Sentences with phrase «idea of the painting began»

This comes into the picture, but so does the sudden event happening in the present, for the whole idea of the painting began when, flying over a cliff, I disturbed a bird on its nest.

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Around 1970, while in the John St. studio, Frances began working on large horizontal abstract paintings that were involved with ideas of gravity, slow painting time, indeterminate color, and trying to create a complex painting space that appeared geometric, but alternately shifted into a deeper space.

While all of the pieces on view are frameless and mounted on aluminum and wood panel, many incorporate the idea of framing into the painting, obfuscating the traditional delineation of where things end and begin.

The evening began with cocktails and a preview of our fall exhibitions The Idea of North: The Paintings of Lawren Harris and UH-OH: Frances Stark 1991 - 2015, followed by a seated dinner catered by Suzanne Goin of Lucques.

Furthermore, late Picabia has become implicated in our revisionist ideas of postwar European art as a whole, for it turns out that his «Transparencies,» not to mention his cheesy nudes and heavily impastoed»50s dot paintings, were scrutinized by the young Sigmar Polke as he began to deal, in the early»60s, with picture - postcard imagery and hackneyed abstraction.

Begun in 2008, Black Dada is a conceptual paradigm for a body of work, which includes ideas, paintings, sculptures, wall works, videos, a manifesto, and a reader.

During the summer of 1973, while teaching at the Maryland Art Institute in Baltimore, Semmel began painting what she calls «the idea of myself as I experience myself, my own view of myself.»

«My work began as an exploration to exclude the idea of color as race from my paintings by removing «color» but still portraying racialised bodies as objects to be viewed through portraiture.»

Each surreal painting that begins with an idea or image is unique and original, and kinda represents Amy herself, but also marks a period of her artistic career.

Robert Storr (Rail): After having seen your show at P.S. 1, I had no idea you painted in that idiom at all at the beginning of your career (maybe partly because I got to know your work when I came to New York in the late 1970s).

Working in her trademark format of 48 x 38 cm in acrylic and oil paint, Abts works with no source material and begins with no preconceived idea of the final result.

At the beginning of the 21st century contemporary painting, contemporary sculpture and contemporary art in general continues in several contiguous modes, characterized by the idea of pluralism.

According to Pan, her paintings begin with openness — a space to explore conceptual ideas of memory, experience and emotion.

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.

I hold in my mind vague ideas of things that I have seen or heard that inspire and motivate me to begin painting.

I begin each painting with a collection of imagery and ideas.

«This painting, which Marcel Duchamp identified as a self - portrait, was probably begun during December of 1911 in Neuilly, while he was exploring ideas for the controversial Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 of 1912 (Collection Philadelphia Museum of Art).

Without any idea where the work would be exhibited, Rand began transforming each and every one of the 613 mitzvahs, or commandments, into its own breathtaking painting, a series that took five years to complete.

I do not want to know what the painting will look like in the beginning so I am throwing myself off of too - strong - of - an - idea as much as I am beginning.

Gherard says: «The painting or drawing begins with an idea of a particular form and how it might fit in the space of the painting but as the work continues what keeps me in the piece is manipulating the materials... I look for when the use of materials adds more information, clarity and definition to the original idea.»

Early in the 1940s, artists in New York began to develop an expressive, abstract style of painting that was a stark departure from previous ideas, both artistically and historically.

Blake often began by making the digital C - prints, which he conceived to be somewhat like paintings; if the imagery and idea of one of these works lent itself as such, he might extrapolate from and expand on it to begin creating a digital animation, which could range from 3 to 20 minute repeating loops.

For Rosenquist, Zone began an almost uninterrupted 18 - year run of eye - popping vision - machines that dismantled images and ideas of painting.

The restoration and the study campaigns performed on the artwork, revealed a precise scheme in the realization of the painting, like as Pollock had since the beginning a complete idea of the «architecture» of the work and had arranged it like a conductior does with an orchestra.

Beginning with a collection of images or ideas that she holds in her mind, she lets the intuitive process of painting take her away from them, back to them again, and so on until the work comes to a point of (un) certainty.

Postcards From The Edge, Metro Pictures, New York, US New York / New Drawing 1946 - 2007, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Esteban Vicente, Segovia, ES Monuments With A Horizon Line II, Buchmann Galerie, Berlin, DE Desenhos [Drawings]: A-Z, Museu da Cidade, Pavilhão Preto, Lisbon, PT The Porn Identity, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, AT A Bit of Matter And A Little Bit More, screening Performatik 09, Cultuurcentrum Strombeek and Performatik, Brussels, BE Regift, The Swiss Institute, New York, US Cut & Paste, Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen, DK Down To Earth (Ceramics), Cultuurcentrum Strombeek, Grimbergen, BE Double 40 Jahre Kabinett für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremerhaven, MMK, Frankfurt, DE The First Stop on the Super Highway, Nam June Paik Art Center, Gyeonggi - do, KR Feedbackstage, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, DE Sharjah Biennial 9: Provisions For The Future (curated by Isabel Carlos), Sharjah Arts Museum, Sharjah, UAE Two in One Contemporary Art from Witte De With & De Appel, Christie's, Amsterdam, NL 40th Anniversary Benefit Exhibition, White Columns, New York, USA Écritures Silencieuses, curated by Herve Mikaeloff, L'Éspace Louis Vuitton, Paris, FR Carnival Within - An Exhibition Made in America, curated by Sabine Russ, Gregory Volk, Uferhallen, BE Espèces d'Espaces, Yvon Lambert, New York, US Take The Money And Run, Brouwergracht 196, Appel, Amsterdam, NL Double Participation, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt / Main, DE Beginnings, Middles, And Ends (cur.Gianni Jetzer), Christine Koenig Galerie, Vienna, AT Dematerialised: Jack Wendler Gallery 1971 to 1974, curated by Teresa Gleadowe, Chelsea Space, London, UK Time As Matter, MACBA, Barcelona, ES 15 Years of Collecting Against the Grain, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, DE Artist Rooms Tate St Ives Summer Season, Tate St.Ives, UK Au Pied De La Lettre, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Chamarande, FR Art - Athina, Galerie Hubert Winter, Faliro Pavillion, Athens, GRSerralves 2009 The Collection: An Exhibition in Three Parts and Permanent Works in the Park, Serralves 2009 - The Collection: Passage through the First Part of the Exhibition, Serralves Museum, Porto, PT Serralves 2009 - The Collection: Videos and Films in the City, 74 Rua Cândido dos Reis, Porto, PT As Long As It Lasts, curated by Tom Eccles, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, US Close Encounter, Blokhuispoort, Leeuwarden, NL When Ideas Become Forms 30 Years of Gallery, La Galleria, Venice, IT; Galerie Dr.Dorothea van der Koelen, Mainz, IT The Poetics of Space, curated by Anja Isabel Schneider, Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris, FR Zidovi na Ulici / Walls in the Street, multiple locations around Belgrade, RS Target Practice: Painting Under Attack 1949 - 78, Seattle Art Museum, Washington, US Time, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf, DE This World & Nearer Ones, curated by Mark Beasley, Governors Island, New York, US Recontres International Paris / Berlin / Madrid, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, DE Turning Some Pages, screening A House is not a Home, La Calmeleterie, Nazelles, Négrons, FR Printed Matter, Learn to Read Art (Aprender a Leer Arte), Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, ES Collection History: Highlighting Recent Acquisitions, MOCA, Los Angeles, California, US In & Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art, 1960 - 1976, curated by Christophe Cherix, Museum of Modern Art, New York, US Memory Labyrinth.

While his career began in painting, Ruppersberg soon shifted his focus to the study of languages, pictures, books, and ideas and began extensively collecting texts of American popular culture and educational films from 1931 - 1967.

With the board laid flat on the floor, Amm then begins pouring paint, beginning the composition with a basic guiding idea (a particular shape or combination of colors, for instance), and allowing medium to flow over the panel's sides.

Coinciding with the rise of modern branding and the onset of the information age, artists» focus on commodities and consumerism began as satire but came to be much more complex: commodities and associated phenomena, such as advertising, now served as vessels for ideas, politics, and personal relationships in «brand - new» types of painting, sculpture, photography, installation, and performance.

Although Winters» work has become more complex over time, his process has remained the same — since the beginning, he has collected images and assembled collages of references to prepare ideas for his paintings.

In developing and disciplining herself to complete this work, she works out of the surrealist's «automatic painting» tradition, where she has no preconceived ideas or pictures in mind before she begins to work.

Kat came across the term Wabi - sabi after she had been painting for a while, but the idea of imperfection and acceptance resonated with her and began to influence her practice as a whole.

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).

De la Cruz, who suffered a serious stroke in 2005, toys with ideas of brokenness, frailty and new beginnings while delighting in a comedy element and the notion of paintings with a life of their own: a determination to behave badly.

Burr was beginning to work with ideas related to public space, architecture, and gay culture, while Hohn was making paintings that were increasingly ironic and deskilled, work that would culminate in a 1993 series based on the teachings of Bob Ross, the well - known TV painting instructor and paradigm of kitsch.

But by this time Stella's idea of a painting's structure had become ever more complex, and he began to experiment with assemblages of dynamic forms that extended several feet into space from the picture s background support.

I had been doing abstract works for a long time and began to go to these workshops which introduced me to an idea of a spontaneous, intuitive way of painting.

Highlights of the exhibition include; the first sketchbook by Jasper Johns to be displayed publicly; a beautiful Brice Marden sketchbook made in Thailand; Andy Warhol's Lips book from the mid-1970s; Ad Reinhardt's sketchbook from a 1958 trip to France and Italy which includes drawings and also detailed notes on European museums; Richard Serra's sketchbook of the Egyptian pyramids; a Philip Guston sketchbook in which he is beginning to work out ideas for his first abstract paintings; a David Smith sketchbook from 1952 with preliminary drawings for the Cubi sculptures; and an Ellsworth Kelly sketchbook made in France in 1951 - 52.

The idea of stripping back the layers of paint or returning to pre-Renaissance painting interests me, and I begin to think in terms of fractions of effort, small victories, and good or bad luck.

Beginning with no specific idea in mind, the artist usually applies layers of acrylic paint to a Masonite surface.

David Humphrey has been making paintings of conversations and using the idea of conversation as a method since he first began showing in the nineteen eighties.

I absolutely work better with a deadline to get me motivated, such as a surprise birthday party for my mother - in - law in about 3 weeks... I am toying with the idea of painting my wooden kitchen table white as well but don't know where to begin.

Rebecca's interest in interior design began as a teenager when she had the «bright» idea of painting her bedroom a striking tangerine shade.

But as the years went on I began to entertain the idea of painting it.