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Laurie Hogin
Laurie Hogin (born 1963) is an American artist, known for allegorical paintings of mutant animals and plants that rework the tropes and exacting styles of Neoclassicism, Neoclassical art in order to critique, parody or call attention to contemporary and historical mythologies, systems of power, and human experience and variety.Hixson, Kathryn. "Chicago in Review," ''Arts'', December 1990, p. 107.Snodgrass, Susan. "Trouble in Arcadia," ''World Art'', Summer, 1996, p. 74–7.Sherlock, Maureen. "Laurie Hogin: The Hole in the Wood," ''Laurie Hogin: Paradise in Peril'', Catalogue, Evanston, IL: Evanston Art Center, 1997. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, including at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, International Print Center New York, and Contemporary Arts Center Cincinnati.Evanston Art Center. ''Laurie Hogin: Paradise in Peril'', Catalogue, Evanston, IL: Evanston Art Center, 1997.Littlejohn ContemporaryLaurie Hogin Artist Dir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Painting
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and airbrushes, can be used. In art, the term ''painting ''describes both the act and the result of the action (the final work is called "a painting"). The support for paintings includes such surfaces as walls, paper, canvas, wood, glass, lacquer, pottery, leaf, copper and concrete, and the painting may incorporate multiple other materials, including sand, clay, paper, plaster, gold leaf, and even whole objects. Painting is an important form in the visual arts, bringing in elements such as drawing, composition, gesture (as in gestural painting), narration (as in narrative art), and abstraction (as in abstract art). Paintings can be naturalistic and representational (as in still life and landscape painting), photographic, abstract, nar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
