Not exact matches
With layers
of colour that randomly conceal his
subjects» faces, it's a unique style that seems to try and hide the
real essence
of each person he
paints.
«It is the
real subject,
of which everything he
paints is both an homage and a critique, and everything he says is a gloss.»
The artist does not
paint portraits
of real people, rather she depicts people she has conjured up — fully formed
subjects who appear to have complicated, interesting lives and deep backstories.
All
of Cooke's
subjects stem from
real life — his autobiography, live models or photographic and literary sources — but metamorphose away from these everyday referents as they become realized in
paint and enmeshed in the landscape
of the work.
Realism is the art style most people regard as «
real art,» where the
subject of the
painting looks very much like the
real thing, rather than being stylized or abstracted.
But
subject matter came back in a really strong way with the Pop thing, and when
subject matter came back, it seemed opposed to the idea
of a more abstract or, say, mystical
painting, and against the idea that other things were coming out
of a
painting rather than
real imagistic pieces
of information.
More recently,
paintings by a Henry Codax have been alighting at galleries and at least one auction house, his
real identity a
subject of some speculation.
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«Dimensions Variable» also features the artist's hand - constructed frames, suggesting a threshold for the
subjects of the
paintings to come forward, into «
real life», as they visually oscillate between the foreground and background
of the illusionistic
painting.
The actual
paint or ink falling down the substrate and forming a recognizable
subject (the waterfall) is, in itself, a combination
of real and symbolic imagery.
And, like Ed Ruscha's musings about the nature
of texts in his
paintings — that words, or at least the use
of them as a
subject, don't inherently have any
real scale — the grid perspective allows an expansion and contraction
of otherworldly senses
of scale and pacing.
He combines acrylic
paint and resin to create a 3D print that looks so
real you'd be forgiven for thinking that the
subjects might jump right out
of the pictures and onto the floor.
The exhibition consists
of a series
of real - time portraits that Kopp
painted of fiercely loved
subjects that sat for him via Skype, marrying the practice
of 19th - century oil
painting with modern communication.
Featuring a wide array
of disasters as
subject matter, such as forest fires, railway accidents, arson, and factories producing toxic plumes, the Disaster
Paintings eternalize the
real - life modern events we are faced with daily in contemporary society yet quickly forget when the next catastrophe occurs.
In his handling
of paint Colen collapses the legibility
of his
subjects, denying conventions
of pictorial space, and conflating the phenomenal and the
real.
But where Kim attempts a «true» match between the skins
of real bodies and the surfaces
of his
paintings, Levine trades in the field
of representation, showing that the signifying power
of the
subject can not be held apart from the logic
of the commodity.
But even this is overshadowed by the realization that her
real subject is
painting and how the medium can be revitalized by social change and the advent
of new visual technologies.
His work has been the
subject of solo shows at RJD Gallery and is included as one
of eight American realism painters in «GET
REAL: New American
Paintings» at MOCA in Jacksonville, FL..
Realism too, (or representational art) came naturally to the new generation
of Irish artists anxious to embody
real Irish
subjects in their
paintings.
Maintaining the connection to the
real world, Gall's
paintings are still abstract in their
subject and play with the illusion
of cut - outs — the meticulously
painted holes, shadows and apparent kinks perfectly imitate the materiality
of paper.
Describing her ideas about
painting, Appel explains, «my work is not so much about pretending the
real thing is there, but more about the presence
of the
subject, as well as the presence
of the
painting in space.»
The
real subject becomes the substance and surface
of oil
paint, the variety
of its applications, and the ways in which it can be used to celebrate life.
It is his
real subject,
of which anything he
paints is both a homage and a critique, and everything he says a gloss.»