Sentences with phrase «easel scale»

The gallery ranges over much of Stanczak's career, but it sticks to works of his on an easel scale, down to the bits of color that infiltrate a dense canvas.

The whole idea of thirty - seven artists with just one work apiece, all easel scale, sounds like business as usual.

A more crowded show allows more work on an easel scale, too — two approaching pure abstraction.

No one born since 1920 will note the now - conventional departure from easel scale.

The easel scale and near uniform dimensions of her work brings out the shared interest in color and light.

For some time, gestural abstraction has promised a sure route to academic drivel, especially on an easel scale.

As for Nicolas de Staël, impasto and an easel scale mute the impact of color and gesture.

He sticks to an easel scale and blends colors, as Georges Seurat said one should not, right up to the edge of the canvas.

Not exact matches

He paints carefully, and both the canvas and the brush stick to the scale of easel painting.

Known for her labor - intensive, exuberant abstractions composed of matrix - like, swirling patterns of dots, Takenaga translates her meticulous, handcrafted, easel - sized work to wallpaper in this large - scale commission.

As Pollock's work increased in scale, Krasner devised a different approach to freeing herself from easel painting.

Prior to 1950, monumentally sized art was generally reserved for mural paintings in the narrative tradition and abstraction was explored on an easel - sized scale.

His drawings run about five feet tall, more the scale of architecture than of easel painting, and he fills the triangles too painstakingly to allow squiggles to show.

A dozen works range from easel paintings to his usual large scale, as if he is trying them on for size.

«In most of Mr. Amenoff's easel - scale pictures, a large, mysterious form — botanical, geological or geometric — looms close against a distant vista.

Consequently, the relatively small, easel - scale paintings of the Southern Californians revealed a freshness in their coming to terms with reductive form that occurred on a much different level than the physical / material emphasis of Minimal art in New York.

The later sections of the show frame the intersection of feminism and painting in easel paintings, large - scale works and performances by feminist artists in the 1970s and early 90s.

Particularly with regard to larger - scale painting, acrylic lets me «speak» upright at the easel with fluency and to transport the work with relative ease.

With the scale of easel paintings, at a time when Abstract Expressionism had made a larger canvas canonical, they even look like studies for sculpture.

A cross between Western geometric abstraction and the geometric ornamentation of Islamic art, it combines the visual impact of easel painting with the physical experience of design on an architectural scale.

The exhibition comprises two recent series of paintings, some as large as small - mural scale, and other smaller easel - scale pictures.

This was evident everywhere in his modest but toothsome solo exhibition that included medium - scale easel paintings, primarily featuring a slightly off - kilter central grid format.

Abstract painting was not new, but large — scale abstraction was the breakthrough of this group — artmaking was no longer confined to the canvas on an easel.

«Mural» set the precedent for the scale of Pollock's celebrated all - over drip - paintings (with their even distribution of compositional interest across an entire large surface), encouraged by a February 1947 review by Clement Greenberg in The Nation, where he wrote: «Pollock points a way beyond the easel, beyond the mobile, framed picture, to the mural.»

He moved on, at the end of the 50's, to flat, near - life - size cutouts of painted aluminum that stood upright like sculptures (one of his son, Vincent, holding a fish toward the viewer is in the Farnsworth show), and then to easel painting: single and group portraits of a scale and approach dramatically different from those of the miniaturized collages.

In Vests, delicate colour combinations and disparities in scale invite new readings of recognisable forms; a window, an easel, a frame.

In addition to large - scale works, Fleury painted easel - size landscapes, first exhibiting with the Chicago Society of Artists and at the Art Institute of Chicago beginning in 1898, the year he joined its faculty.

They were all small — what the Americans called easel - scale painting — with the exception of Georges Mathieu who was the only painter who worked large scale.

More often than not, my paintings take on the domestic scale of easel painting and I value the way the form seems to allow for a bit of searching and contemplative vision rather than over-confident public address.

There are only six small, easel - scale works, which is too bad because at least two or three of these are as good as anything else in the show.

McLaughlin's easel paintings, never more than 4 or 5 feet on a side, also dispense with the public scale of a mural, which New York School painters demanded.

The scale of his work has also played a part; the reputation of Abstract Expressionism was tied to that great American value that bigger is better — in terms both of scale of works and gesture, yet until his last decade (with a group of large paintings exhibited here for the first time) Lewis primarily produced easel paintings created with small marks.

When we think of Abstract Expressionism, we think of large - scaled paintings, or what Clement Greenberg termed the «polyphonic» picture, which he believed provoked «the crisis of the easel picture.»

The second group, in traditional easel - painting scale, presents both odd, alien - like creatures and certain depictions that resemble the artist herself.