Through the long process of nding the image from within, the artist channels brooding qualities from Courbet's mysterious Cave paintings and
poetic compositions by Albert Pinkham Ryder into her own lush, multi-layered surfaces.
Not exact matches
In 2008, the Pulitzer Prize jury awarded him a special citation for «his profound impact on popular music and American culture, marked
by lyrical
compositions of extraordinary
poetic power.»
Amplifying the
poetics of the everyday, the marginal and the overlooked, Fyfe increasingly repurposes found materials — a child's kite, a discarded sign, or an abandoned banner — into his near - abstract
compositions that are informed as much
by serendipity as they are
by any kind of high - minded formalism.
Her
poetic canvases, vast semi-abstractions in which mosaiclike patches of color were linked
by lines into labyrinthine
compositions, interested artists of the American Abstract Expressionist school, who first saw her work in New York in 1946.
Foreword
by James Rosenquist vii Preface
by Ira Goldberg viii Acknowledgments x Introduction: Miracle on 57th Street 1 Part 1: Lessons and Demos 15 Henry Finkelstein: On Painting, with a Critique 17 Mary Beth McKenzie: Painting from Life 27 Ephraim Rubenstein: Painting from Observation 39 Thomas Torak: A Contemporary Approach to Classical Painting 59 Dan Thompson: Learning to Paint the Human Figure from Life 75 Sharon Sprung: Figure Painting from Life in Oils 91 Frederick Brosen: Classic Watercolor Realism 107 Naomi Campbell: Working Large in Watercolor 123 Ellen Eagle:
Poetic Realism in Pastel 135 Costa Vavagiakis: The Evolution of a Concept 148 Part 2: Advice and Philosophies 165 William Scharf: Knowing that Miracles Happen 167 Peter Homitzky: Inventing from Observation 181 Charles Hinman: Painting in Three Dimensions 193 Deborah Winiarski: Painting and Encaustic 203 James L. McElhinney: Journal Painting and
Composition 213 Part 3: Interviews 229 Frank O'Cain: Abstraction from Nature 231 Ronnie Landfield: On Learning and Teaching 251 Knox Martin: Learning from Old and Modern Masters 269 Concours: Painting and the Public at the Art Students League
by Dr. Jillian Russo 282 Index 286
Each of the six artists will present works aligned with the methodologies or interests inherent to the
poetic process, lending a lyrical sense to both material and object
by using a mix of individual abstract language and intuitive
composition or gesture.
Noting her «complex, highly
poetic pictorial
compositions based on the structures and settings and shifting light» around «windows and doorways,» our late colleague Hilton Kramer rightly championed Dodd as among the «class of highly accomplished American painters whose work has been consistently rejected
by the New York museum establishment.»
The verdant green and cerulean blue along the bottom are complemented
by the earthly tones of ruby and peach that dominate the central
composition and conjure a spring sunrise, altogether resulting in a
poetic and dynamic exploration of how color and form can expose the unlimited space between imagination and memory.