Sentences with phrase «back side of the canvas»

She has also called what inadvertently happens to the back side of the canvas as a result of the staining, soaking, and hosing - down of the paint as «received images,» or, as in the case of «March Hare,» «a completely received image,» (meaning she applied no paint at all to the back).

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I laid the back of the sweater on the canvas and centered it so there was about an inch of overhang on all four sides.

«Spire» (1958) stands out for its powerful evocation of space — not just as movements forward and back, but as the resolute locating of forms across the canvas; its airy, angular movement of ochres and bluish tints culminates, along one side, in a clamber of reds, blues, and a final, teetering black.

The color contrasts are startling, as in «Yellow Half» (1963), a canvas nearly six feet square with a solid V of vibrant red bordered by lemon yellow and then a more subtle red, the whole set on a stark black ground; that is, the ground forms two right triangles on either side of the V. Characteristically, Mr. Noland later went back to these V's, as in «Songs: Indian Love Call» (1984), but this time with very painterly effects, crumpling the flat surfaces with broken strokes of thick pigment.

Her paintings result from her varied processes of staining, soaking, painting, and stretching the canvas until she decides which side is the front and which side is the back.

In working the two sides of a canvas, Nelson eventually decides on a «front» and «back» and then permanently stretches the canvas accordingly.

These portraits show front and back views of Apple's blonde - topped head, the two images printed side by side near the top of a portrait - format canvas.

In Untitled (Suite «Blancs»)(1973), Hantaï also engages both sides of the canvas, using the back of an earlier oil painting as his support; faint color patches from the original work are visible within the colorful pattern, fulfilling the artist's desire to «draw out the qualities of the reverse.»

The large swathe of sail fabric, like a blank canvas, is reflected back at Chase (and the viewer) who occupies the side of the upper class passengers, marked by mobility and literal ascendancy.

As the gallery press release describes it: «Working from both sides of the canvas, and often stretching and restretching it several times before deciding which is front or back, she stains, soaks and pours paint, sometimes forcing it through incisions or hosing down the canvas with water.»

From here Olitski moved his canvases back to the floor, pulling and pushing the acrylic paint from all sides, constantly focusing on the intervention of the marks (in contrast to the gestures) and granting precedence to the inherent power of visual nuance.

In the centre of each eight inch square canvas was a five inch square painting, a unique pattern in many colours, and attached to the back of each was a handwritten luggage label (in Norwegian on one side and in English on the other).

[citation needed] For his first New York City solo show in 1973, Buren suspended a set of nineteen black and white striped squares of canvas on a cable that ran from one end of the John Weber Gallery to the other, out the window to a building on the other side of West Broadway and back.

How did you know that I have two entire bolts (still in plastic wrap) of white canvas duck, awaiting my «courage» to start, on the slipcovers for my old Dania 98 ″ sleeper sofa with 2 seat cushions, 5 - 26 ″ back pillows, and 2 - 16 ″ toss / side pillows?