«The process of
painting my subject directly from observation in natural light has always been essential to my work and a jumping off point for exploring intimacy and poetic visual relationships found both in observable reality and the abstract relationships within the painting.
Not exact matches
Sly and obliquely, but also unmistakably, another Hockney show currently available in London, this time at Annely Juda Fine Art, the artist's regular dealer, casts doubt on the proposition the Royal Academy exhibition of his recent portraits seems determined to put forward, which is that nothing can match a figurative
painting made when
directly confronting the
subject, with no technology to modify -LSB-...]
Whether working on Guardian newspapers or
directly onto porcelain tableware, Himid continually
subjects painting to the material of everyday life in order to explore Black identity.
VMFA's
painting directly relates to this award - winning 1927 publication for which Douglas produced related works, including versions of the same
subject in different media.
Sly and obliquely, but also unmistakably, another Hockney show currently available in London, this time at Annely Juda Fine Art, the artist's regular dealer, casts doubt on the proposition the Royal Academy exhibition of his recent portraits seems determined to put forward, which is that nothing can match a figurative
painting made when
directly confronting the
subject, with no technology to modify or mediate the artist's immediate perception of what he is looking at.
Hendricks has
directly addressed iniquities in the portrayal of black
subjects with his portraiture, and new
paintings in this show — like In the Crosshairs of the States (2016), in which a man in a grey hoodie is viewed unsubtly through the barrel of a gun — reveal a sharpening in the artist's critiques.
Born in Zanzibar and raised in the UK, she has focused on a range of
subjects related to race, from matters of the African diaspora to the visibility of black creatives in museums.Whether working on Guardian newspapers or
directly onto porcelain tableware, Himid continually
subjects painting to the material of everyday life in order to explore Black identity.
His surfaces — gnarled and knotted, as if stirred from molten pigment — feel intimately tormented, but his scenes read like unearthly dreams... Radell focuses more
directly on historical
subject matter... Such scenes he conjures with heavily reworked surfaces, built up of layers of troweled and scraped
paint, sometimes embedded with shreds of burlap.
Whilst the final
painting resembles a formalist abstract construct, the choice of colour,
paint and material used,
directly reflects the psychological concept of the
subject.
The positioning of the
subjects directly references Balthus's
paintings of young women and girls, only replacing the figures with adult men.
Her videos
directly relate to the
subject matter, color palette, and techniques seen in her
paintings and sculptures.
Several modernist
paintings directly address the legacy of racism: Archibald John Motley's The Argument (1940) depicts black
subjects as «coons» in an effort to challenge the era's commonly held stereotypes; Jacob Lawrence's Dixie Café (1948) shows a scene at a segregated restaurant in the American South; and Romare Bearden's A Walk in Paradise Gardens (1955) imagines a time without prejudice.
Newlyn's plein air
painting followed the Impressionist doctrine of naturalism - working
directly in nature, using
subject matter drawn from rural life, especially that of the fishermen.
The
subjects are
painted directly from life rather than photographs in an attempt to represent the
subjects with simple clarity and truthful illusion.»
And even though they are not connected
directly, it is still helpful to consider how Haida artists use line to exercise control over the
subject (which is abstracted through this
painting technique) and to be in control of their
painting process (carefully drawn lines leave no doubt as to who is in charge).
Learoyd's
subjects, composed simply and
directly, are described with the thinnest plane of focus, re-creating and exaggerating the way that the human eye perceives, and not without a small acknowledgement to Dutch Master
painting.
A few elements I've evinced from Smith's past exhibitions and around the city (including his
painted -
directly - on - the - wall installation at Deitch in Long Island City): gestural
subject matter (fish, leaves, his name), seriality (in canvas size,
subject matter, and hanging — like his 2011 show at Luhring Augustine featured panel grids), synthesized flatness and depth (the mixed - media compositions in his 2009 show Currents resembled large - scale flatbed scans, while neighboring canvases maintained every brushy, gloopy instance of Smith's hand).
Netherlands About Blog A Dutch artist very committed to
painting every day
directly from the
subject without significant corrections, glazes or studio refinements.