Sentences with phrase «painting modern concerns»

What thoughts or advice would you give someone seeking rigorous figurative training but also wants to be a 21st century painter painting modern concerns.

Not exact matches

«As such, Saturn Paintings extends the artist's concern with expressing the psychological and existential maladies of a modern age set adrift in seemingly boundless space and endless time, an age collectively grappling with questions about its significance in a universe whose secrets continue to elude us.»

At the press opening, in the conservation studio that has a glorious floor to ceiling wall of glass on the Hudson (light, light, light), a kind and concerned professional explained: «We have put glass on many paintings for the first few months, because, having learned a lesson from the Tate Modern, we are expecting much larger and much different crowds from the old location, people who do not pay attention to their backpacks or care much about the art.»

Starting with the Modern stuff, though, set up the Contemporary section to disappoint — at least as far as painting was concerned.

With a particular focus on painting, this exhibition brings together seminal works that provide an overview of the artistic, socio - economic and political concerns of artists in Germany, during a time period when these artists were reconciling with the trauma of war, finding a national identity, struggling for freedom of expression and constantly pushing the limits of modern and contemporary art.

One of Bearden's «hierographic paintings,» it is more analytical — and less concerned with religious faith than with trying to work through the European art - historical tradition while homing in on a distinctly modern style.

1969 Human Concern, Personal Torment, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture to Benefit Israel Emergency Fund, Parke - Bernet Galleries, New York, NY The New American Painting and Sculpture: First Generation, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY French, American and Mexican Modern Painting, Drawing & Sculpture, Parke - Bernet Galleries, New York, NY Blocked Metaphors, Cordier & Ekstrom, New York, NY

The exhibition brings together seminal paintings, photographs and installations that provide an overview of the artistic, socio - economic and political concerns of post-war Germany, a time period when these artists were reconciling with the trauma of war, finding a national identity and constantly pushing the limits of modern and contemporary art, through to the present day.

Zappettini was also present in group exhibitions such as Concerning Painting which travelled between three Holland museums (Museum Van Bommel - Van Dan, Venlo; Stedelijk Museum, Schiedam; Hedendaagse Kunst, Utrecht), Bilder ohne Bilder at the Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn, and Abstraction Analytique at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris.

Hodgkin has often been praised as one of the great colourists of modern painting but the term can be misleading insofar as it is often taken to denote an artist whose primary concern is sensuality of colour for its own sake.

In a statement she wrote on the occasion of a 1942 exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art she laid out precisely what she meant by this term: «By Classicism I mean, not traditionalism of any sort, but a highly conscious concern with esthetic structure which is the antithesis of intuitive, romantic, or realistic approaches to painting.

These rare artefacts are presented alongside modern and contemporary paintings, drawings, sculptures, and photographs that revisit historically persistent subjects and common formal concerns.

Still's resolute refusal to «explain» his work, for example, has frequently been interpreted as uncommunicativeness, although it could be argued that no other artist in recent times has been more concerned about communication; one need only look at Still's recent and important gift of 28 paintings, spanning 40 years of his career, to the newly redesignated San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.