Sentences with phrase «actual shape of the canvas»

Color field painters efface the individual mark in favor of large, flat, stained and soaked areas of color, considered to be the essential nature of visual abstraction along with the actual shape of the canvas, which Frank Stella in particular achieved in unusual ways with combinations of curved and straight edges.

In an effort to both accept and reject the formal, Elizabeth began to modify the actual shape of her canvases moving away from traditional pictorial space of a rectangle or square.

Not exact matches

No one is going to match the rigor, energy, and humor of Frank Stella and Elizabeth Murray with actual shaped canvas, and that does not count the sheer feat of its construction.

These works evoke the actual use of hide in a range of Native American aesthetic practices (such as clothing, drums, and shelters) and the history of the shaped canvas in modern and contemporary art.

Instead of experimenting with shaped canvasses or geometric painting to imply volume, he takes the canvas into three dimension to see how line and color are disrupted by actual volume.