Sentences with phrase «about shaped canvases»

That year, Stella also exhibited a series of 30 - year - old sketchings he made in Spain in the early 1960s that disclosed how he worked out ideas about shaped canvases.

Not exact matches

Your child can learn about shapes and colors while carefully sticking each piece onto the canvas.

Wow, right now all I can see is a black canvas adoring you in all ways and if we see some body - beautifying dresses than what about considering flattering maxi, so it is slightly sleeker to give a beautiful shape gliding from sandy days to shiny nights.

They were eccentric shaped canvases made out of doors and still wall based, but breaking out of the rectangle... Everything about Braque was the antithesis of good painting, which was loose - limbed, open and daring.

Kelly's shaped canvases are about placement, lighting, architecture, and ornamentation; in short, elegant and oversized chachkas.

The older canvases on view were specifically by the Washington Color School artists, now remembered mostly for their dyed - canvas technique and status as an armament in Clement Greenberg's about - face on Abstract Expressionism, and included revelatory shaped paintings by Kenneth Noland, an almost - not - there Helen Frankenthaler, and this megawatt Jules Olitski.

About eight years ago Keltie Ferris burst onto the New York painting scene like a bat out of hell, that is, if you define hell as the Yale M.F.A. painting program; back then, her large Day - Glo - colored canvases were perfect crosses between hazy 1970s Color Field painting, pixilated digital space breaking up and reforming in odd - shaped plates, and painterly abstraction at the same time totally avoiding any derivative overlap with artists like Kelly Walker or Gerhard Richter.

It is guided by large, geometric structures — planar outlines that present variations on the rectilinear shape of the canvas; and sometimes these outlines multiply, acquiring a luminous near - solidity, as if Tworkov were about to become a geometric abstractionist.

There is nothing moody about their silvery, reflective surfaces or about the dazzling logic with which the bands of aluminum paint jog in and out in response to the discreetly shaped canvases, which have cutaway notches and squares at their corners, sides and centers.

Rather than thinking of them in terms of Minimalism, she remembers, he told her they were «about the discomfort he felt in figuring out how two colors can rest next to each other on a canvas, and solving it in the most explicit way possible»: using colored vinyl as a readymade material, stretching it into rectilinear shapes, and composing based on color and formal relationships.5

Were you looking at Frank Stella, thinking about his history with shaped canvases?

Although the surface is a riot of lines and abstract shapes, there is something somber about this work when compared with the more carefree shaped canvases of Elizabeth Murray — a difference that feels particularly emblematic of the 21st - century conceptual divide that these artists have crossed.

A half - dozen shaped canvases that helped make Lukin's reputation show here what all the fuss was about: not just the fact of the wall - to - floor connection, but the powerful, sensuous, and often funny shapes and weird palette, balancing luminous hues with shades of gray, he commanded with such authority.

Heron is only one of many who realised that flattish abstract shapes on a canvas look a bit like maps or aerial views (there is a thematic show on somewhere about this, isn't there, with Lanyon and Davie and other glider enthusiasts?).

While Remi's art has always been about creating dimension within the depths of a canvas or a wall, his new works have taken that idea in an exciting new direction, by transforming a three dimensional object such as a skull through the application of paint and by extracting complex shapes from the flat canvas into sculptural forms.

Joanna Pousette - Dart and Ron Gorchov are making very different kinds of painings, but I've put them together here because their canvases are shaped and it's a place to start a conversation about the two artists.

«It's just beautiful,» he said about the 1951 - 53 vertical, more than 6 - foot - tall canvas, depicting a grid of rectangular shapes in subtle shades of blue.

Stella, for example, would have started painting shaped canvases at about the same time, 1960.

And what was funny about your paintings is that they were simple — squares within squares, kind of quasi-minimalist, brightly colored — everything was slightly off register, even the shape of the canvas itself, right?

We talked about the painting process, his shift to shaped canvases, and his transition from figurative work to abstraction.

Her recent works replace previous three - dimensional constructed canvases, which she evidently has taken about as far as she could, with simpler, airy construction in low relief; ad - hoc jigsaw puzzles freewheeling shapes that lean, nuzzle and jostle each other to make unlikely harmonies of pungent, ravishing color and abstract pattern.

Without End, 2005, a diptych, is a one - off and could be Beattie's nod to geometric abstraction or pop art; it is one of the largest paintings and is about 60 percent raw canvas, but is bisected diagonally by a yellow and blue stripe and sketched - in shapes in a way that prefigures the Janus series.

The canvas pieces of Flasche paint on raw linen evoked an organic character and intensified the shapes that float about.