By exploring the very
nature of painting both as cultured language and sheer expression, -LSB-...]
This, in conjunction with a certain wobbly, uneasy graphic line quality essentializes
the nature of this painting as a person - like actor, a specific deviation from an ideal form.
In the purely philosophical sense, Richter's landscapes question
the nature of painting as he intends them not be reproductions of nature, instead they are more impressions of it.
Known as his Pasta Paintings, the works are a saccharine, but serious critique of the essentialist approach to understanding
the nature of painting as a medium in 20th century art.
The 60 - year - plus career of this great American color painter ended with the artist absorbed in deep meditation on
the nature of paint as a carrier of transcendental light.
Not exact matches
The Washington Post reported that dozens
of witnesses
painted «a detailed portrait
of Malvo's conversion from slight, obedient student to angry sniper,»
as well
as to his «subservient, eager - to - please
nature.»
Nature has just
as much beauty, order, love, and wonder
as it does death, blood, suffering, and murder, and Scripture has hundreds
of dark and disturbing passages which seems to
paint a different picture
of God than we read about in the Gospels or in 1 John 4:8.
The first hundred and fifty or so pages
of his Leviathan show forth his attempt to
paint that portrait
of human being, but by almost universal agreement, he failed — that is, he could not both present human being
as a part
of the new
nature and at the same time do justice to our direct experience
of what it is to be human.
Its rigid compositional attempt to define a rational space is undermined by the floating figures and particularly by the raw application
of paint, which sits on the surface
of the canvas and reminds us
of its autonomous
nature as scraped pigment.
By the nineteenth century, however, patronized religious
painting had become essentially trivialized,
as John W. Dixon, Jr., indicates in his book,
Nature and Grace in Art (University
of North Carolina Press, 1964).
I do want to encourage all mom's to take heart this Mother's Day: However you hold your baby, in your arms or in your heart...... Remember these things: You are MOM You are strong Love never dies You are brave for all you've endured Sunshine comes after the storm The rawness
of grief will not last forever Mother's Day is a chance to remember Your baby will never be forgotten If you are looking for a way to celebrate Mother's Day
as a bereaved Mom — or for a bereaved Mom you know — here are a few ideas: Plant a memory garden Meditate in
nature Create a symbolic
painting Start a new journal Write your...
We have been
painted a lie, and sadly we repaint it for ourselves
as a culture dominantly divorced from the intimate, harmonious
nature of becoming a mother.
The work is published in the October issue
of the journal
Nature Genetics and is featured on the cover with an illustration by Luisa Lens, which was inspired by the results
of the Catalan teams
as well
as by the Salvador Dali
painting «Paisaje de mariposa.
The findings, which have been reported in
Nature Communications, reveal that the h - BN layers form the strongest thin insulator available globally and the unique qualities
of the material could be used to create flexible and almost unbreakable smart devices,
as well
as scratch - proof
paint for cars.
Stories We Tell explores the elusive
nature of truth and memory, but at its core is a deeply personal film about how our narratives shape and define us
as individuals and families, all interconnecting to
paint a profound, funny and poignant picture
of the larger human story.
The challenge might
as handily have been provoked by numerous interpersonal events
of a more explicitly private
nature (but these lack the cachet
of apparent social comment); for the most compelling relationships in the film and the narrative turns they generate are satisfyingly free
of 1:1,
paint - by - the - numbers cause and effect.
Relentlessly bleak and hopeless,
as well
as grisly and gory, this well - made thriller nonetheless
paints an interesting portrait
of human
nature and the divide between perceived strength and kindness.
It treats its wintry landscape similarly: not
as a metaphorical whiting out
of sins, but
as a tabula rasa upon which human
nature — in big bright colors — will eventually
paint its own selfish doom.
As a stay - at - home husband, Norm finds satisfaction in what he does with his life — despite the kitschy
nature of his wildlife
paintings — and ultimately some professional recognition; and Marge is able to hold onto an essentially positive view
of life, despite the horrors
of police work.
Yet this low - budget doc, the debut
of Daniel Draper,
paints a gentler picture
of Skinner
as a
nature - lover and singer.
• Exterior design refined on an evolutionary basis with hallmark styling, proportions and body structure; characteristic design features such
as hexagonal radiator grille, headlamps and rear light clusters with wide chrome surround, turn indicator element and peripheral body surround in black reinterpreted and given additional emphasis due to the surface design in each specific area; high - end details underscore the sophisticated
nature of the new model; five exterior
paint finishes, roof in contrasting colour available
as an option at no extra charge.
Largely autobiographical in
nature, the novel must have served
as a cathartic release for Rattner who has said she
painted over only some
of the details in the story.
Taking clear design cues from the Samsung Galaxy S3 smartphone, think
of the Note 2
as a kind
of super-sized version
of the flagship handset, swapping straight lines for sleeker curves and a white
paint job «inspired by «
nature», so the marketing blurb tells us.
Use the essay
as a canvas on which you can
paint your observations
of human
nature while objectively assessing the relationship you have with money and riches.
And
as nature is capable
of painting a masterpiece on a natural canvas, man is equally
as capable
of designing an urban landscape that oozes sophistication and artistry.
For some, the idea
of in - game purchases
of a random
nature is dangerous, and the practice has been condemned
as such, essentially describing loot boxes
as gambling with a fresh coat
of paint.
More than just a metaphor, his subject begs a question we
as painters should all ask ourselves: is there enough stuff washing into our own
paintings, not simply stuff off the mind, but stuff moved by the much greater force
of nature?
In the end he found what he was looking for, which was not so much a new principle
as a more comprehensive one: and it lay not in
Nature, but in the essence
of art itself, its «abstractness» — the qualities
of the medium alone —
as a principle
of consistency makes no difference: it is there, plain to see in the
paintings of his old age.
If, by dint
of an absolute faithfulness to
nature, Audubon convinces us
of the viciousness
of a snarling marten, O'Keeffe has us believing just
as strongly that she found her subject
as she
painted it, levitating above the desert floor.
The most authentic statement
of Manet's sense
of his situation
as a man and
as an artist may well be his two versions,
painted in 1881,
of The Escape
of Rochefort, in my opinion unconscious or disguised self - images, where the equivocal radical leader, hardly an outright hero by any standards, is represented in complete isolation from
nature and his fellow men: he is, in fact, not even recognizably present in one
of the
paintings of his escape from New Caledonia.
With a nod to horror movies, hippie counterculture, and the rural Southern landscape
of his youth, Dorn's distinct landscape
paintings are not
as concerned with an idyllic representation
of nature...» See full article here.
Partially in response to an exhibition at the Jewish Museum, Artists
of the New York School: Second Generation (1957), organized by Meyer Schapiro, which included twenty - three artists, not one
of them affiliated with the Tanager, gallery members at the Tanager spent five years developing what they envisioned
as their own New York project, a series
of five two - week exhibitions organized around five themes: Old Masters,
nature departed, natured observed,
paint, and personal mythology.
The
nature of the
paintings» ground is allowed to be it's own color
as is the texture
of each material.
The essay «
Painting and Countenance» is, as is much of my writing on painting, discursive by nature, an attempt to try to find another way to speak about painting beyond the overbearing arc of formal judgemental criticism, which has been, and continues to be so detrimental to any meaningful debate around painting, especially abstract painting in this
Painting and Countenance» is,
as is much
of my writing on
painting, discursive by nature, an attempt to try to find another way to speak about painting beyond the overbearing arc of formal judgemental criticism, which has been, and continues to be so detrimental to any meaningful debate around painting, especially abstract painting in this
painting, discursive by
nature, an attempt to try to find another way to speak about
painting beyond the overbearing arc of formal judgemental criticism, which has been, and continues to be so detrimental to any meaningful debate around painting, especially abstract painting in this
painting beyond the overbearing arc
of formal judgemental criticism, which has been, and continues to be so detrimental to any meaningful debate around
painting, especially abstract painting in this
painting, especially abstract
painting in this
painting in this country.
It's also important to understand that these are singular
paintings that represent larger series and it is the protean
as well
as prolific
nature of his sensibility that allowed these investigations to evolve in parallel while perpetually cross-pollinating.
I am thinking
of objects in
nature such
as rocks, water, branches or a big fat sun / moon -
as part
of the narrative in these
paintings and acting
as metaphor for human interaction and strength
of feeling.
Untitled III offers an encounter with one
of the great masters
of twentieth - century art, a window into his relationship with
nature, with the land and sea
as he transcribed it simply by brushing wet
paint into wet
paint.
His earlier works, produced in the 1980's, were signature Day - Glo, hard - edged
paintings that acted
as metaphors for the way in which social spaces have become delineated within the proliferating abstract
nature of the technological world we now live in -
as prisons or cells.
Her reading
of Henri Bergson's theory
of «living energy» is demonstrated in her
paintings with active forms covering the entire picture plane,
as she «believes in the interconnected nature of all living things...» [1] As such, she was among the early practitioners of the «all - over» painting style along with Jackson Polloc
as she «believes in the interconnected
nature of all living things...» [1]
As such, she was among the early practitioners of the «all - over» painting style along with Jackson Polloc
As such, she was among the early practitioners
of the «all - over»
painting style along with Jackson Pollock.
It was there that Thomas Cole and William Stillman, founding members
of the Hudson River School Painters (1825 - 1875), developed the idea
of landscape
painting as an exercise in seeking truth, a truth found through close contact with
nature and a disciplined observation
of it.»
This lead him to adopt Barnett Newman
as his new poster - boy, despite the artist's possessing vastly different ideas on the
nature of painting.
Is the
nature of each character formed
as you spend long hours with a
painting or do they spring instantaneously when working spontaneously with the hot glass?
Tiffany Bell and Frances Morris — the loving curators who put the London survey
of her work together — include 1954's Untitled, with its Adolph Gottlieb — like shapes and a few other
paintings of its kind, the better to show what it looked like
as Martin moved away from the body and into drawing something more ineffable —
nature, or more specifically, the cosmos at the heart
of the natural world.
Smaller, juicier
paintings such
as «Goldenrods» and «Field
of Wildflowers» see Katz using motifs from
nature to experiment with the «all - over» approach to composition, whereby no one part
of the composition is allowed to prevail over the others.
The approach that the artists in Slipped have taken to clay
as an extension
of their
painting or sculptural practices has resulted in an exciting and innovative works that combine the visual and sumptuous
nature of ceramics with a conceptual rigour.
When dealing with an artist
as subtle
as Arturo Herrera, the manner
of interpretation is by
nature complex, further complicated by what at first seems like wildly varied and distinct bodies
of work, each adopting the formal affectations
of the medium at hand: architectural interventions, collage, abstract
paintings, biomorphic abstractions, hybrid
paintings, photography, sculpture, mail art.
Yet,
as he explored these areas, he began to realize the transient
nature of their existence; the demolition /
painting over
of works; the destructive rays
of the sun; and even the continuous movement
of these abstractions by the trains they sometimes were attached to.
According to Sara Reisman ``... Wojciech Gilewicz» practices is about expanding the scope
of painting specifically and art art generally into the realm
of daily life, usually public and sometimes private... Gilewicz... questions the very
nature of art, dismantling it from the rarified, official spaces
of culture to a much wider field that leads to the discovery that life itself
as art.»
Building things, however, mainly small things, was and remained a part
of my
nature; it kept sneaking into my
paintings in different ways: for example the cardboard dollhouses I made
as props for my still life
painting.
Linked to these individual studies are wide - ranging and imaginative writings on the
nature of decorative art, the figure
of the angel in Latin American «colonial
painting», art
as sanctuary, and the question
of British identity.