In Untitled (1972), Baer expands the stark
white center of her composition, pushing thin bands of her distinctive black and blue hues to the very edges, to create a shift in the use of central space, characteristic of her minimal works of the 1970s.
This would not seem particularly remarkable were it not for the fact that Haggerty breaks this linear formation at the edges of the painting — and occasionally also at the
symmetrical center of the composition — by bending the lines in a different direction as they approach the boundaries of the painting support.
Much in the way 17th - century painters would direct the viewer's eye to the
dramatic center of their compositions, Renoir, with this billowing white dress, draws the eye upward, where the man's black arms and white gloves entrap his partner as his body seems to blend with hers.
At
the center of the composition is a group of friends who call themselves the Sally Fowler Rat Pack, after the one of their number who hosts the postdance skull sessions that supply the setting for much of the picture.
Yet they also appear to materialize out of nothing at
the center of the composition, like something present and immediate.
In «A Royal Visit» (2013), the regally dressed woman in a violet stole is holding a brush as she applies the finishing touches to a tall object in
the center of the composition while the shirtless artist on the right holds a framed painting under his arm.
(1959), «Black Paintings» series «Out of frustration with some previous works I'd made using combinations of black, yellow and red stripes, I started making symmetrical paintings with all - black bands that radiated in concentric patterns from
the center of the composition.
In
the center of the composition, a trio of strolling musicians plays a small drum, a guitar, and a guiro (gourd).
Take a look at the form that arcs across
the center of the composition.
White, now a mature artist, is a long resident of New York City, where he has practiced a distinctive form of poetic suggestion, in which rickety, skeletal structures occupy
the center of the composition, whose surrounds indicate a lonely landscape.
Yet even here, bands of black enamel radiating concentrically from
the center of the composition push your eye out to the edges of the painting and beyond.
Large blocks of color seem to tumble together, but the compositions are held firm by diagonal, horizontal, or vertical stripes of darker color which originate at the sides of the canvases and move directly into
the center of the composition or frame it at the edges.
At
the center of the composition, a powerful black Gabriel stands astride earth and sea, summoning the nations of the world to judgment with his trumpet call.
Though the artist begins all eight in the same place — in
the center of the composition, with the darkest color — some are large, others small, some are warmer, others cooler.
He glued them right - side - up and clustered them near
the center of the composition like advertisements.
These elements impart a subtle yet persistent sense of perspective and distance that insistently draws the viewer's gaze from the lower quadrant inward toward
the center of the composition itself.
Sound and music have inspired the physicality of this drip and splash action painting that resonates from
the center of the composition outward beyond the picture plane.
Clusters of interlocking loosely geometric shapes fill
the center of the composition over washes of yellows, grays and pinks.
Each of Hugo Fontela's recent seascapes portrays an island at
the center of its composition.
Wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt and a green knit cap, he faces his reflection squarely in
the center of the composition.
Their height accentuated by the low viewpoint and horizon, the trees partly screen a brilliant sunset sky glimpsed in
the center of the composition.
He also changes the direction of the uniformly painted lines at certain points — bending them toward the edges of his canvases or walls, for example, and / or changing the course of their paths at
the center of his compositions.
In Funeral, the wake itself is hard to decipher, the three coffins of the RAF leaders appearing as brightly illuminated, but illegible spots in
the center of the composition.
Composition 32 (1918) pictures what appears to be barbed wire running through
the center of the composition.
These works, with marks often grouped toward
the center of the composition, recall the «plus and minus» compositions by Piet Mondrian or the late Nymphea canvases by Monet.
Vázquez Rodríguez stands firm in
the center of the composition in the titular role, right foot submerged in a bowl of water, hands clenching a film reel, and neck decorated with snakes.
Cooper begins by making a pinprick in
the center of the composition as a visual metaphor for birth or beginning.
In addition to the wall painting, she will include a few prints and an animation in which balls of architectural fragments float in
the center of the composition.
Rough - hewn masses sweep toward
the center of the composition, where they collide, overlap, and twist into painterly space.
In Poppycock (2017), three ovals compete for prominence in
the center of the composition, shuffling and re-shuffling before settling into a makeshift pile.
The progenitors of key elements in Bengston's later work are evident in his student ceramics: he placed blunt, forceful emblems in
the center of his compositions, and created sharply - angled mug handles shaped like chevrons, a motif he would regularly employ in later works.
In Dance in the City, the woman's dress cascades down
the center of the composition only to be cut short abruptly in the lower right corner.