21. She wrote poems as cryptic as a Zen koan, and used army surplus canvas to make paintings that invited participation in the poems. 22. Since Close makes paintings from photographs, the terms of photography, like whether an image is in focus or not, shape how he sees many paintings. 23. That Bartlett might seriously seek to make history paintings seems, on the face of it, suspicious. 24. What makes the painting shocking is as much the oddity of this figure as the operation, which is gorier for being matter-of-fact. 25. You should just try to make a painting. 26. McCready, meanwhile, paints from photographs and tries to make the paintings realistic, which has the effect of hiding his style, Carr said. 27. The paintings will be made into prints as well. 28. Theories vary on why the paintings were made. 29. To many art viewers, artist Willem de Kooning made paintings that are just bright squiggles. |