So when an like artist B.Thom Stevenson takes a picture of one of his textual paintings floating seductively in crystal clear water, announcing the opening of his show Schrödinger's Pool at "the pool on the roof of Half Gallery," people naturally get excited.
Serena took us to see her studio in a converted brewery, where a month before she had found her paintings floating.
Sheep floating in tanks, paintings rendered in Dulux gloss – the tabloids might have had a field day, but the world woke up to London as a key art destination.
The Trois-Frères caves of southwest France, for example, feature elaborate paintings of floating animals, devoid of hunting imagery, with a mystical creature at their center: part human, part stag and part owl.
Stylized figures and boatlike shapes, derived from aboriginal cave paintings, float in the far distance.
You find yourself doubting the boundary between one object and another as the paintings float in space.
The paintings float warped clock faces on intense red and fuchsia grounds shot through with yellow and white lightning.
The vivid colours of Hundertwasser's paintings float around the floor, and later become a field of flowers as we move through the nature sequence.
The most renowned festival, the Gion, still takes place every July in Kyoto, where men pull juggernautlike floats embellished with paintings, carpets and banners through the streets, an unforgettable sight.
PEEKSKILL -- "Floating Dialogues: Imagery and Abstraction," paintings, drawings and printmaking by Dana DeVito, Sergo Gonzalez-Tornero, Tom Halsall, Erik Hanson, William C. Maxwell, Julie Overskei and Tedd Stratis.
