These latest works,
his most painterly and expressionistic, demonstrate just how much a convincing technique counts in abstract painting.
Why would one of
the most painterly of contemporary painters decide to start issuing screenprints?
Even
the most painterly attributes of Ryman's art — color, for instance, which is present in the backgrounds and on the edges of more than a few works — are presented in terms of light.
Monoprints have a distinctive aesthetic; many consider monoprinting
the most painterly type of printmaking.
The most painterly image in the show suggests a room without doors seen from above.
Nearby, more food related work, blown out to
the most painterly proportions, was Nathalie Djurberg's colorful large donut sculptures at Milan's Gió Marconi.
It seems somewhat ironic that
this most painterly of painters would be interpreted by artists who are both essentially polychrome sculptors.
According to the catalogue, «this version is
the most painterly version of the series» and one in the Hirschhorn Museum is highlighted with color, one in the Whitney Museum of American Art is highlighted with muted colors, one in the Tate Gallery is vibrantly colored and another in a private collection «highlights the use of color through painted versions of the color's names.»
Renoir's first film in color is one of
his most painterly, as many of the compositions here could be framed and hung on a wall.
Not exact matches
Wouldn't
most of us still want to convert the story into a pretty,
painterly scene of an angel and a maiden, suitable for ornament?
By the way, my choice to not wear graphic tees is not because of my age (same as yours, Susan) but just aesthetically, I don't really like
most of them, preferring plain shirts or occasionally
painterly sorts of designs.
J. Crew comes up with the
most sophisticated floral prints (see here, here, here) and this «
painterly floral» top is another gorgeous example!
But even in the movie's
most straightforward moments — some gentle comedy involving Mary and her great - aunt's housekeeper, or a visual joke in which a cat seems to change color — the delicate interplay of soft textures and
painterly hues pulls you deeply into this story's world.
Making the
most of that scenery, DP Masanobu Takayanagi eschews closeups in favor of carefully blocked,
painterly compositions.
by Jefferson Robbins
Painterly and static, for the
most part, Nicholas Ray's King of Kings boasts one truly remarkable, energetic camera feat: a view from the top of the crucifix, gazing down the length of Jesus's body as he's hoisted into position for martyrdom.
It doesn't play like a calling card, although there are moments,
most of them coming in the final third of the film, arranged with a careful,
painterly intentionality.
But thanks to Dean Cundey's cinematography, it's one of the
most elegant - looking horror pictures ever made, with views of the Pacific from the lighthouse home of the KAB radio station (from where Adrienne Barbeau as DJ Stevie Wayne warns the townspeople about the fog) that are so intensely
painterly they pop.
Batik textiles?ornate canvases for
painterly art?are one of Indonesia?s
most ancient traditions.
But his «
painterly» style — with its emphasis on the visible mark and texture of paint - as - matter — resonated
most powerfully with the Venetian oil painters, such as Giorgione and Titian.
PT:
Painterly is a term
most often associated with a general «love of paint» and primarily addresses painting as a positive force.
The San Francisco — born Mary Heilmann, perhaps the
most unashamedly
painterly of the lineup and the
most established, at least in terms of her market, surveyed her current exhibition at the Neues Museum in Nuremberg, providing a few insights into her particular brand of transcendental color - based abstraction along the way.
First up is Richard Diebenkorn, revered as a
painterly post-war master for his intricately balanced, light - drenched elegies to the West Coast, then in July we bring together some of Joseph Cornell's
most remarkable «shadow boxes», assembled from dime store treasures which spoke to a yearning for distant, idealised places and times.
In terms of
painterly technique, Reinhardt arguably shared the
most with Jo Baer, whose work hung adjacent to a black painting in Dwan Gallery's 10 exhibition of 1966.
The lightness of being in his work, the range of forms, contours, edges, saturations and coloring — and the lightness of the spaces in between his network of slashes, swatches, and other
painterly exchanges, is so navigable for the eye that the paintings are airy, permeable, and
most significantly, written in a language that is all his own.
Cinematic Visions examines how, through a variety of
painterly strategies and gestures, figuration starts to break down and, conversely, how a residual figurative substratum can be found in even the
most apparently abstract image.
It is in their ability to navigate between the abstract and the figurative, the technical and the totemic, that these works take their place among the twenty - first century's
most captivating
painterly projects.
His
most famous paintings are Pink Angels (c. 1945), Excavation (1950), and his third Woman series (1950 — 53) done in a more
painterly style and improvisational approach.
It sounds redundant, but I felt painting could not be beat at being
painterly... it felt like the
most natural manifestation of the medium.
Perhaps her
most spare and
painterly bear the title A History of Sculpture.
By not painting from life, Doig and
most mid-career painters of the late 20th and 21st century have, it seems to me, a fundamentally different relationship with modernist
painterly tradition from the generation above them — Freud, Leon Kossoff, Frank Auerbach, even David Hockney.
Best known for her plein air paintings, Prey's commission sets a new benchmark for the size and scale of watercolor works on paper, among the
most unforgiving combination of any
painterly media.
In Jennifer Long's
most recent solo exhibition On the Edge at the Percolator Gallery, Paddington (23 Sept - 6 Oct 2014) she presented a series of hybrid mixed media works - collage and oil on ply, rice paper bowls, etchings, lithographs, woodcuts and solvent transfers, where graphic and
painterly styles combined in a new and contemporary manner.
The 2002 exhibition was promoted as a reflection of the patriotism and sense of vulnerability awakened in
most Americans by the 9/11 attacks, even though Tworkov's original intent was more nuanced and
painterly than Mitchell - Innes & Nash indicate.
Ensor's seaside morbidity is redeemed by
painterly flurries (as seen in The Skate), while Tuymans's own Gilles De Binche is the
most haunting image in the show.
Hung at Laurel Gitlen's Sunday booth, the display amounted to Smith's
most public showing to date, and also included smaller canvases that use a vaudevillian's mustachioed, gaping mouth as the site for
painterly play.
As Reiner Zittl has written, «Stingel may be categorized in the group of artists who passionately pursue
painterly effects that for the
most part appear almost autonomously on the picture's surface.
His video works assume the grandeur of large
painterly canvases or the monumentality of sculpted marble, while exploiting the
most distinctive qualities of the moving image.
Together, they show Bearden at his
most Homeric and spiritual, abstract and
painterly, and contemporary and fantastic.
«In terms of scale and execution,» the catalogue continued, «these works are the
most ambitious works on paper in Richter's oeuvre, possessing an energy and impasto that the artist generally reserves for his major canvases.Untitled (4.5.86) shows the artist's relationship to Abstract Expressionism and his willingness to indulge in sensuous
painterly gesture.»
Interestingly, although being a black artist he does not incorporate motifs related to racial topics, rather he is eager to fully establish his artistic practice by applying purely
painterly issues in relation to contemporary points of view, urban experiences and,
most importantly, humor.
Water Lilies are the
most celebrated and recognized subject of the Monet's oeuvre, which depicts various views of the French Impressionist's flower garden at Giverny and was the main focus of the artist's
painterly production during the last thirty years of his life.
Pat Steir's
most recent hand - painted monoprints introduce new gestures to her
painterly lexicon.
Korali, with a
painterly range of blues, is the
most abstract of the works, and the closer to abstraction the better in many ways.
The author shows you how to achieve a
painterly effect with oil, acrylic, and pastels and tells you what materials are
most useful.
Still, even if the art of the last few years has returned somewhat to the
painterly and sculptural values Kertess espouses — and
most critics believe it has — his visual sensibilities could not, he realized, be an excuse for an exhibition that might have been seen at the Whitney 20 years ago.
This retrospective, the
most comprehensive examination of Wool's career to date, goes beyond these now - iconic word paintings to present nearly 90 paintings, photographs, and works on paper that showcase the wide range of styles and
painterly techniques the artist has employed throughout his influential career.
Rooted in the Metaphysical Painting of Giorgio de Chirico (1888 - 1978), the revolutionary
painterly ideas of Cubism, the subversive art of Dada and the psychoanalysis ideas of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, Surrealism was the
most influential avant - garde art movement of the inter-war years.
One of the sixteen small paintings that plays with me — holds me — the
most is grounded by shiny reflections reminiscent of pennies in a wishing well, layered with these thick, orgasmic (for the
painterly painter), awkward rectangles of material exploration which bar out Washington like stacks of gold or grids of currency, all finally subtitled with the words, «I HOPE IT RAINS» — maybe or maybe not a reference to the Louis Prima song, «Pennies from Heaven.»
But it was still entirely different from
most of the paintings that were
painterly.
Invented in secret in the privacy of Oiticica's New York loft in the early 1970s, they were not shown as works of art until 1992, twelve years after Oiticica's death, when the first and third in the series — CC1 Trashiscapes and CC3 Maileryn — were exhibited as part of the first traveling retrospective of the artist's work.3 Prior to that exhibition, Oiticica's New York sojourn was little analyzed due to the perceived paucity of his artistic production between the years 1970 and 1978.4 The 1992 presentation of the Cosmococas was revelatory in this regard: not only did these quasi-cinemas demonstrate the continuity and conceptual elaboration of key aesthetic concerns within Oiticica's work (the vertiginous passage from
painterly to narcotic «pigment» in service of the sensorial is surely the
most striking of these animating threads), they indicated the artist's pointed engagement with the avant - garde artistic culture of New York.