Sentences with phrase «painterly qualities of their work»

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.»

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.

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.

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.

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.

«There is a strong rhythmic and free painterly quality in the works of 27 - year old Aboriginal artist Lloyd Kwilla that is rarely seen in the medium of ochre.

The painterly and ethereal qualities of the work contrast with the structure underlying the compositions, opening a window into Lanfranco's web - like visual thinking.

1 The fact that Cook's works succeed by the very terms established by Fried for painterly success — «being convinced that a particular work can stand comparison with the painting of the past whose quality is not in doubt» — reveals that, even if such a change has come to pass, in the hands of a select few artists, like Cook, it has reinvigorated rather than impoverished painting.

Delving into a wealth of images to be found on the web, Val Gesto cleverly cuts and pastes his source material into intricate works that have a surprisingly painterly quality.

By replicating their bold, fluid, and gestural brushstrokes by other means and on a smaller scale, one could say the abstract expressionists were making «still lifes» of the painterly qualities that they were working so hard to cultivate on their canvases.

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.