Sentences with phrase «painting it an unconventional»

Focusing on Brian Wilson, the mercurial singer, songwriter and leader of The Beach Boys, Love & Mercy paints an unconventional portrait of the artist by interweaving seminal moments in his life, from his artistic genius to his profound struggles, and the love that keeps him alive.

But the stark difference in art direction, the choice of an 1800s pseudo-London whaling city that reeks with Orwellian oppression and is thoroughly submerged in thick, unnatural reds and blues, paints an unconventional yet sophisticated game world.

It follows the true story of Brian Wilson, the leader and songwriter for The Beach Boys and, we're told, paints an unconventional portrait of his life.

To give it the wood headboard makeover it needed, these homeowners painting it an unconventional color.

Not exact matches

He is depicted as making and losing a fortune, shocking his straitlaced patrons by having an affair with his housekeeper, and painting in a style too unconventional for his contemporaries to appreciate.

What a great idea to use an unconventional paint brush to make fun art!

So it's unconventional with a book room, a museum / archive room, a painting room, a sewing room, a dressing room, office, bed / sitting room and TV room.

The unconventional (and rather slow) animation style consists mostly of the camera panning over luminous still watercolor paintings accompanied by a psych - rock orchestra, which is another way of saying it's one of the most»70s things I've ever seen.

Shepherd's unconventional looks and bizarre delivery help him in these scenarios — he's a lot like Barry Newman of «Vanishing Point» and «Fear is the Key,» his confidence behind the wheel painting him as a hero even if his countenance, and the lies that necessitate the multi-state chase, suggest otherwise.

Leigh's sprawling «Mr. Turner» centers on the 19th century artist J.M.W. Turner (Timothy Spall), an irascible talent whose unconventional landscape paintings heralded an era of Abstract art, though not before he dealt with pretty concrete personal problems.

Gates later blogged about Thacker's unconventional approach to instruction in a brightly painted classroom with whiteboards on every wall and a giant x-y axis taped to the floor in place of desks.

The early years of Wolseley — How the company developed up to the First World War by Norman Painting / Homage to a Morris 8 — D.H. Smith relates his memories of a 1937 Morris 8 named «Cleopatra» / Amilcar anniversary — Brian Heath visited the Auvergne in company with other Amilcar enthusiasts on the occasion of the car's 75th anniversary / The Citroen 2CV phenomenon — The story of this unconventional classic is told by Chris Bowes / Honeymoon trip in a Riley — Malcolm Bates tells us about a young couple's trip to remember in a 1929/30 Riley Monaco / Memories of Woolf Barnato and W.O. Bentley — Rivers Fletcher relates his personal reminiscences of Woolf Barnato and W.O. Bentley in the 1920s and 30s / 1933 Alvis Speed Twenty — This month The Editor gives us his impressions of this traditional — but tecnically advanced — British sporting car / Sunbeam Talbot Darracq rally — A report on the STD register's national rally by Nick Baldwin / Vulcan history part two — Michael Worthington - Williams continues his article on this comparitively little known manufacturer.

I think the car's unconventional lines and deep blue paint make a lot of people look twice.

Be prepared for a slightly unconventional test, as the Motor Trend folks wanted to see if the two models could do a little painting, on top of the typical testing.

A group of children with unconventional pets follow the boy and his new friend to a treehouse club where they paint a sign: «ALL ARE WELCOME.»

Alice Neel, a great American portraitist who died in 1984, fits this description to a T. Sixteen paintings from her estate, currently on display at LA Louver Gallery, provide a brief but satisfying introduction into her highly idiosyncratic art and - to put it mildly - into her unconventional way of life.

She then creates paintings that are unconventional and non-judgmental portraits.

Intermittently bright and gloomy, his paintings are characterized by unconventional grade of the constant concentration of pure pictorial elements, as color, surface, proportion, and scale followed by the theories that they could reveal the presence of the philosophical thoughts.

In the 1940s and 1950s the main groups within the Abstract expressionism were the «Gesture Painters» and the «Color - Field Painters», who experimented with new techniques for applying paint: dripping, pouring, throwing, squirting, squeegeeing, and spattering, and with the use of unconventional tools, such as wall paper brushes, sticks, and trowels.

Said Landauer about De Forest, «His unconventional style of painting is so profound — he's an extremely important figure in American art.

Lisette Model and Weegee provided an unconventional and sometimes outright weird view of nightlife on the homefront while Robert Frank presented a wide ranging cross section of America and Aaron Siskind's work approached the abstraction of his friends» paintings like those of Franz Kline.

In 2008, she began a series of unconventional portraits of artists» shoes and to date has painted more than 120 portraits of both world renowned and obscure contemporary artists whose work she admires.

«Albert Pinkham Ryder was one of the most innovative artists of the late 19th century, creating reductive, yet expressive compositions out of thick, slowly worked paint, combined with glazes, varnishes, and unconventional materials.

Compelled to bring the subjective back into her work, Corse re-embraced the paintbrush and focused further on light, incorporating unconventional materials into her paintings to investigate the subtle differences in surface treatment.

Long after the workshop, artists such as Helen Frankenthaler and Yves Klein continued to experiment with unconventional techniques, expanding the vocabulary of painting to include drips, stains, body prints, and digital drawing, to name just a few.

Perhaps fitting for its era, the 60s art world awakened to unconventional materials - artists experimented with industrial and commercial materials such as lead, Plexiglas, synthetic fabrics and automotive paints.

Young artists such as Donald Judd, Robert Morris and Dan Flavin were drawn to these Modernist movements, eventually abandoning painting in favor of unconventional installation - based works that utilized clean lines and modular forms.

During the same period, he began to use unconventional materials and media, mixing traditional paints with such purposefully commonplace materials as sand, ash, marble powder, paper, cloth, and string.

Fowler, who creates elaborate assemblage paintings from discarded found objects and unconventional materials, depicts both imagined and concrete narratives from his personal experience.

Drawing inspiration from the rawness and decay of the urban landscape, McCloud creates rich, large - scale abstract paintings and sculptural objects by fusing unconventional industrial materials — tar, bitumen, aluminum sheeting and oxidized steel plates — with traditional pigment and woodblock printing techniques.

Lorri Ott's experimental paintings combine unconventional materials such as poured plastics and fibers to create paintings that are fluid both in composition and material.

His innovations have been made in a spectacular range of mediums — painting and sculpture, silkscreen and lithography, photography and transfer drawing — and have incorporated such unconventional materials as newspaper, cardboard, and found objects.

While portraiture is a traditional, time - honoured genre, this exhibition offers a new perspective by bringing together iconic portrait paintings by artists such as Max Beckmann, Lucian Freud and Frank Auerbach with more unconventional works by artists such as Lara Favaretto and John Bock.

Julian Schnabel, a leader of the Neo-Expressionists, painted large works on unconventional supports like velvet, or broken ceramic plates adhered to wood panels.

Departing from the clear depiction of forms and linear perspective, Monet started to experiment with the loose handling of the paint, bold colors, and unconventional compositions.

In her current work, Mari» is experimenting with different methods of applying acrylic paint through the use of unconventional objects, mediums, and textures.

For his first solo exhibition with Sean Kelly, McCloud has created eleven new, abstract works, mixing unconventional industrial materials — aluminum sheeting, silver aluminum butane paint, and black liquid tar — with traditional pigment and woodblock printing techniques.

Nelson often incorporates unconventional materials, such as cheesecloth, modeling paste, or strips of painted fabric or painted string to the work to add textural elements to her paintings.

Discovering new forms of composition and using unconventional paint applications are fundamental in my process.

Using unconventional methods such as painting in altered states, using passport photo booths for self - portraits, painting blindfolded, or with his feet — sometimes with his entire body — Rainer manipulates form, composition, and perception to capture extreme emotions.

His poetic use of found materials, printed and reproducible images, his unconventional and inventive mark - making, and his embrace of chance operations (whether dragging a canvas on the ground, allowing a drop cloth to absorb stains of nature and of the studio, or exposing the paintings to the forces of weather) can be seen echoed within Schnabel's entire body of work as well as in the work of a subsequent generation of artists.

Recently, Lehmann Maupin signed its first Chinese artist, the 40 - year - old Liu Wei, who works in painting and photography, but has been focused recently on large - scale architectural sculptures that resemble cityscapes and are made from unconventional materials, like door frames and books.

She has made gestural as well as hard - edge abstractions, word paintings (her Angry Women series of 1973), and representational self - portraits, sometimes using such unconventional supports as rug samples, sandpaper, and canvases folded like accordion books.

A thought - provoking and unconventional survey, including work from the past thirty years, Albert Oehlen: Woods near Oehle reflects Oehlen's complex layering of methods, subject matter, and viewpoints, while also celebrating an artist who continues to radically question the limits of painting.

The globe - trotting dealer Sundaram Tagore, who first set up shop in Hollywood Road in 2007, will present a solo exhibition by Singaporean artist Jane Lee, who is best known for challenging preconceptions about painting through her innovative and visually striking treatments of unconventional materials.

Around this time, as a marker of his own unconventional take on his artistic persona and ongoing sense of personal reinvention, he was known to sign his paintings «Elshemus,» from 1890 until 1913, when he returned to the proper spelling.

The European avant - garde artists used this concept to offend the straight art world and power brokers by using unconventional materials, such as toilet bowls, and painting a mustache on the Mona Lisa.

Kadar works with some conventional and unconventional tools and mediums including but not limited to paint, primer, window scrapers, sanders and razor blades.

Wilmerding explores unconventional use of signatures in paintings, focusing on American artists who have placed their signature within the pictorial space of the canvas.

The artist's unconventional methods and close collaborations with printers allowed her to create prints with the same dynamism and sophistication as her gestural paintings.