Sentences with phrase «canvas as a map»

To what extent do you conceive of your canvas as a map?

Daily racing forms are Barnette's most dominant canvas as they map the walls of the main gallery.

Not exact matches

«The cosmological divisions of the universe were mapped onto the physical landscape using the relief of the Cumberland Plateau as a topographic canvas,» said Simek.

In response to the critique of Lost in Translation as trading on stereotypes (2), Alice Lovejoy suggests that, «Japan is not Japan itself but rather a canvas onto which these Americans» emotions are mapped» (p. 11).

There are loads of mind mapping software's out there but Scapple's endless canvas, that you can keep adding and adding to, and easy import function, gets your ideas as notes into Scrivener, wins it for writers.

As stated previously, the next major update will add more maps for Warzone Firefight, new Forge canvases, an «improved spectator experience,» and the ability to join live custom games on Xbox One and Windows 10 PC.»

The game features classic level design and a world map reminiscent of the classic Kirby's Dreamland, and battles that harken back to Kirby Super Star or even Kirby and the Crystal Shards, but after games such as Kirby's Epic Yarn and even Kirby's Canvas Curse for the Nintendo DS, is it enough?

Utilizing old maps as his canvas and a Bic biro pen as his instrument of choice, his illustrations are nothing short of beautiful.

Powell says that he chose old maps as his canvas because he believes they give his subjects a more profound background and greater story.

Ofili came to prominence in the early 1990s with richly orchestrated paintings combining rippling dots of paint, drifts of glitter, collaged images and elephant dung — varnished, often studded with map pins and applied to the picture surface as well as supporting the canvas — a combination of physical elevation and symbolic link to the earth.

In fact, the dung balls, one of the trademarks of Chris Ofili's early style, had been used sparingly: to prop up the canvas (the words «Virgin» and «Mary» are written on the balls using map pins) and, on the canvas itself, as the Virgin's right breast.

Artist innovative and pioneering, surprised us by creating an entirely personal artistic style, with richly paintings combining rippling dots of paint, drifts of glitter, collaged images and elephant dung — varnished, often studded with map pins and applied to the picture surface as well as supporting the canvas — a combination of physical elevation and symbolic link to the earth.

Bleckner, of course, has been mining the territory mapped by tragic loss and fleeting beauty throughout his career, and his waxy new works ---- clock faces overlaid by bright floral motifs on canvas and paper ---- continue in this vein and show him in peak form as he returns to gestural painting from recent harder - edged, airbrushed works.

In the 1400s and 1500s, many paintings, such as the famous Arnolfini portrait by Jan Van Eyck dated 1434, or Raphael's La Donna Gravida, were those of pregnant women — among them, there is also Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, although her condition is not clearly visible and was discovered only recently, thanks to infra - red scans and 3D mapping of the canvas.

In the late 1960s / early 1970s, Bowling's interest in decolonized space turned towards the cartographic, as he began work on his celebrated «maps» paintings — large - scale canvases onto which Bowling would paint the outlines of continents and countries, often stenciling images with personal significance onto the map, and painting over the forms with washes of vibrant color.

Conforming to Greenberg's idea, Johns began to use the American flag and the map of the United States as subjects, while Rauschenberg made his canvas for «Bed» from a pieced quilt — a unique bit of traditional Americana.

Whitney's obsessive dedication to color — color as content; color as movement; color as human experience — has never been so clearly mapped out as it is in these large canvases.

Executed in oil and oil stick on un-stretched canvas, this large, asymmetric and nearly monochromatic black work conjures geographies as much as omens, like an aerial map of a country destroyed by a plague.

Initially, going through a semi-abstract phase, as in his series of Map Paintings, 1967 - 1971, where the contours of different continents are stencilled on luscious colour fields, he soon shifted to new working methods of splashing, pouring and dripping paint onto the canvas.

Mehretu uses rich layers of paint and drawings, inspired by elements of geography and architecture, and describes her canvases as «story maps of no location.»

A trademark element in his paintings has been his use of varnished elephant dung, sometimes decorated with map pins, either as a support for the paintings or applied directly to the canvas.

Well, there is or has been an idea that space in abstract painting is about «interval», i.e. across the canvas, as per your aerial thing, like distance on a map.

Three interpretations of a screen door fade from a solid black resin - and - fiberglass panel (Blue Screen Door, 1971) to a blue neon line squiggling up the wall (Blue Door Edge, 1971) to a wan canvas sheet (Blue Screen Door Map, 1972) as though the door itself is wasting away.

Going beyond abstract expressionism, we will consider the text and ideas laden works of Jasper Johns, Cy Twombly, Peter Sacks and Ed Ruscha; Agnes Martin's and Robert Ryman's meditative canvases; the compilations of Markus Lupertz; Julie Mehretu's maps, as well as the work of Louise Bourgeois, Cecily Brown and Eva Hesse.

Brookes» molecular paintings begin as two - dimensional maps (molecular line drawings) of the precise locations of individual atoms, which then expand and radiate out from these hyper detailed focal points to cover the canvas's surface.

«The Healthy Planet Foundation «s Guardian project is about connecting people with conservation by using the World Database of Protected Areas in Google Earth and Google Maps as the canvas for conservation organizations to present projects in particular protected areas.