Sentences with phrase «joke painting as»

The idea that Dick is a word that we use for men, men in general, and also a body part, but then also perhaps Richard Prince, who's known for his joke paintings as well.

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Conan took shots at NBC, delivering them with enough anger to paint them as more than mere jokes.

Bumping through a painter's opening, picking up paint at the hardware store, ransacking the library, she glanced at him, her mouth curving broadly, as if they shared a joke.

You'll see a huge canvas colored plain green, toilets splotched together with masking tape, and paintings that look like someone splashed together twenty colors over five minutes and displayed it as a joke on artistic snobbery.

Jokes such as, «I think Moby is on the N train rn but you just can't go... read more... «Quick study: Greg Allen's @TheRealHennessy tweet paintings, MESS, working conditions, more»

Inselaffe, centres around Harvey's most recent paintings, ceramics and bronze sculptures which forge motifs and emblems of Britishness, such as military memorabilia and joke shop knick - knacks into collaged portraits of historical figures - from Nelson to Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair.

These later works feel like gentle jokes as well as experiments: is it a painting or a frame, or a podium on which an artwork will be presented to you?

The auction draws its title from one of the highlights of the auction, Richard Prince's monochrome joke painting If I die..., as a tribute to the artist whose visual vocabulary was transformative for an entire generation.

The radical appropriation of the joke series echoes Warhol's Campbell Soup Can paintings and the monochrome jokes are archetypical of Richard Prince's creation as they define the dry, dead - pan aesthetic of the artist.

Also presented are media, such as painting, usually omitted from histories of either appropriation or institutional critique, like Sue Williams's fiery joke painting Spiritual America, 1992.

While the «joke paintings» take a swing at Richard Prince, say, or at the power dynamics generally played out in contemporary painting — and do so with Prior's legacy as weapon — the present installation instead quiets and diffuses a man the artist plainly admires.

Saul fuses his MAD Magazine - inspired humor with a Surrealist painting style to create difficult, funny and trenchant works — what Robert Storr, who has penned an essay for this volume, refers to as «sick jokes.»

The majority of the works in New Image Painting require a sense of humor to get past an initial hit of awkwardness, but when subjects are more clearly painted, such as in Henry Taylor's Where Are my Brothers Keepers (2008) or Sean Landers» Around the World Alone (Boy Skipper — Dawn)(2011), the jokes tend to fall flat.

Courbet's painting positions women as the butt of a joke: as either an erotic object or a utilitarian object.

Now you do have something more important on your mind than diamond - crusted skulls, videos of Vikings at the supermarket, and borscht - belt jokes masquerading as paintings, right?

A hugely ironic riff on both the technological sublime and the home - décor - ready status of abstract expressionistic painting, as well as its precedent in Turner's highly abstracted late works, this giant joke also happens to look pretty great.

The joke paintings began in the mid-1980s as hand - written pieces that the artist never originally intended for public display.

If the recent retrospective at MoMA helped us realise that de Kooning was in on the joke of painting all along (he was neither «abstract» nor «expressionist», and mindful of earnestness as the enemy of painting), then Pensato's survey should be seen as a successful presentation of why that joke still matters.

His breakthrough painting, Look Mickey, 1961, is as light as it gets and its themes run through the painter's career: it conflates high and low culture, it contains text, it's a joke about seeing and not - seeing and it is, of course, painted entirely in red, yellow and blue.

Momentarily abandoning the stupefying rhetoric of immediacy that characterized his earlier photographic appropriations, he is now reinscribing his work in the well - lit field of modern paradigms: by referencing the monochrome as he did in his previous «joke» paintings, by reintroducing collage and silk - screen superimpositions, and above all by coating some of his appropriations with a thin layer of white paint that is simultaneously on top of and underneath the imagery.

At the time, Currin was working as an abstract painter, and I'm under the impression that this painting was mostly a joke.

Roberta Smith reports that «the arrangements at Greene Naftali, especially, convey the impression that the only way to take painting seriously is to treat it as some kind of joke.»

Placed obtrusively upon the canvases» streaky, tonal backgrounds, his flatly painted anthropomorphic forms like a smiling face or skull often read as visual jokes - bright and somewhat laughable.

A 1993 work that looks like a Richard Prince joke painting — blue capital letters on a green monochrome — also addresses art history, though of a more sweeping variety (and demonstrates his skill as a colorist).

«Even though her entire oeuvre can be seen as an extended exploration of the formal principles of art, in her work — and its presentation — she takes very seriously the affective possibilities of painting, cuing color to emotion and layering onto the nonverbal realm the visual jokes and humor inherent to cartoons and comics,» writes Molesworth.

Galleries advance the image - scavenging of appropriation art, such as Richard Prince's sly painting of an old barroom joke and Sherrie Levine's cast - bronze copy of a Marcel Duchamp urinal.

The artist makes a trenchant joke by choosing these big paintings — whose text is periodically underlined with impasto pink or gruesome, runny red paint that knowingly fetishizes her own hand — as her contribution to the loaded context of the Biennial.

[I take this quote of Richard Prince in the same light one may take his Playboy joke paintings, as actual sexism or as satire, take your pick or take both].

As well as paintings and drawings, it will feature several deadpan sculptures, including a stuffed Jack Russell holding a placard that states, «I'm dead» (a Surrealistic joke that would surely have pleased MagritteAs well as paintings and drawings, it will feature several deadpan sculptures, including a stuffed Jack Russell holding a placard that states, «I'm dead» (a Surrealistic joke that would surely have pleased Magritteas paintings and drawings, it will feature several deadpan sculptures, including a stuffed Jack Russell holding a placard that states, «I'm dead» (a Surrealistic joke that would surely have pleased Magritte).

Using zombie films as source allows the artist a kind of last laugh on an inside joke; this painting, quite literally zombie abstraction, becomes something very wholly and opposingly concrete.

Whether centering on a series within an artist's oeuvre — such as Joan Miró's late works, Sigmar Polke's fabric paintings, and Richard Prince's monochromatic jokes — or presenting artists in dialogue with one another — such as Egon Schiele with Cy Twombly and Jean - Michel Basquiat, or Andy Warhol together with Christopher Wool and Wade Guyton — the exhibitions have illuminated exceptional moments in art history that have altered the course of artistic production.

As Lisa Phillips writes in her introduction to the catalogue for the artist's first retrospective at the Whitney Museum in 1992, «They seemed to be a joke on painting and a joke on the idea that art is something to be labored over.

Glenn Ligon has been inspired by Richard Pryor since 1994, reproducing the text of his raw, often controversial jokes as paintings.

Scanlan has two paintings in the Whitney Biennial — Joke Painting (detumescence), 2013, and Detumescence, 2013 — presented under Donelle Woolford's name (she is listed in the catalogue as if she were a real person, with no mention of Scanlan).

We talked about Kuo's early exposure to Fort Thunder as a student at RISD, how wild and elegant color is, My Chemical Romance making good on their promises as a band, the lineage of emo, the best time of day to paint, getting into self - publishing, the new Obama portrait, anxiety and jokes, literally biting your tongue, how Peter Halley has made the same painting for decades and why that's the one of the most audacious radical painting moves out there, Kuo's band HEX MESSAGE, why Bart Simpson is still on every single thing in the zine tent at the New York Art Book Fair, Jeremy Lin and bootleg merch beef, Kuo's two - person exhibition «It Gets Beta» with Scott Reeder in 2015, avoiding knuckleheads so you can enjoy watching sports, being the last generation who for some reason is still afraid of selling out, his own roundball podcast Cookies, and embracing the simulation.

The zigzags and pushed - out curves are retained in the subsequent paintings as a structural set for some cartoonish imagery — a joke artist's palette and brushes, Mickey Mouse feet, a joint smouldering in the palm on a Mickey Mouse hand, cartoon smoke, bliplike baby shapes.

So, I as a joke did a show called «Abstraction» and just made abstract paintings, I just set up to make really good paintings that meant something to me in an abstract format.»