As he's primarily a photographer, I was quite embarrassed to show him the poorly executed pictures I had taken of him.
He used oil paint to execute pictures of Indonesian subjects in a vividly coloured Expressionist impasto (thick application of pigment to the canvas).
Poussin stopped painting landscapes in 1651, when he executed two pictures of violent storms that herald the mood of his very last works in that form.
He would periodically mesmerize his students by executing a picture as they watched, jabbing and swiping an image into existence with a quality of tense, balletic energy that he called "go".
John Baldessari's "picture," executed in 1966-1968, reproduces a discourse in black block letters.
Specific memorial motifs crystallized in two American forms: the "mourning picture," executed in embroidery or watercolour, often depicting grieving figures draped around a tombstone under weeping willows, and the gravestone carved with a winged death's-head or, later, with the urn-and-willow motif.
Imran Qureshi, for example, has reinvented the Mughal miniature by replacing courtly scenes and portraits with everyday figures from contemporary life in Pakistan, still executing the pictures with exquisite care using traditional gouache and gilding techniques.
A high proportion of these pictures, executed by Zurbarán's assistants, were of Biblical patriarchs.
The three most expensive works were iconic pictures executed by artists long dead.
A rather different, muffled note of foreboding rings through Mario Sironi's pictures executed in the years preceding World War II.
Head held up a sign that said that his child had been "executed"; someone took a picture.
