Lang has been making word paintings for even longer than he's been
doing circle paintings, going back to the heyday of conceptual art.
I continued
doing those circle paintings, then I started doing more linear things, with line.
Not exact matches
You can
paint your nails with the blue gel nail polish to grab some eyeballs at fashion
circles and glamorous
dos.
I didn't want to stick with a basic white linen, so I created a custom
circle runner using fabric
paint and stamping interlocking
circles down the center of the linen.
I love my abstract
circle painting and am so excited that you
do to!
And don't worry ---- you don't have to be a master of Op Art to
paint a perfect
circle.
From being greeted by Katharina Fritsch's disturbingly hip, pony - tailed Händler (Dealer)(2001), with his one cloven - hoof, to Richard Prince's appropriated Marlboro Man photograph Cowboys, to David Hammons's arcing
circle of glued together liquor bottles Untitled, to a huge room - full of Jim Shaw's profoundly weird collection of Thrift Store
Paintings (1970 - ongoing), Unexchangeable
does the remarkable task of restating the problem of art's paradoxical position between exclusivity and ordinary life, poised between rarity and abjection.
As I looked inwardly to discover why these
circles kept appearing, I concluded that
painting from the heart
does indeed have a tendency to reveal who I am as an individual and an artist.
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.
Around 1966, one year before Reinhardt died, I was in France
doing square
paintings that were all the same, with the same pattern repeated — a black
circle on a white surface.
Malevich's
painted volumes on white ground —
circles, cruciforms, squares — ticked along and still
do, setting off those tremendously interesting conversations among artists and art historians who stood and stand agog at the implications of his mute, ineffably powerful action of visual declamation.
So
does their frequent grouping within a
painting, as if the
circle of women suffices without a viewer.
His return had a slow pace as it was not until 1966 that he started to
do more complex figurative
paintings and exhibit them in gallery
circles.
There, for the first time, a large public was able to marvel at the fantastic
paintings done her last thirty years, known before 1946 only to her
circle of friends — the cream of New York's literary and artistic society.
What
does life look like when you contemplate it on
painted circles?
The
circle, or enso, is a highly significant aspect of Zen Buddhist
painting practice, produced in a singular movement
done in a way that, when successful, should show the unity of mind and body.
Until his death in 1999, with the exception of occasional trips to New York with his mother to see exhibitions and keep up his contacts with his New York
circle, Martin Wong was now to live in the parental home where he continued to work, for example on the cactus
paintings or a depiction of Patty Hearst in the
painting «
Did I ever have a Chance», which is, according to reports, one of Martin Wong's last
paintings and is supposed to have been his proposal for an AIDS Memorial.
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.
The videos are screencasts of the artist's phone as he makes
paintings,
does some other stuff,
circles back, putzes around.
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.»
When you look at the
painting, you don't know if you're seeing a scallop with an attached muscle or a
circle.
The whole premise of the
painting is an expansion of what I
do; lines,
circles, shapes and delicate bold colours.
Pollock's influence didn't really stop with Clement Greenberg and his
circle of artist friends, such as Frankenthaler, Morris Louis, or Larry Poons — even though part of its appeal for them was the decorative side of his late drip
paintings.
Her French training was considered highly uncoventional in British art
circles; London's Royal Academy refused to exhibit artists who
painted in the French style, and any young painters who
did so were obliged to form their own society in order to exhibit their
paintings.
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?