Sentences with phrase «with observational painting»

Of course, in classical painting, the artists are also often closely observing a scene in front of them, but with observational painting, the act of looking is given primacy.

BB: I consider myself at the moment an abstract painter enthralled with observational painting, but one issue I have with post-war and contemporary figurative painting is how overbearing the «abstraction» can be sometimes.

Not exact matches

Painted under strongly directed artificial light using everyday synthetic objects — such as plastic fruit, paint brushes, and jugs — these observational works explore the qualities of balance, stillness, and structure that we associate with the classical composition.

Curators Patricia Spergel and Shazzi Thomas selected artists for this exhibition who reference garden and landscape in their work in a variety of ways — traditional observational painting, works with subtle satirical and political commentary and paintings that lean towards abstraction.

Perhaps as much autobiographical as observational, Casteel's paintings are imbued with the tenderness of her gaze.

While classical painting tends to be more associated with the atelier movement, observational painting has a strong foothold in various «studio schools» as well larger and older art institutions such as the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the Maryland Institute College of Art.

Walk into your prototypical observational painter's studio and you are likely to find monographs from modern painters such as Edwin Dickinson and Giorgio Morandi side by side with books on early Renaissance masters Masaccio and Piero della Francesca, as well as a tome filled with the prehistoric cave paintings from Lascaux.

This professional - level class on Sunday afternoons during the 2018 - 19 academic year is a unique opportunity for young artists interested in developing their observational skills in painting from nature and working with other exceptional young artists.

Rather than using paint to depict skin with observational exactitude, Brown presents translucent brushstrokes revealing the flesh and muscles beneath the surface.

Throughout her career, Bartlett's work has maintained a signature mix of diaristic observational study of the world around her, rule - based conceptual systems for the execution of paintings, and an exhaustive play with different media.

By contrast, the charmingly folkloric style of Cambodian artist Vann Nath's paintings jars with the first - hand recollections of torture by the Khmer Rouge that they depict, while Dinh Q. Lê, whose family was driven into exile by the Khmer Rouge, has curated a lyrical exhibition of observational drawings by artists in the Vietcong of downtimes between engaging the enemy.

The Oil Painting Still Life Course is designed to enhance your observational skills, as well as adding to the repertoire of textures and effects you can render with your brush.

With slyly sophisticated compositions and a nuanced palette, Heidkamp makes a strong case that observational painting can not simply be ceded to the Sunday artist.

Born in England, Forge's encounter with postwar American painting led him to abandon observational figurative painting in the 1960s, around the time he was having a ten - year retrospective of his work, and to subsequently move to America in 1973.

The artist makes portraits of undocumented Latin American immigrants, and of other distinct communities, using the focused attention of observational painting to mark those who are socially unmarked in society, along with the apparently anonymous goods that constitute a transnational trade in quotidian objects such as flowers, garments, handcrafts and letters.

The apparent ease with which she paints reflects a hard - earned mastery of observational drawing.

Rather than using paint to depict skin with observational exactitude, Brown shows the medium itself to be full of visceral life; translucent brushstrokes reveal the flesh, muscle, and sinew beneath the surface.

With Gillespie's finely tuned observational paintings...

Bell's balancing of the terms «abstraction» and «materials» is significant — especially with regard to the works from 1978 on display here — by differentiating the absolute thingness of these paintings from the allusions to the observational world that you find even in something as densely materialist as Richard Serra's black oil - stick drawings.

I think that Lennart Anderson pie dish really had something to do with it because it was so convincing as a declaration of what observational painting could be.