Sentences with phrase «of observational painting»

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.

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

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.

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

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and skulls as the focus of observational painting — for herself and her students — can also feel problematically outdated.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

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 primacOf 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 primacof them, but with observational painting, the act of looking is given primacof looking is given primacy.

Instead of privileging one way of painting and seeing over another, Walker embraces both observational evidence and visual signs.

Perhaps as much autobiographical as observational, Casteel's paintings are imbued with the tenderness of her gaze.

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

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.

ES: I'd like to talk about the way you work because a lot of your paintings are based in the imagination rather than the observational.

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

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

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.

Sigal's installation also included a large wall painting and several smaller canvases, combining images of stained surfaces and observational landscapes.

Throughout her career, Bartlett's work has maintained a signature mix of diaristic observational study of the world around her, rule - based conceptual systems for the execution of paintings, and an exhaustive play with different media.

By contrast, the charmingly folkloric style of Cambodian artist Vann Nath's paintings jars with the first - hand recollections of torture by the Khmer Rouge that they depict, while Dinh Q. Lê, whose family was driven into exile by the Khmer Rouge, has curated a lyrical exhibition of observational drawings by artists in the Vietcong of downtimes between engaging the enemy.

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

Diptychs by artist Mark Igloliorte features over a hundred observational works of still lifes and studio vignette paintings, a series that has been ongoing since 2010.

The many choices - field sketching, plein - air painting, portrait, figure work or still life — will all develop your observational skills and instinctive mark making and help the understanding of light and 3D.

The Oil Painting Still Life Course is designed to enhance your observational skills, as well as adding to the repertoire of textures and effects you can render with your brush.

Named after James Baldwin's 1964 essay Nothing Personal, Langberg's first solo show in New York (though he has been exhibited widely) is a observational amphitheatre, showing off the Brooklyn - based painters talent for material, color, the situational and a clear joy of painting.

Born in England, Forge's encounter with postwar American painting led him to abandon observational figurative painting in the 1960s, around the time he was having a ten - year retrospective of his work, and to subsequently move to America in 1973.

The exhibition will feature Alise Anderson's textile and rug manipulations, Malcolm Kenter's miniature replicas of different dwellings, Terry Powers» observational paintings of lived spaces, Sofie Ramos's site - specific installations utilizing re-purposed household materials, alongside Maryam Yousif's surreal pottery and macramé — each artist spotlighting a deeper interpretation of the notion of «home» and the familiarity, chaos, beauty and melancholy that often surrounds it.

Observational drawing is the foundation of art; drawing and painting what you see is key to value and composition.

By reducing the obligatory details, especially the background, in favor of speed of execution on a large - scale format (which he gleaned from Abstract Expressionist painting), and by maintaining simplicity of form (distilled by the artist for the sake of observational necessity long before the emergence of minimalism), Katz was able to bring abstraction and observation, simplicity and speed into his singular pictorial language.

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

The apparent ease with which she paints reflects a hard - earned mastery of observational drawing.

Observational study revealed that positioning each painting horizontally and flipping over every other painting in the sequence gave a zig - zag, out of sequence oddity that was key to dialogue and discovery.

Rather than using paint to depict skin with observational exactitude, Brown shows the medium itself to be full of visceral life; translucent brushstrokes reveal the flesh, muscle, and sinew beneath the surface.

Ruth Drawing Picasso, Tate Liverpool, the second work in the exhibition, is a subtle study of a quiet, observational response to Picasso's painting.

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

Bell's balancing of the terms «abstraction» and «materials» is significant — especially with regard to the works from 1978 on display here — by differentiating the absolute thingness of these paintings from the allusions to the observational world that you find even in something as densely materialist as Richard Serra's black oil - stick drawings.

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.