Sentences with phrase «subject of the painting»

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

The lone solitary subject of these paintings, he lacks a human protector.

Her work is representational but, at the same time, it refuses to represent, as if the real subject of her painting is how representation fails.

Before your arrival I was looking at the images and thought they were related to the different subjects of your paintings.

Referencing Caravaggio, who used to dress up thieves and prostitutes to play saints to model as subjects of his paintings, the piece is a celebration of a perverted, reversed form of theology.

The greyhound is the sole subject of all paintings in Sarah Canright's eponymously titled exhibition.

Alexandria is a favorite subject of her paintings with its charming streets, 18th century houses and unique shops.

The Whitney Biennial catalogue reproduces «Fight in an Elevator» and cites the actual subject of the painting, but at the museum we see a different work from the same series, the monumental «Elevator» (2017), in which Schutz renders piles of body parts in oil on canvas.

As Romaine's work evolved, the female subjects of her paintings became sharply modern, in possession of a kind of feminine strength that couldn't be captured by other male artists working at that time.

They married in the next year, and Ada became the most frequent subject of his paintings.

His interest in words and typography ultimately provided the primary subject of his paintings, prints and photographs.

In this series of drawings, Mister explores how the historical subjects of painting — still life, figures, interiors — can be reinterpreted through his own visual language informed by the aesthetics of graphic design, «70's movie posters, and punk album covers.

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.

In this new series a single marker pen colour becomes the ostensible subject of each painting through a meticulous buildup of parallel lines that cover the length of the canvas.

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.

shows how the rise of digital technologies furthered this transformation, as photographers such as Gregory Crewdson (b. 1962), Richard Misrach (b. 1949) and Alex Prager (b. 1979) have explicitly embraced the hues, scale, and even subjects of painting and cinema.

He deftly forges strange, vicarious intimacies between viewers and the unlikely subjects of his paintings — from giants and insecure grasshoppers to an entire cast of fretting fowl.

Boudin's tourists by contrast, arrived by train, and were wealthy patrons as well as subjects of his paintings.

These isolated elements relate to the «one - corner» compositions characteristic of Ma Yuan — aligning the actual subject of the painting to one side or corner, whilst leaving the rest of the surface mostly uninhabited.

The female subjects of the paintings, all in profile as if in a hieroglyphic stance, are ambiguous and almost without history, often in transit, walking or waiting and on the brink of something new.

His two sons, as well as his wife Ada, are frequent subjects of his paintings; Ada can be found on over 250 canvases he created so far!

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

«I used blunt Pop imagery and simple, clean colors to take on the traditional subjects of painting — the nude, the still life, the landscape» (4)

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

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

Their love affair has been widely celebrated by classical poets and is the subject of paintings, Chinese operas, books and television shows in the subsequent millennium.»

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.

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

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.

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

«I was told that he was taken prisoner and died on that field» — she nodded to the wall where a frame of golden dollops and curlicues wrapped around a simple painting of a pasture — «The field is something of a local landmark because it was the subject of this painting by some nineteenth - century artist.

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.

Sometimes the painting reminds me of something, a particular mood or memory of a place and it won't go away — that becomes the subject of the painting for me.»

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

Hecker's canvases are exquisitely finished, with barely a trace of the immense craft that goes into them, while the subject of her paintings are mostly scaled - up pieces of throwaway printed and written matter: shopping lists, to - do memos, store receipts, ticket stubs — items that seem the ontological opposite of a slowly built - up abstract painting.

Such is the case with his glass and mirror works, in which one views oneself while momentarily becoming the subject of the painting itself.

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.

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.

«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.»

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?

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

What is revolutionary here is that the subjects of the painting are now unapologetically strong women aware of the transformative parts they have chosen to play in modern life, a declaration reinforced by the staged minimalism of the formal design.