Sentences with phrase «painterly qualities did»

A lesser artist would likely have been more than satisfied with those earlier paintings (their distressed painterly qualities did have a certain something), but they didn't stand a chance once Pensato shifted into overdrive and made «action painting» count again.

Not exact matches

A work like the 2000 photograph I Don't Want to Get Over You perhaps best captures much of his artistic output: Tillmans manipulated a brilliantly lit snapshot of clouds over the sea, with the sun barely breaking through, and the resulting picture is streaked with verdant green ribbons of abstract color, adding a painterly qualities to a technical image.

Could it be this painterly quality to Dean's films that led the NPG, in collaboration with its neighbour the National Gallery, and the Royal Academy (whose offering I haven't seen, as it doesn't open until the end of May), to the decision to divide the present survey of her work into the three traditional painting genres — portraiture, landscape, still life?

And the works on view by the Americans Leon Golub and Raymond Pettibon plainly have less to do with their painterly qualities than with their literary and political stances.

I don't see them as anti facture so much as more linear — which is just as much a «painterly» quality as thick or heavy applications of color.