Not exact matches
Yes, arts learning may have social and moral and professional benefits, but if people don't value the
materials of the fields themselves — if they can't say that if High School X doesn't acquaint students with Renaissance
painting,
classical music, and modern dance, its graduates will be undereducated — then arts educators lose in the competition for funds and hours in the day.
Where there's little modeling in work by Leon Golub and George Cohen, Lerner's
paintings and drawings have always had a sense
of volume, and his work since the 1970s has continued to tap similar mythic and metaphorical
material (mummies, hanged or tortured figures) but in a more
classical figurative style.
The oversized canvases, abundance
of materials used, and divergent techniques in which collaged media and imagery were sourced from
classical and contemporary culture then applied effusively in a thickly layered manner are characteristics
of Schnabel's continued exploration
of painting itself.
I am drawn to minimal work,
classical work, clear work, and also to the feel
of paint and
materials, touch, the evidence
of the hand and a kind
of convergence
of process and viewers» experience
of the work.
David Claerbout's
paintings on paper are fundamental to his film practice; Ilse D'Hollander's intimate canvases are sensual explorations of the physical act of painting; Jose Dávila interrogates how the modernist movement has been translated, appropriated, and reinvented; Laurent Grasso's meticulous appropriations of classical paintings integrate impossible phenomena, blurring the line between the historical and contemporary; Rebecca Horn's large - scale gestural paintings evoke her early performance work, their dimensions being determined by the artist's physical reach; Callum Innes» Exposed Paintings are concerned with both making and unmaking the work; Idris Khan utilizes language, melding thousands of lines of stamped text into singular abstract images; Hugo McCloud's work fuses industrial and fine art materials; Sam Moyer combines found textures into a fresh, expanded, artistic palette; and James White's oil paintings reimagine the still life as a chance freeze
paintings on paper are fundamental to his film practice; Ilse D'Hollander's intimate canvases are sensual explorations
of the physical act
of painting; Jose Dávila interrogates how the modernist movement has been translated, appropriated, and reinvented; Laurent Grasso's meticulous appropriations
of classical paintings integrate impossible phenomena, blurring the line between the historical and contemporary; Rebecca Horn's large - scale gestural paintings evoke her early performance work, their dimensions being determined by the artist's physical reach; Callum Innes» Exposed Paintings are concerned with both making and unmaking the work; Idris Khan utilizes language, melding thousands of lines of stamped text into singular abstract images; Hugo McCloud's work fuses industrial and fine art materials; Sam Moyer combines found textures into a fresh, expanded, artistic palette; and James White's oil paintings reimagine the still life as a chance freeze
paintings integrate impossible phenomena, blurring the line between the historical and contemporary; Rebecca Horn's large - scale gestural
paintings evoke her early performance work, their dimensions being determined by the artist's physical reach; Callum Innes» Exposed Paintings are concerned with both making and unmaking the work; Idris Khan utilizes language, melding thousands of lines of stamped text into singular abstract images; Hugo McCloud's work fuses industrial and fine art materials; Sam Moyer combines found textures into a fresh, expanded, artistic palette; and James White's oil paintings reimagine the still life as a chance freeze
paintings evoke her early performance work, their dimensions being determined by the artist's physical reach; Callum Innes» Exposed
Paintings are concerned with both making and unmaking the work; Idris Khan utilizes language, melding thousands of lines of stamped text into singular abstract images; Hugo McCloud's work fuses industrial and fine art materials; Sam Moyer combines found textures into a fresh, expanded, artistic palette; and James White's oil paintings reimagine the still life as a chance freeze
Paintings are concerned with both making and unmaking the work; Idris Khan utilizes language, melding thousands
of lines
of stamped text into singular abstract images; Hugo McCloud's work fuses industrial and fine art
materials; Sam Moyer combines found textures into a fresh, expanded, artistic palette; and James White's oil
paintings reimagine the still life as a chance freeze
paintings reimagine the still life as a chance freeze - frame.
Combining
classical influences with Neo-Expressionist features and processing themes such as sexuality, obsession, suffering, death and belief, Schnabel plays with both abstraction and figuration with the use
of found
materials, fragments
of language,
paint, and digital reproduction.
Extending across the entirety
of the museum, the exhibition allows for free association between artists and the themes they address: at once playful and dynamic, works from Ryan Gander, Institute for New Feeling, Liu Wa, and Yangzi invite audiences to explore a wealth
of possibilities through combinations
of meditation and wry humor;
classical mediums
of sculpture and
painting are reinvented by Yngve Holen and Austin Lee; insidious implications
of our hi - tech society are skewered by Lawrence Abu Hamdan and aaajiao; the powers
of synthetic
materials over human desire are brought to the fore by Sean Raspet and Pamela Rosenkranz; and products
of Internet culture are given to refined study with Gillian Wearing and Amalia Ulman.
Thus an almost entirely abstract
painting like Stil (Style)(1977) hangs adjacent to one
of Lüpertz's reworkings
of a
classical subject, Satyr + Nymphe II (Satyr + Nymph II)(2014); and one
of his many portrayals
of the human back, Nacht (Night)(2013) hangs next to a painterly treatment
of building
materials, Holzschindeln — dithyrambisch (Wood Shingles — Dithyrambic)(1966).
His sculptures use natural colored marble,
paint and found
materials to create figures reflective
of animation, popular culture, and even
classical heroic figurative sculpture.
Often working with industrial
materials —
painted wood, paving slabs, plastic cord, metal fencing and corrugated iron — her installations have a seemingly improvised and temporary attitude, but are rigorously considered, combining an almost
classical formalism with a kinetic energy generated by poised, provisional and precarious compositions and her attuned use
of materials.
The
paintings in this series are produced using the
classical oil
painting methods and
materials of the Old Masters — successive layers
of warm and cool black pigment glazes varnished to a highly reflective surface resulting in a profoundly deep pictorial space.