Sentences with phrase «jokes on painting»

And also they were painting jokes or shit jokes, jokes on painting.

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.

Not exact matches

The name comes from a joke about a Texan who fires some shots at the side of a barn, then paints a target centered on the biggest cluster of hits and claims to be a sharpshooter.»

I would say, when I was the only woman on the Town Board, there were jokes about now all the walls would be painted pink, but I grew up with a lot of brothers and I took the banter.

You might think I'm joking, but the logo is literally painted on a wall in St. Helena.

A mean trick of nature, a joke that had waited several million years: the lake looked like Lenin's profile, which was imprinted on us by medals, badges, stamps, statues, paintings, and drawings in books.

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.

I loved to draw and paint, and the curlicues I drew on the ends of all my letters led to a family joke that I must be the reincarnation of a Medieval monk.

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»

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?

His word painting «Untitled» (1990 - 1991), in enamel and graphite on aluminum, which begins with «THESHOWISO / VERTHE AUDIEN / CEGETUP,» dominates the room devoted to art based on language and advertising, which includes a joke painting by Richard Prince («Nancy to Her Girlfriend,» 1988) and the mock liquor ad, «Come Through with Taste ⎯ Myers's Dark Rum ⎯ Quote Newsweek» (1986) by Jeff Koons.

@TheRealHennessy Tweet Painting, Gold Chain, 2014, 14 × 11 in., acrylic and screenprint on canvas Just in time for the Fall auctions, greg.org is pleased to present more @TheRealHennessy Tweet paintings, inspired by Donelle Woolford's Dick Joke series which debuted at John McWhinnie in the 1990s, and which continue to be a source of brouhaha since Michelle Grabner's 2014 Whitney Biennial.

Woolford's dick jokes on canvas appropriated the concept from Richard Prince's Joke Paintings.

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(I couldn't find one Prince Joke Painting specifically about dicks, but here's that one about a psychiatrist stealing his act, which is also on this Christopher Wool painting in «collaboration» withPainting specifically about dicks, but here's that one about a psychiatrist stealing his act, which is also on this Christopher Wool painting in «collaboration» withpainting in «collaboration» with Prince.

And on the fourth floor, Donelle is represented by two Dick Joke paintings.

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?

Was this a cruel joke on the market's preference for painting?

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.

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.

Picking out the two lines of the joke in a deep blue, anonymous sans serif font, and setting it within a vast field of flatly painted cardinal red, Prince has created a work that resounds on abstract, conceptual and prosaic levels.

That formula also saved Richard Prince's untitled 2003 joke painting, acquired in the year it was made from Barbara Gladstone Gallery, that sold to a telephone bidder for just $ 212,500 on a $ 300 - 400,000 estimate.

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.

(The title is based on a joke painting by Richard Prince included in the sale, which reads «Jewish man talking to his friend: If I live I'll see you Tuesday.

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).

Wool's 8 - foot - high enamel - on - aluminum painting, offered by an unnamed European collection, reads «If you can't take a joke you can get the fuck out of my house» in the artist's trademark black block letters.

New York (catalogue) Original Gagosian Gallery, New York New Portraits Blum & Poe, Tokyo (catalogue) Fashion Nahmad Contemporary, New York (catalogue) 2014 New Figures Almine Rech Gallery, Paris (catalogue) New Portraits Gagosian Gallery, New York It's a Free Concert Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz (catalogue) Canal Zone Gagosian Gallery, New York Richard Prince / Roe Ethridge Gagosian Gallery, New York (catalogue) 2013 Monochromatic Jokes Nahmad Contemporary, New York (catalogue) Protest Paintings Skarstedt Gallery, London (catalogue) Untitled (band) Le Case D'Arte, Milan Richard Prince: New Work Jürgen Becker, Hamburg (catalogue) Cowboys Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills (catalogue) Sadie Coles HQ, London 2012 White Paintings Skarstedt Gallery, New York (catalogue) Four Saturdays Gagosian Gallery, New York 14 Paintings 303 Gallery, New York (catalogue) Prince / Picasso Picasso Museum, Malaga (catalogue) 2011 The Fug Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels (catalogue) Covering Pollock Guild Hall, Easthampton The Magic Castle 1968 - 1969 Le Consortium, Contemporary Art Center, Dijon (catalogue) Gagosian Gallery, Hong Kong de Kooning Gagosian Gallery, Paris (catalogue) American Prayer Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris (catalogue) Bel Air Gagosian Residence, Los Angeles 2010 Pre-Appropriation Works, 1971 — 1974 Specific Objects, New York T - Shirt Paintings: Hippie Punk Salon 94, New York (catalogue) Tiffany Paintings Gagosian Gallery, New York (catalogue) 2009 After Dark Gagosian Gallery, New York 2008 Canal Zone Gagosian Gallery, New York (catalogue) Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris (catalogue) Continuation Serpentine Gallery, London Four Blue Cowboys Gagosian Gallery, Rome Gagosian Gallery, London Spiritual America Walker Art Center, Minneapolis 2007 Spiritual America Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (catalogue) Panama Pavilion 52nd Venice Biennale, Venice Fugitive Artist: The Early Work of Richard Prince, 1974 - 77 Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase Canaries in the Coal Mine Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo (catalogue) 2006 Cowboys, Mountains, and Sunsets Sprüth & Magers, Cologne The Portfolios Jürgen Becker, Hamburg Cowboys & Nurses John McWhinnie at Glenn Horowitz, New York 2005 Hippie Drawings Sadie Coles HQ, London (catalogue) Whitechapel Gallery, London Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York Check Paintings Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills (catalogue) 2004 American Dream, Collecting Richard Prince for 27 Years Rubell Family Collection, Miami (catalogue) Sammlung Goetz, Munich (catalogue) Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich (catalogue) Women Regen Projects, Los Angeles (catalogue) 2003 Nurse Paintings Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York (catalogue) Upstate Sabine Knust, Munich New Work Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, East Hampton Publicities Hydra Workshop, Hydra Island (catalogue) Nurse Paintings Sadie Coles HQ, London 2002 Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York (catalogue) Principal Painting and Photographs Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg Painting Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich Patrick Painter, Inc., Santa Monica 2001 Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel (catalogue) Publicities Sadie Coles, HQ, London (catalogue) Regen Projects, Los Angeles Photographs 1977 - 1979 Skarstedt Fine Art, New York (catalogue) Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp Neue Galerie im Höhmann - Haus, Augsburg 2000 Princeville Partobject Gallery, Carrboro Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York Photographs, Paintings Jablonka Galerie, Cologne 4x4 MAK, Vienna Up - state MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Schindler House, Los Angeles 1999 Paintings 1988 - 1998 Sadie Coles HQ, London 1998 Regen Projects, Los Angeles Joke Paintings Skarstedt Fine Art, New York Psychoarchitecture: Richard Prince, Martin Kippenberger Anton Kern Gallery, New York Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York Sabine Knust - Maximilian Verlag, Munich Stills Ltd., Edinburgh 1997 The White Room Jürgen Becker, Hamburg; Parco, Tokyo White Cube, London Museum Haus Lange / Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld Cowboys and Cowgirls Espace d'Art Yvonamor Palix, Paris 1996 Sabine Knust - Maximilian Verlag, Munich Passion Play Haus der Kunst, Munich New Works Jablonka Galerie, Cologne 1995 Paintings Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York Theoretical Events, Naples Regen Projects, Los Angeles 1994 Photographs 1977 - 1993 Kestner Gesellschaft, Hanover (catalogue) Offshore Gallery, East Hampton 1993 Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp Fotos, Schilderijen, Objecten Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam Girlfriends Jablonka Galerie, Cologne (catalogue) Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco First House Stuart Regen Projects, Los Angeles 1992 Kunstverein and Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (catalogue) Protest Paintings Sabine Knust - Maximilian Verlag, Munich Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside Works on Paper Le Case d'Arte, Milan 1991 Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York Galleri Nordanstad — Skarstedt, Stockholm Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris Stuart Regen Gallery, Los Angeles 1990 Jokes, Gangs, Hoods Galerie Rafael Jablonka and Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans 1989 Spiritual America IVAM Center del Carme, Valencia (catalogue) Sculpture Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York Paintings Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York Barn Gallery, Ogunquit Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles 1988 Galerie Rafael Jablonka, Cologne Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York (catalogue) Centre National d'Art Contemporain de Grenoble, Grenoble Le Case d'Arte, Milan Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris Messages to the Public: Tell Me Everything Public Art Fund, Times Square, New York 1987 Galerie Isabella Kacprzak, Stuttgart Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles 1986 International with Monument, New York Feature Gallery, Chicago 1985 International with Monument, New York Richard Kuhlenschmidt Gallery, Los Angeles 1984 Riverside Studios, London Feature Gallery, Chicago Baskerville + Watson, New York 1983 Le Nouveau Musée, Lyon (catalogue) Le Consortium, Contemporary Art Center, Dijon Institute of Contemporary Art, London Richard Kuhlenschmidt Gallery, Los Angeles Baskerville + Watson, New York 1982 Metro Pictures, New York 1981 Metro Pictures, New York Richard Kuhlenschmidt Gallery, Los Angeles 1980 Artists Space, New York CEPA Gallery, Buffalo

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.

STANDING AT THE THRESHOLD of «Blues for Smoke,» one could see the following, reading from foreground to background: a video monitor playing Richard Pryor Live in Concert (1979); a painting by Jean - Michel Basquiat; portraits of Jean Genet, Charlie Parker, and James Baldwin by Beauford Delaney; a row of fifty - one old - fashioned hard - top blue suitcases arranged by Zoe Leonard; a black - and - maroonish abstraction by Jack Whitten; a wall drawing by Kira Lynn Harris; and, hovering off to the left, a wall of Glenn Ligon's black - on - gold Richard Pryor paintings, all inscribed with the same joke: «I was a

In his early Joke paintings, the artist experimented with layering pilfered cartoon illustrations and their pun - riddled, Freudian punchlines on canvas with a silkscreen while also inviting incidents of chance, dripping and other fragmentary evidence of his hand.

The one called «White on White» which is a little joke on Malevich's painting of a white square on white.

People might not particularly want to have an Old Master on their walls, but there could easily come a time, in the none too distant future, when absolutely no one has any desire to have a massive joke painting on their walls, either: it would just look dated and embarrassing.

These dick joke paintings, the latest in «her» practice, are based on works by Richard Prince.»

Elsewhere in the sale, an early Richard Prince joke painting, the kind not often seen on the market, that had been bought from the 1999 show it appeared in, made $ 1m over a $ 600k high estimate.

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 real Wallinger consists of a large letter «I» painted on canvas — itself a joke about authorship and identity.

«Among the casualties were Lisa Yuskavage's 2003 oil - on - canvas work «Dark Garden II,» a 2001 joke painting by Prince and a pink acrylic work of blank advertising signs from 2004 by Ed Ruscha.

On my Saturday excursion, Margo Leavin was showing new work by the queen of the appropriationists, Sherrie Levine; Stuart Regen was showing a new batch of nasty joke paintings by Richard Prince; Manny Silverman was hosting a modest retrospective of paintings by Sam Francis; and the Kohn Turner Gallery was showing new work, based on Brancusi and Ezra Pound, by Richard PettibonOn my Saturday excursion, Margo Leavin was showing new work by the queen of the appropriationists, Sherrie Levine; Stuart Regen was showing a new batch of nasty joke paintings by Richard Prince; Manny Silverman was hosting a modest retrospective of paintings by Sam Francis; and the Kohn Turner Gallery was showing new work, based on Brancusi and Ezra Pound, by Richard Pettibonon Brancusi and Ezra Pound, by Richard Pettibone.

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I could joke I made my first spin painting in Ocean City, New Jersey on the boardwalk in 1958 because the origins of the little spin machine must be buried somewhere in a popular reaction to abstract expressionism.

Despite the rash of scraped - surface, color - field, process - oriented, minimalist, post-minimalist, and paint - slopping gestural abstractions that have turned up at art fairs and in galleries in recent years, most of which have quoted familiar sources with a wink of postmodernist irony, the joke actually has been on the makers of such lackluster art product.

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.

In 1987 Prince embarked on a series of Monochromatic Jokes paintings — sleekly minimalist presentations of hackneyed wisecracks — which tackle the clichés of verbal folk culture.

There, I worked on green buildings (when everyone use to joke and ask, Hey is that the paint on the wall?).

I taught my daughter her alphabet, words, songs, jokes, swimming, laughing, painting, toboganning, skating, morals, kindness and even sign language, which we used on a few occasions when the mother would tease us with child access, then take my daughter away at the last minute.

i joke that when i die, my family will put a paint brush on my tombstone, lol!!!

My sister is only half joking (or maybe not at all) when she says the square footage on my home is shrinking from all the coats of paint.

Most rooms have been painted three or more times... Adam jokes that there are so many layers of paint on the walls that I've actually decreased the square footage of our home.