Sentences with phrase «poring over art»

Consider Kehinde Wiley and the model in the studio, poring over art history books together to choose an image that will serve as the source for a new painting, in which the model will replace some long - departed exemplar of European privilege and power.

It radiates from meticulously drawn, plotted, eraser - smudged and redrawn studies for paintings and from the painted, scraped - down, piled up, scratched - into surfaces of the paintings themselves, which betray revisions made to incorporate new formal and technical information that Gorky gleaned from prowling museums, poring over art magazines and talking with artists.

I often spent more time than needed on each section, poring over the art design to see all the little touches added in.

Not exact matches

After explaining that she had picked up the precepts of medieval palmistry decades ago, from an art - historian neighbor whose specialty was Hieronymus Bosch, Atwood spent several disconcerting minutes poring over my hands.

The key, MoMA argues, was attending a concert of Schoenberg and then poring over the score as a work of art.

I remembered, too, the challenge of friends back then, immersed in some truly puzzling abstract art and poring over the very first issue of October magazine.

Conner gathered his knowledge of these tendencies from the art magazines he pored over in high school in Wichita, Kan., and the visits made to New York during his student years at the University of Nebraska.

The 2014 Whitney Biennial list is out, revealing the artists whose work will be included in America's most closely pored - over show, which both acts as a state - of - the - union declaration about the direction of contemporary art and mints no few overnight stars.