Sentences with phrase «labor over a painting»

It is not uncommon to labor over a painting, adding more and more detail, until the painting is seemingly lost.

Like much of the color, those thin patches may make one think of flower petals as much as marble chips, and that labor over a painting's ground may have something in common with tending soil.

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Optical painting may look anything but emotional in its content, but its direct engagement with the viewer underscores a deep - seated longing to connect... The genre has matured considerably over the past half - century, veering from cheap tricks toward labor - intensive analyses of form and color, and a deeper understanding of the act of seeing.

In the late 20th century, Ivan Albright (1897 — 1983) labored over his gnarled, knobby, time - battered, ultra-real riffs on Old Master paintings, so much so that his subjects appear as petrified substances, witchy and indelible.

In his earliest paintings, Colen labored over precise oil renderings of banal -LSB-...]

Lerma's installation, created specifically for this site using found materials, paintings, and personal artifacts, will evolve over the period of a month with the artist laboring in the gallery every day to create an ever - changing still life and socio - political portrait.

The Rose, DeFeo's enormous sculpture - cum - painting over which she labored for eight years, dominated discussions of her Whitney retrospective last year.

These minimal compositions may look familiar today, but it helps to recall that the dawn of the 20th century was still the time when Monet obsessively rendered his water lilies and Seurat fastidiously labored over the Grand Jatte one paint dot at a time... This was a time of the industrial revolution, broad social and political changes that found their reflections in the changing pictorial and musical themes of the first decades of the 20th century.

That DeFeo labored over this fabled canvas for close to eight years, produc ing a painting of unrivaled heft and weight, only to see it deprived of an audience for most of her remaining life, goes a long way to explain the semitragic nature of her fame and the painting's persistent mystique.

Once this preliminary drawing was completed, de Kooning labored over until the painting until it matched his particular vision.

A framework is important to the paintings and little change is desired once the laboring over them has begun.

The two largest paintings in the show and the namesakes for the exhibition, Trickland I and Trickland II, show respectively a group of women and a group of men hunched over, while performing mysterious manual labor on a miniature landscape.

«We know and can not unknow the fact that the labored - over painting is the end product of a nearly instantaneous mechanical process — a sixtieth of a second stretched out over months and months,» wrote artist and writer Richard Kalina in his exhibition catalogue essay.

In his earliest paintings, Colen labored over precise oil renderings of banal interiors — a sloppy apartment bathroom, an adolescent bedroom, a camping tent — into which he introduced the presence of the supernatural — the Blue Fairy, Jesus Christ, twinkling cherubs, his deceased grandfather.

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.

These paintings, the culmination of over two decades» labor, have much in common with the work Long exhibited at Sarah Bowen this summer, but at 126 inches in diameter, they take on a new grandeur.

Labored over is a beautiful cityscape telling you their stories.Thustra accompanies this scape with intricate paintings discussing the push and pull of what he sees as our complicated emotional spheres, connecting us to the bigger picture.

He would finish a felt tip pen drawing in one sitting, and then, using the drawing as a starting point, labor over an oil painting on board for many months.

LONDON, England (CNN)-- Before his death in 1947, French painter Pierre Bonnard toiled for four years on a single painting of his wife, laboring over every detail as he tried to maintain a style he had spent a lifetime perfecting.

«Helene Appel exchanges her attention and labor for the specific and individual characteristics that her painted objects reveal over the time that she exposes herself to them,» writes Anna - Catharina Gebbers in the catalogue accompanying the artist's 2011 solo exhibition at the Mönchehaus Museum Goslar.

The numbers paint a bright picture — According to the United States Department of Labor, there are over 24,000 medical assistants working in Pennsylvania, the annual mean wage exceeds $ 30,000.

@Sarah D., what I do is buy my own paint and tools, then head over to the Day Labor Center and ask for people with painting experience.