He employed small, hatched brushstrokes to build up a central area of delicate colour on
a canvas of white background.
Not exact matches
Already using black - and -
white palette in a series
of ink on paper sketches, Kline now expanded the method employed the
canvas and house - painting brushes that enabled him to create broad strokes
of dark color intersecting the
white background.
Preparing a
canvas with a
background of pale gray and then superimposing on it one small
white arc after another, she ended up with a surface that pulsated with a lacelike proliferation.
The thin layer
of removed
white wall paint is then applied onto raw
canvas and framed, so that this ordinary, typically valueless and disregarded «
background» is transcended and becomes painting with a new worth and significance.
Though the foreground is made up
of flat, thickly colored geometric shapes, the
background is comprised
of thin washes
of acrylic or vacant
white canvas.
The Barré paintings at Andrea Rosen belonged to a group
of works developed between the years 1963 and 1967, whose most prominent features are black lines spray - painted across the
white canvas background.
Executed in oil on
canvas with minimal use
of colour and a dark tonality, the full faced figures stand out in sharp contrast to the plain
white background, heightening the sense
of confrontation.
A large
canvas by Agnes Martin, who considered herself an Abstract Expressionist — although her work is closely aligned with Minimalism — consists
of faint, hand - ruled graphite lines on an off -
white background.
On the ground right: Martin Kippenberger Richter - Modell (interconti), 1987 a 1972 Gerhard Richter painting, wood frame, metal legs From right to left: Lucio Fontana — Hisachika Takahashi Concetto spaziale, Attese, 1966 oil on
canvas; Louise Lawler Chandelier, 2007 cibachrome mounted on museum box Elad Lassry Man (Selfie), 2014 c - print photograph; Sturtevant Duchamp Man Ray Portrait, 1966 black and
white photograph; Louise Lawler Marilyn, 1999 cibachrome, museum mount; Sturtevant Warhol Marilyn (study for Warhol diptych), 1973 silkscreen and acrylic on
canvas; Maurizio Mochetti Mochetti di Mochetti (Jean Harlow), 1976 Conté de Paris on paper; Pierre Huyghe De Hory Modigliani, 2007 oil on
canvas; Cy Twombly Copy
of a Picasso, 1988 acrylic on
canvas; Jean - Auguste - Dominique Ingres Autoportrait de Raphael, 1820 — 1824 oil on
canvas; Francis Bacon four slashed
canvas oil on
canvas; Asger Jorn Brotherhood Above All, 1962 oil on
canvas; Asger Jorn The Sweet Life II, 1962 oil on
canvas Asger Jorn Rutting Stag in the Royal Forest, 1960 oil on
canvas;
Background wallpaper: Sara Cwynar 72 Pictures
of Modern Paintings, 2016 wallpaper On the ground left: Vija Celmins To Fix the Image in Memory XIII, 1977 — 1982 tones and painted bronze
In the black paintings as well as in the
white ones, however, the geometric weave is interrupted by trims or by the transversal advance
of the monochromatic
background over the figure, and we are launched once again into the field
of the representation delimited by the
canvas.
In Staring Horse (2004), the
canvas is dominated by the direct gaze
of a
white horse who engages with the viewer as it emerges from a richly worked
background.
The Russian Suprematist painter Kazimir Malevich made
canvases of pure form and color, like black squares on
white backgrounds, or what he termed «Suprematist Compositions»
of varied forms floating in space.
All the while, the
backgrounds of each
canvas remain a pure
white.
Set on intricate
backgrounds of fabric collage and pastel - colored acrylic paint, Baechler often furnishes his objects with a
white halo that gives them a child - like cutout quality and makes them seem to float off the
canvas.
The Splash engages the viewer with visible textures
of dark paint on
canvas juxtaposed a flat blue sky
background with a
white swirl
of color, perhaps alluding a to «splash»
of color.
Months afterwards the results
of Martinez's stylistic shift — near mural - sized
canvases of primary colored forms set against open
white backgrounds — are shown on exhibition at The Journal Gallery in Brooklyn.
Mark Flood's enormous
canvas situates a gauze fabric veil at the picture plane, behind which a chasmic depth is inferred; Christopher Wool's intimate monoprints blot a bright red mark atop a printed black and
white background, condensing or collapsing the space
of the image.
On arrival, visitors are greeted by four large - scale works that are illustrative
of a typical Waterfall painting: thick horizontal lines made in the upper reaches
of the 3 - metre tall
canvas, from which rivulets
of paint dribble down over a
background, creating a dichrome image, often tending to shades
of black and
white.