Sentences with phrase «meaning of painting»

Later, he changed his mind, believing that titles limited the deeper, transcendent meaning of his paintings, restricting them to the numbers only.

I think it is awfully hard to talk about the spiritual meaning of paintings today.

In this volume compiling Ugo Rondinone's Stripe paintings (1999 — 2011), artist and writer Phong Bui retraces the genealogy of stripe paintings from Barnett Newman to Rondinone, while art critic Bob Nickas thoroughly examines the making and meaning of painting in his work.

Based on the thoroughness of these class notes, and also on the syllabuses for the Asian art courses that Reinhardt took from Alfred Salmony at the IFA in the late 1940s, the essentializing of Reinhardt's published essays was intentional, part of a larger strategy to promote his own ideas about contemporary abstract painting by means of paintings from a foreign past.

Starting out with painting, Toivonen worked with different techniques, such as oil and charcoal on canvas and chalk on chalkboard, eventually experimenting towards a more conceptual outcome, using him self or a dead animal as means of painting.

The literal meaning of those paintings had been dismissed as an unsolvable mystery — until recently.

There is, however, a marked variety in the formal means of the paintings of 1947, ranging from precisely edged forms and dense Cézanne-esque brushwork to loosely painted, disconnected areas that spill over the surface.

Badur's work seeks to find the pure meaning of painting, and neither mimetically nor metaphorically represents or references any reality outside of the canvas.

He works intuitively, attempting to harness the energy of the human - nature interaction and preferring not to overthink the psychological meaning of his paintings.

At the same time, I can think of no other way for a serious artist to achieve his ends than by doing what I did... I set about to show that his instrument — the limited means of the paint on canvas — was important.»

Filling the picture plane with bold, vertical brushstrokes, diagonal grids, and intersecting lines of color, Nakamura's interest in abstraction has long been an ontological exercise as a way to philosophically come to terms with the social meaning of painting against the backdrop of ever - changing world affairs.

Figurative works by Francis Bacon and Alberto Giacometti, which explore the human body and add a psychological dimension by means of painting, are followed by works of Josef Albers, Piero Manzoni, and Lucio Fontana that emphasize the support as such in its three - dimensional character and material quality.

Dadaism was attempting to achieve those effects which the public today seeks in film with the means of painting (or of literature)» (Benjamin, op.

Despite vast differences in their upbringing, culture and circumstances, each of the women is drawn to discover the meaning of the painting and the unknown histories of their mothers.

Why assume that what Still and Newman said about the meaning of their paintings, about what they intended, determine what these paintings mean?

In what has been called a «post-medium» (and even «post-feminism») era, how can we look critically at the specific tools, methods, and means of painting, particularly abstraction, from within a feminist rubric?

When asked about the meaning of his paintings, Clyfford Still would often respond with some variation of «What do you think it means?»

In my mind's eye, and then with my hands, I aim to make work that captures those slippages around the meaning of painting.

My continued use of the Punchinello figure underscores my conviction that the meaning of a painting is the intersection of the form of painting, with its balance between void / space, volume / form and shape / surface, and how such pictorial dynamics impact and represent subject matter.

Richter's work is based on doubts about the representability of reality and the question of the meaning of the painted picture.

Performance works, aktions, were at the heart of their work, extending the use and meaning of painting.

[1] To that end, this exhibition explores the expanded field of painting through a wide range of works in a variety of media (i.e., installation, video, sculpture, and painting) that provide fertile territory for examining the legacy and meaning of painting and painterly practices in contemporary art today.

In his unique manner of redefining the meaning of painting and its perception, Stingel places the carpet at the core of his poetics, moving it from just a piece of furniture to a place of paradigmatic stance.

I was busy trying to find ways where the imagery and the material and the meanings of the painting would be not an illustration of my will....

His prolific output during the 1960s and 1970s was driven primarily by a desire to create, by means of painting, a universal system able to address all others — the entire range of social and political issues facing modern humanity.

Through an unswerving challenge to the meaning of painting in the world today she gives a voice back to painting: a voice that remains on the pulse, and engages with the viewer in a direct, natural and anything but elitist manner.

As Steir says, «Rauschenberg found a way to stretch the meaning of painting, and it has been stretching ever since.»

Jacquette writes: «An entire symposium could be held on the meaning of this painting.

That's what the British artist and writer Andrew Forge said when he was «questioned as to the meaning of his paintings,» according to an obituary that ran in the London newspaper The Telegraph (Forge died in 2002 at the age of 78).

The meaning of each painting is dependent not only on the person standing before it but also on the image next to it.

We also feature Bacon on art and love, Christianity and his crucifixion paintings, the meaning of painting itself and reflecting on artists such as Cézanne and Rembrandt.

If you turn towards abstraction, you are always concerned with the means of the paint itself.

««What is the meaning of your paintings?

Characterized by simultaneous attention to surface, image, color and space, his paintings create new paradigms for the meaning of painting that reflect upon the fundamental questions concerning the practice today: authenticity, meaning, hierarchy and context.

«For Klein, pure colour offered a way of using art not as a means of painting a picture, but as a way of creating a spiritual, almost alchemical experience, beyond time, approaching the immaterial,» explains Kerry Brougher, who curated the major retrospective Yves Klein: With the Void, Full Powers at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington DC, in 2010.

Again and again he challenges the means of painting.

Rail: The psychoanalytic relation between the parts: between the people who construct the meaning of the painting, and in the tensions between the parts of your paintings themselves.

The marriage of the two worlds, the highbrow contemplative creation and the tackiness of the lustrous background, became an ideal container of the heavily layered Bochner's work, rooted in Jackson Pollock's Abstract Expressionism, concentrated on the meaning of the paint itself.

This spring and summer, Moderna Museet Malmö is showing eleven works that explore the meaning of painting in one way or another.

In interviews, artist statements, titles and his website, Cooper often hints at the meanings of his paintings.

Her brushstrokes reveal a master colorist's touch while leaving the meaning of the paintings — whether celebratory or ominous — to the interpretation of viewer.

Ultimately, once captured the individual viewers are left to interpret the meaning of each painting for themselves.

These feelings are expressed by the means of painting.

During the years 1970 to 1980 Gerhard Richter frequently addressed paint as a means of painting and especially images of pastose brush strokes.

Excess corporeality of the spent objects reflects Guston's pessimism about the meaning of painting and artistic production itself in the 70's.

He insisted on the importance of an analytical understanding of the means of painting.