Meanwhile, behind the rulers, the square linoleum tiles are rendered to appear parallel to the top and
bottom edges of the painting, while converging inward.
They reach the same height as each other but the block on the left extends slightly lower, or closer to
the bottom edge of the painting, than the block on the right which is wider.
Not exact matches
Also just
paint to the
edge of the
bottom.
When most
of the
paint was sanded off, I repainted the
bottom half
of the cabinet with white chalk
paint and sanded random
edges to make it look aged.
But
of course, the
bottom cabinet had to match the top, so I used the putty knife again scrape away layers
of paint in the grooves and
edges.
Never seen in New York before, that series features Mr. Brown carefully matching some
of his luminous cartoony landscapes with ceramic vessels — which he collected — on shelves attached to the
paintings»
bottom edges.
Painted with a palette knife during a single session in the studio, the
paintings juxtapose a single, highly finessed field
of color against a solid, white band commonly along the
bottom or outside
edges of the work.
In 1969 I began a continuing series
of stain
paintings combining stained surfaces, with hard
edged colored bands,
painted in different sizes across the
bottom (some
of which had abstract writing in them) and later, colored bands
of different lengths and widths on the
edges.
Painted with broad expanses
of flatly sprayed, banal commercial colors (e.g. manila envelope tan, file cabinet grey), they featured nearly imperceptible, atomized tonal gradations along their
bottom edge — an unexpected intrusion
of the transcendent into the profane, not dissimilar to that revelatory moment when a Reinhardt black
painting begins to yield to an attuned and patient eye.
You can look for a long time at the surface
of some
of the oils made around 1960 and still make new discoveries: a shift in colour and texture at the right - hand
edge of a work; a tiny, at times invisible, splash
of bright green, pink, or turquoise; or a sharp white rectangle at the very
bottom, half obscured by thicker ice - cream folds
of paint.
Mr. Judd's move to three dimensions is summarized by two very different works from 1963: an aluminum - faced relief drilled with a grid
of tiny holes whose top and
bottom edges curve outward aggressively, and a floor box
painted cadmium red light for maximum visual effect.
Of the roughly two dozen in that first big
painting, only a handful connect the top and
bottom edge.
At the
bottom edge, a bird that seems to have migrated from a Paul Klee
painting offers a great excuse for the display
of more color.
Compositionally, he divides the
painting into a grid consisting
of four rows
of irregularly sized rectangles, with the smallest ones running along the
bottom edge.
Compare, for example, the horizontal, dripping stroke
of brown
paint overlapping the
bottom edge of blank cloth at the top
of the first panel and its reiteration in white at an analogous spot in panel two.
Marden's early
paintings box the viewer into the moment
of encounter, offering at most a sliver
of spattered canvas along a picture's
bottom edge — like a faint crack
of light beneath a door — as a whispered invitation to ponder the work's material history and creative context.
And the only kind
of horizontal lines we have are really on the top left and the
bottom right, and otherwise, even the
edges, the side
edges,
of this
painting are diagonal, so they almost shoot you out to another artwork or whatever else might be in the room.
Painter Ronnie Landfield responds in print to recent criticism
of the hard
edge areas
of color that appear at the
bottom of each
of his
paintings.
In «Endless
Painting 1,» 2014, two column - like forms go off the top and
bottom edges of a large vertical canvas.
Present in several
paintings is the artist's signature abstracted proscenium stage composition, here with horizon lines only inches from the
painting's
bottom edge, providing for a sense
of a deep expanse.
The
painting's title and the artist's signature hug the breadth
of the
bottom edge, spelled out in machine - stenciled letters that negate this most intimately tailored sign
of the artist's hand.
In his early
paintings Marden left a bare narrow margin at the
bottom edge of the thickly worked surface
of oil mixed with wax to allow the observer to be witness to the process.
The wall - hung sculptures pair stitched and
painted expanses
of nylon — resembling lumpy sleeping bags — from whose
bottom edges are affixed lengths
of heavy chain, like flaccid tentacles dangling from the larger body.
On the nearly ten - by - eleven - foot canvas, a handful
of five - pointed stars, like those on the American flag or the Hollywood Walk
of Fame, accompanies the titular phrase as it tips down and over the
painting's
bottom edge.
In one tightly calibrated delicacy («Lost Horizons # 37»), the falling water in that printed /
painted scene is echoed in irregular patches
of decorative marbling, and those fluid striations are distilled further in the work's hem, a fringe
of dripped white
paint on a dark band along the
bottom edge.
Now considered to represent the Colour Field
Painting tendency within American Abstract Expressionism, these rectangles
of uniform width fill the canvas almost
edge to
edge; at the top and
bottom the forms also press close to the perimeter.
Within the square format
of «Maintenant» (1981), which is French for «now,» or the eternal and changing present, a steeple - like structure rises up from the
painting's
bottom edge, slowly distinguishing itself from the gray wall
of paint.
I think
of this as the subtext
of Untitled (1968), a relatively small work
painted in acrylic on paper mounted on board, with its flickering flames
of bright cardinal red licking at the
edges of the
bottom beam
of black.
Over a background
of deep maroon, with a band
of green at the
bottom edge of the composition, the primary schemes
of Marden's early
paintings merge with the more earthlike hues
of his recent work.
Her new
paintings and works on paper present a single, animated rectangle, often thicker on the top and
bottom and narrower on the sides, which sits slightly off - center at the
bottom edge of the canvas or paper support.
Since at least 2003, when he had an exhibition
of Recent
Paintings at PS1, his signature gesture has been to bracket his canvases across the top and
bottom edges with large gobs
of paint.
Another effect is the tapering
of a gray band into an overlapping darker or lighter gray, starting at the top or
bottom edge and moving at a predetermined angle until it reaches the opposite
edge, which introduces a visual tremor into the
painting.
Each
painting — usually a square, as were the three big ones recently on display at Team Gallery in New York City — is constructed
of rectangular color areas, loosely
painted, laid one next to the other like blocks
of stone; the horizontal line
of each color block is separated from those above and below it (and from the top and, usually, the
bottom edges of the canvas) by a continuous or broken line
of colored «mortar.»
Structurally, Evertz's
paintings interweave perfectly plumb, vertical stripes with lines that taper as they reach the top and
bottom edges of the canvas.
In Robert Holyhead's Untitled (yellow), a variegated yellow ground is interrupted by two, flatly
painted, white triangular shapes reading as cut - outs, accompanied by a vertical line
of a different yellow, running along the right hand
edge branching out at top and
bottom into two triangles causing the yellow
of the ground to recede, and creating a lively ambiguous space.
Reinhardt describes these
paintings as: «A square (neutral, shapeless) canvas, five feet wide, five feet high, as high as a man, as wide as a man's outstretched arms (not large, not small, sizeless), trisected (no composition), one horizontal form negating one vertical form (formless, no top, no
bottom, directionless), three (more or less) dark (lightless) no - contrasting (colorless) colors, brushwork brushed out to remove brushwork, a matte, flat, free - hand,
painted surface (glossless, textureless, non-linear, no hard -
edge, no soft
edge) which does not reflect its surroundings — a pure, abstract, non-objective, timeless, spaceless, changeless, relationless, disinterested
painting — an object that is self - conscious (no unconsciousness) ideal, transcendent, aware
of no thing but art (absolutely no anti-art).»
The overall design and build quality
of the LG G5 does feel a little unpolished, with something like the sudden breaks along the chamfered
edges giving the appearance
of the
paint chipping, and the curves at the top and
bottom giving it a bent look.
Spray the cans with a water - resistant
paint and leave to dry, then pierce the
bottom of the cans (for drainage) and on opposite sides
of the top
edge.
I decided not to sand the pattern work as I didn't want to ruin anything and simply
painted that
bottom edge of the table instead.
Pour the
paint in the
paint tray and then use what's left in the can to work on the
edges - there is still quite a bit
of paint in the can clinging to the
bottom and sides