Sentences with phrase «qualities of a painting like»

In his blog at the Guardian Unlimited, Jonathan Jones reports that Tony Blair's official portrait, painted by Phil Hale, was unveiled last night at the Houses of Parliament «There's no point in fussing overmuch about the technical qualities of a painting like this.

Not exact matches

I love the chalky, gesso - like feel and the flat quality of the un-waxed paint and how the gold script shimmers in the light.

I thought about spray painting it white or orange, but I actually like the rustic quality of the tarnished gold and silver lids.

For a world like Wakanda, painted with fantastical colors, inventions, and tons of CG creatures and backgrounds, the image quality on this disc is superb with not a pixel out of place.

It's a smart movie — a quintessentially L.A. one, too, in its self - awareness (the nameless hero is a stuntman, Richard Rush fans take note), and it has an extraordinary quality of stillness that paints in confident strokes what it feels like to be completely alone by luck you call choice.

SS was more Oil Painting and flat (ish), Twilight Princess had more of a realistic tone, OOT has more of a Mario like quality to it's style.

There are so many great films out there... and all the quality movies deserve recognition... but The Revenant is simply an astonishing achievement, and i am not surprised at all it just wins awards after awards.Let's see if it also wins the Oscar.I agree that this film is not for everyone, and many just don't like it.But movie is art, and just like art... some people love it and some not.Like a painting... even if we all look at the same painting, some of us will see more in it.It is the year of Alejandro G.Inarritu, the year of Leo..

Large, turbine - like air vents remain a polarizing Mercedes design touch, but every control looks and feels hewn from high - quality materials, even the bits made of painted plastic.

Many automotive journalists fancy themselves design experts, often examining a new car's looks almost to the point of absurdity, from the quality of the paint finish to the dash - to - axle ratio, and when we find something we don't like, it's blacklisted for eternity.

Some grouses are there like some panel gaps and the paint quality, which though is really good with respect to Maruti standards, but still some faint amount of orange - peel effect can be seen if observed closely.

One mistake was that, by focusing on cigar butts selling for low single - digit multiple of earnings or a low price in relation to liquidation value, I missed out buying into higher - quality businesses like Asian Paints and Pidilite, which compounded capital at high rates of return for a long time.

Viewed from the standpoint of certain painters, like De Kooning and perhaps Pollock, about whom there is no reason to imagine any real Soutine influence, certain qualities of composition, certain attitudes toward paint which have gained prestige here as the most advanced painting, are expressed in Soutine in unpremeditated form.

I'm pleased with the finished painting; I like the counter-change and the depth of tonal quality that exists in the window.

This third generation of Postmodern Neo-Abstraction, can and does, reproduce painting - like products without addressing first person visual involvement with originality, talent, quality, beauty, ugliness, specificity, thought, critique or irony.»

Moving from figurative to abstract painting, British painter Cecily Brown thinks about the qualities of paint itself:» When the body disappears it's almost like there's no» there» there,» she explains.»

Prominent among them is Pearlstein's Roman Ruin (1961), an oil - on - canvas close - up of a ruin, painted in a pastel palette that gives the work a dream - like quality.

Bradford: That one is called «Friendly Skies» I've been working on it for two years.I enjoy how your paintings earlier paintings had an incredibly layered quality - with what feels like thin pigments on top of thin pigments.

There's something about the quality of the brushstrokes, the layers of paint and glaze creating depth, and the use of forms that can conjure dreams of a cityscape that feels like his work belongs to both contemporary abstraction and the heyday of Abstract Expressionism.

That makes for a great quality of life that can maybe make up for the fact nobody buys your paintings and you live like a homeless person...

Tyler incorporates the same fleshy and lush quality of pink taffy - like paint and energetic brush strokes.

His current solo exhibition at the South London Gallery, Michael Armitage: The Chapel, absorbs the chapel - like qualities of the gallery space, where his paintings explore Kenyan culture and religion as the context in which to look at mental health issues in East Africa.

Like these artists, I strive to capture the fleeting, spontaneous quality of «alla prima» painting in my work.

Like Fitzgerald, who flipped between flappers and philosophers, it has all the raucous elements of the color - mad paintings, but also interjects an elevating and welcome note of doubt, the kind of momentary struggle with the material qualities of color that makes Cezanne or Diebenkorn so admirable under similar conditions.

Every single one has extraordinary color: the variety and brightness each piece carries, detail: the amount of work that is put into every aspect of each painting that make it look so realistic and abstract, lighting: the bright light shining throughout each image giving each piece an intriguing positive / enthusiastic energy, shading: the detailed shadings on each face giving them that 3 - dimensional look, definition: the quality of the defined lines that are portrayed through every painting (piece) and every small detail in the painting (like the faces and body parts) line: the complex and balanced lining that is seen in both, the abstract and realistic images in these works, texture: somewhat giving off an appealing texture to the works by the dimensions, as if you can reach out and grab the images, dimension: the realistic look that each women has (3 - dimensional), spacing: the space is used wisely in each work, very nicely spread out adding to its originality, touch: the clear and powerful finishing touch that every piece has, and the most visible that is seen in every piece here, is simply life.

I found that the absence of paint only stressed the mundane, body - like qualities of the canvasses.

In some works, the softness of his painting style and the candy - like colors add to the mystical, dreamlike quality of the feathery forests and twinkling skies.

In a work like TW - 091, short marks dominate and, as the stylus made lines take on the quality of a sculptor's quickly and skillfully carved strokes and as the depth of the warmly hued paint seduces the viewer, the work itself becomes at once drawing, painting, and sculpted panel.

Lined up on a wall, the Sunday Paintings have a cinematic quality: each panel looks like a frame in a film sequence — a moment in time stilled — as if each is a part of a larger ongoing whole.

Painting for Montgomery is not the pursuit of one ultimate masterpiece but rather a collection of choices, starting from the ground up, to reach an image - like quality.

Mitchell - Innes & Nash smells like hamster shavings, the quality of paintings made out of paint brushes at Paul Kasmin is debatable, and Zach Feuer's Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg ain't for kids.

In fact, somewhat like Gerhard Richter's paintings, they seem to hold off a sense of directness and instead convey a quality of mediation.

This, in conjunction with a certain wobbly, uneasy graphic line quality essentializes the nature of this painting as a person - like actor, a specific deviation from an ideal form.

The two Gray Bandit paintings, like the similarly subtitled Winter Bandit (Inaudible Dialogue) and Winter Bandit (Ho Ho Ho Ho Ho), hint at a persistent quality of inversion in the exhibition, with several works closely resembling a slightly modified counterpart.

Developing their careers in the 1960s rather than the 1950s, the New York artists used new water - based acrylic paint on primed canvas to achieve an oil - like richness of color along with crisp lines through acrylic's plastic quality.

Rauschenberg would subsequently explain his detachment from what he called «a whole language used in discussions of abstract expressionism that I could never make function for myself; it revolved around words like «tortured,» «struggle,» «pain»»; whereas he himself «could never see those qualities in paint.»

Her works push the boundaries of a two - dimensional medium; the irregular triangles in the «Giant Maiden» series (1972) strain against the edges of canvases painted in high relief, while the explosive colors on an intricate collage - like canvas in Do the Dance (2005) lend the painting a kinetic, almost optical quality.

On the other hand, both parts of Black in the Abstract make it perfectly clear that, on the whole, the quality of the work being produced by black artists whose practices include abstraction — as the inclusion of Hammons, McMillian and Donnett indicate, not everyone here is an «abstract painter» — does not suffer in comparison with that of their colleagues of other backgrounds, including major figures like Amy Sillman and Charline von Heyl, both of whom have work in Arning's Painting: A Love Story.

The tactile quality of his surfaces in works like this one stand out and are a testament to the close relationship Johns perceived between painting and sculpture.

Each work in Witmer's austere Winterbrook (2015 17) series of six small panels brings out a different relational quality between paint and canvas: black wash opens up the flawed pores of the canvas grain; dense, dry paint marks the presence of the wooden stretcher as in a rubbing; carefully applied, grey and white thinly glazed layers make another panel's surface appear taut and tremulous like drumskin.

Sometimes we wonder when we see work like Houston - based Kevin Peterson, with his ability to recreate photorealistic quality paintings with graffiti included, what sort of graff artist he would be?

In A Landscape Study at San Vigilio, Lake Garada, Sargent painted en plein air, like many of the French artists of the day, seeking to capture not just the landscape but also a moment in time and the transient quality of light.

Abstracted womb - like forms open out beneath a relatively realistic moorland landscape — echoing both mining tunnels and the birth of Lanyon's first child — the brooding reds and blues given an incised, sculptural quality by the scraping away of wet paint with a razor, a technique learned from Nicholson.

Attributing skin - like quality to her canvases, Julia Rommel emphasizes the tactility of paintings as articles blanketed by multifarious aesthetics and discourses.

He once remarked: «I could never make the language of Abstract Expressionism work for me... words like «tortured,» «struggle» and «pain,» I could never see those qualities in paint.

The layered - paper medium, small scale, and hard - edge - painting approach of her collages contrast with the subject matter, lending a concrete physicality, an almost gem - like quality, to scenes that otherwise feel fleeting.

In contrast to the graphic, cartoon - like quality of Essenhigh's early works, the illusory depth of these paintings infuses the figures with a plausibility, yet the works remain true to the sweeping strokes and amorphous forms that have defined Essenhigh's visual vocabulary.

Using dark blues, bright whites, and occasionally high - key colors, the artist creates outstanding letter - like forms that push forward with a slight pulsation, especially depending on the quality of the light that illuminates it, while the painted field as a whole changes under different viewing conditions.

Each painting is a piece of a greater story and imbue the dream like qualities of a child's imagination.

Forced to dig beneath the surface, collectors have discovered «artists who painted works of outstanding quality», but who «were marginalised due to inane factors like race, sex or geography».

Both Capogrossi and Damian (especially Capogrossi) seemed to be interesting and sort of acceptable here because of their (well, in the case of Capogrossi) quite original image — in the case of Damian because of a rather rough quality that made him pretty close to (or rather made him seem pretty close to) American painting, not the precious kind of European painting that we didn't like any more.