Sentences with phrase «painterly feeling»

1 Conceptual restriction, in Berg's hands, does add up to exuberant expression and has a painterly feel.

Sugimoto's photographs initially appear to be documentary photographs of the natural world, but with a certain exposure that leave the works with a strangely painterly feel — something is -LSB-...]

Miller is exhibiting works with a painterly feel.

Resembling small, imaginary landscapes or futuristic ruins, the surface of these sculptures are deliberately finished with patterns of brushstrokes evoking a poetic, painterly feel.

These modern - day plein - air sketches have an astonishing painterly feel, even though Colombo does not use a brush and his final output is not on canvas but in the form of an archival pigment print.

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The painterly stripes of the matching set feel modern and pulled together without looking juvenile, but the best part is that they're made from Green Cotton.

Pair this joy - inducing, painterly piece with a turtleneck and tights and you won't feel like you're rushing the weather.

But once you are in the zone the characters cease to feel like stereotypes of British culture, and for all its painterly cinematography the film has enough pace to sustain itself beyond its beautiful landscapes.

Robert Richardson's camera glides across the various flattened landscapes with purpose, and plunks down to provide widely scaled, conspicuously painterly compositions (and for once, the background action in a Tarantino film feels lively and detailed).

Shot with a painterly genius for night lighting (all muted greens and blues) by Adam Greenberg and scored with an insistent throbbing by Eighties synth group Tangerine Dream (who provided a similarly effective score for Steve DeJarnatt's criminally underseen Miracle Mile), this pair of moments makes up the backbone and the soul of the film: the one serving up the drug theme, the other that feeling of consumptive eroticism.

Perhaps it's a question of shot selection, as Gray — who has a painterly, shadowy visual style, often reminiscent of the great American films of the 1970s — has stuck to a largely emotional logic in earlier films; his compositions are wide or tight to reflect how characters feel.

Unfortunately, apart from a few painterly shots here or there, the film's visuals appear on par with an HBO miniseries, boxing the film's scale into a 16:9 frame that makes the Civil War feel inappropriately small.

Character models all have a beautiful, almost painterly style of coloring and shading to their textures that make the characters look attractive and vibrant, even if the models themselves would feel right at home on a PS3 — the PS3 version is only out in Japan.

The painterly environments use brush - like washes of muted colour, so that it feels like you're exploring an acrylic artwork.

Painstakingly rotoscoped, the animation uses an unusual colour palette and gorgeously textured backdrops adorned with felt tip figures and painterly gestures.

The painting is an example of Phelan's early work which sought to reconcile painterly abstraction with process based minimalism, but in this context the cut surface feels more desperate, as if the painter were punching a hole through which to breathe.

I think it is clear that aesthetically his work is a unique synthesis of Minimalism and the felt painterly tradition of Abstract Expressionism.

Sharon Louise Barnes» decision to leave much of her figure unfinished feels more like a painterly contrivance, since the marks aren't graceful enough to hold the canvas.

Closer in feeling to Galán are the painterly narrative hybrids of Kerry James Marshall and the weird, lushly painted bedroom tales of the underrated New York painter Dennis Kardon.

My early paintings sought to recreate the energy, color and immediacy of the landscapes... to convey a more raw «painterly» feeling within the image, rather than recording a particular scene or looking on from a distance.»

Possessing an unusual blend of candor and empathy, her photographs intermingle spontaneously - recorded moments with posed and directed depictions that resonate with intense feeling, a painterly sensibility and her consummate skill as a color printer.

But rather than move further in that direction - towards a more orthodox, painterly presentation - Dean feels that Stevi is going the opposite way, towards immersive installations.

Especially for those of us who've always followed and admired his painterly topologies but often felt confined by and subject to a narrow index of repeating subjects, like helicopters and octopi.

Super 16 mm film, with its grainy texture, lens flares and painterly depth of field, lends the film a nostalgic feel, while off - screen dialogue and statements connect it to the present moment.

It sounds redundant, but I felt painting could not be beat at being painterly... it felt like the most natural manifestation of the medium.

But that, she feels, has started to change, with her more deliberate uses of painterly materials and techniques — for this recent series of portraits, she returned to using oil paint — and by showing parts of her process.

They immediately feel too self - absorbed in being painterly, too alien for the larger topic at hand.

Richter's yearning for the painterly excellence of the past as in Old Master paintings is palpable and he pines nostalgically for those bygone days: «I feel close to this idea of seeing the pain and loss in the world.

Heddaya writes: «From the outside, Weathersby's pieces straddle the clinical geometry of Op art and the organic architectural character of traditional room dividers and panels, like the Arab mashrabeya or the Japanese screen, and are unobtrusive, orderly, suggestive even of a painterly monasticism... Ken Weathersby is certainly not the first artist to have manipulated painting and denotation, or desecrated the ever - cooling corpse of canvas — the project has a distinctly vintage, Black Mountain College feel to it — but there is a focused and exploratory energy at work in his pieces, a maturity of purpose that stands at ascetic remove from the cloying color and sloppy corporeality that too often comes to the fore in Bushwick.»

That's the way Rick Briggs» paintings read to me; as a much - of - a-muchness that could only be thus; as painterly situations so palpably exempt from the modernist «less - is - more» dictum that one feels absurd attempting to impose it.

They were committed to emotional force, to painterly gestures that channelled inner feeling, the corniest concept in art's repertoire.

Motherwell was a self - taught painter, and so felt free to explore many different avenues of artistic and painterly expression, but always had an identifiable personal style.

From painterly ceramics with gold accents to decor - friendly canvases in navy blues, neutral blacks, and cool grays — a lot of the work at Frieze walked a line between feeling subtly decadent and unconventionally tasteful.

Selected digital configurations are then transferred by hand onto the canvas, fusing computerized color scales and painterly gesture into sublimely wrought pictures that feel simultaneously out of time and of the moment.

Before deciding to become a painter Motherwell studied philosophy at Stanford and Harvard where he cultivated a method of thought and feeling that would perpetuate his painterly meditations for the rest of his life.

The earliest works, «Yellow and Blue» (1959) and «Untitled» (1960), reveal Ms. Thomas as an adept practitioner of Abstract Expressionism with a fine feel for color and atmosphere and a suave painterly touch.

This painterly quality is why it feels appropriate to refer to the works as «paintings» rather than tapestries or the like.

Most of his works look as if he has zoomed into the granular detail of a much larger painterly surface, whereas others feel like they have been made by layering abstract surfaces and textures in Photoshop.

The images feel problematically humble as the subject of such painterly scrutiny and given the art historical weight of the still - life genre.

Rendered with oil in a bold painterly manner, the brush strokes feels sensual in its expressive texture and feature a color palette that is as unselfconscious as the women he portrays.

His work shows a greater emphasis on introspection and feeling, as well as an interest in painterly effects that he shares with the Abstract Expressionists.

Through subtle interventions in the photographic process, she makes simple blooms and pots feel detached from reality — their appearance more painterly than photographic.

Though she dreamed of being a sculptor, the three - dimensional works — early carvings and late assemblages — felt secondary to the show's painterly focus.

All the colors have that straight - from - the - tube feeling, as there is little painterly lusciousness anywhere.

«Sitar's painterly language and her strangely emblematic images are imbued with veiled meanings and resonate with compressed, yet oblique personal feeling.

Because of his nontraditional artistic background, in the 1950s Davis felt free to explore different media and surfaces of support, painting on irregularly shaped masonite, suspending gravel and rocks in oil paint, incorporating mirrors into his composition, and using pages of the phone book as the ground for his painterly explorations.

Painterly wallpaper from Ellie Cashman and a lavish chandelier create a bathroom with a high - end boutique feel.

This painterly design is actually a wallpaper mural, but — if you're feeling brave — you could create your own.

Create a nostalgic feel by layering fabrics adorned in painterly prints, jolly seaside motifs and deckchair stripes.

Add a romantic vibe with this elegant bedding — covered in painterly illustrations, it has a Pre-Raphaelite feel that's enchanting rather than overbearing.