Sentences with phrase «paint than any other subject»

Not exact matches

As I started to think of the works less and less as portraits, other questions started to come up and other things started to interest me more about the actual nature of the painting itself and what that did to the subject rather than what the subject did to the painting.

But subject matter came back in a really strong way with the Pop thing, and when subject matter came back, it seemed opposed to the idea of a more abstract or, say, mystical painting, and against the idea that other things were coming out of a painting rather than real imagistic pieces of information.

His paintings of the 1940s are obviously responses to natural things, less pictures of rocks and mushrooms and birds than evocations of the artist's empathetic embrace of these and many other subjects.

But she also applied her declaration to maintaining that movement's firm renunciation of any subject matter other than painting's own material conditions.

The works in this exhibition will explore land as subject matter more than setting, will have little to no evidence of human presence other than the artist's hand, and will be explored in a variety of media including photography, painting, drawing, ceramic, video, collage, and prints.

Almost nothing is knowable, other than the belief that moving around of paint can conjure up a subject.

The painting, whose reclining figure «has a sensuous, alluring posture, looks back at the classical traditions of the nude in a very different way» than in the treatment of similar subjects by other artists.

«A Euro - centric viewer's reflection on a black subject in painting might encompass more than the idea of difference, but it can seldom escape entirely from this initial designation of «other.

So quite often there are, in terms of the subject matter, there's undercurrents, some more obvious in some paintings than others.

Although it can sometimes appear as if contemporary painting doesn't really require a subject other than itself, painters themselves are generally immersed in a self - selecting field of their stylistic forebears, perf group and younger contemporaries.