Sentences with phrase «subject of painting»

About Blog Edited by artist Brett Baker, Painters» Table highlights writing from the painting blogosphere as it is published and serves as a platform for exploring blogs that focus primarily on the subject of painting.

The subject of this painting, Eldridge Cleaver, was a cultural critic and early leader of the Black Panthers, and was imprisoned for many years.

As a prominent sitter for Freud and the subject of the painting Man in a Blue Scarf, 2004, Gayford wrote of his experience in the 2010 book Man with a Blue Scarf: On Sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud.

But the subject of the painting is more the artist's dissolution of the forms than a truly descriptive

For Lichtenstein, it was using the brushstroke, which Abstract Expressionist painters often wielded with abandon, taking it one step further, and making the brushstroke itself the subject of the painting.

It is important to recognize that landscape as a traditional subject of painting has lost all meaning in our age.

It's interesting, today there is you, John Currin, and Elizabeth Peyton, but as for younger artists, the body is not a particularly popular subject of painting — that is, a visceral, sensual description of the human form, of desire, of eroticism.

Early works from the 1990s are brought into a dialogue with recent paintings, demonstrating that the entire work follows a dialectic that discards the conventional distinction between abstraction and representation, and instead treats the subject of each painting in such a formalised manner that it becomes a mere artefact, a transformation of reality into a pure and autonomous expression through painting.

The subject of the painting, perhaps flowers in the garden, has been reduced to its simplest shape and form.

His image is emblazoned on a red hoodie worn by Quentin, an African American man who is the subject of a painting by Jordan Casteel.

The letters themselves, their sound and their shape, are the subject of the painting and telegraph Reeder's potent deadpan humor.

But de Kooning swept the boards through the sheer force of the new synthesis at white heat that he created between the subject of the painting - which Pollock had surmounted or lost - and the anarchic bravura of its execution.

Her painting Concrete Ball (2012) comes from a body of work which explores the material relationship to image within painting, where the material itself is part of the subject of the painting.

Still on the subject of painting, John Currin, that surreal rococo absurdist — you tell me what to call him!

The subject of the painting was the 17 - year - old English early Romantic poet Thomas Chatterton, shown dead after he poisoned himself with arsenic in 1770.

When the Saville painting lived in a warehouse, I used to sneak in and study the paint, and I would catch myself hoping I could avoid the subject of the painting noticing my presence.

In historicizing the minimalist canvas, critics have pointed to some form of the merger between the subject of a painting and the object used to support it — for a few this «maddening» notion was the «subjectile,» that physical part of art...

His paintings arguably focus just as much on the medium of paint, and how it reacts with the surface, as they do on the subject of the painting.

Gale comments: «I am very curious and sometimes obsessive about observation... The search becomes part of the subject of the painting.

Smith's dedication to abstraction allows the viewer to explore her compositions through their own library of images and experiences, leaving the subject of each painting up to one's imagination.

Desire as a wish of something to come is the undercurrent that runs through the subject of each painting.

«The primary subject of my painting is color,» Slutzky explains, «For this reason I call it color / structure painting.

The truth is in the physical brushstroke and the subject of the painting is the paint itself.»

Nairne explained that they had also worked closely with Freud's long - standing Studio Manager and friend David Dawson, who is the subject of the painting that stood on Freud's easel when he passed away.

It is as if the figure and subject of the painting (Crosby) reads the tattooed surface of her own skin, upon which is composed an indelible, if faint, message comprised of multiple images, photographed, duplicated, transferred to paper.

Each is also the subject of a painting series by Enteles.

It is only after your eyes adjust to the visual dissonance that the true subject of the painting emerges: these are the triangular hoods of Klansmen gathering by night with their torches and flaming crosses.

For our part, we can look long and hard and never know what he meant, but in the process resonances accrue and they become the subject of the painting...» — Robert Storr, Dean of the Yale University School of Art.

Stand as close as possible (with your hands clasped behind you so the gallery guard doesn't start to panic you're going to touch the painting) and spend time studying the paint and brush marks, not the subject of the painting.

The exhibit tried to break the barrier between the subject of painting and the art object itself, as with Dada.

Perhaps artists, like Mr. Kreimer, by exhibiting both realist and abstract works of art, are moving the subject of painting away from presentation of an image and toward the act of perception.

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.

Does a white woman like Schutz have what it takes to represent the death of Emmett Till, the subject of a painting in the 2017 Whitney Biennial?

«The subject of painting is painting itself,» they wrote in the closest they came to a manifesto, and yet «it is neither a return to basics nor the search for an original purity.»

In shorthand, let's call her a late postmodernist, given her long and deep interest in worn - out images and other cultural leftovers — from children's book illustrations to print advertising to gift wrap — as the subject of her painting.

Edited by artist Brett Baker, Painters» Table highlights writing from the painting blogosphere as it is published and serves as a platform for exploring blogs that focus primarily on the subject of painting.

I think it depends on whether the painter is known because of other paintings, the subject of the painting, what the viewer sees in the painting, and whether or not the viewer would like to have the painting hanging on their wall to view day after day.

EXCERPT: Bring up the subject of painting flowers and some might immediately think of young Regency Era women.

Gerda is also an artist and unwittingly awakens a dormant desire in her husband when she asks him to stand in for her dancer friend Ulla (Amber Heard) as the subject of a painting.

Modelled by Hayett McCarthy, who also was the subject of this painting by Chloe Wise, this earring is just me all over.

Ancient artists may also have chosen the subjects of their paintings based on images suggested by acoustic ricochets.

Micklethwait includes information about the subjects of each painting and brief biographical points about each artist.

These deeply personal emotions I have toward these objects... breathe life into them as the subjects of my paintings.»

Ayres's titles do not describe the subject of the paintings.

To create this work, the artist finds photographs of domestic scenes and anonymous people who wouldn't necessarily be the subject of paintings.

As his career progressed he became increasingly hermetic, focusing the subjects of his paintings on a constellation of cultural figures and their contributions that paralleled his own explorations of the human condition.

He describes the subject of his paintings as» cartoons entwined in spasms of death and candy - colored imitations of sex».

The subject of these paintings is never limited to the field of what is represented.

For the last thirty years, Lichtman has used her southern Massachusetts home as the subject of her paintings.

When I ask if nature and lanscape are always the subjects of his paintings, Baribeau responds with an emphatic «always.»