Sentences with phrase «visual quality of the paintings»

The price was more than twice the estimate of $ 2,000 to $ 3,000, which felt like a bargain, based solely on the size and visual quality of the painting, without considering all of the other substantive and mitigating factors that influence value.

Contrasting the ephemeral visual quality of the paintings, Riegelman's solid wood sculptures resonate light from their platinum surfaces.

Not exact matches

This third generation of Postmodern Neo-Abstraction, can and does, reproduce painting - like products without addressing first person visual involvement with originality, talent, quality, beauty, ugliness, specificity, thought, critique or irony.»

Whitten described that he thought of these paintings as having the qualities of a single line — a discrete piece of visual information.»

Are these qualities byproducts of the painting process or are you responding to specific visual input, either directly or from memory?

Untitled (Golden Yellow) Acrylic on canvas, 72 x 60 inches Ian Hughes October 9 — November 8, 2014 Over the arc of his career, Ian Hughes has honed a distinctive visual language in which paint reveals its lushest and most viscous qualities while simultaneously giving shape to bio-reminiscent forms that have a compelling life of their own.

The inspiration for Wylie's paintings often comes from a particular sight or visual moment that strikes her with a «special quality» that she tries to capture through her own language of painting.

During the following decade, Stella also introduced elements of relief into his art — these he came to call maximalist paintings for their unique sculptural qualities and visuals.

«I am particularly interested in the metaphysical aspects of painting; achieving that special quality of formal unity which can instil an almost involuntary yet visually intelligent response from the viewer... for me, tying painting into the realm of the «visual» holds it somewhat apart from the image dominated world of the merely «visible»

According to the museum's charter, The purpose of the Morris Museum of Art shall be: to enhance the quality of life in the Central Savannah River Area and to broaden the knowledge and understanding of the visual arts in the Southeastern United States by collecting, preserving and displaying works of art focused upon, but not limited to, the art and artists of the American South; by creating and hosting quality traveling exhibitions; and by developing and maintaining a library and research center focusing on Southern American painting; and to contribute to the general appreciation of art through lecture programs, symposia, publications, and other educational programs.

In contrast to the graphic, cartoon - like quality of Essenhigh's early works, the illusory depth of these paintings infuses the figures with a plausibility, yet the works remain true to the sweeping strokes and amorphous forms that have defined Essenhigh's visual vocabulary.

In this way, although the paintings are fully representational, the incidental surface qualities introduce a degree of abstraction and visual ambiguity.

View and compare landscape paintings in a lesson that focuses on the visual qualities of nature and how artists capture nature in their art.

What I once considered lesser paintings because of the color, composition, brushwork, or surface quality have come to look fresh and challenging in their visual awkwardness.

Each type of paint has a different quality and texture, and I think it adds to the visual richness to apply colours using different paint media.

Salt's paintings have a solemn and haunting visual quality that encourage its audience to look deeper — to find overlooked signs of renewal and life.

He is a sophisticated visual thinker with an uncanny sensitivity to the material possibilities and evocative qualities of paint.

Perhaps Stella believes that the visual dissonance of his paintings dovetails with our life inside a cyclone of contending ideas, but the paintings» epic quality seems frozen and distant.

To Ryman, the canvas» neutral color and content allowed the viewer to appreciate the visual qualities of the brush stroke, the depth of the paint, the light that reflects it, and so forth.

Over the past twenty years, Hume has developed a distinctive visual language of bold, simplified forms to create paintings that engage the viewer with their pleasantly irresolvable quality.

Unifying the series, the shimmering quality of the silvery paint emphasizes the tension between the painted strips of color and the exposed strips of blank canvas, enhancing the visual reverberation of the geometric form (an effect Stella had previously explored in his series of aluminum paintings).

Venues and galleries in County wicklow offering quality Irish painting and Irish sculpture, include: The Wicklow Art Gallery, Arklow Visual Arts Centre, Arklow (0402 - 33575); Arklow Fine Art Gallery (040-239-080); Cherrylane Fine Arts, Killincarrig (01-287-5565); Tinahely Courthouse Arts Centre, Tinahely (0402 - 38529); Signal Arts Centre, Bray (01-276-2039); Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray (01-272-4030); Brockagh Resource Centre (0404 - 45611); Aisling Gallery, Wicklow Town (01-281-9112); Downshire House Gallery, Blessington (045-865199); O'Sullivan Bewick Galleries, Enniskerry Village (01-286-2065); River Gallery, Aughrim (0402 - 36878); The Gallery, Greystones (01-201-7269); Irish School of Landscape Painting, RiverRun Studio, Ashford (0404 -painting and Irish sculpture, include: The Wicklow Art Gallery, Arklow Visual Arts Centre, Arklow (0402 - 33575); Arklow Fine Art Gallery (040-239-080); Cherrylane Fine Arts, Killincarrig (01-287-5565); Tinahely Courthouse Arts Centre, Tinahely (0402 - 38529); Signal Arts Centre, Bray (01-276-2039); Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray (01-272-4030); Brockagh Resource Centre (0404 - 45611); Aisling Gallery, Wicklow Town (01-281-9112); Downshire House Gallery, Blessington (045-865199); O'Sullivan Bewick Galleries, Enniskerry Village (01-286-2065); River Gallery, Aughrim (0402 - 36878); The Gallery, Greystones (01-201-7269); Irish School of Landscape Painting, RiverRun Studio, Ashford (0404 -Painting, RiverRun Studio, Ashford (0404 - 42884).

Doig's paintings, through their visual play of impasto and glazes, conjure the cinematic quality of a vintage film reel and the nostalgic glow of memory.