Emphasizing primary colors, «Resurrection,» a 1966 acrylic and graphite on canvas, is an example of her vibrant,
concentric circle paintings.
Today, one of her incandescent,
concentric circle paintings, «Resurrection» (1966), hangs in the White House.
Noland's
concentric circle paintings made their debut in 1959 at the French and Company gallery in New York.
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.
Not exact matches
It will be on display with the museum throughout the autumn and Herd plans to regularly mow it in
concentric circles similar to the Dutch artist's iconic
painting style.
Hollowell herself often
paints in an O'Keeffe - like mode, relying occasionally on
concentric abstract patterns that
circle around a central shape.
They also push all - over
painting hard enough to squeeze out almost all of Pollock's or Frankenthaler's bare canvas, although Gualdoni uses gaps and
concentric black
circles to suggest a bursting through.
He was thinking of Noland's
concentric circles and Stella's black
paintings.
In other
paintings Nolandesque
circles are ringed with far more fanciful
concentric forms, inviting with equal ease viewers in search of a meditative experience and those hungry for intense visual pleasure.
Off - site galleries offered strong artist - is - present showings: at Central Fine on Normandy Drive, airbrushed
paintings by Hubert Bush; at Emerson Dorsch, Back On Earth, hatched by Miami locals, Hugo Montoya and Brandon Opalka; at Locust Projects Daniel Arsham's fierce intervention into the gallery floor, 25 feet wide and up to 3 feet deep, filled with artefacts from the recent past (a bashed - up guitar, a push - button telephone, radios, blown tyres — painstakingly recreated in
concentric circles of volcanic ash, crystal and steel, and all sourced from eBay.
This late
painting shows
concentric circles, brushy painterliness and gorgeous color, as before, but there's an important difference: The palette is darker and uneven saturation gives an illusion of texture.
Done by staining diluted acrylic
paint onto raw, unsized canvas — a technique Mr. Noland learned from Helen Frankenthaler — they consist of
concentric circles in a variety of colors centered on a square canvas.
Organized by Suzette Lane McAvoy, the museum's adjunct curator of contemporary art, it presents canvases from every phase, beginning with early, freely
painted concentric circles and going through the more rigorous chevrons, diamonds, plaids, asymmetricals and stripes of later years to his recent «Mysteries» series, which revisits the
concentric circle motif of his youth.
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.
Noland became celebrated in the 1950s for his series of
concentric circles in a dazzling array of colours; not, like the
paintings of Jasper Johns, targets, but
circles as a simple geometric form that could demonstrate an infinite number of colour combinations.
«Metamorphosis» (2011), a large abstract
painting hung across from a conference table and chairs in the exhibition, centers on a golden yellow hourglass shape pinched between a pair of pea - green ovals, all surrounded by radiating
concentric circles and shapes.
Impressed by the «stain»
paintings of Morris Louis, Noland developed a pictorial language of spare, often bright abstraction centered on
concentric circles and repeated chevrons, motifs that he would utilize throughout his career.
In two recent series, one of rounded - squares that look somewhat like television or computers screens and the other of black
concentric circles that resemble targets, he turns
painting into an industrial project in the manner of photography by making multiple
painted copies of a single one - off photographic image.
Kenneth Noland's colorful
concentric circles, targets, chevrons, stripes, and shaped canvases were among the most recognized and admired signatures of the postwar style of abstraction known as Color Field
painting.
In the 1950s, Noland made his most famous series of works, which included nearly two hundred
paintings of
concentric circles that seemed to float in the center of the canvas, animated by pure, pulsing color.
Of the five distinct Rondinones in this exhibition, one contributed three very large tondo
paintings (all works 1999 — 2000 or 2000):
concentric bands of color à la Kenneth Noland but executed with a spray gun so that the
circles look blurred, out of focus.
On the other two walls of the main gallery, which are
painted a customary white, there is an oil
painting of blue balls on a white field, «Bloobs» (2014) by Mathew Cerletty; a loopy, oddly affecting drawing, «Untitled (shit)» (2011) by David Shrigley, of
concentric circles emanating from the word «shit»; Vern Blosum's «Off The Hook» (2015), a larger - than - life - size graphite drawing of a vintage payphone with its receiver dangling, appropriately, off the hook; and Emily Mae Smith's «The Studio (Science Fiction)» (2015), which depicts the split halves of an eggshell hovering above a flying saucer / fried egg, the edge of its white perimeter forming the words «THE STUDIO» against the starry blackness of outer space.
Untitled (1993) by Jack Goldstein is large format
painting transposing a photographic image of a night sky with different colored
concentric light
circles over a landscape whose silhouette hints at tree tops and a red lava stream.
In the ensuing 18 years she produced the body of work for which she would be justly celebrated, a stream of vividly colorful
paintings made of loosely applied patches configured in irregular grids and
concentric circles.
In Lunar con Tatuaje, a pair of large - scale, half -
circle canvases are
painted in
concentric rings of white, blue, and pale peach, the matte, clean surface of the
paint marred by an erratic tangle of marker lines, arrows, and
circles.
Today is the occasion to bear in mind Kenneth Noland (10/4/1924 -5 / 1/2010), whose brilliantly colored
concentric circles, chevrons and stripes were among the most recognized and admired signatures of the postwar style of abstraction known as Color Field
painting.
Kenneth Noland, whose brilliantly colored
concentric circles, chevrons and stripes were among the most recognized and admired signatures of the postwar style of abstraction known as Color Field
painting, died Tuesday at his home in Port Clyde, Me.
During the ensuing 18 years — despite acute arthritis — she produced the body of work for which she would be justly celebrated, a stream of vividly colorful
paintings made of loosely applied patches configured in irregular grids and
concentric circles.
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.»
Inspired by the black
paintings of Ad Reinhardt and the date
paintings of On Kawara, Scott created a series of «target»
paintings consisting of black and white
concentric circles that appear identical with only slight variations, intending to remove the aspect of qualitative judgment from the viewing experience.
Edward Avedisian in his
painting makes use of strategically placed
concentric circles placed in a larger field of opaque color.
For the past five years, Atlanta artist Don Cooper has
painted concentric circles radiating from a tiny red dot called the bindu.
I also enjoyed Don Cooper's
paintings of
concentric circles, which emanate outward from a central bindu.
These dramatic
paintings, along with his
concentric -
circle pictures, were shown in the United States Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 1964.
Jensen's most recent work includes both oil
paintings and sculptures that draw their inspiration from Scandinavian and Irish Bronze age art, including spirals and
concentric circles that can be found Irish Neolithic rock carving, and symbolic offerings found at holy places in Ireland, Denmark, Norway and Sweden.
Each
painting showed a map of a southern state in
concentric circles, like a darts board, and in the rings Indiana stencilled a caption: «Just as in the anatomy of man, every nation must have its hind part.»
For Tadasky, the framing square format of his
paintings is as essential as the
concentric circles within it, allowing each
painting to act as a means of entry into a transformative space.
Berlin Abstraction incorporates general allusions to German military pageantry found in the other War Motif
paintings: the sleeve cuffs and epaulets of uniforms; a helmet cockade denoted by two
concentric circles; and the blue - and - white, diamond - patterned Bavarian flag.
The
concentric circle, or target, has been one of the predominant motifs in American abstract
painting for the last half - century or more, and, as a result, to wring unexpected changes from it has become increasingly difficult.