Not exact matches
Promising that the film will be as hyperreal and hallucinatory as his
earlier work, Odoul sees the film as «following a subjective point of view and a trajectory, crossing a landscape rather than giving us a broad
canvas or attempting to depict the battlefield.»
His
early dyed - and - sewn
canvas pieces, which sold for $ 450 in the 1960s, now bring $ 200,000, while wood
works that sold for $ 450 in 1965 are reaching $ 450,000, and a 1966 installation of the 26 letters of the alphabet, composed of soldered tin, sold at auction to MoMA for $ 1 million.
Built with wood, cardboard,
canvas, foam, and various found or store - bought items, these 3 - D
works are the physical manifestation of her 2 - D imagery, exuding a comic and clunky theatricality that one might associate with
early Claes Oldenburg.
Unlike her
early paintings, this small group of
works shows West's increasing experiments with more varied compositional patterns and the drama of forceful brushstrokes, usually black against white unprimed
canvas.
The whereabouts of the painting after the Armory Show is unclear, but in 2005 the
work was exhibited in a major Bluemner exhibition that Barbara Haskell organized at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, and while the accompanying catalogue indicates that the painting is one of the 1911 — 1912
canvases that Bluemner reworked in 1916 — 1917, it does not identify the
earlier painting as the one that was in the Armory Show.
That year, Stella also exhibited a series of 30 - year - old sketchings he made in Spain in the
early 1960s that disclosed how he
worked out ideas about shaped
canvases.
At the Garboushian Gallery in Beverly Hills Seery showed several large new
canvases (that seemed larger due to the gallery's own compressed size) in which recur the saturated color, numinous composition, and graceful but urgent gesturality that drove his
earlier work.
As in
earlier works drawing is achieved via construction, lines are real, the edges of joined or overlapping parts but the plywood gives the «drawing» more precision, more clarity when compared with lines created in
earlier paintings by joining or grouping
canvases, which are inherently softer.
At yesterday's press preview, Massimiliano Gioni, the museum's artistic director and co-curator of the ambitious exhibition, recommended that the
works be viewed beginning on the second floor where
early canvases for which Ofili is best known are on view, and then progressing on to the third and fourth floors.
It has become a commonplace that Stella peaked too
early, and that the deep - thinking black paintings and other inexpressive
canvases of the 1960s have more virtue than the hulking late
works, whose swooping forms seem more pedestrian.
Bacon: We were talking
earlier today about how, since the whites in your
work are not painted, by you at least, since the
canvas comes to you from the manufacturer already primed with that white ground, and then you didn't paint the top, but you painted the bottom half, it functions almost literally like a bank, right?
Tracing the evolution of Green's
work from monochromatic
canvases of the
early 1970s to recent explorations of black and white, the exhibition includes 18 paintings and 52
works on paper, including
works borrowed from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Resonating emphasizes Green's complex understanding of painting that is based on a combination of Aboriginal and Modern Western approaches.
Although a better understanding of Oh's
work would be a comparison with Richard Tuttle's
early career, which smacked of formalism (the shaped
canvas pinned to the wall, bent wires with false shadows) but in the end were completely intuitive.
FAITH RINGGOLD, Installation view of «Black Light Series # 10, Flag for the Moon: Die Nigger,» 1967/69 (oil on
canvas), was on view in «Faith Ringgold's America:
Early Works and Story Quilts» at ACA Galleries in New York.
The Studio Museum in Harlem and the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore present an exhibition featuring
works from every period in painter Alma Thomas's career, including rarely exhibited watercolors and
early abstractions, as well as her signature
canvases drawn from a variety of private and public collections.
The actual plastic supports are relatively thick, and in keeping with the
earlier work, on each of their sides the artist has painted a row of thick black dots, suggestive of nails holding down
canvas that has been stretched over the frame.
Since the
early 1980s, Paris - based Bernard Piffaretti has approached the blank
canvas with a first mark: a single line that he paints down the center of each
work.
Early in his career, his
work was included in a number of significant exhibitions that defined the sphere of postwar art, including Sixteen Americans (Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1959), Geometric Abstraction (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1962), The Shaped
Canvas (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1964 - 65), Systemic Painting (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1966), Documenta 4 (1968), and Structure of Color (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1971).
Bacon: It seems that even though you experimented in a wide range of ways of
working, both
early on and maybe even now within the constraints of the medium of drawing, there was nonetheless this tightening of formal parameters, beginning in the mid -»60s when you were able to buy 194 centimeter - wide lengths of
canvas.
His
early work passed though the styles of impressionism, Orphism, Dada, Surealism, and verbal and visual collagel his later art extended from composition that superimpose linear painted figures upon one another (and, sometimes, several of those on apinted ground), to painting based on pinup nudes and commercial illustrations and, finally, to coarse, heavily textured
canvases that depict totems, masks and shields.
Mirrors and
canvases specifically made for the exhibition are shown alongside
works from the
early eighties.
Bordered with black similar to the ones found on Stella's foundational Black Paintings, the present
canvas simultaneously recalls the artist's
earlier work while presaging future developments.
Sydney Ball, Zianexis, 2009 Acrylic on
canvas, 152 x 168 cm March 4 - 21, 2010 The following extract is taken from «Sydney Ball: prophet of abstraction» by Wendy Walker, Sydney Ball: The Colour Paintings 1963 — 2007, p21 The emergence at the end of the 1990s of an insistent form in Ball's paintings — reminiscent of shapes in
early drawings of rock formations from his landscape
works — gave rise to the asymmetrical, ragged - edged motifs in the abstract -LSB-...]
After a period of producing a series of
work on
canvas and exhibiting in «white wall» style exhibitions, Herakut returns to an approach like their
early years in presenting a fully immersive installation.
The Queens Museum of Art will present Lee's signature
works — large ballpoint pen
works on
canvas and on paper —
early experimental
works, and a fifty - foot, site - specific installation.
The
earliest examples — the Aluminium Paintings (1960) and Copper Paintings (1960 - 1961), were followed by
works that extended the concept of the shaped
canvas, including the Irregular Polygon
canvases (1965 - 67) and the later Protractor series (1967 - 71).
The presentation will feature a selection of rarely shown
early paintings, iconic
canvases from Albers's Homage to the Square and Variant / Adobe series, and
works on paper.
In his recent acrylic and oil
works on
canvas, Il Lee offers a counterpoint to his well - known ballpoint pen
work and continues his
early investigations of materials and process that began decades ago.
At a slight angle to those, some of Bernard Frize's
earliest abstract
works were made peeled off the coloured skins from pots of paint left open in the studio, and applying them over the surface of the
canvas.
They still rely on a flattened cubist spatial structure but on a much larger scale and with light flooding the
canvases and brush marks recalling American art of the heroic post-war days; recalling, in fact, his own heroic days, for despite an increasingly sure technique, these later
works are quieter, blander even, than the assertive and clamorous combines of his
early maturity.
Oil on
canvas Hand - signed «Pat Steir, 1988» verso Excellent Condition Though her
early work was loosely allied with Conceptual Art and Minimalism, Pat Steir's poured «Waterfall...
The controlled minimalism of his
works in the late 1950s and
early»60s gave way to maximalist riots of colour later in his career — with subsequent
works surpassing 2D
canvas to become sculptural.
The artist has alternated long periods of
working in either watercolor or oil, specializing in controlled pours and stains on unprimed
canvases early in her career.
Still explains the «ascending verticality» and «aspirational thrust» of his
canvases throughout his career as taking root in his
early landscape painting which he described as «records of air and light, yet always inevitably with the rising forms or the vertical necessity of life dominating the horizon... And so was born and became intrinsic this elemental characteristic on my life and my
work.»
Oil on
canvas Hand - signed «Pat Steir, 1988» verso Excellent Condition Though her
early work was loosely allied with Conceptual Art and Minimalism, Pat Steir's poured «Waterfall» paintings initiated in 1988 gained her critical acclaim.
The
canvas is one of a series of
canvas works done by Coupland over the past five years, many of which are a conscious revisiting of the
work of Roy Lichtenstein that focuses on his late 1960s and
early 1970s
work.
A concise and surprising group show at one of the Lower East Side's newer galleries (it opened in
early 2013 with a solo show by Amanda Valdez, one of the four artists in «
Works Off
Canvas).
Osborne has alternated long periods of
working in either watercolor or oil, specializing in controlled pours and stains on unprimed
canvases early in her career.
Adam D. Weinberg, director of the Whitney Museum, said it submitted a range of
works from different periods, including Hopper's «
Early Sunday Morning» and Georgia O'Keeffe's haunting «Summer Days,» as well as a posterlike Los Angeles
canvas by Ed Ruscha called «Large Trademark With Eight Spotlights.»
She then fastened sooted
canvas to the frame with thin wire, preferring decomposable iron wire in her
earliest pieces to the more stable copper she chose for her later
work.
Gerhard Richter: Colour Charts also features an
earlier work, Sänger (Singer), 1965/1966, a Photo Painting with a colour chart of various shades of red painted on the obverse side of the
canvas, which provides an integral insight into the artist's conception of the series.
The Newport Street exhibition is the first major show since Hoyland's death in 2011 and will reaffirm his status as an important and innovative force within international abstraction, providing new insights into the way in which his
work evolved from the huge colour - stained
canvases of the 1960s, through the textured surfaces of the 1970s to the more spatially complex paintings of the
early 1980s.
Early on, he painted in a 6 - by - 9 foot room at the YMCA and only began
working on large
canvases when he could afford a bigger studio.
Co-curated by Alfred Pacquement, the former director of the Centre Pompidou (which staged a groundbreaking retrospective of Hantaï
works in 2013), the exhibition primarily tracks Hantaï's
early use of his «pliage» method - an intricate technique of folding and knotting an unstretched
canvas before Hantaï painted the configuration, unfolded and then stretched it, so that colourful geometric shards and unpainted negative space were revealed.
These
works were difficult to categorize: though I thought of myself as a painter, as I had
earlier when
working with gouache on paper, in defiance of the rules left over from Greenbergian formalism in the New York School that made oil or acrylic on
canvas the probative medium, these were not paintings.
In many of the
works, the artist confronts the viewer with a direct gaze, a departure from iconic
earlier works in which the point of view that remained within the
canvas itself.
@TheRealHennessy Tweet Painting, Craisins ™, 2014, 14 × 11 in., acrylic and screenprint on
canvas [the ur-@TheRealHennessy tweet, btw] Like his
early works @TheRealHennessy Tweet paintings resolve pre-existing forms and sources in new artworks that are as immediately appealing as the tweets they quote.
One of the
earliest works in the show is Enter and Exit the New Negro (2001), a minimalist
canvas made from perm endpapers — a material used in the straightening of African - American hair.
The oil on
canvas works were a departure from the newspaper images and personal photographs which form the subject matter of
earlier «Fact» painting exhibitions, «The Elusive Truth» (2005) and «Beyond Belief» (2007).
Further, in this series of
works on paper, of which Wine, Rust, Blue on Black is a prime example, the punctuation of blue recalls
earlier multiform
canvases, such as Untitled (Multiform), 1948.