Castellani's
White Surface series allowed him to pursue his interest in light, which he manipulates through the «extroflexions» and «introflexions» created by rhythmically placed nails; a 1959 work from this series was exhibited at his first solo show at Azimut in 1960.
Not exact matches
This
series of vignettes filmed in glossy, nostalgic black and
white examines ten different conversations that on the
surface have nothing in common... Read More»
Appearance The island spotted skunk can be identified by its complex pattern of
white markings on a blackbackground consisting of four to six broken
white stripes, a triangular
white forehead patch, a
series of shorter
white stripes resembling spots, and
white on part of the abdominal
surface and tip of the tail.
The Arundel
series of paintings, begun in 1973, [11] features barely visible graphite lines and accumulations of
white paint on
white surfaces.
In her colourful Reflections
series, Chou delves into the ethereal qualities of water, captivated by the rippling effect of wind and ephemeral passages of light on its
surface as exemplified in Orange,
White and Green # 1 (2013).
The exhibition will feature historic and recent prints of black - and -
white and color photographs, books, periodicals, films, portfolios and digital works, including many that have never been published or exhibited, from his Conceptual projects, the American
Surfaces and Uncommon Places
series, his landscapes of the 1980s, commissions and his recent explorations of Israel and Ukraine.
[37] Robert Motherwell in his Elegy to the Spanish Republic
series also painted powerful black and
white paintings using gesture,
surface and symbol evoking powerful emotional charges.
In 1961, composer John Cage (1912 — 1992) famously referred to the
White Paintings as airports for lights, shadows, and particles, establishing an enduring understanding of the
series as receptive
surfaces that respond to the world around them.
Beginning on a background
surface of medium grey, «windows» on two walls of the room are created by employing a
series of gradations, one made of
white and the other black.
Each work in Witmer's austere Winterbrook (2015 17)
series of six small panels brings out a different relational quality between paint and canvas: black wash opens up the flawed pores of the canvas grain; dense, dry paint marks the presence of the wooden stretcher as in a rubbing; carefully applied, grey and
white thinly glazed layers make another panel's
surface appear taut and tremulous like drumskin.
Take the striped paintings in faded pastels of the Seventies, which look like chic, sun - bleached beach towels tacked to the wall, or The Islands, a spellbinding
series of 12 rich - and - creamy «
white» paintings from 1979... Often, with Martin's major works, there appears to be a hazy mist between their
surfaces and us.
Displayed in the downstairs gallery is a
series of new unique monochrome works, The Named Series, the surfaces of which consist of white wall paint carefully removed from prominent museums and public galleries by professional conservators, using techniques employed to restore frescoes and m
series of new unique monochrome works, The Named
Series, the surfaces of which consist of white wall paint carefully removed from prominent museums and public galleries by professional conservators, using techniques employed to restore frescoes and m
Series, the
surfaces of which consist of
white wall paint carefully removed from prominent museums and public galleries by professional conservators, using techniques employed to restore frescoes and murals.
The Portrait
series are paintings that have predominantly smooth,
white surfaces that have been poked, jabbed and scraped to reveal swaths of color hidden below the
surface.
In the
White Paintings (1951)
series, Rauschenberg applied everyday house paint with paint rollers to achieve smooth «blank»
surfaces.
At Victoria Miro in 2012, the artists showed The Named
Series, which consisted of actual wall
surfaces carefully removed by a restorer from the interior of some of the world's most renowned museums, and then reapplied to canvas as monochromes with various textures and colour tones of
white.
Rauschenberg launched his «seminal»
series of
White Paintings in 1951, «the
surfaces of those canvases serving as a neutral backdrop (or stage setting) for the orchestral play of random shadows and colors that were present in the environments in which they were installed,» the catalogue wrote.
Based in Bali for more than two decades, the Italian artist Filippo Sciascia is widely known for Lux Lumina, an ongoing
series of almost black and
white figurative paintings, based on photographic and cinematic sources; their impasto
surfaces heavily worked by the painter, who runs a dazzling gamut of painterly techniques, to the point the painting's skin cracks and tears so skillfully by intuitive calculation that its disintegration seems to be instigated from the inside out.
With Tree line two slopes Davos from below, the pine trees struggle to remain on the
surface after having been covered by the
white mantle of a violent avalanche, yields a
series of abstract compositions charged with movement, where we see the pines on the hillside, and the channels the avalanches formed in between them.
This is especially clear in a new
series of burnished graphite works in which tiny
white spots resulting from air bubbles in the gesso result in overall patterns.Not only the spots but also their distribution and the texture they give to the
surface are the beyond the artist's control.
The clouds in LA appeared to Dean to be unconnected to rain, as they are in England, but rather to «imperceptible activity of winds high above the earth's
surface,» and they inspired an incredible
series of drawings made using spray chalk,
white charcoal and gouache on salvaged Victorian - era school blackboards, as well as lithographs she produced with Gemini G.E.L..
Daniel Buren, a French artist who covers
surfaces with bold vertical stripes, expressed his ideas as well as he ever did in a
series of announcements made for the Wide
White Space Gallery in Antwerp in 1972.
[14] The painting Vanescere (2007), a black - and -
white composition that depicts what appears to be a maelstrom of ink and acrylic marks, some of which are sanded away on the
surface of the linen support, was a catalyst picture for this
series.
Each composition begins in one corner and continues slowly, methodically in a single non-overlapping line until the
surface is covered, resulting in a
series of black and
white paintings with a clear beginning and end to the creative process.
This
series of black, grey and
white abstract drawings have no shadows, no backdrops, nor perspective, underlining the ambiguity of how three dimensional compositions display on a flat
surface.
At Gregory Lind Gallery through October 20th, Don Voisine's second solo show exhibits a new
series of paintings that explore and experiment the both the boundaries of the medium and of painting's
surface and perimeters by central expanses of overlapping black rectangles against
white fields, bound above and below by elemental color bands.
Comprised of a
series of irregular rectangular forms arranged in rows and columns, the buffed and sprayed components in
white, black, deep red and ocher rhythmically alternate across the large
surface implying a continuation beyond the boundaries of the piece.