Sentences with phrase «photography and painting turns»

That dialogue between photography and painting turns out to be important in my work right now, mainly because I love realism.

Not exact matches

That led to an interest in contemporary photography, which, in turn, led to purchases of contemporary paintings, sculptures, works on paper, and video.

At a time when artists across the board were turning away from painting and towards photography and conceptual art, Pacific Coast Highway and Santa Monica addresses the history and impact of artistic styles such as Post-Impressionism and Fauvism, all executed in Hockney's signature vernacular.

During the mid-1970s, Semmel turned to photography to capture reflections of her own body, later bringing the camera and her reflection in mirrors into the paintings in the 1980s.

Flush with an emerging confidence in their medium, photographers such as Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind, wrote Hilton, found ways to turn the lens on these complexities: «The kind of campaign that was once waged, and waged successfully, for abstract painting is now being waged for «abstract» photography.»

Carter's own show currently on view at Sauvage includes photography, painting, and drawing in unexpected combinations: Carter displays a sheet of geometric tattoo flash she's designed, and also includes her black - and - white self - portrait in which she turns away from the camera to display one of the tattoos on her shoulder.

Alongside early works by Georgia O'Keeffe, cityscapes by Edward Hopper and photographs by Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand and Edward Weston are rare loans such as a painting by E E Cummings, better known for his poetry, and Edward Steichen's c1920 work Le Tournesol (The Sunflower)-- one of the few paintings not destroyed by the artist when he turned to photography and not seen in Europe since being shown in Paris in 1922.

Thomas's bodies begin as substrata, canvases to a libidinal urge reminiscent of depictions of the Other in early photography and pornography (and, in turn, historical photographs» mimicry of Western painting traditions).

In two recent series, one of rounded - squares that look somewhat like television or computers screens and the other of black concentric circles that resemble targets, he turns painting into an industrial project in the manner of photography by making multiple painted copies of a single one - off photographic image.

Paco Pomet: For quite some time, I have deliberately taken an open approach to photography as a rich, endless and reliable supply of motifs, a starting point from which an idea can arise and be turned into something else through painting.

There are probably several reasons why I turned to photography: first of all, because only this medium can hold completely unseen fragments of the world, and because its enormous popularization has turned it into the container of a visual heritage that is practically infinite, in comparison with the rigid traditional structures of the genres of figurative painting.

Instead, he turned to photography and painting, but what really made him a superstar of the Italian art scene was his work in graphic design.

Curators Yves Aupetitallot and Alessandra Galasso have assembled artists they see as turning to painting and photography as a way of fighting the «impasse of the still image.»

From the 1970s, women who were excluded from a canon dominated by painting turned to and revolutionised photography, film and performance.

«Ultimately, turning the whole Museum over to photography helps us to concentrate on these broad issues that would not necessarily get the same attention if we also had paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints on view — or even other photo - based media such as film and video,» he continued.

Having absorbed high culture and low, painting has turned itself out in mixed - media assemblages that include both organic and synthetic materials and occasionally involve photography and digital printing.

Groover studied painting at the Pratt Institute, New York City (B.F.A., 1965), and the Ohio State University (M.F.A., 1970), but she turned to photography in 1971.

While initially creating collages using found photographs, objects, and painting, Mapplethorpe turned to photography in the early 1970's, through which — using a Polaroid SX - 70 camera — he quickly became known for the portraits he took of his wide circle of friends, including famous artists, musicians, porn stars, and socialites.

He turned to photography and video, for which he became well known, but resumed painting in the 1980s.

An avid collector of vintage postcards, Wegman first turned a group of postcards into a painting while working on an artist's book in the early 1990s, melding real and fictive space and photography with the whimsical effects available to painters.

I started out drawing and painting my grandmother and her stepfather where we all lived together, in an area by the Monongahela River known as «the bottom», then turned to photography once I entered college at Edinboro University in Pennsylvania.

At the beginning, he worked with photography, but during and after the Second World War, he turned to painting and drawing.

Khan, born in Walsall in 1978, studied photography at the Royal College of Art and confesses it has taken him a long time to «find a way to turn his drawing into painting».

In 1970 John Baldessari famously burned all his early paintings and made work from the ashes before turning the bulk of his attention to appropriation and photography.

Frustrated and bored with that what he saw as the tedious constraints of that idiom, Baldessari scrapped it early on in his career, turning his efforts instead to «phototext» works that muddy the distinction between photography and painting, questioning the relationship between visual and verbal language.

By showing their work together, which ranges in media from paintings and sculpture to video, photography and ready - made objects, it is possible to appreciate the interaction and shared concerns of their work which can, in turn, be exuberantly humorous or brutally forthright.