Since then, Quinn has gained fast fame for his incredibly distinct portrait style in which
he uses photographic source material to rebuild his human subjects from within.
For these sculptures, Plensa
used a photographic source and laser - cut stone, uniting a craft that goes back to Classical Greece
He works slowly,
using photographic sources, searching for that point where illustration ceases and art begins.
The artist does not
use photographic source material, so when he paints, he paints from memory»» his pre-sketches are almost unrecognizable as fish.
Not exact matches
The technique
used to capture this electrical flow is called Kirlian photography, named after the Russian electrical engineer Semyon Kirlian who discovered that if an object on a
photographic plate is connected to a high - voltage
source, an image is produced on the
photographic plate.
The ESSC reserves the right to make any decision on the choice of the
photographic material it
uses on an individual basis, or as and when
photographic material is required,
sourced or submitted by invitation or independently.
Rodriguez
sourced these images, which are created to monitor an embryo's health, from a fertility clinic, then transferred the digital files to create
photographic negatives, which she then
used to produce silver gelatin prints.
While considerable attention has been given to the decade through artists»
use of appropriated imagery and
photographic sources, the exhibition examines this moment specifically through the lens of painting, considering the ways in which the medium was reinvigorated throughout the decade at a time when its relevance was fundamentally challenged...
The seven - part sculptural series What It's Like, What It Is # 2 (1991), commissioned by the Hirshhorn Museum and not exhibited since 1992, breaks from Piper's Conceptual
use of the frame and grid, confronting the viewer with
photographic cut - out figures both iconic and anonymous
sourced from movements in American History, from the civil rights era to the early 1990s.
Using common
photographic sources, such as mass market posters, Williams continues to expand idea of mark - making and materials.
It's notable that Greenwold achieves this synthesis despite his reliance on
photographic sources, as opposed to Balthus's and Giacometti's
use of direct observation.
The same year, Baldessari moved to Santa Monica, where he met many artists and writers, and began to collect
photographic images from films and other commercial
sources that he would
use in his work; during the same period, he photographed himself in deliberately amateurish compositions, and employed local sign painters to execute text - based works.
His photo - based paintings are photographs
used as
source material but the artist paints over them to give the painting a
photographic and yet blurred appearance.
They make
use of newspapers, books, magazines and turn - of - the - century
photographic archives as
source material.
This tour will examine the
use of the
photographic image as
source, inspiration and icon in contemporary painting.
Nicholas Middleton: When you are in the middle of the process it's hard to separate out those decisions that go into making a piece... when I started painting after I left college, I didn't... well, I suppose I fought against the idea of just making a painting from
photographic sources which looked like a photograph, so I
used lots of strategies to disguise it, or to confuse it in a sense, making paintings which were more like collages, or reducing imagery to... well, I borrowed things from pop art to, I suppose, to complicate things, for a few years it felt like I was fighting against what I seem to be naturally quite good at, and then it reached a point where I just felt I didn't want to tie myself in too many knots in terms of the thinking which was going on behind the pictures and then just let myself just paint fairly directly from
photographic sources.
Rail: You both were credited as being among the first contemporary artists to make paintings from
photographic sources, as well as for your
use of the grid.
Dumas's art was never a literal rendition of a
photographic source, but rather a cropped image of some of the details from the photos she
uses.