Sentences with phrase «painterly invention»

The artist's recent paintings explore relationships between nature and abstraction, returning to landscape motifs as a source for painterly invention.

In my imagination, Crosby's painterly invention of a scene of domestic uncovering, or the restoration of black feminine rest - in - love, is in conversation with Kerry James Marshall's startling Still Life with Wedding Portrait (2015), in which Harriet Tubman — a martial figure in black American life — is portrayed as a glowing, shiny - black bride.

It is difficult, today, to reconcile radical painterly invention with dusty still lifes and charcoal.

The exhibition, which features major paintings and works on paper from 1977 through 1992, demonstrates Baselitz's use of the motif as a catalyst for painterly invention.

Their intersection provides the artist a platform for painterly invention and subtle meditations on larger themes of social history and identity.

Always rich in colour and technique, de Balincourt's work is a bountiful confluence of reality and fantasy, where references to society, politics, or popular culture are never less than equalled by free association and painterly invention.

Tempering what could easily become an affectation of historical appropriation (I could not confirm this at the gallery, but the dull, greenish tone of the larger paintings appears to be the result of an overall glaze), Saulnier manages to maintain a sense of painterly invention.

«My interest,» he has said, «was on a much bigger issue than so called «copying,» and I would always cringe when «copying» would come up because I always thought of [my work] as an interpretation, of translating the thing into a painterly invention.».

The works on view in Georg Baselitz: 1977 — 1992 demonstrate the artist's insistence on the motif as a catalyst for painterly invention.

To look closely at Marc Chagall's Russian years is to immerse oneself in the vivid passions and relentless creativity of the artist, whose visual vocabulary from 1907 to 1922 oscillated between the pictorial richness of rural Russian - Jewish culture and the painterly inventions of numerous avant - gardes.