Not exact matches
Throughout his career as a painter McNeil commanded a
mastery technique, capable
of creating
paintings of rich texture depth and color.
«One: Number 31» (1950), among the handful
of very large
paintings he produced by this method, is a virtuoso showcase
of his
mastery of materials and
technique.
Renowned for his light, expressive watercolors, he attained
mastery of the genre at an early age and later applied his
techniques to oil
painting.
Her
mastery combines several
techniques in compound compositions, where layers
of paint focus to seize the viewers in long «conversations», whether within themselves or among themselves.
Both Ms. Cox and Ms. Peters exploit classical
techniques,
mastery of craft, and motifs from the canon to address contemporary concerns in
painting and sculpture.
Polemical but symbolic, it combined drawing and
painting as well as craft - based
techniques like collage and printmaking seldom associated with traditional Western notions
of high art and
mastery.
There is a trickery
of being enticed into the
paintings through the whole nuance
of the long history
of landscape
paintings, and the
mastery of his
technique, until we are trapped within the content
of the work.
Throughout his career, Chuck Close has expanded his contribution to portraiture through the
mastery of such varied drawing and
painting techniques as ink, graphite, pastel, watercolor, conté crayon, finger
painting, and stamp - pad ink on paper; printmaking
techniques, such as Mezzotint, etching, woodcuts, linocuts, and silkscreens; as well as handmade paper collage, Polaroid photographs, Daguerreotypes, and Jacquard tapestries.
With an endless expression
of mood and emotion, each
painted abstract scene shows a perfect harmonic balance between light and colour through the
mastery of technique and years
of experimenting to find his own style.
His early
mastery of Chinese ink and brush
techniques had led him to seek the challenges
of painting in oil.
Mike Dargas» new series
of portraits is a challenge to oil
painting as we know it and a confirmation
of his
mastery of the photorealistic
techniques.
Rather, it is revealed dialectically as the artists psychically work through the ugliness and insanity
of contemporary life; their psychical
mastery and emotional restoration
of the self are evidenced in their
mastery of technique and the aesthetic transcendence it elicits.8 At the same time, it is important to underscore just how alien both the figuration and content
of this new wave
of history
painting would appear through the humanist gaze
of traditional history painters and the Old Masters.
His
mastery of traditional oil
painting technique lends itself to the representation
of historic looking characters, complete with detailed vintage fashions, hairstyles, and facial hairstyles.
Their areas
of mastery include metal casting, finely executed porcelains, finishing
techniques, detailed hand
painting, excellent inlaid marquetry, and the finest hand carved woodwork.