Sentences with phrase «pure meaning of painting»

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In a sense, his best known works — the «multiforms» and his other signature paintings — are, in essence, the same expression, albeit one of purer (or less concrete or definable, depending on your interpretation) means, which is that of the same «basic human emotions,» as his earlier surrealistic mythological paintings.

For this exhibition Gallery Director David Cowan has assembled a group of paintings from 1966 and 1967 that are meant to document and display a very brief but important period in the painter's output that saw him transition from a pure Abstract Expressionist approach to the minimal / geometric mode of expression that became his hallmark during the final fifteen years of his life.

His was, from very early on, painting not as a route to pure artistic form, but as a means of tapping into something deeply humane, something not manufactured so much as elemental.

What Kelley meant by this was that the break up of representational or iconic forms in Abstract Expressionist painting led to the fetishization of the trace, understood here as the semblance of pure expressivity and spontaneity.

Looking at these triptychs, one might have thought for a moment of Aleksandr Rodchenko's iconoclastic Pure Red Color, Pure Yellow Color, Pure Blue Color of 1921, except that where the Russian Constructivist's work was meant to boil down painting to its primary colors, what the artist called its «logical conclusion,» Levine's wooden panels are invested in painting's history: The color of each is derived from the digital averaging of the hues in one of Renoir's many zaftig yet jaundiced nudes.

Secretly co-authored by Stanton, Modern Painting: Its Tendency and Meaning reviews the major art movements of the previous century from Manet to Cubism, praises the work of Cézanne (still largely unknown in the United States), and predicts a time, soon to come, when an abstract art of pure color will supplant realism.

Included are nine medium - sized paintings — in oil on canvas or linen, from the last five years — that attest to Ayhens's command of her pictorial means: elastic or distorted space, a distinctive palette, and a willingness to allow realism to dissolve into pure abstraction.

Martin found the voice through which she could most satisfactorily express pure emotion in the grid; a means of making paintings that were devoid of intellectual content and that satisfied her pursuit of transcendent beauty: «finally, I got the grid, and it was what I wanted.

The remaining 32 samples will be pure CeCe Caldwells, meaning BOTH layers of paint will be CeCe colors, we'll just pick color combos that we think you'll like.