She is not alone in making him a perennial painter's painter, who wrung poetic drama from unremarkable scenes with excruciating colors, smoldering tonalities, dense patterning, and loamy build-ups of paint.
Although it captures what seems like an unremarkable street scene, the video portrays that particularly urban feeling of being surrounded by people and yet not engaging with them at all: here, Nelson becomes the detached observer of modern city life.
What looks on the screen to be an unremarkable domestic scene is in fact his last desperate attempt to resurrect the relationship.
Everybody idolizes the elusive Dutchman who made silence-drenched small paintings, mostly of unremarkable domestic scenes, in the tidy city of Delft almost three and a half centuries ago.
Setting an English translation of part of a poem by Inga Abele and Ešenvalds's own compilation of watery images, and juxtaposing largely diatonic choral writing with more adventurous orchestral commentary, it's a thoroughly effective if unremarkable piece of scene painting.
It is a scene totally unremarkable to most people across the world.
The still photographs that a few of us took of that 'tank man' scene seemed unremarkable to me, only because I was so far away on that balcony.
He is the Clark Kent of the San Francisco startup scene: the unremarkable ordinary guy who is concealing an extraordinary superpower, in Silbermann's case, the fact that his site is undergoing incredible, exponential growth: growing faster than Facebook, growing faster than Twitter, and that, arguably, its prospects for making money are better than both.
This is why I so loved Waters's recent series of photographs, "Pecker Still Life," which debuted in "Rush" and depicted unremarkable sights behind the scenes of movie filming -- bits of the crew's everyday life -- as well as the piece "Shooting Script", a photo of a grid of nine pads of yellow lined paper with all the pages ripped off and only the cardboard left.
