Sentences with phrase «validity of painting»

How do you feel about the frequent discussions within contemporary visual arts practice around the validity of painting; as a painter, what's your take on it?

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He candidly voiced the angst of striving to sustain a hermetic studio - based existence, of imbuing painting with conceptual and metaphysical validity, of being stuck with oneself and one's compulsive behaviors, and of constantly seeking the means to short - circuiting one's predilections in pursuit of an innovative artistic practice that retains urgency for both practitioner and viewer.

At a time when the world is increasingly abstract, Borremans submits his paintings as evidence that this particular form of painterly expression retains its validity.

Dashing our expectations of «good painting,» painters like Martin Bromirski, Patricia Treib, Patrick Brennan, Jered Sprecher, and Keltie Ferris have challenged their validity and thus moved painting in a direction that requires a different way of looking.

Morley has been at the heart of the contemporary debates about painting, its authenticity and surface, and the validity of figuration versus abstraction.

Yes, there were anxieties and debates back then about styles of painting and where painting needed to go to remain modern and relevant — but there was no existential crisis about its continuing primacy and validity.

Throughout the twentieth century and accelerating with the rise of conceptualism and Michael Fried's prediction of the end of art, or at least the death of painting, critics, curators, and historians have questioned the validity of the medium while artists have continued to paint.

Suggestive of mythic battle scenes, Wilson's paintings shake the foundation of the context that they appear to mimic, questioning the validity of any man - made system of ideology.

She has written on artists from Poussin to Bruce Nauman and curated an artist's choice show at the National Gallery in London, choosing large figure paintings by Titian, Veronese, El Greco, Rubens, Poussin and Cézanne: «To give your work more than a personal validity you need the support of a more objective framework.

Jamie Wagg's work has explored the validity and relevance of critical practice in relation to history painting.

While there is a tendency to more easily dismiss it, I don't really view painting as any different than any other medium in terms of validity in contemporary art.

Snapshots of Richter's relatives, as well as gently nostalgic landscapes and still lives bordering kitsch, dissolve in swathes of abstraction, questioning and suppressing their own validity in an iconoclastic battle between image and paint.

It was left to de Kooning to give an almost physical reassurance and an imaginative sense of a possible future to younger painters in Europe and American in the late Fifties, when many artists were seeking out ways of sustaining the validity of figurative painting at a time when abstract imagery of all kinds seemed to be so strongly in the ascendant.

As the American critic Dan Cameron describes a significant aspect of Juan Uslé's work, «Behind the often startling playful textures and opacities is an artist on a deadly earnest mission to restore validity not simply to abstract painting, but to painting itself.

Kazimir Malevich, whose new Suprematist school of painting was to have its debut at the show, and Vladimir Tatlin, a founder of Constructivism, were in violent disagreement over the validity of abstract art.

The validity of the question of how one would translate a figurative masterpiece, let's say Mantegna's «The Agony in the Garden», into an abstract work, and what the result would be is actually quite a useful one if we are abstract painters trying to create a visually complex abstract painting (no problem if we are not).

Dashing our expectations of «good painting,» painters like Martin Bromirski, Patricia Trieb, Patrick Brennan, Jered Sprecher, and Keltie Ferris have challenged their validity and thus moved painting in a direction that requires a different way of looking.If a painting seems lousy, perhaps with a poorly constructed support and amateurish paint handling, look again.

As the installation on the first floor makes clear the religious content that Vedova gleaned from Tintoretto was less the point than the validity of abstract painting as a vehicle to incite energy through a structural metaphor.

Richter had long been a prominent figure within the international art world, but the exhibition, curated by Robert Storr, was something of a corrective to the voluminous interpretations — and, in Storr's view, misinterpretations — that had long beset the artist's work: He had been aligned with neo-Expressionism, with Fluxus, with postmodernist critiques of the validity and value of painting, and with political agendas of all hues.

The direction of the RBI seeks to paint all the entities in the trade of crypto with the same brush, which can not sustain the test of constitutional validity.