It has to do with
painting as an expression of love, and the way in which painting has the capacity to reveal the spiritual — a sense of the unseen or the transcendent might be another way to say it.
Not exact matches
This November, VMFA presents a groundbreaking exhibition that examines how Johns mined Munch's work in the late 1970s and early 1980s
as he moved away from abstract
painting towards a more open
expression of love, sex, loss, and death.
Organized by VMFA in partnership with the Munch Museum in Oslo, Jasper Johns and Edvard Munch examines how Johns (born 1930), one
of America's preeminent artists, mined the work
of the Norwegian Expressionist in the late 1970s and early 1980s
as he moved away from a decade
of abstract
painting towards a more open
expression of love, sex, loss and death.
love will always be part
of my art work
as its all i need to demonstrate that a
painting is more than a hobby or
paint, pencil marks but an image
expression.
Now a ground - breaking exhibition entitled Jasper Johns and Edvard Munch:
Love, Loss, and the Cycle of Life examines how Johns, one of America's preeminent artists, mined the work of the Norwegian Expressionist in the late 1970s and early 1980s as he moved away from a decade of abstract painting towards a more open expression of love, sex, loss and de
Love, Loss, and the Cycle
of Life examines how Johns, one
of America's preeminent artists, mined the work
of the Norwegian Expressionist in the late 1970s and early 1980s
as he moved away from a decade
of abstract
painting towards a more open
expression of love, sex, loss and de
love, sex, loss and death.
As can be seen in Arginine Decarboxylase, the success
of these
paintings is due in part to their
expression of certain aspects
of Hirst's own views on art and science, and in part due to his sheer infectious
love of colour.