Low had already augmented his institution's collection by bargain-hunting, and he wanted to acquire Regionalist paintings precisely because they were out of style, but he also believed in Benton as an artist.
If his movies — in particular those he has directed as well as starred in — are his oil paintings, precisely executed with every detail in place, his television appearances are his sketchbooks, a place to try out ideas and indulge impulses, executed with a first-draft spontaneity and exuberance.
Individual elements in the relief paintings are precisely chosen, as in a Rauschenberg combine, but Dial's tone is less playfully absurdist.
Mr. Yanagi's flags aren't paintings or sculptures precisely.
The hypothesis of the repertoire of standard motifs and the outstanding skill of Roman artists would also need further justification, as a similar repertoire is found in Renaissance fresco painting (motifs taken precisely from Roman paintings) and the great fresco masters of that time were unable, despite trained teams, to execute fresco paintings without dividing them into small areas.
Meanwhile, he retreated to his studio to set up carefully staged photographs, ghostly scenes, unlike his paintings, that looked eerier precisely because they weren't painted by hand but made by a machine that ostensibly showed the world just as it was.
What makes his paintings so unique is precisely the experience of the pilot in his glider, this aircraft that speeds through the skies without actually moving itself, buoyed up on the invisible escalators of the air.
The Saint-Denis-Chartres group has certain similarities to north French manuscript paintings that are not precisely dated, and the problem is further complicated by Abbot Suger's recording that the glaziers employed at Saint-Denis came from many different regions.
As the critic Charles Morice observed, "I've noticed that in Pissarro's paintings the human figures, quite precisely, have the same import as the vegetables beside them".
That winter, Stella moved into a larger loft, on West Broadway, and began the series of precisely ruled, black-stripe paintings that would establish his reputation as a major artist.
In his essay, "Introduction to these Paintings", Lawrence enunciates one of his most precisely damning outlines of British culture.
