The best art is, on some level, a transmitter of mysteries, and the medium — the artist, her chosen material — is merely a go-between.
In each medium, the artist works with his trademark grids, scaling them down to the size of a Battenburg cake and up to wide bands that fill much of a wall.
Many of the works — a serenely confident outline of a circus performer hopping from foot to foot; a precise caricature, made from memory, of a medium the artist had seen at a séance in Vienna; dozens of female nudes — demonstrate that Modigliani's increased stylization can be read as a search for specificity.
He painted a split portrait across two separate icebergs, a medium the artist has worked with since a project last year called A'o 'Ana (The Warning).
In many of them he has been the medium for the artists' messages or was required to follow their instructions.
Lithography became a popular medium among the artists who worked in France during the mid-1800s; Francisco de Goya (in voluntary exile in France), Théodore Géricault, and Eugène Delacroix were among the first lithographers.
Many innovations of this era, among them mixed paints in metal tubes and use of poppy seed oil as binding medium, facilitated the artists' task.
Animated by walls painted with green vines, this impressive debut roams freely across several mediums, the artist's Mexican roots and the Los Angeles cityscape.
This reminds us that, in deciding whether there is a digital medium, we must not reduce the medium to the artist's materials, for it also matters how the artist uses those materials.
Shahidi casts himself as more the medium than the artist.
