Sentences with phrase «personal nature of painting»

The highly personal nature of painting presents a new manner of storytelling for Beckley.

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Whether this proposal will be looked at further remains to be seen, and the nature of any potential personal paint job is up in the air too.

Stories We Tell explores the elusive nature of truth and memory, but at its core is a deeply personal film about how our narratives shape and define us as individuals and families, all interconnecting to paint a profound, funny and poignant picture of the larger human story.

Partially in response to an exhibition at the Jewish Museum, Artists of the New York School: Second Generation (1957), organized by Meyer Schapiro, which included twenty - three artists, not one of them affiliated with the Tanager, gallery members at the Tanager spent five years developing what they envisioned as their own New York project, a series of five two - week exhibitions organized around five themes: Old Masters, nature departed, natured observed, paint, and personal mythology.

His paintings celebrate the underlying epic nature of the commonplace and the personal significance of the extraordinary.

Though often reminiscent of traditional landscape painting, these deeply personal paintings are not intended to reproduce nature, but function as a thoughtful interior meditation on the experience of being located in those spaces and experiential contexts.

Her paintings unveil a magical Nature inspired by her personal experience of pregnancy and birth.

Reflecting on the embedded and latent meanings around light, nature, the frontier, borders, race, gender and power in influential American landscape paintings of the 19th century, she uses materials collected from her everyday life, including holiday - themed tablecloths, discarded medical records, nature calendars, plastic bags and paint, to craft imaginary landscapes that are grounded in accumulation, personal narrative and historical critique.

As curator Michaela R. Haffner explains in the show's publication, Frankenthaler was at first reluctant to make prints; the process was antithetical to the instinctive and personal nature of Abstract Expressionist painting.

Nature, I find, is where I can think, dream and find the intensity of what we call meaning... It took me some time to realize that abstraction is the only way that I can find a personal vocabulary in painting, through the relationship of shapes, colors and light.

Attending to the cyclical nature of the artist's work, the project examines the transformations in Braque's creative process as he moved from painting small, intimate interiors in the late 1920s, to depicting bold, large - scale, tactile Cubist spaces in the 1930s, to creating personal renderings of daily life in the 1940s.

Despite the extremely personal nature of the work, Melissa hopes these paintings speak to others facing a similar battle: «I want these images to show other cancer patients, locked to an IV pump, that they are not alone in their struggle for survival.»

A pioneer of the 1960s California «Finish Fetish» and «Light and Space» movements, and an original member of the legendary Ferus Gallery's roster, Bengston's early paintings combined post-colorfield / proto - minimalist compositions anchored by iconographic references to popular culture (such as chevrons, in the context of the Vietnam War) and personal passions: the car and surfing culture of Venice Beach, motorcycle racing, and nature.

His paintings are inspired by landscapes, cityscapes and nature, but he offers his own personal interpretations of these familiar themes.

This recent body of work reflects Mr.'s impulse to push the seemingly kitschy nature of these imaginary realms into a gritty and abstract painting style in order to explore personal, global, and environmental themes of destruction.

Rather, these are studio creations, more indebted to American Modernist landscape paintings than Mother Nature... Referencing the pictorial language of late - 19th and early - 20th century landscape painting might seem a convoluted way to create imagery that purports to be urgently personal.

In both her painted images and her animations, Sikander uses the process of layering to knit together elements from Hindu mythology, Persian tales, and personal experience in order to explore the shifting nature of the space — metaphorical and physical — in which we live.

The paintings in this exhibition showcase den Breejen's characteristic text - based painting technique, applied to the representation of a deeply nuanced personal vision of nature, sensory experience, and their myriad intersections.

Because of their capacity for transformation, The White Light paintings reflect Corse's interest in the personal and subjective nature of perception.

Sacred Landscapes: Nature in Renaissance Manuscripts, on view October 10, 2017 - January 14, 2018, at the J. Paul Getty Museum, explores the genre of landscape painting in works of art created for personal or communal devotion.

It will include 17 major paintings by Kahlo and further works by her husband Diego Rivera and is expected to attract a wide cross-section of visitors, as both Kahlo and Rivera have attained near - iconic status through the vibrant and accessible nature of their art, and their colourful personal histories.

These new paintings, she tells us in the following exclusive feature, are akin to a group of personal icons that relate more to a deep satori state of insight into one's true nature.

Seeing Nature explores the development of landscape painting, from a small window on the world to interpretations of artists» personal experiences with their surroundings on land and sea.

He returns to the gallery this month with another solo exhibit, a series of paintings of a much more personal nature.

The eleven artists juxtapose divergent approaches in conversation with each other, reflecting on primal questions consuming artists over the millennia: Elliot Arkin's conceptual use of web - based commerce spins an absurdist view on the commodification of artists; Babette Bloch's stainless steel reassessments of nature and artistic precedent limn positives and negatives through light; Christopher Carroll Calkins's street photography captures moments of under - the - radar narratives; Valentina DuBasky's acrylic and marble dust works on paper and plaster are a contemporary comment on the prehistory of art; Gabriel Ferrer's performance - like in - the - moment sumi - ink drawings on handmade paper reflect on memory and personal narrative; Christopher Gallego's realist, pure light - filled oil painting elevates the ordinariness of an artist's space to visual poetry; Ana Golici, in pergamano and collage, takes inspiration from 17th Century female naturalist, entomologist and botanical illustrator Maria Sibylla Merian to explore questions of science, nature and objective truth; Emilie Lemakis's monumental amplification of an ancient Greek krater employs scale to upend perceptions for the viewer's reconsideration; Mark Mellon's bronzes address the oppositions of movement and stillness; the alchemy of Michael Townsend's uncontrolled poured acrylic paintings equate the properties of materials with the turbulence of the universe; Jessica Daryl Winer's engagement with luminous color and choreographic line reflects in visual resonance the sonic history of a musical instrument.

In this lateest series, Choi employs a combination of liquid resin, hot - glue forms, and oil paint capturing an otherwordly topography of electric color and physical depth symbolic of her personal views on nature.

David Bates is a Dallas - based artist known predominantly for his expressively rendered paintings and sculptures of landscapes, people, and objects derived from personal experience to portray universal and timeless themes, such as the compelling relationship between man and nature.

Charles Burchfield was an American artist, known for dark and spooky watercolor paintings that depict highly personal images of nature and small towns.

In the 1970s Barnet began painting scenes of a highly personal nature.

It's a personal exploration of nature, he continues, in which she uses «an impressive range of mediums and materials, from acrylic - on - silk paintings to resin sculptures, to photography and video projections.»

The title of this exhibition, On Any Sunday, references the personal nature of the words that Abbott includes in his text - based paintings, and is the title of a mid-1970s documentary film on motorcycle culture that Abbott's father had a cameo role in.