liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker (0151 478 4199) AS Byatt Novelist David Royle, painter David Royle has been painting for more than 30 years now, brilliant and subtle paintings which explore space and colour in new ways.
Paul Sekete, an artist who is characterized by the gallery's director, Elizabeth Larkin, as a Rastafarian who lives for his art, offers subtle paintings of puzzling narratives filled with references to daily life, ritual and customs.
Witness the sagging shoulders and floppy breasts of his "Pregnant Woman (Semi-Nude)." Other rooms hold prints, drawings and paintings by artists of the Brücke group of Expressionists, all sharp angles and bold lines, and subtler paintings and works on paper by Klee, Lyonel Feininger and Emil Nolde.
The subtle, quietist paintings of Giorgio Morandi placed him in increasingly high regard since his death in 1964.
Reviewing the book in The Los Angeles Times, Daniel A. Herwitz said Mr. Wollheim had "done no less than recover for psychology its obvious and irresistible place in the explanation of what is most profound and subtle about paintings".
A close inspection of the rooms reveals meticulous attention to design details; lamps are perfectly placed to shed warm light onto subtle wall paintings by renowned local street artist Chin Chin.
Rounding out the roster of artists are Michael Cherney, an American living in Beijing who makes traditional-looking Chinese hand scrolls, books and albums using photographs of Chinese landscape imagery, and Vannessa Tran, a Vietnamese-American who produces subtle oil paintings of flowers and landscape imagery.
These seven large-scale works, painstakingly constructed from thousands of tiny gridded rectangles of subtle colour, are paintings and nothing but paintings.
You might mistake Mr. Misrach's enormous color photographs of nothing but skies shot at various times and in various desert locations for extremely subtle Color Field paintings.
Ms. Elsayed, 34, whose family is of Middle Eastern heritage, produces subtle, often playful paintings sprinkled with handwritten words, cultural symbols and other images that invite us to reflect on ideas of self and place.
In his earlier paintings, subtle iconographical features – referred to as disguised symbolism – are typically woven into the work, as "relatively small, in the background, or in the shadow [details]".
