Sentences with phrase «very painterly paintings»

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Aubrey picked this painterly, monochrome art style for several reasons — it fit the theme very well, he could paint that way very quickly, and he also just liked the style and wanted to try it in a game.

Shara Hughes» very personal new explorations in painting and painterly sculpture are an unusual treat for Atlanta.

By which he meant: the artist who was overturning abstract expressionism before its very principals had quite done with it; who, in the same instant, seemed to push the new painting beyond itself, subject it to antic parody and shrug off the whole profound and athletic painterly adventure.

There is no evidence of painterly flare, nor mechanical precision - just very ordinary and pragmatic mark - making; an appearance which must consequentially be linked to Close's disabilities - he was paralysed from the neck down in 1989 and now paints using a hand brace.

What appears to be a uniform black canvas is of course a nine - squared very painterly and subtle representation of a spectrum of colors that are always changing depending on the time of day, the light, and your position in the room in relation to any one painting.

Adam Weinberg: Raft of the Medusa is a sculptural work that is actually very painterly in many ways, because although it's hard to believe, it actually is more related to what he did early on in the Black Paintings than you might think.

In contradiction to linguistic grammar, which operates as a system of rules hidden behind the scenes, the painterly grammar of Yerushalmi is active, and operates before our very eyes; it is the painting itself.

BA: So, your paintings are very painterly.

Your choice of paint (oils) is very traditional, very painterly, while your choice of surface (scraps of wood) is not.

He continues: «Matisse's late work does contribute quite prominently, if not iconically, to a certain strand in the conjunction of modernism and abstraction which blurs the distinction between art and design, and more specifically between abstract painting and the decorative and applied arts... I've always considered Matisse's greatest contribution to art not his colour, which is undoubtedly exceptional, but his inventive painterly architectures reasserting what [painting] does (what, in a way, it has always done), what it delivers, by the act of continual reinvention; finding yet more new ways to keep it alive — and of course, keep it keenly separate from design and the applied arts even when in the act of using elements of those very disciplines to elaborate and enrich the spatial structures of his painting.»

But before you really begin painting from what I gather from the reproductions even that one, the first one, the figure by the window — the collage element becomes very important, and in a sense it's a denial of painterly gesture.

IRVING SANDLER: Well, one of the things about the first works of yours that I saw in Provincetown was that they were very painterly, gestural painting.

In film, cinematography can really change how we perceive a scene, and I enjoy playing with the painterly equivalent of those tools of composition and manipulation or exaggeration of colour to create a very particular atmosphere in each painting.

Alex Katz Gavin Brown's Enterprise 620 Greenwich St., through June 13 For his first solo New York gallery show in five years, we find Alex Katz, now 88, not having lost an ounce of his focus or painterly intensity, painting not only at the very top of his form — a kind of contemporary Monet, an artist who almost every time out is painting something like a masterpiece — but making some of the most glorious paintings anywhere right now.

In a lecture given at The Glasgow International Symposium: Painting as a New Medium in 2006 Lawson recalled that during the 1970s he conceived of his painterly technique as being, «analogous to a very fast song by the Ramones... a very simple idea that could be executed very quickly with minimum fuss.»

Easel painting was once the site of unique visualizations and painterly self - creation, now both Guston and Reinhardt dragged it through a process of devaluation, albeit not at the same time and in very different ways.

Beginning his career in New York at a time when the modern art scene was dominated by the formidable paintings of the Abstract Expressionists, Johns forged a unique artistic path that echoed the painterly qualities of his contemporaries whilst working with materials and themes in a manner that questioned the very nature of art.

1 The fact that Cook's works succeed by the very terms established by Fried for painterly success — «being convinced that a particular work can stand comparison with the painting of the past whose quality is not in doubt» — reveals that, even if such a change has come to pass, in the hands of a select few artists, like Cook, it has reinvigorated rather than impoverished painting.

I am writing this statement not quite knowing what the immediate outcome will be, but am aware of the potential collective impact that this distinctive community of creators will have with Brian Belott's innovations in collage, Ákos Birkás's philosophy about painting a certain situation, Regina Bogat's devotion to art making with clever variations on certain abstract themes, Matt Bollinger's extra-large and bracing graphite drawings, Paul DeMuro's painterly electricity, Marc Desgrandchamp's time - fragmented paintings, Michael Dotson's paintings of the «Disney - esque,» Michel Huelin's relationship with nature and software, Irena Jurek's very meaningful cat character, Alix Le Méléder's proposals of four colors determined by the passage of the brush, David Lefebvre's painted images cut out of magazines or downloaded from a mobile phone, Pushpamala N.'s ethnographic documentations which have been compared to Cindy Sherman, Wang Keping's unique wooden sculptures that juxtapose vivid emotion with a marked sense of introversion, Katharina Ziemke's pictorial treatment of current events, and me, the co-host with a small drawing.

Marano and Gober are doing sculpture, Huntley uses bread mold instead of paint, but all think in a very painterly way about their work.

SC: Your paintings, prior to being cut and sanded are colourful, geometric and very painterly.

I see it as a double challenge; to, all at once, question the hegemony of abstract painting's «post painterly» inheritance and, at the same time, move on from the empty rhetoric and theatricality of much gesturally driven painting - and do all this in original and surprising ways...... It will be very interesting to read the Brancaster crits coming up on the painters Patrick Jones and Nick Moore in all these respects...........

Your painting titled Fail very much echoes the notion of creative frustration and of course, painterly failure.