Sentences with phrase «history of the paintings»

Art historian Sir Kenneth Clark considered it the piece of art that changed the history of painting.

As Joseph Epstein recently observed, after Andy Warhol, serious people no longer need pay attention to it: «Contemporary visual art, perhaps for the first time in the history of painting and sculpture, is one of those things a cultured person no longer has to know.»

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

Combat, though, is about as exciting as attending a seminar titled, «The history of paint drying.»

Historical and technical anecdotes from these portraits flesh out our understanding of these artists at the very moment they are making their mark on the history of painting.

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.

Referencing the history of painting, particularly the fraught legacies of hyper masculine artists like Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock, her canvases combined figuration with feminist cultural critique.

A leading figure of his generation, Colen pursues an art deeply rooted in the history of painting.

These works date from 1997 to 2012 and are the result of the artist's investigation on the impact of digital imaging on the language and history of painting, while addressing some of the successes and failures of technology and science.

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

«The history of painting has seeped into the portraits», Opie says, describing how seeing Lady with an Ermine (1489 — 90) at the National Gallery's 2011 Da Vinci exhibition in London immediately evoked her son Oliver holding his pet mouse.

Chatterson works is characterized as being «A hybrid union of contemporary urban existence with an authentic investment in the history of painting».

Each work is an instance of a ripped frescoes, a technique developed by the artist in the 1980s which brings together two key moments in his paintings: a construction, based on a site, as a process for the formation of a support; and a reluctant walk (of a fake restauration) in the memory and the material history of the painting, of deconstruction, subtraction, a kind of intimate and forged archaeology, where a re-emergence of an unexpected fragment in the shape of clay, mosaics or shred (of colour or material) can become the focal point of the whole painting.

Without a doubt, all of them take cues from the history of painting and, whether or not paint is actually used in the execution of their work, produce objects that force the viewer to address issues central to painting.

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.

Because that's also the history of painting shows at MoMA: some people like them, and some people don't.

Composed of 25 works, which include paintings, sculpture, prints, works with paper, and installations, the exhibition explores a range of issues that have occupied Grabner since she started her creative career, such as the history of painting in relation to the present, the relationship of centre to periphery, the significance of routine in life and in art, and the integration of work into family life and vice versa.

Anyone who practises painting today as an artist is constantly aware of the history of painting.

His work unmoors itself from the didacticism of American abstraction and self - reflexively seeks to picture the future while conjuring moments in the history of painting.

To me, that said that there was a certain interest in the history of painting as an authentic vehicle for making art.

In her third exhibition at Locks Gallery, Pat Steir shows works that address the history of painting.

Taking the most basic material structure of painting — paint on stretched canvas — as a fixed position from which to invert, interrogate and experiment, I continue to paint, and make paintings that speak to the history of painting.

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

Prior to that, the discourse and history of painting was a way for me to think about history, memory and presence.

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.

One of the foremost American painters of the last century, Richard Diebenkorn consciously embraced representation and placed it in critical conversation with the East Coast Abstract Expressionists and the history of painting.

Above all, she left a history of painting noted for its sublime assimilation of the School of Paris and the New York School of abstract expressionism.

While continuing this dialogue with the history of aesthetics, Paintings represents a shift in McElheny's work towards a focus on the history of painting, and proposes that there is ongoing potential to be found in the utopian and revolutionary desires that gave rise to abstract painting at the beginning of the twentieth century.

His work draws upon the history of painting and processes, particularly minimalism and abstraction, but is also influenced by design, poetry, writing and music.

And while it has been popular of late to display actual handmade African - American quilts, such as the ones exhibited in upscale New York galleries, Huckaby's act of repainting quilts disarms them as fetishized aesthetic objects while folding their weighted cultural meaning into the history of painting.

A painting is always a conversation with the history of painting.

Each work is profoundly permeated with the history of painting and combined with its spectacular technique, suggests an ambiguous kind of postmodern allegory.

Influenced equally by the history of painting as by the pulp imagery of pop - culture, Trenton Doyle Hancock transforms traditionally formal decisions — such as the use of color, language and pattern — into opportunities...

I'm not interested in summing up the history of painting or revitalizing modernism.

The cartoon - like aesthetic of his earlier works take to task celebrated milestones in the history of painting from Van Eyck to Picasso.

Lawren Harris (1885 - 1970) was a renown Canadian artist and pioneering modernist who profoundly influenced the history of painting in Canada.

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.

Munk makes a conscious decision to connect with the history of painting not only in his work but also through his medium.

Eduardo Arroyo could be said to fit within the pop art trend, on account of his interest in the environment, his critique of our media culture which incorporates icons of both mass media communication and the history of painting, and his scorn for nearly all established artistic styles.

Nesbit draws on the history of painting and extends the exploration of these ideas.

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.

You can get a sense of the history of painting within Saville's work so it also reminds me of other artists who inspire me such as Seventeenth century Dutch still - life painters, Picasso, and Lucien Freud.

His range in painting reveals an ongoing effort to understand his relationship to the history of painting as well as to the act of painting, resulting in a body of work that extends tradition but remains distinctly personal.

While Sendor has an educated consciousness of the history of painting, particularly studying artists such as Caravaggio, Vermeer and Goya, he strategically employs pictorial devices influenced by the circumstances of image consumption of today, deviating from traditional painting vernacular.

Mr. Collins» creative lo - fi sculptures — which cleverly reference the history of painting — have since turned to other materials, most notably thrift store paintings, and now the artist is turning his attention to the varied aesthetics of above - ground swimming pools.

Though the work in the exhibition utilizes various genres and media, the strength of much of Thomas's work is clearly rooted in a deep investment in the history of painting, its long tradition of masters and masterpieces, and the generations of audiences that have accepted its tropes and icons.

A recent graduate of Bucks New University, London - based Cavers makes site specific constructions exploring the process of painting, and the history of painting and display, investigating questions of success and failure in these media.

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

And I was so astounded that I achieved this, that I decided to make a painting of the history of this painting, beginning with when it was made, the first auction, the second auction, and the final frame, Home at Last.

Within the vast yet equally warming space of Marian Goodman Gallery in Soho, this exhibition is a self conscious investigation into the history of painting and new ways of seeing.