Sentence examples for text paintings from inspiring English sources
"Everything Is Purged from This Painting But Art, No Ideas Have Entered This Work," another of his text paintings proclaims — conceptual art mocking conceptual art.
"Although people think they know his work — the black and white text paintings in particular — I've tried to tease out the distinctions of one painting from another so that people can appreciate their specificity," he said.
Stefan Sandner's scrawly text paintings at Museum 52 are also tributes, possibly unintentional.
Where Mr. Ligon's text paintings were restrained and brooding, these are noisy and contentious.
William Pym contributes two big text paintings of pop song lyrics.
The text paintings with political content that Mr. Pendleton has shown in galleries have been tight, elegant, a little dry.
Although many written texts, paintings and statues from the period indicate that the makeup was extensively used, Egyptians saw it as magical, not medicine, Dr. Amatore said.
At London and Brussels-based gallery MOT International, Laure Prouvost's monochrome text-paintings make concessions to reality: "Ideally," one black-and-white sign reads, "this sign would be a pink little cloud in the middle of the room".
The rapprochement established between text, painted borders, margin spaces, and illustration is characteristic of both Eastern and Western manuscript paintings.
In "A Sweet Year: A Taste of the Jewish Holidays" (Doubleday, $12.95) Mark Podwal describes in text and paintings how each of nine holidays relates to food.
Dense with colorful lines and text, the paintings record information both banal — airline routes, Zip Codes — and subtly charged, such as the median real-estate prices across the country.
