In the wider paintings, which are created on
abutted canvases, the evocation of poetic form is especially strong: every time the brush traverses the seam between one canvas and another there is a slight disturbance: a vertical line slicing through the stroke.
Each of these stretched - out paintings (which are made on separate
abutting canvases or, in the case of Chemin de Peinture, a long roll of paper) recapitulates nearly the whole of 20th century painting from Constructivism to Abstract Expressionism, Neo-Dada, Minimalism and Neo-Expressionism, but because of the extreme horizontal format, artist and viewer are constantly treading into unknown territory.
The Yellow X in the back gallery repeats the former's fat shape in Lichtenstein - like Pop yellow, exploding across two
abutting canvases like a Batman and Robin «ka - pow!»
Among the notable later works is Interval, 2007, an ambitious sequence of three
abutting canvases of declining size.
, 2007, an ambitious sequence of three
abutting canvases of declining size.
Not exact matches
Einspruch writes that the mural comprises «three
canvases...
abutted into a triptych over thirty feet wide, and two more large
canvases face them.
The foregrounds of the 1960s works, strongly represented in «Power Stations», characteristically feature
abutting quasi-geometric shapes that float freely from the
canvas edge.
Drawing on the traditions of Abstract Expressionism, he creates strongly articulated pieces:
canvases on heavy stretchers,
abutting panels and architectural constructions that project themselves into the viewer's space.
While
canvas panels
abut, Metz has made no attempt to create an effect of complete seamlessness as the eye moves from one to the next.
On view in Newport Street's lower galleries, the works dating from 1964 to the late «60s, characteristically feature
abutting quasi-geometric shapes that float freely from the
canvas edge.
But four of five
canvases here
abut grids of different sizes, so that when Gonzalez touched each tiny square with a dollop of acrylic enamel, the overall effect in «Untitled No. 144» (2000), for example, is like seeing something at two levels of magnification.
It really does help give a nice professional finish and is an easy DIY (I didn't do a framing tutorial though it's simply a matter of mitering some thin timber trim and nailing it straight onto the
canvas frame — or, if you don't like the idea of mitering, you can use simple
abutting corners).