Sentences with phrase «tactile qualities of painting»

My interest in the physical, tactile qualities of painting has been there from the beginning, and became more and more prominent, even in my abstract works.

«For contemporary figurative painter Kent Williams, «the tactile qualities of the painted surface, the mark - making itself, plays as big a role in the resonance of a work» as its narrative aspects.

As one critic has pointed out, for Williams «the tactile qualities of the painted surface, the mark - making itself, plays as big a role in the resonance of a work as its narrative aspects.»

Not exact matches

The tactile qualities of the thick fur stand in contrast to the luminous triangle of paint that has tamed and matted down the hair.

Ironically, George Hoffman's paintings, recently on view at Show Room on the Lower East Side, possess the quality Benjamin so admired in film, a unique «distracting element... primarily tactile, being based on changes of place and focus which periodically assail the spectator.»

The tactile quality of Innes's paintings continues in his new works on paper, a number of which will be included in the exhibition.

The tactile quality of his surfaces in works like this one stand out and are a testament to the close relationship Johns perceived between painting and sculpture.

Carnegie's handling of paint has a tactile quality that is fantastically sensual and seductive, yet veers easily into faint repulsion at the sticky excess.

His tactile sculptural works are masterfully constructed and vibrate with sensual energy, while his paintings and drawings are fluid and intuitive with an indiscernible quality that begs the question of their origin.

The artist employs thick layers of acrylic paint and pumice to create colorful, spatially complex paintings with a distinctive tactile quality.

Then, in one corner, a smaller painting quietly augments the cocoon - like ambience through its soft and tactile quality, which is given by the re-elaboration of a jacket.

This arose when the artist placed an emphasis on the texture, tactile quality or other evocative powers of the paint or other materials (often unusual ones).

Mitchell recently abandoned that moniker, and her work has taken a material turn, incorporating painting, installation, found objects, and assemblage that nonetheless retain the participatory, voyeuristic quality of her performance work — most likely owing to her use of tactile, unsettlingly inviting materials such as large, thin, powdery sheets of rubber.

I use photography and video continually probing the boundary between abstraction and figuration, developing a personal vocabulary in which painting, video, and sculpture coalesce in the creation of works rooted in the tactile quality of the material.

Austen's paintings and watercolors recreate situations where ambivalent interpersonal relationships bleed into the tactile qualities of each medium.

Walking into Trudy Benson «s studio, I was struck by the tactile quality in her paintings and how the surface of the paint played a crucial role in reading and understanding her work.

Unlike many other prominent contemporary artists, she prefers a hands - on approach, reveling in the tactile qualities of clay, as she forms the works that would be later cast in bronze, and the fluidity and chance properties of the painting medium.