Sentences with phrase «through pure painting»

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Its mere presence is refreshing after suffering through too many denoised Disney titles; so much of the background texture, not to mention the film's hand - painted charm, is bound up in the stuff that filtering it out would be pure revisionism — and, I suspect, wreak havoc on the already photographically - soft detail.

«While Pollock was the first to truly break through to pure non-objective painting, it was Guston who was the first to break out,» he writes.

ICA's exhibition will focus on paintings from 1963 through 1986: a period when Andrade followed a distinctly optical course, and one which historically coincides with Op Art, Minimalism, and Pattern and Decoration Painting — movements in art that relate to the pure pursuit of geometric and abstract design.

Picabia outmaneuvered much of Surrealism in works like Untitled (Spanish Woman and Lamb of the Apocalypse)(1927), from his Transparenices series of paintings that takes him through the 1930s, then into the unapologetic kitsch «realism» of Spring (c. 1942 - 43), and, finally, to the anything - but - pure «abstraction» of what would become his last works, paintings like Selfishness (1950) and the aptly - titled Salary Is the Reason for Work (1949).

Currently on view at MCA Chicago through May 20, the exhibition spans Pindell's five - decade career, «featuring early figurative paintings, pure abstraction and conceptual works, and personal and political art that emerged in the aftermath of a life - threatening car accident in 1979.

In the early 1960s, Leslie's style evolved from pure abstraction to figurative realism, distilling his background in film to be fully realized through painting.

These artists did away with the assumption that paintings should mirror reality, embarking on a modernist and post-modernist journey through the myriad possibilities of pure paint.

Levinson's word paintings are reminiscent of ancient stone slabs with surfaces that appear pure white until a closer reading reveals a darker underpainting that capriciously asserts its presence through a distressed veneer which she...

Often described as the purest of Australia's abstractionists, this exhibition celebrates Upward and will features more than fifty works including paintings, screen prints and posters from the late 1950s through to the early 1980s.

Inscape — the Inner Nature of Things contrasts twelve artists» diverse approaches to expressing emotion through abstraction, ranging from basic forms combined with loose, expressive lines in paintings by Louisa Chase, Mary Heilmann, and Perle Fine; to pure abstract gesture that governs the work of Friedel Dzubas, John Ferren, Hans Hofmann, Raymond Parker, and Esteban Vicente.

His theory was that painting should create within its viewers a «pure feeling,» which could be achieved through stripping art down to its essence.

Probably best known for her paintings of lines and grids using understated colors, Martin's work has been hailed as «pure abstraction, in which space, metaphysics, and internal emotional states are explored through painting, drawing and printmaking.»

His lush and abstract canvases exemplify the beauty of pure paint and are made through the artist tapping into his subconscious without the purpose of depicting specific visual imagery.

Gabriele Evertz's optical painting is eye - candy building excitement through the use of pure color vibration.

His lush and abstract oils on canvas exemplify the beauty of pure paint and are made through the artist tapping into his subconscious without the purpose of depicting specific visual imagery.

Instead, he combines his own pigments in an attempt to explore pure unadulterated light through color that can not be easily explained... Unlike Yves Klein, known for the idiosyncratic blue paint, or Frank Stella, whose early works are exclusively black, Knutsson investigates the entire color spectrum, focusing on one hue at a time.

For whatever mayhem may take place within the confines of his simple church, the public aspect of his project is pure roadside carnie, as his lawn sprouts billboards with messages like «God Loves Fags» written in Hebrew, a «Crucify thy Selfie» made of quotations from three famous art - history crucifixion paintings with a hole to stick your head through, and a lion's cage made of an old hay wagon.

Yves Klein, the self - proclaimed «painter of space,» sought to achieve immaterial spirituality through pure color, an ambition that took this most mercurial artist from painting and sculpture to performance, film, photography, and music.

The eleven artists juxtapose divergent approaches in conversation with each other, reflecting on primal questions consuming artists over the millennia: Elliot Arkin's conceptual use of web - based commerce spins an absurdist view on the commodification of artists; Babette Bloch's stainless steel reassessments of nature and artistic precedent limn positives and negatives through light; Christopher Carroll Calkins's street photography captures moments of under - the - radar narratives; Valentina DuBasky's acrylic and marble dust works on paper and plaster are a contemporary comment on the prehistory of art; Gabriel Ferrer's performance - like in - the - moment sumi - ink drawings on handmade paper reflect on memory and personal narrative; Christopher Gallego's realist, pure light - filled oil painting elevates the ordinariness of an artist's space to visual poetry; Ana Golici, in pergamano and collage, takes inspiration from 17th Century female naturalist, entomologist and botanical illustrator Maria Sibylla Merian to explore questions of science, nature and objective truth; Emilie Lemakis's monumental amplification of an ancient Greek krater employs scale to upend perceptions for the viewer's reconsideration; Mark Mellon's bronzes address the oppositions of movement and stillness; the alchemy of Michael Townsend's uncontrolled poured acrylic paintings equate the properties of materials with the turbulence of the universe; Jessica Daryl Winer's engagement with luminous color and choreographic line reflects in visual resonance the sonic history of a musical instrument.

«Pure Beauty» seems a funny name for a retrospective of an artist who cremated all his paintings in 1970 and voided the photographed faces of dozens of Hollywood starlets with signature colored spots, but of course an unsettlingly ironic humor runs through Baldessari's career.

Through abstract painting, Swain can uncouple color from any cultural signifier and cognitive system and examine the pure affect of color on the human psyche.

Pioneer explorer of the sign in painting, the American artist Mark Tobey (1890 - 1976) sought, through pure abstraction, an original calligraphy, a sacred space outlining the path to universal language between beings.

This tour de force of scholarship bears paintings, drawings and five of his six known sculptures, where Pollock pushed on through, farther than even his previous drip paintings, to forge some of the most radical art of the 20th century: sublime, sexy black enamel and oil pours on pure, unprimed canvas.

In his paintings, pure color and shape are the elements through which our ultimate response is sensory, emotional, and intuitive.

However, for me the paintings that most captivated my imagination in those days were the long horizontal Mural by Joan Miró that hung in the lobby for so many years, and Jackson Pollock's Number One (1948) with its sense that anything was possible, through pure feeling, abstract landscape, handprints, and tossed silver skeins of house paint.

Like her husband, the Abstract Expressionist painter Willem de Kooning, Elaine de Kooning was interested in abstracting the human form through gestural mark - making with black lines and the direct application of pure, unmixed paint colors juxtaposed, rather than blended, on the surface.

Howardena Pindell: What Remains to Be Seen traces the themes and visual experiments that run through the New York — based artist's five decades - long career, featuring early figurative paintings, pure abstraction and conceptual works, and personal and political art that emerged in the aftermath of a life - threatening car accident in 1979.

Whitney is, as should now be apparent, among the supreme colorists of contemporary painting, but what's amazed me in his drawings has been his mysterious ability to communicate the variable weights and densities of color, as he does in his paintings — without actually using color at all, instead relying on pure line to express, as if through metaphor, chromatic differentiae.

Painter and 2008 Pew Fellow Anne Seidman's practice has allowed her to explore the nature of pure painting through abstraction, suggesting friction, awkwardness, and ultimately, a sense of self.

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.

Pioneer explorer of the sign in painting, the American artist Mark Tobey (1890 - 1976) sought, through pure abstraction, an original calligraphy, a sacred space outlining the path to universal langu...

The new paintings extend Kushner's ongoing engagement with the tension between the opulent and the austere and the natural and the geometric, pursued through the improvisational use of pure paint and occasional inclusion of metallic leaf.

Through different angles and heights of the spray guns, the paint is rendered almost holographic in appearance, suggesting weightlessness and diffused light, an expression of pure color.

One of her first mature works included «Children Meeting,» 1978 (now in the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum), an oil on canvas painting evoking human characteristics, personalities, or pure feeling through an interaction of non-figurative shapes, colour and lines.

Martin's work is recognized as pure abstraction, in which space, metaphysics and internal emotional states are explored through painting, drawing and printmaking.

Dark zig - zag lines furrow through patches of lighter paint, are raked by scratches which reveal the canvas, or collide with encrustations of pure hues.

Martin found the voice through which she could most satisfactorily express pure emotion in the grid; a means of making paintings that were devoid of intellectual content and that satisfied her pursuit of transcendent beauty: «finally, I got the grid, and it was what I wanted.

Art as self expression: the need for originality A history of expressing ideas and emotions through art is a complex thread culminating in the image of Jackson Pollock wildly and energetically throwing paint onto his canvas to enter the new virgin territory of art as pure emotion.

I went through my paint supply and found leftover paint from a few previous projects — I had on hand Annie Sloan Chalk Paint ® in Pure White and Amy Howard One Step Paint in Atelier (link below).

An old doorway has been blocked in using weathered wood pallets and creates a corner space for the dining table and chairs.A white - painted dresser has been positioned in a small lobby area that leads out onto the garden and is filled with the owner's collection of blue and white china together with shells and driftwood that have been collected from the beach.In the master bedroom, walls, floor and furniture have been painted in pure brilliant white to give the space a light and airy feel, with a mix of blue and white striped accessories, patchwork, florals and chambray adding to the coastal theme.The bed has been positioned so that the fabulous view can be enjoyed, while sun streams through the balcony doors and keeps the space warm all year round.