Sentences with phrase «painting held its ground»

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Field of Lost Shoes doesn't tread any particularly new ground, but it certainly treads over very solid ground and Wiedmann has painted on a particularly grand canvas, writing emotionally rich music that is very easy to like and will surely prove very popular amongst those people who like the no - holds - barred - when - it - comes - to - emotions approach of 1990s John Barry or James Horner (and who are willing to give this score a chance).

Especially in the 1980s, he makes the choice of ground, from enamel to steel, part of the painting along with the bolts holding it to the wall — and these, too, often enough are white.

Moreover, if one considers the alternate history of Schapiro's having continued to work in this vein of geometric abstraction, given the typical narratives of the time, her career would likely have plateaued in relation to a colleague like Held, in part because he was a male artist, with all the privileges that brought, and in part because he was, in that mode, perhaps a stronger artist: as impressive as «Byzantium» is, it can't compete with the impact of Held's paintings as paintings, their literal physicality — the extra thick stretchers and larger size and the paint handling, which manages to be worked even when flat — and their composition, which bends vision into sci - fi space but also retains the power of the overall ground.

For the rope paintings, she uses the same skin - mimicking textiles as her paintings» ground, and then tightly spins the finished paintings into ropes held together only by a cast bronze knot and a bronze tack where they meet the wall or the ceiling.

A Dozen Eggs Dropped on the Ground Charcoal on paper, 14.5 x 16» Heather Jones holds a BFA in Painting and Drawing.

Kline's paintings are sturdy contraptions: he had a knack for sectioning off each canvas in such a way that his lines vigorously clamp the painting's surface and hold the ground on which they are situated.

One of the hand - held pictures, «Form for Tomorrow (Red),» consisted of a single tight bundle of crudely painted, multicolored strokes set on a rosy purple ground.

And even though some of the painted wooden architectural arches have toppled or are frozen while toppling, held aloft by fine strings, and although lights with coloured gels have been plonked on the ground and three slack - stringed lyres lie abandoned, there are few signs that anything has taken place beyond the arrangement of this disarray.

Brendan Fowler held his ground at Joel Mesler's Untitled Gallery, Mexican artist Edgardo Aragón made his North American debut at Laurel Gitlen, dealer Augusto Arbizo sold out the show of Spaniard Jeronimo Elespe's intimately scaled paintings, and Erin Shirreff opened at Lisa Cooley.

The vault will hold a formidable collection of more than 120 Klees, and the ground floor will be given over to 30 Picasso paintings and the drawings collected by Angela Rosengart and her father, Siegfried, who began the collection.

A camera positioned surveillance - style shows the artists engaged in a series of preparatory and exhaustive actions: spilling Yves Klein bluish paint on the floor to reveal the reflection of overhead lights, holding a box in the corner and letting it fall to the ground, and lassoing a bucket of tennis balls.

The Arts Foundation of Cape Cod is breaking new ground by naming Jackie Reeves as the first abstract artist to create the commemorative painting for its annual Pops by the Sea concert with the Boston Pops Orchestra, held each summer on the Hyannis Village Green.

One of the sixteen small paintings that plays with me — holds me — the most is grounded by shiny reflections reminiscent of pennies in a wishing well, layered with these thick, orgasmic (for the painterly painter), awkward rectangles of material exploration which bar out Washington like stacks of gold or grids of currency, all finally subtitled with the words, «I HOPE IT RAINS» — maybe or maybe not a reference to the Louis Prima song, «Pennies from Heaven.»

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

So, I might imagine that the figure is being poured into her container, that the ground surrounding her is some denser stuff, holding her in place (like a mold), or that the painting itself is a slice of air and everything in it is just slightly shifting, like condensation, or everything is skin, pushing against the membrane of the picture plane.