Sentences with phrase «on contemporary painting though»

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Though it's an act of vandalism, graffiti is also regarded as an artistic style, as much a contemporary statement as the early Dadaists painting on urinals to make bold statements against World War I.

As Richter explained, «landscapes... show my yearning... But though these pictures are motivated by the dream of classical Order and a pristine world — by nostalgia, in other words — the anachronism in them takes on a subversive and contemporary quality» (Gerhard Richter, «Notes 1981», The Daily Practice of Painting, London, 1995, p. 98).

Bruce Pollock's exhibition, Levity, of recent paintings will be on view at Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts from October 3 though November 16.

Though Painter Painter doesn't seek to break ethnic barriers in contemporary art, it does focus on paintings that shatter the physical boundaries of the frame.

As the artist explained, «if my Abstract paintings show my reality, then the landscapes and still - lives show my yearning... though these pictures are motivated by the dream of classical order and a pristine world - by nostalgia in other words — the anachronism in them takes on a subversive and contemporary quality» (G. Richter, quoted in A. Zweite (ed.)

These figures, though squarely centered in his paintings, often have the appearance of being part of still lifes: collaged, anachronistic elements belonging to different time zones and eras offer a contemporary take on the storied tradition of visual and psychological pastiche.

This year plenty of good paintings are on view, though some of the figurative work seems out of synch with the most compelling contemporary work in that vein.

NMAAHC's art collection spans post-colonial to contemporary art, including everything from photography and sculpture to video — though painting and works on paper dominate.

2 All these painters have been or can be classified as what Donald Kuspit calls the New Old Masters who, though working in Old Master techniques, are «neither traditional nor avant - garde, but a combination of the two,» carrying on the spirituality of the former and the critical consciousness of the latter.3 Both Cooper and Kuspit read in new wave history painting and New Old Master painting, respectively, a return to humanist and modern existentialist themes absent in most mainstream contemporary art.

Artist Statement My work is driven by chance operation, via rolling of dice and even though I make paintings, I am fixated on contemporary drawing techniques.

The Dallas Contemporary show focuses only on his blood and ink paintings, a series he's been making for seven years, though most of which have never before been seen.