Sentences with phrase «painting as object after»

A limb can signify the tactility of oil paint or vice versa — not so very far from the formalist goal of painting as object after all.

Not exact matches

Some abolitionist works like «Uncle Tom's Cabin» could paint slavery as a form of captivity, but the canonical captives of antebellum American literature were white women kidnapped by Indians, who after the Civil War were often replaced by freed slaves as objects of superstitious terror.

Yet somewhere after the midpoint of the show we become aware that the objects on view aren't paintings so much as «Rothkos.»

«After the collages, I began to paint the eyes approaching the paintings on board as decorative objects symbolically representing the eye motif while creating an optical situation where the interior image and periphery of the painting (margins outside of the eye and thus painting) serve as a flipping perspective between view finder mask to visible interior image.

CA: The way you compare painting and dance makes me think of course of the often - quoted description of the Abstract Expressionists by Harold Rosenberg, «At a certain moment the canvas began to appear to one American painter after another as an arena in which to act — rather than a space in which to reproduce, redesign, analyze or «express» an object, actual or imagined.

With a complete selection of over 90 works in different media such as painting, industrial design, animation and fashion, the exhibition, curated by MOCA Chief Curator Paul Schimmel, reveals this artist's personal universe: from his early works in the 1990s, in which he explored his own identity, to his large - scale sculptures created after 2000, veritable icons of this artist, and ending with his gallery of manufactured objects, his animation projects, his connection to the world of fashion, and his compelling works of recent years.

A complex piece in Zaatari's overall oeuvre, Time Capsule not only serves as a sort of sequel to the artist's earlier video In This House (2005), for which he unearthed a letter buried by leftist militants in 1991 (right after the Lebanese Civil War ended), it also links the experience of the Arab Image Foundation, which Zaatari co-founded in 1997 (he recently resigned from the organization's board, which inspired the time capsule project), to that of Beirut's National Museum, where dOCUMENTA (13)'s team found the wrecked objects that are now on view with Adnan's painting tool in the rotunda of the Fridericianum.

A number of cast bronze sculptures that appropriate objects from outside of the Western canon will also be on view, including Gamelan Figures, Naga Effigy, and Little Dancer (all from 2017); as well as Monochromes after Van Gogh Sunflowers: 1 - 12 (2015) in which the artist makes use of pixelation to produce a series of monochromatic panels where the individual colors are derived from Van Gogh's iconic paintings.

The best - case scenario is when I'm painting, it feels as if I'm feeling that object through the brushstroke, or I'm reimagining what it means to be that object, in paint, so a lot of what I'm after is this correspondence between the object and the paint mediated through me.»

With surfaces that have been continually painted over after new appearances of graffiti or scuffings, these found objects have been refashioned as art.

He came into his own as an artist in the age of Watergate, after painting had been declared dead, the object superfluous and originality a privilege of the past — at a time when just about everything that used to define what great art could be now provoked distrust for the artist and many of his generation.

Just as Cézanne tried to restore the solid form after Impressionism, and the more he longed for stability in his composition the less stable his objects become, Downes's desire to build firm forms with paint results in his exponentially less stable relationship to the horizontal platform of the earth.