Sentences with phrase «earliest circle paintings»

Song, 1958, and Untitled, 1959, are characteristic of the earliest circle paintings, consisting of loosely - brushed outer ring (a holdover from Noland's earlier Abstract Expressionist works) enclosing narrower bands of color.

Not exact matches

Passlof was his painting instructor at Richmond College back in the early 1970s, and through her he was brought into a circle of likeminded painters (including CSI's Tracey Jones).

A solid half of the artists in Grupo Ruptura were European immigrants, including the Austrian - born Lothar Charoux, who made whispering compositions of orthogonal and diagonal lines, and Waldemar Cordeiro, from Rome, whose intriguing paintings of interconnected circles give a tiny hint of his future as an early computer artist.

In format they are very like the early circles, but there is much more variety to their paint handling.

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.

Here, she brings these paintings full circle to Purchase College, where the grand scale and the flatness of the buildings highlight the architectural legacy of the college, designed by Edward Larrabee Barnes within a rural landscape in the early 1960s and «70s.

Although his early works can be considered a form of Op art, as he depicted ovals and circles on flat surfaces of paint, he developed in his later years a style that is more linked with hard - edge and color field painting.

Early on, she became an important part of the circle that sprang up around such poets as Koch, John Ashbery, James Schuyler, and O'Hara, all of whom often wrote about both the woman and her work, and painters like Rivers, Grace Hartigan and others, who all admired her painting.

During the early 20th century, the enigmatic and charismatic John Graham (1886 — 1961) and his circle of New York artists, which included Stuart Davis, Arshile Gorky and Willem de Kooning, forged their identities and dramatically transformed conceptions of what a painting or sculpture could be.

While initially creating collages using found photographs, objects, and painting, Mapplethorpe turned to photography in the early 1970's, through which — using a Polaroid SX - 70 camera — he quickly became known for the portraits he took of his wide circle of friends, including famous artists, musicians, porn stars, and socialites.

«Raw Color: The Circles of David Smith» (through Oct. 19) The best way to grasp this great American sculptor's multifaceted achievements is with highly focused viewings of specific series, like his painted steel circles from the earlyCircles of David Smith» (through Oct. 19) The best way to grasp this great American sculptor's multifaceted achievements is with highly focused viewings of specific series, like his painted steel circles from the earlycircles from the early 1960s.

In the 1960s, Poons left the New England Conservatory of Music to pursue a career in painting, a decision honored with nearly immediate success — Poons» early works, Op art paintings of circles and dots, were included in a MoMA exhibition when he was just 28.

But with one exception: a wall painting with much sparser use of the dots in which the popping of new after - image circles characteristic of the early disc works occurs in a new setting to tremendous effect.

In a 2015 Artforum review of his second solo exhibition at Berry Campbell, Phyllis Tuchman discusses these early paintings: «The bands, circles, and rectangles tend to be shiny and reflect light, while the other parts of these canvases are covered with matte paint.

From the early 1950s Kossoff began painting a close circle of family and friends, producing pictures in which they acquired a solid, material presence, similar to that of the buildings and streets of London he also often returned to and knew intimately.

Yoshihara himself, after emerging from an earlier phase of making stiff, quasi-surrealist tableaux, went on to create austere, calligraphic circles set against solid black or colored backgrounds, paintings that remain among the most enigmatic and elegant images in all of modern art.

In the late 1990s he returned to his early signature, the circle, this time painted on a colored ground.

«How to make a painting with an all - over composition» had been circling around in my head for years and years and years — I kept thinking about Pollock's paintings and de Kooning and some of the early Joan Mitchell's and early Guston and thinking about how I could make a painting using this all - over composition with deep space without them falling into something that was completely derivative and conservative.

Last month, «Circles: Early + Late» at Yares Art joined the two «Circle» periods together in an exhibition that told us «everything he discovered over a half century of painting,» as Karen Wilkin writes in her catalogue essay.3

Olitski's «Circles»: Anyone too young to remember the heyday of color field painting should regard Hackett Mill's show of early work by Jules Olitski (1922 - 2007) as necessary homework.

The main sculptural installation Early Years consists of seven anthropomorphized monkeys in a circle frozen in the midst of a joyful dance based upon the Matisse painting The Dance (c. 1901.)

Chisholm summons the spectre of Reynolds, studying the earlier artist's palette, lifting Reynolds's notoriously unstable paint mixes (which have been prone to serious colour deterioration and surface cracking, infamous in conservation circles) and recreating each painting himself both as exact figurative copies and, through this deft research --- this inhabitation of Reynolds — as abstract works.