By extension of her subject matter, Ms. Mehretu's paintings make history painting important again.
But paintings were important too.
Ferguson said the paintings were important to the north-east as a whole.
For a fledgling nation the paintings are important as an historical record.Now the call to culture has fallen to a new generation.
Although we are given to understand that many people think Krasner's paintings are important, Levin does not make the case.
For years, I imagined Bard to be some kind of Harvard – a place crawling with wild-haired Einsteins and grim giant paintings of important people.
Because paintings, particularly important works, are increasingly difficult to sell, even through underground channels, many gangs focus on antique clocks, musical instruments, tapestries, ceramics, glassware, silverware and furniture.
Canova regarded his paintings as important preparatory tools for his sculptures, and also as works of art in their own right.
On the walls were a photo of Raymond Carver, a poster of Glenn Gould and some small paintings of important jazz figures, including Murakami's favorite musician of all time, the tenor saxophonist Stan Getz.
Church and his paintings are important to us now because of the way he depicted landscape -- as changing, as undergoing transformation with the coming of modernity and the disappearance of wilderness.
