For instance, he has done
paintings of swimmers based on sketches he made in Brighton Beach.
After painting this work, Kadish did some figurative
paintings of swimmers.
Contributed by Sharon Butler / Katherine Bradford's latest
paintings of swimmers and night skies seem to have a new sense of anxiety and dread.
Not exact matches
That
paints a bit
of a different picture than the catchy and panicked but utterly false claim that BN is «sinking faster than a
swimmer with cement shoes.»
Katherine Bradford's bold
paintings depict ships,
swimmers, divers and superheroes — iconic imagery that the artist has used over the course
of her career.
The size
of the collection is still unknown, but it did exclude one
painting by James Rosenquist entitled The Meteor Hits the
Swimmer's Pillow.
As with most
of her
paintings, the subjects in Pond
Swimmers are pared down, fragmented, and faceless, which suggests the anonymous everyman.
He begins the Guggenheim commission — requested for the new Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin exhibition space — in his Aripeka, Florida, studio and completes one
of the three
paintings that constitute this three - part installation work entitled The
Swimmer in the Econo - mist (1997 — 98).
By John Baldessari - Beast (Orange) Being Stared At: With Two Figures (Green, Blue), 2004 - Eight Couples: Fighting (from White to Black), 2004 - Six Couples: People and Animals (from Violet / Yellow to Red / Green), 2004 - Tiger (Orange) and Trainer: With Three Figures (Red, Yellow, Blue), 2004 - Umbrella (Orange): With Figure and Ball (Blue, Green), 2004 By Jeff Koons - Mountains, 2000 - Sandwiches, 2000 By James Rosenquist - The
Swimmer in the Econo - mist (
painting 1), 1997 — 1998 - The
Swimmer in the Econo - mist (
painting 2), 1997 - The
Swimmer in the Econo - mist (
painting 3), 1997 — 1998 By Andreas Slominski - Bird Trapping Station, 1998 — 99 - Cough Syrup Transport System, 1998 By Hiroshi Sugimoto - Benjamin Franklin, 1999 - Henry VIII, 1999 - Catherine
of Aragon, 1999 - Charles I, 1999 - Elizabeth I, 1999 - Emperor Hirohito, 1999 - The Last Supper, 1999 - Napoleon Bonaparte, 1999 - Oscar Wilde, 1999 - Pope John Paul II, 1999 - Rembrandt van Rijn, 1999 - Sir Winston Churchill, 1999 - Voltaire, 1999 - William Shakespeare, 1999
It is centered on three
of Rosenquist's monumental room environments: Horse Blinders (1968), which has undergone detailed conservation by Museum Ludwig between 2015 and 2017; Horizon Home Sweet Home (1970), which demonstrates the illusive nature
of the image and
of vision with the performance
of dry - ice fog within the vibrantly colored and mirrored panels
of the room; and the monumental three -
painting - suite, The
Swimmer in the Econo - mist (1997 - 98) that extends more than twenty - seven meters and is on loan from the Guggenheim Museum, New York.
Bartlett has also produced a wide spectrum
of large - scale multi-panel
paintings, such as «
Swimmers at Dawn», «Noon and Dusk» (1979) at the Walker Art Center and «Shadow» (1985) at the Hirshhorn.
Monumental interiors abound; a 130 - foot - long and 40 - foot - high space, which can be viewed from three levels, has been christened by James Rosenquist's The
Swimmer in the Econo - mist (1997 — 98), «a history
painting for the end
of the millennium.»
Originally created to cover all 4 walls
of the Leo Castelli gallery in New York, the
painting includes separate images
of a mushroom cloud under a beach umbrella, some spaghetti, a piece
of cake, a Firestone tire, a
swimmer, light bulbs, and a little girl under a hairdryer, all set against the backdrop
of an F - 111 fighter jet.
As a
swimmer, though, I identify with this
painting, and I asked Eisenman about the pseudo-intimate nature
of swimming like this with a bunch
of folks, sometimes strangers and sometimes teammates.