Sentences with phrase «painting about nothing»

In fact, it's an identical feeling — gratuitous bravura technique, no content; painting about nothing; academicism disguised by flash surface.

There is no such thing as good painting about nothing.

When Cage was taken by their mutual friend, composer Morton Feldman, to Guston's studio in the early 1950s to see some of his recent works, he exclaimed: «My God, it's possible to paint a magnificent painting about nothing!»

There is no such thing as a good painting about nothing.

As he had co-written with fellow artists Adolph Gottlieb and Mark Rothko in a letter to the New York Times in 1943, «There is no such thing as good painting about nothing.

However, there is no such thing as good painting about nothing».

For example, in a 1943 letter to the New York Times by Rothko, Adolph Gottleib and Barnett Newman, the artists wrote: «There is no such thing as a good painting about nothing.

And as early as 1943 the principal tenet that was to distinguish the new abstraction from earlier, pre-war abstract art was clearly formed, as evidenced in a brief «manifesto» of the rising movement crafted by Mark Rothko, Adolph Gottlieb, and Barnett Newman for The New York Times in response to a negative review of the new style: «There is no such thing as good painting about nothing.

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Buffett emphasized on the video that he knows nothing about making paint.

You attempted to claim that Humanists believe everyone is born good and yet that is not the case... your one quote proves nothing and certainly doesn't cover all humanists, that is painting with a broad brush - something Christians scream and whine about having done to them.

Art historians with nothing to win or lose from assessing Brown's elaborate theories about the «code» in Leonardo's paintings have largely dismissed his specific claims as well as his overarching theory.

But while head coach Greg Schiano seems intent to paint Freeman as something of a problem child, a former Bucs assistant and current Green Bay Packers assistant had nothing but good things to say about the now - free agent when speaking with ESPN.

Something I know nothing about, although my sister paints.

Paint — Painting is a great way to freshen up a room but there's nothing fresh about all of those chemical odors floating through the air.

Even a venerable tool of navigation like a sextant knows nothing more about its location than does the Mona Lisa or the pigments of which she is painted.

To me, there's nothing more wonderful and challenging about the beauty of painted furniture.

Love this paint color... can you tell me paint brand and color... I would like to re purpose a dresser for my daughters room, and know nothing about chalk paint... also wax finish?

But again, latex is a great choice for furniture imo and nothing so special about chalk paint that I think you should totally switch up your game.

I'm a decorative painter but I've seen nothing anywhere about painting a design OVER a chalkpaint base.

There were no apologies about anything nor the painting of a happy picture when there really was nothing to be happy about; this was I believe a true portrayal of what motherhood entails for some women.

Adam Goldberg plays «Lou the Jew» (nothing clever about that moniker), a landlord who wants to know who's been spray - painting obscene messages on his apartment building.

It is nothing more than two men in the middle of a desolate roadway painting lines and talking with one another about the trials of their lives.

At the Boston Arts Academy, however, there's nothing dispensable about singing — or dancing, acting, drawing, and painting.

This idea costs virtually nothing because the swatches are free from paint stores, and the rings are about two dollars for a ten - pack.

Other than that homely schnoz, though, nothing about the Genesis's appearance looks cheap — our test car's metallic red paint is deep and lustrous, its panel gaps are the same as (or smaller than) all of the other cars here, and the overall proportions create a substantial stance.

I buy new cars about every 2 to 3 years, i get bored with them, i have had Lexus, BMW, Infiniti, Honda and Toyotas all good cars but nothing more, but the 2013 Azera had the look, paint color, nice looking wheels, plenty of leg room and back seat has a lot of room for adults not just kids, consistent mpg 21 city and 30 to 32 on interstate i normally set my cruise 5 above limit and leave it, a V6 with great passing power and merging is a breeze always has plenty of get up and go power very smooth six speed auto transmission never wanders looking for gears like my last Lexus did, the heated and cooled seats are great and work awesome also has rear heated seats that my kids love, what sold me on car was the Infinity car stereo plenty of bass and clear crisp music 550 watts sounds are amazing that come from this stereo satellite radio is works great unlike some past cars, and the quiet interior and great ride also surprised me, only thing that really bugged me is the fact that remote start is not on a $ 40,000 car, and have to pay over $ 300 a year for bluelink if i want remote start from a phone.

«I figure it is good to cover all the bases: if I discover that my true nature is nothing to write home about, at least I will have a lot of nice paintings.»

If your puppy is just painting you have nothing to worry about.

There is nothing to write home about in the interior decor department, for the off - white and pastel painted walls are void of even the smallest of decorations.

I've experienced the exact opposite in several live classes I attended with the «instructor» painting away with little or nothing to say about why they do what they do.

There's nothing soothing about Iva Gueorguieva's dense, elastic, collaged paintings at Samson.

Rail: Robert Berlind once oberserved that you are like a Shaker artist in that there is nothing fancy about your paintings.

If painting has nothing significant left to say, he seems to reason, it might as well say nothing about significant things.

I first saw this aged about 18 in Venice knowing little about contemporary art, nothing about Robert Gober, and took it as a sort of cartoon howl on the nightmarish endlessness of painting.

«6 But there is nothing «antioptical» about Piper's careful attention to framing, visual balance, and hue here — rather, she cannily mobilizes the opticality of modernist painting to highlight the ocular elements of racialized recognition.7

And yet — contrary to what one might expect — there is nothing mournful about these paintings.

It might be tempting to lump her in with the widespread trend of faux - naïve that has been pervasive in the last decade, but there is nothing «faux» about her paintings.

What everybody knows about Ad Reinhardt, even if they know nothing else: his black paintings take a long time to see.

In fact, they came from some common people, who knew nothing about contemporary art and had never painted before.

Nothing morally grand is being proposed about these paintings being handmade by one artist, nor any effort to denigrate other, Koons - style options.

During his opening reception this month, the longtime Houston dealer told a prestigious crowd that he liked Kleberg's work because it is about the act of painting itself, and nothing more.

His list of connections is extensive and amusing: From a few odd comments Richard Prince made about Bob Dylan's Asia «work,» Prince's own discourse during a 2009 deposition on using pulp fiction book covers as image sources for his Nurse paintings, personal connections between the two and Bob Dylan's instinct to mess with journalists — as well as the fact that this work has nothing to do with the Bob Dylan we know — this could very well be just another staged rebirth of the artist.

While the subject matter is provocative, there's nothing obviously titillating about Tal R's «Sexshops» paintings, on show at Victoria Miro (until 20 December).

While most recent painting has drifted toward a formalist abstraction that offers almost nothing to talk or write about, that very emptiness has recently become notable, as the new demand for these young, meaningless abstractions continues to redefine huge segments of the contemporary art market.

But there's nothing conforming about those elongated limbs you love to paint.

An outsider listening to the lecture might think he has nothing to do but make work about his personal politics with painting itself.

For the donors of the gift, Charles and Valerie Diker, who live in an apartment brimful of Native American pieces and American modernist painting just a few blocks from the museum, the Met's curatorial decision is nothing less than a groundbreaking affirmation of the way they have thought about their collection for more than 40 years.

There is nothing moody about their silvery, reflective surfaces or about the dazzling logic with which the bands of aluminum paint jog in and out in response to the discreetly shaped canvases, which have cutaway notches and squares at their corners, sides and centers.

Yet, as to the venues themselves, and what kind of experience they might offer, while some paintings hint at what goes on behind closed doors most tell us almost nothing about the exact nature of their business, or even their location.

Thus while he painted individuals from photographs, Richter's replica images were often blurred and bore nothing distinctively identifiable about the subject, an effect that forced the viewer to consider the fundamental components of the painting itself, such as composition, color scheme, and so forth, rather than leaving the viewer to identify with, or be distracted by, a picture's implied content or its emotional element of «humanity.»