Considered part of the second generation of the Bay Area Figurative movement, influential artist Joan Brown obsessively
painted everyday imagery from her own life: domestic scenes, swimming excursions in the San Francisco bay, or outings to the opera with her husband.
Not exact matches
In contrast to works that incorporate found
everyday objects, such as the «Combine»
paintings of Robert Rauschenberg or the Dada collages of Kurt Schwitters, Almquist's experimental
paintings extend his picture plane into three dimensions with constructed elements of disjointed, dream - like
imagery.
De Miguel creates large, playful, and often provocative
paintings that reference the
imagery of contemporary
everyday life.
Alongside this traditional
imagery,
everyday textiles from the uniforms of park wardens, policemen and refuse collectors created colourful «
paintings» that formed part of the artist's exploration of the symbolic use of fabric in both Italian religious art as well as in its contemporary secular forms.
Michael Lazarus» mixed media panels made of
paint, wood, glass, adhesive lettering, and, in some cases, plastic reflectors and other found materials, share a vocabulary of pared down
imagery, color, and response to materials culled from the artist's
everyday surroundings.
What do you consider you learned when you were growing up, from his practice, where
imagery from
everyday life and mass media was incorporated in
painting and thus extended the boundaries of art?
His 86ft - long
painting F - 111 (1964 — 65), in which a fighter - bomber jet is shown amid a jumble of
everyday imagery, went on to become a defining image of the Vietnam War era.
Taken as a whole, his work defies a singular style, and in his drawings,
paintings, and sculptures, Aldrich is able to move effortlessly between figuration, abstraction, and representation — often combining
imagery variously inspired by people and places close to him, visual artists, writers, and musicians whom he finds interesting, and experiences drawn from his
everyday life.
Drawing on his experiences of imprisonment in a succession of concentration camps, Lurie's riotous collages and
paintings accuse society of shirking responsibility for its crimes against humanity, dovetailing evidence of Nazi atrocities with advertising
imagery and
everyday banalities.
In the mid-1950s a group of young artists living in New York began exhibiting
paintings and sculptures that contained
everyday imagery and objects.
Several artists find declassified photographs of nuclear explosions (examples of which the gallery will display in printed and digital formats) and incorporate this
imagery into their
paintings, drawings, photographs, and designs of
everyday objects.
The works recall a kind of postmodern narrative
painting, mixing decorative and psychedelic
imagery, and blurs the personal and political by re-contextualizing the ideologies of the past to establish alternative interpretations of the value hierarchies that govern
everyday life.
(42 The Washington painter admired in Johns» work his use of
everyday subjects, and his rejection of gestural
paint handling in favor of harder - edged
imagery.
Cochrane, Alberta About Blog Mindi Oaten, a Prophetic Artist enjoy
painting everyday objects or
imagery that she is moved to portray, connecting them with a deeper message.
Cochrane, Alberta About Blog Mindi Oaten, a Prophetic Artist enjoy
painting everyday objects or
imagery that she is moved to portray, connecting them with a deeper message.