Sentences with phrase «center of the canvas»

Turning away from the classical style of portraiture, Joffe often captures her subjects in awkward or humorous poses, frequently framed just off center of the canvas.

Again, Calvi, one of a group of «new black» pictures («although there's no black in any of them»), floats a dense, dark shape like an almost - square pentagon into the top center of the canvas.

At the very center of the canvas is a tiny image of an improbable landscape, which seems to fade helplessly, unable to cling to the surface.

Here the poured section of the paint is confined to the center of the canvas, implying a rigidity within the otherwise uncontrolled action of pouring paint.

-- occupy the center of the canvas, which is on the same small scale as before.

Some of the colors could be lovely, too, as with Fandango (1988), with ovals in the center of the canvas of yellow, blue and red on a pinkish field.

Boycotting the idea of design or arrangement, and encompassing the entire color spectrum, Steir divides her square paintings directly in the center of the canvas.

Yet by 1967 a tangle of black brushstrokes had gathered near the center of canvas after canvas, in a shape much like a torn and tortured brain.

In these paintings, one's eye is drawn not to the center of the canvas, but to the bold forms that appear incised at the edge of the surface.

Pierre Buraglio cuts, folds back, and then paints the center of a canvas, for a vertical of deep color against the simplicity of its background and the wall.

Until one day, about three years ago, when - much to his surprise - Kleberg plucked out the figure and stared at an empty block of color in the center of a canvas.

Sometimes a line floats in the center of the canvas, and other times it repeats manically from top to bottom, covered over in paint until it's almost aggressively illegible.

The blue sky, sun - kissed figures, and vast rolling water strike a calm note; however, the visible disengagement of the figures from each other and their noticeable preoccupation with the bell buoy at the center of the canvas belie the initial sense of serenity.

The dowels that the gloves, socks, and hat are attached to are part of the frame, and they push large amounts of paint into the center of the canvas, which forms the body of Joseph Smith.

There are typically two biomorphic shapes in the center of each canvas; sometimes there are four somewhat more geometric elements placed to make an open square or rectangle.

Anuszkiewicz's work applied the latest findings in color theory and visual perception to measured, geometric compositions of precise linear patterns within gridded or square formats, which often emanate outwards from the center of the canvas.

Gualdoni appeared in «Pour» last spring, and her stains spread outward from the center of a canvas.

The dominant red of Composition starts in a near square, echoed in framing lines on all four edge, before sending a burst down through the center of the canvas.

In the 1950s, Noland made his most famous series of works, which included nearly two hundred paintings of concentric circles that seemed to float in the center of the canvas, animated by pure, pulsing color.

As the pigment accumulates, the center of the canvas builds and deepens in their created illusion of depth.

Here, the artist initially painted rectangular «frames» of color extending to her pictures» literal edges; within a few years, however, she began pulling these frames back toward the center of the canvas.

He paints in series, with the shimmer of all - over painting, sometimes working outward from the center of the canvas in loops and swirls almost out of Cy Twombly.

By slashing the center of his canvases, Fontana allowed three — dimensional space...

There is a small doorway painted at the center of each canvas toward which perspective lines converge.

Hovering in the center of the canvas, the energetic brushwork creates a weightless quality that only serves to enhance the work's impact.

In the 1950s, he made a series of nearly 200 paintings of concentric circles — sometimes called the «target paintings» — that seemed to float in the center of the canvas, animated by pure, pulsing color.

Likewise, vertical black stripes streaking down the centers of canvases or delimiting their perimeters bring to mind ghosts of Barnett Newman past, though Chirulescu's lines result from the black frames of photographic negatives writ — and reproduced — large.

Layers of visually heavy structures, and semi-symmetrical objects fill her paintings and seem to hover in the center of the canvas, evoking an illusion of weightlessness.

Two wonderful examples in terracotta from 1959 resemble his first spatial - concept monochrome paintings with the signature vertical cut in the center of the canvas.

A skull can be seen near the center of the canvas and on the top right, there is a singular «S» that resembles the logo for Sketchers.

With that gesture, Wardlaw reaches in from the edge and grabs the center of the canvas for us.

Bars of green and red jostle with each other across the center of the canvas, with bolts of blue and several stabs of white enlivening the scene.

Typically positioned in the center of the canvas, father and daughter look straight out at the viewer and yet retain a deep emotional inwardness.

This interest in the paint's body is evidenced in works like Conjunction 17 - 20, which features thick, vertical stripes that jut across the center of the canvas.

In Entangled, solitary faces and animals levitate in the center of the canvas and are the focal point of every scene.

In his «Disc» series of paintings from 1965, a dense circle of color appears to pulsate in the center of the canvas like the sun in an eerily bright sky.

In Lace I (2012), the artist utilizes the grommeted straps and rope to literally lace - up the center of the canvas, while also referencing the material used in women's fabric arts.

Lavender Shadow Plaid (2014), and Long Sleeve Plaid (2015) isolate their garments in the center of the canvases against monochrome grounds.

After marking off a small section in the center of the canvas, Goode created a metallic gray color field, afterwards adding in architectural details of the house.

French painter Bernard Piffaretti, whose work was just exhibited at Cherry and Martin in Los Angeles, similarly employs a single, initiating mark down the center of the canvas, reminiscent of Barnett Newman, and bold colors and graphic marks like the abstract expressionists; however, the similarities end there.

He makes greater use of negative space, isolating his quatrefoil and dumbbell shaped forms in the center of the canvas.

In the center of the canvas, Poseidon's trident is faintly visible, seamlessly blended with its abstract surroundings.