Sentences with phrase «center of the painting»

Tracing the motif from Piero's Brera Madonna, in which an ostrich egg suspended over the heads of the Virgin and Child provides «the psychological center of the painting,» Agee brings it forward to an early still - life by de Kooning, and beyond.

Despite his attention to detail, however, Piazza doesn't withhold anything from the viewer; each one of his compositions has an obvious focal point or subject that sits suspended in the very center of the painting.

I have long admired Mumford's virtuosic ability to push the paint around, and one of my favorite passages in this work is found at some distance from the kneeling American soldier who is the narrative if not literal center of the painting.

The formal spirit of the piece yields to the verbal center of the painting, and back and forth, neither side ever seizes control.

Towards the center of the painting, we get a full view of an infant carrier made from a lighter (undyed, natural) color cloth tied in a simple rucksack, over the shoulders and then wrapped around the back, crossed under the ruck and probably tied or pinned in the front.

Glue the painted MDF door to the center of the painted canvas.

There in the lower right is the Cubist moment, an angled rhombus heading toward the center of the painting.

The characters are at the center of the paintings.

Two early works by Frank Stella, Tetuan II, 1964 and Averroes, 1960 are placed at the center of the Painting Gallery.

Narrator: Here's a trick question: can you find the center of this painting?

Unlike the works on aluminum, these paintings bear the psychological weight of empty rooms, and the thrumming heart of the show is the white void in the center of a painting from his «Modern House» series, a ghost image of an architectural space dissipating into pure absence.

Working without sketches or color notations, he started at the center of the painting, choosing each color spontaneously.

Butler's skillful, carefully executed acrylics are so free of texture they seem almost silkscreen, but he is going for a surface even more elusive, since these images are stand - ins for celluloid: The words «The End», «L. Butler Pictures», and a date in Roman numerals appear in the center of each painting like a vintage movie's last frame.

In Face Eater, the eyes fill the center of the painting with a hypnotic reminder that the creature doing this bizarre act is supposed to be human,» according to Associate Curator of Contemporary Art, Renee B. Miller of the Denver Art Museum.

The toothy blue head at the center of the painting reminds me of figures by Dana Schutz and some recent «portraits» by Nicole Eisenman, similarly recalling Dubuffet, and makes me feel that the right context for McNeil could matter to younger artists who may not be familiar with his expressive intensity and humor.

Michael Auping: This was a very new thing for painting to have a hole in the center of your painting that was as much about the wall almost as it was about the painting.

At one point, the total abandonment of the recognizable object, that we saw as the 20th century progressed, and in the works of Wassily Kandinsky and Jackson Pollock, seemed to place color, marks, drips, at the center of the paintings, making the act of painting all about the painting itself.

There is a density of these gestures orchestrated towards the center of the painting at a bit of a distance from the work's margins.

Yossifor's method of moving circularly from the center of the painting is evident by compositions that seem separated from the untouched white edges and that are darkest from the center outward.

As a closed form, the circle hovers slightly above the center of the painting and transforms into something completely different, into an almost linear rotation, whose course again increasingly expands breadthwise, opens up and penetrates the immobile material of the flat canvas.

A small, raised vertical ellipse is poised at the center of each painting, suggesting a concentration of erotic energy.

In the center of the painting run three horizontal strips of fabric, each with a stripe of dry - brushed paint in blue or pink.

Marcia H Travels reveals stencils of South America on the far left, Africa in the center of the painting, and Guyana in the top right - hand corner.

This first example, titled «Genesi», is painted in a striking bright pop green, with two large gouges in the center of the painting that cut through the canvas, thereby enabling the viewer to look beyond the physical fact of the painting to what Fontana called «free space.»

Large graphite rectangular shapes with rounded edges are drawn at the center of each painting with wide borders of fine grid like patterns.

Unlike the typical three - part «U» lines in the Opens, August Sea No. 3 is marked by only two black lines, with a horizontal line jutting across the center of the painting to be met in askew perpendicular fashion by a vertical line extending from the top of the composition.

The pair fill the center of the painting.

Aggressively worked from the center of the painting, the impasto offers a glimpse into the many layers of color comprising the composition.

At the Sundaram Tagore Gallery in SoHo, I experienced an exhibition of canvases by Bhavsar where the density of color literally burst from the center of the painting outward with sinuous tendrils that wove through space at the edges of an ovoid.

Finkelstein breaks with tradition and paints the focal point — a marble bust — smack dab in the center of the painting.

His son is at the center of another painting in the last room — and, along with Notre Dame, my other long - time favorite.

In «Virgin and Child Enthroned with Four Angels,» Mary sits in the center of the painting, subtly larger than the four angels surrounding her, the scale - difference giving her quiet grandeur.