The thirty - two - year -
old painter creates site - specific work, letting his paintings complete the architecture of their venue with sequences of canvases that result in hallucinatory effects.
Not exact matches
Those in the running include Ghanaian - British multi-media artist Amartey Golding whose film Chainmail throws light over cultural behaviours towards race, gender and sexuality, while channelling the darkness of El Greco and Goya; Dutch fine art photographer Isabelle van Zeijl who blends the techniques and idioms of the
Old Masters with present - day aesthetics to
create striking self - portraits; British print - maker John Phillips whose eerie still lifes are
created from over 1,000 separate photographs; and American
painter Lucy Beecher Nelson who reinvents 15th century Italian marriage portraits.
Only a few years out of RISD, the 31 - year -
old painter Ted Gahl performs a captivating tightrope - walk between abstraction and figuration,
creating canvases that seem to harness stylistic elements of artists as diverse as de Kooning, Diebenkorn, El Greco, and Matisse.
At 101 years
old, Cuban - American
painter Carmen Herrera continues to energetically and prolifically
create minimalist abstract works.
In his first New York solo show at 303 Gallery, the 26 - year -
old Canadian
painter Tim Gardner works from his brothers» and his own snapshots of their friends to
create a vivid depiction of teenage male - bonding games glimpsed in the suburbs of Toronto, Winnipeg, and Vancouver.
Rather than simply stretching a few
old rags (or floor tarps, as many
painters have done), however, Wayne painstakingly
creates objects that reference the paint - soaked cloths.
The incredibly talented, Kehinde Wiley, a New York - based portrait
painter creates incredibly naturalistic paintings of everyday black men and women in reimagined paintings by
old masters — such as Tiziano Vecellio and Giovanni Battista Tiepolo.
Paintings by the Italian artist will be shown alongside works by
Old Masters
painters who have inspired Samorì, revealing how the artist shares with them an idea of
creating something new out of what already exists by means of artistic transformation.
When art and culture supposedly belong to the young, when curators look to artists in their twenties to tell us where art is going, what we actually want to see, it seems, is the work of an eighty year
old painter too weak to hold a brush, who resorted to scissors in
creating images of life - enhancing freedom and joie de vivre.
I suppose I'm assuming that the
old masters and modern
painters have always been concerned to
create pictures without «holes» and «bumps» but that they have maybe achieved this in two different ways — modernist with flat planes parallel to the picture surface;
old masters with an unbroken «skin» across the entire picture.
Rather, she allegedly paid an artist in Queens (73 - year -
old Chinese - American
painter Pei - Shen Qian, according to reports) as little as $ 5,000 each to
create the counterfeit masterpieces.