Sentences with phrase «poetic painting movement»

Yet there remain numerous examples of gaudy painting in the new study, and the work of the Chinese artists chosen — such as Zhang Xiaogang — reflects the political pop and cynical realism championed by the international art market in the late 80s and 90s in preference to the more poetic painting movement being created by artists such as Liang Quan, Liu Guofu, Yang Liming and Guan Jingjing.3, 4

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«Our paintings have always been recognized as a turning point in Turner's work in a movement that began in the teens and accelerated in the»20s,» said Susan Grace Galassi, the senior curator at the Frick Collection who organized the show, «moving away from naturalism towards a more poetic treatment of topographical subject matter, and towards a more imaginative treatment of light and color.»

Richard Tuttle has been pursuing a poetics of unassuming beauty since the late 1960s, contributing crucially to the language of painting while eschewing its conventional trappings; Julian Schnabel is represented by a recent work in which a rain - stained lampshade becomes the occasion for meditation on accident and intention, seeking, as Elizabeth Taylor once said, to «give the maximum emotional effect with the minimum of visual movement.»

The book tracks his movement from an initial interest in signage (the early -»60s drafts for his iconic paintings of the 20th Century Fox logo, the Standard Oil gas - station sign, and «Annie» in the comic strip's type) to later images that are highly idiosyncratic, downright poetic concoctions («Thick Blocks of Musical Fudge» is the phrase in one 1976 pastel).