Sentences with phrase «observational painter»

Also, observational painters tend to look at historical painters from a wider time range than do classical painters.

Josephine Halvorson is a contemporary observational painter whose work enters into a lively philosophical dialogue with an unaffiliated group of international artists that includes the German painter Peter Dreher, the Spaniards Antonio Lopez and Isabella Quintanilla, and the Americans Lois Dodd, Catherine Murphy, and Sylvia Plimack - Mangold.

Walk into your prototypical observational painter's studio and you are likely to find monographs from modern painters such as Edwin Dickinson and Giorgio Morandi side by side with books on early Renaissance masters Masaccio and Piero della Francesca, as well as a tome filled with the prehistoric cave paintings from Lascaux.

David and I were the only observational painters.

And though he does not depict actual places the way that observational painters do, these paintings are essentially landscapes.

He was an observational painter and I would argue his perception was direct, but his translation of that perception on the canvas was not; he is certainly not a perceptual painter in the way we might use the term today.

BB: «The work of the eyes is done» is certainly an interesting quote to hear from an observational painter, as is the notion that images are «imprisoned within...» Applied to your paintings though, these notions speak to the kinds of interior spaces you paint, the rooms of your house at different times of day, for instance, or your color, which can be muted, but also evokes a rich vision of everyday experience.

Dodd speaks about starting the artist run Tanager Gallery, her choice to be an observational painter at the height of Abstract Expressionism and her «minimal» approach.

At times an observational painter, Twombly painted irises and the sea just as he saw them.

Like the observational painters, Bailey distances himself from the classicists by emphasizing the lack of formula in his painting process.

This is, of course, not to say that observational painters have completely done away with convention.

An observational painter, she began working in the landscape in Maine in the summer of 1951, shortly after she came back from Italy.

As an observational painter, Mazur was one of the very best, as his Stoneham Zoo (1976 — 79) make evident.

She is an observational painter whose attention to surface, pattern, texture and light lifts her works into the realm of abstraction.