Sentences with phrase «into icons painted»

She combined visual references from this research into icons painted on banners at the Lower East Side - Rotating Studio Program, which was then exhibited at the Sculpture Cented in Long Island City.

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The Olympics turned all of Athens into an Olympians Reunion Center, like one of those paintings you see in diners in which Elvis, Brando, James Dean, Marilyn Monroe and a hundred other icons are all packed into the same small frame.

As we saw in Tokyo, KAWS has been pushing further and further into multi-layered paintings, hiding and revealing some of his icons underneath bursts of color and line work.

For his recent series of work entitled Easy Fun - Ethereal, Jeff Koons employs new computer technology to merge populist icons into desktop collages, which he then transforms into traditional oil paintings rendered with photorealist precision.

In paintings, works on paper and ceramics, pop culture, art historical references and icons from the East and West collide, often fusing into hybrid symbols.

More strongly related to the effects of photography than En Plein Air painting, and has a mismatched title that references Courbet's modern art icon and alludes to Magritte's inquiry into linguistic signs.

Perhaps this search began in the mid-1980s, with Johns's cycle The Seasons (1985 — 86), in which picturing this venture of thought required a detour through picturing something like a self — hard to commit to it being Johns's self — through references to some of the artist's earlier image strategies (flags, devices) as well as icons of philosophical thinking such as the Platonic forms, Joseph Jastrow's duck - rabbit diagram (the latter made famous by Ludwig Wittgenstein's inquiry into «seeing as» in the Philosophical Investigations, 1953) and Pliny's origin story of the birth of painting as the tracing of a loved - one's silhouette in shadow.

- The Astonishing by Jane Bustin is a series of paintings developed into modernist female icons, a balance of material, colour and structure.

These new paintings, she tells us in the following exclusive feature, are akin to a group of personal icons that relate more to a deep satori state of insight into one's true nature.

This provocative iconoclastic act liberates the borrowed paintings from their cultural mythos, reinvigorating the icons into bold enigmatic prototypes.

Prince effectively transforms these eroticized symbols of unbridled masculinity into icons of aesthetic sophistication by painting them and mounting them on a wall.

Switching to a career in fine art from his dream of becoming a commercial artist, Ed Ruscha first came into prominence in the early 60s with his large word paintings and paintings of commercial icons, such as Twentieth Century Fox and Standard Station, that related in manner and style to the nascent Pop art movement.

Obituaries condense a life into a few column inches and a single image — a scrap of newsprint that becomes a heavy token, a memento, even an icon when rendered in paint.

However, Quinn's real contribution to Irish art over the past 12 years has been his mixed - media «technology» painting, in which he incorporates Printed Circuit Boards or PCBs (the ultimate hi - tech icons) into his compositions, in order to reference the revolutionary effect of computers on our daily lives.

There is a purposeful «Chinatown» aesthetic in Huynh's paintings, alluding to kitsch souvenirs that tourists purchase and commoditization of eastern icons into tchotchkes.

(catalogue) Persona, The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Kunsthalle Basel, Basel Switzerland 1995 It's How You Play The Game, Exit Art, New York; curated by Thelma Golden, Nancy Spector, Robert Storr, Jeanette Ingberman and Papo Colo Strung Into the Appolonian Dream... an exhibition of a private collection, Feature, NYC, NY Seven Llongish Wodden Sculptures, Feature, New York, NY 1994 The Ecstasy of Limits, Gallery 400, School of Art and Design, UIC, Chicago, IL Amenities, Frederick Layton Gallery, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Milwaukee 1993 A Sequence of Forms: Sculpture by Illinois Artists, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL Mettlesome & Meddlesome: Selections from the Collection of Robert J. Shiffler, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH; Urbana - Champaign, IL; I Space, University of Urbana - Champaign Gallery, Chicago, IL 1992 Drawing New Conclusions, Betty Rymer Gallery, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL 1991 Office Party, (March) Feature, New York, NY Power: Its Icons, Myths and Structure in American Culture 1961 - 1991, Museum of Fine Art, Richmond VA: curated by Holliday T. Day (catalogue) 1990 Toward the Future Contemporary Art in Context, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago Awards in the Visual Arts, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA; Southeastern The Thing Itself, Feature, New York, NY (brochure) New Generations Chicago, Carnegie Mellon Art Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA; curated by Elaine A. King (catalogue) Half - Truths, The Parrish Art Museum, Southhampton, NY; curated by Marge Goldwater 1989 On Kawara: Date Paintings 1966 - 1988, The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL Signs of Life: Contemporary American Sculpture, Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian; Fundacao Luso - Americana Para O Desenvolvimento, Lisbon, Portugal; curated by Judith Russi Kirshner.

If one's not going to make icons — like Peter Halley or Ashley Bickerton, where there seems to be a very specific reading, a prime text — you get the same subjectivity or disjunction that took place with late abstract expressionism where eventually the maker, on an existential level, put his whole being into these paintings; and the viewer looked at them formally.

Villalongo's intricately layered figurative paintings meld cultural icons, mythology, and art historical references into wild, at times unsettling narratives.

WEATHERFORD GALLERY: 1200 Second Ave. «Icons: Windows into Heaven,» painted 18th - and 19th - century wooden panels made for holy use in churches, at home or while traveling.

First up is the fresh coat of paint, which moves the Messages and Reminders tabs to the top instead of the bottom and turns them into text instead of vague icons.

In the bunkroom, Blair turned that coastal icon into modern sculpture with glossy white paint.