Sentences with phrase «paintings beckon»

Working since the late 1970s with constant use of vibrant color and thick impasto, Baribeau's paintings beckon for visual evaluation and discovery.

Even from the street, the paintings beckon like an oasis.

With multiple layers of paint, color and line, she creates an ambiguous space that affords the viewer an intimacy with her subject matter and both obscures and recalls the pain it evokes («Pietà») In her catalogue essay, Tina Kinsella writes, «Bracha's recent paintings beckon us to reprise the work of mourning, to return to the grounds from which the act of lamentation arrives and to reappraise the particular emotion that the laboring through grief produces... the Pietà always threatens to disclose this excess of sorrow by surfacing the penumbra of future loss that lurks in the heart of the maternal relationship between mother and child.»

No matter from which trailhead I begin, the marks lead me to that cairn at which I find another painting beckons.»

Not exact matches

I've never really been a car girl, but walking onto those lots, with automotive temptresses beckoning me with their shimmering paint and chrome, and I have to say more than a few vehicles turned my head.

Not fearless enough to nose the camera in the dramatic mire, like a soldier to the cause in a personal guerrilla war, Diego Luna «s film beckons a paint - by - numbers summary of the man's greatest achievements, the spark notes of a six - plus year period that glosses all with thin coats, rarely taking the opportunity to remain in the moment and settle in with the hard - won emotional beats of the characters.

The peeling paint also beckons memories of Shelby's early days as a shrewd entrepreneur.

Where the earth, sea, and sky are painted by the colors of endemic species, the turquoise waters shimmer with the brilliance of diamonds, and indescribable beauty unfolds, the Christmas Island beckons both prospective residents and visitors to indulge in the luxuries of an earthly utopia.

Precise compositions of squares and a considered rhythm of colors beckon the viewer past the painting's surface and into a space that grows more and more palpable.

In the crawlspace closest to the stairs, Messenger of the potato, a small sculpture made of wax, stick, and oil paint, strikes a pose with its legs casually crossed and one arm in the air to beckon the viewer forward.

The spaces Shah creates in her paintings are empty stages, places beckoning for reconciliation, where the living and the passed may meet.

The writing beckons us in, as the paintings themselves beg for distance and huge spaces within which they may hang.

While Ms. Thomas is often known for her large scale, rhinestone, and colorful paintings, many of the images in this work are small and intimate, beckoning (or daring) viewers to come closer.

Once the paintings were in situ, the very high ceiling beckoned, so John created the template for the massive stainless steel sculpture that hangs above the room.

It's as if the mineral quality of the paint, the pigment, has been carefully weighed and allotted to each area, and could be accounted for, tabulated, as a mineral just as much as it could be considered a form or even part of a representation... Just as the picture balances paint's physicality with its depictive utility, it achieves a synthesis between seemingly opposed ideas of creative work: it attracts without beckoning; it presents a woman who turns to us but does not need our presence for her self - definition, who is naked but not sexualized, and for whom creative expression comes through a medium of repetitive work.»

On top of these varied surfaces are compositions that have very keen and subtle relationships of boundary, beckonings toward literary language, and paint that pays homage to drawing.

Estelle loves to paint emotional pieces, that beckon the inner part of ourselves.

In some paintings, the figure of Mao can be seen either painted within the landscape, emerging from the flowers his hand in a beckoning salute or, in some cases, painted on a section of canvas placed either above the central panel or on one side.

The array of botanical works most likely would not have been created had it had not been for the beckoning of fellow artist Robert Indiana, who, in 1962, after viewing some of Lowell Nesbitt's abstract paintings drawings and prints, suggested that he attempt to make a conversion from the abstraction which Nesbitt's career had been focused on pre-1962, to the style of realism.

Even though nothing literal is depicted, your mind wants to read these paintings as landscapes — as bursts of lightning amid thunderclouds or beckoning commercial signage in competition with the dawn.

Thus, the spatial apertures in his recent paintings, such as the ovular portals clinging together like frog eggs, seem to brim over with materiality even as they beckon to a shimmer that also spatially reads as beyond their banded borders, as they do in Clearing (for J. B.)(2016) or the darker blue ripples in Flood (2015).

Rich layers of mums, pumpkins, and potted kale draw you to the front door, while a weathered, hand - painted sign beckons guests inside.