I was doing black
circle paintings in 1966, and then two years later May 1968 happened, so things did eventually kind of work out that way.
In the early 1970s, Frank Stella developed his iconic Protractor Series of paintings using the geometric tool for which the series is named, to create half and full
circles painted with fields of color.
«In fashionable art -
world circles the paintings of David Bates are considered conservative if not reactionary or, at best, guilty pleasures, if they are considered at all,» wrote the New York Times's co — chief art critic, Roberta Smith, as late as 2006, in a review of a show at Manhattan's DC Moore Gallery.
Hirst is probably most widely recognized for his so called spot paintings which feature rows of randomly colored
circles painted by his assistants.
The catalogue for a 1994 exhibit at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston entitled The Circle Paintings, 1956 — 1963 mentioned 175
known circle paintings, the smallest being only 13 inches square, the largest, 117.
Inspired by an American original, this six - foot -
square circle painting was commissioned by the couple to create a focal point in the room — its geometric motif, something that suits the style of the house, isn't a coincidence!
Lang has been making word paintings for even longer than he's been
doing circle paintings, going back to the heyday of conceptual art.
The white and
gold circle painting hanging over my sofa and the orange washed painting hanging over my bar were both created during the first summer that I lived on my own.
Later he began his Protractor Series (71) of paintings, in which arcs, sometimes overlapping, within square borders are arranged side - by - side to produce full and
half circles painted in rings of concentric color.
Song, 1958, and Untitled, 1959, are characteristic of the
earliest circle paintings, consisting of loosely - brushed outer ring (a holdover from Noland's earlier Abstract Expressionist works) enclosing narrower bands of color.
Noland's concentric
circle paintings made their debut in 1959 at the French and Company gallery in New York.
Kenneth Noland's
circle paintings consist of centrally places concentric bands of intensely colored plastic - based paint that is stained into large, unprimed and roughly square canvases.
For a painter like Jiro Yoshihara who was renowned for his white
circles paintings created by leaving the canvas unpainted whilst painting the background black, it's about the negative space exercise — what strength can you create by not painting, by leaving it empty.
The highest auction price for a work by the artist is $ 797,750, paid at Sotheby's in New York in 2000 for the
acrylic circle painting Heat, 1958, which had been given an estimate of $ 250,000 / 350,000.
Pace will present the artist's concentric
circle painting Mysteries: Agate (2002) and 9 PM (2003) featuring horizontal bands of color which span the canvas's entire surface.
The installation, Le Magasin Monumental, is composed of mixed - media pieces, «reliefs au mur» constructed out of discarded materials (wire, weathered wood and stories) and installed on the wall
among circles painted in pale, pastel colours.
This second relief, described by the artist as having a
recessed circle painted white and crossed by radiating strings, would appear to be Relief Construction II (formerly in the collection of the late Anthony Froshaug, now thought to be lost, fig. 000) which, in 1973, was thought to be the only other surviving relief construction.
«In fashionable art -
world circles the paintings of David Bates are considered conservative if not reactionary or, at best, guilty pleasures, if they are considered at all,» wrote the New York Times» co-chief art critic, Roberta Smith, in 2006.
Produced near the end of Noland's series
of circle paintings of 1958 — 62, the work was originally entitled Clement's Gift — a reference to it being given to Noland's friend and long - time supporter, the influential New York art critic Clement Greenberg.
The resulting shift in color perception bestows extra sensitivity to other hues, however, as the researchers demonstrated by asking subjects to rate the similarity of 15
circles painted in tones of khaki.
We both knew I wasn't going to be painting that dresser but he picked it up anyway, bought the paint from
the circled paint chip card I handed him and got to work that weekend, sanding and painting, while the tinies rode bikes and watched the jets from the local air show overhead.
Mosset, in addition to a series of his infamous «
circle paintings» from the 1960s, will present a large - scale installation of several dozen Toblerones, large cardboard sculptures based on anti-tank structures used by the Swiss army.
In
the circle paintings, Noland took this freedom a step further, releasing color from the confines of representational form.
In 1977 the Guggenheim Museum in New York held a much - acclaimed Noland retrospective, with a neat correspondence between
the circle paintings and the spiral ramp.
Noland and Louis began to experiment together, staining with the new Magna plastic - based paints, which eventually led Louis to his renowned «veils» and Noland to
the circle paintings.
«Noland's
circle paintings, in particular, seemed to expel everything «inessential» to painting,» critic Robert Hughes wrote in his book «American Visions.»
This leap gave birth in the Sixties to his series of
circle paintings.
Prices for
the circle paintings have reached as high as $ 1million, he said, though he noted that the highest price the gallery had received for a Noland painting was $ 300,000.
Spot and
circle paintings are back on Madison Avenue, but this time they're not by Damien Hirst or Yayoi Kusama.
In the house I grew up existed the 80s a huge alpha in
a circle painted with a brush, I do not know when and who did it, but I can not say I have seen something more interesting since then, in the wall.
Of Mr. Noland's concentric -
circle paintings, he wrote in Art International: «His color counts by its clarity and its energy; it is not there neutrally, to be carried by the design and drawing; it does the carrying itself.»
Today, one of her incandescent, concentric
circle paintings, «Resurrection» (1966), hangs in the White House.
Mosset became known for
his circle paintings during this period.
Emphasizing primary colors, «Resurrection,» a 1966 acrylic and graphite on canvas, is an example of her vibrant, concentric
circle paintings.
While aesthetically similar,
his circle paintings are a notable extension from the rest of his work, employing iconic shapes to create a trellis.
In two - dimensional works, as well as in performance and installation pieces, the artist has seemed to
circle painting from a somewhat ironic distance; in this exhibition, she gets down to work.
I continued doing
those circle paintings, then I started doing more linear things, with line.
The visual experience is hardly transcendent, certainly in comparison with
the circle paintings, but is more than mere fun (or annoyance): Lang's rants, comic in their bluster, have a genuinely furious edge to them, and speak to — well, yell at — various unhappy social circumstances of our time, their ire given depth by their blasting color and rampant calligraphy.
They are monumental in size, which at first seems like a challenge to the crowded field of
circle painting: Yo, any of you doing it this big?