Sentences with phrase «paint your subject first»

So, paint your subject first and be sure you're pleased with it.

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It was indeed only in the early Renaissance, in the liturgical drama which influenced the subject matter of the newly recovered art of painting — where the resurrection did get attention — that Magdalene was returned to prominence and became for the first time an officially popular figure.

The first will be the painting that is specifically religious in its subject matter.

First was «The Girl in the Pearl Earring,» where she played the assistant to legendary painter Johannes Vermeer and who would become the subject of one of his most famous paintings.

A new animated feature chronicling the life and career of Vincent Van Gogh seeks to emulate its subject's style by being comprised solely of oil paintings on canvas, making it the world's first fully painted production.

Fortunately, the results of the unique paint job can always be reversed as the subject Corvette was first wrapped in white vinyl.

In an interview with Leonie Schilling for Arte Al Limite, he explained: «First, I look in the eyes of the subject to find something to hold onto, the need for empathy... A good painting can be disgusting or beautiful, but it is always emotionally moving.

Fishman is currently the subject of two large exhibitions: «Louise Fishman: A Retrospective» at the Neuberger Museum of Art acts as the 77 - year - old's first comprehensive show, while «Paper Louise Tiny Fishman Rock» at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia displays an entirely different body of work, focusing on sketchbooks, smaller paintings and sculptures, and other rarely - seen items.

The Hamptons» own Lee Krasner demonstrates the expressive possibilities of the first medium in «The Umber Paintings, 1959 — 1962,» while «David Hockney: Works on Paper, 1961 — 2009» provides a close - up view of the world of the beloved British painter, who is currently the subject of a major exhibition at The Met.

The first section, for instance, is dedicated to the «portrait without a person» — exemplified by Marsden Hartley's Painting, Number 5, memorializing a German soldier and love of the artist with an array of personal ephemera (epaulets from the subject's uniform and a chessboard, in homage to his favorite pastime, among other objects and symbols).

Like Albers, at first glance your paintings look very systematized, especially from a distance, but as you get closer there's a density and physicality to the paint that makes the color both the subject and the object in a very visceral way.

I have become very interested in Alex Hubbards» work, having first seen a painting of his at the Indiscipline show at the Mead Gallery, his work was also one of the a subjects of discussion at the event with Bob Nickas entitled The Trouble with Harry, at Mead on 3 March 2012, where the show Eat Your Friends at Simon Lee Gallery, London was recommended and I got to visit it last week.

For the paintings in her show at Locks Gallery, the first show in Philadelphia since her retrospective show at the Institute of Contemporary Art, the focus is on Philadelphia subjects and stories.

The painting comes first always, so I'd just like to keep finding subjects that enthuse me.

There were two important consequences of this shift: the first was that drawing, became crucial to his painting practice, the second is that geometry itself became, for the rest of his life, his art's predominant subject matter.

Published to coincide with Chicago - based Kerry James Marshall «s first exhibition at David Zwirner Gallery in London, this catalog documents the 14 paintings on view («the majority of which are portraits of subjects whose disassociated stares suggest the differences between «looking» and «seeing»»).

The first group of paintings here are wonderfully restrained little canvases whose subjects include frozen peas defrosting in a kitchen sink, or curls of paper scattered on a linoleum floor whose generic pattern is depicted in quick smears of paint.

His luxuriant paintings of vices and voyeuristic pleasures were celebrated in his first solo museum show earlier this year, at Philadelphia's Moore College of Art & Design; his work is appearing in gallery shows and art fairs around the world; and, this month, he will be the subject of Jeffrey Deitch's first show heralding the dealer's triumphant return to SoHo.

Experimentation was the only way to reinvent his exaggerated art style, and in 1969, attempting to free the style from the subject matter, Baselitz painted his first inverted piece entitled Der Wald auf dem Kopf (The Wood on its Head).

When John first showed his paintings — mostly of suburban women and girls — at White Columns and later at Andrea Rosen right out of Yale graduate school, they were considered ironic and, in truth, kind of mean, even degrading, to his subjects.

The subject of the 2002 retrospective, Gerhard Richter: 40 Years of Painting organized by the Museum of Modern Art, Richter was born in Dresden, Germany, and first studied art under the social and political disciplines of the East German communist government.

The catalogue for the first solo exhibition by New York - based artist Josh Smith at Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, the subject of both the book and show is his extensive series of paintings of fish.

Today, she is recognised as being among the first female artists to paint a nude self - portrait and, later, a series of self - portraits while she was pregnant — subjects which are taken up in the Joffe paintings on show.

Japanese artist Tetsuo Mizù, in his first solo exhibition in Hong Kong at Whitestone Gallery, presents a welcomed deviation from more traditional depictions of the subject with paintings that focus on the storied practice of international maritime flags.

These became the subject of the first paintings exhibition I organized, which was the exhibition in Sils, a town in Switzerland that's connected to my childhood, where I grew up.

The circular motifs explored in these scrolls have been the subject of Orozco's paintings since his first Samurai paintings made a decade ago.

Although the banal subject matter and the serial nature of these paintings could indicate there was no emotional investment in the painting process, the prominent placement of the artist's first name at the top of each painting suggests otherwise.

Along with his watercolours, Roberts showed works on canvas, particularly self - portraits and images of his first wife Marian, who would be the subject of numerous nude and clothed figure paintings.

Like theirs, his art was at first only allusive to nature, while transcending its observation into entities that made oil paint itself the subject matter of his works.

Robert Bechtle has been a seminal force in the development of the Photo Realist approach to representational painting, one which presents a relentlessly factual depiction of a subject that has been first photographically recorded, then painstakingly translated into paint on canvas.

Japanese artist Takashi Murakami was the subject of first comprehensive museum show of Murakami's work and included rarely seen early work and his most recent large - scale sculptures and paintings.

The first exhibition of the autumn season is a critically engaged survey show that takes as its subject the materiality of paint and its transformative potential.

I have this enormous collection of drink stirrers, an attic full of them, including one from the Normandie [the Puerto Rican hotel that was the subject of Perez's first architecture painting].

The single - channel video is a close - up of her naked eye subjected first to blue eyedrops and then a brush applying wet yellow paint until her eye's tissues turn green.

Warhol executed his first concerted series of paintings and drawings at this time, taking the products of the advertising industry as his subject matter.

A 1969 work by Sam Gilliam, which was painted to commemorate the first anniversary of Luther King's murder, is one of the most powerful paintings in the show — it falls down the wall like a curtain of purple sorrow and without even knowing the subject of the work it is striking in it's consciousness.

There are also 19 works by Glenn Ligon, who will be the subject of a retrospective at the museum in 2011, including one of his first Richard Pryor paintings.

In another painting, Daddy's Gone, Girl, Fischl returns to an earlier subject for the first time ever, depicting the subject from his 1984 painting Daddy's Girl, as she is now, older and fatherless.

Bartlett's first major exhibition, a single but monumental piece, Rhapsody (1976) astounded critics with its encyclopedic demonstration of painting as a subject.

Prince's first joke painting, made in 1986 but one that he has revisited time again, belies this preference for using found subject matter.

Graduating from Yale with an M.F.A. in 1965, Bartlett's first major exhibition, Rhapsody (1976) astounded critics with its encyclopedic demonstration of painting as a subject.

For his first solo show (at New York's Hasted - Kraeutler gallery), the artist reimagined Johannes Vermeer's «Girl With A Pearl Earring» painting; only in Erizku's version, titled «Girl With A Bamboo Earring,» the subject is a black woman wearing a gold hoop earing.

Dallas - based artist David Bates, who first gained national recognition in the 1987 Whitney Biennial, is the subject of a two - venue retrospective at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, which will emphasize his paintings, and the Nasher Sculpture Center, which will focus on his sculptures and works on paper.

Though he was first recognized for his still lifes, Chase painted a range of subjects including landscapes, cityscapes, studio interiors, and portraits in both oil and pastel.

Ostensibly an enlarged copy of a Dali painting, it was the subject of a copyright claim by the Dali estate when first exhibited.

When I made the first «construction», I wanted to make objects that I could represent in paintings, so that they would be still - life subjects, but not be recognisable; so they would not always be referring to something autobiographical.

This first career museum retrospective features paintings that define the places and subjects that have mattered most in the nearly sixty - year career of this American plein - air painter.

Building on the mythological themes of the works on paper, these paintings combine various references and allusions: a towering Adonis appears as the singular subject of a 2017 canvas, while Amazon (2016) and Birth (2018) are both partially inspired by Dumas's recurring muse, her daughter, who is now expecting her first child.

When: Thursday, April 19, free with advance RSVP, 6:30 Why: In conjunction with the publication of the first monograph on Philip Taaffe as part of the Lund Humphries Contemporary Painters series, the Cooper Union is hosting the panel discussion «Rewriting Painting» on April 19 at 6:30, featuring Cooper graduates, artists, and Lund Humphries subjects Lois Dodd, Thomas Nozkowski, and Philip Taaffe along with critics Barry Schwabsky (the editor of the Lund Humphries series), Faye Hirsch (who wrote the book on Dodd), and John Yau (who wrote the book on Taaffe).

The retrospective will include vibrant new paintings of the artist's home and garden in Los Angeles, which will be united for the first time with earlier works depicting the same subject across 35 years.