Unstill Life personalizes the modern art world and makes it feel immediate, not
a painting on a museum wall.
But if we attend to the history of
the paintings on our museum walls rather than to the labels that accompany them, the problem of the untitled work appears quite different.
Not exact matches
Unless they are deranged, don't people in a
museum know they are looking at
paintings on a
wall, not real landscapes or real snakes?
«It's like going to a
museum, looking at a
painting on the
wall and someone saying describing that
painting.
It's like a good
museum:
on the
walls of abandoned dwellings, multi-colored lichens spread thick as the impasto
on a
painting by the artist Jess.
The mural is
painted on the east
wall of the Facing History office at 115 Huling Avenue, where it is seen by hundreds of thousands of visitors to the National Civil Rights
Museum and South Main District every year.
A
museum collection of
paintings and portraits hung
on the
walls.
Then it was
on to the Vatican
Museum and Sistine Chapel and a truly overwhelming display of works of art, mainly
wall and ceiling
paintings from the most famous artists of all times.
Vibrant
paintings hang
on museum walls and display textured masterpieces created by unforgettable artists remembe...
I have a history of constructing vivid but sometimes revealed to be false memories of favorite
paintings by artists I love: a
painting will be a lodestar in my mind, and I will remember not just it, but the
wall of the
museum or gallery that it hung
on, and perhaps at the core of my memory is my memory of myself at the instant of seeing it.
Richter's illusory
paintings find themselves
on the
walls of the world's most revered
museums — for instance, London's Tate Modern displays the Cage (1)--(6), 2006
paintings that were named after experimental composer John Cage and that inspired the balletic «Rambert Event» hosted by Phillips Berkeley Square in 2016.
Cain will create a monumental
painting directly
on the
walls and floor of the 4,000 square foot
museum.
A 2005 group show at the Whitney, called «Remote Viewing,» took
painting, drawing, and sculpture
on the scale of a room — often directly
on museum walls.
Now his city is making amends in a spectacular way, including his stunning 1969
painting April 4
on the
walls of David Adjaye's new National
Museum of African American History and Culture, where it's red - stained purple field captures the deeply bruised atmosphere following Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination.
Doing a contemporary
painting show at the
Museum of Modern Art is an interesting exercise nowadays, in second decade of the 2000s, because we are conferring value onto what we put
on the
wall.
At the New
Museum, we see 17 new
paintings installed
on a deep maroon
wall.
In his first L.A.
museum exhibition, Simmons
paints the titles of race films
on five large
walls as part of a site - specific installation in CAAM's grand entrance.
«It takes all these individuals to make a
museum run,» Riepenhoff told me at his opening reception, but «so many times, we just see a little one - person byline
on the
wall next to a
painting.»
For instance, when taking a photograph of a group of people in a
museum, the photo may also show some
paintings on the
walls.
Langsam will feature a site - specific
painting on the gallery
walls based
on the original blueprints of the Neuberger
Museum, layered and transformed by abstract color fields, selected randomly by chance.
A really strong
painting, it would be nice if the
museum saw fit to put some more lights
on it, though the lower light
on the right hand side and the fact that the
painting is right off the escalator, in the hallway, means one comes upon it, the way you discover something powerful in the subway or
on a street
wall.
At the Jewish
Museum, oil
paint on canvas positively leaps off the
walls, as if to prove Greenberg's notion of the art object dead
on.
«It looks like a
painting that just sits
on the
wall,» says Jeffrey Grove, the curator of the show at the Dallas
Museum of Art, where the traveling Borremans retrospective he put together arrives
on March 15 (through July 5).
In 1970, Willis was included in the exhibition entitled «Lyrical Abstraction» [1] curated by Larry Aldrich, and the
painting from this show, «
Wall», 1969, acrylic
on canvas, 96 inches by 114 inches, was originally exhibited at the Aldrich
Museum of Contemporary Art, in Ridgefield, Connecticut.
The Metropolitan
Museum of Art's new director, Max Hollein, heads the Fine Arts
Museums in San Francisco and has a
painting by Michael Langer, «Die Gelbrote Faust» («The Yellow - Red Fist»), from 1967,
on the
wall of his home.
The giant abstract
painting, measuring some 25 by 15 metres and stretched
on a
museum wall, is, suggests its creator, but a tiny part of the skin of a monster.
Mel Bochner, American, born 1940, Language Is Not Transparent, 1970, chalk
on paint and
wall, Los Angeles County
Museum of Art, Modern and Contemporary Art Council Fund
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The mid-career survey, Laura Owens at the Whitney
Museum of American Art (November 10, 2017 — February 4, 2018), presents around 70
paintings in different sizes — from
wall - mounted works, to installations, to carefully arranged freestanding canvases
painted on both sides.
Independent curator Charlotte Eyerman went through old catalogs for the annual juried shows to find
paintings, prints and drawings, tracked them down and mounted them
on the
walls of the
museum's mezzanine in the rotunda under a stained glass ceiling.
When
on January 28, 2013, I made my first visit to Annette Lemieux's spacious studio in Allston, Massachusetts, I was delighted and excited to see a
museum - quality array of over a dozen
paintings, sculptures, and photographic prints arranged
on the
walls, floor, and propped up
on a variety of chairs and stools.
The entire series of these
paintings will be exhibited at NSU Art
Museum, creating an almost continuous frieze
on the second floor, starting
on a long curved
wall and ending high above the atrium.
Laura Owens's hare - brainy clock
paintings that hang high
on the
wall at her outstanding retrospective at the Whitney
Museum sound no tick - tocks as the hands spin at their own pace, keeping no time except their very own.
The exhibition is composed of three elements: a suite of six monotypes, two large
paintings on canvas, and the third (and most exciting) is the
wall drawing Mr. Row will produce at the
museum April 17 - 20, 2001.
A levitating concoction composed of a white semitransparent polyester scrim, a black attenuated aluminum beam and a black line
painted on the
wall, it has the scale of a spectacle; it takes up the
museum's entire fourth floor.
Trees, flowers, clay, fruit, ice, sugar, and chocolate have all appeared as regular protagonists in her work, including a carpet of 10,000 flowers left to wilt
on a
museum floor; a room whose
walls the artist
painted in chocolate and then invited viewers to lick its sweet but precarious surfaces; and a thirty - two - ton minimalist grid of ice cubes melting in a nineteenth - century water pumping station in east London.
2000 Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London Ameringer Howard Gallery, New York «Circles» 2001 Southern Vermont Art Center, Manchester, VT. «Noland's Nolands» 2001 Pace Prints, Kenneth Noland «New Editions» Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London 2002 Farnsworth
Museum, Maine / Naples
Museum of Art, Florida «Kenneth Noland: Themes and Variations» 2003 Chac - Mool Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Ameringer / Yohe Gallery, New York 2004
Museum of Fine Art, Houston, Houston Texas 2005 Fumagalli Gallery, Bergamo, Italy 2006 Ameringer / Yohe Gallery, New York «360 Degrees
on the
Wall» SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS (incomplete) 1964 «
Painting and Sculpture of a Decade, 1954 - 1964,» The Tate Gallery, London, April 22 - June 28 «XXXII Biennale,» Venice, June 20 - October 18 1965 «The Responsive Eye,»
Museum of Modern Art, New York, February 23 - April 25.
Sirius, 2004, Steel and
paint, 6.5» x 3» x 6.5» (
on black
wall) TM BU TU, 2002, Dedicated to John Carlos and Tommie Smith, Steel and
paint, (each) 2» x 2» x 7.5» Photo courtesy of the Station
Museum
I Killed Kenny is the first
museum exhibition devoted to New York — based artist Joyce Pensato's work and features the monumental
wall painting «Running Mickeys,» created
on - site for CAM.
It makes sense that an art enthusiast would have a strong desire to have a famous, original,
museum, master
painting hanging
on the
wall in their own home.
Felipe Pantone Virtual reconciliation between two perspectives, 2016 Spray
paint on wood panel and acrylic
on museum wall.
Her New
Museum exhibition brings together a selection of recent cutout paper figures, mixed - media works
on paper, collaged
paintings in beehive frames, a large - scale
painted sailcloth, and hand -
painted texts
on the gallery
walls.
Since the late 1990s she has been tracing stains, true - to - size, found
on sidewalks, the floor of her childhood church, the New York Stock Exchange, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, and elsewhere - creating slick enamel
on metal
paintings, colored pencil and mylar drawings, or site - specific
paintings on museum and gallery
walls.
Soaring midair
on a mobile platform inside an unused Harlem church, she has been working and reworking two towering
paintings taking shape
on opposite
walls, a monumental commission for the San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art.
Sol LeWitt, Cubic - Modular
Wall Structure, Black, 1966
Painted wood, 43 1/2 x 43 1/2 x 9 3/8 inches Collection of
Museum of Modern Art, NY Sol Lewitt, Paragraphs
on Conceptual Art (1967) «I will refer to the kind of art in which I am involved as conceptual art.
In the
museum dedicated to his work
on Naoshima, the small island in the Inland Sea of Japan known for its displays of contemporary art, there is a room containing four works
painted directly onto the
walls.
A visitor to the Jeff Koons retrospective at the Whitney
Museum splashed red
paint on the
walls before adding his signature.
On the outside
wall, a
painted tile mural inspired by a historic Iznik panel from the Topkapi
Museum presents central figures that resemble Art Nouveau water nymphs.
At some time in the»80s I gave a lecture about American
painting between the world wars at a space the Whitney
Museum had
on Wall Street, where they put
on shows and had people come and give talks at lunchtime.