Sentences with phrase «object quality of the painting»

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Painted under strongly directed artificial light using everyday synthetic objects — such as plastic fruit, paint brushes, and jugs — these observational works explore the qualities of balance, stillness, and structure that we associate with the classical composition.

The canvas and blocks provide information about qualities of the object that are missing from the silkscreened image, while the angled image of the photo - silkscreen exhibits properties that are both similar to and different from those of the painted object.

The play of light on these works gives them an eerie, immaterial quality that's only enhanced by the viewer's awareness of them as made objects; the whiteness of the paint acquires a new intensity as your eye takes in the darker and brighter elements that contradict it even as they make it up.

Through her practice she seeks to understand objects in the world through an examination of the mimetic quality of paint and painting.

As though he were referencing French Existentialism, the lack of human presence is palpable and becomes a quality within the painting that, in turn, heightens the importance of the quotidian objects represented (i.e. the still life and the interior).

These new paintings explore the physical qualities of light as both representational object and abstraction.

The paintings teach a straightforward but profound lesson: as in Roman cuisine, where the simplicity of means is a way to highlight the extraordinary quality of well - sourced ingredients, Morandi's poetic minimalism shows that the act of looking at even quotidian objects and spaces can be an extraordinarily generous experience.

In Sticky Pictures, Werner makes visible the source material of her paintings — not only the subject in the photograph, but also the photograph itself; the material quality of the printed image, its traces of weathering, handling and use, its physical presence as an object lying on the corner of a table or hanging loosely on a wall, in a space that might be a studio.

''... The found object quality of these works draws on histories and practices in painting such as abstract minimalism of the»60s and»70s, quietly positioning an apparent similarity to these real world objects which are rudimentary tools for identification,» according to Karma.

The idealized, abstract quality of the forty - five objects displayed, including sculpture, paintings, and several funerary masks, demonstrated the Egyptian belief that figurative representation was not only the physical record of an individual, but his / her link to immortality.

They are characterized by a meticulous attention to detail, a special quality of light and a slow pace, made up of long pauses, which reveal an essence of each object, of each line, that neither painting nor photography would be able to capture in the same way.

Her paintings now have a conscious object quality and concern with the condition of their own existence.

The three - dimensional quality of Halley's work asserts the object status of the paintings in a way that photographic reproduction simply can not represent.»

Closely linked to the ideas of Existentialism philosophy, his paintings transmitted the essence of life, not only due to its explosive quality, but also to the chance events and the inclusion of numerous found objects, such as metal rods, kitchen tools, towels, sticks, and artist's cigarette buds.

Her sources stem from images that freely circulate on the internet and her paintings take on a hybrid quality in which objects are placed in a limbo of distorted familiarity.

Stubbs» series of paintings based on gateaux and patisserie are a neat play on painting's qualities as delectable objects.

The kind of paint (and the way the paint ought to be treated, which is really the same thing, for a given painting) depends on the particular spatial or object quality of the canvas, which depends on the scale of the stretcher.

Recalling that Robert Rauschenberg once made paintings out of dirt, Storr concludes, «It's both the pictorial conventions and the material qualities of an object that make it a painting.

Taking all this into account, I object to the very quality of Hirst's body of spot paintings which most engages Ms. Smith:

Harry Geffert's work blurs the boundaries between painting and sculpture, resulting inlandscapes and still life objects that demonstrate the surreal qualities of space, time, and memory.

In Tim Davis's «Permanent Collection» series he takes photographs of classic paintings ranging from still lifes to religious, using the light of the camera's flash to obscure bits of the composition and / or bring surface qualities, such as brush strokes and crackling, of the physical object to light.

Taking a monochromatic grey palette as its organizing principle and aesthetic theoretical vehicle, this exhibition reveals the emergence of that which subtracts or divides — a polemics of black and white or the search for a middle ground, a shade of grey — in the work of artists from around the globe: including Shiva Ahmadi, Yasima Alaoui, Ayad Alkadhi, Afruz Amighi, Reza Aramesh, Shoja Azari & Shahram Karimi, Bruce High Quality Foundation, Dilip Chobisa, Seth Cameron, Arthur Carter, Noor Ali Chagani, Nick Farhi, Nir Hod, Rachael Lee Hovanian, Joseph Kosuth, Liane Lang, Farideh Lashai, Shirin Neshat, Enoc Perez, and Dan Witz, Grisaille: originally derived from a 19th century term for monochrome painting, especially the portrayal of three dimensional objects in two dimensional form, of which the work of British based Liane Lang in this exhibition approaches the closest contemporary example of this art historical origin, the gris or grisaille is updated in this exhibition to reflect the embattled gesture of not simply the monochromatic, but also any opposition to color as such, in at once its aesthetic and political modes.

JW: Your paintings have a dizzying quality of stacked elements incorporating architecture and domestic objects.

Interested in a painting's potential to function as the very embodiment of the object it depicts, Kahn has also developed works in which the shaped stretchers combine to create the form of an actual object, while a synthesis of hand - drawn motifs and words epitomize its essential qualities.

The washed layers of paint evoke a wistful and airy quality but it subverts convention as Hipple incorporates everyday objects into her work such as Q - Tips, duct tape, bed sheet, etc..

The qualities that McBride, like others, woke up to in Eilshemius do not exist only in the eye and mind of the beholder but also inhere in the paintings as aesthetic objects.

Curry's photos look like paintings, his paintings have an object - like quality, and his sculptures register as objects built out of paint.

Mitchell recently abandoned that moniker, and her work has taken a material turn, incorporating painting, installation, found objects, and assemblage that nonetheless retain the participatory, voyeuristic quality of her performance work — most likely owing to her use of tactile, unsettlingly inviting materials such as large, thin, powdery sheets of rubber.

Through the contrast of the focused object and passing landscape, Sachs» pieces levitate between abstraction and reality, photography and painting, the latter suggested by the blurry quality of the landscape that, as if applied by lavish brushstrokes, becomes painterly.

Sara Magenheimer often shoots video and still photos of object arrangements in her studio — rocks that she collects and paints different colors, sponges, earplugs, display hands, and ceramics — exploring objects» performative qualities before a camera lens.

Much of painting today aspires to the qualities of reproducible objects.

Set on intricate backgrounds of fabric collage and pastel - colored acrylic paint, Baechler often furnishes his objects with a white halo that gives them a child - like cutout quality and makes them seem to float off the canvas.

Sculpture enjoyed much higher regard at this juncture in the New York art scene, and experimentation with moving painting into three dimensions — emphasizing its object quality — was widespread (Lynda Benglis, Blinky Palermo, and Jack Whitten were only a few of the artists exploring this direction).

Her paintings have an eerie quality — forms are rendered with a variety of individual spatial logics, meaning figures or objects might pop out from the surface or float in ambiguous planes.

Using a limited palette and painting thickly, she was able to bring together seemingly unrelated objects which she used to fill desolate landscapes, giving the paintings a narrative quality of her own making.»

Taking from Pop Art's exploration of commodities and the anthropomorphic qualities of goods, Craig - Martin's acrylic paintings take mass - produced objects from the consumerist age as subject matter, depicting these quotidian items in graphical lurid colours and outlined in black line drawing.

Objects, most importantly household tools, began to appear in his work at about the same time; a hands - on quality distinguished these pieces, which combine elements of painting, sculpture, and installation, as well as works in various other media, including etching and lithography.

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In her recent retrospective [see A.i.A., Nov.» 07], the presence of some of her ceramic vessels and dishes and funky painted chairs invited viewers to look at the painterly qualities of these objects.

Dr. Gabriele Finaldi, Director, The National Gallery said: «Tacita Dean acts as both artist and curator in the National Gallery exhibition, focusing her, and our, attention to the fascinating quality of objects, real, painted and filmed, from the origins of still life to now.»