Sentences with phrase «bare canvas»

They also allow some neat bits of bare canvas, but more for painterly care than for artistic freedom.

In 1951 he abandoned colour, and painted a series of disturbing pictures in black paint on bare canvas.

Some of it may even reverse her own, with the background at times shifting from bare canvas to black.

The strokes assume a character of their own, but one focuses on the areas of color and bare canvas more than on the artist's air of control.

More often than not, what looks like bare canvas holds washes of oil.

In the black pourings Pollock was sometimes letting the paint bleed into bare canvas — and this was a precursor to Colour Field painters, such as Helen Frankenthaler Hon RA.

At the start is the deathly glamour of Stella's Black Paintings — bands in matte enamel, separated by fuzzy pinstripes of nearly bare canvas — which shocked everyone with their dour simplicity when they appeared in a show at the Museum of Modern Art, in 1959.

They want badly to be more than paintings — see how many of the scalloped shapes lift off the support like feathers summoning flight while exposing not bare canvas but reflective Mylar — but they air that complaint in whispers, not stage screams, despite Yates» parallel practice making indie - rock posters.

Loose brushwork or even bare canvas will only emphasize my subject.

The color is clear and bright: reds, yellows, blues, and a free use of white, off - white and sometimes bare canvas.

On a largely bare canvas, light brown splatters of paint are featherlike in appearance.

Well into the 1990s, glazes cover some of the curves, emphasizing the layering and translucency of oil, and Marden never, ever accepts bare canvas or linen.

Neither artist may escape the charge of throwing colors around partly bare canvas, but both also make a point of subjectivity.

«Quarter Mile View,» 2014, is almost hallucinatory — the trees appearing to lash out at each other — and the combination of loose marks and slivers of bare canvas show Kahn applying some of the logic of his pastel works to canvas.

When it returns to thicker curves against bare canvas, brushwork rules.

Even when bare canvas was re-exposed through rubbings out, the light and texture of the support were of use to him.

The exhibition was inspired by 1956 PH - 223, a stunning deep blue painting bisected by a thin vertical line created by bare canvas.

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

Areas of bare canvas background provide a foil to the vibrancy and variation in hues.

The «split» Veils reveal bare canvas between the poured bands, and the «triadic» Veils resemble a triptych, as the two braces of the stretcher leave vertical lines that divide the canvas into three sections.

Fluid forms are juxtaposed with architectural bars and beams, and pockets of bare canvas peek through from behind.

His treatment of paint — handling oils almost like watercolors — his forays into abstraction, and his use of evocative stretches of bare canvas caught the eye of younger painters.

He was getting less and less literal about the human form, moving to capture the essence and spirit of life itself and then — bam — here is this larger than life painting, thick, textural and richly black with bits of bare canvas peaking through like stars in the darkest part of a night sky.

Using acrylic on bare canvas, Bernstein faithfully reproduces an anatomical drawing of the male pelvic region, but outfits the penis (erect, of course) with a hammer and trigger and a load of real ammo spiraling upward from the scrotum.

In this horizontal canvas, the vertical gesture, expressed in Still's signature black pigment, is more lightly applied, jutting into bare canvas, punctuated by white.

Mr. Elderfield opens by pairing Jasper Johns's 1982 «In the Studio» with Picasso's 1928 «The Studio,» a great match given their intimations of real and depicted bodies and their shifting combinations of white paint and bare or nearly bare canvas to depict walls, art and studio table.

Those thin outlines are white, not bare canvas, because Williams does not derive his image, like a proper formalist, from the art object, but rather from experience.

Afterwards, he fills the segments of bare canvas with acrylic paint.

Primer has so many uses - it evens out your skin's texture, provides a bare canvas for applying makeup and keeps your makeup looking in tip - top shape for hours.

It invokes the indie spirit of lovably ballsy bargain - bin titles like Serious Sam and relies on clever writing to paint a humorous, violent picture onto the bare canvas of standard, cover - system shooting mechanics, while tweaking those mechanics with a few nice little innovations of its own, such as the ability to aim at your next desired bit of cover and tap a button to sprint towards it, a feature later used to widespread acclaim in Splinter Cell: Conviction.

They also push all - over painting hard enough to squeeze out almost all of Pollock's or Frankenthaler's bare canvas, although Gualdoni uses gaps and concentric black circles to suggest a bursting through.

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.

They include Ryman's impasto white oils from before 1960, which turn the bare canvas into another element of color.

How does housepaint, bare canvas, your whims, or just a fake differ from abstract painting?

A painting of a car interior is a whirlwind of monochrome gestures, drips, gloss, and bare canvas.

(The Flag on High, 1959), with its cruciform structure of concentric black stripes separated by thin lines of bare canvas, still exude a sombre, mechanical allure.

In 1959, Stella created his «Black Paintings,» series, in which bands of black paint are separated by thin, precise stripes of bare canvas.

He shoots directly into the sun, giving space between the trees the reality and potential of a drip painting's bare canvas.

Only outlines are drawn in black on the bare canvas.

Frankenthaler began her departure from Pollock by thinning her oil paint with turpentine and then pouring it directly on to the bare canvas.

A 1995 work, so cartoon - like that you almost expect a caption, is mostly a big, tilting expanse of bare canvas — a floor — extending toward a far - off green wall dotted with numerous tiny paintings.

It has been shown with exquisite detail, painted flat and colorless or denoted simply by an outline on the bare canvas.

Her signature graffiti - like markings, often bright flashes of neon, are here executed in quick, curved black outlines that penetrate through faux pixels, atop a bare canvas surface.

She worked within a grid, like the color charts of Josef Albers, or with brushstrokes separated by horizontal rules and bare canvas.

If all that sounds too strange, imagine first what happens when Ryman himself reintroduces brushwork, colored paint, and bare canvas.

Rupert Eder uses a few spots of bare canvas to signal a Combustible Black, but can painting still catch fire?

Even Minimalism and Pop Art, she argues, maintain the fiction of a bare canvas awaiting the artist's special mark.

These composites were inkjet - printed onto the bare canvases, then stretched on the walls of the church and encased in 20 layers of clear acrylic to create the hard surfaces on which she would paint.