Sentences with phrase «painting from life just»

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To tenants already reeling from the realization that they and their children are living in apartments with lead paint, the «breach of lease» missive was just another kick in the gut.

Just as quickly as I decided to paint our living room wall black, I opted to give it an update and repaint it in Aquamarine Light from Little Greene.

My husband came up with the stellar idea of painting a gradient from white to gray that would stretch from our living room to our entryway, 12 total walls, with each wall being just slightly darker than the last.

The performances from Hawkins and Ethan Hawke are interesting, although I had a hard time imagining Hawke's real life fishmongering counterpart being such an abusive sperg to an arthritic little lady who just likes to paint flowers and other rustic miscellany.

Hi Cory I find this a very interesting piece but I am not a youngster who has just passed a degree course I am a 60 year old who has just been disabled out of work and who has drawn, doodled or painted all of my life, I come from a family of 12 so we didn't get a chance to go to college I left school at 14 with nothing more than a second place in an art competition and every time I tried to take a course in art at night school my work hours would change usually just after I had handed over my # 100 or so.

I thought that Art Tutor didn't allow us to use digital images, and to be honest, I think that using something like this is not all that far from going digital... As far as Dragongirl's comment that she was sure Phil did not mean us to use this tool to make our paintings look better than they actually are in «real life», well, just look at his demo of how to use Pixlr and see how much better the cropped, colour enhanced, brightened, pictures look at the end compared with the «original» photos and it's obvious they are different (otherwise why go through the process if not to make a difference) AND they have more impact, i.e. are BETTER than before.

American painter Mark Bradford has moved away from paint itself and uses materials such as liquefied paper in his work, material that «has something to do with the social fabric of the times we live in, and not just to do with the history of art.»

Netze und andere Gebilde,» Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland, catalogue «1999 Drawings,» Alexander & Bonin Gallery, New York, NY «00,» Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY, July 6 - August 5, 2000, catalogue 1999 «Description Without Place,» AC Project Room, New York, NY, October 23 - December 4, 1999 «Proliferation: Work from the Permanent Collection,» Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, March 7 — June 20, 1999 «Life is Elsewhere,» Theoretical Projects, Naples, Italy, March 25 - May 1, 1999 1997 «Maxwell's Demon,» Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, November 8 - December 20, 1997 «Elusive Paradise: Los Angeles Art from the Permanent Collection,» Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, October 5, 1997 - November 14, 1999 «Painting Machines,» curated by John Stomberg, Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA, October 31 - December 14, 1997 1996 «Just Past: The Contemporary in the Permanent Collection, 1975 - 96,» curated by Ann Goldstein, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, September 28 - January 7, 1997 «Final Projects: The House,» MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Schindler House, Los Angeles «The Garage Project,» MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Mackey House, Los Angeles «Everything that's interesting is new,» Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece 1995 «The Big Night,» Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA «Plane / Structures,» White Columns, NY, curated by David Pagel «Ambient,» Olivier Antoine, Nice, France «Saturday Night Fever,» Thomas Solomon's Garage, Los Angeles, CA 1994 «Un Papillon sur la Roue,» L'Espace d'Art Moderne et Contemporain de Toulouse et Midi - Pyrenees, Toulouse, France «Plane / Structures,» Otis Gallery, curated by David Pagel, Los Angeles 1993 «Co-Conspirators,» James Corcoran Gallery, curated by Cliff Benjamin, Santa Monica, CA «Just What Is It That Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing?

«There was something very liberating about it, to understand that painting does not have to be this precious thing hanging on the wall — it's just a piece of fabric, material from everyday life, like the thread that we wear.»

Thanks to the natural and living matter of sponges, I was able to make portraits of the «readers» of my monochromes, which, after having seen and traveled into the blue of my paintings, returned from them completely impregnated with sensibility, just as the sponges» (Y. Klein, «Notes on certain works exhibited at Galerie Colette Allendy», ibid., New York, 2007, pp. 22 - 23).

By some fortuitous coincidence just a few steps separate «Joan Mitchell: The Last Paintings» at Cheim & Read from «Matta: A Centennial Celebration» at Pace Gallery and each show explosively refutes any notion of youthfulness being the province of the young while giving new life to the phenomenon known as «old age style» — used to distinguish formal characteristic of late works by Titian, Rembrandt, or Cézanne, where the artist just wants to get to the heart of the matter and sloughs off all the fine finish he had needed to impress his audience in earlier years.

Two have just opened: Portrait, at London's National Portrait Gallery, which focuses on her films of human subjects, including choreographer Merce Cunningham, and the artists David Hockney and Cy Twombly; and Still Life at the National Gallery next door, a delicate, two - room exhibition for which she has assembled works of art from the present alongside paintings from the past.

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.

In his 1987 memoir, «CVJ: Nicknames of Maitre D's & Other Excerpts from Life,» written when he was just 36, Schnabel described the painting as the «first that went astray from the predetermined format of a stretched canvas.

Ms. Mehretu searched throughout New York for a space big enough to make these paintings before striking a deal with real estate developers to use the church, just down the street from where she lives with her spouse, Jessica Rankin, and their 12 - and 6 - year - old sons.

There is a premium for works from the 1950s but «the work has value and market recognition through to the magnificent late paintings», not just in the US, but also in France (where she lived from the mid 1950s), Germany, England, Korea, and Japan.

I was inspired to paint Truman Capote conceiving «Breakfast at Tiffany» in his Brooklyn brownstone because The Nu Hotel is located just around the corner from where Truman Capote famously lived.

Riley discusses his work and process noting: «I really strive to not have the paintings feel like just compositional games... and maybe in that sense they're talking a little bit more about the life around the artist and the life that we're living right now - present tense - and the art being a by - product of that and not so much the art being made in this cloistered place away from life but in with life.»

Carr writes that the show «is a feast... in this small yet broad selection of jewels from Scotland, the standouts are canvases by Antoine Watteau, John Constable, Thomas Gainsborough and John Singer Sargent... For visitors who may be unused to considering Sargent among such elevated company, «Lady Agnew of Lochnaw,» 1892, deserves special attention... Completed in just six sittings, the portrait was painted entirely from life.

One of the earliest paintings in the exhibition, Byzantium (1967), created just after her move to La Jolla, is a pivotal example of Schapiro's transition from abstract expressionism to Hard Edge painting during this brief period when she lived in Southern California.

His Half Street exhibition depicts the lives of people Liu befriended over six weeks in two pubs and an Egyptian cafe just steps from the Lisson gallery where the large oil - on - canvas paintings are displayed alongside acrylic photo - paintings.

Perception is the medium just as much as is the canvas and the paint — more so, in that a painting, the artist acknowledges, «only comes to life when looked at from a certain distance».

Born in Asheville, N.C., in 1924, he studied art at the adventurous, short - lived Black Mountain College (conveniently located just outside his hometown) from 1946 to 1948, was inspired by the stain - painting technique that Helen Frankenthaler deducted from Jackson Pollock's drips, and had his first exhibition in New York in 1957, at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery.

When we meet in London he has just flown in from New York, where he was working until late the night before finishing a series of paintings inspired by Trinidad, where he has lived since 2002.

According to the artist, these new paintings are not just about his passion for the landscape, but also about the detailed expression of his journey from his birthplace to New York, where he now works and lives.

The Writer tells her whole story chronologically, from Martin's birth in Saskatchewan and her early years as an artist, living in derelict Manhattan shipping lofts with Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly and others, to the seven years she stopped painting, just as her career was taking off, the months she spent roaming the country in a pickup truck and her last 30 years, in Taos some of that time, in an adobe house she built with her own hands.

[1] The exhibition presents numerous Tworkov drawings and twenty - nine major paintings, from Untitled (Still Life with Peaches and Magazine)(1929) to the large Compression and Expansion of the Square, completed just before the artist's death in 1982.

A Wayne Thiebaud food painting from the 1960s goes for around $ 1.8 million at auction, but one of his still lifes is just one - tenth that price, on special at the new Paul Thiebaud Gallery in North Beach.

Why is observation important to your painting, and why not just use a photograph like the photorealist or make still lifes from memory like along the lines of William Bailey?

Doing a painting and doing a painting from a painting — or doing two paintings that aren't just reacting to a still life but are reacting to each other — opens up a third conversation that I find interesting.

Now, I know that the environmental damage from wasting a goal post, which is made out of freaking metal, is huge and who knows what the paint is doing to the life in the pond (even though they are usually retrieved from the pond afterwards) but I bring it up just to point out that, yeah, anyone that supports college sports or attends any kind of major event with a lot of people and concessions or wipes their butt will be contributing to waste.

Hi Diane, just finish kitchen table, looks great using both cc & pp, I used the little sample paints of valspar I got with my coupon from southern living, it works great, it's a satin finish and comes in several colors, just thought I would let you know.I was wondering if I should put something on table top to keep it looking good since it will get a lot of use, any ideas.Thanks:)

I have a couple rooms I would LOVE some help with and actually have a small budget to do the work I have a library that is freshly painted but needs the shelves and a window seat built in and some chairs placed... I have an upstairs living room that needs new furniture and wall paint because it is the friend entertainment center for 2 teenage girls and one wants an updated look (she just got a new dresser, desk and chair for her bedroom from maru at urbanfarmgirl, to give you an idea of her clean style) and then I have the longest running project ever, the laundry room, that needs beadboard, a painted wood floor and a work area for momma.

I just painted my living room from sage green to blue myself.

hello, I live in the UK, and I am not sure what you mean by Latex paint!!!!, Could you please explain which paint it is best for me to use, I have bought the calcium carbonate from Amazon but just don't know which paint to buy to mix it with, I am wanting to paint a pr of 1970 teak wardrobes, they are just plain, nothing fancy, but they scream 1970, lolol, can you help me please???

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