As an abstract painter there are so many ways to explore the
act of picture making and that journey makes creating art a very exciting and rewarding experience.
Lacking the artistry
of pictures made by Ford, Hawks, or Anthony Mann, it's a B - picture made with an A-cast and, like Flynn, active and surprisingly resilient.
A sustained reflection on 40 - odd
years of picture making, it laces his best underplaying with a solid undertow of romantic yearning and tragic self - interrogation.
In any case, I feel like I'm coming full circle, after decades of exploring a wide variety of different
types of picture making, both representational and non-objective, so that these newest paintings seem to be more fully realized in terms of how I am integrating my influences via my specific talents, proclivities and character as a painter.
Quoting Arne Glimcher on Jean Dubuffet — «They are landscapes of the mind in which there is no harmony, no reason, no hierarchical values, and at least for Dubuffet the
end of picture making...»
In the Arcadian Retreat series, of which Catastrophe (Arcadian Retreat)(1996) is a part, Robert Rauschenberg combined images of the ancient and modern worlds in paintings that blend antiquated
techniques of picture making such as fresco painting with the state - of - the - art technologies of digital printing.
This unique edition celebrates a new suite
of pictures made in collaboration with Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari (on one side of the page) and Martin Parr (on the other).
Hodgkin, born in 1932, described himself as a painter of «representational pictures of emotional situations» though his very personal
way of picture making mixes memory and mood to an essentially abstract end.
I suppose a fan of the Stooges will find a lot more to appreciate here than I did, but the third
portion of the picture made the movie worth it.
Reviewing Paul Klee: Making Visible at Tate Modern, Ben Wiedel - Kaufman notes that Klee «developed a searching engagement with the world — in its social, material, mythological, expressive and private manifestations — alongside a radical approach to the formal
elements of picture making.
As resistant as I am to using the word «appropriation» — redolent, as it is, of the shake - and - bake
school of picture making typified by David Salle — it does go some way in explaining why so much of the work here seemed secondhand, patchy, even a bit phony.
I would worry if somebody else had gone from where I was and done better, but I don't see any improvement on the abstract
quality of the pictures I made during the 60s.
The Polaroid process was particularly appealing to Mapplethorpe for its immediacy and accessibility, providing him with the freedom to experiment and test the
limits of picture making.
Viewed by him as a gift from his close friend, German painter Blinky Palermo, color would become for Knoebel a primary agent in an ongoing exploration of the
metaphysics of picture making.
If anyone has some claim to this I'd think that would be Hans Hoffman as a teacher and hub of the core members, as well as a kind of pragmatic theorist for the formal
aspects of picture making.
There was a
series of pictures made in marble and stone for his 2006 White Cube Cave Paintings show, and some sculptures made in painted bronze (using the arms from shop mannequins as legs) for the subsequent year's American Tan show.
And next in line is Jeff Wall, dry in humor but always wet with secret narratives in his roughly four
decades of picture making.
Just as her early work played abstraction and figuration off one another, in her diagram works the classic
antinomies of picture making — color and line, figure and ground, painting and drawing — rub up against one another, with neither ever being able to dominate the other.
In this print from Muybridge's 1881 album The Attitudes of Animals in Motion, Stanford's prized racehorse Phryne L is shown running in a sequential
grid of pictures made by 24 different cameras with electromagnetic shutters tripped by wires as the animal ran across the track.
Highly respected for pioneering a hybrid
form of picture making which has influenced a generation, Jeff Wall's work combines formal innovation with a discerning reflection on and research into conditions and social interactions in the real world.
His wrestling with the
mechanics of picture making — including its impact on personal and political memory — is key to the development of a post-1960s mode of painting that absorbs the effects of reproducibility
Bio: Daniel Terna (b. Brooklyn, NY) uses video and photography as a means to describe relationships, both personal and related to the
act of picture making.
Curated by Janna Keegan, curatorial assistant at the de Young, with contributions from Julian Cox, former chief curator of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, «Judy Dater: Only Human» spans 50
years of picture making, and shows how Dater continues to explore the themes and issues that have always inspired her work.
Glimcher writes, «They are landscapes of the mind in which there is no harmony, no reason, no hierarchical values, and at least for Dubuffet the
end of picture making...»
But of all the greats of 20th century abstraction it is perhaps the understated clarity of Agnes Martin's paintings that provide the closest connection to the contradictions of energy; restraint; strength and fragility that so define Innes's
way of picture making.
«What interacting forces have forced the imagery of Africa now into the foreground, now into the background,
of pictures made by those at Howard University?
But look at
some of the pictures made with the Hubble over the past decade and simple, glowing gas rings is not what you see.
After you see
all of the pictures make sure to sign up below to win a beautiful hand painted sign by CharlieandElla.
Morley, who remains fairly independent from and disinterested in the world of sport, is more engaged in the act
of picture making and representation.
Daniel Terna (b. Brooklyn, NY) uses video and photography as a means to describe relationships, both personal and related to the act
of picture making.
Some of the pictures make the ceiling beams appear natural, or white - washed, while others make them looked painted.
LOL I can appreciate the sentimentality of keeping it true to the film, but golly,
some of the pictures made me cringe.