Sentences with phrase «in subject matter»

Ranging widely in subject matter and style, the fifty - three paintings and four sculptures were produced by leading artists of the day, including Georgia O'Keeffe, Milton Avery, Marsden Hartley, Stuart Davis, Arthur Dove, Rockwell Kent, Joseph Stella, Elie Nadelman, and Norman Rockwell.
The bizarre humor and satire we expect from Waters is present in the subject matter and perspective of these works.
Enlightenment thinkers like Diderot, Voltaire, and Rousseauwere promoting ideals of moral goodness, rationalism, reason, and order in the world — ideals derived from the Greco - Romans — and artists began to reflect these values in their subject matter.
She also said that variety in subject matter, center of interest, balance, movement, and design are all elements that are either instinctively known or must be learned.
At Lynch Tham we saw Robinson in full form as a painter, demonstrating his ability to fully invest himself in his subject matter while keeping a light touch on the wheel.
The exhibition is streamlined, both visually and in its subject matter, precluding any excess content or distraction.
«Fauxmance» follows Pearce's successful debut solo exhibition «Bromance» at Atomica Gallery in 2013 and marks a clear development in the artist's work both in subject matter and technique.
In Figure by a Pool (2008 - 2012) and Walking Figure by Pool (2011), which are essentially the same image painted in different colours, I couldn't help but see a slight nod to Hockney in subject matter, though whereas Hockney emphasises the harsh, bright surface of things in his swimming pool paintings, what makes Doig's paintings so distinctive is what he does to the surface — how he draws attention to and manipulates the texture and palette of his surfaces; not flattening them out, or making them uniform, but dividing them up to create intriguing and, at times, unsettling contrasts.
The third series, infinite storage, is united by a recurring motif of black holes found in subject matter as diverse as melted fabric to the back of someone's head.
Interested equally in the subject matter (and any touch - ups) on the front of the paper and the words, stamps, signatures, and smudges on the back, he thus created seamless montages of image and text, in the process compromising the integrity of the former as well as adding relevant context.
Mr. Jones has worked hard to separate himself from his peers, both in his subject matter and materials.
He was one of the founding members of a brief but distinct art movement called Nouveau réalisme (New Realism) which sought to distinguish itself from abstract painting by returning to «reality» in its subject matter via direct appropriation of images or materials...
The exhibition presents drawing - based work that ranges from pointed to trivial in subject matter, from perfection in craft to studied clumsiness.
This transformation of the picture plane was «expressive of the most radical shift in the subject matter of art, the shift from nature to culture.»
Her work has been seen in the Americas, Europe, the Caribbean and Asia and ranges in subject matter from the historical past to the distant future illuminating issues of race, sex, power and the complexities of the human condition.
My art is not clothed in the guise of the recognizable and I am not interested in subject matter or narrative.
We're seeing a spike in subject matter being shown in Bushwick and the surrounding borders — truthfully, it's in the frenzied cuts of paint in John Legere's upcoming show at Sugarlift.
Franklin Sirmans, in his essay for the «30 Americans» catalogue, succinctly clarifies: «In consideration of Thelma Golden's 2001 exhibition, «Freestyle...» that posited the fact that a show of black artists could in fact be post-black in subject matter, this presentation also questions the term and wantonly throws it into flux.
Prince's highly readable Interview with Jeff Rian ranges in its subject matter from rock and roll to folk art, from criminals to celebrities, as well as his experiences and history as an artist.
Now 70, Ligare found his artistic calling almost 40 years ago, and since the late 1970s has been producing a body of work that is remarkably consistent in its themes and style, though diverse in subject matter.
Works on view explore several key ideas in modern and contemporary sculptural practice, such as the exploration of unorthodox materials, new choices in subject matter, and the dissolution of the boundary between painting and sculpture.
Both made in the same year that Wróblewski cofounded the Self - Educational Group, a student organization created in response to growing dissatisfaction with the Academy, these paintings mark a shift in his subject matter toward the individual and his psychic life.
Selections from the artist's Fuck Vietnam series, her quintessential Screw Drawings and an encompassing Signature Piece are combined with her newer, jewel - toned Dick in a Head drawings and brightly - fluorescent Birth of the Universe paintings to trace an incredible, decades - long continuity in subject matter and visual language, while revealing an explicit development in form.
The artist, whose studio is located at Brooklyn Glass at 142 13th St., is contemplating a switch in subject matter.
The pictures, intentionally printed in small format to reference drug store prints and postcards, vary in subject matter and genre.
The artists share tangential connections in their subject matter and utilize the processes of etching, aquatint, and photogravure.
Byrne's multi-layered approach to his work creates an exhibition that is both complex in its subject matter and recognisable in its imaginary reconstructions of the ongoing debates between the present, soon to be past, and the projected future.
After the 1960s, Lichtenstein's works began to include still lifes and landscapes, and they were a dramatic departure from his earlier style in their use of brushstrokes as well as in their subject matter.
Personally I see very little mystery in Boremans» Â work; both in subject matter and technique I find it lacking in transformative power.
At every turn the curatorial hand complements the fearless confrontation of pictorial plane and the tenacity in subject matter that fills the museum galleries.
Indeed, her painting, in subject matter and in its ability to communicate intimacy, is deeply connected to the process of — and the reasons for — building a home.
Uncanny both in its subject matter (a singular domestic space with objects pulled from reality and art history), and aesthetics (early computer - generated imagery and computer - appropriated images), flat objects appear to have depth through the use of a colour gradient.
«Not only in its subject matter but also through the energy and visceral nature of the materials I use.
Despite the similarity in subject matter and composition, these works present a contrast to the black and white images so associated with the artist's work.
Scully's oeuvre is also limited in subject matter, but considerably more complex in composition and palette.
They are playful, precise, and daring in their subject matter.
Over the past three decades, Spanish sculptor Jaume Plensa has established an international reputation for creating public sculptures that are both monumental in scale and emotionally engaging in subject matter.
Galleries in Chelsea, Downtown, Uptown and Brooklyn are presenting solo exhibitions, a feminist filmmaker's photographs chronicling her experience, landscapes reduced to basic forms and paintings that blur conventions in both subject matter and medium.
By working in the medium of marquetry, typically associated with wealth and power, to portray dystopian scenes of everyday life, Taylor creates tension between the luxurious connotations of the material and a certain abjectness in subject matter.
Kilimnik's paintings are bright, brushy and colorful, and range in subject matter from Romantically inspired landscapes to kitschy gilded interiors and from proud, resplendent felines to enigmatic, smiling female figures.
Her marriage in 1952 to noted Haitian graphic artist Louis Vergniaud Pierre - Noël instigated a change in the subject matter and palette of her paintings.
These have substantial sculptural presence, yet are ephemeral in their substrate and light in their subject matter.
However, I suggest that in all of the work selected here, there are both changes in subject matter and formal concerns that relate to our experience as long - term survivors and as painters living and working with HIV.
Why the change in subject matter?
Often tropical in their subject matter, these are paintings of intense color on a monumental scale.
Despite the overlap in subject matter between the exhibition and his new film, he said he tries to compartmentalize painting and filmmaking.
What is clear is that Hodgkin's slimmed - down technical means have led to a number of paintings, like the aforementioned Italy, that mark a shift in subject matter as well as execution.
His curiosity in this subject matter is sparked by the fact that he was born red - green colorblind.
Somewhere between the avant garde and the amateur, between theatre and cartoon, history lesson and literature class, their films are equally curious in their subject matter.
With a lifelong interest in film, often returning to the work of filmmakers such as Derek Jarman and Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Eisler's paintings range in subject matter from representational (as seen in «Margit» (2013), depicting an isolated facial crop of German actress Margit Carstensen in Fassbinder's 1973 TV - movie World on a Wire) to abstract (as in «Headlights» (2015), sourced from Amos Poe's 1984 film Alphabet City, in which a car is almost completely obscured by the shine of its high beams).
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