Sentences with phrase «stele paintings»

Not exact matches

The American Tour of Roads of Arabia contains around 200 objects, but there is a vast difference between exhibitions of 200 photographs or small paintings and a show like «Roads» with 200 objects, many of which are large stone sculptures and stele.

This exhibition includes a suite of 12 oil - on - lead works titled The Newport Paintings, five freestanding bronze steles, six bronze reliefs, and an environmental installation executed specifically for SFMOMA.

The old beams from the demolished warehouses cut down and sat upright as stelae had the breadth to bear just one word, such as «Moon» or «Orb,» or «Soul» and «Mate,» as did some of my first word paintings i.e. the diptych panels «Eat» and «Die,» but the sheer expanse of the wide canvases led to the proliferation of the word and whole passages and wheels of words appeared.

In the 1990s he embarked on a series of paintings, the «Stelae,» whose vertical forms evoked the solemn majesty of Egyptian obelisks, Han dynasty tomb posts or the menhirs of Stonehenge.

Three smaller side - chapel - like galleries are devoted to a progression of artists with Minimalist leanings: the colored steles of Anne Truitt, the slathered process paintings of Ms. Heilmann and finally a series of big, stuttering black inkjet X's on white linen by Wade Guyton that pledge allegiance to painting while crossing their fingers behind their backs.

Slight undulations of pink and blue push forward in paintings such as «Conjured Parts (Head), Aleppo», and «Stelae 3 (Bardu)» read as if light were pushing through the painting.