Sentences with phrase «paintings meditate on»

In Remnants, Betsy Ruth Byers» paintings meditate on the changing landscape at Glacier National Park.

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The next time you see a quote, painting, photo, or anything that moves you, pause and meditate on it.

Don't be so hard on yourself, and keep an upbeat attitude by finding stress - coping strategies that work for you, whether that's exercising, painting, meditating, or anything else you're passionate about.

Whether it's searching for red - shouldered hawks at the precipice of a trail, painting broad strokes of the setting sun from an overlook, or meditating on a rocky outcrop discovered by following a lesser - known trail, the experiences we embrace on trails are limitless.

A new exhibition of works on view at Ameringer McEnery Yohe in New York until August 18 deepens his body of work, meditating on experience, memory, and language in a series of 13 new paintings.

But in the background of this stunning tableau, if you meditate closely on the painting, you will see a portrait of a powerful, other - worldly female figure, almost larger than life, with large bright eyes, wearing a turban, sharply observing everything, as if she herself were keeping all the other elements in balance, in some mystical powerful way.

Given Müller's investment in content (which, it should be stated out front, never overwhelms the paintings» interlocking Cubist framework but rather engages it in a kind of communion), it is impossible to look at this exhibition of late paintings — almost all of them completed in the two years before the artist's death — without meditating on the extra 24 years of life (in Christopher Marlowe's version) that Faust received in exchange for his soul.

In a fascinating inversion of this paradigm, Takako Yamaguchi meditates on her own raiment via laboriously realistic painting.

Less an exhaustive survey of contemporary abstract painting than a bringing together of extraordinary works by exceptional artists, Inherent Structure encourages viewers to meditate on the underlying sources and influences of abstraction by providing varied and multiple manifestations of it.

Still & Art begins with Still's acknowledgment of Old Masters he admired (among them Leonardo da Vinci, Rembrandt, J.M.W. Turner, and Vincent van Gogh); progresses to his interrogation of near - contemporaries such as Max Ernst and Pablo Picasso; and concludes with epic canvases, pastels, and photographs that reveal the artist meditating on his own past production as well as the spirit of color - field painting, minimalism, and comparable avant - garde movements of the 1960s and»70s.

In 1974, after six months of meditating on a topic, the German artist Peter Dreher began painting a single drinking glass on a tabletop in his Wittnam studio each day, keeping the window framed in the lower left of the glass and maintaining the same muted palette of whites and greys.

The group show which reflects on color and on the investigation of modern art as well, taking as the starting point the followers of Hindu Tantric art (17th - century) and the Theosophists (19th - century) who used forms - colors as sources of meditating and immaterial transmission of thought, features the works of: Carla Accardi, Bas Jan Ader, Etel Adnan, Hilma af Klint, Josef Albers, Giovanni Anselmo, Karel Appel, Arman, Ed Atkins, John Baldessari, Giacomo Balla, Robert Barry, Lothar Baumgarten, Claude Bellegarde, Annie Besant (with Charles W. Leadbeater / painted by Lady MacFarlane & Mr Prince & John Varley), Jakayu Biljabu, Irma Blank, Norman Bluhm, Mel Bochner, Alighiero Boetti, Kerstin Brätsch, Alberto Burri, André Cadere, Corrado Cagli, Alexander Calder, Carlo Carrà, Felice Casorati, Enrico Castellani, Aslı Çavuşoğlu, Michel Eugène Chevreul, Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis, Tony Cragg, Carlos Cruz - Diez, Giuliano Dal Molin, Sonia Delaunay, Nicola De Maria, Fortunato Depero, Nicolas de Staël, Piero Dorazio, Olafur Eliasson, Bracha Ettinger, Lara Favaretto, Oskar Wilhelm Fischinger, Dan Flavin, Lucio Fontana, Katharina Fritsch, Vittorio Gallese, Giuseppe Pinot - Gallizio, Theaster Gates, Rupprecht Geiger, Leo Gestel, Piero Gilardi, Liam Gillick, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Gotthard Graubner, Giorgio Griffa, Gruppo MID, Paul Guiragossian, David Hammons, Camille Henrot, Auguste Herbin, Arturo Herrera, Damien Hirst, Channa Horwitz, Johannes Itten, Alexej von Jawlensky, Asger Jorn, Donald Judd, Wassily Kandinsky, Anish Kapoor, Ellsworth Kelly, Paul Klee, Yves Klein, František Kupka, Wolfgang Laib, Jim Lambie, Basim Magdy, Alberto Magnelli, Estuardo Maldonado, Antonio Mancini, Édouard Manet, Henri Matisse, Gustav Metzger, Piet Mondrian, Maria Morganti, Edvard Munch, Gabriele Münter, Bruce Nauman, Sir Isaac Newton, Mario Nigro, Otobong Nkanga, Kenneth Noland, Hélio Oiticica, Giulio Paolini, Tancredi Parmeggiani, Pino Pascali, Eugénie Paultre, Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo, Heather Phillipson, Francis Picabia, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Sigmar Polke, Lea Porsager, Alejandro Puente, Walid Raad & The Atlas Group, Edi Rama, Gerhard Richter, Hans Richter, Gerwald Rockenschaub, Mark Rothko, Thomas Ruff, Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge, Luigi Russolo, Anri Sala, Mario Schifano, Shōzō Shimamoto, Ettore Spalletti, Simon Starling, Haim Steinbach, Hito Steyerl, Mika Tajima, Atsuko Tanaka, Cheyney Thompson, Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri, Luis Tomasello, Giulio Turcato, Joseph Mallord William Turner, James Turrell, Viktor Vasarely, Alfredo Volpi, Franz Erhard Walther, Andy Warhol, Liu Wei, Lawrence Weiner, Marianne Werefkin, Ye Xianyan, Fahrelnissa Zeid, Gilberto Zorio.

It is very human to seek an open space, a place to think and reflect; Daniel finds this magical space in his paintings, making them very compelling as we meditate on the vastness of nature.

The painter and mixed - media artist finds glory in meditating on details of natural Western flora, as he does in Burst, a recent painting that hones in on a cactus.

Shen focuses on the expressive texture of the medium by meditating on calligraphy, the body, and western painting, perhaps finding inspiration in Monet's Impressionist Water Lilies (Nympheas, 1920 - 26, Musee de l'Orangerie), surrealism, and abstract expressionism.

Taking the time to read over placards, standing before the paintings, and stealing a few moments to meditate on the work truly enriched the experience for me.

The process of translating these photographs into paintings allows Pecis the opportunity to meditate on the specific moment and memory captured, helping her to create, as she says, «a sincere translation of my own experiences» for herself and for the viewer.

Vanitas is a term that is traditionally associated with the late 16th and early 17th century still live paintings, but has become more generally linked to any type of creative discipline that meditates on the ephemeral character of earthly pleasures and worldly accomplishments.

Until 2010, Arakawa and Gins painted large canvases that consistd of letters and numbers arranged geometrically, in which they meditated on their theory of the «mechanism of meaning»; these works enabled the couple to financially support their architectural projects.

Frans Hals, Young Man Holding a Skull (1626 - 28) It's hard to shake the idea that Hals somehow painted a portrait of Shakespeare's Hamlet in this dynamic, lifelike, theatrical image of a young man meditating on mortality.

Kuspit writes that «It seems possible to link Jukuchu's 18th - century Japanese nature paintings to 19th - century European paintings romanticizing nature... But European paintings that «romanticize» nature, whether as ingratiatingly idyllic or in stormy action, don't fully enlighten us about the truth of nature as Jukuchu's paintings do, however fewer the details of nature on which they focus, not to say meditate.

These canvases envelop the viewer in the fantastic schematics of Feldman's imagination, commanding introspection and meditating on paintings» potential to distill human experience.

Realized by Color Field artist Sam Gilliam, this unique painted work layers color, movement, and other abstract elements — meditating on both the relationship between shapes and colors as well as elements of a harmonious composition.

As one meditates upon the play of shadows on the wall behind, the works levitate between both their weightlessness and the density of highly worked areas of the mesh, at times pushing paint from the back, and at others painting on the front.

The slow, meditated - upon processes that underlie Marden's paintings encourage an equally contemplative approach on the part of the viewer.

Combining hyper - realism with materially abstract painting, the work reveals the heroic and fragile nature of his subjects and meditates on language, legacy and obsolescence.

I heard other interpretations while there, and so did the artist: that the paintings examine the loss of innocence, that they are a caricature of original sin, that they meditate on hypocrisy, that they demonstrate human capacity to be at once good and evil.

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Condition Report, 2000, for example, is based on a conservator's assessment of a painting from twelve years before, while other works find Ligon meditating more generally on the theme of revision.

Also present among the Biennial newcomers are emerging artists already established downtown: Janine Antoni and Matthew Barney, who both push Body Art to new extremes; Suzanne McClelland, a maker of abstract paintings full of hidden words and letters; Sue Williams, whose sleazy cartoonish paintings skewer male domination; Jack Pierson, whose fuzzy color photographs meditate on different forms of sexuality and beauty, and Lorna Simpson, a photographer and installation artist whose contribution, titled «Hypothetical?

Combining sculpture, prints, video, a mural painting and other appropriations like computer games and industrial fencing, the space becomes an urban territory that meditates on themes of the post-human, entrapment and conspiracy.

From drawings made with stationary to paintings of low - paying jobs and images of business interiors and exteriors, these artworks document where we work and meditate on how our environment controls or stimulates our actions, thoughts and imagination.

For decades, Celmins has meditated quietly on representation in black - and - white paintings and drawings.

Takano now uses her paintings to meditate on escape.

Born in 1973 in Sydney, Quilty makes paintings that meditate both on his own past growing up in Australia and on Australia's wider cultural history.

Combining hyper - realism with abstraction and mark making, his mostly intimate oil paintings reveal the heroic and fragile nature of the subjects and meditate on creativity, language, legacy and obsolescence.

Even though without the conceptual performance behind it the paintings still meditate on death and loss, it would have been easy to see them adorning a collector's hallway.

Crossing all media including painting, drawing, music, dance, theater, film, sculpture, fashion, and more, Creed's practice meditates on our everyday existence and the visible and invisible structures that shape our lives.

His painting practice plays with, meditates on, and explores the conventions and contradictions of pictorial space through gesture, personal allegory and the materiality of paint.

As with his previous exhibitions, Bradley meditates on the new ecosystem of digital imaging and its effect on painting, isolation and intimacy, and of course the potential and shortcomings of new media not just for painting but for people.

I have been seeing a counselor for over a year (working on other things but now this is it), read numerous articles, I paint when I am struggling, I read voraciously (4 books in two weeks), I go to the gym (not as often as I used to — we worked out together), wrote a journal, joined a divorce meet - up group, and meditate.