Sentences with phrase «serving nature of painting»

I went through the typical crisis of conscience that a lot of young painters feel about the seemingly self - serving nature of painting, but I got over it.

Not exact matches

Largely autobiographical in nature, the novel must have served as a cathartic release for Rattner who has said she painted over only some of the details in the story.

Elements of nature such as animals, trees, and flowers served as prolific painting motifs for centuries.

In terms of subject, not style, Doig's work can be positioned within two traditions - that of Western landscape painting with heroic, moody representations of nature; and Impressionism with depictions of daily life, scenes previously thought irrelevant or inconsequential but which serve as the true basis for human interaction.

His poetic, provocative, and at times humorous paintings — from landscape and nature to politics and history — fearlessly address issues that resonate today such as the rights of openly gay men and women to serve in the military, the aesthetics of gay subcultures, and the rampant scandals that mar our political landscape.

«The lonely, desolate American landscape encompassing the paintings» subjects serves as an exploration of nature's sacredness and a reflection of the human soul, symbolizing all things powerful, fragile and eternal,» Kowch writes in her Artist Statement.

Issues of causality, randomness and interaction of forces have all served as Tyson's primary tools as he has created works as diverse as the Fractal Dice, History Paintings, Geno - Pheno Paintings, Large Field Array, Nature Paintings and the Art Machine iterations.

The lonely, desolate American landscape encompassing the paintings» subjects serves as an exploration of nature's sacredness and a reflection of the human soul, symbolising all things powerful, fragile, and eternal.

The blunt, naïve nature of the subjects serves as an easy foil / mask, allowing for a range of rich experimentation with paint chemistry, color, installations, and scale.

Like her «Threshold» works, these paintings serve as a thoughtful meditation on the nature of occupancy within a domestic environment, exactingly rendered in multiple paint layers.

On the one - hand, there's a real emphasis on the gritty «one - off» nature of the tiny, stretched and stapled oil paintings that serve as the work's covers, and the even smaller Frank Sherlock poem that is secreted away in the back of each painting, tightly folded into a rectangle like spy data and tucked behind a hatch.