Sentences with phrase «than as individual paintings»

Conceived as an index of roofs — rather than as individual paintings — these works suggest a collective presence and relate strongly to Gates», whose father tarred roofs for a trade.

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It remains critical in a hands - off kind of way, but doesn't end there; his «tireless production» (as they describe it in the press release) makes his individual, technically unimpressive paintings into something much greater than the individual.

The paintings were composed of thick, fluid brushstrokes, the individuals appearing more as caricatures rather than traditional realist portraits.

Moreover, because the White Paintings all emerged from a single concept and each painting's surface is basically indistinguishable from that of the next, the tendency, understandably, has been to treat the White Paintings en bloc, rather than as individual pieces.

Painters including Jackson Pollock (1912 — 56), Willem de Kooning (1904 — 97), Franz Kline (1910 — 62), Robert Motherwell (1915 — 91), Mark Rothko (1903 — 70), Barnett Newman (1905 — 70), Adolph Gottlieb (1903 — 74), Richard Pousette - Dart (1916 — 92), Clyfford Still (1904 — 80) and Lee Krasner (1908 — 84) saw the individual process of art - making as equal to or more important than the final result, and art critic Harold Rosenberg coined the phrase «action painting» to refer to this overriding significance of the act of painting.

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Thus while he painted individuals from photographs, Richter's replica images were often blurred and bore nothing distinctively identifiable about the subject, an effect that forced the viewer to consider the fundamental components of the painting itself, such as composition, color scheme, and so forth, rather than leaving the viewer to identify with, or be distracted by, a picture's implied content or its emotional element of «humanity.»

Jones» principal aim here is to demonstrate that Bay Area figuration constitutes a coherent movement, rather than having been an accumulation of isolated individuals who saw Abstract Expressionism as a moribund, even alien style and who simply began to paint recognizable figures as an antidote.

Depending, as it does, upon the individual, upon the subjective and automatic and personal qualities of the that man, the painting can be no better than the artist.

As Hodgkin's paintings have become more psychologically charged over the course of more than 50 years, straightforwardly descriptive elements that were present in his early portraits have come to be disguised and subsumed in paintings that still endeavor to evoke specific individuals in particular situations.

As the show was being installed, Aho had completed more than fifty individual paintings.