Sentences with phrase «as small collages»

His bold, busy canvases usually begin their lives as small collages, literally cut and pasted from the pages of magazines and art history.

All of the paintings in the exhibition began as small collage studies, which were utilized as maquettes for much larger works that were transferred onto canvas as a blueprint of the original, and then heavily embellished with multiple layers of paint.

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Lastly, the killer antique mirrored console table with statement stools topped with a smaller collage of framed art from Minted serves as a great piece to house books, the cutest little gold lamp, and most likely a necessary DVR.

In all the years that I've edited kic, I don't think I've ever posted a summer must - haves collage without including a straw market basket — I even give the small ones as hostess gifts.

As an extra artistic note, small scraps of text (newsprint, fiction, reference books, textbooks) are collage - style tucked under colorful storefronts and buildings.

These small collages are composed by the painter as studies for her larger canvases, but it's hard to imagine that their successors could trump them in terms of spontaneity or sheer joie de vivre.

The exhibition includes mixed - media painting as well as small - scale works on paper, collage, and a new piece of writing.

Divided in 6 separate rooms, the installation includes some 60 individual stoneware and porcelain pieces, as well as couple of rare editions on paper by Kusaka, and around 40 pieces by Wood, ranging from small collage showing his studio process, limited edition multiples, a series of floral pieces on paper, all the way to monumental oil and acrylic pieces on canvas.

Much wood collage art is considerably smaller in scale, framed and hung as a painting would be.

There, there were a few memorable highlights, such as mirror paintings by Michelangelo Pistoletto from the 1970s and 80s, shown by the Repetto Gallery; striking portraits and still - lifes by Wayne Thiebaud, shown by Allan Stone Projects; small paintings by Gerhard Richter and Alexej von Jawlensky in the Galerie Ludorff's booth; and Yayoi Kusama's glittering collages, reminiscent of precious stones, shown by Omer Tiroche Gallery.

When I started making collages — and they were so small at first — people used to say: «Oh, these would be great as studies for a big painting.»

Nevertheless Robert Motherwell; Early Collages, which runs through January 5, is well worth seeing and these works, placed today in a small gallery on the Lower East Side, in the guise of having just come out of the studio of some young artist, would appear completely viable and credible as contemporary works because there are so many artists today, here in New York showing on the LES and Bushwick as well as elsewhere in the United States and Canada and perhaps globally, still working in the orbit of the aesthetic consensus of post-War formalism.

The exhibition, the artist's fourth show at the gallery, will include approximately 100 small paper mounted on canvas paintings as well as 25 collage constructions and a set of sketches in response to Francisco Goya's drawings including his Los Desastres de la Guerra series, all dating from 2009 to the present.

* Known for the free eroticism of her small, representational drawings and paintings, the impact of Rama's large rubber - on - canvas abstract collages from 1970 and 1971 is just as great.

Since then, Tuttle has presented prominent and influential series in the history of contemporary art such as the cloth pieces, which he installed dyed and cut canvas on the wall, and were both pictorial and three - dimensional, and the wire pieces, which consisted of wire and its shadow and pencil lines, and small - scale collage pieces among others.

A new sculptural work emphasizing a connection to modernist aesthetics and design as well as a presentation of smaller, collage works will be presented in the main galleries as well.

Small rooms serve as intimate spaces to highlight a few special pieces, including Paul Chan's moving (in both senses of the word) 6th Light and a typically eccentric film collage by Joseph Cornell — the first solo show by whom, Carpenter pointed out, was at the Walker in 1953.

Her debut solo show, entitled Disco Ball Soul is a testament to this, formed of more than 90 small collage works created over a decade from photographs and journal entries, as well as 14 large - scale photographs.

Her painting is distinguished by constant changes, experimentation and development and her works cover such subjects as socio - political portraits, primitive masks, underwater scenes, tropical flowers and wild animals, as well as including a number of small collages.

Some works concentrate on small groups of animals while others serve as finely drawn «I Spy» collages, as he incorporates camouflaged toads and birds into lush, textured gardens.

I was visually confused by his work as it encompassed so many different styles from abstract to figurative, collage to sculpture, and many small surrealistic installations.

To date, however, very little attention has been paid to the body of work that immediately preceded those well - known works — extraordinary and fully abstract watercolors, mixed media collages, and stain paintings, sometimes as small as under three inches high or as large as over six feet tall.

She also worked as a mural painter for the Works Progress Administration, and spent years experimenting variously with collage, biomorphic abstraction, hard edge abstraction, small - scale works inspired by her Jewish heritage and large - scale works informed by her personal life.

Finally, for the third piece, thirty smaller collages will be presented as a large symmetrical grid.

Wightman's abstract works are simpler, with the colours and forms worked out first in small modelli on paper; his landscapes are originated from found images, sketched in Photoshop and then transferred as cartoons to canvas before collaging and painting.

Τhe monuments took the form of small collages such as a crayon image of a fat, fuzzy teddy bear looming over the grassy fields of New York's Central Park and «Lipsticks in Piccadilly Circus, London».

The exhibition will feature a large - scale in - situ installation as well as several smaller 3 - D works and collages.

Described as «the first substantive and scholarly examination of this important body of work,» the show features a wide variety of abstracts — watercolors, mixed media collages, and stain paintings — including small works and large - scale paintings standing six - feet tall.

He has been best known for sculptures and collages using everyday products in series such as «White Discharge,» 2002 — , quasi-architectural constructions assembling action figures, plastic food models, and other inexpensive small objects, covered with white - painted resin, or «Sea

His early work — forceful abstractions, ranging from large canvases to small collages — soon made his name as a second - generation Abstract Expressionist (1), part of a group of young New York School artists that included Grace Hartigan, Norman Bluhm, Michael Goldberg, Al Held, and Joan Mitchell.

Elsewhere DeFeo's transfigurative impulse expresses itself through a deft withholding or reshuffling of visual information, as in many of her photo collages, or even the big paintings that scale up views of DeFeo's dental bridge to the proportions of small boulders.

Collaged sculpted fabric or small paintings add to the narrative as do sculpted fabric and bunting on the floor or ceiling.

It has examples of the large, color photo - portraits and clusters of the small, truculent collages that function as studies for Ms. Thomas's paintings while being works of art themselves.

Also on view is one of the artist's earliest screenprints, the 1986 «Blueberry Field,» as well as a portfolio of six aquatints called «Small Cuts» that Katz made in 2008 inspired by the early collages he made in the late 1950s.

She collects and recycles pictures and photos from old magazines and papers to make collages she describes as small personal histories, a union of autobiography and impersonality where she strives to become a neutral intermediary.

The elegant abstractions of Sedje Hémon (1923 — 2011) come across as sympathetic, although faintly dated, and small collages by Elisabeth Wild appear as average, if not mediocre, formal experiments.

Following fledgling gallery Fortnight Institute's small but mighty spring presentation of Winant's work — collages showing women as recipients of both affectionate and unnerving touch — two summer shows confirm the momentum and visceral pull of her practice.

The drawings, two - and three - dimensional collages, and most of the photographs are small in scale, which suggests that they have status as «sketches» and preparatory works, except for several black - and - white Polaroids.

Wesselmann gradually moved from small - scale collages to large paintings but retained the abrupt compositional juxtaposition characteristic of the collage as well as his glossy billboard colors.

Cubism, Expressionism, Dada and Surrealism were the most important of these movements, and attracted a number of indigenous American artists, including: the New Jersey Cubist / Expressionist John Marin (1870 - 1953); the vigorous modernist Marsden Hartley (1877 - 1943); the expressionist Russian - American Max Weber (1881 - 1961); the New York - born Bauhaus pioneer Lyonel Feininger (1871 - 1956); the unfortunate Patrick Henry Bruce (1881 - 1937), noted for his semi-abstract impastoed pictures; Stanton Macdonald - Wright (1890 - 1973) and Morgan Russell (1883 - 1953), two Americans living in Paris who invented a colourful abstract style known as Synchromism; Arthur Garfield Dove (1880 - 1946) noted for his small scale abstracts, collages and assemblages; the Mondrian and De Stijl - inspired Burgoyne Diller (1906 - 65); the influential American Cubist Stuart Davis (1894 - 1964); the calligraphic abstract painter Mark Tobey (1890 - 1976); the surrealist Man Ray (1890 - 1976); the Russian - American mixed - media artist Louise Nevelson (1899 - 1988); the Indiana metal sculptor David Smith (1906 - 1965); Joseph Cornell (1903 - 72) noted for his installations; the Iowa - raised Grant Wood (1892 - 1942) noted for his masterpiece American Gothic (1930), and the Missouri - born Thomas Hart Benton (1889 - 1975), both of whom were champions of rural and small - town Regionalism - part of the wider realist idiom of American Scene Painting; and Jacob Lawrence (1917 - 2000) the famous African - American artist.

Brandes, like Maher, employs a variety of styles and materials, from small paintings and collages, to vast highly detailed drawings on unexpected surfaces (like used floor vinyl or straight onto the gallery wall) such as Hotel Amnesia.

7 A classic display scheme ever since Victorian times: Create a gallery wall of family photos and other small pictures in matching (or contrasting) frames, arranged in a collage on a large wall such as a stairwell or hallway.