Sentences with phrase «color against a canvas»

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I write better than I speak... and I can imagine a canvas that only God could draw Himself, that would have only the best colors and hues, perhaps on an autumn day in the Black Hills of South Dakota, where the golden wheat stalks are up against the red, orange and gold...

Tucson - based artist Kyle Kulakowski specializes in video game - inspired black velvet paintings, a medium that uses black velvet in place of canvas, allowing vibrant colors to pop out more against the dark background.

Other compositions in this series feature an assortment of shapes — including Xs and ziggurats — all pressed against the edges of the square and rectangular canvases and all similarly striped with such colors as goldenrod and cool green.

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.

Sadie Benning and Julia Rommel connect with the hard - edge color - field abstraction of the 1960's, pushing outward against the edges of the canvas through their innovative use of materials.

Meanwhile Kelly would have appreciated the broad areas of color, sometimes filling an entire canvas set against another, much like his.

In a departure from previous works, the new paintings pair color against color, rather than incorporating white or raw canvas to stabilize the foreground.

In her pulsating new large - scale canvases, Gilfilen pits clashing colors against one another in snaking layers and agitated line, filling once pristine areas with murky, mark - cancelling clots of paint.

sewn in the same way as Suh's «hubs», these pieces are immersed in water, during which a gelatin tissue canvas leaves an impression of fabric threads that appear as a skeletal framework against the colored form of an object.

sewn in the same way as suh's «hubs», these pieces are immersed in water, during which a gelatin tissue canvas leaves an impression of fabric threads that appear as a skeletal framework against the colored form of an object.

Her works push the boundaries of a two - dimensional medium; the irregular triangles in the «Giant Maiden» series (1972) strain against the edges of canvases painted in high relief, while the explosive colors on an intricate collage - like canvas in Do the Dance (2005) lend the painting a kinetic, almost optical quality.

Done with oil sticks pressed directly against the canvas, a method Mr. Goldberg chose some years ago over brushing with paint, they are energetic productions based on what he called a «quasi grid,» with patchy squares of color intersected at random by strong diagonals.

Using toxic colors and combinations, Flood started making paintings from paint soaked lace pressed against a canvas, showing the age and wear endured by the battered lace before its last incarnation in printmaking.

But prolonged looking brought the realization that these flecks of white served to assert the thingness of the canvas, their grainy blankness crackling against the dots and strokes of color, and reinforcing the tactility of the surface.

Black and White, Mostly — Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX The Grant and Peggy Reuber Collection of International Works on Paper — McIntosh Gallery, London, ON Local History: Enrico Castellani, Donald Judd, Frank Stella — Dominique Lévy Gallery, New York City, NY Local History: Castellani, Judd, Stella — Dominique Lévy Gallery — London, London In Living Color: Andy Warhol and Contemporary Printmaking — Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE Taking A Stand Against War — Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg Alois Breyer, El Lissitzky, Frank Stella: Wooden Synagogues — Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv Love Story — Sammlung Anne & Wolfgang Titze — Schweizergarten, Vienna Modernism from the National Gallery of Art: The Robert & Jane Meyerhoff Collection — The de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA Openness And Clarity: Color Field Works From The 1960S And 1970S — Honor Fraser, Los Angeles, CA Summer Group Exhibition: Part I — Van Doren Waxter, New York City, NY The Shaped Canvas, Revisited — Luxembourg & Dayan, New York City, NY Calculated Abstractions — Hard - Edge Prints — UB Art Galleries — University of Buffalo, Buffalo, NY Solidaridad Y Resistencia.

In canvases ranging from the intimate to the monumental, he is able to present us with magnificently lush and detailed scenes of abundantly fruiting plants, and wonderfully stoic portraits and groupings of birds and wildlife, yet almost always staged against a foreboding grey backdrop the color of wet concrete or a thick industrial fog.

He emphasized spatial relationships in his work by leaving unstained, bare canvas as a contrast against the colors used throughout his paintings.

As an example of his work, Shozo Shimamoto's Bottle Crash performances consisted of the artist smashing glass bottles full of paint against a ground of canvas to create a pulsating field of color.

The isolated and decontextualized motorcycle parts and B.S.A. logo are presented in the canvas» center against monochromatic matte backgrounds with an auratic surrounding color field, as can be seen in works such as Gearbox and Carburetor Floatbowl.

During this time Gilliam experimented by taping and pouring colors, folding and staining canvases, and literally folding a still wet canvas against itself to imprint vertical, angular, and axial forms.

To my mind, Hirst's Spot Paintings are no different in their engagement with art history, as these pulsating canvases of color — ranging from dense fields of tiny dots to a few spare circles isolated against an expanse of white — call to mind Georges Seurat, Hans Hoffmann, Kenneth Noland, Frank Stella, Gerhard Richter, and many more.

Supercharged by vivid colors against a deep black, from canvas to canvas the paintings become increasingly raucous, tumbling, joyous, and sinister.

His bold colors work against the unprimed, unstretched canvases which serve as both a conforming geometric structure and deconstructed space.

Juxtaposed against the raw canvas, the glowing matte color appears to float off the painting.

Typically fields of color marked with faint charcoal lines suggesting a door or a window, the Open paintings were originally inspired by the sight of a small canvas leaning against a larger one.

Her pictures range in spirit from the stark, pared - down images of the 1960's, which sometimes consist of just two or three bright banners of color unfurled against the bare whiteness of the canvas, to the more baroque images of the 80's, whose dense, flooded surfaces at times suggest underwater scenes.

In recent years Schulz has frequently brought individually stretched, small shaped canvases into puzzle - like conjunctions against which to play drawing, color and brushwork.

... Whole canvases are united in a single rhythm, with accents of rich color and dark tones played against white» (J. E. Bernstock, Joan Mitchell, New York, 1997, pp. 35, 38).

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.