Similarly, in the crime at the center of the imminent trial — the late-night theft of two valuable Picasso paintings — the thieves used a carefully molded fake key to enter the apartment, worked quietly enough not to awaken the granddaughter while cutting the paintings from their frames and rifling through her purse, and left without leaving fingerprints or a trace of DNA.
She starts the process by cutting up paintings or searching for shapes from previous discarded collages.
From a post-minimalist aesthetic of her early conceptual paintings (cutting up the canvas or unthreading it) through to the rather dry, grey, conceptualism in the 1970s, from experiments with audio and video through to the museological turn in the 1990s – a great example being Hiller's From the Freud Museum (1991-96).
Even without capitals, Hugh in his spasmodic way can spin an eloquent meditation, as when he starts to brag of his useful services to Butcher's paintings, cutting the canvas along a specific thread and tweezing away the bodies of insects caught in the wet paint: I have been informed that there is no-one else on Earth who could part those threads for nine feet without an error.
One of the main features of this new concept of art was that of cutting and selling paintings by the meter, according to the size required by the buyer in order to inflate the market and make art available to everyone.
"It is a good study for other paintings — like cutting open a body to look at the organs.
GRAHAM PARKS Thanks to an elaborate process of underpainting, masking, and cutting away, Parks's paintings look as if they were made with the assistance of AutoCAD software.
Ross has reified that idea by making paintings and then cutting them up, suturing the elements back together into rough-hewn mosaics with visible stitches, as if to remind us that paintings are bodies in space.
Paintings depicted railroads cutting through the wilderness, spectacular mountains in the background, stumps of trees in the foreground.
In what some media have called a "homage" to himself, the home of Dr Carson has walls of plaques, awards, magazine cuttings and paintings dedicated just to himself.
