Sentences with phrase «against bare canvas»

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Those curved areas may look back to Henri Matisse as well, pressed against a painting's edge like the leg and torso of a grand nude — even as that very edge takes on a touch of bare canvas that seems to change its dimensions and to divide a painting into two slightly misaligned panels.

In the strongest work in this show, what look like cut - up scraps of painted canvas are really thick swaths of acrylic paint, peeled off a flat surface and draped over bare wood stretcher bars leaning against the wall.

In Pijai, 1962, Feeley gave a blue columnar form a perimeter of red, and set this design against a rectangular field of bright yellow that is itself bordered by a margin of bare canvas.

He emphasized spatial relationships in his work by leaving unstained, bare canvas as a contrast against the colors used throughout his paintings.

Her pictures range in spirit from the stark, pared - down images of the 1960's, which sometimes consist of just two or three bright banners of color unfurled against the bare whiteness of the canvas, to the more baroque images of the 80's, whose dense, flooded surfaces at times suggest underwater scenes.