Sentences with phrase «obsessed by that paint»

I've always been obsessed by painting faces showing different emotions, and I've discovered water to be the perfect medium to convey this.

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The treatment of the paintings by these historians is, among other things, weird, obtuse, sex - obsessed, and, above all, ideological.

I was completely obsessed with these chubby rainbow guinea fowl — a pair of sisters were painting each tiny dot by hand.

Obviously obsessed with the paint by numbers, but the paint pen / stencil idea is genius!

The cast includes a pre - «Sopranos» Aida Turturro and Vincent Pastore and is led by a young Mira Sorvino, who doesn't utter a single word as an engaged dental hygienist who becomes obsessed with a painting at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

As such, where he allowed his actors to do almost all of the heavy lifting in The Conjuring, notably an award - worthy turn by Lili Taylor that was never given the recognition it deserved, here he gets obsessed with painting a lot of nonsensical visuals utilizing some rather shaky CGI effects.

Novelists long ago recognized this truth; literature is full of characters falling in love with the people in paintings, obsessing over enigmatic figures or shapes, feeling intimidated — or intensely disappointed, in the case of Madame Bovary — by their first sighting of a tarry Old Master.

As I dug deeper I was struck by the sense of outrage and loss this painting aroused in so many people: The family of Lea Bondi, determined to reclaim the stolen portrait she had failed to recover in her lifetime; the Manhattan District Attorney who sent shock waves through the international art world and enraged many of New York's most prominent cultural organizations when he issued a subpoena and launched a criminal investigation following the surprise resurfacing of Portrait of Wally; the New York art dealer who tipped off a reporter about the painting during the opening of the Schiele exhibition at MoMA; the Senior Special Agent at the Department of Homeland Security who vowed not to retire until the fight was over; the art theft investigator who unearthed the post-war subterfuge and confusion that ultimately landed the painting in the hands of a young, obsessed Schiele collector; the museum official who testified before Congress that the seizure of Portrait of Wally could have a crippling effect on the ability of American museums to borrow works of art; the Assistant United States Attorney who took the case to the eve of trial; and the legendary Schiele collector who bartered for Portrait of Wally in the early 1950s and fought to the end of his life to bring it home to Vienna.

As visitors to his full - dress, full - floor Whitney retrospective will perceive from the moment they get off the elevator and are confronted by the mural - length 1999 painting Das Erdbeben in Chili [M # 3], the 79 - year - old artist has evolved to embrace riotous colors, unwieldy materials, and explosive forms in his recent work — even as younger artists with an interest in abstraction obsess over the rigorous formalism of his early years and pore over the compositional strategies in his 1986 book Working Space.

Downey was obsessed with this painting: the young Infanta surrounded by her maids of honor, two dwarfs, a dog, a chaperone, and a bodyguard are all gathered together in a room in King Phillip's palace.

In a market moment obsessed with the often - spurious aesthetic innovations of its youngest artists, Honor Fraser's booth provided a welcome measure of historical perspective, showing paintings by fresh - faced stars (bent canvases by Kaz Oshiro, KAWS's latest abstractions, a big Sarah Cain) alongside some pretty cutting - edge compositions that turned out to be by — shocker — a bunch of supposedly tame midcentury names.

His paintings, whether landscapes, portraits, or still lifes, are defined by a particular, unsettling aura that captivates and obsesses us.

Sanditz's paintings obsess over peculiar features in the post-industrial American landscape such as circular farms, shopping malls, trees halved by power lines.

Features that once drew their meaning by seemingly not being his, now seem to be almost compulsive traits: we imagine Polke still obsessing over minute printing errors, over the aleatory stretched effects made by moving an image while it is being photocopied, over the bacterial and toxic - looking residues brought about by mixing resins and paints with foreign substances.

Long obsessed with fashion and the emotional states ittriggers, Melgaard regularly collaborates with designers.Proenza Schouler created clothes based on his paintings for a 2012 installation at New York's Luxembourg & Dayan gallery, and garments by the avant - garde duo Eckhaus Lattahung below deliriously painted faces on assemblages that the artist included in his aforementioned show at Gavin Brown.

Ellen Levy's newest set of paintings at two solo shows, in New York and New Jersey, use optical and cognitive brain research to tackle issues artists have been obsessed with since the Renaissance; how to portray depth and perspective by rendering three - dimensional space on a two - dimensional plane.

Obsessed by precision, he spends several months on each painting, moving deliberately slowly in a time of acceleration and attention deficit disorder.

Eight large and recent paintings by Shaw will be shown alongside two paintings normally on display at the National Galleries of Scotland (NGS) that have long obsessed the artist, Joseph Noel Paton's (1821 - 1901) The Quarrel of Oberon and Titania, 1849 and Lucas Cranach's (1472 - 1553) An Allegory of Melancholy, 1528 (the latter work has been on long loan to the Galleries for more than 20 years).

For me her output gives the impression of a painter once persistently scorned by her art teachers; an ugly duckling so obsessed with painting that through a persistent and rebellious belief in her dubious practice the work has become brilliantly sophisticated and fascinating to behold.

I've been obsessed by color from the time I started building houses out of cardboard boxes and «redecorating» with paint chips, «custom made» furniture, and art So I just have to say I love your blog and when I am settled again, you are so hired to help me choose colors.