Sentences with phrase «painted penumbra»

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With multiple layers of paint, color and line, she creates an ambiguous space that affords the viewer an intimacy with her subject matter and both obscures and recalls the pain it evokes («Pietà») In her catalogue essay, Tina Kinsella writes, «Bracha's recent paintings beckon us to reprise the work of mourning, to return to the grounds from which the act of lamentation arrives and to reappraise the particular emotion that the laboring through grief produces... the Pietà always threatens to disclose this excess of sorrow by surfacing the penumbra of future loss that lurks in the heart of the maternal relationship between mother and child.»

Ryder dwelt in penumbrae — the light in his paintings is always peripheral.

The painted portrait of Diego Diego dans l'atelier (1954) strikes one as prosaically descriptive by comparison, its uncannily radiant gray penumbra notwithstanding.

I do not wish to imply that their paintings appear similar, only that they participate in their alma mater's particular attention to the play of surface and illusionistic depth, and that their penumbrae lead back among the lotus eaters to Van Winkle's realm of nod.

At Michael Werner, another painting referring to theater, Ovation, 2010, depicts Jones's ice goddess looking out into the audience — the star onstage viewed from the rear, her adoring fans represented via an array of fiberglass masks within a surrounding red penumbra.