Sentences with phrase «painterly qualities of»

Throughout his career, Chase experimented with pastel alongside his work in oil, translating the painterly qualities of wet color to the velvety effects of dry pigment.

In her recent retrospective [see A.i.A., Nov.» 07], the presence of some of her ceramic vessels and dishes and funky painted chairs invited viewers to look at the painterly qualities of these objects.

Alas, his complete misjudgment of the aesthetics and painterly qualities of these early Impressionist paintings, has gone down in history as one of the biggest gaffes in French painting.

The exhibition will explore their shared fascination with light, landscape, the sublime and mythology as well as the painterly qualities of their work, whether as makers of figurative or abstract images.

Beginning his career in New York at a time when the modern art scene was dominated by the formidable paintings of the Abstract Expressionists, Johns forged a unique artistic path that echoed the painterly qualities of his contemporaries whilst working with materials and themes in a manner that questioned the very nature of art.

I really believe in the painterly qualities of someone like (American artist) John Currin, especially when he started out.

The artist's handling of materials provides a precise physical evolutionary link between the painterly qualities of Abstract Expressionism and iconographical, subject - driven early Pop art.

Takahata embraces the sketchy, impressionistic, painterly qualities of animation being displaced by CGI.

That painterly quality of that brushstroke patterned dress really is enchanting, I agree.

Bringing together the painterly quality of Abstract Expressionism with the intellectual rigours of Minimalism, Marden achieved a balance between emotional intensity and formal simplicity.

Upon inspection, the painterly quality of his work is unleashed, and you find yourself happily lost in its depth and magnitude.

But the starting - point of these second - generation artists tended to be an appreciation of the painterly quality of the abstract - expressionist brushstroke rather than existential motives of the sort that prompted the work of the artists of the New York School.

The painterly quality of her digital manipulations and saturated, vibrant sense of color combine in compositions that defy practical analysis.

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The tile pattern captivates with a painterly quality that is reminiscent of decorative antique endpaper illustration.

Provo, Utah About Blog Braxton is an advertising & sport photographer in Utah who shoots with an illustrative, idealistic, painterly quality with a touch of beauty and heroicism.

His approach is painterly and cinematic and his meticulously crafted pictures have a dream - like quality that reflects the mystery of everyday places and life.

Furthermore, he insisted that the painting is nothing more than a flat surface with some paint on it, completely avoiding any symbolic qualities that some believed are the essential core of the painterly compositions.

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.

In order to remind a viewer of the authenticity of his paintings, Jirapat includes fine drips of paint, generally in smaller areas of the canvas, to elevate the painterly quality.

KT: Going around the show at The Serpentine, I found myself thinking of Peter Doig, Chris Ofili and Per Kirkeby, not because of the figures, but because of the depiction of space and painterly quality.

Regarded for her «empty» images that border on painterly abstraction, the artist carefully renders blurred backgrounds, cropped frames and the natural qualities of light to capture incidental and fleeting moments, those which exist almost exclusively within our periphery.

Continuing with his practice of the reversed figure, the painterly technique is expended by the adding of an all - over sprayed haze that blurs the compositional quality.

Mark Rothko committed suicide in 1970, by which time younger groups of American artists had rejected the painterly qualities and the passion of expressionism in favour of a cooler approach, either pop art figuration or, in a less than resonant umbrella title coined by the critic Clement Greenberg, post-painterly abstraction.

Images such as nudes dr02 (2011) become painterly illustrations of vague desire in which anonymous women sport and pose, their erotic power modified by a muted palette and hazed resolution, while in nudes ar09 (2011) the fetishistic power of the female subject is all but reduced to lush formal qualities — a cascade of thick blonde hair, the curve of pink thighs, the glossy black of a stiletto heel.

To contemporary eyes, their pictorial strength is so self - evident, so enduringly fresh, you have to chuckle at those pundits who a half - century ago deemed Post Painterly Abstraction (both the style and the exhibition) a failed «rescue action for quality» against the «turgidities» of certain kinds of abstraction on the one hand and the vapidity of «newfangled art» on the other.

Postmodernism deprived painting of originality and first - hand experience at the same time that Greenberg's disembodied abstraction, addressed to eyesight alone, collided with the desire on the part of some artists to retain the wholeness of the aesthetic experience made available by the old masters in their fusion of the haptic quality of sensuous painterly surfaces with the optical melding of colour and light.

She records and erases visual information, obscuring specifics of place or real - life situations through gestural, painterly qualities.

The final shape is the result of a complex painterly process that aims to bring surface proportions, color distributions and surface quality in line with the motif.

The series is printed as archival inkjet on highly textured watercolour paper giving the works a painterly style reminiscent of early Japanese watercolours and a tactile quality that harks back to Pictorialist aesthetic values.

Sanditz's expressionistic depictions of these sites yield surfaces that are a clash of painterly styles, disparate qualities of pigment, brilliant colors and dark subject matter.

I am interested in exploring the surface qualities created by the fibers and utilizing the characteristics of the fabrics to create a painterly effect.

Capitalism and its promise of a better life is explored through paintings on luxury fabrics whose patterns acquire a neo-classical painterly quality; Orientialism and a subtle critique of European values are explored in the films of his roadtrip to Pakistan and Afghanistan with shocking neutrality; and conceptual art is mocked in Potato House (1967) and paintings of absurd mathematical equations, while the series of self - portraits — Polke as astronaut, Polke as drug — confront the contemporary individual in the mire of history.

His video works assume the grandeur of large painterly canvases or the monumentality of sculpted marble, while exploiting the most distinctive qualities of the moving 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?

His distinctively subdued color often has a painterly quality that stood out among the work of his contemporaries.

There is a smoothness and a painterly quality, the roughness of the paper only emerging after inspection.

His abstracted forms and radically innovative compositions have a painterly quality that stands out among the work of his New York School contemporaries.

The subtle yet engaging quality of his animations will infuse an appreciated energy into the Park during the winter months ahead, drawing connections between scenes of natural landscape in his beautiful, painterly animations and the natural life of the Park that so commonly lays hidden beneath the snow each winter.»

What was really amazing is that these slabs of paraffin / beeswax somehow have an extremely painterly quality to it.

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.

I want to create screens of light but now I find that such screens can incorporate more painterly qualities than I suspected.

Composed of urethane resin and colored pigment, the works contain percolating bubbles and a flowing alchemy, a painterly quality complimented by a palette that is alternately seductive and repulsive.

In the large photograph unscharfer Rückenakt (Out - of - Focus Nude Back), 1994, the slightly blurred contours of the naked male body possess a painterly quality reminiscent of Gerhard Richter's works; it is only at second glance that a vulnerability evoking life at the margins of conventional society becomes evident in this image of a kneeling man with dirty feet, who is seen from above and contained in a narrow pictorial space.

The mirror image quality intrinsic in colored acrylic glass (the more familiar brand name is Plexiglas), which is made with a chemical related to the acrylic paint polymer, quietly acts in painterly ways with subtle reflections of color and light.

For Tansey, this project was «a synthesis of photographic, illustrative, and painterly qualities... The meaning of the work resided in the process of re-translation - reinterpretation reproduction - rather than in its perceptual equivalence to reality.»

Adding: «the artist puts contradictory forces into play: simplicity and complication, the weight of steel and the atmospheric surface quality, the sculptural and the painterly.»

'» He wrote, «the artist puts contradictory forces into play: simplicity and complication, the weight of steel and the atmospheric surface quality, the sculptural and the painterly.»

Central to the success of his work, therefore, is a tension between strictly ordered, «objective» zones of powerful colour and a looser, more subjective «edge»: each of the vital boundary lines of each defined, resonant stripe or square in a Scully painting has a distinct quality — and these variations create a plurality of painterly incident and accident within an apparently systematic arrangement.

They are as quintessentially his as the sinister hooded figures and confused masses of limbs, or his reductive color palette, limited to mostly red, pink, accentual yellows, and organized with thick black outlines, the painterly qualities unconcealed.

Here, the urgency of the message of conservation that unites the works in the show tipped Ferrone's photography toward its documentary rather than painterly quality.