Not exact matches
On command of the voices in her head, she spirited her two daughters to the family cottage on the Virginia Peninsula,
painted the windows
black, and set up the house as a
field hospital.
Black and white drawings interspersed with full color
paintings depict the life and career of this Puerto Rican baseball player, and the struggles he bravely faced on and off the
field.
In the winter months, this small island nation is transformed into a magical world of
black lava
fields blanketed in snow, waterfalls flowing amid shimmering ice, and night skies
painted with the northern lights and their great cascades of color.
In Chestnut (1955), the
painting's white
field is broken along the center, as if a chestnut tree were pushing through the pigment; and in Red, blue,
black (1957), the thick, dark red ground gives way at the center to
black calligraphed lines concentrated within dense gestural brushwork.
Each of the next thirteen
paintings were
fields of sky - green with one or more four inch borders of tan, sky - green, yellow and
black or a combination of them.
The exhibition features a new series of Boo Saville's colour
field paintings, which are shown in dialogue with a number of
black and white canvases.
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.
She notes: «The
black and white
paintings are purely about the surface of momentary thought and the colour
fields are about the depth and vault of emotion and memory layered on top of each other.
Before I began my fifteen series
paintings, 9» x 6», large open
fields with 4» borders I made a group of nine or ten large hard edge
paintings in mostly primary colors and some smaller ones a few of which were in
black and white.
Amongst our favorite artworks being exhibited here are Marc Dennis» realistic still - life
painting of luscious flowers at Dallas» Cris Worley Fine Arts, Francis Upritchard's gesturing bronze figure at London «s Kate MacGarry, Jason Middlebrook's geometric abstraction on an elm plank at New York «s Ameringer McEnery Yohe, Luis Gispert's abstraction made by embedding gold chains in a
field of
black stones at Palma de Mallorca's Lundgren Gallery, and Klara Kristalova's ceramic sculpture of animals in a tub at Lehmann Maupin, with galleries in New York and Hong Kong.
I now could see his transition from color -
field painting, in a
black - and - white work dating from the 1970s.
The third
painting, Gold and
Black II from 1993, features a grouping of trees against a monochromatic
field of saturated golden color.
The colour
fields are inextricably linked to her
black and white canvases, the subjects of the latter — sparingly
painted so as to retain the appearance of the canvas weave — resulting from internet searches that occur to her whilst working on the abstracts.
During the summer of 1966 Dan began his series of 100» square, bar
paintings that were generally in two colors;
fields of rich earthy colors and bars which were usually green,
black, brown or gray.
The dye will saturate, run, and dry over the course of the exhibition — eventually turning the white felt from pale blue to almost
black — transforming the material into a colossal color
field painting, a rolling mountain landscape, or even the hump of a whale.
Five
paintings structured after works by Kandinsky and Malevich — McElheny's Crystalline Prism
Painting I, II, III, IV, and VI — feature press - molded and polished glass prisms inset into a
field of
black, matte oil
paint brushstrokes, visible behind or through a surface made of a sheet of «museum glass».
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.
One of the largest
paintings from this period, «The Year» (1964) is dominated by the presence of two great
black personages floating in a
field of luscious wet - on - wet strokes.
Without shying away from the complicated socio - political histories relevant to the world, Wiley's figurative
paintings and sculptures «quote historical sources and position young
black men within the
field of power.»
He liked the effect, and made it his own, combining the wiped marks with sprayed loops to create complex abstract
fields that began to look, squinted at from a distance, like
black and white reproductions of
paintings by Franz Kline or de Kooning.
In his White
Paintings and
Black Paintings (1951 — 53), Rauschenberg had avoided all aspects of composition and expression associated with
painting defined either as a product of gesture (Abstract Expressionism) or as color combination (Josef Albers and Color field Pa
painting defined either as a product of gesture (Abstract Expressionism) or as color combination (Josef Albers and Color
field PaintingPainting).
«These
black - and - white drawings inspire her bold - hued
paintings with touches of cubism, color
field, and strong lines... read more... «Amy Sillman's couple fixation»
His esteemed intellect not only undergirded his gorgeous, expressive
paintings — frequently featuring bold
black shapes against
fields of color — but also made Motherwell one of the leading writers, theorists, and advocates of the New York School.
Other highlights of the exhibition include her Neverland series from 2002, where she photographed objects, either alone or in groups, on
fields of color; Figure Drawings from 1988 - 2008, featuring an installation of 40 framed images of the human figure; Objects of Desire from 1983 - 1989, where she made collages of found photographs and rephotographed them against bright background of red, blue, green, yellow, and
black; Renaissance
Paintings from 1991, featuring individual figures and objects from disparate Renaissance paintings isolated and re-photographed against monochrome backgrounds; Doubleworld from 1995, where the artist transitioned from collaging and re-photographing found images to creating stylized arrangements for the camera; Stills from 1980, where the artist compiled and re-photographed over 70 clippings of press photos that capture people falling or jumping off tall buildings; Available Light from 2012, incorporating many of her techniques utilized over the course of her career; and Modern History from 1979, in which she has re-photographed the front page of the newspaper with the text
Paintings from 1991, featuring individual figures and objects from disparate Renaissance
paintings isolated and re-photographed against monochrome backgrounds; Doubleworld from 1995, where the artist transitioned from collaging and re-photographing found images to creating stylized arrangements for the camera; Stills from 1980, where the artist compiled and re-photographed over 70 clippings of press photos that capture people falling or jumping off tall buildings; Available Light from 2012, incorporating many of her techniques utilized over the course of her career; and Modern History from 1979, in which she has re-photographed the front page of the newspaper with the text
paintings isolated and re-photographed against monochrome backgrounds; Doubleworld from 1995, where the artist transitioned from collaging and re-photographing found images to creating stylized arrangements for the camera; Stills from 1980, where the artist compiled and re-photographed over 70 clippings of press photos that capture people falling or jumping off tall buildings; Available Light from 2012, incorporating many of her techniques utilized over the course of her career; and Modern History from 1979, in which she has re-photographed the front page of the newspaper with the text redacted.
Tondos from Pamela Jorden have wisps of
paint out of Robert and Sonia Delauney, sometimes sharing half the
field with
black.
A new series of
paintings offers an interplay of
black and white rectangles as they appear to swell and warp over a
field of subdued grey.
Viewers must cautiously walk the narrow and dark path between the wall and canvas, following the
painting's soft
fields of muted beige gradations, outlined and entangled by the white, red and
black lines traced with her signature oil sticks.
Like Rauschenberg's Elemental Sculptures, which were meant to be manipulated and can be installed in various positions, Untitled [
black painting with portal form] can be hung either horizontally or vertically, tempering the viewer's corporeal relationship to a large, imposing, matte
black form by rearranging the compositional
field.10 When the work is displayed horizontally (fifty - four inches wide by fifty - one inches high), the rectangular center of the
painting is vertically positioned, suggesting a uniformly darkened doorway, window, or portal.
Instead of the vibrant palette featured in his last exhibition, Reveles» recent
paintings display a much more subdued range of color, as grey and light blue linear masses hover over dark
fields of
black.
In 1962 Diller introduced a new format in his «first theme»
paintings consisting of white,
black, yellow and blue squares arranged on a grey
field.
He shows his range in these later works gleefully inventing and exploiting new spaces in the picture plane: 1951's Every Atom Glows: Electrons in Luminous Vibration is a delicate
black - and - white oil
painting, while his Alabama II, 1969, is a strong protest work — a rectangular
field of red in which a triangular wedge evoking bodies marching or a megaphone's amplified language emerges in glossier red on the
painting's surface.
Furnas» Flood
paintings, such as Red Sea Parting, 2006, and Last Day (Red to
Black in 6 Parts), 2013, raise the stakes on colour
field painting, rendering it overwhelming, apocalyptic.
Among the works that did well were Lot 16, a charming small sculpture, one of three examples down in 1945 - 6, by David Smith, shown above, that sold for $ 220,000 (not including the buyer's premium) and had had a high estimate of $ 150,000; Lot 5, «Atantolone,» a gloss household
paint on canvas of colored dots on a white
field that sold for $ 170,000 (not including the buyer's premium), well over its high estimate of $ 120,000; Lot 14, a large 1943
painted wood and wire sculpture, «Constellation,» by Alexander Calder (1898 - 1976) that sold for $ 1,982,500 (including the buyer's premium), more than double its high estimate, and Lot 24, a larger Calder sculpture, «Trepied,» that sold near its low estimate for $ 1,542,500 (including the buyer's premium); Lot 20, a large and very interesting and abstract but not very colorful 1953 Francis Bacon (1909 - 1992), «Two Figures at a Window,» that sold above its $ 1.2 million high estimate for $ 1,542,500 (including the buyer's premium); Lot 27, «Tour III» by Brice Marden (b. 1938) that sold within its estimates for $ 1,487,500 (including the buyer's premium), tying the artist's record; Lot 41, «Grillo,» by Jean - Michel Basquiat (1960 - 1988) that sold for $ 1,102,500 (including the buyer's premium), also within its pre-sale estimates; and Lot 31, «Vierwaldstätte See,» a large
black and white 1969 landscape by Gerhard Richter (b. 1932) that sold for $ 1,047,500 near its low estimate of $ 1 million.
Each of the three
paintings featured a stenciled thicket of
black lines crisscrossing a
field of bright orange brushwork and white gesso, with a pitch -
black area taking over the right third of the support.
Painted in 1947, it features a pair of umbrellalike shapes that might also be interpreted as morning glory flowers or eyes peering from above a vertical
field of
black and white stripes.
Kim's work reflects his attraction to the postwar tradition of monochromatic
painting, exemplified by Ad Reinhardt's
Black Paintings and Brice Marden's
fields of color.
His mid 20th century
paintings demonstrated a sensuous feel for
paint and for colour, that was unrivalled at the time, and ranged in colour from monochromatic but luminous browns, greens and
blacks, to luscious
fields of red and white.
Each
painting is built up of delicate webs of graphite or pigment on either a
black or a white
field.
Mounted on
fields of primarily
black and blue, Deborah Kass incorporates neon lights in her
paintings for the first time.
By 1961, it is clear that Dodd could make a terrific
painting, as demonstrated by the drily witty, «Cows and Clouds» (1961), in which the contours of the clouds and their interior forms are echoed by the
black - and - white patterns on the two Holstein cows standing in a green
field.
Biography: Vivian Springford American, b. 1914 Vivian Springford, an artist best known for her «
Black Paintings» of the 1950s - early 60s, and later, her vivid stained color field paintings, is having a secon
Paintings» of the 1950s - early 60s, and later, her vivid stained color
field paintings, is having a secon
paintings, is having a second coming.
The show opens with one of most incredible rooms of postwar
painting I have seen in a New York gallery in recent years: two huge, pitch - perfect Clyfford Stills, Kenneth Noland and Morris Louis color
fields and a breathtaking 18 - foot - long
painting by Barnett Newman called Uriel (1955), an expanse of mint green separated from a slice of chocolate by the thinnest of white and
black zips.
All one needed to do was follow American art, where the process was at work in exemplary fashion — from Jackson Pollock's all - over
paintings and Barnett Newman's colour
fields to the
black - in -
black paintings of Ad Reinhardt.
The circular red ribs that make up the urn - like form of Cherubini's «Morning Star» reflect the looping vase handles and linear flowers in Nichols's still lifes; the figure /
field spatial disparity in Bischof's «Omi im Bregenzer Wald» is also found in Trudy Benson's «Yes, and...» from 2014 (evidently a play on Yes, but..., Dore Ashton's classic study of Philip Guston's late work, published in 1976), where beads of yellow
paint resembling wads of chewed - up chewing gum seem to drift above a receding gray and green
field, which is bordered in peach - and - gray shards intersecting with
black - and - white stripes.
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Inspired by Du Bois» sociological studies on the advancements of
Black Americans from the time of Emancipation to 1900, the exhibition will feature a series of response
paintings in which the statistical data gathered and made visual by Du Bois has been reduced to abstract color
fields and geometric motifs.
Progressive layers of oil
paint are applied to a section of the canvas» surface, creating a dense,
black field.
In an untitled work from 1961, a bulb of blue dangling from the top of the
painting is cradled by a cavity in a
black - bordered undulating band of yellow that runs horizontally across a white
field in the center.
Or they make
paintings that look like edgy hard - core abstraction, deploying
fields of
black or monochrome
paint; Polke, Richter, or Oehlen — like effects; splashes; all - over composition; switching styles willy - nilly within works.
In
Painting, the only remaining vestige of his past work's chromatic intensity is the red band that pulses against the maroon background while floating above the closely hued brown and
black rectangular
fields.