Sentences with phrase «paint calls attention to»

This sparkly metallic paint calls attention to itself, in part because it's not something you see often on paintings like these — large, painterly abstractions.

Drawing on influences such as Chicago Imagist Jim Nutt and the early work of David Hockney, his painting call attention to the interplay of narratives, both historical and artistic.

Uslé's paintings call attention to the experiential and make us conscious of time and space; through touch and mellifluous surface, they remind us of the importance of our sensory capacity.

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Cramer also called attention to the Leonardo da Vinci painting that sold for over $ 450 million, breaking all - time art auction records.

In fact if the ceramic calipers had not been painted in a bright yellow colour and if the presentation team had not called attention to this feature, I might well not have known they were actually ceramic brakes.

Add to that the special Phoenix Orange paint color accented by the black hood and grille to call attention to itself, and the Adventure Edition Defender makes for an appropriate send - off.

You can wait your whole life for your paintings to win attention, and another life again before anyone calls them masterworks.

By marking the edges of the paintings, she calls attention to their shape as significant, while the nebulous contents of the pictorial field — lacking the order and legibility of the grid — offer few clues to its inner structure and encourage the viewer to lose sight of place.

Her staining method emphasized the flat surface over illusory depth, and it called attention to the very nature of paint on canvas, a concern of artists and critics at the time.

Then, as I turn away fractionally the painting seems to shift, or shudder optically, as if calling my attention back to it.

There's much to be gained from the attention to process in «Richard Estes: Painting New York,» whether you call his methods of picture - making craft or just pPainting New York,» whether you call his methods of picture - making craft or just paintingpainting.

Robert Ryman, too, does everything he can to call attention to how he anchors painting to the wall.

Often these works paradoxically evoke a deep space and call attention to their own flat materiality, a product of the systematic series of paint pours and chance - based chemistry.

Mr. Grotjahn has since turned his attention to the so - called «Circus» paintings, which are close in spirit to the «Faces,» though the ropes of paint look even more tangled — almost braided — and the almond eyes have morphed into larger leaflike structures.

It incorporated separate paintings into a painted environment that called attention to mundane features of the room, like the air duct overhead.

In an effort to reconcile the metaphysical typically tethered to painting and the current discourse around appropriation, Churchman slows down the process of perception and calls attention to the cycling of imagery through different sites and registers.

Calling attention to a series of works that have not yet been fully appreciated for their true significance in the artist's development, «Philip Guston: Painter, 1957 — 1967» explores a decade in which Guston confronted aesthetic concerns of the New York School, questioning modes of image making and what it means to paint abstractly.

Hard edges, playful gestures, spatial conundrums and a masterful, unpredictable use of white paint — sometimes to erase or conceal, sometimes to open and enliven spaces — come together in compositions that call attention to how painting are put together without demystifying their power.

Four of the paintings in the show are encaustic on newspaper; Johns revives the ancient technique of wax - painting in a way that again calls attention to the surface, which is both veined and suave, almost like skin over membrane, rather than harsh and rough like the surfaces of the abstract expressionists (or for that matter, Rauschenberg's surfaces).

In a poignant expression of mutual admiration, St. John recalls his wife informing him one day that Richard, or his wife Phyllis, had called the St. John's home to inquiry about purchasing a small landscape painting that had caught their attention at the Contemporary Realist Gallery in San Francisco.

I use projection within my films as I do in my paintings, calling attention to layers of projection that define the phenomenology of visual art, intellectual, psychological, physical, etc..

Seen as a whole, the assemblage of uniquely painted boxes calls attention to the individualism that often drives free peoples, as well as the communal nature of African markets.

Braque also calls attention to the canvas by adding sand to the ground layers to form a stucco - like surface and combing through wet paint in areas of the table to replicate a wood grain effect.

Through her loose brushwork — which she uses to call attention to the sensuous nature of oil paint itself — forms become imprecise but alluring.

Pearlstein knows that nudes painted exactly on the scale of life tend to seem smaller than they actually are, and he wants to call our attention to the importance of humanity, and with this of humane values, within a complicated cosmos.

«These exhibitions and their ilk call attention to the insecurities of painting by their very nature, but in their execution declare the evolution of painting more than a primacy of painting's original existence.»

Invited to respond to Rodin's 1914 book, «Cathedrals of France,» on the decay of the French Gothic cathedral, Anselm Kiefer produced an exhibition of new paintings and sculptures that call attention to every one of the old man's shadows.

They also call attention to its material support, and up close one perceives the paint as a series of thin layers on equal footing with canvas.

Calling attention to the differences in surface treatment, it announced that his most recent paintings would feature a «surprising yet deliberate lack of reflection.»

These renderings are then executed in acrylic paint and overlaid with enlarged drawings painted with a vinyl paint that alternately reinforces the illusionistic space of the painting and calls to attention the physical reality of the paintings» two - dimensional linen support.

Blum does use paint here, but it does not call attention to itself.

In her first solo show in New York, Litchfield's collaged and painted memory landscape compositions will ramble across the walls of the gallery working directly with the architectural elements of the space itself and calling attention to how we perceive and recall place and time.

When abstract painting produces its light effects, it often does so with a purity that calls attention to what paint itself can achieve, one of Mertes - Frady's great accomplishments.

Anselm Kiefer (b. 1945) is perhaps best known for majestic paintings from the 1980s and early 1990s that evoked Germany's contested history through charred landscapes and mythic symbolism.This exhibition, drawn from the Manilow collection, used a few choice works to call attention to other aspects of Kiefer's practice.

In past paintings, including a monumental mural commissioned for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's atrium, Marshall has called attention to Jefferson and Washington as slave owners, and their respective estates — Monticello and Mount Vernon — as plantations operated via slave labor.

Stingel's carpets actually function more as interventions into surrounding architecture, in a manner related to the methods of the French artist Daniel Buren, who has installed his striped paint ngs and banners on walls, ceilings, windows, storefronts, and outdoor benches, partly to call attention to their environments, both physical and political.

Bischoff applies accurate color in large, vigorous strokes, calling attention to the materiality of the paint.

That is why he began painting what he called «six - footers» - very wide works such as The Haywain that were designed to draw attention to himself at the RA.

Simpson calls attention to the mechanics of painting, the deceptive force of the constructed image.

Artist Statement Calling attention to variations in perception, I create works through an intersection of painting and installation.

They have a Postmodernist spin, too, that calls attention to the formal and poetic conventions of pastoral landscape painting.

Like his paintings from this period, many of the drawings on view are serial in their composition, thus calling attention to the context in which they are exhibited.

The words «abstract expressionism» bring to mind the paintings of Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Franz Kline, but a new show at the Denver Art Museum hopes call greater attention to the women of the period, including artists Mary Abbott, Grace Hartigan, Ethel Schwabacher, and Joan Mitchell.

Peter Young's large - scale painting from 1972 utilizes a Rorshach technique grounding the show and actively calling attention to the theme of subjective perception, which spills onto all of the other works in the gallery.

The paintings are presented linearly from January to April, calling attention to the passage of time and Gingrow's efforts to hold onto fleeting moments.

Structures that exist at the border between painting and sculpture, Barker's linear artworks call attention to the physicality of vacant spaces.

Stella's works created between 1960 and 1961 call attention to the flat nature of the medium, while breaking with the set parameters of painting through the use of abnormally shaped canvases.

«The tromp l'oeil, I'm interested in, the whole idea of an illusion, that is subverting itself and actually calling your attention back to what's real about it, it's reality of the actual paint in front of you.

On the occasion of Maekawa's first solo show at the Gutai Art Association's Pinacotheca in Osaka in 1963, the Japanese critic Yoshikazu Nakamura, writing in a well - known Japanese newspaper, called attention to the «drama of planes and lines» in the artist's paintings.

The installation Black Painted Plants, 2015, calls attention to several different kinds of looking, including those that can only happen over long periods of time.