Sentences with phrase «quality of paintings as»

The «anchored» quality of paintings as images «other - than», along with their peculiar relationship to time or duration, are aspects of the discipline that I remain keenly interested in, despite any changes my work has undergone.
This is one possible journey through the work, during which we might dwell on shapes and lines, variations of touch and tone, alerted to qualities of paint as space is mapped and atmosphere created.
This is interesting: how can a person's character effect the quality of the painting as you look at it?

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In its semi-annual financial stability report, Canada's central bank painted a picture of a housing market where key steps have been taken to improve the quality of lending, particularly in the most expensive cities such as Toronto.
The second part of the prize package is a high quality fine are print of my painting that was used as the cover.
When recounting the birth of a coal miner's calf he described it as a sacred event, analogous to the birth of Christ, with the numinous quality of a beautiful painting:
This fact needs to be continually reiterated to decision makers as otherwise manufacturers of breast milk substitutes will capitalise on HIV infection as a reason for promoting free samples of their formula.10 It is extraordinary that the Wall Street Journal painted the baby food manufacturers as heroes poised to save African children from certain death because of their offer to donate free formula to HIV infected mothers.11 The WHO recommends avoidance of breast feeding by HIV infected mothers only if replacement feeding is feasible, safe, sustainable, and affordable — otherwise exclusive breast feeding is recommended during the first six months of life.12 Non-infected women must be given access to credible information, quality care, and support, in order to empower them to make informed decisions regarding feeding of their infant.13
A research team at Pixar studied the light - absorbing qualities of auto paint, carbon fiber and chrome, as well as the darkness - penetrating intensity and reach of standard and LCD headlights.
Shalat says that poor children are both most likely to be exposed to lead — from factory smelters, dust, soil and paint — and to suffer the worst effects of that exposure, thanks to poor access to health care and other resources such as proper nutrition and high - quality schools.
The findings, which have been reported in Nature Communications, reveal that the h - BN layers form the strongest thin insulator available globally and the unique qualities of the material could be used to create flexible and almost unbreakable smart devices, as well as scratch - proof paint for cars.
Many people drew and painted as kids, without worrying about talent or the quality of the final product.
Endocrine disruptors are common in many traditional building supplies and environments, including polyvinyl flooring and wall coverings, wall - to - wall carpeting (a carcinogen magnet), high VOC paints, stains and sealants, and poor indoor air quality as a result of insufficient ventilation.
Admirably, the movie resists painting Evelyn as a full - on bitch, imbuing her with redeeming qualities that initially overshadow her annoying tendencies and excusing some of her behavior to her orphan status.
The NEPC report paints a dismal picture of student learning at K12 - operated schools, but the fatal flaw of the report is that the measures of «performance» it employs are based primarily on outcomes such as test scores that may reveal more about student background than about the quality of the school, and on inappropriate comparisons between virtual schools and all schools in the same state.
Resilience is a broad set of «capacities and skills and abilities that give people a sense of mastery and management of difficulty,» says center director Jack Shonkoff, one of a number of neuroscientists and early childhood experts who paint a picture of resilience as a quality that is built over time, resulting from the interactions of people and their environment.
Renault even highlights its four - stage paint process — including anti-corrosion, sealing, painting and a stage where the paint is cleaned by emu feathers — as an example of the brand's focus on quality.
Paint is very presentable but not perfect - as mentioned some is original and some panels have been painted over the years, the overall effect is pleasing but not quite up to the quality of its body, mechanicals and interior.
The new version of the successful premium SAV (Sports Activity Vehicle) with modified exterior design symbolises the increase in agility and dynamics with the latest, even more powerful and, at the same time, more efficient drive systems; new headlight and rear light optics as well as generously - sized bumper units painted in the vehicle colour underline the striking, dynamic appearance and the premium character; high quality ambience in the interior; wide - ranging redesign of the instrument panel, steering wheel, centre console, seats, door upholstery, storage compartments and roof lining; wide variety of colours, upholstery materials and decorative elements facilitate a high degree of customisation.
The paint is high quality, and after nearly nine years, there is no sign of fade or peeling, as it has been parked in the sun for much of its life.
Previous MOT «s and tax disks Heritage trust certificate is present The exquisite paint, chrome and interior are matched by a immaculate trunk and engine compartment The MG C represents a fascinating chapter in the history of MG and another example of such incredibly high quality as this one will be exceedingly difficult to find.
UV Resistant Coating Each Rear Deck Spoiler contains is finished with UV - resistant clear - coat paint for resistance against various environmental conditions (take care of this as you would take care of your vehicle's paint finish - polish then coat with good - quality wax or synthetic protectant).
These four promises all work together to paint a picture of ths company as a quality pet food brand.
Maalinup Aboriginal Gallery is an Aboriginal owned and operated business offering cultural activities, talks, performances and a taste of authentic Australian bush tucker (native foods), as well as a gallery full of authentic local Aboriginal art, exquisitely hand - painted gifts and high - quality Australian made souvenirs.
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.
In the end he found what he was looking for, which was not so much a new principle as a more comprehensive one: and it lay not in Nature, but in the essence of art itself, its «abstractness» — the qualities of the medium alone — as a principle of consistency makes no difference: it is there, plain to see in the paintings of his old age.
Whitten described that he thought of these paintings as having the qualities of a single line — a discrete piece of visual information.»
Painted under strongly directed artificial light using everyday synthetic objects — such as plastic fruit, paint brushes, and jugs — these observational works explore the qualities of balance, stillness, and structure that we associate with the classical composition.
But it is precisely this impenetrability to logical analysis as far as his method is concerned, that quality of the surface which appears as if it had happened rather than was «made,» which unexpectedly reminds us of the most original section of the new painting in this country.
As Richter explained, «landscapes... show my yearning... But though these pictures are motivated by the dream of classical Order and a pristine world — by nostalgia, in other words — the anachronism in them takes on a subversive and contemporary quality» (Gerhard Richter, «Notes 1981», The Daily Practice of Painting, London, 1995, p. 98).
Today because of the quality of his paintings and not just his myth, Claude Monet is loved as a great Impressionist and as one of the first modernist painters.
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.
Her repetitive dragging corresponds to Monet's scumbling, as the directed quality of the painted layers «combines with the ethereal tonalities to produce a poetic atmosphere,» as Bill Rubin once said of Pollock.
Formalist critics, especially Clement Greenberg (1909 - 1994), made much of perceived flatness as one of the qualities through which modernist painting distinguished its claims on our attention from those of all the other contemporaneous arts.
Over the next decade, Stella introduced relief into his art, describing his approach as «maximalist» painting, because of its sculptural qualities.
The play of light on these works gives them an eerie, immaterial quality that's only enhanced by the viewer's awareness of them as made objects; the whiteness of the paint acquires a new intensity as your eye takes in the darker and brighter elements that contradict it even as they make it up.
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.
As in his earlier Stadtbild (Townscape) paintings, two of which are featured in the exhibition, Richter's primary motivation is the expression of the material quality of paint.
I use the Winsor & Newton professional ranges of paints as I know that the colours are highly pigmented, permanent and lightfast, and have perfect consistency and adhesive qualities.
Included in the Leyden Gallery show are mostly recent smaller - scale (for Koorland) script paintings of songs and poems, made this past year or two with an intimate, note - to - self quality, with an occasional older piece, inserted, as Koorland says, for content and colour.
Crosman writes that these paintings «don't depict Seal Point but rather are meditations on the ineffable qualities of a place as Walker has experienced it — color, light, motion, shape, texture — recording the narrative of how the artist feels about this special location over the course of changing seasons, months and years.»
Roger Brown: The first group of sculptures was inspired by the feeling that the paintings themselves had a three - dimensional quality, so they very easily could be taken as models for three - dimensional works.
But the title of the exhibition is apropos, as the artist's stylistic approach lends the paintings a stilted, staged quality, as though the subjects are playing their parts in a tale.
The quality of the paintings, by artists such as Jan van der Heyden, Jan van Goyen, Aert van der Neer, Willem van Mieris, and Godfried Schalcken, among others, is uniformly high.
All of these technically brilliant works, however uneven in their intentions and results, borrow freely from schools and styles that Kline had likely absorbed during his London years.His paintings from this period show him as a traditionalist committed to the darker, somber qualities found in artists as diverse as Rembrandt, Honoré Daumier and Albert Pinkham Ryder.
He's not interested in the sensual qualities of paint; as a painter, he gets the job done.
The paintings take on a spectral, transcendent quality, as if seen through a fog that only gradually lifts as we begin to discern the figures, making reception of them slower, and pushing them towards abstraction.
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.
Starting out as a «Neo-Pop» painter, Christopher Wool explores painting's elusive and allusive qualities with a variety of methods including using commercial rollers to apply decorative patterns on white panels.
Throughout his multi-faceted career in stand - up comedy, music, film and television, Mull has become well known as an ironist and satirist, however, the comedic quality of his paintings is contradicted by an equal amount of sorrow - he has moved beyond irony and satire to successfully achieve depth and meaning...
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