Sentences with phrase «painting than a technique»

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Painted in 1939, just before the outbreak of World War II, it then represented a new line for Picasso, whose abstract techniques have done more to influence 20th century painting than that of any other artist.

To help preserve and authenticate paintings, conservators have learned to examine them using techniques more common in a morgue than in a museum.

Published today in the journal Science, the study reveals how an international team of scientists used a state - of - the - art technique called uranium - thorium dating to fix the age of the paintings as more than 64,000 years.

The team used uranium - thorium dating techniques (which are more precise than the more common radiocarbon dating method) to confirm that three cave paintings in various parts of Spain are more than 64,000 years old.

This technique is certainly a lot less mess than the water / plaster of Paris / paint mixture I have been using.

-LSB-...] cooler than this fabulous wall that actually exists in the Homemade Ginger «s home is how she dressed up these letters with a simple paint technique for her kid's play area!

This is closer to authentic than if the set was painted using one technique.

Don't count on it, unless the oil - painting technique used in «Loving Vincent» is even more impressive than we realize.

They're observed in paintings by Chief Bonbar (Timothy Spall) and his clan, but are misinterpreted and seen as hunting techniques rather than a sources of entertainment.

My request to those digital purveyors of opinion is, «Please don't paint flipped teaching ideas and techniques with a «black and white» brush — they are clearly more nuanced than that».

This is no different than with any other painting technique.

Borne out of Modernist painting as well as «action painting» — a style of painting in which paint is spontaneously dribbled, splashed or smeared onto the canvas, rather than being carefully applied — this theme extends to present day, where brushstrokes fade away to innovative mark - making techniques or performance and video.

While I am borrowing his composition, it was not my intention to use his method of paint handling other than trying his technique of Sfumato and adhering to his color palette.

Today he remains the virtuoso of this technique; his recent paintings are even more exquisitely executed than the ground - breaking works he created in the 1970s.

Paintings rendered with the Overlay technique - mainly from The 1920s and «30s - predominated In the show at Michael Werner, perhaps because that Style became more genuinely Picabia's own than any of the others.

Four of the paintings in the show are encaustic on newspaper; Johns revives the ancient technique of wax - painting in a way that again calls attention to the surface, which is both veined and suave, almost like skin over membrane, rather than harsh and rough like the surfaces of the abstract expressionists (or for that matter, Rauschenberg's surfaces).

A range of techniques including painting, sculpture, graphic arts and photography will be showcased thematically rather than chronologically, aiming to highlight dialogue between eras, revealing how certain artists have been prompted to reinterpret earlier works.

Art lovers and artists interested in Gunderson's painting technique discover captivating works in this book — in more than 100 illustrations — that shows how the artist pushes the limits to what one can do with black paint.

Stocked with more than 100 of Johns's seminal paintings, sculptures, prints, and drawings, this retrospective sheds light on the innovative materials and techniques, pop images, and themes that frame the six - decade practice of this towering figure in American art.

Luke learned from Hofmann the technique of employing explosive colour and thick impasto bursts to give her paintings more power and authority than they had previously exhibited.

More than forty years after its first appearance, Hyperrealism continues to fascinate the public, many of the group's pioneers are still painting and new artists often use techniques like slide projection and gridding when working.

The city's first major exhibition of Frankenthaler's work in more than five decades, the exhibition explores her return to gestural improvisation after years spent developing her «soak - stain» technique (soaking her raw canvas with turpentine - thinned paint).

For more than two decades Eriksson has been working with painting, both as a technique and theme.

Rail: What interests me about that body of paintings is partly that Ernst utilized both techniques of frottage and grattas, which is about scraping rather than rubbing the surface.

With a range of traditional and nontraditional materials, including acrylic and oil paint, ceramic, paper, canvas, carpet, and larvae, as well as varying techniques — from painting, pouring, cutting to burning — the artists employ different degrees of chance, and some more than others.

Perhaps Stingel's method may be better understood in comparison to Richter's squeegee technique, in which the mediating tool — in Stingel's case, the gauze — serves to guide, rather than to prescribe, the articulation of paint across the plane of the canvas.

Painting as more than strictly a technique, but an attitude, as in Wächtler, a way of welding a certain type of depth or ambience beyond the canvas, was abundant also in a group exhibition curated by the artists Anna Lucia Nissen (b1985, Berlin) and Alex Rathbone (b1987, Middlesex, UK) inside their Schöneberg flat.

Wilson worked with Venetian craftsmen to develop an innovative process for layering traditional Murano glass mirrors together and also conceived of a technique that reversed the centuries - old mirror making tradition — etching and painting the verso black rather than silver — in order to lend a ghostly appearance to the reflection that the mirror casts.

His subjects were also often foreshortened or seen from a peculiar angle, a change in technique brought on by Freud's beginning to paint while standing up rather than sitting.»

Based in Bali for more than two decades, the Italian artist Filippo Sciascia is widely known for Lux Lumina, an ongoing series of almost black and white figurative paintings, based on photographic and cinematic sources; their impasto surfaces heavily worked by the painter, who runs a dazzling gamut of painterly techniques, to the point the painting's skin cracks and tears so skillfully by intuitive calculation that its disintegration seems to be instigated from the inside out.

Together they visited the studio of Giacomo Balla, where they were introduced to the technique of Divisionism, painting with adjacent rather than mixed colors and breaking the painted surface into a field of stippled dots and stripes.

Jackson Pollock: Blind Spots presents the first exhibition in more than three decades of Pollock's paintings made between 1951 and 1953, shedding light on a less well known but extremely influential part of his practice and departure from his signature technique.

«I thought rather than waiting for the paintings to tell me something, I would get out the studio (and my head) and stop thinking about what the paintings were about, and take cake decorating classes to see if some of the techniques could overlap.»

This becomes breathtakingly clear to anyone who tours the Joyner - Giuffrida house in San Francisco's Presidio Heights neighborhood, where the 150 - odd works on display run the gamut from Whitten's The Eighth Furrow, a squeegee painting executed more than a decade before Gerhard Richter made the technique famous, to Kara Walker's epic Terrible Vacation, a reimagining in gouache of J.M.W. Turner's Slave Ship, to the young Brooklyn - based artist Jayson Musson's Anticyclonic, which is made from the scraps of innumerable Coogi sweaters.

Her practice revolves around the chemical and material aspects of photography, using analogue techniques to create images that look more like paintings than photographs.

For more than two decades, Simmons has honed his «erasure technique,» a method of hand - smudging and sculpting wet paint to create the shimmery effect of partly erased chalk.

And yes, scumbled and glazed picture surfaces reveal a more complex painting technique than he used in the 1820s.

The works are more scenic and paired - down than the all - over style of the earlier works that populated the Venus show, but they're still chock - full of masterly paint daubs (an acrylic painting technique he's been using since the mid-70s) as well as the artist's landmines of acerbic humor.

His work is more than drips and splashes of paint on canvas, but fully gestural and rhythmic and often employed very non-traditional techniques.

As was the case for many Korean abstract artists, his technique was painstaking: he painted on stretched cotton rather than canvas and allowed dots of color to spread out, which he then surrounded with squares.

In the latter, each painting is built up from a series of brushstrokes, exactly expressing the personality and feelings of the artist, rather than merely his technical competence: an approach exemplified by the Ming scholar - artist Xu Wei (1521 - 93), in his ink drawing Bamboo (1540, Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Museum), which illustrates his technique of broad, bold slashes of ink and loosely executed lines.

But this is more than offset by the advanced painting techniques shown by Altamira's artists which, in the opinion of many experts, gives them the edge over their prehistoric counterparts in France.

The large - scale portrait Mum (2017) employs a technique of thicker paint lines to denote figuration rather than the thin ridges of paint that he often uses on aluminium.

Rising above national cultural boundaries the Prudential Eye Zone also incorporates musical performance pieces, larger than life painted portraits and three dimensional installations made using traditional Malaysian weaving techniques.

In Mechanical Poem, Laura Buckley draws on the painterly techniques she developed during her early career, transferring them to sculpture and moving image work to create a physical and visual presence from light rather than paint.

Using fabric - dying techniques rather than brushed paint, Gruzis has layered these medium - sized paintings with nesting frame shapes, or splayed radiating lines across the paintings» surfaces against tie - dye patterns in smoky purples, blues, and icy grays.

The process is more akin to the photogram technique favored by the Surrealists than to any painting method.

The viewers will be able to find out that the world of figurative painting is so much more than what a layman may think it is, and that the ideas and techniques are plentiful.

For more than half a century, Jack Whitten (1939 - 2018) pursued the possibilities of paint, material, and technique.

Her signature paint - thinning technique, in which she diluted the oil paint with turpentine, coupled with an entirely revolutionary method of staining (rather than dripping or brushing paint onto) the canvas undoubtedly changed the course of art history and influenced the likes of Kenneth Noland, Morris Louis and Jules Olitski.