Sentences with phrase «really painting from life»

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I really love the centerpiece from the produce aisle... it makes me think of old still life paintings.

All of this (I have left out many details) paints a portrait of a couple torn from their secure lives and forced into a horrifying new world of despair, testing them both to discover who they really are what they really feel.

I guess that's one of the things that makes them different from photographs, in that a photograph might be a record, a snap, one moment — a painting I think is about creating a small world around that photo... I really like that idea of something that you can enter like a box or an exhibition space, and enter these little rooms which for me are memories, but it's not about nostalgia — it's more about setting up something that's still living — so it's almost they're all in the present, rather than in the past.»

If Storr really wanted to recognize an «old» master, he should curate an exhibition of paintings by George McNeil, an artist who realized himself late in life and made something grand, energetic, and funny from the verities of the New York School.

Although not one painting is the same as the next, I really see no difference between the spaces I paint, the space I live in and the same space it all comes from.»

Riley discusses his work and process noting: «I really strive to not have the paintings feel like just compositional games... and maybe in that sense they're talking a little bit more about the life around the artist and the life that we're living right now - present tense - and the art being a by - product of that and not so much the art being made in this cloistered place away from life but in with life.»

Although I admired the modern painting of Europe, I never came under the influence of any one artist or school -LSB-...] Recently I felt that most painting modern or conservative was terribly remote from conditions that were really, really affecting people's lives.

Grosse: I did all sorts of things, from figure painting to still - life and landscape painting, as well as video and photography and so on, partly because I really wanted to see whether painting would matter enough in the end for me to dedicate my life to it.

I really don't see a difference between using photographs and painting from life.

There wasn't a lot of talk about his way of composing a picture; how he painted moving figures, something that can't really be painted from life.

I have several end - tables in my living - room that could really benefit from a paint make - over to bring cohesion to my space....

And it was as open a floorplan as I'd ever want (living room / dining room) and so airy, with a host of clever features (like a two - sided cabinet that had a door in the kitchen in which to store the clean dishes and a glass door in the dining room from which you could easily set the table), but my biggest favorite were the plank walls, nothing really, really fancy but in every room of the house and each room painted a soft pastel color.

If a paint decision, decorating project, blogging, popularity, career or any other pursuit is distracting you away from what you really want out of life, I think it is time to set it aside, simplify or reevaluate what you are doing.