Throughout Modernist history an ongoing conversation between artists has endeavored to determine what is the most
important element of painting.
Not exact matches
Tonal value is much more
important, and the dark pen work that's part
of the picture will really help you appreciate the impact
of this vital
element in any
painting.
Part
of the Mannerist art «game» was making
paintings based on other
paintings, but removing most
of the key traditional
elements - being «super cool» by removing the
important bits.
Many
of the featured artworks are from the1950's and 60's including an
important densely layered collage from1955 by Lee Krasner which redeployed sections
of discarded
paintings and drawings by her husband Jackson Pollock in tandem with new design
elements she added to her own studio scraps.
One
important element of Alice's work is that she knew all these people she
painted; they were her world.
The 57th Street location will recreate
elements of important past exhibitions, including Pablo Picasso: The Avignon
Paintings, The Sculpture
of Picasso, and De Kooning / Dubuffet: The Women.
Both qualities are evident in Knight's Heritage, an
important transitional piece in which Truitt still employed a brushy texture to define the
paint surface and actual grooves to mark the three divisions (
elements she abandoned in her later, smoother work) but began to break out
of the somber tones
of her earliest work and embrace glowing color.
I've been thinking more and more about the physicality
of the
paintings and how
important that some
of the shapes in the works read as natural
elements, whether that is rocks, caves, forms
of decay, artifacts, relics, etc..
O.C.Y.: Writing is an
important element in your work as it can be seen in some
of the
paintings here.
For Fonda, the formal qualities
of painting — the emphasis on color, line, shape and texture — are equally as
important as the conceptual
elements being interpreted on the canvas.
Landscape has always been an
important element in my
paintings, but the white on white wilderness and purity
of Antarctica, its amazing wildlife and history soon convinced me to continue to work on the color field
paintings but also to expand the vision in a number
of other directions.
The use
of the squeegee proved to be an
important innovation for Richter, as it enabled him to surrender a certain
element of artistic control whilst enhancing the physical qualities
of the
paint.
Subtracting
paint by rubbing out areas using a turpentine - laden cloth and then adding back
paint became an
important technical
element, creating cloud - like areas and voluminous forms, like the orange area in the bottom left corner
of «Luminous Undercurrent.»
But before you really begin
painting from what I gather from the reproductions even that one, the first one, the figure by the window — the collage
element becomes very
important, and in a sense it's a denial
of painterly gesture.
Painting is a powerful means
of expression, an
important cultural
element that must be encouraged within modern society in order that society may be made whole.
There is often
paint on the surface, which can at times be invisible and at other times obvious depending on the light, another
important element of my work.
One could also link her art to the opposing convention
of colorito, a term usually applied to 16th - century Venetian
painting in which color is employed in a dominant manner, for sensual expressive purposes and as an
important compositional
element.
In 1967 - 68 an
important shift took place in King's work, with the first
of the Baggot Street
paintings, in which figurative
elements are replaced by plain fields
of colour, forms are rendered geometrically and light is represented through the use
of a single line.
The power
of memory in tactile oil
paintings, drawings and technology is an
important element in these works.
The poetic nature
of simple
elements like texture and color are very
important in my work... I like people to feel my
paintings without touching them.
The Norwich School remains an
important historical
element in the larger tradition
of English landscape
painting.
But while his description introduces an essential shift by insisting on the process
of creation as an
important element to be taken into account when viewing a
painting, it is not precise enough.
The drip was a gestural
element, but more
important, it delivered a physical and literal
element that also captured a moment
of time during the
painting process.
The ceiling height, the style
of the home, the visual weight
of the treatment in the room, the width, stain or
paint color
of the beams or boards and how the architectural feature will complement the floors, windows, walls and other
elements in the space are definitely
important considerations.