Sentences with phrase «composition around the canvas»

Yossifor chases an elusive composition around the canvas, though she does not seek to achieve a composition that is thoroughly «resolved.»

Not exact matches

The second series of paintings focuses on color and consists of seven vertical canvases, each with a palette centered around a particular hue while bearing witness to the artist's melding of architectonic composition and organic form.

If composition with regards to painting involves moving the eye around and within the frame of the canvas, Sammak considers time another variable in the equation of form, that not only the perimeter of the frame but also the length of the video is a compositional limit.

I use a limited number of images and obsessively repeat painting them, each as a micro-painting (all around 4» x 4») within the larger composition of canvases (mostly 72» x 80» stretched to stretcher bar supports).

Where Louis harnessed the power of gravity to pull his pigments down the canvas and Frankenthaler very deliberately pushed her paints around, Stern's colors seem to grow and blossom organically across the composition.

While it was around this time that Frankenthaler's canvases began to achieve a lightness — a kind of openness that allowed the composition to breathe — it was in the 1970s that the artist had moved away from the literal and figurative landscapes seen in her early work, such as the celebrated Mountains and Sea from 1952, and towards a more emotional and expressive representation of Color Field paintings where she developed a new sumptuousness and sensuality characterized in the present work.

Wrapping canvas around board yields a surface durable enough to work and rework, and she renders her otherwise complex compositions in a refreshingly unfastidious manner.

A few elements I've evinced from Smith's past exhibitions and around the city (including his painted - directly - on - the - wall installation at Deitch in Long Island City): gestural subject matter (fish, leaves, his name), seriality (in canvas size, subject matter, and hanging — like his 2011 show at Luhring Augustine featured panel grids), synthesized flatness and depth (the mixed - media compositions in his 2009 show Currents resembled large - scale flatbed scans, while neighboring canvases maintained every brushy, gloopy instance of Smith's hand).

This group exhibition showcases the paintings and photography of a select group of gallery and chosen artists from around the globe whose dynamic compositions and narratives are contained with a «small canvas.»