Sentences with phrase «nature of painting though»

Not exact matches

Another, even more striking example of the gull chick principle is the idiosyncratic preference (demonstrated in the lab) that guppies show for potential mates that have been painted blue — even though in nature guppies are not blue.

There are echoes of de Kooning's light - filled landscape - inspired paintings of the 1960s and»70s, though Wool's engrained chromophobia (over several decades of painting he has hardly ever strayed from a palette of black and white) keeps nature at bay.

Though often reminiscent of traditional landscape painting, these deeply personal paintings are not intended to reproduce nature, but function as a thoughtful interior meditation on the experience of being located in those spaces and experiential contexts.

What / Why: «We treat desire as a problem to be solved, address what desire is for and focus on that something and how to acquire it rather than on the nature and the sensation of desire, though often it is the distance between us and the object of desire that fills the space in between with the blue of longing. - Rebecca Solnit GRIN is pleased to announce Pools of Fir, a solo exhibition of new painting and photography by Brooklyn based artist Caitlin MacBride.»

The way he paints sometimes looks conspicuously like that of abstract art, though he chooses the nature as his main motif.

«It is as though he [Joan Miro] had decided to condense all that he loves most — women, the night, stars, birds, dewdrops at dawn, into small paintings, while emphasizing the precarious illusory nature of our existence.»

The paintings can unfold in the way due to the suggestive nature of Rosa's pictorial language, which, though abstract, approaches meaning or even symbolism.

In the catalogue accompanying the exhibition, art critic Donald Kuspit writes: «Carol Ross gives us two kinds of sculpture: large, free ‐ standing works, implicitly monumental, sometimes evocative of nature, sometimes figurative, and smaller wall pieces, sculptures as flat as the wall on which they are placed as though they were paintings.

Though abstract, Reginato's exuberant paintings possess an anthropomorphic feel, and the collage - like nature of his compositions imbues each work with a distinct personality.

Though there may be a physical referent or memory on which an abstract painting is based — as for instance with Elaine de Kooning's Bullfight (1959), which is inspired by bullfights the artist saw in Mexico — the gestural and corporeal nature of abstraction ensures that the image is inextricably tied to the artist's hand, body, and mind.

Though expansive in media from painting to sculpture, Kimmelman's exhibit at the Hunt Library in November will feature many watercolors with subjects including those in Italy, Maine, California, and some of more cerebral nature as the artist says, «from my head.»

They are mock - heroic exercises as loaded with irony as any painting of the current moment, even as they seduce formally (though their lusciousness of color and detail) and narratively (with references to landscape and the forces of nature).

Regardless of subject, though, Tuymans's images are at a distance due to the nature of the photograph, yet they are warmly painted with a clumsy, individualistic touch.

Though this period mainly saw the production of abstract works, it also begat a cycle of eight small - format paintings of an intimate, private nature, which portrays his young wife Sabine as a Madonna - and - child.

Even though the scenery paintings date back to the ancient Greeks and the Romans, after the fall of the Roman Empire nature scenes became just a backdrop for religious stories or a mere setting for human activity.

In other words, my primary stride at that time as a painter was to make my painting real even though it was of, shall we say, abstract or even nonobjective nature, to make it terribly physical.

Though Novros is not a sculptor, but a colorist concerned with the object nature and spatial illusion of painting, he looks beyond the single rectangular form.

As a swimmer, though, I identify with this painting, and I asked Eisenman about the pseudo-intimate nature of swimming like this with a bunch of folks, sometimes strangers and sometimes teammates.

Mitchell made it clear that she did not paint from nature, even though, unlike those soul - scraping Ab Exers who coughed up existential anguish in the form of explosive paint - on - canvas confrontations, in her paintings, she did refer to nature.

Though his early work allied him with the emerging minimalist approach, Stella's style has evolved to become more complex and dynamic over the years as he has continued his investigation into the nature of abstract painting.