Sentences with phrase «painting as a whole»

And this is a radical breakthrough in not just American art but in painting as a whole, it's really not until 1947 when Pollock was doing his drip paintings that you get this kind of bam in your face.

Each term could be included in what we might imagine to be a generalised practice of painting; and yet, of course, merely combining them would not be representative of painting as a whole.

But rather than focusing on a specific artist or time period, as in the previous Thiebaud and Early American works, the new series references a pictorial convention within painting as a whole.

The tarps, poked through with gaping holes, can hardly shield the paintings beneath; instead, they serve to hide, bury, or ignore the canvases, themselves little more than stand - ins for painting as a whole.

At a time when abstraction is regarded in certain quarters as a dated style, the exhibition promises to raise fundamental questions not only about Frankenthaler's career but about abstract painting as a whole: Does abstraction have any meaning today?

Abstract painters do not hold the higher ground within painting as a whole; neither does figuration.

I thought the clarity of the glass was fine but that the painting as a whole lacked character somehow and looked a bit washed out.

JF: Yes, although I'm interested in the painting as a whole I do not want the interior composition to just repeat the shape of the exterior but rather to remain independent and engage with it.

Phillips comments: «The important thing for me, whatever the source of the colour, be it observed or invented, it should work in the painting as a whole.

That image is positioned almost dead center in the central panel, and it feels like it has a special resonance with your painting as a whole.

However, they only serve to generate greater meaning for Mills in the painting as a whole.

The sensation of these rising shapes, and the painting as a whole, is that of the formation of a nascent being.

You can also tone your painting surface with the mother color, which is a good way to ensure that it contributes to the painting as a whole, and helps to unify it.

(designed by Peter Tolkin) While there is an initial gestalt of the painting as a whole, the distinctive spaces in these paintings, implied through color and movement unfold with time.

The modular paintings have often been described as send - ups of Minimalism, or as references to video - game icons, but these connections were not intended.4 Kim Conaty, curator at the Rose Art Museum and a contributing author to the substantial catalogue that will accompany Bradley's museum exhibition, found the artist's reading of these works entirely unexpected and it informed her writing on the paintings as a whole.

Sexuality is pervasive in Gorky's painting as a whole, but it tends to be sublimated and veiled.

It's hard to distinguish between fabric and flesh, and the painting as a whole feels intensely personal, plucky and seductive.

I think the title relates to the paintings as a whole in a way where the characters are doing things that come naturally to them, where they don't need to think, they are just acting instinctively».

What's not likeable is that this powerful surface ends up stranded and unmotivated within the painting as a whole.

More than the arch of the waves and the wind in the sails, Cánovas became concentrated on small sections of colour within the canvas, particularly the blinding luminosity of cloud formations and skyscapes — not the painting as a whole but a small snapshot of the full scene before him.

This would apply to an aesthetic experience: if you look at only specific details of a painting you lose the sensation of the painting as a whole; and inversely: if you look at a painting as a total image you lose its details.

This process does not allow Mr. Walden to see the painting as a whole while he is painting it.

When looking at the painting as a whole one can feel a breeze flowing through the fields, or the warmth of the poppy fields on a sunny day.

This is enhanced by the fact that once you focus in on the tapering, you can not not quite put together what happens when you step back and take in the painting as a whole.

Larry: What I meant more was, like your paintings, I think there is a plasticity, but it's seeing the painting as a whole unit.

This precision creates an energy that is highly experiential and like the paintings as a whole creates a believable space that is familiar yet completely new to the eye.

Such strokes intensify the fluidity of the painting as a whole, as one sees in, for example, «Acquafer» (2010).