Each week we will immerse ourselves in one or two paintings through the process of "slow looking": an immersive, deliberately decelerated, and intensive perceptual and intellectual mode of engagement with works of art.
Some paintings depict the process of transit, some the social and economic reasons for departure, and others the mixed responses on arrival.
In this respect, Gaitonde's paintings imply the process by which in abstraction we habitually formulate, stabilize, manipulate, and finally articulate form in the mind from its raw and protean materiality into a potentially infinite system of meaning.
While the works function like abstract paintings, the elaborate processes and raw, abused tactile surfaces offer a more iconoclastic approach.
The musical piece made with musician Ben Lancaster, a "musical intervention" which accompanies the exhibition, is a response to these paintings and the processes they share with electronic music.
Prime evidence for the resolution of this paradox was provided by the late Kirk Varnedoe, who looked carefully at Caillebotte's paintings, and studied the process by which they were made.
In order to extract feature values from paintings with different sizes, the process of normalizing the paintings in a certain size must be preceded.
Right on the banks of the Avon and just one block from the center of town, it was easy for me to go back and forth with my paints as the weather changed and begin the paintings process.
Madame Manet, who had inherited most of her husband's paintings and was in the process of organising a sale, ignored the letter.
Ms. Alvarez, who has posed for more than two dozen paintings by now, compares the process to rehearsing for a performance, then repeating the performance, with slight changes each time.
