Sentences with phrase «actually paint the shape»

Not exact matches

Just as nude women's bodies are painted in the shape their clothing gave them, rather than the shape their bodies actually took when undressed, so too the infants may be painted in the shape swaddling bands or boards would have given them.

This is an easy project and you can paint the shapes any way you like, you could make them actually look like birds and flowers, you could just paint them solid colors, you could decoupage scrapbook paper onto them, the possibilities are endless and it would be a perfect sweet Easter decoration.

If a viewer has a working knowledge of maritime flags or, as in my case, an index of their meanings, then Mizù's geometric forms become more than visually pleasing shapes, as the painting actually spells out the title of the work.

The outside edges of these cutout shapes and what you're looking into are playing with what is cut out and what is actually painted.

His confederate, El Lissitzky, on the other hand, painted lively compositions with shapes that often seem to dance on the canvas, using precise balances of shapes and colors to tell spatial stories — for instance, suggesting that a static shape is actually in the process of falling, or rising — or even convey political propaganda.

Actually — with their simple, linear shapes and muted colors — these paintings have more to do with a return to minimalism than anything else.

It was through this exhibition that he first showed his «fake sculptures», a series of shaped - canvases that first appear to be solid sculptures but are actually paintings that present abstract forms suggesting animals, plants and landscapes.

There, Pascali showed his Fake sculptures, a series of shaped - canvases that first appear to be solid sculptures but are actually paintings that present abstract forms suggesting animals, plants and landscapes.

The beauty of gouache is that this is readily adjusted, even to the point where I actually added a few pencil marks to re-define the shape of the centre pot, knowing that these would be obscured by paint.

Three big hexagons separate into red, yellow, and blue — the foundational elements of painting's color theory but nothing to do with the elements of a camera lens that actually shape the effect.

For example, by bombarding the eyes in this manner, the paintings cause them to «see» colours or shapes that are not actually there, or to confuse background with foreground and so on.

In contemporary reviews of that exhibition, the curator and art historian Andrew Wilson claimed that Rae's paintings upset «the traditional figure - ground relationship» (Wilson 1996 — 7, p. 9), while the critic Andrew Graham - Dixon described Untitled (emergency room) as «a picture of something about to take shape before it has actually done so» (Andrew Graham - Dixon, «On the Surface», Independent, 19 November 2006, http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/on-the-surface-1353083.html, accessed 15 June 2015).

One of the most distinct styles of geometric abstract painting to emerge from the modernist era, was the Op - Art movement (an abbreviation of «optical art») whose hallmark was the engagement of the eye, by means of complex, often monochromatic, geometric patterns, to cause it to see colours and shapes that were not actually there.

And when I finally did get a copy of the titles, I found myself trying to tie the title to the piece in some semantic way and then also found myself wondering if the artist really was so wholly divorced from the meanings of the words or whether their meaning actually did end up informing the shape of the final painting.

Returning to America, his individual style had a significant impact on the development of Minimal art, Systemic Painting, Hard - edge Painting, Frank Stella's Shaped Canvas genre, and Greenberg's so - called Post-painterly Abstraction, without him actually becoming a «member» of any of these movements.

Near the bottom, though, there's a twist: A large, dark shape is actually an exposed patch of the painting's underlying linen.

This was probably the first painting in which Pollock's vermiform shapes actually broke down into energy areas and a free calligraphy.

Actually, the phone, smoke, and sunlight are good analogs for what is in Greene's paintings: weighty, curving shapes, dissolving outlines, and diaphanous layers of colors.

Braciale's paintings actually depart from their corresponding objects in shape, color, texture, and scale.

Well actually there were two first paintings — they were shaped canvases.

I love the shapes and I actually prefer that they are mismatched — since I knew I'd be painting and recovering them — that would «unify» them enough for me.

«The cabinets were actually in good shape, so we decided to just paint them Benjamin Moore White Dove instead of replacing them.»