Sentences with phrase «narrative painting seemed»

Guston's turn in the late 1960s to narrative painting seemed like the last nail in late Modernism's coffin.

Not exact matches

When it comes to technology and innovation, reality seems to be constantly playing catch - up to the visions of the world that are painted in science fiction narratives.

This certainly took the wind out of the narrative as it seems quite happy to paint by the numbers most of the time, producing a predictable story.

The game trailers we've seen so far have painted a dark picture of the types of decisions players will be faced with throughout the narrative, as moral ethics seem like they will play a large part in the proceedings.

(In this regard, he is closer in spirit to an experimental, non-narrative poet than a conventional, narrative one)... Whereas de Kooning famously equated oil paint and flesh, Thiebaud seems to equate oil paint with nature — from impassive stone to ephemeral cloud, and from warm glowing light to portentous back lighting.

Taipei - based artist Shih Yung - Chun paints scenes from everyday life, taking inspiration from hundreds of photographs, but there's an element of the bizarre in all his crafted narratives — his subjects always seem to occupy themselves with strange activities.

Clare Rojas at Anglim: The passages of abstraction in Clare Rojas» narrative paintings always seemed to me the most appealing bits.

Also included are a collection of small works on panel, that seem to quote from the complex non-linear narrative of Hackett's abstract paintings.

If you're unfamiliar with Kiel Johnson's work, his work, he creates transmorphic drawings, paintings and sculpture that seem to synthesize the ever - expanding media explosion through a kind of personal narrative.

Although it seems as if the narrative nature of their works centered around the recognizable yellow characters is once again in the focus, with this exhibition OSGEMEOS are moving forward by practically creating an in situ intervention consisting of paintings and a sound installation.

Each movement, focused largely on the 1950s and 1960s, seems to confirm a conventional narrative of the triumph of American painting, with upbeat titles like «The Pure Products of America Go Crazy» for Pop.

There's a tension in his paintings, drawings and films that make them impossible to derive clear narrative of meaning from, yet the work seems burdened with significance.

Overall, abstract painting seems to have arrived someplace new — the land of narrative and neon.

The complexity of the layering of subject, narrative and the psychology of abstraction allows for an unusually protracted experience of each work, and seems to open a new chapter of painting.

His figurative paintings also seem to capture a bit of the magic of dreams and portray them in narrative works for all to see.

A certain material vagueness in pigmented paper pulp thus seems ideal for Stockholder, who has always enjoyed the erasure of distinctions: between gross matter and art, composition and formlessness, narrative and abstraction, sculpture and painting... «Having arrived at the Mill with digital prints of objects she photographed in her years and studio (bright plastic bowls and containers, a drinking bottle, some gaudy cakes that had seen better times) along with real objects (fabric swatches, the floor mat) she proceeded to collage and emboss them in stretches of pigmented paper pulp, working in collaboration with Paul Wong.

While the «death of painting» narrative feels horribly tired, the move to counter it is in danger of seeming just as weary.

Knight writes: «The narrative in these paintings is a story of their making... One result is an intensified sense of the here and now, a moment that seems right and sure and achingly ephemeral, poised to slip away.

In his 2003 biography of Goya, Robert Hughes characterized the artist's eccentric late paintings as «seem [ing] like freakish, vivid precursors of modernity» because, as Hughes suggests, Goya chose to «bypass explicit symbolism» — in other words, he predicted modernism by choosing to bypass the chief characteristic of academic art: identifiable narrative.

But these paintings seem to be much more about depicting particular events or a narrative.

Thiel's photographs seem to refer to a larger narrative context, yet they also explore the relationship of photography to painting and sculpture.

Altogether he seems out of place in our moment of glib - handed painting and cool narratives.

Since then he has published three more novels and his writing process seems to have purged him of any need to paint narratives.

Precision might seem like a harsh, unemotional descriptor for admittedly dreamy works, but Akunyili Crosby's paintings thrive upon a scaffolding of order and structure, where fixed compositions allow layers of emotional narrative to surface unhindered, uninterrupted.

In such paintings, figurative and narrative, many of which emerge from BFA and some MFA painting programs in the US, in direct contradistinction to what one feels is straining for individualism, for some reason everyone always seems to look alike, people even all having the same nose, from artist to artist.