Sentence examples for present painting from inspiring English sources

Lower East Side Through Sunday With increasing optical intensity John McAllister's smart, wryly elegant new paintings continue to negotiate a path between past and present, painting and photography, decoration and documentation, and modernism and postmodernism.

He doesn't present painting or making art as if it's an ideal activity.

X-rays — you can ask to see them — reveal that the present painting covers an earlier one, possibly a version of his "Hagar in the Wilderness," long thought lost, but for which drawings exist.

You can enjoy the mural on the wall of the main library, entitled The Worker of the Future Upsetting the Economic Chaos of the Present, painted in 1935 by Jack Hastings, the Earl of Huntingdon, who claimed descent from Robin Hood and was a disciple of the Mexican mural painter Diego Rivera.

As early as 1954, a conservator's report noted: "The paint layer is extremely thick, owing in part to the fact that the fabric is supporting two compositions, with the outlines of the first showing clearly on the present paint surface".

Laura Cumming presents Painting Lolita, which will be broadcast on 1 November 2009 at 9.50pm on Radio 3.

It was further decided to present British painting in a way that owed nothing to chronology.

And they suggest why such books and their illustrations have survived into the present, while painting in more perishable media has not.

She's almost 90 and still living very much in the present, quietly painting every day in her West Side studio.

Magazine ads in the campaign, which carries the theme "Ben knows best," present a painting of the character in a gold frame with the chairman's title affixed on a plaque.

I'm not sure what it all adds up to, but it might have something to do with the fluctuating visibility of women, in terms of both the past and the present of painting.