Sentences with phrase «blur around the canvas»

Humphries's silver is a noncolor — one might almost say an anti-color — and it sends light bouncing around crazily in all directions, creating a sort of blur around the canvas that has approximately the same relation to the nebulous visual hum emitted by Agnes Martin's paintings as the chemically zippy drug - induced euphoria does to the putative clarity of serenity and insight in meditation.

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While other artists like Richard Tuttle and William T. Wiley were also experimenting with the unstreched canvas during the same period, Gilliam's sculptural approach was revolutionary in that it repositioned the viewer's relationship with the painting to include the object as well as the space around it, blurring the boundary between painting, sculpture, and architecture for the first time.

[13] Begun around 2001, the Piths, canvases with deliberately frayed edges and covered in thick black strokes of paint, indicate Truitt's interest in forms that blur the lines between two and three dimensions.