There are, indeed, whole rooms of very diverse
abstract painting in the show, with no obvious connection to African - American culture, until you look at the titles.
Two very large men visibly struggled, their bodies shaking with physical strain as they held up one of the
smaller paintings in the show, adjusting its alignment by an inch.
A good painting (and there are plenty of
good paintings in this show) creates a kind of commons — a place where an artist can share subtle perceptions, extended across space and time.
While the other Black
Paintings in the show don't possess the formal conditions that set «Bethlehem's Hospital» apart, they share its ironies.
Phil has been honored with the highest awards presented in several different museum shows, including Gold Medal in oil, Best in Show, Artist Choice Award, and the prestigious Goodman Award for best
oil painting in the show.
I found «Bethlehem's Hospital» amusing for a rather dumb, technical reason: it is the only horizontal
Black Painting in the show that has no vertical axis.
[36] Condemning the Tate's promotion of conceptual art and the lack of
figurative painting in the show (citing Stella Vine as one painter who has been passed over), [5] Thomson said, «The work is not of sufficient quality in terms of accomplishment, innovation or originality of thought to warrant exhibition in a national museum.»
Other
paintings in the show by Phelan, Bill Jensen, and Andrea Belag mine another lineage of dark painting, that of Goya and El Greco.
Comprised of black and grey lashings against a warm - colored canvas, Hachikono - Ooji stood out with its strong presence, especially being the only
painting in the show with such a minimalist palette.
The 352 - page catalogue, which includes 116 full - page color reproductions of
paintings in the show as well as numerous other illustrations and a detailed chronology of the artist's life, has an essay by Carol Mancusi - Ungaro on «Material and Immaterial Surface: the Paintings of Rothko,» and interesting interviews with several artists including Ellsworth Kelly, Brice Marden, Gerhard Richter, Robert Ryman and George Segal.
Two of the largest and most
complex paintings in the show, In Search of Balance and Fear of Fracking, are captivating and rich troves of imagery, including a magnificently rendered tree that was standing by the road until a June storm felled it.
Rudolf Stingel (through April 19) Made on canvases up to 15 feet wide, each of the five huge and
glamorous paintings in this show are copied in shades of gray from antique black - and - white photographs of snowy, rocky mountains near Merano, Italy, the town where Mr. Stingel was born in 1956.
Commenting on the inclusion of several
flower paintings in the show, now a classic and recurring subject for the artist, Hume says, «nature will always return after history's wonky wheel has trampled it.»
Most of the still life
paintings in the show represent the carcasses of dead animals: pheasants, fish and, in one of his most famous works, a bloody side of beef.
Norman Rosenthal, the Secretary of the Royal Academy, described it as the single most
important painting in the show — «a very, very cathartic picture... It is an incredibly serious and sober work of art that needs to be seen.»
The five white, very large paintings in this show [at Brata gallery] are strong, advanced in concept and realized.
JK: Actually, the
Turner painting in the show is making reference to Lucretia, to the fall of Ancient Rome, which occurs because of her suicide.
Back in the»90s, Rudy Giuliani got quite angry that a
certain painting in a show at the Brooklyn Museum was depicting the mother of Christ in elephant shit surrounded by cutout images from pornographic magazines.
The first and most
prominent painting in the show, called The American, is a mock heroic image of a man in jacket and tie taking aim with a long rifle.
In SHARAKU (date unknown), for instance, the length of the title and range of letters used have resulted in one of the more
colorful paintings in the show, with multiple different shapes and hues dancing across the canvas.
Some of the other
paintings in the show need to be simply enjoyed, breathed in almost, but not this one; it seems to require close attention or study.
Pleasingly, large - scale sculptural works do not
overshadow paintings in the show, as each piece provides a different angle on the self - acknowledged ambiguous theme.
Matt Kleberg's «Catacomb Catapult (for Eddie)» is one of four recent oil stick on
canvas paintings in his show «Caterwauler» at Hiram Butler Gallery through Aug. 27.
Rahman has perhaps the most uneven features of any
sitter painted in this show, but by the same token that makes him seem like the most deeply loved of all.
The nearly 100
paintings in the show highlighted Davis's «unique ability to transform the chaos of everyday life into a structured yet spontaneous order,» say the exhibit's curators, «that communicates the wonder and joy that can be derived from the color and spatial relationships of everyday things.»