Sentences with phrase «across canvas»

Windows 8.1 provides a fantastic, full - bleed canvas where apps can shine, and we realized pretty quickly how the investment made in Satori could be leveraged across this canvas for a Smart Search experience that is beautiful as well as functional.

As Alex Bacon identified in an exhibition catalogue that accompanied Colmer's first exhibition with Lisson in January this year, «It was a true innovation of Colmer's to jerry - rig his spray gun to be able to change colours in the course of a single pass across the canvas.»

Bold colors slash across canvas, hot colors vibrates next to cold, drips and smears hover over the surface.

Tate's own Summertime: Number 9A, 1948 (1948), from the earlier period, is certainly suggestive of figures moving across the canvas, too, dancing rhythmically, with a sense of motion and narrative.

Looking at the painting with me he explains how he achieved the rainbow stripes by loading a brush with contrasting colours and drawing it across the canvas.

The trellis fragments scattered across the canvas, though, are made of wood.

I mean, if they ended up with just four stripes of solid colour going across the canvas, that was everything: I'm talking about a great Noland.

The earlier paintings feel more compositional, with marks or shapes floating in a staggered formation across the canvas, bringing to mind Hans Hofmann's ideas of push - pull and plasticity.

Well, there is or has been an idea that space in abstract painting is about «interval», i.e. across the canvas, as per your aerial thing, like distance on a map.

They are thick with impasto, like the end result of some volcanic eruption that's spilled lime green, purple, red, gold and blue across the canvas in spurts.

Once back in his studio, Bradford glues twine of various gauges to the surfaces of the billboard papers, which he then arranges and layers across his canvas.

In later paintings the bits of color, now jagged, shardlike and prismatic, take flight across the canvas like a flock of birds.

Transcending the distinction between abstract and figurative, the work moves and transforms as light hits it's surface, inviting the viewer to move across the canvas.

In Sweet Cathy's Song, the uniformly formatted children's drawings provide an almost ready - made grid collaged across the canvas» surface.

The artist has said that the strokes are about paint itself — paint moving across the canvas; paint as medium for feelings, sensations, or sounds; paint suggesting a storyline.

Perhaps the most famous work in this vein, More Love Hours Than Can Ever Be Repaid and The Wages of Sin from 1987, featured a mess of used rag dolls, animals and blankets strewn across a canvas, a way of investing a fictional childhood scene with some visceral pathos which was first shown at Rosamund Felsen Gallery in Los Angeles.

Revelling in the hazy sfumato effects created by his chosen medium of spray paint, Ruby creates a vibrant mist of colours that blend and interfuse across the canvas, merging raw urban energy with the ethereal transcendence of Abstract Expressionism.

[8] His work» A Love Supreme (Spring)», is based on the jazz song of the same name by John Coltrane, and depicts a series of quilts draped across the canvas emphasizing weight and texture.

The colours dance and pop across the canvas.»

Beginning by hand drawing graphite lines on gessoed surfaces using strings stretched tautly across the canvas, she enacted each line as a balancing act, requiring intense concentration and halting progress, evident in the visible tremors of the obviously hand - made final product.

The semi-abstract personages and gestural marks that had populated Pollock's paintings until then here unfolded across the canvas with an unprecedented freedom and confidence.

The idea that visual art is only what can be spread flat across a canvas is one that has long since been abandoned.

But it means something completely different for someone like Mullen to paint «ART FORIIM» rudimentarily across a canvas.

He uses a limited palette of odd color combinations — mossy pea greens and dirty eggplant purples, for example, evenly distributed in smeary meanderings across the canvas.

Light lines and heavier stokes dance across the canvas, creating a kinetic sense of energy and movement.

A festering portrait with dark, drawn and indistinguishable face, and grotesque mouth puffing upon an actual cigarette entombed in paint, acrid smoke trailing across the canvas.

Guided by parallel lines, Leapman draws a brush across the canvas from left to right, thus the paint engages with the weave of the canvas with varying intensity and depth, resulting in her characteristic paintings with their rhythmic, undulating surfaces.

The result is magnificent abstractions, dense with literal imagery, gesture, lyrical ribbons and swaths of color across the canvas.

The luxuriant blues and verdant greens segmented into three parts that spread across the canvas elude the artist's famous «immediate radiance».

Using handmade tools, sandpaper and even rags to drag across the canvas, Petrov specifically wants to create a metaphor for each stroke.

Paint application strategies vary across each canvas, but overall the surfaces have a stiff, solid sheen.

A couple of early paintings here show how much he was in its sway, particularly «Susanna and the Elders» (1953), a de Kooning-esque romp of bold, energetic forms in black and white marching diagonally across the canvas, attended here and there by tiny licks of flamelike color.

Kim treats some works with an additional layer of metallic glaze, to enhance the hypnotic lines running across the canvas.

Houston artist Terrell James loves the way Rothko's lines «fly across the canvas.»

Dropping pieces of cut paper onto a surface and gluing them down where they lay; dripping or flinging paint across a canvas; letting the progressive decay of organic materials determine a composition; and flipping coins to compose a musical scores — these are some of the processes used by artists included in the volume that both tap into the creative potential of chance and control its operation.

The Washington artists, including Reed, often followed a strict geometric approach in their work, as they sought to move away from the «gestural» manner of abstract expressionist painting, in which the movement of the artist's hand across the canvas was evident in every brushstroke or drip.

Nor do the paintings that depict what looks to be a skin attached to tenterhooks — splayed across the canvas like a Christian martyr in a Renaissance painting.

In 1958, he began making Attese (Waiting), monochrome surfaces that he sliced open with a single gesture or inscribed with multiple cuts at irregular intervals across the canvas, exposing backgrounds that had been artfully darkened with black gauze to create a mysterious sense of illusion and depth.

However, the paintings in the current exhibition are now punctuated by what Ferris calls «erasures» - zones of wet paint that have been wiped with rag - cloth and turpentine, always in straight lines across the canvas vertically or horizontally.

The German master's abstract paintings — which he typically makes by layering a plexiglas squeegee with bright, primary - color paint and dragging it across a canvas until the hues streak, overlap, and merge — have proven an auction - market sensation as well as the stuff of riveting cinema, with his idiosyncratic process captured in the recent documentary Gerhard Richter Painting.

Though she fiercely opposed Pop art, which emerged at this time, some Pop elements are present in her landmark painting Marilyn (1962), a pastiche of the film star Marilyn Monroe, which scatters facial features such as full lips and sparkling teeth across the canvas.

Look out in particular for Barnaby Furnas's excitable paintings - fireworks and shoot - outs triggering like controlled explosions across the canvas, every inch a graphic surprise.

Colored with swaths of red - orange tempera paint, the composition is activated by two curved lines, which dance and dive across the canvas.

As it is, the best paintings in the show are the least dependent on citation: in a set of gloriously luminous works, depicted light is confronted with the literal light of bent neon tubes that Mary Weatherford has stretched like drawn lines across the canvas.

Varelas uses various techniques and materials: oils, oil pastels, pastels, markers, acrylic paint and collage, with halftone screens and squares of color, placed sporadically across the canvas.

In addition to the «denial» factor implicit in the contradictory tonal and directional elements, the misty or smoky area across the canvas was intended to act as a screen between the spectator and the image, «obscuring, denying it».

The array of color across the canvas resembles a glowing heat map, measuring out a mysterious source that will never be revealed.

That's how he embarked on a strain of pure painting that seemed quite radical at the time: working with a prestretched canvas and unmixed oil paints, and figuring out his composition as his brush moved across the canvas.

With their fields of fine horizontal lines and textures, usually achieved by drawing a wide broom across the canvas, Mr. Whitten's 70's paintings present sauve, understated unities.

In other paintings, Giehl smears the paint across the canvas using palette knives and home - made tools to blend and move the paint across the canvas in unexpected and exciting ways.