Sentences with phrase «quotidian subject»

Luc Tuymans (b. 1958, Mortsel) is a Belgian artist who is internationally known for his paintings that engage equally with questions of history and its representation as with quotidian subject matter cast in unfamiliar and eerie light.

RR: Your paintings seem to transcend their seemingly quotidian subject matter through your sophisticated formal devices.

Interest in common materials and quotidian subjects has been a defining theme of artistic practice in the 20th century, inspiring Cubist collage, found sculpture, and the widespread embrace of photography.

The paintings are carefully observed depictions of quotidian subjects transformed into unique images that express the artist's emotional reaction to the subject.

But in more recent works Gursky descends from high abstraction to more quotidian subjects: the famously expensive Rhine II (1999, remastered 2015)-- it sold for $ 4.3 m in 2011, breaking the auction record for a photograph — is displayed adjacent to a newer work, El Ejido (2017), in which the edge of a Spanish road echoes Rhine II's minimalist colour bands, but the landscape has been polluted with rubbish from passing cars.

The works in the show»... reveals the artist's inventive approach to his quotidian subjects which loom larger than life on paper and become transformative sculptural objects in tar and plaster,» according to the gallery.

With just a few hard - won marks, Mr. York could render uncanny impressions of the most quotidian subjects: a brown cow in a field, pink flowers in a tin container, a potted plant, a cut lemon that may make your lips pucker.

Lees often lingers over these works for decades, providing his quotidian subjects with an obsessive materiality that is contrasted with a near spiritual invocation.

He's a character created by an anonymous abstract painter who gleaned in the early days of Pop that simple compositions of quotidian subjects were going to be a market hit.

Not exact matches

One hundred and twenty - seven pages into this substantial biography of Eric Rohmer, Antoine de Baecque and Noël Herpe, having described their subject's quotidian routines, throw up their hands in seeming...

Auerbach paints in the same studio he has occupied since 1954, reputedly working all day, seven days a week, revisiting the inventory of subject matter he has accumulated from his regular models and his quotidian local life.

With subjects painted using vibrant hues and tactile surfaces, Fratino's portraiture depicts a relatable sentimentality by transforming quotidian activities, like eating, lounging or loving, into opportunities to reflect on the complexities of life.

As diverse as his subject matter, Pettibon's images have included quotations from quotidian and literary works by authors including Marcel Proust, Henry James, William Blake, John Ruskin, and Art Clokey, as well as texts written by the artist himself.

Avoiding the brand - name flashiness embraced by 1960s Pop and the slick urban scenes introduced at that time by the Photorealists, the artists in Lifelike investigate the quieter side of the quotidian, choosing potentially overlooked items or moments as subject matter: a paper bag, an eraser, an apple core, a waiting room, an afternoon nap.

Part of a generation of artists that reacted against the dominant action - oriented, gestural style of Abstract Expressionism, Wesselmann took interest in quotidian, figurative, and popular subject matter, as well as the representational and graphic qualities afforded by collage.

Contrary to Western images of the Arab world, which often depicted marginalized or dehumanized subjects, photographs by indigenous Middle Eastern residents captured the quotidian lives of these changing communities.

While Khedoori's emphasis the quotidian as subject matter serves as a sober update of Pop Art's embrace of common objects, her placement of these everyday objects within undefined and thus mysterious surroundings invites an almost surreal unease.

Avoiding the brand - name flashiness embraced by 1960s Pop Art and the slick urban scenes introduced at that time by the Photorealists, the artists in Lifelike investigate the quieter side of the quotidian, choosing often overlooked items or moments as subject matter: a paper bag, an eraser, an apple core, a waiting room, an afternoon nap.

His work follows a photojournalistic aesthetic of cropped black - and - white shots with strong contrasts; quotidian images that feature lovers in casual contact introduce an intimacy between the artist and his subjects that is passed on to the viewer.

The items include quotidian objects such as pillows, furniture, and potted plants; the conversion of these items into art subjects is obvious, given the inclusion of Duchamp's infamous readymade urinal in the stack of items.

Taking from Pop Art's exploration of commodities and the anthropomorphic qualities of goods, Craig - Martin's acrylic paintings take mass - produced objects from the consumerist age as subject matter, depicting these quotidian items in graphical lurid colours and outlined in black line drawing.

Her subject matter focuses on quotidian aspects of domestic life, taking place in conventional, albeit subtly Nigerian, interiors.

Searching for a visual language to capture the immediacy of everyday life and the quotidian nature of his subject matter, Andrews developed his «rough collage» technique, combining scraps of paper and cloth with oil paint on canvas.