Sentences with phrase «intriguing painting subjects»

Also an avid photographer, she chronicles her visual inspirations as she records obscure landscapes, architectural details, and other intriguing painting subjects.

Also an avid photographer, she chronicles her visual inspirations as she captures obscure landscapes, architectural details, and other intriguing painting subjects.

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Intrigued and flattered — Giacometti's elongated sculptures and paintings had made him world famous — the subject agrees to sit for the master.

«Offers a great insight into sources of [Sasnal's] inspirations and fields of interest: painting about painting, figurative painting and portraits, the history of Poland and travel shots... The book itself is a journey full of facts and intriguing perspectives on materiality and subject matter of Sasnal's paintings and his way of deconstructing the different symptoms of current times... Jam - packed with fascinating personal stories and facts from the artist's life.

His sense of space, light and composition combine to create graphic tensions which intrigue beyond the beautifully - painted forms of the subjects.»

In a group of paintings by Tong Hongsheng, the artist applies the techniques of Vermeer — universally acclaimed as one of the greatest painters in Western art history — to traditional Tibetan Buddhist subjects, an intriguing twist considering that whole political can of worms.

But he was also drawn to quieter subjects, to judge from this intriguing show of drawings, watercolors and small oil paintings.

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.

About the artists and their work: The late Anthony Ballard, known for his precise pen - and - ink drawings of erotic subjects and geometrics, has garnered significant critical attention in recent years; Mercedes Kelly's fanciful depictions of canine and feline subjects have been a crowd - pleasing fixture at the Fair over many seasons; Lawrence Pujol's refreshing country landscapes are becoming increasingly popular with collectors; Angela Rogers's «poppets» --- magical assemblages wrapped in brightly - hued yarn — incorporate intriguing mystical symbolism; Robin Taylor's «Jenny» paintings affectingly portray a young girl so bashful that her face is represented as a mop of bright orange hair; Alyson Vega's intricate fiber works, shown to great acclaim in a 2016 solo exhibition at the prestigious venue White Columns, surprise and enchant.

Through the medium of painting, each of the nine artists in this exhibition seeks to shed light and dark on this elusive and intriguing subject.

International Pop features paintings, sculpture, assemblage, installation, printmaking, and film by eighty artists, drawn from public and private collections, and offers an intriguing new look at a subject that is familiar.

This prior discussion inspired us to look more deeply into the subject; moreover, it lead to a desire to investigate and contemplate the entropic nature of the critical discourse of Painting that still intrigues me to this day.