However, after he saw Agnes Martin's
beautiful grid paintings, he stopped working with that device.
Not exact matches
Trevor Sutton's
beautiful paintings here are separated in time by twenty years, Rue Jacob, a circular
painting with a central two tone irregular hexad shape situated within a field of fluctuating brown / grey hues, being
painted in 1992, and Raindance, a vertical rectangular
grid with four columns and sixteen rows in reds, pinks, greys, browns and blacks, having been
painted only last year.
Here were these irregular
grids,
beautiful browns as sensuous as the encaustic
paintings with these inscriptions, which were to me, very much about the body, about one's reach; whereas the others deny you any access to making, except for the band or the spatula mark.
Mark S. Bradford makes his New York debut with a pair of
beautiful abstract
paintings, their surfaces covered with edge - to - edge rectangular bits of paper forming linear
grids.
For instance, her early mimetically
painted images of flowers and birds, framed by penciled
grids,
paint swatches, and tonal scales, struck me as an incisively
beautiful study of the contradiction between image making and the physical reality of
paint.
The show's most
beautiful image is a form of continuity unto itself: a wall of Mondrian's New York studio, where
paintings, shelves and tacked - up squares of color form an irregular
grid of grays so subtly modulated they might as well be colored.
Mike Solomon creates
beautiful, color saturated
paintings that have a built - in
grid reminiscent of early Larry Poons geometric accents, which contain an elegant veil of dreamlike mist.
'' [A] stunningly
beautiful volume... An affectionate biographical glimpse into Martin's life... Tucked alongside reproductions of
paintings are previously unpublished lecture scripts, samples of Martin's letters to Glimcher, and other notes... These actual - size replicas -LSB-...] are written neatly in the artist's own script, and offer intimate glimpses into her thought process... The photographs of Martin in her rustic surroundings are marvelous and strange, and the lurid colours unique to old Polaroids provide a bracing contrast the restraint found in her
paintings... Martin's works, with their delicate
grids, can become muted or muffled on the page, but in this book they sing out pure and strong.