The cold, aesthetic perfection of Mr. Wurtz's aluminum-pan paintings is nicely balanced by some messy, goofy installations with glamorized circular domestic and industrial goods.
Sure, the Senior Web Editor of OK! Magazine, who made the error of picking the seat next to us, found herself forced to assure us that our paintings did come out nicely.
The 1641 landscape, View of Scheveningen Sands by Hendrick van Anthonissen, was very nicely painted, but perhaps one of the less exciting paintings in the museum's Dutch Golden Age collection.
According to Dine, the walls actually brought the vivid reds and blues of the paintings to the forefront, which in turn nicely complemented the palette that he used for the rugs, shelving and tables that he designed.
Jaanika Peerna's well-executed black and white prints of bare thicket and its cast shadows against decaying brick walls, which go very nicely with Ms. Bogdan's oil paintings, focus on texture.
The quotation reads, in part, "One observes in order to see what one would not see if one did not observe," which somehow nicely describes one's multilayered experience of the paintings -- and, maybe, of all paintings.
The goofy eroticism nicely complements the offbeat religiosity of the Bible paintings.
The paintings with commonplace domestic content by Joseph Cooke of Scarsdale are nicely done in their own right, but images of mundane egg cartons and cookware are perfect illustrations of this show's lack of the heft expected of a biennial.
There's a whole genre being created of WTF videos, paintings, drawings, and imagery and I believe that it actually fits nicely into the trajectory of how we look at art, and the absurdity of this point in history. .
A small, bird's-eye view of gardens at the Louvre in greens, grays and browns by Monet from 1867 contributes a nicely muted note to the display of otherwise mostly sunny paintings.
