Sentences with phrase «of pure painting»

Painting is back, big time, but the late modern dream of pure painting is not.

These paintings can often be read in formal ways, as a sort of pure painting, but obviously they do also have these representational aspects, which carry political and social meanings.

His lush and abstract canvases exemplify the beauty of pure paint and are made through the artist tapping into his subconscious without the purpose of depicting specific visual imagery.

These are often mixed together in what I want to be a spontaneous blend of images rich in cultural references, I hope held together by passages of pure painting and lyrical colour in a «new representationalism»

For those looking for the triumph of pure painting out of Clement Greenberg, her staining made painting inseparable from the canvas.

These artists did away with the assumption that paintings should mirror reality, embarking on a modernist and post-modernist journey through the myriad possibilities of pure paint.

An unusually heavy impasto of lines, drips and dots are applied atop the canvas and on another until vivid repetitions of color lay way to waves, cascades and small explosions of pure paint.

In this regard what Greenberg and Fried theorize as a «strictly optical» space of pure painting, Hamilton pictures as a strictly scopophilic space of pure design; and what Greenberg and Fried theorize as a modernist subject, fully autonomous and «morally alert», Hamilton projects as its apparent opposite, a fetishistic subject openly desirous.

Surely the immaterial includes Abstract Expressionism, with all that talk of pure painting, an arena for action, and «the sublime is now.»

In «Two Bathers,» Park's figuration - which spurred a phalanx of imitators in the Bay Area - asserts equal claims to picture space on behalf of pure painting and of human reference.

Diana Guerrero - Maciá's quilted, sewn, sculptural images subvert traditional notions of pure painting.

The work on view at the Santa Monica Museum of Art is a massive network of pure paint, a comprehensive survey of the color system the artist began developing in 1973 with a research grant from the City University of New York.

Coma - inducing, hallucinatory turns of subtle touch in sweet geometry, ravishing washes of light emit almost incantatory color and give us a paradise of pure painting.

• Neo-Impressionism (1884 - 1904) Group noted for its use of small dots of pure paint pigment.

That's how he embarked on a strain of pure painting that seemed quite radical at the time: working with a prestretched canvas and unmixed oil paints, and figuring out his composition as his brush moved across the canvas.

«Painting» was included in the London Group exhibition of November 1935 and was caricatured in the Daily Express by Jean Baird as an «example of Pure Painting (Just paint and No Design)» (Daily Express, 9 November 1935, p. 3).

It has those familiar mesmerizing flourishes of swirling lines dribbled on with sticks or brushes, but it also has thicker pools of pure paint as well as broader underlying areas of color that seem to parallel — or prefigure — Helen Frankenthaler's breakthrough works with paint on unprepared canvas of the same time.

He thus constructed his practice in a constant back - and - forth between the physical impulses of work in the studio and the resurgences of a sensorial memory, between the transcription of the sense of nature and the conception of pure painting fundamentally liberated from any kind of imagery.

Painter and 2008 Pew Fellow Anne Seidman's practice has allowed her to explore the nature of pure painting through abstraction, suggesting friction, awkwardness, and ultimately, a sense of self.

At the center of the pavilion, Storr has arranged a quartet of rooms that feels like a providential intercession of pure painting: Robert Ryman, Thomas Nozkowski, Raoul De Keyser and Gerhard Richter.

The new paintings extend Kushner's ongoing engagement with the tension between the opulent and the austere and the natural and the geometric, pursued through the improvisational use of pure paint and occasional inclusion of metallic leaf.

Philip Guston (1913 - 1980) is heralded today as an icon of pure painting.

You might agree with both artists that color could be crazy or complicated, but their paintings in the exhibition do not show their struggle, instead, they offer us a breath of beauty and simplicity, a precious moment of pure painting that today we so rarely have the opportunity to experience other than in the museums.

«The pleasure coming not from our ability to recognize objects and things, but from our ability to appreciate and recognize that the application of pure paint is the thing.

The psychological abstractions of Louise Bourgeois come also to mind, combined with the raptures of pure paint in James Siena.

His lush and abstract oils on canvas exemplify the beauty of pure paint and are made through the artist tapping into his subconscious without the purpose of depicting specific visual imagery.