He began his career as a sculptor, but gradually became more interested
in photographic reproductions of his sculptures and eventually turned his attention exclusively to photography.
For the first time in the artist's career, these hitherto «passive» elements, observed exclusively
in their photographic reproduction, now step into 3 - dimensional reality.
The strength of these photographs lies
in the photographic reproduction of a particular space and time within art history.
Because Rothko is sometimes classified in the Color Field branch of Abstract Expressionism, and because of the inherent loss
in photographic reproduction, his work may be imagined as consisting of ethereal zones of color in which traces of the hand are minimized.
Not exact matches
Tillich reminded us that paintings are not simply photographs or
photographic reproductions of events —
reproductions that exhaust themselves
in their presentation.
Although casual viewers may not notice it at first, nearly every figure
in Drexler's paintings consists of a
photographic reproduction glued on to the canvas and then overpainted so that what we see is not the
reproduction but Drexler's version of the image.
During both instances, she manifests a keen interest
in the possibilities and limits of the
photographic technique
in terms of manipulation and
reproduction.
Taking a page from Gerhard Richter, albeit
in his own distinctive way, LaDuke exploits a painting's capacity for exposing handmade deceptions — a useful tool
in a culture awash
in the slippery
photographic phantoms of
reproduction.
In the early 1960s, Pistoletto began making his famous series of Quadri specchianti (Mirror Paintings): sheets of polished inox steel, like mirrors, onto which he applied images he obtained through a
photographic reproduction technique.
In sculpture, video and photographic prints, Rana transforms snapshots of shop signs in Lahore into abstracted cityscapes or renders reproductions of Old Master paintings as digital fields of colou
In sculpture, video and
photographic prints, Rana transforms snapshots of shop signs
in Lahore into abstracted cityscapes or renders reproductions of Old Master paintings as digital fields of colou
in Lahore into abstracted cityscapes or renders
reproductions of Old Master paintings as digital fields of colour.
Of course, a good part of the artist's wideranging, amiable practice lends itself very neatly to
reproduction, from the transient «One - Minute Sculptures,» 1988 - 97, that brought his work to the attention of a wider public beginning
in the late 1980s to his more recent
photographic «instructions» for being idle or politically incorrect.
The bulletin boards that Tom Burr has been arranging since the late 1990s reference not only art historian Aby Warburg's Mnemosyne Atlas strategy of employing a black panel backdrop
in order to heighten thematic arrangements of
photographic images — including
reproductions from books, and visual materials from newspapers and popular culture — but also reflect a setting typical of early cinematic and
photographic motion studies.
All of these works are drawings or original prints that the artist was involved
in making, as opposed to
photographic and mechanical
reproductions.
Other paintings
in «Photorealism» explore how our experience of looking has been shaped by
photographic reproductions.
This new body of work is an extension of an ongoing series, begun
in 2008,
in which Dávila simultaneously pays homage to and critiques icons of 20th century art and architecture through acts of excision, physically removing pieces of critical information from
photographic reproductions of original works of art.
But for those who make the effort to see the work itself the artist has a neat surprise: the handcuffs are real aluminium, protruding from the flat image
in a way that slyly escapes
photographic reproduction of the art work.
Richter's continuing influence can be found today
in the work of painters who investigate the relationship between the
photographic image and painting, and its
reproduction in painting, including Halinka Orszulok, Tony Lloyd, Victoria Reichelt and Sam Leach.
Whereas Campus utilizes the most current of
photographic methods — a literal blending of mechanical and electronic
reproduction — Gary Schneider finds his muse
in the very beginning of photography's history with nearly comparable results.
The three - dimensional quality of Halley's work asserts the object status of the paintings
in a way that
photographic reproduction simply can not represent.»
The selection highlights the extensive study of material, shape, and style
in Artschwager's work, while revealing how the artist's unrelenting investigation of art objects and images has been informed by the equalizing lens of
photographic reproduction in the 20th century.
Dana Salvo offers collectors, artists and institutions a full service
photographic studio specializing
in the
reproduction of fine art
in all media.
To optically extract and realise the ultimate
in image quality and intensity Andrew uses giclée and C - Type
photographic prints — after all, the
reproduction hung on the wall is the ultimate evidence of the merits of an image and the reflection of the photographer's intention.
With a brush that deftly and romantically captures abstract details and blurred newspaper images alike, he has transformed our understanding of art
in the age of
photographic reproduction and mass - media imagery.
Most of the work by Sherrie Levine belongs to the style and approach of appropriation art —
in the form of a very direct version of
photographic reproduction, drawing and sculpture, she alters, re-photographs, abstracts or digitizes work of mostly 20th century male artists.
For Tansey, this project was «a synthesis of
photographic, illustrative, and painterly qualities... The meaning of the work resided
in the process of re-translation - reinterpretation
reproduction - rather than
in its perceptual equivalence to reality.»
He had progressive ambitions — creating «spatial films»
in the museum galleries with
photographic reproductions of famous African American figures, videos of members of the Harlem community, and recordings of jazz music — but not a single artwork by a black (or white) artist was included.
Incorporating
photographic reproductions of, among other things, people and artworks at his New York work space, the pieces
in this show indulge one of Western art history's most cherished clichés: the artist's studio.
Collier has a talent with eyes —
in another photograph (not on view) she showed a
photographic reproduction of an eye being put through a paper cutter.
Photographs provide the basis for sketches and paintings while
photographic reproductions of paintings and other works are incorporated along with mass - media images and packaging into collages and assemblages
in a voracious cycle of visual input, output and reuse.
In the exhibition, this work was presented as
photographic reproduction.
Maymon's work operates within the gaps between a real spatial presence, the flat
photographic representation of that presence, and the potentially unlimited
reproductions of that presence
in the form of
photographic prints.
Close would continue to employ a realist approach based on
photographic reproductions in the decades that followed.
The resume of a
photographic reproduction technician is a classic form resume that emphasizes the technical knowledge
in photographic processes and especially,
reproduction.