Sentences with phrase «think contemporary painting»

I don't think contemporary painting should cut out narration.

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Or think of the visual impact, on the Sunday when the story of adolescent Jesus in the temple is read, of projecting slides of the great masters» paintings of young Jesus alongside contemporary photos of city and suburban kids of every color.

I think it's more than just singing more contemporary songs and the colours you paint your walls or whatever.»

I also think the quieter and deliberate pace helps paint a poetic picture of contemporary China, it all feels real.

2010 was an exciting year for contemporary painting, from a painting - heavy Whitney Biennial, to stand - out works in MoMA PS1 «s Greater New York, to huge showings at art fairs like NADA and Art Basel Miami Beach, and with each exhibition a new way of thinking about the medium itself.

With this in mind, what thoughts can you share with us about the health of contemporary landscape painting?

Advertising — and not painting — is the contemporary arbiter of what is beautiful (a point made eloquently by Elaine Scarry in her 1997 book On Beauty) which is a bone - chilling thought.

Walking through the show I thought more than once that Sherman may have grappled more brilliantly with the legacy of Old Master painting in the 1980s and»90s than did any of her brush - wielding contemporaries.

ArtsATL: You often talk about the «immediate present» in your work, especially with the environmental paintings, which makes me think of action painting in the 1950s and the contemporary idea of focusing on the «present moment» as a stress - reducing mental exercise.

I'm not trying to paint from history or be a contemporary painter, I think they are both in my work and I like that fusion.»

But the family is hugely important in giving me a foundation on which I can start to think through what abstraction has been in relation to its history — a complicated issue — and what abstract painting can be in a contemporary context.

JD: I think in the contemporary art - world there's a much - discussed suspicion of what we call «skill» when it comes to contemporary painting, particularly realist painting.

FRANCIS PICABIA: OUR HEADS ARE ROUND SO OUR THOUGHTS CAN CHANGE DIRECTION Picabia was on the ground with the Dadaists in Paris, but this exhibition includes his later work, which has influenced contemporary painters — perverse figurative paintings that look like precursors to Pop Art, or pulp fiction book covers.

Juror, Lisa D. Freiman, Senior Curator and Chair of the Department of Contemporary Art, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN, mentions in her essay that, «Most of the works by Midwest artists chosen... challenge traditional definitions of painting or sculpture and instead explore a hybrid state that incorporates aspects of both...» We hope you will pick - up a copy and let us know what you think!

Bringing together three painters with distinct oeuvres — that have been, at times, linked to the legacy of German painting, or even of Albert Oehlen himself — the panel will consider abstract painting in relation to other contemporary manifestations of abstraction in economics (market speculation), philosophy (anti-essentialist thought, questions around the structure of time, semiotics), digital culture (sampling, rendering), and aesthetics more generally (considerations of form, the notion of style).

The panel will explore the timeliness of this recent iteration of digital abstraction, with three artists who variously work through issues such as: how gesture, expression, and authenticity might continue to be possible in a contemporary image - based culture; whether our digital era truly produces an ahistorical condition in which images and marks have no specific reference and no relevant point of origin; how structures of and interfaces with digital technologies have necessitated new models for thinking about memory, distribution, and reproduction, as well as degradation, rupture, breakdown, and the void; and how the ubiquity of the screen in all aspects of life has given rise to a renewed interest in the relationship between two - dimensional and three - dimensional space, with a refreshed focus on tromp l'oeil and «topographical» painting.

In this issue of Art Quarterly four contemporary painters — Luc Tuymans, Tomma Abts, Dana Schutz and Hurvin Anderson — share their thoughts on how they paint and why.

Katholm's work becomes emblematic of a very postmodern, contemporary way of thinking — a fresh take on the cinematic montage through a return to painting.

During his residency he developed new paintings, but also shared his knowledge of the Tibetan contemporary arts scene, which is generally under - represented in the West where we tend to think more of their traditional culture.

Moving from art - school grad to accomplished young artist - his shows include Kavi Gupta gallery, Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art, a recent attention grabbing appearance at Art Basel Miami Beach as well as an upcoming solo at New York's Lehmann Maupin Gallery - Otero quickly became a virtuoso of the newfangled mash up of abstract and figurative painting that constitutes today's new Nouveau Realisme (think Mark Bradford sans the racial essentialism).

I never thought I'd see you again Contemporary history painting by the likes of Paul McCarthy, Pamela Golden and Jason Brooks.

«Figure Study II is one of the greatest acquisitions the Contemporary Art Society has ever made and the first painting by Francis Bacon to enter a public collection in this country... Its display with Figure Study I offers a rare opportunity to understand the artist's thinking across two works from a critical moment of Bacon's career».

I think it's hard to know whether Fine's work really would have seemed derivative when she was making it, or whether it merely looks derivative in retrospect simply because our contemporary eyes are so familiar with the painting of her more famous colleagues.

Before seeing the group installed together, as it is in MASTRY, one might have thought it impossible for contemporary painting to simultaneously occupy a position of beauty, difficulty, didacticism, and formalism with -LSB-...]

Group Island Press: Recent Prints, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, 2018 Thinking Through Art, Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, VT, 2018 Sunrise, Sunset, Emerson Dorsch Gallery, Miami, FL, 2017 The Unhomely, Denny Gallery, New York, NY, 2017 Women Painting, Miami Dade College, Kendall Gallery, Miami, FL, 2017 New Faces, Different Places, Central Features Contemporary Art, Albuquerque, NM 2017 The Home Show, form & concept, Santa Fe, NM, 2016 Girls Who Dance in Dissonance, Wayside, Los Angeles, CA, 2016 Surface Area: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY, 2016 Self - Proliferation, Girls» Club, curated by Micaela Giovannotti, Fort Lauderdale, FL, 2016 Faces and Vases, Royal NoneSuch Gallery, Oakland, CA, 2016 Visions Into Infinite Archives, SOMArts Cultural Center, curated by Black Salt Collective, San Francisco, CA, 2016 Summer Art Faculty Exhibition, Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, 2015 Paula Wilson & Jovencio de la Paz, Saugatuck Center for the Arts, Saugatuck, MI, 2015 Perception Isn't Always Reality, Kranzberg Arts Center, St. Louis, MO, 2015 DRAW: Mapping Madness, Inside — Out Art Museum, curated by Tomas Vu, Beijing, China, 2014 - 2015 Lake Effect, Saugatuck Center for the Arts, curated by Mike Andrews, Saugatuck, MI, 2014 I Am The Magic Hand, Sikkema Jenkins & Co, Organized by Josephine Halvorson, New York, NY, 2013 Sanctify, Vincent Price Museum, Los Angeles, CA, 2013 The Bearden Project, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY, 2012 Configured, Benrimon Contemporary, Curated By Teka Selman, New York, NY 2012 Art by Choice, Mississippi Museum of Fine Art, Jackson, MS, 2011 The February Show, Ogilvy & Mather, New York, NY, 2011 Art on Paper: The 41st Exhibition, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC, 2010 Defrosted: A Life of Walt Disney, Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY, 2010 41st Collectors Show, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AK, 2009 - 2010 Carrizozo Artist's Show, Gallery 408, Carrizozo, NM, 2009 - 2010 While We Were Away, Sragow Gallery, New York, NY, 2009 A Decade of Contemporary American Printmaking: 1999 - 2009, Tsingha University, Beijing, China, 2009 Collected.

As the fine arts museum of the University of Chicago, the Smart is home to thought - provoking exhibitions and an exquisite collection of more than 15,000 objects, including modern masterpieces, millennia - old Chinese artworks, rich examples of European painting, and provocative works of contemporary art.

In this exhibition six contemporary abstract painters — Mark Grotjahn, Wade Guyton, Mary Heilmann, Amy Sillman, Charline von Heyl, and Christopher Wool — were asked to select one or two of their recent paintings to be shown alongside works by other artists who have had a significant impact on their thinking and the development of their practice.

The 35 - year - old rising star is considered one of the foremost contemporary artists working in traditional Chinese ink painting today, with the pieces on display — including a panoramic thirty - two - foot silk scroll and a diptych portrait — demonstrate how he deploys ancient techniques and themes to explore contemporary thoughts and ideas.

Despite O'Doherty's debunking of this context, the white cube mode of exhibiting continues to underpin much exhibition - making in the West, from commercial galleries that are designed to look like modern art museums (think of David Zwirner's minimalist 30,000 square foot space on 20th Street in New York) to websites such as Contemporary Art Daily that tend to privilege the flattened picture surfaces of post-minimalist paintings, which look good filtered through the even light of a laptop screen.

Moffett consistently constructs his works around critical frameworks that engage audiences to think about painting, art, and the political and social issues that shape our contemporary lives.

With two distinct approaches to contemporary painting, Bresson and Prata mute stylistic expectations in the service of a visual language that has no spoken form; a collection of simplified narratives, signs and symbols that communicate from the silences between words or thoughts.

His practice combines traditional motifs, symbolism, and ornamentation from the Moghul tradition with conceptual thought and contemporary abstract painting.

With David Salle at Skarstedt and Neo Rauch at David Zwirner being two of the standout shows pre Frieze this year, why do you think painting within the contemporary art world is still so relevant in an increasingly digital world?

About Jan's work, artist, curator and writer Michelle Grabner states, ``... his paintings expand the best of contemporary non-objective work in their shear boldness and fearless scope, the entirety of the painting's dynamics are always greater than the architecture that supports them... The impact of van der Ploeg's paintings is located at the intersection of sensation and thought, between the work's graphic visual impact and its conceptual underpinnings.

His paintings document our contemporary milieu both in physical form and abstract thought.

Group exhibitions include Hue & Cry, Sotheby's S 2, New York, NY; Idealizing the Imaginary: Invention and Illusion in Contemporary Painting, Oakland University, Rochester, MI; A Painting Show, Harris Lieberman, New York, NY; Third Thoughts, CCA Andratx, Mallorca, Spain; Borderland Abstraction, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE; So Athletic, Kunstverein Rosa - Luxemburg - Platz, Berlin, Germany; Quick While Still, Motus Fort, Tokyo, Japan; Platinum Metre, Aschenbach & Hofland, Amsterdam, NL; and Informal Relations, Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, Indianapolis, IN.

Recognized for its modern and contemporary American and Latin American art, Italian Renaissance and baroque paintings, and encyclopedic collection of prints and drawings, the Blanton offers thought provoking, visually arresting, and personally moving encounters with art.

Artists such as Zhang Xiaogang (considered a painting master), Feng Zhengjie, Ma Liuming, Huang Yan or the sometimes scary Chen Ke are just a few of those 50 contemporary Chinese visions you should visit, critic and then tell us what you think... if you happen to be in Milano before February 7th.

The piece is thought to have been painted in 1500, but was sold in the post-war and contemporary sale rather than the old masters sale as would have been expected.

So there was space to write this narrative and try to think about the links between contemporary painting and the past.»

Since it's an academy that has been supported by both Andy Warhol and Prince Charles, and prides itself on both traditional methods, such as anatomy and indirect painting, and on contemporary discourse, I thought it would be compelling to take the long view and explore how and why the classical academic tradition has impacted the present state of figure - based art.»

The Buddhist mandala and Hindu yantra have been recurring motifs in his paintings, less for their symbolism than for their simple renewal of archetypal forms, «which I thought had a bearing on contemporary discourse.»

Following a recent visit to Turner Contemporary a Key Stage 2 pupil from Vale View Primary school said; «Before I visited the gallery I thought art was just painting.

PETER SELZ: Well, I think Goya really, you know, instead of painting in the neo-classic tradition as his contemporary Dávid was doing, he was painting expressionist pictures.

My first introduction to Matt Noonan's paintings was an eclectic arrangement of oils with dense imagery and rich colors on wood or canvas in the group exhibition Arcadia: Thoughts on the Contemporary Pastoral, curated by Steve Locke and recently on view at the Boston Center for the Arts.

2009 Seoul International Photography Festival 2009, Seoul, South Korea «Santa's Workshop Shanghai,» James Cohan Gallery, Shanghai, China «China E-flux «PAWNSHOP»,» The Shop, Beijing, China «YiPai — Century Thinking: A Contemporary Art Exhibition,» Today Art Museum, Beijing, China «Blackboard,» ShanghART H - Space, Shanghai, China The 3th Guangzhou Photo Biennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China «China Now — The Edge of Desire,» Max Lang Gallery, New York, NY «New Work from China — Painting, Photography & Video,» Fortune Cookie Projects Singapore, HTContemporary Space, Singapore

John's paintings and installations have been exhibited widely across the country at galleries such as New Image Art, Hashimoto Contemporary, Spoke Art NYC, Superchief, Good Mother Gallery, and Think Tank LA.

Although my work doesn't look on the surface much like his, I think he taught me about using iconic signifiers and figures that I could project myself into for emotion and as an avatar in paint (like Scott McCloud describes in his amazing book, Understanding Comics, that we do as comic readers), and create figurative narrative allegories that hopefully resonate deeper than most political cartoons and relate to Goya and other art historical uses of politics and allegory as much as the imagery could relate to underground comics and contemporary worlds.

In his works, Lan successfully transmits traditional Chinese calligraphy's freehand strokes into the structure and expression of modern painting, resulting in an abstract language that marries the traditional and contemporary, simultaneously capturing the Chinese mind but appealing to the Western thought as well.

This artist's book / monograph positions appropriated advertisements, snapshots, found images and studio pictures alongside reproductions of paintings and drawings, providing a view of the artist's thinking about representation of the contemporary landscape.