Sentences with phrase «observational painting»

I think people respond to good observational painting because on some level it's speaking to those bigger life things.

However when it comes to observational painting there is a curious paradox; I feel deeply connected to the natural world but disconnected to doing something to protect it.

This course introduces the materials, methods, and tools of oil painting while students develop observational painting skills.

Her fluent observational painting embodies, and promotes intense reflections on individuality and the passage of time.

I started my training as an artist through observational painting and drawing, and that seems, for me, right now, a more complicated problem than that of making abstract paintings.

I think people respond to observational painting because it speaks to issues beyond the formal, but you have to have the formal there to be able to get to that other stuff.

The exhibition titled Pairings showcases Elliott's interest in collapsing the visual cues of observational painting in which some works are more realized while others are pushed toward abstraction.

I pretty much just do that, because it's so much harder logistically to do observational painting in my regular life.

BB: I consider myself at the moment an abstract painter enthralled with observational painting, but one issue I have with post-war and contemporary figurative painting is how overbearing the «abstraction» can be sometimes.

Cole is known for acutely observational paintings that depict concise fragments of her everyday surroundings.

Was observational painting encouraged then?

Curators Patricia Spergel and Shazzi Thomas selected artists for this exhibition who reference garden and landscape in their work in a variety of ways — traditional observational painting, works with subtle satirical and political commentary and paintings that lean towards abstraction.

She works outside the box enclosing observational painting.

Patte Loper's practice involved creating three - dimensional environments that she then uses as models to create two - dimensional observational paintings.

I don't really feel like I've left observational painting behind as much as use it in a different way — collaged and improvisational.

But, as a painter, Adams is equally interested in intense observational painting — of, for example, the best of the Dutch flower painters — as she is in the Minimalists.

SDG: So in a sense, your shift from color field to observational painting became a visceral transition that remains to this day.

And Sylvia Plimack Mangold is central to a strain of meticulous observational painting that not only acknowledges but also implicates the viewer.

It is also evident that Mazur did many remarkable observational paintings during the 1980s, which culminate in a second breakthrough.

The artist combines observational painting and abstraction by working both in plein air and in the studio.

The slow process of observational painting [allows for] conversational exchange between myself and my sitters, which often [results in] group portraits spanning generations.»

With Gillespie's finely tuned observational paintings...

JK: I don't know if I agree entirely in that I think in a way observational painting for me, the formal issues are the way that you get to all the other stuff.

Which starts observationally, but the end product is pretty distant from observational painting.

I think that Lennart Anderson pie dish really had something to do with it because it was so convincing as a declaration of what observational painting could be.

Our hope is that these interviews will stimulate conversations about contemporary, modernistic observational painting and to pass on valuable information to the many painters around the world who aren't necessarily connected to an art school or center.

Since taking a 1999 sabbatic leave in India, Kathryn Myers «s small - scale observational paintings have been richly informed by Indian life and culture.

In the main gallery, surrounded by her paintings and drawings, I was struck once again by Murphy's complete avoidance of the tropes we associate with observational painting.

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LG: When you were in graduate school was observational painting encouraged, discouraged or neutral about it...

In a new video, produced by John Thornton, painter / curator Scott Noel discusses a lineage of observational painting that spans four generations from Edwin Dickinson to recent graduates of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.

Samet writes: «Matter's insistence on the nude female body, and on still lifes of flowers, drapery, and skulls as the focus of observational painting — for herself and her students — can also feel problematically outdated.

Of course, in classical painting, the artists are also often closely observing a scene in front of them, but with observational painting, the act of looking is given primacy.

Besides the approach to observational painting, it appears the show was also curated loosely on direct and indirect connections that were made through a lineage of teaching, all starting with Dickinson.

The second category that we are exploring is observational painting.

Dickinson's real influence is the poetic space his work discovers within the strange rigors of observational painting.

While classical painting tends to be more associated with the atelier movement, observational painting has a strong foothold in various «studio schools» as well larger and older art institutions such as the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the Maryland Institute College of Art.

His observational paintings of people in his neighborhood are contemporary versions of traditional genre painting, still life and portrait» (PR TTG).

Together, these artists — a number of whom have been influential teachers — suggest that observational painting is a vigorous, various, and imaginative enterprise that continues to fly under the radar.»

With slyly sophisticated compositions and a nuanced palette, Heidkamp makes a strong case that observational painting can not simply be ceded to the Sunday artist.

The artist makes portraits of undocumented Latin American immigrants, and of other distinct communities, using the focused attention of observational painting to mark those who are socially unmarked in society, along with the apparently anonymous goods that constitute a transnational trade in quotidian objects such as flowers, garments, handcrafts and letters.

As in Porter's observational painting, Dodd discovers an infinite range of grays in shadow while heightening the intensity of the sky's blue.

More specifically, I'm interested in the kind of slow looking that occurs naturally in observational painting.

I slowly went back to observational painting.

I think for example all those formal issues are at play in pure abstract painting, but the audience for pure abstract painting, I would guess, is smaller than for observational painting.

Observational painting is all about the gaze.