Sentences with phrase «nature of the painting»

The terrifying otherworldly nature of the paintings start normally enough, we've all felt that strange unnerving realization that a painting is watching you from its position on the wall.

It is the reflective nature of painting, however, that defines its relevance in the age of digital photojournalism.

By exploring the very nature of painting both as cultured language and sheer expression, -LSB-...]

The possible variations built into the nature of painting are, in a way, parallel to the way recombining words yields so many different meanings, even whole vistas of meaning.

The nature of the paintings» ground is allowed to be it's own color as is the texture of each material.

Now and then we can learn much about the nature of painting thanks to the coexistence at one time of antithetical personalities, whose opposition reveals the changing limits of this medium.

BOOKSHELF Both artists recently published books that capture their practice and the nature of their painting.

I went through the typical crisis of conscience that a lot of young painters feel about the seemingly self - serving nature of painting, but I got over 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.

In my view, the essential nature of painting is that being flat, and also, very importantly, being bounded so that it consists of necessarily mutually defining relationships, it succeeds in embodying so many feelings and experiences, many of which we would never have but for the existence of the paintings which convey them.

Her staining method emphasized the flat surface over illusory depth, and it called attention to the very nature of paint on canvas, a concern of artists and critics at the time.

Because of the luminous nature of the paint and the surface grid suggestive of woven cloth, the series just named itself.

In the same manner when looking at the nature of the paintings worked surface, the imagery's style of rendering, or the scale and impact of the works one must consider multiple traditions.

In this, his seventh solo exhibition at Waddington Galleries, he continues to explore the physical nature of paint, pushing further his practice and its examination of the relationship -LSB-...]

Guston was an artist's artist; a painter who continuously questioned the very nature of painting, regardless of whether his process led to representation or abstraction.

However, Moses goes one further, reducing his surfaces to murmured discourses about the nature of painting itself.

With this conversation, we haven't even talked about the material nature of painting.

As I started to think of the works less and less as portraits, other questions started to come up and other things started to interest me more about the actual nature of the painting itself and what that did to the subject rather than what the subject did to the painting.

Blue Boyz (2008) and Ring of Fire (2009) engage the expressive nature of painting through a sculptural bulge.

The performative nature of the paintings and the artist's self - awareness on camera recalls Hans Namuth's infamous photographs of Jackson Pollock's dramatic painting process — images that have defined our understanding of his active bodily presence.18 However, in Saint Phalle's hands, there is an explicit refusal of the terms of abstraction that Pollock and others of his generation perfected — i.e., the expression of exquisite anguish that could be exorcized by subjective brushwork from the singular, heroic male artist.

Welsh graduated from Pratt with a BFA in Photography, which underscores the varied and intersecting nature of her painting practice, as well as her conceptual and technical interests.

The most obvious is a preoccupation with the nature of paint's materiality, and beyond that, with the status of painting at this late point in history.

The show explores the affective nature of painting from the multiple perspectives of Kapoor's varied working practice.

Despite his lack of technical virtuosity, his work does explore, or at least play around with, the nature of painting.

In order to fully illustrate the enigmatic nature of each painting, Up / Down?

Mostly colossal canvasses, some of these works are intense, expressive, and spontaneous, while others are contemplative, yet they all redefined the nature of painting.

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.

Although the banal subject matter and the serial nature of these paintings could indicate there was no emotional investment in the painting process, the prominent placement of the artist's first name at the top of each painting suggests otherwise.

The highly personal nature of painting presents a new manner of storytelling for Beckley.

With an irreverence for the normative nature of painting to find a definitive resolution, Evans tests the limits of a material and its spatial boundaries, as paintings merge with installation and the picture plane expands into sculptural form.

The luminous color space of the background is simultaneously flat and volumetric, like a cloudless sky; it is a resolutely abstract space that asserts the two dimensional nature of painting and creates a dynamic contrast to the illusion of volume in the foreground.

At the heart of Hollingsworth's practice is a rigorous fidelity to the dichotomous nature of painting.

From 1985 onwards his work focused on the intersection of lines in cruciform shapes, giving his lifelong curiosity about the nature of painting a strict, mathematical logic.

His work has encompassed photorealism, abstract expressionism and conceptualism and seeks to unearth the true nature of painting in its purest form.

How can loss be located if the nature of painting is such that one begins by applying paint rather than by taking it away?

The idea of physical limits created by the very nature of painting is permanently present in these works.

Cynthia Daignault is always confounding our ideas about the nature of painting — and asks if it has an essential nature at all.

Despite Pousette - Dart's considerable talent, the idiosyncratic nature of his paintings contributed to his marginalization.

In discussing this work, the editor and writer, Larry Qualls noted, ``... a majestic landscape narrative... they illuminate the nature of painting itself.

Writing on Owens» navigation between genres as diverse as folk, conceptual, and classical painting, Paul Schimmel said, «Owens has found a language that questions the nature of painting while embracing its multifarious manifestations.»

In conjunction with the show, we are delighted to announce the publication of a book of Nigel Cooke's writings, Words, which includes an edit of his PhD Thesis, The Ambivalence of the Undead, or the Nature of Painting's Essence, as well as a selection of shorter works originally published in Tate Etc., Art Review, Turps Banana, Transmission Annual — Hospitality, and in a publication on Ansel Krut.

For Homer, an avid gardener, the slowly developing nature of her paintings echoes the slowly unfolding processes of nature itself.

Its legacy is enormous, having redefined the nature of painting by being emphatically American, encapsulating a rugged individual freedom and embracing a monumental scale.

Pieter Vermeersch, (1973 ---RRB-, one of the younger generation of artists here, responds to ideas explored by artists like Piet Mondrian and Ad Reinhardt, both acknowledged influences on Tuymans himself, by testing the very nature of painting itself.

In her latest series of works, painter Fiona Rae RA has left behind her familiar working practices to explore ideas about the very nature of painting.

They seem restrained, but in a way that seeks to impose order on disorder, regularity on asymmetry, solidity on the unruly nature of paint.

These works do just that, highlighting the performative nature of painting itself with images and motifs that explore the idea of representation and the means by which it is accomplished.

I, for sure, had to face many difficulties and challenges due to the nature of my paintings next to amazing things that happened thanks to them.

Exploring the very nature of painting, both as a form of a visual language and a vehicle of mere expression, Howard Hodgkin rejected any classical and modern art canons.

Within a movement that is typically defined by way of the very nature of painting, it is interesting to see photographs that are able to convey such a similar core.