I didn't do a thing to the original hardware... a fresh coat of white
paint against aged, antique hardware... be still my heart!
Not exact matches
Amnesia is at the core of the digital
age, so I think the continuous practice of
painting is also a process
against forgetting.
In the Art in the
Age of Altamira exhibition catalog, Jill Cook wrote that, after his cave visits, «Miró's preference for working off the easel on larger format works
painted against a wall or on the ground, as well as his use of ochre pigments and earth tones developed.»
Drawing inspiration from classical portrait
painting of the 17th - century Dutch Golden
Age to explore the relationship between her subjects and their environment, Dumas often presents her subjects as heroic, engaged in a struggle of sorts
against their marginalization or confinement, and
against the spatial and psychological encroachment of people.
Using toxic colors and combinations, Flood started making
paintings from
paint soaked lace pressed
against a canvas, showing the
age and wear endured by the battered lace before its last incarnation in printmaking.
Midsomer Norton Artist David Fisher Dies
Aged 66 Somerset Guardian; March 28, 2013; 615 words... watercolours.In 2003 his
painting of a much - loved family pet, titled Friend or Foe, was a finalist in the Daily Mail Not the Turner Prize competition competing
against 10,000 other entries.He was also a regular winner of the Royal Bath and...
Arte Povera came of
age in the context of the «Italian miracle» economic boom and the subsequent student and workers revolts of 1968, motivated by an urge to revolt not only
against the primacy of
painting in the postwar period, but also
against the emerging consumer culture.
Portrait of a German Officer [fig. 1][fig. 1] Marsden Hartley, Portrait of a German Officer, 1914, oil on canvas, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949, acknowledged to be the first
painting in the sequence, incorporates explicit references to Freyburg — his initials (K.v.F.), his
age when he died (24), and his regiment number (4)-- into a composition of interlocking elements evocative of a human torso
against a black background.
On view are four interconnected bodies of work: A Wrestling Place series — depicting two Herculean figures mid-tussle
against a barren panorama; Self - Examination
paintings — a wrestler's intimately folded body represented within a tensely cropped picture plane; the Wrestler suite — individual portraits of the brawling protagonists standing in profile, facing away from the viewer and exposing scuffed, bruised backs
against otherworldly blue backdrops; and The Golden
Age — scenes rendered in pencil on gessoed linen.
Wall art, $ 0: Heather
painted a «5» (the number of people in her family) on found wood and sanded it for an
aged finish, which helps it pop
against Benjamin Moore's Intense White that covers the wall.