole history of painting.

A contemporary artist, born in Iran, educated in the United States and residing in New York, Jinchi borrows from her home culture's traditions of literature and calligraphy, and more broadly from the entire history of painting, to pursue her own aesthetic investigations.

Soulages acknowledges an 18,000 year history of painting and to paraphrase the artist, he uses black paint as a medium of meditation on human and cosmic origins — as well, of course, as a meditation on the origins of painting.

My practice explores the ways in which the form of painting, treated reductively, can conflate the material language, concrete processes and art history of painting.

Entries trace the provenance and exhibition history of each painting and analyze the style and themes of these exquisite works.