Sentences with phrase «subject matter of the paintings»

The floral subject matter of this painting couldn't be simpler, and the color scheme is likewise straightforward, but there's something about the work's composition and the haphazard white lines that throws you off - kilter.
Here Sayer represents them by selecting the most washed out, pop versions of these characters: the title of the exhibition and subject matter of the paintings refer to the popular Broadway musical «Wicked,» and a sculpture of Frankenstein's head is the hollywood version.
The core subject matter of the paintings reveal a physical rotation, through a fixed viewpoint, as if they were snapshots or the frames of a film reel.
In gallery after gallery, the great themes of religion are the subject matter of the paintings.
The level of detail, the characterization, and subject matter of his paintings and etchings keep me coming back again and again to find something new.
The style and, to a lesser extent, the subject matter of the paintings vary between regions.
Throughout the book, there is a cinematic aspect to both the look and subject matter of these paintings, eerily projected onto dreamlike surfaces: The snow flurry of Milky Way (1989 - 90) could be falling stars; the dripping palm tree of Grande Riviere (2001 - 2) could be Doig's paint still waiting to dry.
The subject matter of his paintings ranges from landscape and nature to politics and history.
The everyday nature of the subject matter of the paintings likewise worked to secure the painting as a realist object.»
In fact, it was a great leap when artists began to allow everyday life into the subject matter of painting.
Beginning in the 1970s, travel in Europe broadened the subject matter of her paintings to include a statue in the Jardin de Luxembourg in Paris and Paleolithic cave paintings in France and Spain.
«The self, terrible and constant, is for me the subject matter of painting,» he said.
The development of colour as a consistent structural principle, and even as a subject matter of a painting, has to a great extent been concentrated into the last 10 years.
This is what intrigues Rade and is the subject matter of his paintings.
As he likes to say, «Color is the subject matter of painting
By raising questions of national and individual identity through the formal qualities and subject matter of his paintings, Matsuyama examines the «natural chaos» of our social environments and challenges viewers to confront their own conceptions of cultural homogeneity.
A quintessential New York artist, Katz is also a part - time resident of rural Maine, and the subject matter of his paintings accordingly shifts from landscape to cityscape, from rural vignette to Manhattan interior.
The subject matter of his paintings, installations, and public projects is drawn from African American culture and rooted in the geography of his upbringing: in 1963 he moved with his family to the Nickerson Gardens public housing project in the Watts district of Los Angeles, just a few years before the race riots began.
I want to have the literal matter of the painting also be the subject matter of the painting.
Yes, you definitely can, you just might find some of the smooth blending more difficult with acrylics, depending on the subject matter of the painting.
Like American painter Brice Marden's «plane image», faced with the dramatic works of Sorrell, we end up not looking at the subject matter of the painting, as one has come to expect, but rather, at the painting itself.
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